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Rep. McCarthy: Democrats decided to impeach Trump the day after the election

House Minority leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy on Democrats' push for more investigations following the Mueller report.

This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," April 30, 2019. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

SEAN HANNITY, HOST: All right, Tucker. Great show as always.

And welcome to “Hannity.”

This is a Fox News breaking news alert: at least two people are dead after gunfire erupts at UNC and Charlotte. We'll have full coverage just ahead tonight.

Also, Venezuela is at a tipping point in this very hour. A ton of breaking news this hour, opposition leader, duly elected president, Juan Guaido, is calling for a military uprising tonight, thousands have taken to the streets in Caracas in mass, and the socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro turned his security forces against his fellow citizens, plowing them down with armored trucks. More than 40 Venezuelans have been killed in violent street clashes.

And tonight, Venezuela as we speak is burning. You're looking at how socialism, by the way, always culminates, chaos, death, poverty, destruction, a violent clash between a population so desperate for basic human rights, food, necessities, security against what has been a tyrannical government hell-bent on maintaining their power.

Now, Maduro is backed by Russia. It is backed by Iran, Hezbollah. The terrorist group funded by Iran has been training government forces in Venezuela now for years. Cuba is providing 20,000 troops to protect Maduro from his own people.

And meanwhile, the opposition leader is backed by nearly everyone else in the entire free world, but tonight, it will be up to the people of Venezuela to take power back. Take their government back at all costs. If they succeed, it will be prosperity, freedom. They have unlimited national resources and oil, security will be on the horizon. Bare necessities, those needs will be fulfilled, if they fail, predictably starvation, poverty, death, violence, and, of course, a horrible dictatorship, the status quo for years to come. In minutes, we're going to have a lab report on this.

And also breaking news tonight both "The Washington Post," "The New York Times", they have not learned a single thing from two-plus years of lying. In moments, we will break down for you, we will tell you all about their lying, misleading headlines released about an hour ago about Mueller and Barr. Inside the content of their articles, they debunk their own headlines in their own stories. You can't make this up, a sad state of affairs for journalism in America.

Also, a damning new report now breaking surrounding Obama and Fusion GPS. That's the op research firm that Hillary Clinton used.

Also, tonight, we'll have Alan Dershowitz. He will discuss the horrific anti-Semitic cartoons in "The New York Times."

You have a busy breaking news night, but we start tonight with the very latest on this uprising in Venezuela. We have our own Trace Gallagher standing by with the latest -- Trace.

TRACE GALLAGHER, HOST: Sean, 9:00 p.m. in the capital of Venezuela, and they're still protesting clashes under way of what U.S.- backed opposition leader Juan Guaido has dubbed Operation Freedom. A few hours ago, Guaido claimed the final phase was underway to oust Maduro, but so far, there are no reports that Guaido supporters have taken control of any military bases.

And Nicolas Maduro who has not been seen today is claiming that the military has shown total loyalty. And there were graphic scenes today of military vehicles plowing into opposition protesters and if in true, in fact the military is standing by Maduro, it would be a staggering change of events considering earlier, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that today Maduro was about to fly to Havana. Watch.

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MIKE POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE: He was ready to go. He made a decision that we have been urging him to make for quite some time. And he was diverted from that action by the Russians.

We hope that he will reconsider and get back on that plane.

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GALLAGHER: Of course, the Russians and Cubans are Maduro's primary supporters and President Trump has threatened Cuba with a, quote, complete embargo and the highest levels of sanctions.

The administration is hoping for a peaceful transformation of power in Venezuela but has not ruled out deploying U.S. military forces -- Sean.

HANNITY: All right. Trace Gallagher with an update in the West Coast newsroom tonight. We'll follow it throughout the night. This rapidly developing horrific situations throughout Venezuela. And we pray for their people tonight.

But first, another night, another piece of fake news from the fake news media mob with headlines that are purposely deceptive. They debunk their own headlines. Now, this time, predictable hysteria surrounding a so- called bombshell "Washington Post" and echoed by "The New York Times" report that Robert Mueller wasn't happy with Barr's initial summary of his report.

Here's a problem, buried in the article is a response from a Justice Department spokesperson and it actually says within the article, the special counsel emphasized that nothing -- let me repeat -- nothing in the attorney general's March 24th letter was inaccurate or misleading. But he expressed frustration over the lack of context and the resulting media coverage regarding the special counsel's obstruction analysis.

Wow. Nothing was inaccurate. Nothing. Nothing was misleading. The contents of the article literally debunk the main premise and headline of their stories.

