sean hannity. >> sean: mr. tucker carlson, great show as always. thank you, tucker. welcome to hannity. president trump is on fire. what is he doing? working for you, the american people. this saul news you will not get from the destroy trump media. the commander-in-chief is now following through on his tough talk about securing the southern border and earlier today he signed a proclamation to immediately deploy the national guard to help enforce america's immigration laws. now, new poll numbers prove the trump agenda is working, despite, of course, fierce liberal opposition. also tonight we have house chairman devin nunes. is he blasting rod rosenstein for stonewalling congress. this needs to end. we'll explain. rod rosenstein needs to be fired. nunes is also demanding that the fbi, the doj hand over the key documents about the opening of the russia investigation, plus we have media reacting to the president and by the way, that he is not a target. oh, it's driving them insane. and he is only a subject in the corrupt mueller investigation. there is a total freakout

>> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity.> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean: i'm not that vain. in a few minutes, we'll address the rampant speculation that couldn't be more wrong in so many ways. we have a lot more important news to cover, including the ongoing situation in syria tonight. you wouldn't know if you are watching fake news cnn, conspiracy tv msnbc today, but on friday, the u.s. and our allies launched a large-scale aerial attack on multiple targets in syria. the strike was a success. imagine this. why isn't that front-page news everywhere? all 105 missiles hit their intended targets. no reports of civilian fatalities. i said many times, this administration's goal is not nation-building. we don't want that. but with this strike, the president is sending a clear message to the assad regime. don't use these evil, insidious weapons. there will be severe consequences. can't have men, women, and children, literally dying on television cameras like this. so disgraceful. also toni

sorry, and sean hannity. now there are questions how sean hannity might be tied up with all of this. maybe he is not. >> could be nothing to do with anything. >> certainly one of the president's most vocal supporters. >> to close that circle, michael cohen is on the republican national fund-raising committee. elliot bradentony is on that committee. steve wynn was the chair of that committee. we know their connection to president trump, we know president trump has a keg connection to sean hannity. this gets weirder and weirder by the minute. >> sure you don't want to stay. >> i am on at 5:00. we will have it sorted out at 5:00. >> unbelievable developments. good afternoon, i'm al aye velshi. we are trying the sort through this while the president is on his way to his mar-a-lago estate in preparation for a visit from the japanese prime minister shinzo abe. missing from the president's comments today any mention of the latest controversy surrounding his personal lawyer michael cohen who as you know is in court r

zero, sean. this is how deep the corruption is in the swamp and the fact that these people go on book tours when they should be in the dark tells how how bigger a job the president has before him. >> you know, kayleigh, i watch this, we keep hearing about the big blue wave that might happen here. i think, look, i don't want the democratic party to listen to doug schoen. >> thanks, sean. >> sean: keep doing what they're doing and if the republicans can fix a couple of things, i will find ways to cut back on omnibus bill, which they have an ability to do. secondly, i would get the money and fully fund that wall and get the building starting and do it expeditiously. and the third thing i tooled for the republicans is fix healthcare if they do those three things, i don't think they would lose anything. >> there is no doubt about it. the president has worked very hard at getting those things done. we need partners in congress to fund the wall as you note i had. the president does want to reign in spen

sean hannity from new york. >> sean: breaking this second, a few hundred uncovered texts and we're going through them between fbi lovebirds peter strzok and lisa page. we'll explain those messages. and james comey was just grilled by our own bret baier. get this, a disgraced former fbi director revealed a shocking new contradiction surrounding the department's fisa abuses. earlier today, the president rightly blasting james comey, robert mueller and the doj and of course we will play you his remarks and reveal how abusively becaused and corrupt our two-tiered justice system has become. we have more pro trump tweets from kanye west. and bill cosby guilty, facing up to 30 years in prison. we'll have full reports tonight. breaking moments ago, we're monitoring the history in the making. the north korean dictator, kim jong-un, became the first leader of north korea to cross the border and step into south korea. we'll show you this historic tape. first, it's time for tonight's very important breaking news opening monologue. as we speak, the house of representatives is pouring through 49 brand

