Former White House Press Secretary and “Outnumbered” co-host Kayleigh McEnany joined “Hannity” on Friday and slammed the Biden administration for openly admitting to working with tech companies to flag what it considers misinformation.

KAYLEIGH MCENANY: I hear a lot of things in the White House press briefings that I take issue with (or I know it’s a deception or not a truthful matter in what’s being spun to us) like saying Republicans want to defund the police, but I literally almost fell out of my chair when I heard an admission from the podium that they are working with social media companies to censor. This is the crux, Jason, of the lawsuit put forward by President Trump (that class-action lawsuit). He says social media is colluding with the government and thus becoming state actors and trampling on the First Amendment. People said “Oh no, that’s crazy. President Trump, that’s crazy.” It was admitted from the podium and then doubled down on today 

Fox News contributor Joe Concha also weighed in, saying that the White House is “colluding” with Facebook.

JOE CONCHA: I like the word “colluding” here because it fits. If the White House is colluding with Facebook on what is right and wrong speech (per their definitions) then every news item deemed negative to the administration can also ultimately be censored or suppressed outside of COVID. You saw Jen Psaki before. She said the administration is simply working with Facebook to combat “misinformation.” But who gets to define what misinformation is? The White House? One has to believe, Jason, that Facebook is not biased in serving at the pleasure of the Democratic Party. Of course, it is, and of course, Facebook is acting in good faith (you have to believe that). It doesn’t.  

Former Trump advisor Stephen Miller also joined the “Hannity” panel and accusing the federal government of “creeping authoritarianism.”

STEPHEN MILLER: Whether you’re talking about this or whether you are talking about what’s happening on the border or DACA, it’s about the U.S. Constitution being thrown out the window. The other two guests had it exactly right, Joe and Kayleigh. This is state censorship. Creeping authoritarianism from the Left has now reached a full gallop. Apparently, Jen Psaki did not understand the lesson from 1984  when, presumably, she read it when she was in high school. It was not intended as a governing blueprint. It was intended as a cautionary tale and to hear her, at the press podium, talk about government censorship as a positive good is truly chilling.

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New book claims Obama was a ‘parasite’ who sucked the Democratic Party dry to get reelected
A “parasite” on the Democratic Party is how journalist Edward Isaac Dovere describes former President Obama in his forthcoming tell-all book “Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaign to Defeat Trump.”

In a chapter entitled “Benign Neglect,” Dovere writes that the section’s namesake is how Obama aides privately described his abandonment of the Democratic Party once in the White House. “‘Negligence’ might be more accurate,” Dovere, writer for The Atlantic and former chief Washington correspondent for Politico, writes.

“The numbers are hard to ignore: during his eight years in office, Obama oversaw a net loss of 947 state legislative seats, 63 House seats, 11 senators, and 13 governors,” he continues.

In 2008, Democrats increased their majorities in the House and Senate, delivering Obama the legislature for his first two years in office. In 2010, Republicans took the majority in the House with the Tea Party wave and Democrats maintained but shrunk their majority in the Senate. In 2014, Republicans gained control of both the House and Senate.

Dovere writes that the 44th president carried himself with a “self-assured self-regard.”

“Obama never built a Democratic bench and never cared to, aside from a few scattered candidates who interested him,” according to the book.

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In other developments:
– Obama had harsh words on Trump, book claims
– Obama called Trump a ‘f—— lunatic’ in remarks to foundation donors, book claims
– Obama Bros at Crooked Media promoted charity linked to terrorist group Hamas: report
– Kid reporter who interviewed Obama at White House dies at 23

Texas aims to crack down on protesters who block traffic: ‘That chaos won’t be tolerated’
A bill that would increase penalties for protestors blocking roads and obstructing emergency vehicles is on the way to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.

And the two-term GOP governor who’s running for re-election next year says he’ll sign the measure into law.

“I will sign soon,” Abbott tweeted this weekend. “Peaceful protest doesn’t include blocking roadways & preventing emergency vehicle access. That chaos won’t be tolerated in Texas.”

The governor sent his tweet soon after the Texas Senate voted 25-5 to pass the bill, which would toughen penalties and calls for jail time for protestors who purposefully block emergency vehicles from passing through a roadway, or obstruct a hospital entrance. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

In other developments:
– ‘Free Palestine’ demonstrators block traffic in Los Angeles: ‘Long live intifada’
– Good Samaritans help Florida deputy under attack during traffic stop, video shows
– Police in this Florida city will start fining protesters who block traffic

Kinzinger charges that McCarthy ‘failed to tell the truth’

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois is taking aim at Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., charging that the House minority leader is not being honest with Americans.

“I do think Kevin has failed to tell the truth,” Kinzinger said Sunday in an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”

Kinzinger was one of just 10 House Republicans who voted in January to impeach then-President Trump of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by right-wing extremists aiming to disrupt congressional certification of President Biden’s Electoral College victory over Trump. And the conservative lawmaker first elected to Congress in the 2010 Tea Party wave was one of 35 House Republicans who last week bucked party leadership and voted in favor of a Jan. 6 commission to investigate the attack on the Capitol.

McCarthy last week announced his opposition to the formation of the commission and worked with House GOP leadership to limit the number of defections when the full chamber voted on the matter on Wednesday. While 35 Republicans supported the inquiry, the vast majority of the 212 member GOP conference opposed the move.

Kinzinger charged McCarthy “failed to tell the truth to the Republicans and to the American people and it pains me to say and it’s not like I enjoy standing up and saying this.”

He noted that a sizeable number of the 74 million people who voted for Trump “believe the election was stolen, believe it because their leaders have not told them otherwise. The people they trust have either been silent or not told them the truth.”

In other developments:
– GOP Rep. Kinzinger hauls in big bucks after facing Trump’s wrath
– Kinzinger launches new PAC to ‘take back’ GOP from Trump
– Kinzinger defends Liz Cheney, says McCarthy ignored warnings about Jan. 6 violence

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The exit of junior coalition partner in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic deals a blow to Giuseppe Conte’s government.

Matteo Renzi speaks to attendees after a news conference in Rome, Italy, January 13 2021. Picture: ALESSIA PIERDOMENICO/BLOOMBERG

Rome — Italy’s government led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte risks collapsing in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic after a junior coalition partner pulled out on Wednesday.

Former premier Matteo Renzi said his Italy Viva party is quitting the coalition after attacking Conte for failing to do enough to tackle the country’s problems. Though the party is tiny, Conte relies on it to maintain his majority in parliament.

Renzi’s decision sparks a government crisis that could last days or even weeks, and has no clear solution in sight.

After accepting the ministers’ resignation, Conte could step down himself. That would likely trigger a new round of talks among parties and lead to another Conte government, a new premier or a technocratic administration. Snap elections, though a risk, appear unlikely for now.

‘Act of courage’

Pulling out at a such a crucial moment for the country amounts to “an act of courage”, Renzi said at a news conference in Rome. Conte’s government has not done enough to resolve problems from education to infrastructure, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic, the former premier said.

“We are not playing,” Renzi said, addressing critics who’ve accused his party of political posturing during weeks of build-up to the current crisis. “Democracy is not a reality show.”

Investors have reacted to the heightened uncertainty. German bund futures rose after the announcement, while Italy Treasury bond futures fell. The cost of borrowing for the Italian government has risen modestly in recent days on concerns of political instability.

The timing of the crisis for Conte could hardly be worse, with Italy battling a worsening pandemic and a recession. A cabinet meeting late on Wednesday was due to discuss new Covid-19-related restrictions, while on Thursday Conte is set to sign off on a plan to widen the country’s deficit by about €24bn.

