Sanders: At some point Democrats will have to decide if they love this country more than they hate President Trump

close

Video

Sanders: At some point Democrats will have to decide if they love this country more than they hate President Trump

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders weighs in on the ongoing border wall negotiations and Trump's push for border security on 'Hannity.'

This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," February 4, 2019. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Welcome to "Hannity."

Much breaking news tonight. We're going to cover a huge and damning development from the deep state. It's leaning oh right into the office of the special counsel Robert Mueller to the rise of the radical left. We are getting all of this tonight.

We begin though with our Hannity watch tonight on the flagrant hypocrisy double standard Democrats in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Democratic Governor Ralph Northam has now embarrassed himself and the state that he calls home.

Now, as you know, he first openly supported, oh, infanticide. Well, first, the baby will be born and then, of course, we'll make sure the baby is comfortable. Then after the baby is comfortable, the mother will decide, well, whether to resuscitate and then we will have a little conversation.

But he represents yet another chapter in his party's long disgraceful history now on the issue of race. And meanwhile, as lieutenant governor, Democrat Justin Fairfax, who Democrats want to replace the current governor, he, tonight, is facing very serious accusations of sexual misconduct.

Now, the Democrats are now facing their very own serious #metoo issue. The Commonwealth of Virginia has descended into total chaos and turmoil tonight.

Will the Democrats now declare, I believe, all victims? We're going to address that question in a few minutes.

Now, to remind you on Friday, that extremely disturbing 1984 yearbook photo from Eastern Virginia Medical School surfaced showing a man dressed in blackface next to a person that's wearing a Ku Klux Klan uniform. As you can see, the photo appeared under Ralph Northam's name along with other photos of the 25-year-old medical student. And shortly thereafter, another yearbook photo surfaced -- this one from BMI -- which listed a racist and extraordinarily offensive word as Northam's nickname.

And then last Friday, Governor Northam, he began the apology tour. He tried to apologize for appearing in the racist medical college photo. But over the weekend, he changed his mind and he said he wasn't actually in the photo that appeared under his name in his yearbook. Then he admitted that he did, in fact, wear blackface in the very same year but that was at another event as this gets more and more bizarre by the minute.

Watch this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GOV. RALPH NORTHAM, D-VA.: I reflected with my family and classmates from the time and affirmed my conclusion that I am not the person in that photo. That same year, I did participate in a dance contest in San Antonio in which I darkened my faces a part of a Michael Jackson costume. I had the shoes. And I had a glove. I used a little shoe polish to put under my -- on my cheeks. The reason I only used a little bit because I don't know if anybody has tried that, but you cannot get shoe polish off.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: OK. Black shoe polish which he knew was hard to get off his face before he dressed up like Michael Jackson? OK. Do you think it can't get worse?

Believe it or not, it's gotten even more bizarre beyond surreal and such a cavalier moment for Northam, he actually considered performing Michael Jackson's moonwalk dance right there during the press conference. Well, that was until his wife stepped in. Take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REPORTER: You said that the competition in San Antonio was a dance competition?

NORTHAM: Yes.

REPORTER: And you danced the moonwalk?

NORTHAM: That's right.

REPORTER: Are you still able to moon walk?

PAM NORTHAM, GOV. NORTHAM'S WIFE: Inappropriate circumstances.

GOVERNOR NORTHAM: My wife says inappropriate circumstances.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: Oh my wife -- thank goodness his wife was there.

Does this really look like a man who is taking that issue seriously? And let's not forget this is only a few days after Northam actually defended the infanticide issue.

And, of course, Northam is refusing to step down. We sent on own Sara Carter to the Commonwealth of Virginia today to see what Northam's constituents think about this ongoing scandal.

Let's take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SARA CARTER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: When you look at this photograph on Governor Northam's yearbook page, what goes through your mind?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Makes me uncomfortable.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: More than anything.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's not OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It just shows that this is a character of a man point blank. I don't care about the car. I don't care about his nice picture.  This is who he was.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The only thing I see that he has done wrong is not admitting it's him. It's his page in his yearbook. But, other than that, it's 35 years ago. He was a young man. He did stupid stuff like a lot of us do.

CARTER: Do you feel that him going back and forth saying first it was him and then it wasn't him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look, it was him. Like he wouldn't -- I don't care if oh I haven't seen this yearbook, that was him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think it bothers me is that he is not being honest.  I think if he owns up to it, maybe people would be more graceful towards it and understanding for both sides of the parties.

CARTER: What should happen next?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He should suck it up and resign.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whether he should resign, that's up to him entirely.  I'm not going to tell him what to do.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I hope he's a better person now he understands this is not OK. But the fact that he did it at all is just makes me not feel good about him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How can you do that? How can you spit at faces of people that trusted you?

CARTER: So it is disturbing and --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's very disturbing.

CARTER: And you would like to see him resign?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I would. And I voted for him.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: As of today, many Democrats have called on Northam to resign.  But he was once endorsed by all of his party's key political players including, let's see, Senators Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Clinton hack Terry McAuliffe, the former governor, and even President Obama, who claimed that Northam would put an end to the divisive politics.

Now, instead, Northam ran on a race baiting platform. His motto was: We are welcoming and inclusive. Donald Trump is divisive and dangerous. OK.

Northam is far from the only Democrat by the way to run this type of campaign, which brings us to tonight's Hannity history lesson. That is the Democratic Party's racist past, including not that long ago.

Many Republicans, we're proud to be. I'm actually conservative. But the party of Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 1960's Civil Rights Movement.

And Democrats, well, they don't want you to know anything about their past.  For example, 112 Democratic lawmakers voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act which outlawed racism against minorities, which by the way, Lyndon Johnson needed the Republican Party. Al Gore's father, prominent Democratic, well, as a senator, he voted against the Civil Rights Act. One year later, 70 Democrats voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act which prevented racism at the ballot box.