watch. >> sean handity. sean handity, hannity. sean hannity. sean hannitj. sean hannity. mr.n: it is truly unbelievable. all right. now the answer to every report about me from this weekend can be found on my web sites. hannity.y. ..com. for those who love me in the fake news, because we exposed you for who you are go there for the truth hannity..com. the show will always be fair and balances. wewe w are not the destroy trump media we never will be. let not your heart be troubled. one of, my favorite biblical quote. laura ingraham is live in washington. i'mli here 23 years. i do haves for you. >> laura: ahoh. >> sean: good advice. put your money under the mattress. don't ever invest it and create jobs. >> laura: let me say. i've been joking for years with you. i like, i have a different approach. i like to lose money in real estate. e okay, so. >> sean: i have lost, not every deal has been successful, trust me. >> laura: sean, i'm the. only person in washington, d.c. , that manages to lose money. it is a art. it takes a talent to lose money. >> sean: you want the heat on me.

in the meantime, sean hannity from new york. >> sean: tucker come a great show. breaking news tonight, you won't get it in the liberal mainstream media. "washington post" reporting the special counsel robert mueller told president trump's attorney the president is not a criminal target, but of course that which continues. president trump is taking bold action and seeing u.s. military will guard the southern border until that wall is built. this comes of course as a caravan of more than 1,000 asylum-seekers and migrants are traveling through mexico to america and tonight, there are reports that has been stalled. also breaking from sara carter, text messages from the corrupt trump hating fbi lovebirds, peter strzok and lisa page, show that the fbi appears to have improperly coordinated with the doj to expedite the fisa warrant to spy on trump campaign associate carter page. also breaking, a new memo is now showing the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in fact allowed robert mueller to go way beyond his mandate to investigate paul manafort. this includes using

sean hannity from new york. >> sean: tucker, thanks. as always, welcome to "hannity." breaking the second, a few hundred newly uncovered text messages, we have them here and. fea lovebirds peter strzok and lisa page, they have literally just been released. we will reveal that and just a moment. james comey was just grilled by bret baier. get this, the disgraced former fbi director just revealed a shocking new contradiction surrounding the departments fisa abuses. plus, earlier today, the president rightly blasting james comey, robert mueller, even the doj and of course, we will play you his remarks and reveal just how abusively biased and corrupt our two tier justice system has become. and we have more pro trump tweets from kanye west. hollywood elites, liberal america are unhinged over this. plus bill cosby, guilty, facing up to 30 years in prison after being found guilty of sexual assault. we have full reports coming up tonight. breaking just moments ago, we are monitoring the history in the making, the north korean dictator, kim jong un, the first leader of north ko

sean, they let sean do some pretty bad stuff. >> he probably wasn't working on sean's will, i would guess. >> well, you never know. let me get you back in on this part of the conversation and ask you this broader question about fox news doesn't do a lot of soul searching, but they did after the sexual misconduct scandals. they did apologize for some of the substance of sean hannity's coverage around the -- i'm sorry, yeah, around the death of seth rich. sean hannity seems to sort of function -- i know gabe sherman described it this way -- in a world with no rules. even inside fox news. they describe it as the inmates running the asylum, the people who have to live by the rules as opposed to people like sean who do not. do you think there is any incentive for anything to change over there? >> i think there's only one incentive, that will be the one that always mattered at fox news, money talks. each incident they backed down, when o'reilly backed out, they apologized at the seth rich incident. there was mass outrage from the public that led to boycotts and advertisers pulling their program

>> sean: mr., i b agree with the president inasmuch as we can't be the world's policemen, there are circumstances, i don't think america can fight wars anymore after the experience in iraq where it becomes politicized after thousands of americans give their lives and limbs, washington decides never mind, we don't fight wars to win them. we put ridiculous rules of engagement on our brave men and women. we're deciding in washington not on the ground what to do. same thing in vietnam, we lost 58,000 people. there are certain moments where it's only the united states. are we going to sit back? do we have a moral obligation when we see s images of women and children being gassed to stop it and prevent it? >> we do. we have got a moral obligation absolutely. it's a violation of international norms. and we do need to take action. we also have a strategic requirement, too, to support our allies in the region. israel, jordan, and lebanon. not to mention europe, which has been impacted so severely by the mi