Renzi said that his party is still willing to back plans for more deficit spending and any measures necessary to tackle the pandemic. He did not rule out a new government led by Conte but said Italy Alive won’t support any coalition including Matteo Salvini’s League, an anti-migrant, anti-EU opposition party.

Nicola Zingaretti, head of the ruling Democratic Party, said Renzi’s move was a “huge mistake”.

Presidential role

With Renzi’s two ministers now exiting the government, the focus turns to President Sergio Mattarella, who met with Conte earlier on Wednesday. The president’s role, largely ceremonial, also includes responsibilities for safeguarding the country’s political stability.

If Conte opts to resign, he could be given a mandate by Mattarella to try to forge a new alliance.

Alternatively, the premier could seek a parliamentary vote of confidence. But if he fails to win over enough centrist and unaffiliated legislators to replace Renzi’s Italy Alive, the government would become a caretaker administration with limited powers.

The existing coalition parties — including Italy Viva — could also try to revive their alliance under a different premier, such as former European Central Bank president Mario Draghi. They will probably explore a range of options to avoid a new election, as surveys show the Salvini-led center-right would likely win if the country is forced into a snap vote.

“The impact of Renzi’s move on Italy’s fragile economy will depend on what will happen next,” said Lorenzo Pregliasco, a political analyst at YouTrend. “A snap vote, the worst scenario for investors, remains unlikely at this stage.”

Renzi had been dialing up the pressure on Conte since late 2020, slamming the prime minister’s plans for managing and spending EU rescue funds. Renzi says the plan has been improved after his demands, but he’s been insisting on further conditions, including that Italy tap a European Stability Mechanism credit line for health spending.

“The real issue is, should we spend more money on health with the ESM?” Renzi said after his announcement on Wednesday.

Bloomberg

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/italy-ministers-quit-coalition-putting-premier-conte-at-risk

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The other two Confederates, Edmund Kirby Smith and Robert E. Lee, did not have a documented political affiliation, according to historical accounts. Lee reportedly joined Democrats in opposition to Republicans who “demanded punitive measures against the South” during reconstruction.

“The American people know, these names have to go. These names are white supremacists that said terrible things about our country,” Pelosi said during a press conference on Thursday.

McCarthy, a California Republican, said the statues that concern Pelosi are a problem within her own party.

“They were voted upon in the legislature and brought here under Democrat majorities from Mississippi to the other states that she speaks about,” he said.

The statues that Pelosi wants removed include:

• Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America and former Democratic U.S. senator from Mississippi
• James Zachariah George, former Democratic U.S. senator from Mississippi and member of the Confederacy as well as the Mississippi Secession Convention
• Wade Hampton, lieutenant general for the Confederacy and former Democratic governor of South Carolina
• John E. Kenna, member of the Confederate States Army, former Democratic congressman and U.S. senator from West Virginia
• Uriah Milton Rose, chairman of the Resolutions Committee of the Arkansas Democratic Party
• Edmund Kirby Smith, general for the Confederate States Army with no recorded political party affiliation
• Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice president of the Confederate States who served as a Democratic congressman from Georgia and governor of Georgia
• Zebulon Baird Vance, member of the Confederate Army and former Democratic governor of North Carolina
• Joseph Wheeler, commander in the Confederate Army and former Democratic congressman from Alabama
• Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate States Army
• Edward Douglass White, member of Confederate Army, former Louisiana Democratic senator and associate justice of the Supreme Court
  

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The bill is before Congress right now and has been for almost two months. And yet so far it has been essentially ignored by the country’s major media outlets, which are either too embarrassed of it or too ignorant to cover it. That’s a disservice to you because it’s nearly impossible to describe just how radical this bill is.

If it becomes law, the bill would remake our immigration system for the expressed purpose of helping foreign-born criminals live in the United States. The bill would allow people who have committed serious felonies in other countries to move here legally. It would make it nearly impossible for federal immigration officials to detain immigrants, no matter how potentially dangerous they are.

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And perhaps most infuriatingly and remarkably, the legislation would require taxpayers to transport deported criminals back into the United States. In other words, you break our laws, you hurt our people, we will send you a plane ticket. We will pay for you to come back.

It’s utter and total insanity, and yet it’s very popular in the Democratic Party. So far, this bill has 44 Democratic co-sponsors. Some of these people you’ve heard of before: Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. They are celebrities, but some co-sponsors are obscure.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, for example, has represented Oregon for decades. Before this, he is may have been known for running the congressional bicycle caucus. And yet, all of a sudden out of nowhere, Blumenauer has decided to wreck the country.

Now we’d like to talk to Earl Blumenauer on this show. We’d like to hear why he supports this bill. We’d like to talk to any of the people who’ve co-sponsored it. We reached out to many of them to come on and defend their views, but not one of them agreed to come.

Why? Because they’re cowards. And yet we think you want to know what they’re doing. The bill’s primary sponsor, Rep. Jesus Garcia of Illinois, said after introducing the bill: “This is not a radical project. We are simply asking for a fair shot at the opportunity for immigrants to stay in the country they call home. And New Way Forward does just that.”

Garcia added that the bill “would end mandatory immigration detention and the automatic pipeline to deportation through the criminal justice system. It would end deportation for people who have had contact with the criminal legal system. It would end the practices of local police engaging in immigration enforcement and the increased … policing of communities of color. It would decriminalize immigration.”

Garcia said “this is not a radical project.” But of course, the opposite is true. The bill is completely radical. It would transform America into a place you don’t recognize.

Many of the sponsors of this bill come from the fringes of the Democratic Party, as you would expect, but not all of them do. Consider Rep. Andy Levin. Levin represents the suburbs north of Detroit. Levin’s district leans blue, but it’s still essentially bipartisan. Voters there went for Hillary Clinton, for example, by just eight points.

So there’s no chance a majority of Andy Levin’s voters want to send plane tickets to armed robbers in Guatemala so they can move next door. And in fact, nobody wants that, no matter what they claim on Twitter.

Yet, Levin is trying to do that right now, and that’s what’s scary about this bill. It’s happening in the dark. No one is talking about it. Those who dismiss it say it is unlikely to become law – that it will never happen. That’s a mistake. Things change fast in modern America.

On issue after issue, from ending the Second Amendment to banning biological gender, to the open and aggressive racism of identity politics, yesterday’s extremism has become today’s Democratic Party platform. That’s how it works now.

Four years ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., mounted his first campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Vox.com pressed him on why he didn’t back open borders for the world.

Sanders responded by saying: “No, that’s a Koch brothers proposal, which says essentially, there is no United States. It would make everybody in America poorer.”

Of course, Sanders was entirely right, and for that crime, he was savaged by Vox and all the other angry children in wokedom. Resisting the abolition of the United States was – in their view – needless to say, proof that Sanders was a hardened bigot, a racist.

Four years later, Sanders has become obedient. His new platform contains all the usual open-borders rhetoric, ending all deportations, abolishing ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), giving a blanket amnesty to all illegal aliens in the country.

A New Hampshire voter recently asked Sanders why his views had changed so radically. The man who once called lax immigration enforcement a Koch brothers conspiracy, just four years ago, suddenly sounded very much like a Koch brother himself.

Sanders said: “We have 11 million undocumented here. Many of those workers, by the way, are being exploited right now. You know, Trump wants to throw everybody out of the country. If he threw out people out of the country, the price of food in this country would skyrocket. Who do you think is picking the crops and planting all over this country?”

Who’s picking the crops? Actually, machines are picking most of the crops in this country now and planting them, too. Bernie is almost 80 years old, and apparently nobody told him that, but either way, it is still shocking to hear that explanation from a self- described socialist.

