Angel parents on their loss: The reality hits every morning

This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," January 11, 2019. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST: Welcome to “Hannity.”

So, Nancy Pelosi, she refuses to negotiate. Chuck Schumer, he's unwilling to compromise, all while death, destruction, and drugs, cartels, gangs, carnage in America continues to mount.

On Wednesday, a 16-year-old boy from Long Island, New York, was seriously stabbed by three MS-13 gang members who were in this country illegally. And on Monday, an illegal immigrant in Maryland was arrested after he paid MS-13 gang leaders $100 to have sex with a 14-year-old girl who was being traffic by that violent gang.

Each week, we have more and more horrific examples, violent crimes, committed by people who have crossed into our country illegally, an unsecured border all across the southern border.

Now, just the past two years, we have seen 4,000 arrest for homicide, 30,000 plus sex crimes, over 100,000 assaults against American citizens. Now, in 2014, one of my 14 trips to the border, I sat down for a security briefing with then Texas Governor Rick Perry, and the amount of carnage in his state, one state, 642,000 crimes committed against Texans in a seven- year period alone.

Watch this.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Criminal aliens have been responsible for about 642,000 offenses, criminal offenses. You look up there in the top left, sexual assaults, there's close to 8,000 victims.

HANNITY: Six hundred and forty-two thousand crimes since --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In 2008.

HANNITY: In Texas alone?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Over 200,000 individuals with a criminal history, they committed over 642,000 crimes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's the cost of not securing the border.

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HANNITY: That's the cost.

Now, the humanitarian side of this crisis is about to become even more urgent. A brand-new migrant caravan is now converging in Central America. They have plans to start their journey north next week.

But enough is enough. Tonight, the president of the United States, he remains patient, he is dedicated to finding a congressional coalition to fund border security. He remains open to negotiations, but the clock is ticking.

At some point, it will be up to the president of the United States to address this crisis at our southern border, with or without congressional funding. There are ways he can do it. He could, of course, use his constitutional and statutory powers, and utilize what is called the National Emergencies Act, that was passed in 1976, passed by Congress.

It enables the president to declare a national emergency and allocate ventral federal funds to combat serious crimes and situations or crises. Now, keep in mind, this would not be an unprecedented move. Since 1976, years before in different forms, 58 national emergencies have been declared, 31 such declarations remain in effect today.

Former President Obama utilized this power ten times, including one instance that targeted a violent Mexican cartel responsible for mass of carnage on both sides of the border. That emergency declaration is also in effect today.

Now, Senator Lindsey Graham, he is encouraging the president to use those emergency powers. Our friend, the great one, Mark Levin, recently argued that Trump has the clear authority to declare this emergency.

We will check in with Gregg Jarrett later in the program today, because he also reminded us that the commander in chief has the authority to direct our military to construct any congressionally unauthorized projects.

Sadly, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, they have made it abundantly clear they are not willing to work toward strengthening border security at all. Remember, it was Nancy Pelosi who said that she would only give the president $1 toward additional border security. Now, Democrats all across the country are pretending this is just one big -- they all say the same word -- manufactured crisis. Take a look.

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REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: President Trump must stop holding American people hostage. Must stop manufacturing a crisis.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, D-N.Y., MINORITY LEADER: This president just used the back drop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis.

REP. JOAQUIN CASTRO, D-TX: Locals will tell him on the border, even conservatives, is that there isn't a national security crisis.

REP. JUAN VARGAS, D-CALIF.: The notion that we have a crisis there, security crisis is absolute nonsense.

REP. RAUL GRIJALVA, D-ARIZ.: This is a manufactured crisis and a crisis that manufactured by the Trump administration.

REP. ADAM SCHIFF, D-CALIF.: This artificial crisis of the president isn't going to justify his appropriating money for a wall that Congress is unwilling to give.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is there a crisis at the border? The president said there is a humanitarian crisis at the border. Is there?

REP. JIM CLYBURN, D-S.C.: Absolutely not. We have a challenge. All our humanitarian issues are challenges for us.

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HANNITY: And, of course, we have the extension of the Democratic Party, the Democrats propaganda arm, you know, the hate Trump media, literally repeating the exact same talking points again and again and again. As I've said many times, journalism in America is dead.