Why is this then a story? After all, the entire Mueller report is now completely out. This is only about the media mob smearing the president at every turn. It is always Russia, Russia, Russia, collusion, fantasies. They have to keep it alive. They can't let it go.

No collusion. No obstruction. No conspiracy. But the radical left, the media mob, desperately, breathlessly continue to pursue a fraudulent hoax.

And if that does not work, well, we see what their plan B is. You've got people like Nadler and Schiff, and they want to get on Trump, going after some type of conspiracy theory financial crime. They want to empower the IRS to go after the president, get his tax returns. They want banks to hand over confidential information.

Then they will say, well, what about obstruction of justice? They'll take anything. They'll take a parking ticket at this point.

As we speak, the Democratic House Judiciary Committee, they are trying to hold the Attorney General Barr to Capitol Hill. And, by the way, they don't want to interview him, they don't want to ask the questions. They want to allow unelected, unaccountable lawyers interrogate the attorney general under oath, probably because they do not think that they are capable of doing that job. An act that Senator Lindsey Graham said was way over the top.

Now, let's see, we elected congressmen and senators and they do have a responsibility, constitutionally for oversight. But they are supposed to be held accountable to the people. They do not get their lawyers to do their job. They can have the lawyers write the questions, I guess. Watch this.

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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, R-S.C.: What the House is doing his way over the top. Mueller is a final word on this. I fought like hell to make sure Mueller could do his job without interference. Introduce legislation so that he couldn't be fired without cause.

And I told everybody in the country, if the president colluded with the Russians, that would be horrible and terrible, but I don't believe that he did. And Mueller said that he didn't.

This is over. This is political revenge. The House is on a witch hunt, truly a witch hunt to try to make something out of nothing.

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HANNITY: Congress does have constitutional oversight power, that's their duty. But the attorney general of the United States, well, should not be cross-examined by a bunch of far left, unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats that they want to farm the job out to. Democrats want to take him to court over this matter, they should go right ahead, because the law, the rules, the constitution are pretty clear.

Quote: Each member shall be allowed 5 minutes for the interrogation of a witness.

Each member, period. Not each member's lawyer or each member's favorite staffer. Those are the rules, by which Nadler must abide.

And, of course, if the committee members are too ignorant to come up with inquiries of their own, they can always ask their lawyers, they are free to write the questions for them. They can read them off of little blue cards, except we all know that Nadler and company are scared of that, because that with even prepared question, what are they going to do? How are they going to answer an attorney general that actually knows the law and the Constitution?

They are going to have a hard time grilling their DOJ counterpart. And it might just end up looking stupid, which I think is what they fear the most.

The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, we will see how this all plays out in the next couple of days.

Now this comes as deep state actors, they are now tonight scrambling to cover all of the corruption. And it goes all the way to the top, right to the Obama White House.

Just breaking tonight, "The Federalist" is reporting that Obama's political campaign, get this, they paid nearly $1 million since 2016 to of all places, Fusion GPS, the firm responsible for Hillary Hillary's dirty Russian dossier. That even "The New York Times" now late in the game, two plus years later acknowledges may have been Russian disinformation. The same Fusion GPS that has been accused of illegally operating as an agent of foreign governments, that is currently facing multiple investigations.

What is Obama paying for? What did Obama know? What did Biden know? When did they know it? We have a lot more coming up in just a few moments.

All right. But, first, we turn to two of the Democrats best friends on conspiracy TV MSNBC. Yes, you want to conspiracy television, you want to learn about oh, let's see Area 51 kind of political conspiracies.

Last night, well, two of America's top tinfoil hat commentators, Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell fuming. We at the Fox News Channel continue to demand equal justice under the law, the equal applications of the laws and, of course, hold to account Hillary Clinton's various misdeeds and actually as real evidence, something that they were lacking and still lack for Donald Trump. Take a look.

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LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, MSNBC HOST: Apparently this week, Fox News won't be the only network that mentions Secretary Clinton. Which I do apparently, I don't know this, but I read that they like every minute or every hour certainly, there is some -- in prime time, there is some reference to why they are talking about Secretary Clinton instead of any of the investigations of this president.

RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: They are still literally talking about Hillary Clinton's emails. That is a fresh thing, like the Republicans in the Senate are about to like advance the prospect that there needs to be a new investigation of Hillary Clinton's email. If it comes up, I will talk about that. I imagine we may have other topics.

O'DONNELL: Yes, I think you have other business.

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HANNITY: All right. Time to educate the two liars and conspiracy theorists who still this day obsess over Trump-Russia collusion. Four separation separate investigations, count them -- the FBI investigation cleared the president, no collusion, nine months later. How do we know? Closed-door testimony, Page, and Strzok said the same thing, no "there" there.