So yes, workers are being exploited, but think what avocadoes would cost if citizens had to pick them. It’s nauseating.

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Now Sanders isn’t stupid. He has to know his party’s position on immigration hurts workers and the country, but he desperately wants to be president of the United States. So he goes along with it.

You’re seeing quite a bit of this, by the way. Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is supposedly the most moderate man in politics, old Uncle Joe, now is pushing for illegal aliens to get off on drunk driving charges.

Biden, who is competing against Sanders and others for the Democratic presidential nomination this year, said: “You only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that’s committed and I don’t count drunk driving as a felony.”

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The confused ravings of a fading old man? No, hardly. They all think that way now. If Democrats win the 2020 election, some version of the New Way Forward Act will likely become law.

Once again, keep this in mind. Things move fast in this country.

Adapted from Tucker Carlson’s monologue on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Feb. 7, 2020.

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Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Jerrold Nadler, Maxine Waters, and Eliot Engel during a press conference announcing articles of impeachment

The Democratic party is dying from its hatred of President Trump. The impeachment fiasco is just the latest symptom. After weeks of testimony, Democrats have not been able to come up with any charges more concrete than ‘abuse of power’ and ‘obstruction of Congress.’ Abuse of power is certainly a serious thing — but only if it’s real. Partisans think that almost anything a president from the opposing party does amount to an abuse of power. For impeachment to amount to anything more than partisan harassment, an actual crime ought to be found somewhere along the line: an act of wrongdoing objectively contrary to the law. Otherwise, any procedural or policy disagreement — or any pretext whatsoever — can be construed by a party out to get an enemy president as an ‘abuse of power.’

Adam Schiff discovered that ‘bribery’ was a crime that polled well in focus groups. But Democrats fell so far short of the mark of proving that bribery took place in President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine that they dared not even make the accusation in their articles of impeachment. Instead, they used the abuse of power simply to refer to actions they didn’t like, and they whipped up a new non-crime, ‘obstruction of Congress’, in an act of desperation. But Trump’s refusal to let administration officials play along with the Democrats’ pantomime impeachment proceedings is simply a bold assertion of the Constitution’s separation of powers. Congress can demand testimony, but it needs the executive branch to enforce the demand. And the executive branch is constitutionally independent — it can exercise its own judgment about the legitimacy of the demand and whether it must be enforced. There is no crime, and while the majority in Congress may be piqued by executive defiance, pique makes a lousy basis for impeachment. If voters think that Congress is right to demand cooperation and the executive is wrong to refuse, then voters can take action by voting out the president or voting in a larger congressional majority. But Democrats don’t want Trump’s fate to be decided by voters in November 2020. They want it to be decided by Congress.

Now Democrats are going to regret getting their wish. Trump’s acquittal in a Senate trial is a virtual foregone conclusion, and there are several indications that the humiliating failure of impeachment will hurt Democrats in November 2020. Some moderate Democrats have been quietly pushing for a vote to censure the president rather than impeach him. They know that they risk alienating voters in battleground districts by voting for impeachment. But Nancy Pelosi’s leadership in the House is now more responsive to the activist wing of the Democratic party — the wing driven above all else by hatred for Donald Trump — than to the moderates who stand to pay the price for the activist left’s vendetta. Trump’s own poll numbers in key battleground states have risen as the impeachment process has dragged on without uncovering plain criminal wrongdoing. Instead of removing Trump from office or putting Senate Republicans from battleground states in a tough position in 2020, impeachment may wind up guaranteeing Trump’s re-election and endangering vulnerable House Democrats. The electorate in 2020, after all, will almost certainly be more Republican than the electorate in 2018 was — midterms are always better for the party in opposition to the White House, while presidential elections maximize turnout for everyone. That puts the congressional Democrats’ marginal victors from the midterms in serious jeopardy. Impeachment has only hurt them.

But the Democrats have a bigger problem. Their party has lost its identity, and only Trump-hatred keeps its factions — the McKinsey consultants and the Democratic Socialists of America — together. Republicans have been here before: in the late 1990s, the party was excessively defined by its opposition to President Bill Clinton, in place of any positive program or vision of its own. The result in 2000 was the nomination of a bland and apologetic Republican — George W. Bush — as party’s presidential contender. Republicans stood for nothing except not being Clinton, and Bush embodied that nothingness. He was a ‘compassionate conservative’ — implying that other conservatives were not compassionate — and he promised a bipartisan education-driven agenda. Right-leaning Republican voters, especially conservative Christians, stayed home in droves that November. As a result, he came within a Florida recount (or a single Supreme Court justice) of losing the election.

The GOP did not learn its lesson. In 2004, Bush seemed to be a victorious war president, and Karl Rove worked like the devil to get the missing ‘values voters’ from 2000 to come out and re-elect Dubya. But Bush’s re-election in an environment still in the shadow of 9/11 only disguised the continuing weakness of the Republican brand. The 2006 midterm elections, the 2008 presidential and congressional elections, and ultimately Donald Trump’s destruction of the old GOP and its champions in the 2016 primaries (and ever since) showed how weak and unappealing the GOP and its self-embarrassed conservatism had become. Only having another Democratic president to oppose — Barack Obama as the new Bill Clinton — gave the pre-Trump Republican party a jolt upright in the 2010 and 2014 midterms. But the 2012 presidential election showed that the party and its ideology were still basically a corpse.

Democrats will be just as dead if they continue to let Trump-haters define their party. Democrats are struggling to adjust to the 21st century, with superannuated 2020 front-runners such as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders as a case in point. Sanders, nearly 80, is in fact the most forward-looking candidate: his socialism might be a relic of the 20th century, but he recognizes that this outmoded idea has a new chance today because what passes for capitalism is even more obviously past its expiration date. (Socialism’s decrepitude is something Americans haven’t had to think seriously about in a long time, while the senility of the quasi-capitalist, post-industrial economy is something they live with every day.) Joe Biden stakes his appeal on nostalgia for Barack Obama. Pete Buttigieg is a cipher. And Elizabeth Warren has managed the feat of failing to win over the Sanders vote even while seeming too far to the left economically to appeal to the center. But as philosophically fractured as the Democratic field may be, the activist base of the party is less concerned with choosing a clear direction than with hyperventilating about Trump.

Sanders is the most ideologically focused Democratic contender. But that focus and the devotion it inspires on the left are set to run headlong into the anti-Trump mania of the party’s other activists. There is a parallel here to Pat Buchanan’s position on the right in the 1990s. He pointed the GOP toward the nationalist future it would embrace under Trump, but in the Bill Clinton era his nationalist conservatism could never overcome those Republicans who preferred to squelch philosophical considerations and focus on partisan opposition to the Democratic president. Now Sanders and his supporters may find themselves in the paradoxical position of holding the Democratic Party’s future while being powerless to claim its nomination in the present. Anti-Trump Democrats will vote for Biden or Buttigieg (a young old man) just as fervently as anti-Clinton Republicans voted for Bob Dole in 1996. But just as that anti-Clinton vote wasn’t enough to elect Dole president, a merely anti-Trump vote will not do it for Biden or Buttigieg. And in Congress, the solidarity that Democrats derive from opposing Trump only masks the contradiction of an increasingly hard-left party led by establishment figures like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.

Trump has already won the impeachment war, but it’s only the beginning of the defeats that are in store for Democrats if they continue to be a party defined by their rage against him.

Source: https://spectator.us/democrats-lost-impeachment-war-probably-2020/

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SEAN HANNITY, HOST: All right. Yes, it’s a swamp just like where you live. It’s the same thing. Same — you know, D.C., New York, L.A., San Francisco, swamp, the rest of America, more normal.

