hannity" ." he is up next. >> sean: welcome to "hannity," a lot to get to tonight. we'll be joined by guests but over the weekend, cbs veteran journalist ted koppel said i, yours truly, sean hannity and bad for america. that's a pretty severe charge and one that deserves a response. and that is tonight's opening monologue. this all started three weeks ago when i agreed to do an interview with cbs sunday morning and their special contributor ted koppel. the interview lasted well over 45 minutes and we discussed in great detail why they're such a great divide in america and politics and the media. in my honest opinion, the exchange was actually a very good take. and worthwhile for any audience to see. here is all that cbs sunday morning decided to air. take a look. >> honestly, i think liberalism has to be defeated. socialism has to be defeated in a political sense. we don't want a revolution -- >> what more do you want? you've got the white house come, house and senate. >> and then we have angry snowflakes and a media out to the president they know the difference bet

to your point earlier, them using sources -- sean hannity himself says he's not a journalist. to accuse jim of asking cute questions while fending tweet saying predent of the united states put quote marks around wiretapping. just goes to show, cnn is still showing sean spicer's briefings from start to finish right? something normally reserved for emergencies, moments of urgency when americans need to know moment by moment what is being said. people tuning in not for news to hear debate on health care or infrastructure or whatever issue that republicans are letting slip away by the day but to watch what sean spicer will say next, be entertained by what is happening in the white house press briefing room. >> i wonder if they realize there is a life after this and other jobs and also credibility. >> it's a good point that michael was making there. reason we're tuning in, why sean spicer's briefings have become must-see tv and glued to this -- >> they're "snl" in the middle of the day. go on. >> that to some extent. hard to figure out if it was "snl" or real life. but think what w

friends over at fox news who do a great job over there, some great reporters over there, but the sean hannitynd i'm sure i'll get dinged by sean and perhaps his followers for saying this, it is a house organize for donald trump and his administration. so for sean spicer to stand there at the podium talking to the american people, talking to the world and quoting sean hannity and he makes a reference to something that judge andrew nap ole tanno said, he's one of their pundits over there. how the british intelligence service was providing some of the wiretapping services for president obama through the services they have over there, that the judge was talking about that the british -- they sent it to me and jim sciutto that this is nonsense and should be ignored. you have the white house peddling fake news. >> yeah, and so -- i don't think sean or big o'reilly, they're opinion news shows. even fox news, they don't see them as journalists, right? they see them as opinion. >> entertainment. >> it's under their entertainment banner. mike, i have to ask you. and how do you guys sit there, how do yo

it seems that president trump takes his cues from sean hannity and fox news who asked for a personaliattorneys because president trump and jeff sessions validated preet bharara and asked him to stay on. the whole question of royalty resembles that of russia. so the timing of this is very suspect and especially the fact that, look, jeff sessions has recused himself from any investigation into russia, it it's -- he lied twice about meeting russian investigators, you have the michael flynn scandal, you have donald trump who talked about this wiretap, where he has no evidence and you have the leakiest administration in modern history. one would assume donald trump would stick to his own guns and be consistent but in the past week he is again showing himself to be very inconsistent, very thin skinned and very fickle in taking his crews from sean hannity instead of common sense and precedence. i think all people, republicans, democrats should be very wary if you have yes men and yes women and loyalists in positions that should be independent. >> i don't know where your reference to sean han

you are citing sean hannity. >> you also tend to overlook the other sources. i know you want to cherry pick it. where was your concern with the "new york times" reporting. >> we have done plenty of report on all of this. >> you want to cherry pick one piece of commentary. >> that has all been looked at. >> how do you know all this? how do you seem to be such an expert? >> this has been looked at, sean. >> how do you know? hold on. i'm sorry. i'm afraid to understand. can you me how you know that all of this has been looked at. you made a statement saying all of this has been looked at. >> other outlets have reported it. >> when your outlet said it has been looked at. >> it sounds like during the context of that investigation there might have been intercepted communications and the house intelligence chairman did mention that and we reported that and others reported that on air and various publications, but sean, what you are refusing to answer is whether or not the president still -- >> i am not refusing. >> but you have a senate and house intelligence committ