i bet sean hannity has a fantastic -- ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to this special edition of hannity.ight for the hour we are going to highlight just how clueless liberal elitists really are about american values. they look down on, they openly mock, they despise anyone who does not blindly follow their rigid, radical leftist ideology. and we're going to show you the latest examples of extreme hatred. that's all coming up in the program tonight. but, first, the self-righteous sanctimonious social justice warrior late night host jimmy kimmel is launching a new attack directed at yours truly. poor little jimmie can't stomach the fact that we dare call him out for smearing the first lady melania trump when he was mocking her accent as she was readings to little children. all right. so tonight, right here on this show, we are laying down the gaunt let. we will fight fire with fire. we will show you video proof of kimmel wants perverted and my so misogynistic and racit past. that is tonight's breaking news opening monologue. let me say this at the start of the show tonight, i am going afte

. >> >> sean hannity. >> hannity. >> hannity. >> hannity. >> hannity. >> sean hannity. >> sean hannityy. >> hannity. >> sean: truly unbelievable. the answer to every report about me from this weekend can be found on my website, hannity.com. for all of you, my real friends will love me so much in the fake news media because we've exposed you for who you are, go there for the truth. hannity.com. okay? unfortunately that's all the time we have left. the show will always be fair and balanced. we are not the destroy trump media. let not your heart be troubled, my favorite biblical quotes. laura ingraham is live in washington. i have advice for you. it's good advice. put your money under the mattress. don't ever invested and create jobs. don't ever invested ever. >> laura: i have been joking for years with you. i have a different approach. i like to lose money in real estate. that's all i ever do. >> sean: not every deal has been successful. trust me. >> laura: i am the only person in washington, d.c., who manages to lose money, it's an art. takes talent. >> sean: you said you want the heat

zero, sean. this is how deep the corruption is in the swamp and the fact that these people go on book tours when they should be in the dark tells how how bigger a job the president has before him. >> you know, kayleigh, i watch this, we keep hearing about the big blue wave that might happen here. i think, look, i don't want the democratic party to listen to doug schoen. >> thanks, sean. >> sean: keep doing what they're doing and if the republicans can fix a couple of things, i will find ways to cut back on omnibus bill, which they have an ability to do. secondly, i would get the money and fully fund that wall and get the building starting and do it expeditiously. and the third thing i tooled for the republicans is fix healthcare if they do those three things, i don't think they would lose anything. >> there is no doubt about it. the president has worked very hard at getting those things done. we need partners in congress to fund the wall as you note i had. the president does want to reign in spen

thanks, sean. >> sean: thank you for being with us.na talked about dreaming of blowing up the white house.or we have severed heads of the president. we had an anthrax care. the president talks about fakeke news. jim acosta talks about trump supporters not knowing it's an act, elevator is not going to the top. not red, white, and blue. and giving strong liberal opinions but he says he's alu journalist. >> acosta is truly the textbook definition of deplorable. dim jim is somewhat of a sniveling little schnauzer in the white house press corps. he is somebody who is more interested in building his brand as the fourth estate resistance leader than he is an actually leader than he is in actually reporting real news of which your show tonight and every night has been filled. if the cnn executives wonder why their ratings are in the basement, all they have to do is look at jim acosta's grandstanding and peacocking every single day. i think it's disgusting he would smear trump voters and trump himself for his criticism of the leftist media. the

sean hannity waiting in new yor new york. >> sean: lying, pomposity, smugness, groupthink. all right, you have a great show. thank you. welcome to hannity. the echo chamber is spiraling out of control. it's become so bad. you have some of these wannabe journalists. they are absolutely losing it from last nights opening monologue. all because i dared to use oak, jim comey's standard in order to criticize some of the left's favorite champions, including the clintons, robert mueller, and jim comey himself. since the media is having a really hard time understanding some very simple, basic, fundamental concepts and principles, will help them tonight follow the bouncing ball in a few minutes. and we will correct the record on some of the fake news "the washington post" and others are spreading about yours truly and we will reveal now which mobster, murderer jim comey was actually comparing your president to. be prepared to be outraged. every fair-minded american is going to see through this. and also tonight, new developments on mueller's never witch hunt. one former chairman com