Tucker, thank you. Great show. Welcome to “Hannity.”

We begin tonight with a Fox News alert.

The real story, the real corruption, none of it, zero has to do with President Trump except that the president is once again a victim of baseless lies, smears, hypocrisy, conspiracy theories. Now, this is not what the lying, corrupt and at this point, frankly, despicable, disgusting fake news media is telling you tonight.

We have the real story and that is we have a sleepy creepy, crazy Joe 30330, tonight, he has serious explaining to do. Damning new documents just obtained by “The Hill’s” investigative reporter, John Solomon, may very likely tonight ruin Biden’s chance of ever becoming president. I’d say the odds are high.

In fact, the material that we are about to show you tonight clearly demonstrates Biden’s blatant abuse of power and corruption in the country of Ukraine. In other words, a quid pro quo, a real quid pro quo, and, yes, abuse of power and, yes, corruption at an extraordinarily high level, with a lot of money at stake and a pay-to-play scheme and a subsequent cover-up of such, all in an effort that would allow his son to walk away scot-free very rich and capitalize off of him being the vice president, while he was vice president. And, of course, stop a criminal investigation and he used your money, taxpayer dollars, to do it.

We now have evidence Joe 30330, he has been lying to we the American people. It’s like basically the Russia collusion conspiracies, except this time we don’t have to wait three years to get to the truth and the hoax, that which Donald Trump was innocent of — great irony, if you want to call it an irony, is Democrats, they are once again as the ones guilty of it.

John Solomon will be here and break that news in just a moment. First, I do want to address what is the radical, destructive, delusional Democratic Party and the media mob, their allies in crime, which has now descended into complete and utter madness. Nonstop rage, hatred for this president is so extreme, I don’t think they remember why they were ever sent to Washington or what their real job is. Oh, they are supposed to be public servants. That’s not even in play ever any more.

And today, the president — he called them out for their psychotic obsessive hatred and hysteria — let’s play this in full.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. I just watched a little bit of this on television. It’s a disgrace to our country. It’s another witch hunt. Here we go again.

It’s Adam Schiff and his crew making up stories and sitting there like pious whatever you want to call them. It’s just a — really, it’s a disgrace.

It’s a terrible thing for our country. They can’t do any work. They’re frozen — the Democrats. They’re going to lose the election; they know it. That’s why they’re doing it.

And it should never be allowed, what’s happened to this President.

And despite that, I think I’ve done just about more than any President in his first two and a half years in office. If you look, I think you’ll see very few could compete with the things we’ve done for our military, for the economy.

We have the best economy anywhere in the world, by far. We’ve rebuilt our military. We’ve done so many things that are so incredible with tax cuts and regulations.

And I have to put up with Adam Schiff on a per — on an absolutely perfect phone call to the new president of Ukraine. That was a perfect call.

But Adam Schiff doesn’t talk about Joe Biden and his son walking away with millions of dollars from Ukraine, and then millions of dollars from China. Walking away — in a quick meeting, walking away with millions of dollars.

He doesn’t talk about Joe Biden firing a prosecutor, and if that prosecutor is not fired, he’s not going to give them money from the United States of America. They don’t talk about that.

My call was perfect. The president, yesterday, of Ukraine said there was no pressure put on him whatsoever. None whatsoever. And he said it loud and clear for the press.

What these guys are doing — Democrats — are doing to this country is a disgrace and it shouldn’t be allowed. There should be a way of stopping it — maybe legally, through the courts. But they’re going to tie up our country.

We can’t talk about gun regulation. We can’t talk about anything because, frankly, they’re so tied up. They’re so screwed up, nothing gets done — except for when I do it.

I’m using Mexico to protect our border because the Democrats won’t change loopholes and asylum. When you think of that — and I want to — I’ll tell you, I want to thank Mexico. Twenty-seven thousand soldiers they have.

But think of how bad that is — think of it — where we use Mexico because the Democrats won’t fix our broken immigration system. We need their votes. If we don’t get their votes, we can’t do it.

And the Republicans are all onboard. They want to fix it, but the Democrats won’t do it.

They don’t want to talk about infrastructure. They don’t want to talk about lowering drug prices. They don’t want to talk about anything because they’re fixated on this. And Nancy Pelosi has been hijacked by the radical left, and everybody knows it.

Thank you.

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HANNITY: That was the president earlier today.

The president is right. Democrats — they spend every second, minute, hour, of every 24-hour day looking to smear this president. I’ve said it before, if he cured cancer, they’d still hate him.

And yet it hasn’t slowed the president down, has it? In fact, while Democrats were always busy obsessing about the Russia hoax, the Ukraine hoax, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, impeach, impeach, the president — well, he’s been hard at work since he was elected to end the results, they speak for themselves.

Now, take a look at your screen, these are accomplishments, this is just a side note here of a president during the single, most difficult, hyper-partisan time, moment, if you will, in our lifetimes. And through it all, he has still been able to remain focused on his promises.

The success, the track record is amazing. We have the best employment situation since 1969. Less than one term, yes, watch what you see there.

The president has renegotiated trade deals with Mexico, Canada, Japan, and South Korea. Of course the wall on our southern border, he’s got the money now, it’s getting built. He ended more bureaucratic red tape than the last 50 years combined. He successfully appointed two constitutionalist judges to the U.S. Supreme Court and hundreds of other federal judges. Yes, originalist, constitutionalist.

He passed the largest tax cuts in history that generated an economic boom. We have nearly 9 million new jobs created, nearly 9 million fewer Americans on food stamps and millions more out of poverty. As I said, the lowest unemployment rate since ‘69.

Most Americans are working today, that’s 1969, than ever before in history. For the first time in decades, this country now, in 75 years, is energy independent and a net exporter of energy, the lifeblood of every economy on this earth.

None of it matters to the left, none of it matters to their mob friends in the media. None of it from the moment he entered office, frankly, the day he came down the escalator with Melania. They call for his impeachment. I’d never seen anything like this.

They did their very best to defeat him. They even save one — his opponent, for prosecution, certain prosecution that we would have been prosecuted for. Then, of course, the dirty Russian dossier, the very thing they are accusing him of that he didn’t do, they were guilty of.

It is a never-ending, unceasing and hysteria, lies, hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and now, it is a real, clear, present danger to this republic. Remember Ben Franklin? Monarchy, or a republic? A republic if you can keep it. I’m not so certain tonight we’re going to keep it.

We live in a country now where simple, simple, basic fundamental facts, objective truth, basic truth, obvious truth, the rule of law, constitutional governance is in jeopardy tonight and the damage may be irreparable.

And, by the way, now like Groundhog Day, here we are all over again. You thought it was over. It’s not Russia, it’s not Russia. It’s just Ukraine, Ukraine.

For the Democrats, this is never been about getting to the truth nor about serving their constituents. All this is about for them is power and an inexplicable hatred and rage towards Donald Trump, all things Trump.

Remember what Congressman Al Green said in May, Democrats don’t impeach the president — well, yes, he could win — he is likely to win reelection. You know, pretty much sums it up, the end goal has always been impeachment.

There is no actual path, there’s no crimes, high crimes, misdemeanors, abuse of power, bribery — none of that. So, for the past three years, Democrats have tried. They have failed time and again to manufacture out of whole cloth, impeachable offenses, as Nancy — oh, we have many options and many choices on impeachment. We’ll just pick one.

And if there’s no quid pro quo, we’ll lower the bar. The hysteria now surrounding Ukraine is no different. And today, Congressman Devin Nunes, one of his finest moments in Congress, he summed it up perfectly.