we know he watches sean hannity, he's friends with sean hannity. it doesn't feel like a coincidence that hannity yesterday calls for a purge inside the justice department and today there is one. >> this would have surprised mae little bit, certainly as you talked about in the lead-in, it's up to every president. they want to replace folks and put in who they want in that position. certainly whether it's at the u.s. attorney level, whether we're talking ambassadors, the president should be able to put his own people in. but today on friday, the only thing we should be talking about are 235,000 jobs, great jobs announcement. i felt it was stepped on. a little bit of a head scratcher. i know the president's probably in my opinion one of the greatest geniuses of anyone out there. it really surprised me this came out today and they moved like this. >> kirsten powers, a former trump communications guy, says that the trump white house just bungled the communications on this. is that fair? >> i guess, unless they wanted to do it on a friday and so they fig

go to facebook.com/sean hannity at sean hannity at twitter. tline. let's see what weigh got tonight. it's always a surprise. >> sean, please let your guests talk. they get right to a point that we want to hear. and it's important stuff that we want to hear from them, and you always butt in. quit it! i would like "hannity" to give a couple lessons to some of the people that are catching the football to throw it back to him. >> sean: that's a big problem, some people can't catch and can't throw. as a matter of fact that might happen in a minute. i try to let people talk. you got limited time in these segments to try to get to the heart of the issue. i will be more patient and i will take your admonition to heart. >> check the number on your screen. you can be mean or nice, it doesn't matter. that's all the time we have left this evening. hope you have a great evening, ir'll see you back on monday. let's see how he does tonight. . make it a great weekend. ♪ >> breaking tonight, the presidency of donald j. trump reaches a benchmark. 50 days after a

sean hannity and told sean that his program is bad for america because it catered to ideology. commentary is legitimate and necessary because the mainstream national media is very biased to the left. the problem is, the interview was heavily edited and sean is asking for a full, unedited portion be put up on the "cbs news" website. that sounds reasonable to me. joining us now from florida, brit hume.s" here in "the factor," if we edit an interview of significance, we post the unedited part on billoreilly.com. do you think "cbs news" should do that? o >> i do. i don't see any reason not to do it. a lot of people would be interested in it and it would drive traffic to their website. why not do what? it's easy to do it and it doesn't cost anything. they have the transcript. >> bill: we called them today and a former tv writer now does their communications. they basically didn't want too talk too much about it. you are right, economically it benefits cbs news to do it. i must say, if i have to go to a new site, i go to cbsnews.com. i think it is a good news site. i'm not saying that

>> well, because before i asked that question why are you quoting sean hannity, which is a bizarre question to ask during a briefing, by the way, sean spicer went through this long list of news articles and i guess posts on websites, obscure websites that would lead them to conclude that the president has some backing for his claim that he was wiretapped by former president obama. but by the way, one of those articles and i think you just mentioned this, that the white house is relying upon, was written by "the new york times." the president has called time and again the failing "new york times." on the face of it right there, they're leaning on information that they've questioned as not reputable in the past. add to that during that long list of sources he also cited sawn hannity and something that was said on his show and something that judge andrew napolitano said, another fox news contributor. as you and i both know, those are not nonbiased sources of information. they tend to be sources of information that feed a lot of the president's conspiracy theories that we hear about all the tim

we know he watches sean hannity, he's friends with sean hannity. it doesn't feel like a coincidence that hannity yesterday calls for a purge inside the justice department and today there is one. >> this would have surprised mae little bit, certainly as you talked about in the lead-in, it's up to every president. they want to replace folks and put in who they want in that position. certainly whether it's at the u.s. attorney level, whether we're talking ambassadors, the president should be able to put his own people in. but today on friday, the only thing we should be talking about are 235,000 jobs, great jobs announcement. i felt it was stepped on. a little bit of a head scratcher. i know the president's probably in my opinion one of the greatest geniuses of anyone out there. it really surprised me this came out today and they moved like this. >> kirsten powers, a former trump communications guy, says that the trump white house just bungled the communications on this. is that fair? >> i guess, unless they wanted to do it on a friday and so they fig