Weren't these the two far left Democratic shills? They have been lying to their viewers every single night. Are they the same people that pushed for two-plus years, the baseless hoax that led see the House Intel, the FBI, the bipartisan Senate Committee and now Robert Mueller said didn't happen. Take a look.

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MADDOW: We are about to find out if a new president of our country is going to do what Russia wants. Once he is commander-in-chief of the U.S. military.

We have never reckoned with the possibility that somebody has ascended to the presidency of the United States to serve the interest of another country rather than our own. What is a corrective to that? How do you remedy that? These are no longer hypothetical questions. This is where we are.

He received the Order of Friendship from Vladimir Putin personally, the highest civilian award that Russia gives to non-Russian citizens. Somehow Rex Tillerson ended up as U.S. secretary of state under Donald Trump who he never met.

O'DONNELL: If Vladimir Putin really does have ways that he knows unknown to Donald Trump, then every day that it is good day for President Trump is a good day for President Putin.

What does Vladimir Putin have that creates so much fear in Donald Trump? The guilty that Robert Mueller got on October 5th and was revealed today was a guilty about collusion.

MADDOW: The presidency is effectively a Russian op, right?

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HANNITY: The same Donald Trump that put part of sanctions on Putin, and the same -- oh, it was your friend Obama and Biden, it happen on their watch.

So, when are these two conspiracy theorists, liars gong to apologize to their viewers? Will they apologize to the president who they slandered every night on their network? Oh, what do they say about Nicholas Sandmann, the 16-year-old, they rush to judgment there too, right?

We won't hold the breath as a journalism is dead and buried in this country. They are nothing more than an extension of the Democratic Party. Which by the way, let me just say this -- you know, the reason Hillary is the relevant is because we are supposed to have a constitutional republic, equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws.

And at the same time period that we're talking -- you are talking about Donald Trump colluding with the Russians, well, Hillary Clinton had a rigged investigation when she put top secret classified emails on that server and then, that was the underlying crime.

And you care so much about obstruction of justice. Let me educate you some more. There was real intent when she deleted 33,000 subpoenaed emails, Bleach Bit the hard drive, beat up her devices with hammers and pulled out the same cards. Oh, the intent was to destroy the evidence.

And, of course, that is not something that you're off audience may have heard about because they are listening to your lies every night.

So, the same relevant time period that you are talking about. But there will be justice.

We turn our attention now to the radical socialist 2020 candidates. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Beto, Robert Francis Bozo O'Rourke, many Democrats running to be president of this country, espousing the very same, insane, failed economic policies, kind of like what the CNN, yes, Venezuela. It is scary.

Last week creepy, crazy Uncle Joe Biden, he joined the field. He is trying to appease his party's radical far left base by being just the latest Democrat to call for President Trump's impeachment, over the hoax. Take a look.

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JOE BIDEN, D-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There was Russian interference without any question. Russian interference, number one.

Number two, there are elements in the report, in the second phase of the report about seven or eight things that are left undone. He was not in his privy to investigate. The Congress is attempting to take that up.

And what the Congress should do and is doing is investigate that. And if, in fact, they block the investigation, they have no alternative but to go to the other a constitutional resort that they have which is impeachment.

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HANNITY: Hey, Uncle Joe, this all happen on your watch. Now, we are learning about Fusion GPS and Obama, oh, yes, that he was spending $1 million with them from 2016 on. I would like to know why.

Strzok and Page says that the attorney general led the Clinton investigation and under your watch "The New York Times" is saying the phony Russian dossier Hillary paid for with funneled money through a law firm to Fusion GPS hiring Christopher Steele might've been Russian disinformation from the get-go. Why did you allow that to happen, where were you? Because Devin Nunes warned you all in 2014. So courageous.

But fear not, Uncle Joe, on this program, while you obsess about impeachment, we won't let anyone forget. I won't list it tonight, but we're going to remind everybody about your failed economic legacy, 13 million more in poverty, 8 million more -- 13 million more Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty. We will get it out every night.

Also, get out, all of the other statistics that we have here, because it was the worst economy and worse recovery since the '40s, with the time that Obama whispered that he had more flexibility with Vladimir Putin after the election. We're going to remind people of how you guys drop the ball and gave them $150 billion in cash and other currencies, oh, to the mullahs in Iran in exchange for nothing except more threats of the destruction of America.

All right. Busy news night. Joining us now, Fox News contributor Sara Carter, "The Hill's" John Solomon.

John, let's start with you. Did you notice inside the body of the story that it contradicted the headline?