Let’s take a look.

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REP. DEVIN NUNES, D-CALIF.: I want to congratulate Democrats on the rollout of their latest informational warfare operation against the president and their extraordinary ability to once again enlist the mainstream media in their campaign. This operation began with media reports from the prime instigators of the Russia collusion hoax, that a whistle-blower is claiming President Trump made an affair promise to a foreign leader. The release transcript of that call has already debunked that central assertion but that didn’t matter, the Democrats simply moved to the goalposts.

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HANNITY: All right. Pay attention, the media mob will never report this. Here’s what we know about the so-called whistle-blower complaint.

The complaint relied on — no, not a real whistle-blower, hearsay evidence, reports from the mainstream media. I guess anyone in America can be official government whistle-blower. Just have your friends get together and write it up in a lawyerly way.

The inspector general determined the whistle-blower had a political bias against the president, no shock there. In fact, he or she is represented by a law firm that actually pays for anti-Trump leaking from the government, they even have one of their billboards outside of Langley where the CIA is.

Either way, the Department of Justice — they investigated a complaint, it didn’t take them long to determine zero crimes were committed, none, zip, zero. There was no quid pro quo. The Ukrainian president and even the foreign minister both denying being pressured by President Trump in any way.

The Democrats’ latest ploy, impeach the president is beyond a dud. You see that guy there, he’s the biggest liar in Congress. His name is the cowardly Schiff, literally made up out of thin air. He made it up today. His own little version of the transcript that we all read yesterday, it didn’t matter what some non-whistleblower whistleblower said, because we had the information yesterday.

So, all of this, oh, well, we got to hear the whistleblower. We read it yesterday and there was nothing in there at all that they claimed would be in there. He performed a dramatic reading, Schiff did, for all of his adoring fans back in California.

Before I show you the clip, I want to make this clear, what we are going to play you is not the transcript between Trump and his Ukrainian counterparts — no, that wouldn’t work. That’s called truth, objective truth.

Now, what he does is pure fiction. This is an Adam Schiff fantasy that he decided to share at today’s hearing, you know, the guy that was caught on tape literally colluding with someone he thought was a Russian to dig up dirt from a foreign government against Donald Trump. Watch the liar in action.

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REP. ADAM SCHIFF, D-CALIF.: This is the essence of what the president communicates. We’ve been very good to your country, very good. No other country has done as much as we have. But you know what? I don’t see much reciprocity here. I hear what you want. I have a favor that I want from you, though. And I’m going to say this only seven times so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of it. On this and on that.

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HANNITY: The transcript was so damning, why did Mr. Schifty there had to make up his own version? That’s right, because everything Schiff and his colleagues accused the president of doing, they themselves are guilty — that would be called projection.

For example, let’s look at the topic of collusion. Democrats falsely claiming over and over again, the president colluded with a foreign government. Well, if that was really bad, it was actually Adam Schiff caught on tape, looking for naked pictures of Trump, naked — did Vladimir see them? Did Vladimir see them? Of course, Vladimir see the naked pictures of Trump.

Yes, he got nailed by two pranksters that said they were from Russia and he was trying to get dirt on Donald Trump to impact the elections from a Russian. And in 2017, in early January that year, “Politico”, they issued a damning report, we reported it, I don’t think the mob has, about the DNC’s real Ukrainian collusion. Democrats cared about Russia collusion, why didn’t they care about Ukrainian collusion?

Look at “Politico”. It’s a 32-minute read, according to their estimates. Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermined Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump made in corruption and they suggested they were investigating the matter only to back away from the election and they held Clinton’s allies, that’s right, DNC operatives that saw information from a foreign country to help impact the election to get damaging information from Trump and his advisors.

They did this with the help of a highly paid DNC operative. That would be called real collusion. Any hysteria, any calls for investigation? Nope — this is a political game, only if you can bludgeon Trump is the name of the game.

Don’t care about real collusion, don’t care about quid pro quos, just look at sleepy, creepy, Joe 30330. He’s in serious trouble tonight over what are legitimate credible claims that he leveraged a billion dollars in taxpayer money. Maybe if he called and said can I talk to as a father — well, maybe that would’ve been different but he used our money to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired who was investigating his son, and even “The New York Times” warned him and he tried many times to get this guy fired and eventually succeeded, when he said, you got six hours. Oh, son of a B, they fired him.

According to multiple sources as vice president in 2014, Biden was appointed point person by Obama in Ukraine.

A few months later, Joe’s son Hunter scored a lucrative position on the board of Burisma Holdings. That is Ukrainian oil and gas giant. Well, Hunter Biden was paid millions of dollars for consultancy fees, but he had no experience in oil, gas, energy, no experience with Ukraine that anybody can find.

In November 2015, Joe Biden was told by “The New York Times” his son is under the investigation by Ukrainian authorities. December 2015, Joe Biden made his first request to the president of Ukraine to fire the leading prosecutor looking into the investigation of Burisma Holdings and relationship with Hunter Biden. In March of 2016, John Solomon reports Biden knew this prosecutor was again investigating his son. That’s when Biden leveraged your money, a billion taxpayer dollars, forced the Ukrainian president to fire the prosecutor in six hours, that would be a billion reasons why he had to.

And Biden claims the prosecutor was corrupt and that’s why he wanted him to go. He wants you to believe the billion-dollar quid pro quo had nothing to do with his son’s company, thanks to John Solomon breaking news tonight, we now have evidence that Biden is likely lying through his teeth.

Here with the full report, investigative reporter, executive vice president of “The Hill”, John Solomon.

One, I just let you go through — first of all, explain to this audience how many documents we have and what these documents are and what you have gleaned from them.

JOHN SOLOMON, “THE HILL” EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT: Over the course of 18 months, I’ve gathered more than 450 pages of documents. These come from four sources. The State Department, the Ukraine prosecutor general’s office, the Ukraine embassy in Washington, D.C., and the legal team representing Burisma during the time that Hunter Biden was employed as a board member and consultant at the natural gas company in Ukraine.

So, that is the body of documents. These documents show, as I report tonight for the first time that the very day that Joe Biden managed to get that Ukraine prosecutor, Mr. Shokin, fired, that very day, his son’s company’s lawyers, the American company lawyers helping Burisma trying to fight this investigation were trying urgently to reach the new prosecutor, the replacement prosecutor. One week later, they managed to get that meeting.

They are in Ukraine less than a week after Biden fires the prosecutor. In that meeting, according to the official record from the prosecutor, the lawyers for Hunter Biden’s company, and the lobbyist for Hunter Biden’s company stated to the replacement prosecutor, we know that the information calling Mr. Shokin corrupt and inept was, quote, false information, close quote, distributed by U.S. government officials and other figures. We are sorry for that. We would like to make this up to you by bringing you to Washington, or connecting you with the Obama administration officials, so you can tell him the true story, that you did have a legitimate investigation against Burisma, and you are not corrupt and you had instigated numerous reforms.

That is the official record of the meeting Ukrainian prosecutors kept. A few days later, Hunter Biden’s American lawyers, the lawyers representing Hunter Biden’s company, Burisma sent a follow-up email trying to make good on their promise to bring these new prosecutors to Washington to explain the dirty tricks campaign that had been run against Mr. Shokin and to clear the air.

If Joe Biden forced the firing of this prosecutor on the grounds that he was corrupt and Hunter Biden’s lawyers go and say that was false information, somebody’s not telling the truth — we need to get to the bottom of that.

HANNITY: You know, I want — this is important here because what you are outlining here are facts. You have documents to back all this up.

SOLOMON: Yes.