take it away, sean. >> sean: i am not sure about that last story, but we can get back to that later. >> mark: i am coming into your studio with a goat. you will love the little fella. >> sean: can't wait to meet him. welcome to "hannity." we have massive breaking news stories. wait until you hear my opening monologue in just a minute. but first, president trump is saying tonight that he will in fact meet with north korean dictator in the coming weeks, kim jong-un, to actually discuss the denuclearization of that rogue nation. ed henry in washington tonight with what could be historic details. >> getting back to all of the. critics who charged him with the rhetoric bringing to the brinkha of nuclear war, yet now, even some top democrats are suggesting that these talks are starting to bear fruit. the president declared separate talks today with the japanese t prime minister, that if the meeting with the kim jong-un, which may happen as early as may, goes nowhere, if it goesshe nowhere, he is willing to walk out. he is also pushing the dictator to release three american hostages there.

i bet sean hannity has a fantastic -- ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to this special edition of hannity.ight for the hour we are going to highlight just how clueless liberal elitists really are about american values. they look down on, they openly mock, they despise anyone who does not blindly follow their rigid, radical leftist ideology. and we're going to show you the latest examples of extreme hatred. that's all coming up in the program tonight. but, first, the self-righteous sanctimonious social justice warrior late night host jimmy kimmel is launching a new attack directed at yours truly. poor little jimmie can't stomach the fact that we dare call him out for smearing the first lady melania trump when he was mocking her accent as she was readings to little children. all right. so tonight, right here on this show, we are laying down the gaunt let. we will fight fire with fire. we will show you video proof of kimmel wants perverted and my so misogynistic and racit past. that is tonight's breaking news opening monologue. let me say this at the start of the show tonight, i am going afte

sean hannity right now. >> sean: tucker, you can't make this stuff up. my opening monologue in just a few minutes. but first, we have sad news to report tonight. former first lady barbara bush died earlier this evening at the age of 92. for the very latest, we go to casey stegall standing by. casey.se >> hey, sean. good evening to you. we are outside of the front gates of the bush family neighborhood. we have not seen any activity since this announcement camene down. it's right here in a very elite part of west houston, only about 20 or 30 homes or so back in the neighborhood. as you know, this is extremely private and these affairs are choreographed to a tee, months of advanced planning has been going on behind the scenes for this very moment. and privacy of course is of the utmost concern and priority. now we have seen a couple of people, we assume houston residents or houstonians, as they refer to themselves, showing up here with some signs and flowers outside the gates.ou then of course, nearly every single politician on the planet has been sending o

in new york, sean hannity standing by. >> sean: great show as always. covering several major breaking stories. we have new information about robert mueller's never ending partisan witch hunt. russia collusion has officially moved beyond its mandate into a political takedown of the president you elected. in a minute, we will uncover the shocking, unfair two-tiered justice system in the country and show you how abusively biased and corrupt mueller and his team of investigators are and that they have declared an all-out political war against this president. all sorts, the media spinning out of control following the fbi's raid on trump's personal attorney michael cohen. we will explain. also tonight we are closely monitoring the situation in syria following this weekend's horrific gas attacks on men, women, and children. this could prompt a u.s. retaliation against president assad at his dictatorial regime at any moment. first we start with a very important opening news. monologue. it's beneficially 328 days since the special counsel robert mueller was appo

>> sean: his auntie trump grant didn't stop there.rding to reports, at the opening of the tribeca film festival, he slammed president trump as a lowlife in chief. i'm sure that hurts him. dinero needs to focus on acting. maybe not. we have a big show show tomorrow night. the great one, mark levin, kellyanne conway, alan dershowitz will all be joining us. we will always be fair and balanced. we are not the destroy-trump-media. let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham in washington tonight. how are you? >> laura: i'm good. i think if you put your screenshot right now next to robert de niro, what was that, "meet the parents," you might have the same hair. >> sean: "dirty grandpa"? >> laura: i never watched that. you guys kind of look alike. >> sean: you want to hear my marlon brando? >> laura: classic, classic robert de niro. >> sean: i never wanted this for don jr. or for michael. this was for sonny and franco. it is always the corleone family. what about the clinton crime family? >> laura: the irish man can't do the italian.