Here is the proof.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The big scam of the whole address was there is a crisis. There's not a crisis.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Folks, the president has manufactured one heck of a political crisis for himself.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It remains a Seinfeld shutdown all about nothing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What happens when there is a real crisis, when there is a real emergency? Does he take to the airways? Do we give him the airwaves? Do we believe him?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some question if there is a crisis at all as the president has claimed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is not a crisis at the border. It's a manufactured crisis for the president to get a political win.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Crisis can have, as we see now, a very elastic definition.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is determined to convince you there is a crisis at the border. Even though an intelligence official tells CNN, quote: no one is saying this is a crisis except them.

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HANNITY: You know, the coverage got worse on fake news CNN. Get this, according to a local station in San Diego, after requesting a local reporter to go on CNN to discuss a local view on the border, the so-called facts first network, they spike the segment after discovering the reporters pro wall reporting. CNN is saying it is a nonstory. OK.

But tonight, we have an important question for Democrats and their friends in the media, who are calling the emergency at our southern border a manufactured crisis. This is an important question. We have been asking, is this in the best interest for America? Is this good for our country? Is this good for our economy? Is this good for homeland security?

Here is our question. All of the others think it is a manufactured crisis, what would you say to the families, the thousands of them, that lost loved ones, moms and dads, sons and daughters, at the hands of illegal immigrants? When you call their loss a manufactured crisis? Because there are thousands of these families.

And joining us now, tonight, nine brave Americans whose loved ones were killed by illegal immigrants. The ones you are saying manufactured crisis.

Including Wendy and DJ Corcoran, their son Pierce, 22 years old, was just killed this past December 29th by a suspected illegal immigrant in Knoxville. He was driving on the wrong side of the road, wrong side of the highway. Twenty-two years old.

We are also joined by Laura Wilkerson. Her son Joshua was beaten and strangled and set aflame, on fire, by a classmate who was in this country illegally. Joshua was 18 years old.

Then we have Steve Ronnebeck, his son, Grant, he's raising money for college, he worked overnight in a convenience store, shot by an illegal immigrant robbing the store where Grant was working overnight, the midnight shift.

Agnes Gibboney is also with us. Her son, Ronald da Silva, was shot in a driveway by an illegal immigrant gang member who had previously been deported.

And let's introduce Michelle Root. Her daughter, Sarah, was killed by an illegal immigrant who was drunk driving, and he disappeared after posting bail. Why did he get bail?

We are also joined by Mary Ann Mendoza. Her son, Police Sergeant Brandon Mendoza was killed by a drunk driver, in the country illegally, and immigrant, in a head-on collision.

Also with us, Maureen Maloney. Her son, Matthew Denice, was literally killed by an illegal alien drunk driving.

And lastly, we introduce Sabine Durden, her son, Dominic, was killed in a collision by an illegal immigrant who had her two prior DUI convictions. And Dominic was a 911 dispatcher.

Maureen and Sabine are Angel Moms who serve as director for Advocates of Victims of Illegal Immigrants Alien Crimes.

And they all join us.

Thank you all for coming.

Anything worse, just a general question, I'm a parent, I have two kids. I don't think there is anything worse than losing her son or daughter, right? It's not natural. We don't bury our kids, right?

And I've met many mothers and fathers of servicemen and women, they go through this. But they know they are going into a risk.

When you find out that it is somebody that was already in the criminal justice system, and they are here illegally -- in your case, you are like the newest member of this club that nobody wants to be part of. You just lost your son, right, Wendy? On the 29th?

First, how are you holding up, this is still new to you?

WENDY CORCORAN, MOTHER OF PIERCE KENNEDY CORCORAN: I think we are still numb, still in shock about it to a degree. In finding out so many people are hurting over the same thing, it is just --

HANNITY: Painful.

WENDY CORCORAN: Yes, it is very painful.

HANNITY: Every day you wake up with it.

WENDY CORCORAN: Yes, the reality hits every morning that it is a real.

DJ CORCORAN, FATHER OF PIERCE KENNEDY CORCORAN: That's the hard time.

HANNITY: That's the hardest time, the morning when you wake up.

DJ CORCORAN: When you wake up, you feel like you're going to wake up from a bad dream, and then the tears, and you realize it is real.

HANNITY: Fourteen years, the driver in this case, was in the country.

DJ CORCORAN: He had every opportunity to do the right thing and come here illegally, and become a productive citizen, but he chose not to.

HANNITY: And what about his past criminal record? They won't reveal it?

DJ CORCORAN: Well, they are saying there is no criminal record, that is how he was able to stay here for this long, because there was nothing.

HANNITY: Yes.

DJ CORCORAN: That they know of, that they know of.

HANNITY: Laura, I have known you now -- you've done a lot of interviews with me over the years. Good to see you.