back to "hannity" ." >> sean: welcome back to "hannity."out democrats for criticizing the house intelligence head of committee, devin nunes, collecting intel on the trump transition team. take a look. >> my understanding is chairman nunes briefed the president about the russian investigation. if that is a big deal, we have sunk to a new low. if the commander-in-chief cannot be briefed by the chairperson of the house until committee on a matter that has nothing to do with the fbi investigation, then i do not know what they can talk about. he is the commander-in-chief. >> sean: that is not all, the democrats were up in arms because it was revealed the chairman nunes met with his source on the white housep grounds but a spokesman for chairman nunes said he met with his source at the white house grounds in order to have proximity to a secure location where he could view the information provided by the source. makes sense. joining us now with reaction, milwaukee county sheriff david clarke. and larry elder. larry, let me check in with your legal

that's what todd ted koppel alleging sean hannity. ed. the host of dana on blaze tv and has successful radio show. good morning to you, dana. >> good morning, thanks for having me. ainsley: you're welcome. what did you think about that? >> it seemed weird. i grew up watching ted koppel be one of the most biased reporters, biased anchors in america. and so for him to kind of turn that around, it was one of those moments where do you a double take. but he has been accused of bias, ted koppel, throughout his entire career. he is the last person on earth to be accusing anyone of being bad for america. simply because they are offering opinion. this is the problem with so much of legacy media this is why you have seen new media crop up. people are tired of these anchors and these reporters giving their opinion as unfettered fact and acting as though there is no bias on their part at all. i appreciate people who give their opinion and they openly say, you know what? this is my opinion. for me, for instance, i'm completely biased towards the c

i'm quoting sean hannity who made some omissions this week. s go to the tape. >> welcome back to hannity. she is back a good friend of the program. welcome back. how are you? >> hi. >> friend of the program he was a conservative commentator on fox until september until president trump tapped her to be a deputy security advisor. she never started the job. cnn discovered extensive plagirism in her book. some were really bla tent and inexcusable. politico and cnn found more in her phd dissertation back in 2000. she gave up the trump job a week later. a few months after that she's back on tv. did hannity ask her about it. watch. >> you were going to go to the administration. you got viciously attacked. i wanted to give you chance because you hadn't been out there publicly for personal and other reasons to respond to this. >> well, look, what happened to me was a despicable, straight up political hit job. my editor has supported me and backed me up. >> which editor backed her up. you can't find her book on amazon anymore because the publisher yanked

now back to "hannity" ." >> sean: welcome back to "hannity."resident trump believes he is beginning to make some progress on one of his key campaign promises. to repeal and replace obamacare. congressional republicans have done him a disservice. that is tonight's mini monologue. today the president met with victims of obamacare, he heard their stories and how the disastrous health care law is failing so many of us. watch this. >> my entire administration and a lot of people in the senate and a lot of people in the house are committed to repealing and replacing this disastrous law with a health care plan that lowers costs, expands choice and ensures access for everyone. more competition and less regulation will finally bringts down the cost of care. i think it will bring it down very significantly. unfortunately it takes a while to get there because you have to let that marketplace kick in and it will take a little while to get there. once it does it will be a thing of beauty. it shouldn't take a year or two years but that's what's going to happ

also going after sean hannity saying programming is bad for america.e're going to play you the full sound after those. >> we have to some credit to the arican people that they're somewhat intelligent and that they knowhe difference between an opinion show and a news show. >> yeah. >> president trump ending what has been a brutal week for his presidency. >> this is not what a honeymoon looks like. this is a dire scandal that you would put up against any modern presidency at any time. >> thoughts now turn to the future of the president and the speaker's agenda. >> but the bigger fallout may be for the president himself. >> when you add up the totality of this, you said it was the worst week of his presidency, i actually think this may be the worst 100 days we've ever seen in a presiden p. liz: media slamming president trump for not successful repeeing and replacing obamacare. vanity affair writing that it's already a joke. foreign policy writing it's the black hole of a presidency. and the boston globe says that trump's massive loss is endangering his yo