and he stood up and said the name, sean hannity. and there was obviously a lot of reaction from people in the courtroom most of the people in the courtroom are press. spectators, stormy daniels in the back sitting next to her attorney. that name shocked everyone. several of us got up and walked out to try to report this information. we don't know in what way michael cohen was representing him. it relates to some of the material they were arguing may be privileged. they wanted to review these records before the fbi and prosecutors started reviewing them. then i have some other information about the case. >> no. >> we can get into that. >> let's get into that in a second. i have questions for you. let's back up, you said that this judge says to the lawyer, that this client who was unnamed needs to be named outloud, the envelope isn't good enough, when this cohen attorney is standing there, how did he say it? was it like sean hannity, or was it like loud in court for people to hear. how did stormy daniels resummoned? >> i didn't see he

he's lost his mind. >> sean: my mind is right here here.immy kimmel your creepy and t perverted in the video evidence we're going to show you in just a few minutes will explain a lot about him -- this is important. he's stealing a page from the fake news media and lying about what i said about roy moore. all he had to do with a little research and find out that i was the one that repeatedly pressed him over and over about the multiple allegations against hi him. i forced him to respond. his response didn't help him. you want to attack me, you go right ahead but facts matter. last night he tweeted a vulgar, obscene mock photo of me that wass so creepy and perverted evn by his standards that he had to take it down. here is this thing about the sanctimonious d bully, he doesnt go after people like me who highlight his hypocrisy -- i'm fine with. that. he routinely bashes nonstop all republicans -- even the first lady. i don't care that you're ali liberal, i know that you kissed obamas 's ass -- this is a guy o preaches from his high horse abou

but stay tuned from new york city, the great sean hannity. >> sean: welcome to "hannity." president trump refusing to back down in the efforts to secure america's borders. the president again is demanding the wall be built and he is revealing the details tonight about his plan to send the national guard to the southern border. the president is also blasting unlawful sanctuary cities. and, of course, the state of california. and the mayor of oakland california who shielded criminal illegal immigrants. we are confirming that rod rosenstein received devin nunes' letter from the house intel committee to demand that rosenstein stop stonewalling record requests and be transparent with the american people. we have that plus tonight we are going to name the names and expose who is the biggest liar in congress? which liberal democrat is it? we'll tell you later and reveal that. we have explosive text messages released between the f.b.i. love birders, and trump haters. one indicateed that strzok traveled in 2016 to interview a key witness. we have it tonight in the breaking news ope

sean spicer. that job, i will never for the life of me understand it. so when they had the word belief pole, cnn used it 195 times in a day. now it is stormy, stormy, stormy. there is no russia, russia, russia. in the meantime, they've missed the biggest abuse of power scandal in their lifetime, and how do you describe the media today? >> sensational, misdirected. look, beyond the stories you talk about overtime, which i completely agree is underserved, you've got to the prime minister of japan meeting with the president this week and mar-a-lago talking about trade and national security. you've got a serious issues in syria. you've got an upcoming meeting with kim jong un about the nuclear radiation of the korean peninsula and the threat that it potentially poses to not just our allies, but our own citizens. and this is what they are talking about? you know, when it comes to the priorities with the media talking about, what are the concerns of the american people, i think it's a mismatch. as you p

sean? >> sean: mike tobin in israel. thank you, sir.w with more t reaction, the host of "war stories," colonel oliver north is with us. when you see that russia pulled out their ships, there is obviously anticipation of af strike. moscow's threats of shooting american missiles out of the sky. a do you believe that's a possibility and will we be prepared for that? >> sean, 32 years ago tonight, we were doing the final target list for the strike on libya. what i did as i went through the targets that were publicly known. not just ours, everybody knows. what we would have to do and the sequence we have to do it in. the first hit, air defense sites. you have to take out the air defenses to make multiple strikes possible. second, you hit the civil military airport and the aleppo airport because those are the primary air links to the outside world.he take out the fuel farms, towers. fixed wing aircraft assets that assad has been using to deliver the chemical weapons. that'll stop it. third, if you have to mind the seaports, take out the piers