JOHN SOLOMON, THE HILL EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT: Yes, it felt like a straw man to me. Whenever you see a story where eight paragraphs down the story, the headline is undercut, you worry as a journalist.

Listen, these are the same publications that promised us that there was evidence that senior Trump officials, senior Russian intelligence officials, that didn't happen. The same one that predicted that Bob Mueller was going to have sealed indictments, that didn't happen. Remember that?

I think we have to wait and let the letter come out and let the attorney general speak tomorrow night. I think we'll get a much different portrait than the leaks that were done tonight probably to undercut Attorney General Barr's testimony tomorrow. Feels like a dirty trick much like Fusion GPS.

HANNITY: Let me read to you, Sara Carter. The special counsel emphasize that nothing in the attorney general's March 24th letter was inaccurate or misleading. Nothing. Nothing.

SARA CARTER, CONTRIBUTOR: Exactly.

HANNITY: Yes.

CARTER: Nothing. So this was about bottom-line conclusions for Attorney General Barr.

He was quoted directly by the letter of the law. He wasn't going to gossip. He wasn't going to try to make innuendo.

He was saying this is what the special counsel discovered. These were the findings. That President Trump did not collude or conspire with the Russians, that they found no evidence that any American or anyone on his campaign did that.

And the second half which is, how can a president obstruct when there was nothing there to obstruct to begin with? I mean, William Barr and Rod Rosenstein both made the decision that there was nothing discovered that could constitute obstruction.

There was no tampering of evidence. There was no tampering with witnesses. There was no destruction of evidence. So, he basically covered all bases.

This is about getting cornered, Sean. I'm going to tell you this. This is about getting cornered. And now they are screaming mad, because they know that someone is going to investigate what happened from the beginning of this investigation into President Trump and his campaign. And there are people within the intelligence community and within the government that are running scared now.

And they are going to fight back tooth and nail, and they're going to target Barr and they're going to target anyone that's going to investigate them. That's all this is about.

HANNITY: You know what, we know that he could have made a decision. You know, the fact that they say nothing.

All right, let's move on to some other things because we have talked -- Barr has said the word spying. He is investigating. We know that the inspector general on FISA abuse, that is why that is so relevant.

"The New York Times" a mission just recently coming us, probably disinformation is huge.

SOLOMON: It is a big deal.

HANNITY: A huge deal. A little two years-plus -- about two-and-a-half years later behind you guys.

SOLOMON: Right.

HANNITY: And more importantly that we have Huber, that we have 53 other closed-door testimonies that were received, Gang of Eight, FISA applications, all of that, 302s. You also are working on Ukraine.

SOLOMON: I am.

HANNITY: What else is coming and who is going to be in trouble?

SOLOMON: Well, I think a couple of things. You're going to hear from the Ukrainian embassy later this week on a pretty extraordinary admission of what went on in the embassy. And its complicity or it's -- an effort by a Democratic National Committee contractor to get dirt on Donald Trump from the embassy.

But more importantly, we are going to take a look tomorrow night, I hope to be on your show again and have a column out by tomorrow. Nellie Ohr was routing significant amounts of her Fusion GPS research on Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, Russian figures, through to the Justice Department, not just to her husband, but to the three of her colleagues.

We're going to be able to expose those emails tomorrow night and why they are relevant to both the sworn testimony to Congress and also the greater story about how do we create the false narrative. You're going to see a whole new flow of information we didn't know about until just a few days ago.

HANNITY: You know, Operation Crossfire Hurricane more like Operation Boomerang.

Sara, this is an enormous amount of information that is coming out of thousands of percent. There is no stopping this avalanche soon. There is nothing left on Russia except Joe Biden has to start explaining why he would have -- I like to know why Obama was paying Fusion GPS also at the same time Hillary was.

CARTER: That's right, Sean. I mean, there are a lot of questions left unanswered. And I'll tell you this, it's going to expand far beyond what we know. I think what John and I first reported on years ago with the expansion of, you know, spying or interceptions of emails and telephone calls, we're going to see that a lot more people were spied on then just people in President Trump's orbit. That I can predict.

HANNITY: All right. Thank you all. We appreciate it. We'll have you both back on tomorrow.

The latest on that UNC shooting from earlier today. We have as we speak trouble, chaos, and unrest, 40 people dead in Venezuela. We'll update you on that.

The never-ending witch hunt against the president, the anti-Semitic cartoons of "The New York Times."

Also, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will join us and much more as we continue on this breaking news night, straight ahead.

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HANNITY: All right. Judicial Watch announced today, it is filing a new lawsuit. The watchdog group is suing the Justice Department for communications between key deep state actors Peter Strzok and Bruce Ohr.