hannity" is up next. we will see you tomorrow. >> sean: welcome to "hannity." we have new information on that the developing story you will not hear from the mainstream destroy trump media. we are going to uncover two shocking pieces of evidence that may show that the unmasked members of the trump team, they've may then surveilled. that is tonight's blockbuster opening monologue. let's go back to march 4th, president trump was ridiculed by the alt left propaganda destroy trump media. he tweeted out that members of his transition team have been wiretapped by the obama administration. tonight there is a piece of tape circulating that could vindicate president trump. this clip we are going to show he is from march 2nd, an msnbc interview with dr. evelyn farkas. she served in the obama administration from 2012 through 2015 as the deputy assistant of defense for russia, ukraine, and eurasia. this clip could prove the obama administration was very much involved in the surveillance of trump transition team members. wow. watch this. >> i was urging my former colleagues

hannity" is next. see you tomorrow. >> sean: welcome to "hannity" ." we have a lot of guest tonight but first, president trump unveiled his budget that keeps key promises like strengthening our military, building the wall, slashing -- here is the talking about some of his priorities. >> we are proposing a budget that will shrink the bloated federal bureaucracy and i mean bloated. my administration is also following through the promise to secure, protect, and defend that border within our united states. our southern border will be protected always. it will have the wall. >> you see what we are doing with our military? bigger, better, stronger than ever before. you see what is happening. and you are already seeing the results. our budget calls for one of the single largest increases in defense spending history in this country. >> sean: also tonight, president trump strikes back against the alt radical left putting you, the american people at risk by going judge shopping. that is tonight's very important monologue. it was not hard to see this coming. two

tune into "hannity," next. >> sean: welcome to "hannity," >> sean: welcome to hannity, we are broadcastingor the full hour. our 43rd president will join us and along with brave members of the military featured in the book called "portraits in courage and joining us now is the cleared book, "portraits of courage." mr. president, how are you? >> good to be back w you. >> sean: i've gone through part of your museum. i am stunned, shocked, i do not know how to describe it. you've only been painting for five years. less than five. how did you pick it up? >> i was a little antsy. when you are the president, your dance card is full. all of a sudden you are not the president. i spent a lot of time here at the bush center with laura, to make a difference in people's lives. i wrote to codebooks. i'm staying fit. i mountain biking. an elliptical. i play a fair amount of golf. but it wasn't enough and so i read winston churchill's essay painting as a pastime. >> sean: you started painting pets. >> i did, i did bob the cat. i was a pet portrait painter. which is kind of hard to say. >> sean: [laughs] y

and you heard at the top there, i said, you're quoting sean hannity. before that entire exchange happened, wolf, sean spicer was essentially going through a list of various news outlets that he was referring to to back up the president's claim. he referred to sean hannity from fox news, andrew napolitano another commentator at fox news. these are conservative analysts on that network. they are not news outlets, of course, we do want to point out that sean spicer did mention "the new york times" but again, wolf, as you know and i know, the president has time and again referred to the "the new york times" as the failing "the new york times." so, one of the out lelglets the falling back on to justify the claim is a news outlet they repeatedly described as failing and not reputable. and, so, wolf, this was a very surreal day in the white house briefing room but it's very, very clear at this point that this white house is not backing down. there will be no apology from the president. but, of course, having covered donald trump for the last year and a half as