and i see the french president trying here to broker a way forward, sean. >> sean: ed henry at the white house. we appreciate it, as always. joining is now north carolina, rissman, chairman of the house from caucus and also from caucus member florida congressman. full disclosure. who i want to be the next florida governor. mark meadows. i shared a cookie with him in a green room in washington, d.c. full disclosure. welcome, both of you, back to the program. congressman meadows, let me go back. are we really going to get six months worth of strzok-page memos? what percentage is that? >> i believe we will get them. the department of justice is working very closely with chairman gowdy and chairman goodlatte. there is a critical gap of about three critical months of the strzok-page memos that we believe will be very enlightening. in fact, some of that we believe will put some context to direct or's claims that he was an innocent bystander in all of this. we don't believe the facts are bearing it out. >> sean: interesting report by sara carter tonight. i guess you probably wouldn't be able to

sean is here to bring us up to speed as this story breaks. >> sean: absolutely zero. this is the busiest breaking news night we have had in well over a year short of the strikes last friday. welcome to "hannity." we'll get to my opening monologue, extensive. so much news today. first, fox news has now obtained a redacted version of the comey memos that were just handed over to lawmakers and joining us now live in washington with all of the details is our chief national correspondent ed henryi ed, i heard ironically, it says, oh, i am not sneaky, i don'tll leak. okay. >> this is remarkable, sean. one of the comey memos is james comey putting together the details of the late january 2017 dinner with the president. we've heard about this before. it was leaked to "the new york times" and hase since been confirmed that the dinner took place. yes, what is new tonight is that james comey himself says that he told the president in terms of whether he may stay on as fbi director, this is a short time before he was fired, he says, i don't do sneaky things, according to the memo

>> that's the thing, sean.ewhere.ne yet in this case, it wasom the fbi's judgment that these 30,000 emails, we can't find them. in judicial watch litigation for foia, they identified the backup server as potentially having those. the fbi never searched that. i asked christopher wray whether they did. he could not confirm they did. we need to look at all the possible areas where those emails were because when you have emails subpoenaed, you don't just turn over the ones you want to turn over and then acid wash the rest. that's not the way it works. i think there were a lot of work-related emails that they deleted. there may have been emails related to the foundation and other things that are of interest to congress, so we've got to find them if they are out there. >> sean: congressman meadows, if you look at the original, the exoneration of comey and strzok and strzok eventually interviewed hillary. the original exoneration written months before the investigation, before the hillary interview. they said and it h

sean hannity. >> sean: [laughs] hannity is next. great show.ho welcome to "hannity." in a couple minutes, we will be joined by professor alan dershowitz and joe digenova. we will get incredible legal analysis. former fbi director james comey is days away from kicking off the much-anticipated media blitz where he is likely going to hawc his new book. and warm up in the spotlight next to some of his favorite liberal friends. tonight, comey is in hot water after comparing the president to a mob boss. really? we will break down the appalling analogy, and remind comey what a real mob boss looks like. you would think a former fbi director would understand this. we'll give him an education tonight. an american-led response to a serious gas attack looms ever so present. the president is sending a cleak warning to assad's ally, vladimir putin, pulling ships out of the region. also breaking tonight, after eight months of doj stonewalling, the house intelf chairman devin nunes and trey gowdy will finally be able to see the original documents that kicked off the entire corrupt ru

it should end right now. >> sean: former u.s.ttorney jojo jennifer on the program last night eviscerating deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and robert mueller.ea joining us now, george washington university law professor jonathan turley, a great columnme on "the hill," entitled "when will the media except that trump is not a terminal, criminal target." i will let you enter your own question. they seem not to want to accept that reality. it's been overn a year we've ben looking into this in a lot of varying ways. troublingys. pathology in the news, where people seem to be unwilling to cover what is positive news for president trump. there is not positive news, as well. rather, one-sided account is getting increasingly alarming. the fact is that there is not a strong, credible case of crime that is emerging from this investigation. afterun a year, after hundreds f thousands of documents that have beenve turned over, after multie cooperating witnesses, after dozens of criminal counts, none of those filings have created a nexus