LAURA WILKERSON, MOTHER OF JOSH WILKERSON: Good to see you.

HANNITY: Your son was only 18 years old.

WILKERSON: Yes.

HANNITY: Brutally beaten, murdered, set ablaze.

WILKERSON: Yes.

HANNITY: Tell us that story.

WILKERSON: It's an absolute nightmare. You know, I sent Josh to school one day and he just never came home. I started looking around for him, and I finally found his truck parked next to a dumpster, and called police, and they came, called me over, and everything that was his, his shoes, his stuff, in the dumpster.

We waited in the parking lot all evening. Finally, they arrested a suspect who came back to the crime scene, and they arrested him there. When they took him down to the jail, he had Joshua's truck key in his pocket. And finally, 24 hours later, he told us where we could find Josh. And --

HANNITY: He had been set a fire after being brutally beaten.

WILKERSON: Yes, he bound him up with 13 ropes around his neck into the back of his hands behind his back, through a belt loop, and then to his feet, tying him up so he could carry him, and then he put him in Joshua's truck and drove around and bought --

HANNITY: How long ago was this for you?

WILKERSON: 2010.

HANNITY: It doesn't get easier, does it?

WILKERSON: No, no.

HANNITY: You wake up just like the Corcorans.

WILKERSON: I feel for them, they know the story, it is not their story yet. That comes in time, and then the really pain begins when the shock wears off and you realize that it is forever. I mean, you know --

HANNITY: Every Christmas, every Thanksgiving, every birthday.

WILKERSON: Absolutely.

HANNITY: Yes.

WILKERSON: When you first go home, there are books on the floor, socks on the floor, it takes a long time to get your heart and head in the same place. They are not coming back, you know?

HANNITY: Steve, I've known you also a couple of years, I've interviewed you a number of times. An amazing kid you had. Your son was 21 years old, Grant. He's working in a convenience store, during the graveyard shift, midnight to eight shift, and in comes a guy, and your story -- his very gets interesting. He was robbing the store, right?

STEVE RONNEBECK, FATHER OF GRANT RONNEBECK: Well, he was actually robbing the store. He came in to buy a pack of cigarettes. And dumped a jar of change on the counter, Grant went to start counting the change, wasn't counting it fast enough.

So, the man said, what, you're not going to give my cigarettes? And Grant said, hey, I got to count the change. And the man produced a gun, Grant did everything he was supposed to do, he went ahead and gave him his cigarettes.

As soon as the man had the cigarettes, he went and executed Grant, shot him point blank in the face, and that is when he robbed the store, he came around the counter, grabbed two more packs of cigarettes.

HANNITY: That is all on video?

RONNEBECK: Yes.

HANNITY: I don't know what that would be like watching the video. I'm sure horrific for you.

It gets worse, though, because this same illegal immigrant had held a young woman hostage, brutally raped her, had been in the criminal justice system, how did he ever get out? And how did he not get deported?

RONNEBECK: He was able to pleaded down his crimes to felony burglary, and just get probation.

HANNITY: But he kidnapped and raped a woman for ten days, repeatedly.

RONNEBECK: Yes. They found her full of heroin, they said she was a drug addict. So, she wasn't a reliable witness.

HANNITY: No, she was drugged.

RONNEBECK: Yes.

HANNITY: It makes it more painful, knowing they had him, knowing if they did their job -- this is a big part of this thing. There are too many instances where the government -- we have them, we identify them, we put them in jail, and talk about sanctuary cities and states, then they won't hand them over to ICE. So, they aid and abet them in the next crime.

And to me, they got some of these guys have blood on their hands by not following the law.

It is so hard to hear the stories because all of the promise your kids, they are so young, 22, 21, 18.

I'm looking at your son, Agnes Gibboney here. Her son is Ronald. This picture, by the way, if I can walk over without getting any shot, that's him at his wake.

AGNEY GIBBONEY: This is Ronald in the coffin, this is the reality that I live with, and unlike -- this is not manufactured, I want to tell the Democrats, this is not manufactured.

And I want to call on our president to please, implement E-Verify, please, stop the insanity for illegal aliens to come to our country and punish employers.

This guy that murdered my son would be coming out of prison next year. My peace and quiet will be taken away from me and my family because I don't know if he is going to come after me. Why should he live?

HANNITY: So, he is getting released?

GIBBONEY: He's getting released, but California being a sanctuary state.

HANNITY: This happened in 2002, when you kill an innocent young man, why do you ever get out of jail?