. >> you were just quoting sean hannity there. the house and senate intelligence committee. >> i get you're going to cherry pick. >> you're citing sean hannity. >> you also tend to overlook all the other sources there because i know you juan to cherry pick it. you do but where was your concern about the new york times report something you didn't seem to have a concern about that. >> we have done plenty of reporting on all of it. >> no you juan to cherry pick one piece of commentary. >> that's all been looked at. >> how do you know all of this? how are you such an expert in this. >> this has been looked at. >> how do you know it's been looked at? i'm sorry. can you tell me how you know that all of this has, quote, been looked at. >> you're asking me -- >> you made a statement, you said, quote, all of this has been looked at. so when your outlets said it's all been looked at. >> the presidents and the russians during the 2016 campaign it sounds like there might have been intercepted communications. the house intelligence committee c

you see sean hannity being a friend of trump.servative media is -- you talked about this, certainly not monolithic. so when you look in the scheme of things, you have breitbart and there is fox news and then you have a lot of fiscally conservative republicans that take issue with what president trump are saying. where do you fit fox news into that? >> interestingly, fox has always styled itself as sort of the outsider network. they are the outsiders kind of throwing stones at mainstream media. fox news has become very mainstream itself. . one of the things, as you mentioned and talked about in my piece this week, that it's by far monolithic presence, even within fox news. you have people more news oriented. then you have opinion commentators. but within the conservative media landscape, you have, yes, there are the breitbart news, the weekly standard types of republicans who are really outraged at what some of the things that donald trump is doing. so i think that fox news fits into one of the more mainstream voices, but within i

sean hannity?ght. it was so weird, it became like a running thing. >> jimmy: wow, you know what's weird? i saw sean hannity at a a restaurant once. he didn't send me anything. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: let's talk about "the walking dead." it's bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and better and awesome. [ cheers and applause ] i don't know it can get better. hit 100 episodes, buddy. congratulations. >> crazy, thanks man. that's insane. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you're fantastic in it. >> thank you, man. >> jimmy: everyone loves you. are you ever afraid that you're going to be killed off? >> every single script. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: guys, my thanks to norman reedus. [ cheers and applause ] "the walking dead" airs sundays -- sundays at 9:00 p.m. on amc. we'll be right back with stand-up from joe zimmerman. stick around, everybody! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] when you're close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? if you have mod

sworn m&a of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink, dvr it if you don't already and tune intos sean hannity, he's next, have a great night. ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity," the republican plan to g repeal and replace obamacare has been released in just a few minutes,r we'll get reaction from the health and human services secretary, tom price. laura ingraham and monica crowley and so much more, it'sea time to break down the gop's's american health care act and determine whether it's meant to work for you, the american people. tonight it's time to hold washington accountable and that is the opening monologue. let's go back to 2009, president obama told a room full of lawmakers, elections have consequences, eight years later with republicans now in controle of the house, the senate, and n the executive branch, obama's crowning achievement is officially on the chopping block. some on the right, many conservatives, are slamming theb bill including americans for prosperity, the club for growthg the heritage action committee and many others including author daniel horowitz. he released an article

sean hannity is standing by tonight. see you tomorrow. >> sean: thank you, tucker. we will be watching tomorrow night. this is a fox news alert. obama's deep state shadow government hold over saboteurs, they are breaking laws all in an effort to undermine and delegitimize the newly elected president. nbc news in particular is on a political she g hot against trp and his administration. we have hit a new low in terms of privacy as we know it here in our country. it should deeply concern all of you, the american people. just a short time ago, one of the trump hating hosts over at msnbc news, got her hands on president trump's two pages of his 2005 tax return. in many ways this should be troublesome to everybody but also there are many, many legal questions we will get into tonight. according to 26 u.s. code, it shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of the united states or any person described in section one oh three or any former officer or e willfully to dispose any person except as authorized in this title any return or return information. that is a felony.