HANNITY: You have —

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SOLOMON: I’ve posted the documents, people can read the documents. Yes.

HANNITY: OK. Burisma American legal reps met with Ukrainian official days after Biden forced the firing of the chief prosecutor. You interviewed the chief prosecutor. The chief prosecutor told you, told ABC —

SOLOMON: Yes.

HANNITY: — told “The Washington Post” — and, by the way, it’s obvious. In six hours, fire the guy or I’m taking a billion dollars home. Son of a B, they fired him.

Why would a vice president, John Solomon, of the United States of America want a prosecutor in Ukraine fired?

SOLOMON: Listen, it’s an internal matter, right? And corruption has been endemic to Ukraine. Why was this a six-hour urgency? Lots of questions.

But let’s go to something that’s new today, Sean. Tonight, I posted for the first time a sworn affidavit obtained by lawyers for a Ukrainian oligarch. It’s about to be introduced in a court in Europe. It’s from Mr. Shokin, the man who was fired, the prosecutor I interviewed, “The Washington Post” interviewed, ABC interviewed.

In that statement, Mr. Shokin swears under oath he was told he was fired because he refused to drop the Burisma investigation and it made Mr. Biden, the vice president. unhappy. We have to find out who was telling the truth. This is that the core of the credibility of our United States government.

Either Joe Biden is telling the truth or the prosecutors and these memos and Hunter Biden’s legal team are not telling the truth. We have to find out which one is because it matters to American sovereignty.

HANNITY: Is it a true statement that like with the Russia conspiracy hoax and lies, that the boomerang was in effect, that the only Russian interference would be Hillary’s dirty dossier? That everything they have accused Trump of, that he didn’t do basically, they did do? Is that pretty similar here?

SOLOMON: Well, listen, I think a lot of people look at this evidence, I’m going to stay neutral. But a lot of people talked to say it looks like the Democrats are projecting on Donald Trump what they did themselves in Eastern Europe.

But let’s look at something that I think is very, very important as we go through this narrative. There is an enormous body of documents, on the record statements from Ukraine authorities that these issues occurred, that they have proof that they occurred. I have Ukraine embassy emails. I have Hunter Biden’s legal team’s emails. I have the prosecutor general’s official memos — these are real documents.

Where are Joe Biden’s documents? Let’s put forth the proof that they really thought this guy was corrupt and he had the evidence — he has not done that.

HANNITY: Well, I don’t think it’s possible.

Now, we are going to have you back tomorrow.

SOLOMON: Thank you.

HANNITY: And we’re going to get in even more detail. You’ve been busy with this all day. This is only the beginning of 450-some-odd pages.

John Solomon, thank you.

Here with reaction, former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Joe diGenova, former deputy assistant attorney general, Victoria Toensing.

Joe, you heard what he said, you see what’s reported. It was pretty obvious there are a billion reasons they fired a guy in six hours, wasn’t it?

JOE DIGENOVA, FORMER ATTORNEY FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Well, we’ve known from the very beginning that Mr. Shokin was not a corrupt prosecutor. We’ve known that he was removed from office under pressure from Vice President Biden because he was investigating the vice president’s son, and because of his connection to Burisma Holdings.

This is so clear and so obviously, and it is precisely why the Democrats have undertaken this new move against the president of the United States with his corrupt allegation that there was something wrong with a phone call with the president of Ukraine. This is ridiculous and the reason the Democrats have undertaken this offensive is to protect Vice President Biden.

Unfortunately for them, John Solomon and the work that he’s done in the official records that are now available are going to shoot a hole in their ship.

HANNITY: Victoria, we’ve got less than a minute in this segment. I will hold you both to the next segment. Get your initial thoughts on this.

VICTORIA TOENSING, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL: Well, I have here in my hand the statement of Viktor Shokin. And in it, he goes into detail about how Poroshenko, the then-president, said, please drop this case, drop the case, and he said, no, I refuse to do it, Poroshenko said, yes, but Joe Biden is holding up over a billion dollars for us. Will you resign for the good of your country? Look at it as a patriotic thing to do. And he did.

But — and I want to get to this when we go to the other side, Sean, how he was falsely framed by people in Eastern Europe.

HANNITY: All right. Stay right there. Joe diGenova, Victoria Toensing. Also, Congressman Devin Nunes, Jordan, Mark Levin.

We’ve got a busy night. Stay with us.

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HANNITY: All right. We continue with Joe diGenova, Victoria Toensing. Also, we will check in with Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, and the great one, Mark Levin.

All right. So, now that we have this information, look, it comes out to very simple things, Joe. I mean, we know that Joe Biden said he demanded the firing, he’s bragging on camera about it. We know that it was a billion dollars of our money he was threatening to withhold, and we also know that he was warned that his son Hunter was being investigated, and then his son has no history with Ukraine, energy, or anything, and big contracts. But it even gets bigger when we go to China, and he flew on Air Force Two, and that became $1.5 billion deal in private equity. So, with the — Chinese related bank, government-related bank.

Yet, Trump did nothing here. How did we get to a non-whistleblower being the conspiracy in this?

DIGENOVA: Well, you know, here’s the deal, Sean. Joe Biden shook down the Ukrainian government, it’s very simple. It’s not complicated.

And they lied about Viktor Shokin being corrupt. And Joe Biden’s son’s lawyers for Burisma then come in after Mr. Shokin is fired and apologized from records obtained from that law firm to Mr. Shokin and his representatives for having lied about him. This was a setup.

And what we’re now seeing is the Democratic Party trying to cover that up and therefore you have the whistleblower in the White House come forward, who actually knows nothing, and has created a document with the help of lawyers from other people. This whistleblower needs to go to prison, he doesn’t need to be feted, he needs to go to prison.

VICTORIA TOENSING, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL: Sean, I want to jump in here too, just on these false statements. How did that work, U.S. and other people made false statements about him?

Yes, that was George Soros funded NGOs who were also in bed with the State Department, they were in bed with each other during that time, in the name of anti-corruption and it really means that Soros goes after his competitors.

Now, let me bring this full circle. This is my last point here. The whistleblower sprinkles throughout his document footnotes referring to a publication with the initials OCCRP. One guess, Sean, who funds OCCRP, George Soros.

HANNITY: Wow, all right. Joe, Victoria–

DIGENOVA: Soros’ dirty money is all over this story from day one.

TOENSING: And all over Ukraine and he still has embedded people at the State Department.

HANNITY: We have a lot of lot of ground to cover in the days to come. Thank you both, Joe diGenova, Victoria Toensing.

Now with us, the Ranking Member the House Intel Committee, Congressman Devin Nunes and also Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan. Devin, I will be honest, I think this is one of your finest moments ever, your opening remarks today, an information warfare operation against the President, nefarious promise to a foreign leader that turns out to be debunk, just like the Russia hoax, which you pointed out it’s almost identical, and yet we have all this information revealed by John Solomon. Your take.

REP. DEVIN NUNES (R-CA): Well, thanks Sean for the kind words, but the bottom line is this was a sad, sad day for America. You’re seeing the destruction of one of America’s finest institutions, the U.S. Congress, if it can’t get any lower, it got it even lower today.

And so it doesn’t make me proud to be in there today. I mean it was really miserable for us to sit there and watch the other side actually fabricate statements that they assign to the United States President. This is really – it’s really just – it’s unhinged, it’s just unhinged, and it needs to stop.

And as we get to the – we look forward to this whole whistleblower coming in to testify. This is going to be really interesting as we start to get to the bottom of and peel back the onion, and I think what you’re going to find again, it’s going to be the same people behind – that were behind the Russia hoax or behind the Ukrainian hoax.