And joining us now with reaction on this new development, as well as reaction to my opening monologue, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. Also, Fox News correspondent-at-large, Geraldo Rivera, Fox News contributor Dan Bongino.

Apparently, key communications between Ohr and Strzok, Tom, and interestingly, Justice Department can't find them.

TOM FITTON: No, even though Ohr testified he communicated with Strzok and, of course, Ohr was a key vehicle for Christopher Steele after he was fired from the FBI, to communicate into the FBI, he talked to Ohr. There are at least 60 communications that we discovered separately between Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele in 2017 after Steele was, quote, fired by the FBI.

So, we want to know about who Ohr was talking to the FBI to launder that information into it to target Trump. And he admits he talked to Strzok, but the Justice Department is having trouble finding any documents. So we sued.

You know, the problem is, the Justice Department and the FBI have been a black hole in terms of providing information here. I hope things begin to change, but the signals have been poor in the past few weeks.

HANNITY: All right. Let me go to Geraldo.

FITTON: We're still getting pushback from the FBI on these documents.

HANNITY: Geraldo, look at the news tonight. "The New York Times" contradicts their own headline, within the piece. Nothing that they disagreed on, nothing in the letter of Barr. That's not what they're telling their readers today.

After two anti-Semitic cartoons by "The New York Times" after two years of lying and an epic fail, and here, they ignore Fusion GPS being paid by Obama's group for almost $1 million and interestingly enough since 2016, why are they paying Hillary's bought and paid for propaganda that provided the Russian lies to the American people?

GERALDO RIVERA, CORRESPONDENT-AT-LARGE: Sean, the one point we have to continually emphasize in the headline should be for all history that the special counsel found that there was no collusion, that there is no conspiracy between anyone in the Trump administration, indeed, any American and the Russians to influence the election.

That's what MSNBC sold falsely to the American people for a year. CNN and the others, "The New York Times," "The Washington Post," they convinced the American people that the president of the United States was a traitor to his country, and they should be ashamed, and that all the rest is window dressing. They are so desperate to find something negative about the president in the special counsel's report.

And now, his letter is not very helpful, and I must say, and Barr's collision with the Senate tomorrow should be interesting, but I have no doubt that he will stand his ground, Sean.

HANNITY: OK. And I go back to you, Dan Bongino, special counsel emphasized that nothing in the attorney general's March 24th letter was inaccurate or misleading. Nothing. How do you possibly say in the headline, it's the -- what have they not learned in two years of lying? What have they not learned --

DAN BONGINO, CONTRIBUTOR: Sean, I want --

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HANNITY: Yes?

BONGINO: Yes, I want everyone to read between the lines what's going on here. Muller was giving a - given a case he knew was a hoax immediately. Weissmann, his lead pit bull he hires, knows it's a hoax because he's been briefed on the dossier, right? So, instead of giving up on the case, he fabricates this obstruction case. He can't fabricate evidence, however. So, what does he do? He punched a bar to put Barr on the spot, make this look like a political decision by a Trump appointee.

But when Barr paints him into a corner - remember Sean, the Muller letter is sent before Barr releases the entire report. Barr paints them into a corner again because what does Barr turnaround and do? Oh, yes, Bob, you think you disagree with the media coverages even though my letter is not inaccurate? Here's the whole report for everybody to read. This story is a steaming hot pile of garbage, nothing more.

SEAN HANNITY- HOST: And Geraldo, as a lawyer, I mean the interesting part to me is the Special Counsel worked on all the redactions with the Attorney General and his staff. They approved it all. It's not like, you know, this was made - two things, the law office, the legal counsel, Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy AG and the Attorney General took about five seconds to determine there was not enough evidence, nor an underlying crime, which would show intent that would lead to obstruction of justice, and their arguments that the President didn't like Mueller at times and hated the witch hunt and hated Rosenstein and was mad at sessions, so what? He was vocal because he was innocent of the underlying charge for two-and-a-half years.

GERALDO RIVERA, CORRESPONDENT-AT-LARGE: Say you Robert Muller and the report goes out and the headline is no collusion, no conspiracy. He gets a call. "Hello, Bob. Hi, it's James Comey. Well, you're really making this look bad." I can understand how the pressure - the social pressure on this esteemed and honest man would add up frustration.

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HANNITY: I'm not so sure about that. I have my doubts.

BONGINO: Yes, he's not honest.

TOM FITTON, PRESIDENT, JUDICIAL WATCH: Look, they put out a -

HANNITY: I have my doubts.

FITTON: They put out a 448-page report, hoping to get it onto the record and spin it. Barr ruined that by telling the truth about what they were doing, no collusion and he found no obstruction.