hannity" is next. see you tomorrow. >> sean: welcome to this busy newsnight tonight on "hannity." we are following two blockbuster reports. newt gingrich, laura ingraham and lou dobbs will join us. this a rift in the republican party needs to stop and they need to get their act together and keep their promises. but first, more on the developing story that we told you about last night surrounding former obama official, dr. evelynve farkas and the obaa surveillance of the trump transition team. tonight, brand-new information on the shocking public acknowledgment that she made earlier this month on a tv show that former obama officials are now raising a lot of eyebrows around the country. that is tonight's opening monologue. last night on this program we showed you video where former obama official evelyn farkas said she urged her former colleagues and people on the hill to get as much information and intelligence as they couldgu on the trump team before president obama left office. on march 2nd during an nbc interview, dr. farkas who served in the obama administration from 2012-2015

. >> and then this past thursday sean hannity of fox news demanded that trump purge all obama holdovers. >> for weeks we've been warning you for the deep state obama holdover bureaucrats who are hell bent on destroying this president, president trump, tonight it's time for the trump administration to begin to purge these saboteurs before it's too late. >> well, 24 hours after that, the white house did just that when it came to u.s. attorneys. at the same time, the ethics watchdog group citizens for ethics and responsibility in washington wrote this letter you see here to bharara. they asked him to investigate trump organization ties to foreign governments. attorney for the trump organization then told npr that the letter was factually inaccurate, legally erroneous and politically motivated. let's bring in nbc's monica alba at the white house. mon, ka what are you hearing if anything from the white house, of course u.s. attorney general jeff sessions all part of this request for these u.s. attorneys to resign? >> well, richard, we're not hearing anything officially from white house offic

choose not or jeff sessions could choose not to accept resignations, but it's the timing of the sean hannity comment in contention with the statements from sean spicer today about this deep state. if it were a presidential administration was trying to clean house in a benign sense, in a way to show they are trying to have u.s. attorneys in place who are going to be harsher on drug offenders and other things that jeff sessions has talked about, that's one thing. however, the timing of it to come so quickly almost insinuates that people who are obama-era appointees are going to be in a compromise or undermine this administration. interestingly enough one of the u.s. attorney is supposed to do is be the objective enforcer of the law and that if the congressional laws stand, that's what they're enforcing. so, it's a little insulting to career attorneys and certainly to u.s. attorneys who are being removed not because of a normal transition but because of an implication that they are somehow trying to corrupt or undermine this administration. >> i'm wondelso,ring aoo, john, you were -- i mean, sa

you were just quoting sean hannity there. the house and senate committees -- >> i also -- i get you're -- >> you're citing sean hannity -- >> you also tend to overlook all the other sources. i know you want to cherry pick it. you do. where was your concern about "the new york times" reporter? you didn't have a concern with that. >> we have done plenty of reporting on all of this, sean. >> you want to cherry pick one piece of commentary. >> these are associated to the russians -- >> how do you know this? how do you seem to be such an expert on this? >> i'm saying that this has been looked at, sean -- >> how do you know it's been looked at. hold on. i'm sorry. i'm afraid -- can you tell me how you know all of this has been "looked at?" >> you're asking me -- >> you made a statement. you said "all of this has been looked at". >> all other outlets -- >> so when the outlets. >> it sounds like during the context of that investigation there might have been some intercepted communications, the house intelligence committee chairman me

>> you think he stands by -- >> i believe he will. >> jim. >> you were quoting sean hannity there. the house and senate intelligence committees are quoting the fbi -- >> i get you're going to cherry pick. >> they're quoting the fbi director. you are citing sean hannity. >> you tend to overlook the other sources. you want to cherry pick it. where was the concern with the "new york times" reporting? >> we've done plenty of reporting on all of it. >> one piece of commentary. >> -- associates of the president to the russians has all been looked at. >> how do you know all this? how are you such an expert? >> this has been looked at, sean. >> how do you know it's been looked at? hold on. i'm sorry. can you tell me how you know that all of this has, quote, been looked at? >> you are asking me whether or not -- >> you made a statement saying all of this has been looked at. >> other outlets have reported -- >> your contacts at a it's been looked at -- >> it sounds like, during the context of the investigation, there may have been some intercepted communications that house intelligence commi