GIBBONEY: Exactly. He is going to get to enjoy his family, his children.

One other point I wanted to make, when Nancy Pelosi said one time that her child -- her grandchild was having a birthday, it was his birthday wish, he just wanted to have brown skin. Well, my grand builder and, Ronald's children, would also like to make a wish, to have their dad back.

HANNITY: I do. I mean, I look at that picture.

GIBBONEY: Look at him, I miss that smile, I miss his bear hugs, I miss everything about him. My life changed completely because of this.

What is even more offensive is I'm a legal immigrant who came -- followed the law, came through the right channels, to this country. Why isn't my country and these politicians standing up for me and for the American citizens of this country? They stand up with illegal aliens and criminals.

HANNITY: You are all of the faces. I want America -- pan back and take a look. These are the faces of a manufactured crisis. And that is what the media says about all of you and all of your experiences.

Manufactured? These are real lives.

Now, look at your beautiful daughter, you have a picture. And this is Michelle, your daughter daughter's name is Sarah.

How old is she?

MICHELLE ROOT, MOTHER OF SARAH ROOT: She was 21 when she was killed. She had just graduated from college with a 4.0 bachelors in criminal investigations. She was hit and killed that night after celebrating on her way home. And when he came over unaccompanied at age 16, was driving, not even his vehicle, street racing, going 70 plus miles per hour, blood alcohol of .241, when he rear-ended my daughter's SUV.

HANNITY: The legal limit is zero point --

ROOT: Point zero eight.

HANNITY: Zero eight, and he is 2.4?

ROOT: Point two four one.

HANNITY: Wow.

ROOT: And they like to say it was three times the legal limit, no, he is 19, he should not have had any alcohol in him.

HANNITY: So, when did this happen?

ROOT: It was 2016, January 31st is what we consider her death date because she was brain-dead when they got her to the emergency room. However, being the lovely child --

HANNITY: An all-American, young, beautiful, 4.0 student, her whole life and career ahead of her.

ROOT: Correct. And she was an organ donor. We saved six additional people that night with her organs.

But Edwin Mejia made a bond because of the judge set a low bond, and he fled. So he is out there.

HANNITY: I'm so sorry to all of you. I'm so sorry. This has got to stop.

ROOT: Yes.

HANNITY: That is what this show is about. I want people to see what this manufactured crisis, it is not manufactured. She had a right to live, your son had a right to live, your son had a right to live. Your children had a right to live, you know?

I have known you now, Mary Ann Mendoza, for a long time. He is really handsome. He looks like you. Got his good looks. He was a police officer.

MARY ANN MENDOZA, MOTHER OF SGT. BRANDON MENDOZA: Yes, he was. He wanted to be a police officer since he was very, very young. On May 11th, 2014, he spent Mother's Day with me and went into work, and was going to come back for dessert, he had come for dinner, and he said, mom, I'm too busy, can't come in.

So, the early hours of May 12th, 2014, he was on his way home from work, and an illegal alien, repeat criminal, had gone over 35 miles the wrong way on four different freeways, high on meth, legal limit drawn, his family let him drive repeatedly to leave a house, keep going back and forth. He slammed head-on into my son.

And I got a call, quarter to three in the morning from Afghanistan, from a Mesa fellow officer who was also an international guard, telling me, mom, he's had been in a terrible accident. I kept try to call his phone, he wasn't answering, and then my worst nightmare, the doorbell rang and it was Mesa police to come and take me to the hospital and Brandon died.

HANNITY: I've tried to put myself in your shoes, I think parents can do that. I don't -- this is the one thing I don't think you recover from. I don't care how strong you think you are, you are not going to recover from this.

MENDOZA: No, and this is not a manufactured crisis, this is where I have to go for his birthday, this is where I have to go for Christmas, for every holiday. And just as recently -- Michelle was at my house in Phoenix, I've got three people contacting me four and a half years later, talking about the things my son had done for them. This has been a continual for four and a half years.

So, this wasn't a loss for Sean. This is a loss to my whole --

HANNITY: Does the media ask you for interviews? I know I've interviewed you many times. And a number of you -- you been on many times.

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You don't get -- they don't want to hear the story? And then they arrogantly go on TV, you know how I feel about.

MENDOZA: One more picture.

HANNITY: Yes, ma'am.

MENDOZA: This is 330 miles of our southern border in Arizona, 330 miles, and it is a liberal politicians think this is going to keep criminals out of our country, they are insane.

