weissmann is a legal nightmare. weissmann, guess what?egal tyrant. >> andrew weissmann is a very, very powerful weapon in the government's arsenal. i don't like andrew weissmann heading this prosecution. >>that was trump's former lawyer. he doesn't like it. well, that brings us to tonight's special report, the reason why team trump fears weissmann, and what it actually says about the future of trump's family and how the probe may reportedly look at people as it draws to a potential close. so let's get into it. weissmann known for tough and sometimes controversial tactics. lately trump allies have seized on, for example, this new fooj of roger stone's home rage to try to impugn this investigation. it was a weissmann that first deployed a predawn raid on manafort's home in july 2017. >> with absolutely no warning, fbi agents showed up before dawn to search the suburban washington, d.c. apartment of paul manafort. >> raiding a home in the middle of the night is an indication of a very serious criminal case and criminal investigation. >> the

so weissmann was once againts holding exculpatory evidence.t's hard to fathom how anybody is corrupt as weissmann could be considered to be a part of the special counsel team?ns he has so many red flags, yetn. mueller took him on. he is his pit bull and that ought to raise questions to his judgment. but maybe that's what mueller was going for all along. sara carter, civil rights defense attorney david chon, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. let's start with you, you know robert mueller well, did he pick weissmann by accident? did he not know about the atrocious record and backgrounda >> he knew everything about mr. weissmann, if you would read the 2011 "boston globe" article, you would see remarkable similarity between mr. mueller's conduct as acting u.s. attorneym in boston with respect to a relationship between fbi agent now in prison and the remarkable similarity to andrew weissmann's conduct, later charged with several murderers, and gregory under boss of the colombo family, but mr. hannity, you are the first person who takes the side

before we do, you've got to understand who is andrew weissmann.ox news legal analyst gregg jarrett has dug deep into his background.ck here's what he has found. back in 2,000, during the massive enron scandal, weissmann was one of the prosecutors on the tax force that brought a very controversial obstruction of justice case against the giant accounting firm, arthur andersen. this is important. weissmann's actions put the company out of business. tens of thousands of people lost their jobs. in 2005, the united states supreme court overturned weissmann's obstruction of justice conviction in a unanimous 9-0, nearly unprecedented ruling. but it was too late. he had already inflicted maximum damage to so many people. arthur anderson was not the only victim of his aggressive tactics. the business transaction between enron and merrill lynch sent people to jail. guess what? they were innocent. that decision was reversed by the fifth circuit u.s. circuit court of appeals. weissmann has also been accused of intimidating witnesses, making of crimes they don'

weissmann as you mentioned in my book, "license to lie." sweetheart deals with the people who are the real criminals and put the screws to them to try to get them say things that incriminate people higher up that are the real targets that the prosecutors want, whether they did anything wrong or not. two defendants in the enron litigation in related cases had to be allowed to withdraw their guilty pleas because what mr. weissmann coerced them into pleading to wasn't even a crime. david: but years later the damage was done and reputations and lives were ruined. let's just hope the same thing doesn't happen here. >> please visit my website sidneypowell.com. david: reuters reporting chinese espionage agencies are creating linkedin accounts to lure americans. we take that up and more with judicial watch's chris farrell next. come away with me barnabas! but i am a simple farmer. my life is here... [telephone ring] ahoy-hoy. alexander graham bell here... no, no, my number is one, you must want two! two, i say!! like my father before... [telephone

weissmann is a legal nightmare.e happen to know that weissmann has deep and close ties to both mueller and the disgraced former fbi james comey. he has worked closely with both of them for years, and he has t donated over $4,000 to democrats, like barack obama. so there is no way that he had any political bias, i'm sure, right? well, this is the part that is deeplyss disturbing. when weissmann was a top prosecutor, remember, the enron task force? he secured a highly controversial obstruction of justice case against american accounting giant arthur andersen.it it destroyed that company. they put tens of thousands of people out of work. it drove that company out of business. in 2005, the u.s. supreme court overturned weissmann's conviction in an almost unprecedented 9-0 unanimous ruling. they excoriated him for his behavior. and that is not the only example ofof weissmann's hard charging, overly aggressive tactics. as part of the enron investigation, weissmann sent four merrill lynch executives to jail for as long as