they're using failing "the new york times" to support claims and sean hannity at fox news.was depressing to watch. >> "the new york times" never reported what president trump charged. >> right. >> again, "the new york times" and cnn have reported that there were wiretaps that were surveillance of individuals, and in that, in those surveillance attempts trump advisors were picked up. that is not the same thing as obama ordering a wiretap of donald trump at trump tower. it's incredible that -- i mean, it just defies any sort of reason or logic. we all know what the president said. they didn't even arrive at this new spin about this until a couple days ago. >> that's right. and why the president just doesn't come out and withdraw the accusation is beyond me. but, jake, as you and i both know from covering this campaign and the transition and now this presidency, donald trump just does not admit when he's wrong. he just doesn't do it, and i can't imagine he's going to do it here. but he was clearly wrong to accuse the president, barack obama, of wiretapping him at trump tower.

caller: yes, i was calling about sean hannity. i watched his program last night. tom price was on his program and said that this health care is about the governors of the state, really not the american people. i don't understand why are we protecting the governors of all these states. is it because of medicaid expansion? is, is therent going to be cut off for health care or can you get this health care anytime you want, just like insurance for auto? host: are you talking about pre-existing conditions? caller: no, there was a cut off for you have to apply for health care under this system. you only have a window to apply if you don't have health care. host: for the next year's health care plan? caller: right. will it be open all the time? i don't understand why tom price thisa comment saying that health care is about the governors of the state. he is trying to protect the governors of all the states because of medicaid expansion? host: got your question and i ill walker whoor jul is joining us. i will bring the enrollment question up with her. face of thehe adminis

tune into "hannity," next. >> sean: welcome to "hannity," >> sean: welcome to hannity, we are broadcastingor the full hour. our 43rd president will join us and along with brave members of the military featured in the book called "portraits in courage and joining us now is the cleared book, "portraits of courage." mr. president, how are you? >> good to be back w you. >> sean: i've gone through part of your museum. i am stunned, shocked, i do not know how to describe it. you've only been painting for

reporter: you were quoting sean hannity. i get you're going to cherry-pick. reporter: you're citing sean hannity. >> you tend to over look all the other sources, i know you want to cherry-pick it. no, no. you do. where was your concern about the "new york times" reporting? you didn't seem to have concern of that. >> we have done plenty of reporting on all of this. >> but you want to cherry-pick one piece of commentary. reporter: associate of president to the russians all looked at. >> how do you know all this? how do you seem to be such an expert in this? reporter: i'm saying this has been looked at sean. >> how do you know it has been looked at. hold on. i'm sorry, i'm afraid -- can you tell me how you know all of this is quote, been looked at? reporter: asking me whether or not it has been looked at? >> you said quote, all of this has been looked at. reporter: other outlets have reported -- >> when your outlet said this is all looked at. reporter: sounds like during the context of investigation there might have been intercepted communications. house intelli

he had this exchange with our jim acosta. >> you were just quoting sean hannity there. the house and senate intelligence committees -- >> i also quoted -- you're going to cherry-pick -- >> you're citing sean hannity in a -- >> you also tend to overlook all the other sources. because i know you want to cherry-pick it. no, no, but you do. but where was your concern about "the new york times" reporter? you didn't seem to have a concern are with that. >> we have done plenty of reporting on all of this. >> you want to cherry-pick one piece of commentary. >> -- associates of the president to the russians, has all been looked at. >> how do you know all this? how do you seem to be such an expert in this? >> i'm saying this has been looked at, sean. >> how do you know? hold on. >> reporter: for nearly two weeks the president's wiretapping claim has hung over the white house like a storm cloud. as one congressional leader after another has discounted it. speaker paul ryan added his voice again today to the list of skeptics. >> intelligence communities in their continuing widening