BONGINO: Yes.

FITTON: Muller is angry.

BONGINO: Exactly.

FITTON: His anti-Trumpers are angry and this is nasty politicized spin.

HANNITY: And this - Mark Levin is right. This was a political document, the last 200 pages, part II.

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BONGINO: Sean, the whole thing was a political document - Yes, this - the whole thing was a political document from the start. Mueller knew from the beginning there was no collusion. They used the discretionary decision crime like obstruction, when they couldn't--

HANNITY: Yes.

BONGINO: --fabricate the evidence, Tom just--

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BONGINO: --bunch of stuff.

HANNITY: We know somebody who had an underlying crime--

RIVERA: How do you extract the non-crime?

HANNITY: Oh, we know--

RIVERA: We are still investigating that, Sean, to the dismay of MSNBC.

HANNITY: Well, we're educating them. There was an underlying crime, the Espionage Act. We did have intent to delete subpoenaed emails and destroy them; nobody heard about bleach fit (ph) except Geraldo. Prior to--

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HANNITY: I'm kidding. I love--

RIVERA: I use it on my mustache.

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HANNITY: I used to use Bleach fit (ph) on my mustache? Oh, that's why I love Geraldo. We love you. All right, coming up. Live update. Serious situation tonight unfolding in Venezuela. 40 are dead and freedom hanging in the balance, a potential shot at it. Also a shooting at UNC in Charlotte.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy responds to all of that and Alan Dershowitz, Victor Davis Hanson on The New York Times repeated anti- Semitism, cartoons, scandal and their lack of understanding of what it is they are doing. Straight ahead.

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HANNITY: And witnesses on Fox News Alert, we are monitoring a developing situation in Venezuela where Nicolas Maduro just addressed the nation. Meanwhile, today right here at home, there was a sad fatal shooting at UNC in Charlotte. Trace Gallagher live from our West Coast newsroom. He has the latest on both stories tonight. Trace?

GALLAGHER: And Sean, breaking right now, Nicolas Maduro has just declared victory. In a nationwide address, Maduro told Venezuelans that his supporters defeated what he called the small opposition and that US backed opposition leader Juan Guaido did not take control of any military bases.

But, Guaido is now speaking saying that Maduro does not have control of the military though earlier Guaido said his supporters were in the final phase of ousting Maduro and that is clearly not the case, which is a dramatic change considering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that earlier today, Maduro was about to fly to Havana, but the Russians talked him out of it. The Russians deny that.

And while protests and clashes continue in the capital of Caracas, the Trump Administration has not ruled out sending US troops to Venezuela. Meantime here in the US, at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, two people are dead, four others wounded after an on-campus shooting. Local reports say the shooter was a student and opened fire inside a classroom during a presentation. He has now been taken into custody. Police do not believe anyone else was involved and we don't yet have a motive. Today was the last day of classes for UNCC and its 30,000 students. Breaking news updates as we get them.

HANNITY: All right. Trace Gallagher in the West Coast newsroom monitoring all those issues tonight. Joining us now with reaction to all of this breaking news House Minority Leader, Congressman Kevin McCarthy, California. Congressman, good to see you. Let me go back to The New York Times and The Washington Post. New York Times, for example, contradicting their own headline and very clearly stating the Special Counsel emphasized nothing and the Attorney General's March 24th letter was inaccurate or misleading. The witch hunt continues.

Then we see Adam Schiff, well, now, they're just going to just move over and start checking, empowering the IRS and asking banks and phishing in this hole and that hole, financial information on Trump. At what point is this abuse?

REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY, R-CALIF.: I think it's beyond abuse now, Sean. They decided they wanted to impeach this President the day after the election. If you look at Adam Schiff, he has been lying to the American public. He is Chairman of the Intel Committee, the committee that gets to know all the things that are happening around the world. How can we trust him? Nancy Pelosi needs to remove him.

But, one of the questions that really needs to be asked, Sean, why did they carry this investigation so far gone? Why did they go past the election? Was that also political to leave it hanging out there when they knew early on--

HANNITY: When did he know?

MCCARTHY: --there was no collusion. Yes, exactly.

HANNITY: Right. Let me ask you this. So, Nadler is saying that they want the AG to testify. He is willing to testify. He'll be before Lindsey Graham's Committee tomorrow in the senate. But except - I guess they're not very smart and they would prefer to hand off the questioning to unelected unaccountable lawyers because, I guess, they're incapable and intellectually deficient and they can't come up with their own questions and probably are more afraid of Barr's responses, then what do they say next, "Hang on, let me check with my lawyer?" Don't they have to ask the question?