weissmann? guess what? he is a legal tyrant. he has been accuse of doing just about anything to secure a conviction. does he not care about equal justice under the law. he has been accused of intimidating witnesses. making up crimes that do not even exist. and even withholding evidence that would have been exculpatory and help the defense in one case. and weissmann is also directly tied to that corrupt uranium one deal. an obama administration's attempt to hide it from you, the american people. weissmann? guess what? he was in charge of the doj's fraud section during the russian bribery scheme. gregg jarrett pointed out weissmann's signature look there at the bottom of the plea deal at the center of that case. also tonight breaking information about the trump-hating, hillary-loving fbi agent peter struk. he is the guy fired from mueller's team political bias towards president trump. another one of the dream team of robert mueller. the doj is reviewing 10,000 text messages that strzok said to his fbi officia

andrew weissmann is back with us.at prosecutorial team that got that indictment. what else do we need to know about prigozhin? >> so, in february of 2018, really wonderful team led by jimmy ray and a series of prosecutors and agents put together a criminal case involving the internet research agency. the head of it was prigozhin. and, yes, he has since, like donald trump, absolutely embraced what he is charged with. and so, he was the head of that group. one of the scary vineyards is that this obviously was a troll, and they interfered with the 2016 presidential election that many other elections across the globe. one vignette it's really fascinating is they had an american two days before his birthday go to the white house and hold up a happy birthday sign. and there's a photo of that sign which was sent to prigozhin, saying happy birthday, boss. so, they were really able to interfere with the election but also be here in the united states doing it. so, this is not some theoretical event the other thing that is inter

if this is the story coming from weissmann's side, why?ccording to the sources i have spoken with, there was a problem. he hadad set up this meeting without the appropriate procedures in place, he didn't call the people that he needed to call, coming to this meeting, so there's a lot of concern here. >> sean: if i am paul manafort's attorneys, and this is all unraveling like this -- >> you file a motion to dismiss, which forces the judge to haul weissmann in front of the judge and say, account for yourself what happened what happened. >> sean: why didn't he recuse himself? >> he should have, he should have been fired. i'm looking at the department of justice regulations. doj will not comment about an ongoing investigation. if you do, you're fired. if he gives information or collects information, either way from these reporters, he should be fired. i got off the phone, or communicated via email with a former doj official, who was there for more than ten years, he said absolutely, manafort's lawyers should now file a motion to dismiss. >> se

andrew weissmann. >> andrew weissmann is like the detective that frames a suspect and declares himselfhe investigator to say whether the suspect committed the crime. >> sean: how can you ever trust the mueller investigation? excoriated by the judge, holding exculpatory evidence, putting innocent people in jail, that is overturned. 9-0, fifth circuit court of appeals, how does he get a job with robert mueller's office? >> he should not have had the job, and he should have asked a lot more of peter strzok and andrew weissmann. you have strzok who tainted the evidence, you have andrew weissmann who tainted the evidence, you have a team of pas appointed by mueller who a full stomach recuse himself, not only a boss that has a discounted interest, this is the most corrupt and tainted investigation of my lifetime an3 years old, and it goes beyond my lifetime. >> sean: sara has a much better career ahead of herself. let me ask this, mueller said that he might accept written answers. let me go to gregg on the legal side of it first. >> this is a victory for president trump's legal team, but it

and begin with andrew weissmann, why?ecause weissmann has very close ties with a lawyer he hired at the department of justice who sent out anti-trump tweets and retweets and who was there at an anti-trump protest. did weissmann send such emails to chan? that needs to be looked into. >> sean: let me ask about this obvious agenda-driven team. victoria, how could any of those hold up in exoneration before an investigation? anti-trump, pro-hillary. he's involved in all of it. tell me how any judge would say this is admissible in any way. >> it's not going to be. let me add something to the andrew weissmann scenario. that is, remember i told you about the fraud section lawyers who threatened to prosecute my client, mr. campbell, if he didn't withdraw his civil case? >> sean: yes. >> guess who they reported to? andrew weissmann. >> sean: [laughs] i would like to know -- by the way, i'm hearing rumors all over the place, sara carter. there were other anti-trump texts, emails out there and we know about them. >> i think you are h