HANNITY: Insane, insensitive, cruel, callous, in a sense, sanctuary cities and states.

From that moment forward that they release people, and don't deport them and follow the law, they are aiding and abetting the next crime, in my opinion.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I agree.

HANNITY: We will get back to you guys when we get back.

Also, we'll have more with the families after this break.

And we'll also be joined -- you heard about Officer Singh out in California. Hs brother will also join us. That, of course, happened in recent weeks, killed by an illegal immigrant over the Christmas holiday.

Do you want to tell these people, the people in the media, you pathetically lazy people, that are way overpaid, you want to keep going with your talking point? This is manufactured?

Hey, Nancy and Chuck, is this a manufactured crisis to you? You want to set -- come down and meet these parents?

You are welcome any studio, I will bring them all back and you can talk to them.

Quick break, right back.

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HANNITY: Welcome back to “Hannity.”

Tonight, you are hearing the very painful stories, Angel Families, moms and dads, that have lost their loved ones to illegal immigrant crime. You know, the manufactured crisis, like the Singh family. They lost a 33-year- old police officer, son, brother, Ronil Singh, just a day after Christmas, when he was killed during a traffic stop in northern California.

The suspect, Gustavo Perez Arriaga, had a long criminal record and suspected gang ties, but California sanctuary policy protected him from being handed over to ICE, which would have meant he would have been deported.

Officer Singh was an immigrant, a legal immigrant, who came from Fiji, came to this country as all immigrants do, legally, because they want a better life, the hope, their dreams, for themselves, their families, their kids, to raise a family. But it was cut short by a criminal alien who never should have been here in the first place and who was in the criminal justice system and should have been long departed.

Joining us now to talk about his life is his brother, Reggie Singh, is with us.

Reggie, thanks for being with us. I know this is still fresh. This is raw for you.

You met with the president yesterday. You were in Texas, where we were. What did the president say?

REGGIE SINGH, ROTHER OF CORPORAL RONIL SINGH: Yes. The president just wanted to know how the family was doing, if there is anything he could do to help out. We had a good conversation about Ronil. He asked some questions. That was it.

HANNITY: Your family came here legally, it takes a long time, right? You've got to go through, it takes time to get here?

SINGH: Yes, we came here in 2003, it takes about ten years, I would say, to get -- go through the whole process, the medical background check, criminal background. If everything is fine, then the process is proceeded to the next step.

But yes, it is a process, you come here, in Ronil's case, we were a green card holder for five years, then asked to get his citizenship in order to become a law enforcement agent.

HANNITY: He always wanted to be in law enforcement? That was his dream? He wanted to protect and serve? He always wanted to do that?

SINGH: Yes. He always wanted to be a law enforcement, a cop, in California.

HANNITY: Wow.

SINGH: That is one of the reasons we came here, so he could become a cop.

HANNITY: Well, let me deal directly with the fact, and you heard the comments of then Governor Jerry Brown, dismissing the fact that the sanctuary states status of California had anything to do with this. But the reality is, the individual that killed your brother was already in the justice system.

And because of the sanctuary laws, that prevents of the state of California from informing ICE, having over on the release date of their prison sentence, handing over to ICE, that individual, for deportation and enforcement of federal law.

Does that make it even more bitter for you? It's hard to lose your brother, but when you find out we had him, he should have been deported and he was protected by us by a state law.

REGGIE SINGH, BROTHER OF CPL RONIL SINGH: So, yes, we wake up with anger that this could have been preventable. That was - I wasn't aware of what sanctuary state and this rules and regulation meant. But I was explained how we worked. But, yes, it could have been preventable. We wake up with anger that he should have been deported in the first place, but he wasn't due to the sanctuary law we have in California.

HANNITY: Yes, I know this is fresh. Like the Corcoran's this is new, this is hard, painful. You're in our thoughts and prayers. I'm so sorry. It sounds like your brother - everything I've heard - I've interviewed the Sheriff, I interviewed the Police Chief out there, they loved your brother. He was a great cop. They're just devastated themselves, so you are in our prayers. Thank you so much for being with us tonight and the best to your family.

SINGH: Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.

HANNITY: Let me go to Maureen Maloney, you got a son Matthew. How old was Matthew?

MAUREEN MALONEY; MOTHER OF MATTHEW DENICE: Matthew was 23-years-old. He had just graduated college. He had dreamed of being a police officer.

HANNITY: By the way when your kid graduates college you're proud of yourself, right? Well, finally, I got - we're on our way, right?