sean kalic. [applause] sean: thank you. i appreciate it. this evening, it is kind of hard to talk about. thank you for the great introduction. thank you to the public library for this great venue and the huge crowd which i did not expect. usually it is 10-15 people. i feel like i am being besieged right now. [laughter] this started a few years ago, the department put together a book about four gotten -- about forgotten places of battle. i had just gotten back from budapest and spent time walking around the city and was interested in the siege of budapest. i started writing this up. the problem is i have 45 minutes to give you a lot of history. we will talk about the strategic situation, what is happening in 1944 andurope, late 1944 as we move toward the conclusion of the war. we will talk about the fighting budapest. i will argue this is one of the most forgotten, decisive battles. it has a profound impact on the post-1945 and a profound impact on the hungarian people during the cold war. we will talk about that and take your questions, and

air force, sean. >> sean: the power and might of the military is inspiring. mike has more information on jerusalem breaking now, mike? >> reporter: got a lot of information that the syrian air defense did engage as the strike was beginning. specifically we have from syrian state tv respects or claim that they shot down 13 tomahawk missiles and we have heard from people on the ground and through arab tv that the first wave was rather brief. but the development that we have now and a claim through syria state tv that 13 tomahawk missiles were shut down and syrian air defense endpajed. >> sean: what about the cap anlt that you know of. go ahead. >> and they have the capability to take them out of the air. and if so. was that syria doing that or remember there was a threat from moscow to take it out of the air. >> i can't hazard a guess about cooperation about russia and in terms of activating the air defense. their stuff looks antiquated and certainly compared to the modern resources at the united states military had. and so it can guess that it is a stretch and

sean hannity. it is not clear what work cohen did for hannity, whether it was simple advise about real estate. it was enough for cohen's lawyers to resist the revelation as strongly as they could, describing the host as, quote, a publicly prominent individual who would be embarrassed if his association was revealed. why would he be embarrassed? sean hannity has had michael cohen on his show many, many times and he's a supporter of president trump. hannity has so far said it was no biggie. so the question is was hannity a client or not, and why did they work so hard to hide it? i ask you, ali, what's your guess? >> that's a good question. this is above my pay grade to guess what was going on. i was on air when it first happened yesterday, and my mind was blown by all of this. >> it might be above your pay grade. it's not above sean hannity's. the guy makes more than $30 million a year. why is it, if michael koern is telling the truth, why would a guy who could afford the best legal advice. >> in any

sean hannity kind of down playing it?arre thing. because we were talking ourselves trying to figure out, well what does this all mean. but here is the thing, jake. i think the problem here is you're talking about two people who have no credibility. and neither of them are honest brokers. so it is like, who do you believe? i can't -- i don't see myself believing either of them and you need more evidence before you would make a statement on this. >> david you you have a different take. >> as far as credibility, i'll leave that up to you to judge. and sean hannity is a smart guy and he said he assumed the conversations with mr. coen were privileged and not confidential. priv linled is protected under the law. so his choice of words are pretty specific thinking obviously he is saying -- he wasn't my attorney and we didn't have attorney/client privilege and michael cohen asserted the exact opposite of that. i'm not sure if he's trying to posture or perhaps for whatever reason and -- assert that sean hannity was his client. i d

and just to inject sean hannity what was going to be circus environment, stick sean hannity in that, all over the place. >> this was right here, daily news. >> ka boom. >> okay. there's that. he says it was just little, and he didn't need to mention it. steve radnor's here, msnbc legal analyst danny sa vol lis joins us as well and jonathan materially. >> he says he didn't have to mention that -- mention it despite the fact he had gone on earlier this week savaging the ra raid on mike cal cohen's offices. >> i don't know how you get around that it's completely staggering dishonest with his viewers, with -- i mean, look, how you can cover the story and not say you're a part of it. >> willie, what do you think? >> i would fire someone who did that on my network. go ahead. >> of course there's no question it should have been disclosed. with that said i find thune surprising completely. i think there's an assumption that sean hannity is working and in glove with the president of the united states. he has dinner at the white house, dinner at mar-a-lago. he said outloud i want him to be pre