andrew weissmann. we, on this program, have gone over his track record and it is unbelievably atrocious. sidney powell, who is now general flynn's attorney, wrote a book, called "license to lie," in it, weissmann is known for withholding as a prosecutor exculpatory evidence, which means that he cares more about the wins and losses, not about the truth. not about justice and is willing to basically cheat to win a case. that is not a good thing to have in a prosecutor. that is dangerous for anybody. in fact, two of the high-profile convictions, they were overturned because of prosecutorial misconduct. one case, he sent four merrill executives to prison for a year before that verdict was overturned by the fifth circuit. another case, wow, it is not easy to do. that was overturned 9-0 between the u.s. supreme court, not before thousands of employees at andersen accounting lost their jobs. their good paying jobs. and let's not forget andrew weissmann, his extreme political bias. a big-time democratic donor,

weissmann, you wouldn't get it reversed and mr. weissmann knows that.to president of the united states. we want to ask the president of the united states, what is your personal opinion about the way that comey and why you removed him and they find some contradictory piece -- something he may have said elsewhere even though a president cannot be held for obstruction of justice, it's abundantly clear that they are not going charge the president, they will write a report and be able to write a one-sided report and this is what i wanted to ask you, prosecutors don't write reports. reporters speak in the courtroom where they keep their mouth shut. >> right. >> we have special counsel that will write a report. okay, the report is supposed to be a confidential report just for the the higher ups at the department of justice, the press is going to demand, somebody will likely leak it. we will have a document by the likes of mr. weissmann with likes of mr. mueller, given your experience with mr. weissmann do you expect this report to be fair report, that lays out

let's go to weissmann.e reported last the justice department has opened up, it's been going on for months, an investigation into uranium one. as is the first of many cards to fall?? >> yeah, probably is. your opening monologue about weissmann is right on point. to this guy actually exchange information about manafort, and during the investigation into manna for manafort. >> sean: what would you do? >> i would do a motion to dismiss, which would trigger the judge or weissmann to show up in charge -- >> sean: immediately. >> immediately.n: >> sean: would any judge except this conflict and track record? >> any good judge would nod, which is why the second thing i would do would make a motion for order of inquiry into the conflict of interest. and list manafort and others like rod rosenstein as witnesses in the case because -- >> sean: how soon can you expedite that? >> within 30 to 60 days. >> sean: wow. >> if they are designated to be defensete witnesses, they have o be removed from the case because -- >> sea

he picked andrew weissmann. he knew who andrew weissmann was.nly was the only corrupt prosecutor singled out by the chief judge in the eastern district of new york for withholding evidence. >> sean: you have seen this. >> i have the case against him now. he brought the case, when the evidence was disclosed 16 defendants were acquitted, based on that evidence. good judges in the eastern district required it to be disclosed. mueller knew it. he hired him as general counsel, mueller authorized $500,000 in attorney fees for the corrupt fbi agent that weissmann covered up for. >> sean: i'll send to you meet with jim jordan, he needs to have a conversation with you. sent four maryland executives to jail for a year, overturned by the fifth signature. everyone wants, in we'll come back, more with the studio audience and preview the inspector general's upcoming report, former congressman trey gowdy weighs in as well as the deep state is in serious trouble. -and...that's your basic three-point turn. -[ scoffs ] if you say so. ♪ -i'm sorry? -what teach her

while andrew w weissmann is a stellar prosecutor, there are many andrew weissmanns, there are many wonderful prosecutors throughout the department of justice and fbi agents who will take up whatever bob mueller is handing off to them, and this is not the end of the story as to the investigations. but it may be the end of this unit investigating. >> is the right way to put it that the home office may be shutting down, but this work has been sent out to regional district offices? >> i think that's a great analogy, and that's a good thing. we have a strong department of justice that has handled complex, important cases for decades in all different offices, and i think seeing it sort of go out that way and state prosecutors stepping in as well, that's not a bad thing. and i understand why mueller, who is a creature of that department of justice, would want it to go to the regular channels at some point. and it seems like we're nearing that point. >> so, eric, that's the view from a former fed, and i want to you see another former fed who is of counsel to us. this is frank figluzzi earlier on thi

andrew weissmann knew that the time. can you imagine, i'm thinking as i'm listening to you, with the secrecy surrounding a warrant application to the fisa court, to have someone who's fellow traveler of these folks submitting applications, we know something from the nunes memo m about what was omitted from those applications -- >> sean: they didn't tell who paid for it, did they? >> that's right. we may know more. i know that congressman nunes has asked the fisa court to provide additional information on the underlying documents -- >> sean: go ahead, finish your thought. to speak of the court said this is a novel i issue, they want to think about it. go to the justice department. we want them to turn over those documents, too. i think the problem is here, if you have a person with an agenda like andrew weissmann who, in i the normalal scheme of things, r example, in the eastern district of new york court case that i told you about in which the judgeld recommended him, suggesd he be sent for disciplinary action, that was