MCCARTHY: Well, you know, in almost every hearing, it is its members who are allotted five minutes to ask the questions.

HANNITY: Members?

MCCARTHY: You can allot it to another member. These - this is why you run for congress. This is why you ask the questions to investigate, to understand, to make the votes, to have all the information. And if you listen to these Democrats, they just had to have Barr testify. Remember where Nadler was? He had to testify before the report came out. He needed to come in. And now, they don't even want to ask Barr the questions; they want somebody else? I think our Attorney General has done a tremendous job in this. The way he has handled it, the professionalism.

HANNITY: Agreed.

MCCARTHY: He's done the job before. He believes in the rule of law and they cannot shake him. I think you'll see him to sit there, testify. But what he's really responsible for and he is correct about this, he wants to spend the time with the members, answer their questions. They're the ones going on TV saying they need to have more information, even though it's right before their eyes.

HANNITY: Let me--

MCCARTHY: There's no collusion, no obstruction. This country needs to move forward.

HANNITY: Let me ask - I happen to be very fond - I think, former congressman, now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is doing a great job. He said Maduro was ready to leave this morning, but you've got Hezbollah, of course, funded by Iran, and Iran and Russia and Cuba with 20,000 troops there - Russia in particular talking Maduro out of leaving.

I kind of trust Mike Pompeo's judgment a lot more than Vladimir Putin's lying judgment, and the question then remains what support could we offer the people of Venezuela? 40 are dead. Look at this; they're running over the people. They're killing people right here in front of us with these trucks, literally running them over. What can we do to help them in their effort as they now try to bring freedom to the Venezuelan people? They have vast resources. They are one of the poorest countries and they could be one of the richest ones.

MCCARTHY: You know, all of America should watch what's happening in Venezuela. I was just there two weeks ago, along the border with other members, and there's about 50,000 people a day who pass over that border to Colombia to buy the essentials from milk to toilet paper. Do you know what they had said there when I interviewed with them? They don't have electricity; the hospitals don't have electricity. They don't have running water. Babies are born and being put in cardboard boxes/ I watched one picture where a doctor was performing a procedure and had no electricity, so they used their iPhone with the light on that to try to perform the operation. And this is what's scary because, 20 years ago, Venezuela was the jewel of Latin America.

HANNITY: Well said.

MCCARTHY: It was the socialist policies that promised you free healthcare, promised you free education - well, this is what you've gotten. This is the Bernie Sanders, the AOC--

HANNITY: Well, hang on a second.

MCCARTHY: --of the policies that are moving forward.

HANNITY: You mean that's kind of like what about a 100 House and Senate members and a lot of the 2020 candidates - I know Medicare for all sounds great. Education, daycare, pre-k, kindergarten through college - everything's free, free, free - even government guaranteed healthy food and a job and a vacation I hope in Hawaii if we're going to have it free, and whether you're willing or unwilling to work, and then we'll get rid of the lifeline of our economy, oil and gas and the combustion engine and planes and cows. That part worries me.

MCCARTHY: Yes, you had Venezuela that could produce oil and what did Hugo Chavez do? He took the company over from the government and now, it has failed. He took everything over from the government. The exact same thing that Bernie Sanders is asking for Medicare for all. But not just Bernie, the majority of the Democrats have co-sponsored this. They want to remove 150 million Americans their health care. Anybody who's on Medicare Advantage, gone. They want to promise you free healthcare; they want to promise you what's happening in Venezuela today. And that's why people are leaving.

HANNITY: Last thing, a question, we're out of time. Should the Attorney General agree to allow non-House members to ask the questions?

MCCARTHY: Look, I trust this Attorney General on his judgment, but I think the priority of a House member, if you care, you should be there asking the questions. You are the one representing your constituents. You are the one who went to your voters and asked to elect you to go and be their voice.

HANNITY: Yes.

MCCARTHY: You cannot be their voice if you give the power to somebody else.

HANNITY: What part of ‘members are to ask the questions' didn't they understand? All right, thank you, Kevin McCarthy, appreciate you being with us.

When we come back, New York Times is rocked by this anti-Semitism scandal. It's pretty despicable and disgusting. Alan Dershowitz will explain why this is even worse than you think, along with Victor Davis Hanson, straight ahead.

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HANNITY: All right, now, The New York Times is still embroiled in the scandal following the publication of sickening anti-Semitic cartoon of President Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Of course, many in the biased mainstream corrupt media mob didn't cover it, but it all gets even worse because the paper is finally issuing a correction after actually publishing an op-ed last week to falsely claim that Jesus was Palestinian and not Jewish.