MALONEY: The last picture I have with him is at his graduation. Matthew dreamed of becoming a police officer and when he was buried - the Police Chief buried him with the police badge knowing that was his dream.

HANNITY: Wow, that's--

MALONEY: Matthew was riding his motorcycle home in a residential area. Nicolas Guaman, the illegal alien was unlicensed. He had spent his day drinking. He was driving around with his five-year-old son in the truck with him. He ran through a stop sign causing Matthew to collide with the truck.

Matthew landed on the hood of the truck and rolled off, and Matthew survived that collision according to experts at the trial and witnesses, because it was a low-impact collision. But Nicolas Guaman decided to flee, and when he did, he ran over Matthew. Matthew became trapped in the wheel well and he--

HANNITY: So he would have lived had he not then gone back to make sure he killed him.

MALONEY: Right. He had scrapes and contusions from the initial impact. Matthew got caught in the wheel well--

HANNITY: And he has - six-year-old son is involved in this?

MALONEY: Yes, in the truck with him. And Matthew was dragged a quarter of a mile to his death. This was in a residential area, so there were people pounding on the truck pleading with him to stop. He fled. At one point he went over a curve and Matthew became dislodged and then he backed up over Matthew again and continued to flee.

HANNITY: He does all this and I read he got 12 years in jail? 12 years in jail--

MALONEY: He got--

HANNITY: You kill him and then you make sure you kill him again, and that's what - why not the death penalty for that?

MALONEY: And he was originally charged with second-degree murder, but the judge found him guilty of vehicular homicide. But he'll be getting out of jail in August. In Massachusetts where this occurred, you get your sentence reduced by 30 percent for good behavior, so he would be getting out in august.

HANNITY: Let me go to Sabine. Your son Dominic was killed again by a drunk driver, and you have taken the pain of all this with others and you are Advocates for the Victims of Illegal Alien Crime. And, for example, D.J. and Wendy, this is a sort group, a group that you never want to be a part of. But they - you help - you've been able to help a lot of people.

SABINE DURDEN, MOTHER OF DOMINIC DURDEN: I've reached out to, Avery, to their daughter, and we've been speaking since this happened. And I'm a legal immigrant and I came from Germany with Dominic, who called himself German Chocolate.

We came over and I had a little car that we had resident alien, and I didn't mind it, because I knew that takes to come here and then it took me about six years to become a citizen. Dominic was my only child. Love of my life, my best friend.

HANNITY: That's your - his son - if you can pan in.

DURDEN: Yes, that's him on there, and also--

HANNITY: You guys all have great looking kids, I will tell you. I mean - and wonderful kids. Every one of your kids, they're all good kids - college, working for money for college. It's unbelievable. Let me ask you this. So he was a 911 dispatcher - 911 dispatcher.

DURDEN: --Police Department--

HANNITY: He wanted to be a police helicopter pilot?

DURDEN: Right, because he had his pilot's license. He was--

HANNITY: So this guy had two prior DUI convictions and he spent a year in jail?

DURDEN: Not even. He had two felonies before that. One was pled down to a misdemeanor and then he came back drunk driving. He received probation, even though he had no license.

HANNITY: We didn't throw him out.

DURDEN: No.

HANNITY: In other words he had him twice in the criminal justice.

DURDEN: Yes, so they had him a third time--

HANNITY: And they knew he was an illegal immigrant?

DURDEN: Yes, it was the same DA that had our case. They let him go on probation. They caught him drunk driving while on probation one more time, and they gave him probation again. And five years - five weeks later, he extinguished the spark of divinity in my child, so Nancy Pelosi that's my message to her.

HANNITY: All right. Speaking of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party, when we come back we're going to give these moms and dads an opportunity to address them directly about their manufactured crisis. They all lost their family members, their kids, their loved ones, a lot more with Angel Families straight ahead as we continue tonight on HANNITY.

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HANNITY: All right. As we continue with our Angel Parents all having lost loved ones, their children to illegal immigrants. We only have five minutes left. I just want to maybe run through some - it's obviously a big national, political debate. What's your reaction to, this is a manufactured crisis? What words do you want to say to the President, Nancy, Chuck, what do you say?

AGNES GIBBONEY, MOTHER OF RONALD DA SILVA: I would like to invite Nancy and Chuck Schumer to my son's grave on January 28th so they can celebrate or not celebrate - cry with me at his grave - at his manufactured grave. This is permanent family separation with separate--

HANNITY: Permanent family separation.

GIBBONEY: Permanent family separation, like my shirt says. And what separates me and my son is not offence, it's six feet of dirt and the coffin.