, too. >> well, let me say this about weissmann.weissmann was present for one of the meetings. he didn't say how long. he didn't say what was discussed. and if he gave him a thumb drive, i don't have any indication that weissmann then took the thumb drive and looked at it. the only reason i'm being cautious is i was also part of another interview with a guy named jared kushner who showed up at a meeting at trump tower and some of my colleagues on the other side made a lot of hay out of the fact that jared was there. he didn't know what the meeting was about. as soon as he found out what it was about, he began trying to get out of the meeting. so i think it is fair to ask andrew weissmann and robert mueller, when did you know what, and what were you doing talking to bruce ohr, who, by the way, had been terminated as an fbi source, sean, but i don't want to speculate. >> sean: there is another chronology here. comey says to president-elect trump, not verified but salacious, but he signed off on the fisa warrant months earlier. andd th

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of course, we now know that andrew weissmann is robert mueller's top deputy.oining us now with more reaction is the author of "the new york times" number one best seller, "the russia hoax: the illicit scheme to clear hillary clinton and frame donald trump," fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett and fox news contributor sara carter. all right, gregg, i will startg, with you. this is what we hear tonight,gh that bruce ohr, not only back channeled with christopher steele, both before and after he was fired, but bruce ohr also kept people from the fbi and they doj in the loop as to what was going on with that dossier. how bad is this? >> this is a dramatic and stunning development that shouli effectively end robert mueller's special counsel investigation. in fact, he should immediately fire andrew weissmann and terminate his special counsel probe. here's the reason. we have now learned thanks to catherine herridge, that bruce ohr implicated, not just a half a dozen people at the fbi and doj, but in particular, andrew weissmann, he kept him in the loop about the dos

also joining us former top official at the department of justice, andrew weissmann. speaking of sleeping in basement, no one can claim more times these days than andrew weissmann. >> if you've seen his apartment, it's no big -- >> i meant here. i want to put the elephant in the middle of the table.

, andrew weissmann. >> ges what, weissmann is a legal nightmare.'s a legal tyrant. >> that prosecutor a veteran of the mueller probe, the eastern district of the new york, the former head of the fraud department andrew weissmann joins me for his first ever appearance on the beat. we want to welcome him as an bcb news and msnbc analyst. >> nice to be here. >> what is important in your view about the prosecutorial questioning that revealed some evidence today? >> so i looked at this very much like a trial. i was thinking, okay, how did the, you know -- how did the prosecution do. how did the defense do, understanding that there's a lot of things that are similar and things that are not. so one of the down sides in a trial is that you can't tell the whole story immediately, and so you sort of are playing for what's going to happen at the end when you're summing up to the jury. i don't think that is as, you know, today you needed to be able to sort of understand the whole story quickly, and so that i think was the challenge for the democrats, making su

and back with us is andrew weissmann.ng, with your experience, as a district attorney in georgia, what do you make of where fani willis is tonight? she is also said over the weekend, she said the sentence, we are ready to go, on this case. >> first of, all i don't think it's unusual that she hasn't coordinated with jack smith. again, that's not somebody who is in georgia. prosecuting circles in the state are very close. we are not talking about the u.s. attorney in the northern, middle, or southern districts of the state, where she might run into them. but as you've heard, she is getting her team ready. and i think what people really need to remember is while we are focused on the facts, law, and obviously that has been her focus over the last two years, she is also a leader of the largest prosecutor's office in the state. so, if she talks about ensuring that her staff is safe, that the judges are making sure their teams are safe, other courthouse personnel are safe. we've heard some of the threats, ugly threats that she

we have andrew weissmann joining us tonight, and he has been the hardest working man at this network today. i want to get to him as quickly as i can. >> as you should. >> thank, you alex. we now know who the star witness is going to be in the case of united states of america versus donald j trump, walt tea nauta and now carlos de oliveira. carlos de oliveira was added as a defendant in the case today in a superseding indictment which added nine new criminal charges, some of which apply only to one of the individual defendants, some of light all of them, and they're all now accused of participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice directed by donald trump. the new defendant, carlos de oliveira, is a trump employee working in maintenance and on trump's florida residents. the three person conspiracy described in the superseding indictment tried to recruit a fourth person to the conspiracy. they failed. and because they failed, we now know what really happened in donald trump's criminal conspiracy to possess and conceal classified government documents. on page 38 of today's supersedin