Anyways, now the author of The Introduction to the Mueller Report, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, along with the author of The Case for Trump, Hoover Institution Fellow Victor Davis Hanson. You know professor, this is scary to me. You know how I feel about Israel. I've known Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin. I've been friends with Bibi for over two decades; you know that. This little country, we see the rise of anti- Semitism around the world and then you've got people in this country that are scaring the living daylights out of me. As we saw what happened in San Diego, we hear Congresswoman Ellmers comments.

You actually said so - one of the weapons of hate against Jews deployed by Nazi Germany were cartoons and caricatures that depicted Jews as subhuman animals, often his dogs and spiders, sort of like the Head of the Muslim Brotherhood Morsi who said Jews were descendants of apes and pigs and Obama sent him money and weaponry. What is your reaction to New York Times? They didn't correct this, get this right until Sunday. That happened on Thursday.

ALAN DERSHOWITZ, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: Yes. It's very painful to me. You know, I've written more op-eds and articles in The New York Times than probably any law professor in history and I always felt close to The New York Times. When I saw this cartoon, it just shocked me. It's borrowed from a 1940 Nazi cartoon that shows a Jew stereotyped long- nosed, pulling Winston Churchill into war. Jews control the world. They tell world leaders what to do. They always operate in their own interest. But The New York Times cartoon was worse because it portrayed the leader of Israel with a Jewish star around his neck as a dog, as dehumanized, and the distance between the New York Times editorial office and that synagogue in San Diego gets smaller and smaller as the media gets more quicker and quicker, and the fear is that somebody with a gun maybe with a psychiatric illness will see dehumanizing cartoons like this and will--

HANNITY: Four days professor. They got it - they didn't - I look at that and I see in two seconds what it is.

DERSHOWITZ: Of course. Of course. And especially, it's the International Edition. You know that anti-Semitism is spreading all over Europe and the International Edition of The Times is the paper of record. It legitimates what anti-Semites are feeling, "Oh! Jews are dogs. Oh! Jews control the world." It legitimates it when it's on the pages of The New York Times.

HANNITY: And there's never been a president that in my opinion has done more, Victor Davis Hanson, for the relationship with Israel, the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognition of The Golan Heights as Israeli territory, than Donald Trump.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, AUTHOR OF THE CASE FOR TRUMP AND MILITARY HISTORIAN: Yes, I mean the contrast is vivid between Israel naming a village - a town after Trump and what The New York Times did. But, we have to ask ourselves why now, Sean? This is no longer just isolated Klansmen that were easily identifiable Nazis; this is deeply embedded within the progressive movement. And what's scary about it is, when Representative Omar or The New York Times or Hank Johnson compares Jews to termites, they assume that either because of their politics or their marginal "people status" that they're exempt from criticism.

They take the Jewish community for granted and they think, you know what, they're never going to endanger the unity of the Democratic Party by attacking or objecting to what Al Sharpton says or Hank Johnson or Farrakhan. Or, they assume maybe the Jewish community is fully assimilating. It has been four or five generations, many families are going to go the way of the WIC (ph) Americans. A lot of young people don't really, haven't gone to Israel, they're secular. They're not going to object too much.

And finally, notice how they always focus on Israel, they always say we're not anti-Semitic. We are not anti-Jews; we're just anti-Israeli. But then, when you start to talk to them and you say, "Are you worried about occupied Cyprus or occupied Tibet? No. Are you worried about the refugees, the one million Jews that were ethnically cleansed in the Middle East? No. How about the Volga Germans that Stalin? No. Are you worried about the conditions of Muslims in China or India? No."

It's always this little democratic ally of the United States; it's the humane society that they focus on.

DERSHOWITZ: That's the new cover - that's the new cover. The new cover, you can say anything about Jews as long as you direct it at the nation-state of the Jewish people. That is the new cover, the new disguise for anti- Semitism, and it has to be exposed and we have to do--

HANNITY: Oh, let me tell you. Professor, I know you left an event to be here with us tonight early. Thank you. I promise you both. We are on this; we're not letting it go. Thank you both. More Hannity next.

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HANNITY: Hi, with all the breaking news, we don't have time for Villain Of The Day. We are going to continue to follow all of this tomorrow. Tune in tomorrow night, huge show, Senator Lindsey Graham will join us and of course, it is his committee that will be talking to the Attorney General Bill Barr. And he'll talk about the hearing; he heads up that committee.

You don't want to miss it. We'll never be the rage, psychotic, hate-Trump media, no. And let not your heart be troubled. Thank you for being with us. Laura Ingraham is standing up.

Laura?

LAURA INGRAHAM, HOST: Thanks, Sean.

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