rachel maddow spent her entire show on those tax returns but sean hannity said it is another exampleing waged by nbc against the president. >> the trump hating nbc news, one of the leaders of the propaganda destroyed from at all costs meeting, she got her hands on president trump's two pages of 2005 tax return. they found it in a mailbox related to the russians. all the conspiracies, a concerted effort by a so-called news organization perhaps to take down the president and was rachel maddow did tonight if you can stomach, i actually laughed, harder than i have in ten years, with a flat out pathetic conspiratorial attempt to smear the president. >> is there any substance or is that smoke and mirrors to take down the president? weigh in on our "fox and friends" first facebook page right here. dallas news video, assassination has secret service's attention. part of the video sparking nationwide outrage was the president's top security team says they are aware of it but not releasing details but are investigating. define our president in california, one step closer to becoming a sanctuar

sean hannity on fox days after election. heat streak. march third fox news chief anchor bret baier said the following. quote report in june 2016, fisa request for the obama administration for intelligence surveillance to monitor communications involving donald trump and several campaign officials. then turned down in october and renewed with trump tower and computer and russian bask banks. >> looks like attempt to muddy the waters. please sclan whexplain what is truth. >> height of irony i to have the white house spokesperson quoting from the presides that the president calls dishonest media. but ranking republican and democrat on the committee, attorney general appointed by president. fbi director. said no evidence. there is no evidence. that's why on the screen we say this is a false statement by the president. it's false. no question. what you've had is redefining of the terms of the allegation. fact is the president alleged that president obama ordered a wiretap on president trump. three elements. president obama did it, target was t

. >> last night on the sean hannity show you said one reason why you briefed the president is because he's been taking a lot of heat many the news media. what do you mean by that? >> i've stated obvious. maybe you can follow me around and ask me more questions. yes, sir. >> in the documents you reviewed, how many names were on the mats? >> i don't know that yet. i'm aware of -- just so i can be perfectly clear, there was an additional unmasking that was done in the documents that i read the other day. i don't know who asked for -- i don't know who asked for hem to be unmasked. i just know that there are more. just so you know, i was aware o the unmasking before i read the documents. >> schist has suggested that it might have been done for appropriate reasons. >> everybody -- look. i think i'm the only one that's seen the documents as far as i know. and i can tell you we have -- i knew about the unmasking before i read the documents and i'll just leave it at that. [ inaudible ] >> it did. >> chairman, as far as the sources of these documents, was he a whistle blower around the nsa? >>

and we're all in the same business. >> i don't say sean hannity has changed anybody's mind.ke arguments. it's all about reinforcing people's true believes. >> this is like making an argument we shouldaboutant have moreen dowd. the same people who read the editorial page read opinions at night. >> you have 24 hours. when people he's saying what's bad, don't believe facts. when people believe ideology over facts. he's talking about people. >> you want to live in political isolation, fine. if you only want to read things that affirm your believes and watch things that affirm your believes, you can. we don't understand everybody else. >> that's why i like being on with you. >> i watch and read everything and i think people should do thatads an exercise all the time. if you're conservative, you should watch something you believe to be liberal. >> actually they -- >> i just -- i'm liberal, i'm conservative, i'm crazy. moeaki i'm just like my mother. no, controversy. wrong song. we'll be right back. finally get in shape. not to be focusing on my moderate to severe chronic plaque ps

it should not escape people that within 24 hours of comments by sean hannity asking for a purge and sean spicer talking about this kind of deep state theory that people are holding on to their positions with the intent to somehow undermine and fatally undermine this particular administration, so there is an insinuation being made right now that there is almost an epiphany that the president has had or jeff sessions has had that this deep state theory has somehow infected the u.s. attorneys' offices across the country. and if they remain in place, they'll somehow not be able to, one, carry out their objectives or will do the opposite of their objectives. what you're seeing here that's surprising is the timing issue. it seems to be in response to this fear that the people who we elect or appoint as u.s. attorneys who are supposed to be objective enforcers of the law are somehow incapable of doing just that. >> the white house is denying the whole sean hannity thing, but that's what they're saying this evening. thank you all. i appreciate it. >>> i want to turn to another piece of breaking