HANNITY: How many of you have met the President? So all of you have and I remember we did a show during the campaign, I got emotional on that show and I'm sure you will at some point too. And you're watching the President fight and you're hearing the manufacturer crisis, what do you want to say to them? Steve?

STEVE RONNEBECK, FATHER OF GRANT RONNEBECK: Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are just hypocrites, and I'm being just flat out on it, he's hypocrite. You yourself have shown video clips of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer telling people we need this wall, we need to stop the endless--

HANNITY: That's when Obama was president.

RONNEBECK: Absolutely, so what changed? What - just votes, what - global economy? They are hypocrites. It's disgusting.

HANNITY: What do you say?

LAURA WILKERSON, MOTHER OF JOSH WILKERSON: Nancy Pelosi is a dingbat. I mean, one week she wants the wall, the next week she doesn't want the wall. She doesn't want to give any money toward it. I think it's what? One-tenth of 1% of money -

HANNITY: That's all it is, one-tenth of 1%--

WILKERSON: --of the budget.

HANNITY: of the budget - tiny.

WILKERSON: And she won't to give it. It's absurd. I think that blood is on her hands. She absolutely took an oath to protect American citizens. She is not doing it. She doesn't even want to try, just because she hates Trump. I don't know what's wrong with her?

HANNITY: Are you happy that President is holding the line?

WILKERSON: Absolutely.

MARY ANN MENDOZA, MOTHER OF SGT BRANDON MENDOZA: I'm very happy. And I've said this before, but I would love the opportunity to stand in front of Nancy Pelosi, mother-to-mother, and look her in the eye and say which child of yours or grandchild of yours would you give up to support this agenda that you're -

This horrendous lie, the desecration of our children and our loved ones lives, it's like it's a slap on our face and the kick to our loved one's grave every time she does this. And I want the public to know, and I want Nancy Pelosi to know, I called her office again today and requested another meeting next week when I'm in DC.

HANNITY: Yes, I guess--

MENDOZA: And it was dead silence from her staffer. I said this is Angel Mom, Mary Ann Mendoza. I'd like to request a meeting face-to-face, mother- to-mother with Nancy Pelosi about this situation. Dead silence and the staffer said no. I'll put you through, and you can leave a voicemail. So this is how Nancy Pelosi is--

I did asked her that very question--

MENDOZA: Yes.

WILKERSON: --on the town hall and I asked her - Nancy. I told her what happened to Josh and I said which child could you sacrifice for this? And she just glazed over and over praying for you. And - but I just need to let you know that every person in our sanctuary cities are law-abiding citizen.

HANNITY: Let me ask about the media. We just played - the media echoes the exact words of what the Democrats are say, manufactured crisis. You - I'm sure you guys all watch TV. All right. Well, hopefully you don't watch fake news. But--

DURDEN: Sean, can I show you this?

HANNITY: Yes.

DURDEN: - for Nancy Pelosi. I have my only child's ashes in this urn. I carry his ashes in a little locket. This is the last time I got to touch my child. That's on - in the morgue. Those are his bruised, cold, dead hands with me touching him and kissing him the last time.

And she doesn't just have blood on her hands, she needs boots, because that blood is rising, she's knee-deep in it. And if she doesn't get with the President to end this, she's going to need boots all the way up to her thigh, because it's getting worse. They need to get it--

HANNITY: Are you angry with the media?

DURDEN: Yes.

HANNITY: That they use those words?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's been a tough week.

HANNITY: Tough week for you - just watching all this and hearing the same words every day. I thought liberals were so compassionate.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, whatever.

RONNEBECK: Is this manufactured?

HANNITY: No. No, it's not.

RONNEBECK: This is preventable. This is preventable in our country.

HANNITY: When - the sanctuary state/city issue where you can't - criminal aliens, not just people that came here that want a better life. In jail they let them go and basically assist them out the door, so they don't get deported?

WILKERSON: I think that the only one that's proved that's god's justice through the criminal court system for Joshua, I don't think anybody else has done that, and thank you Texas for that. But, I mean, it does have some sort of - that you know he's there for a long time. But other than that I don't think anybody else really got justice.

HANNITY: Beautiful. I got to say here, we're going to end this here. I want to personally come over and - thank you so much.

DURDEN: 35 days - 35 days--

HANNITY: I know it's unbelievable. Thank you. I'm sorry so much. Really under the pain, I know. So good to see again, you're so strong. I hope you get that meeting. Your daughter is so beautiful, really and your son the same.