HANNITY: And Jim Jordan, it’s not a whistleblower, it’s hearsay – oh people told me and okay, and it looks really official the way it’s all written up. And Inspector General didn’t know the contents of the phone call and said this is arguably political bias, and the DOJ investigated it, no action warranted, that was like less than 24 hours. And the Ukrainian President denies being pressured as does the foreign minister.

REP. JIM JORDAN, R-OH: Right.

HANNITY: So debunked again, except it didn’t take three years this time.

JORDAN: Sean, our community – the Oversight Committee probably deals with more whistleblowers than any other Committee in Congress. When a whistleblower comes forward, you look for two things, two things to assess their credibility.

One, were they an eyewitness, did they have first-hand knowledge? Two, what was their motivation? This so-called whistleblower has problems in both areas. He never was on – he never was part of the call, never had first- hand knowledge, and the Inspector General even tells us that that he had a political bias.

He says indicia of arguable political bias. That’s Washington speak for this guy was out to get the President. So this guy’s got trouble on both accounts and now we find out there was no quid pro quo when you read the transcript, but there was with Joe Biden.

HANNITY: That’s the whole thing. OK, you’re going to bring a whistleblower and it was not really a whistleblower, that was only hearsay. Excuse me, your honor, I object that would be hearsay, inadmissible your honor. OK, sustained. Boom, move forward.

JORDAN: Yes.

HANNITY: And the issue with the President, there is no there, there. There is nothing, there was – we saw the whole transcript.

JORDAN: Yes Sean, you know how you know this guy had political bias, because once you read the transcript, you said of course he had political bias because there’s nothing in the transcript. Remember, he didn’t know about the transcript, he’s just filing this complaint from these other sources, hearsay – second and third hearsay that he had.

So, of course, this is, as you said earlier Sean, they always accuse us of what they’re doing. Clinton worked with foreigners, Clinton worked with Russians to impact the 2016 election, and they blamed Trump for doing that, even though they’re the ones who did it.

HANNITY: All right.

JORDAN: Now you have Joe Biden with quid pro quo and they’re blaming President Trump for the same thing, and it’s just not true.

HANNITY: And Devin, as you said in your opening remarks, Joe Biden, he’s bragging about extorting Ukrainians to firing a prosecutor, a billion reasons to fire the guy in six hours. Then, Democratic Senators, they’re on letterhead pressuring to the Ukrainian prosecutor to reopen the investigation. So we’re not going to give you money is pretty much the message. Oh, they’re doing what they say Trump did.

Another Democratic Senator went to Ukraine, that would be Murphy, pressuring the President there to investigate corruption allegations or to literally not to investigate corruption allegations against Biden’s son. And the DNC Committee guy, oh yes, he was trying to get the Ukrainians to stay on the Mueller issue or we’re not going to probably support you financially. Wow, that’s their corruption.

NUNES: So, let me get into just a little bit of the weeds, because I know your audience of all the audiences, they really follow the Russia hoax closely. So let’s remember, why was Donald Trump asking these questions to the Ukrainian President about the 2016 election?

By the way, I thought we were supposed to try to get to the bottom of what happened in the 2016 election. So you have the President of the United States who’s been investigated for three years under the constant microscope, a Special Counsel of all things, why would the President not get on the phone when he talks to the leader – the new leader in Ukraine, where a lot of the origination of the Russia hoax comes from Ukraine?

So and your audience knows that we don’t have to get into it, but everybody ignored Ukraine, right, they ignored John Solomon’s work, nobody wanted to know any information about Ukraine until now. Why, because they figured out a scheme where they can say, oh well what was Giuliani doing over there, why is Trump talking to the President of Ukraine?

Of course, the President’s talking to the President of Ukraine because the President is the one who had to go through three years of nonsense that has its originations in Ukraine. Why was Nellie Ohr getting information from Ukrainians and feeding it to Fusion GPS, and I’ll just leave it at that.

HANNITY: All right, guys amazing work, we’re just tip – this is only the tip of the iceberg. This is going to blow up like I predicted last night it would. Thank you, Congressman Nunes, Jim Jordan.

Here now sure is a lot to say, number-one New York Times bestseller 16 weeks in a row on that list. I call them the great one, the host of Life, Liberty & Levin, the number one show here on Sunday nights at 9:00 – I’m sorry, 10:00, whoops – nationally syndicated host, call them the great one for a reason, great one I like just do your thing, break it down from your perspective.

MARK LEVIN, AUTHOR, UNFREEDOM OF THE PRESS: Well, we got a lot to cover, short period of time. After I watched this hearing, it’s like waterboarding, by the way, I wrote this to myself.

I said, when it comes to Trump, the Democrats and media are like drug addicts looking for their next fix. Their eyes are popping out of their head, the sweat beads are coming down their face, they raise their voices, they swing their hands, they become disgruntled and all the rest, they are really freaking out.

Now this is we’re told August 12, the rogue CIA agent’s complaint, stated August 12. It’s to Richard Burr in the Senate and Adam Schiff in the House. If the data is correct, that means Adam Schiff has had this for many weeks.

First of all, as a practicing lawyer, I went through this and I can tell you that a CIA agent who is a policy guy for Ukraine can’t write something like this. This is a legal brief. This was vetted through lawyers and I want to know who wrote this.

I want to know who participated in writing this. I want to know who this man spoke to, every single one of them. In The New York Times today, which of course runs cover for the Democrats and goes after the President of the United States talking about a drug fix, they say today that this man’s lawyer, who by the way worked for Schumer and Clinton, doesn’t want the identity of this man known. Too bad pal, too late.

You want to impeach our President using this BS, we want to know all about your guy. And I loved today’s hearing where they wrap this guy in the whistleblower statute. Whistleblower statute, this guy could have been a homeless guy coming off the street talking to people. He knew nothing.

Oh I heard, he heard, that certain people over at the White House who are monitoring the conversation and wrote notes about it were upset. He heard that. Isn’t it funny that not a single one of the people with first-hand knowledge filed a whistleblower complaint? Not one of them.

This guy files it, this guy is represented by Democrats. This guy files it. I want to know if Adam Schiff, the Democrat staffers or any Democrats were involved in orchestrating this. This leak and coup campaign did it in Russia, did it with Cavanaugh, it’s the same damn thing. This is a rogue CIA agent.

People might say, but it’s the CIA. Look what they did to the FBI, look at this guy Brennan, a complete reprobate. They exist, there are rogue operations. When the CIA overthrew the Iranian government years ago, the Liberal Democrats were upset. When they overthrew Allende in Chile, a Socialist Marxist, the Democrats were upset. When they tried to overthrow Castro, the Democrats were upset, and so forth and so on.

But when they try to overthrow our President, they’re whistleblowers, they’re heroes, they are courageous. Mr. Schiff, why don’t you release 90 days of your phone calls, 90 days of your texts, 90 days of your emails, because I know something pal, you’re a leaker, you’re devious, same with your staff.

Do you know why Nancy Pelosi went to the microphone and announced like a dictator, we are going to begin official formal impeachment inquiry, which of course she can’t do, she’s one may I say knucklehead out of 435 in the House of Representatives. She’s from San Francisco, it doesn’t work that way.

Now, why’d everybody – why would she do that before she got the transcript? Why, because she had this or she knew about it, the little rogue CIA operative. This document is a thousand times worse than the actual transcript, which isn’t even cited in this document because this rogue CIA agent never had this document.

Now they’re trying to rewrite this document to try and get it to work with this document. The President of the United States phone call has nothing wrong with it. President of the United States, it’s a long conversation. I noticed in the media, they’re kind of moving sentences around trying to attach things.