andrew weissmann, take us inside the scif based on what we know about the case and three hours. what was the hearing about, and why were the trump lawyers not

all of my deepest respect, andrew weissmann. isn't that sweet? so naturally when the time came to choose his deputy, special counsel mueller chose wiseman, who was also his former partner at the law firm wilmer cutler. think about it. weissmann chosen to be the number two guy on an investigation that could lead to the impeachment of the president of the united states given those statements. when he was on the record the liberating dates. if she was an instant hero of the left because she refused to enforce that same president's lawful executive order. my friends, we are talking willful defiance of the chief executive officer of the united states. pahrump is their boss. it is simple, folks. weissmann must be removed from the mueller team because of the apparent and real conflict of interest his presence represents. and finally, our exclusive report on yet another mueller prosecutor who is compromised. this time because of her alliances to the obama white house. meet jeannie. she was hired by mueller in early june and also a part of weissmann and a

tell me about andrew weissmann.hen catherine herridge is reporting why is he so important and what bruce ohr is doing and informing him along the i way? >> bruce ohr has now implicated the lead lawyer in robert mueller's special counsel team. he was in on the russia hoax. that was framing donald trump for doing things that he never did. wiseman knew that christopher steele compose the phony dossier, they knew the document was completely specious it was uncorroborated, unverified and they knew that he had been fired for lying and the fbi a department and department of justice apparently didn'tn care, they use that nevertheless to pursue this fabricated investigationin of donald trump. and to wiretap an american citizen without proper evidence. this now ruins the integrity and credibility of robert mueller's special counsel. weissmann should be fired and the special counsel should say we apologize, we arend terminatg our special counsel probe because all of it has been tainted and corrupted by weissmann. >> jason: wil

of course, weissmann was working for mueller at the time. then weissmann tells the a.p. reporters. go back to cyprus and make sure that government gave us everything they were supposed to on manafort? this collusion is so corrupt. they should look at manafort's pardons as well. judge jeanine: weissmann is making the associated press agents of law enforcement. the associated press in bed with the left and the fbi to indict a trump affiliate. this is crazy. >> i look at this report and of course you can bet the a.p. had information on tony podesta, greg craig, the former clinton lawyer. i didn't see any of that conveyed to mr. weissmann. it was all about getting manafort. we had just gotten documents two weeks ago showing that the "60 minutes" and other reporters were calling up rod rosenstein and cheering him on for appointing robert mueller special counsel. there are witnesses of criminal activity. there is no media exception to conveying classified information. judge jeanine: how can we say free speech? dennis prager joins me live next dennis prager joins me live next to talk abou

andrew weissmann is the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct.s the driving force behind the indictment of arthur anderson, which as you mentioned, within a week being unsoiled, eradicated a company, a venerable company, and 85,000 jobs worldwide with the stroke of the pen on the indictment itself. anderson was givingg the death penalty only to be reversed 9-0 by the supreme court three years later. >> sean: that never happened. not many 9-0 decisions, are there? >> no, there are not. justice rehnquist wall for the court it was shocking how familiar culpability the jury instructions had acquired. mr. weissmann obtained the conviction by erratic indicating criminal intent from the jury instructions and persuading the judge to give instructions that simply were devoid of that crucial element. >> sean: you write, gregg jarrett, that weissmann isis notorious lawyer. known for abusive tactics and for weaponizing the law in a ruthless and often unprincipled quest to convict. innocent people have been victimized by him. his biggest cases we have been ta

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sounds like andrew weissmann. the men were exonerated. a judge awarded $101 million in damages but not before two of them and actually died in priso prison. robert mueller was the u.s. attorney in charge while these men were rotting in prison, while certain agents in the fbi under a mueller covered up the truth. oh, let's see. andrew weissmann was excoriated by two judges for withholding exculpatory evidence. so what did robert mueller know about all this? when did he know about all of us? these are questions and issues i'm sure you have not heard from your friends in the liberal media. toro some members of congress, e media, they are praising mueller. the pillar of honesty, the pillar of virtue. they've never investigated him. they are actually just flying. it is their talking points. all the information we are telling you about is right there, right in front of the liberal mainstream media, and their faces, but they purposely ignore it because they the desr trump agenda goes above all else. they want muller to carry out the witch hunt,

andrew weissmann, harry litman, are gonna stay with that with us.er the codefendants of donald trump and who among them is in a position to actually make some sort of cooperation deal with fani willis at this point. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. discover the ozempic® tri-zone. in my ozempic® tri-zone, i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack, or death in adults also with known heart disease. and you may lose weight. adults lost up to 14 pounds. ozempic® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't share needles or pens, or reuse needles. don't take ozempic® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop ozempic® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. gal