>> i think they ought to fire sean hannity. i think he's -- he is so into this, like a pig in the mud, he can't get out of it and i think he deserves to be fired. his word could never again be trusted given the fact that he consciously did not reveal this relationship. >> even if there was no money exchanged between himself and michael cohen, he said -- he got some advice and then in this tweet he just posted he said it was on real estate matters. >> i heard the clip you played. but he then invoked the phrase client/attorney privilege. you can't have it both ways. if you are not a client, then you're not entitled to the privilege. if you aren tig entitled, you a clients whether you paid money or not. >> he did say at end of the clip we played and assume the conversations were attorney/client confidential. and he also made it clear over the weekend based on what we heard in the courtroom, he didn't want his name to be released but the federal judge made the lawyers for michael cohen release his name and of course they did. you s

brody and sean -- sean's a friend of mine, by the way. if he was indeed a client. this is going to strike you as a little bit odd, it's possible that sean -- >> you know what, let's stay on that, let's stay on that full disclosure. attorney midwin charles, to the best of my knowledge, seanchaeln tv loads of times. he's never once said he's giving me legal advice. last night on tv, he said, i never really paid him, i didn't seek legal advice from him. as a lawyer yourself, why would michael cohen name, i had three clients in the last year, i don't want to mention the third that third turns out to be sean hannity. sean hannity saying nope, we didn't do business together. why would this even happen? maybe it's a bridge too far. unless michael cohen in that office has lots of information between him or in the trump team and sean hannity that he doesn't want out there. and the only way to prevent it from getting out there is to say attorney/client. >> right. well, one of the two is not telling the truth. i think that's clearly obvious. i think it's important to note her

it's fox news host sean hannity. what kind of work did cohen do for him? >>> seeing stormy. the porn star makes a dramatic appearance as her case appears to be gaining momentum. tonight she's speaking out about the trump kixer who paid her hush money. >>> james comey says it's possible that the russians have dirt on president trump. the fired fbi director unloading in a scathing and potentially incriminating interview point president he calls morally unfit. what does it tell us about the special counsel's russia investigation? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking tonight a new ruling as the president and his lawyer michael cohen face off against the justice department. a judge ordering the government to turn over cohen's records that were seized in fbi raid as loui and fox news host sean hannity was outed as the so-called mystery client whose identity cohen was trying to keep secret. and porn star stormy daniels was there to watch it

it's because they thought she would win up my sean. we would never know any of this. they thought she would win, they thought hillary would win. >> sean: except us. >> we would know none of this, we would know none of this if hillary clinton had actually won, which comey admitted, he was influenced by the phony baloney national polls, the statewide polls were relevant. more importantly, we would know none of this, we would not know that the highest levels investigating hillary clinton had the fix and for her and against candida trump. let these memos out there, people have been calling for transparency and accountability and continued investigations for over a year. people have called into question jim comey's credibility and everything, that's fine, but i am grasping his relevance in this book away the relevance is probably in these was, not in the book. this is somebody who hardly knew the president, limited amount of time. >> sean: this now needs to end for the sake of the country.

it's sean hannity. i'm not so sure that sean was his client in light of the statement that you just read that sean gave. there was no bill, there was no fee, there was no attorney client relationship. he didn't do any legal work for him. so that leaves donald trump and this fellow in los angeles whose last name is brody. i forget his first name. >> neil: why when that comes to light and people are talking about it, why would that even be germane? why would the judge push it to get it out there if all of this is about, you know, protecting confidentialities and cohen's lawyer concerned that that was sort of blown out? >> she actually -- maybe not intentionally but incidentally helped cohen by forcing him to articulate the names of other people about whom there might be records in the evidence that were seized. that would defeat or help to defeat the government's argument that he's not a real lawyer. he's using the attorney client privilege to mask his nonlegal work for the president. if he did serious wo

dpe again, there are no boundaries for sean hannity. he doesn't think twice should i hire his fixer. should i be part of this pseudo administration. it's astonishing. it's off the charts. >> carmen, you have a lot of experience in complex litigation but this is a weird one. i don't know you've ever been asked the question should a prominent news host who interviews the president and his lawyer disclose he secretly employs those lawyers in the middle of covering that when they employi ining them. >> if was concerned about appearing objective and neutral and fair that might have been an issue. the reality is we all know that and appearances indicate that sean hannity is part of that inner circle. he's constantly complimenting the president. the president compliments here. i think he wants to have it both ways. he doesn't want the appearance that cohen was representing him. it may well have been questions involving real estate transaction, investment tunts opportunities. he wants to protect those conversations. he's indicating when he did