Why don’t you read the whole thing? Take ten minutes, rather than attacking the President for your fix, and read the whole thing, so the American people will hear it. But you won’t do that, why?

Well, I have a question, why shouldn’t the President of the United States in a conversation with the President of the Ukraine say, hey look – would you take a look at this? We’ve had news reports, we’ve entire books written about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, Joe Biden obstructing justice in the Ukraine, blackmailing the Ukrainian government.

President’s supposed to sit there and act stupid? No, he says you know what, among a thousand other thing, you might want to look into this. Wow, that’s an impeachable offense. Why is that? You now have four United States Senators who did far more than that. Three of them, Leahy Menendez and Durbin who insisted that the Ukrainian government, insisted, investigate our President.

You had another one, Murphy from Connecticut, who insisted that the Ukrainian government not investigate Biden. How come they’re not facing ethics complaints, how come they’re not facing expulsion acts in the United States Senate?

And finally, let me ask you a question, where the hell is the Republican Chairman in the Senate, why aren’t they issuing subpoenas, why don’t they pretend they’re Elijah Cummings or Jerry Nadler or Schiff for that matter?

I know it’s an ugly thought but issue your hundred subpoenas, go after their bank accounts, go after their friends, go after their relatives, go after their accountants, go after their records. And if they don’t give it, and that goes for you too Biden, and if they don’t go for it, hold them in contempt. That’s it.

HANNITY: Great one, let me show you one thing. By the way, Shokin told ABC, Washington Post, John Solomon, yes I quote that the prosecutor said Shokin himself, the one who was fired in six hours, Biden got me fired to save his son. He now has a – he’s now signed an affidavit under the threat of perjury.

Let me show you what the President was really looking at. This isn’t the vast right-wing conspiracy, this POLITICO says a 32-minute read. I’ll read you the headline, it says Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire, Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the President-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton. The date, 1/11/2017.

Where are all the people that cared about election interference?

LEVIN: Look, we know what’s going on here.

HANNITY: They interfered and they’ve been offering it. Alright great one, thank you. Congrats on the book.

LEVIN: We know what’s going on.

HANNITY: All right, Mark, Sunday night – every Sunday night at 10:00 Eastern here on the Fox News Channel.

When we come back, Elizabeth Warren got really flustered when asked if she would allow her Vice President’s son to be on the Board of a foreign company with no experience. More details coming.

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HANNITY: All right, 2020 Democrats are struggling to distance themselves from the Biden Ukraine story. Elizabeth Warren struggling to avoid getting dragged into the controversy. Didn’t do a pretty good job of it either. Kind of bad, take a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You offered two ethics plans. Could you say whether or not under a Warren administration, would your Vice President’s child be allowed to serve on a Board of a foreign company?

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN, D-MASS., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: No. I don’t know, I mean, I would have to go back and look at the details on the plan.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you think that could be a problem?

WARREN: I have to go back and look.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: I’m flustered, how do I answer that? Fox News contributor Sara Carter, Ari Fleischer back with us. You both laughing equally, so I don’t know who to start with here. All right, Sarah will start with you. Go ahead.

SARA CARTER, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTOR: So Elizabeth Warren basically has this ethics plan in place. She will ban anyone that works for her, private foreign lobbying of governments or companies, but yet she’s completely flustered when asked this question, Sean.

This is what they do, right. So they are trying to figure out – it’s like everybody is trying to figure out how are they going to knock the lead horse out of the race without looking like they are knocking them out of the race?

I mean, all Elizabeth Warren had to do was to state her own plan and say, no I wouldn’t allow it at all. But instead, she’s confused, she’s flustered, she doesn’t want to be the first one to say it. You can hear the same thing coming out of Kamala Harris’ mouth and the other Democratic potential candidates. So this is how they play at.

The reason why I laugh is because it kind of goes against what her own ethics plan is. And nobody should have a child, it’s pretty obvious, especially when they are overseeing Ukraine as Vice President Biden did then, should have their child sitting on the Board of a company, of a foreign company of a place that you’re overseeing, like Burisma Holdings.

HANNITY: You’re pretty good at getting out of messes here. I think the Democrats once again got ahead of themselves. The real collusion, and the real pay to play, and the real pushing and influencing and withholding of money and threats came from the Democrats.

ARI FLEISCHER, FORMER WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY AND FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: The hypocrisy on this drives me up a tree and the way the press for the most part just acquiesces to this hypocrisy. The fact of the matter is it was quid pro quo and engaged in Joe Biden.

And if reporters did their jobs, they would ask Joe Biden two hard questions. Number one, what qualifications does your son Hunter have to serve on a natural gas Board? Make him answer that simple question.

And two, did you or did you not have a conflict of interest at Ukraine under your purview when your son served on that Board? Why didn’t you give up the purview over the Ukraine? You had a conflict of interest.

But they won’t, they won’t because they only want to get President Trump, and that is the hypocrisy, Sean, that drives me up a tree the most. I said what the President was a 5-yard penalty. I just don’t believe anybody who is a candidate or a President should ask a foreign nation to get involved in our domestic politics.

He should never have raised Hunter Biden’s name on that phone call. But he did it. But where is the press coming after Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, who did the exact same thing, if not worse, with Russia, with Ukraine, and that resulted in the Mueller Report? They get away with it all the time because they are Democrats and the press is soft on the Democrats.

HANNITY: Does this backfire, boomerang, both of you, you have 30 seconds each, Ari we’ll let you go first, just like the Russia collusion lie, conspiracy theories?

FLEISCHER: It depends on how President Trump plays it. If the President makes no mistakes, if he allows it to just unwind and then gets the focus back to Biden where it should be, this will backfire, it will backfire on Joe Biden. And it’s going to – as you saw with Elizabeth Warren, tie her tongue up in knots.

CARTER: Definitely, I absolutely believe it will backfire. And particularly we know now that an investigation will probably happen of Burisma Holdings. So I think we will find a lot more information out on that.

HANNITY: At least we didn’t have to wait three years for this boomerang. Thank you both. More HANNITY, straight ahead.

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HANNITY: All right, that’s all the time we really have for this evening. Let me say this. Now, tomorrow we are going to have a live studio audience show. We have John Solomon also. He will be doing a much deeper dive. We have 450 pages of documents now that he is sifting through.

Remember, we will never be the media mob. They again have lied to you on a spectacular level, advancing their rage Trump psychosis. We will never be that and we will have the details, more tomorrow, coming, I promise.

Let not your heart be troubled. Why? Because the news continues. Back to the other swamp, where we just were, Laura Ingraham.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/nunes-compares-ukraine-call-hysteria-to-russia-hoax

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Nearly 8 of 10 Americans told the Pew Research Center that supporters for both sides could “act” on the politically charged rhetoric with violence. It was higher for Democrats, 91% than Republicans, 61%.

And they want politicians to cool it.

“Americans broadly agree that elected officials should avoid using heated language because it could encourage violence. Nearly three-quarters of Americans (73%) say this, while just a quarter believe that elected officials ‘Should be able to use heated language to express themselves without worrying about whether some people may act on what they say,’” warned the center.

“While majorities in both parties say officials should avoid heated language, this view is more widely held among Democrats (83%) than Republicans (61%),” it added.

Trump is cited by a majority for stirring up the situation, but, like anything “Washington” today, there is partisan division.

Said Pew, “Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents overwhelmingly (84%) say Trump has changed political discourse for the worse. About half of Republicans and Republican leaners (49%) say he has changed it for the better, while 23% say he has changed it for the worse and 27% say he hasn’t changed it much either way.”

Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/pew-91-democrats-see-violence-next-in-war-of-words

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