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we have a lot of legal ground to cover tonight, leading off our discussion, andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of the criminal division of the eastman district of new york, a professor at nyu university, and co-host of the podcast prosecuting donald trump. barr mcquade is with, us former u.s. attorney and law professor at the university of michigan law school. they are both msnbc legal analysts. also joining us tonight, amy lee copeland, a criminal defense attorney and former georgia federal prosecutor. and andrew weissmann, let me go first to the hatch act, raised by fani willis, which is not something we have brought up in discussions on this program because mark meadows attempt to remove the case to federal court depends on his claim that everything he has done was exactly what a white house chief of staff. does this is the job. he was just doing the job. fani willis is brief take serious issue with that. >> a lot happened today but i think you have your finger on the thing that is most important in terms of thinking about big picture. it's mark meadows

night, andrew weissmann is going to join me, and he's going to join me for the full hour. he has been granted taking naps during commercial breaks. so the commercial breaks, i just want to say this to the audience, if the commercial breaks feel longer than usual, it's because we're trying to wake andrew weissmann up. >> he got the naps written into his contract. i think i have to be on air for another year before they will give me that. >> you've gotta start a a lot earlier, like andrew did. and basically work all day. >> i'll be watching and waiting in the nap break. lawrence -- >> thanks alex. >> thank you. have a good show. >> the breaking news at this hour tonight is the astonishing news that donald trump's criminal defense lawyer, john lauro, who did a very solid and serious job in the courtroom today during donald trump's third criminal arraignment of the year, where donald trump once again pleaded not guilty, that lawyer then went on television and any fact pleaded donald trump guilty to the charge of attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy to d

andrew weissmann and barbara mcquade are gonna start us off tonight, but also getting to nikki haley. i saw your coverage of nikki haley in the last hour. just a little before you started that. in new hampshire tonight. she was asked a pretty simple question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer that did not include the words slavery. we're going to show you that later in this hour, and explain why she gave that answer. >> lawrence, i'm looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i'm glad you're covering it. >> thank you, jonathan. >> thanks, lawrence. >> on christmas day a 77-year-old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn't mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he dn't say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world, and while he was at it, he said the president of the united

there is no way in heck he's going to be confirmed i would agree with weissmann.we lose both senate seats in georgia, and nick derman will be chairman of the senate judiciary committee most likely. if we win both seats in georgia i will be the budget chairman. anybody of the omb director has to become the budget committeemb for hearings to be confirmed. i think i would ask different questions than bernie sanders who is to be the budget chairman if the democrats weren't in florida. if you stop this nonsense, make sure this nut job doesn't become the director of the budget. in charge of the offensive management budget, make sure that we win in georgia. if you want to make sure and weissmann doesn't his way, biden can't pick an attorney general that will try to destroy president trump yet again, make sure that republicans win in georgia. >> sean: doesn't that put a chill up your spine? if we don't get to the bottom of the irregularities, republicans will never win again. >> to my friends in georgia, all you need is one person to validate a signature on the mail-in ba

civil rights attorney david shown called for weissmann to be investigated. we did reach out to the special counsel's office for comments on sara's reporting, shockingly they don't answer our calls. the sum of this is this. the big news today, zero evidence, again, a year-plus, no evidence, that trump, his campaign, colluded in any way, shape, matter, form. we have been telling you this for over a year. shows us the evidence. we want to see it. now it's time for the democrats and the media to finally start telling the truth to you, the american people, about the situation. that means to tell you about real collusion as it relates to uranium one in 2009. as it relates to why would you allow putin and his optatives to get away with that. number two, re lats to the bought and paid for phony dossier designed to manipulate the american people. tonight we have xree hencive analysis. sara carter, gregg jarrett, dr. good morninger and much more on this special edition hannity breaking news night. ♪ when you have a cold, stuff happens. [ dog groans ] [ coughs and snee