GIBBONEY: Sean, thank you. And this is not Trump's wall. This is America's wall.

HANNITY: Right. We can have a door too. We just want to vet you. Thank you. Steve, thank you, your son Grant amazing, so good to see you. Thank you so much. I know this is the hardest time for both of you. This just happened the 29th of December. You're in our prayers, OK always.

Thank you for sharing your story. I hope America hears and more specifically, I hope these idiots in DC listen. And the President, I think, he's going to hold the line and he'll do one way another.

DURDEN: We're all proud of him.

HANNITY: We'll talk about fake news bias when we get back.

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HANNITY: And here to react to the media's using the Democratic manufactured crisis talking points, Salem Radio "America First" Host, Fox News National Security Strategist Dr. Sebastian Gorka and also the host of "Relatable" podcast Allie Beth Stuckey.

You know, we just had these parents and they tell these compelling stories - real kids, real lives, really lost. And they have the nerve both the politicians and their willing accomplices to say it's manufactured, Dr. Gorka?

SEBASTIAN GORKA, SALEM RADIO'S AMERICA FIRST HOST: I think this is the moment where the scales fall from our eyes all across America and we see the media for who they really are. I've met the Angel Moms. I've held events with them on the steps of Congress.

But it's not just these incredible stories that cannot be denied, it's everything else that is being reported factually by the government. If we look at the fact that we have 10,000 children being looked after by the federal government who were sent here by their parents without their parents - handed into the hands of the coyotes.

We have more than 70,000 people die as a result of drug deaths last year in America, that's more than--

HANNITY: 300 a week. 300 heroin overdoses a week. 900 have had opioids and fentanyl.

GORKA: Right. And that's more than died in whole Vietnam War. And where are the drugs coming from? They're coming from the Southern border.

HANNITY: 90 percent of them.

GORKA: The vast majority - 90 percent. So what's manufactured? I will tell you what's manufactured, Sean. The propaganda that places like CNN are spewing daily. Now we have Jim Acosta who's not only made himself a laughingstock in the White House, now he's made himself a laughingstock on the border. Enough is enough. These aren't news agencies. These are propaganda outlets.

HANNITY: Allie Beth, the fact that all these politicians and all their propaganda friends in the media, they're basically state TV for the Democratic Party. Use the same exact words.

ALLIE BETH STUCKEY, "RELATABLE" PODCAST HOST: Right. Yes.

HANNITY: They can't even think of another original word on their own? They just repeat the same one.

STUCKEY: Right, right, the manufactured crisis. You have to wonder what kind of Orwellian universe we're living in were securing our border is seen as negative. But having open borders is seen as compassionate. It's not compassionate for anyone - not for the citizens of this country, not even for citizens of other countries. As Dr. Gorka just pointed out, this is dangerous for everyone involved.

So the only right thing to do, there's really no two sides about this. The only right thing to do is to secure the border in the best way that we know how, that's right for the people that are travelling here legally, that's right for the legal immigrants, that's right for the citizens of this country, and it's right for the furloughed workers who aren't getting their paycheck right now because Democrats refused to do their jobs.

HANNITY: The President said the other night, how many more people have to die Dr. Gorka?

GORKA: Yes, it's very simple. But let's use their arguments against them. They say that they are the compassionate ones. The leftwing, the leftwing media, they are the people who have empathy. If you have empathy - forget about Americans for a second who we should be prioritizing, it's the victims that are being trafficked themselves - women being raped, children being abused. If they really cared, Sean, they would help us build the wall.

HANNITY: At some point they're culpable, because they're not solving a problem that can be solved. Thank you both for being with us. When we come back final thoughts straight ahead.

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HANNITY: I have a challenge for Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and all the Democrats who say this is a manufactured crisis. Why don't you meet with the moms and dads that lost their kids? And why don't you talk to those, especially those that were here illegally in the criminal justice system. We don't enforce the laws, but we aid and abet them, and set them free and then they commit more crimes.

At some point when do you bear responsibility for that? Don't we have an obligation to protect the American people from drug trafficking, human trafficking, 90 percent of the heroin in this country coming from our Southern border. At what point are you going to take the responsibility instead of, "Oh, I'll give you a dollar". "Oh, it's a manufactured crisis." By the way, you all sounded like Trump five years ago. This is all politics. Sad.

All right that's all the time we have left this evening. Thank you for being with us. Let not your heart be troubled. The news continues, Laura Ingraham is next, and we'll see you back here on Monday.

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