And the Democratic Party also largely opposed racial integration in schools. 1959, 99 Democratic lawmakers signed off what was known as the Southern Manifesto which was drafted to counter the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.

And as governor, oh, Democrat George Wallace, he stood in the doorway of a Birmingham school to physically block racial integration.

Former President Bill Clinton, yes, called J. William Fulbright so many times his great mentor. Fulbright vigorously opposed all integration efforts and Clinton's beloved mentor was a segregationist.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton said that Senator Robert KKK Byrd was her mentor. Byrd was a life-long Democrat before serving in Congress. Yes, Byrd was actually in the Ku Klux Klan.

In the Senate, Byrd actually filibustered the ‘64 Civil Rights Act for 14 hours. He apologized for his racist past, KKK ties. But in 2001, Hillary Clinton's mentor sparked even more controversy over these racist comments.  This was during an interview with our friend Tony Snow. Take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ROBERT BYRD: There are white (EXPLETIVE DELETED) and I have seen a lot of white (EXPLETIVE DELETED) in my time if you want to use that word. But, we have all -- we just need to work together to make our country a better country.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: And Hannity history lesson continues.

While, meanwhile we have another prominent Democrat, oh crazy Uncle Joe, former Vice President Joe Biden also facing charges of racism. According to "The Washington Times", 1975, opposed the policy called desegregation, bussing, which helped integrate public schools.

Of course, this shouldn't surprise anyone, kind of crazy Uncle Joe has a long history making really dumb -- well, I will let you decide what kind of remarks. Take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JOE BIDEN, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT: In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian American, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

CHRIS WALLACE, ANCHOR, "FOX NEWS SUNDAY": What kind of a chance would a Northeastern liberal-like Joe Biden stand in the South?

BIDEN: Better than everybody else. You don't know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state is the eighth largest black population in the country.

You have the first sort of mainstream African-American.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

BIDEN: -- who was articulate and bright and clean and nice looking guy. I mean, that's a story book.

Unchain Wall Street. They are going to put y'all back this chains.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: African-American, articulate and clean.

Of course, my state is a slave state, and then, of course, you can't go to a 7/11 or Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. Imagine any Trump supporters said this.

Now, deflection is the name of the game, of course, and lying and distortion. The Democratic Party and the hard far left in this country, I tell you every two and four years, the party actively avoids their racist pasts and claims that Republicans racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, dirty air and water, kill children and granny.

I guess it shouldn't surprise anyone, but the party of Robert Byrd, George Wallace, Al Gore Sr., now is using this race issue as a political ploy yet again. Take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HILLARY CLINTON, D-FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Many Republicans talk in coded racial language about takers and losers. They demonize President Obama and encourage the ugliest impulses of the paranoid fringe.

BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT: If you accept the support of Klan sympathizers before you are president, you will accept their support after you are president.

AL GORE, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT: It's wrong what the leader of the Republican Party and this Congress are doing in blocking an accurate census because they don't want to count every that they don't think they can count on.

They are in favor of affirmative action if you can dunk the basketball or sink a three point shot. But they are not in favor of it if you merely have the potential to be a leader in your community and bring people together. Don't tell me we have got a colorblind society.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: June 7th, 1998, in Texas, my father was killed. He was beaten, chained and then dragged three miles to his death all because he was black. So, when Governor George W. Bush refused to support hate crimes legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again.

MISSOURI DEMOCRATIC PARTY RADIO AD: When you don't vote, you let another church explode. When you don't vote, you allow another cross to burn.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: Now, sadly, in addition to race, Democrats are also actively exploiting the #metoo movement for political gain. We saw a prime example recently during the Kavanaugh confirmation process. Democrats using uncorroborated, unsubstantiated claims of past sexual misconduct going back to high school, remember, including untrue wild accusations of nearly weekly gang rapes and drugging young girls, why, to oppose Kavanaugh's confirmation. They said all women are to be believed.

No one gets due process, no one gets the presumption of innocence -- guilty as charged. Remember this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. MAIZE HIRONO, D-HAWAII: Not only do women like Dr. Ford who bravely comes forward need to be heard but they need to be believed. They need to be believed.

I just want to say to the men in this country just shut up and zip up. Do the right thing.

SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, D-CONN.: Let me say at the out set I believe Dr. Ford. I believe the survivor here.

SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, D-N.Y.: I believe her. I stand with her.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You hope she shows up on Monday?

GILLIBRAND: I don't think she should be bullied into this scenario.

SEN. KAMALA HARRIS, D-CALIF.: I believe her.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, D-N.Y.: I believe Professor Ford. I think she is credible.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: Uh-oh. Democrats now have a very serious #metoo problem themselves. I want to see how many of those very same Democrats will now say I believe. Why?

The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Justin Fairfax, who many Democrats want to replace Northam, if he resigns, well, he is facing tonight a serious charge of serious sexual misconduct. Earlier today, he finally responded and called the encounter consensual.

Now, we are going to be consistent. We are not going to rush to judgment.  We never do. Due process, presumption of innocence.

Even Avenatti, remember those charges, we waited. The very thing he didn't give Judge Kavanaugh. It turns out he was clear of those allegations.

That's not the standard though of the Democratic Party. I believe without real evidence, and even hearing from somebody.

Aren't all claims supposed to be believed first? Isn't this now a now a disqualifier for office of the lieutenant governor. Are Democrats now going to call for the lieutenant governor for the Commonwealth of Virginia to resign?

I'm not holding my breath, you are now going to watch a looming double standard, pure hypocrisy play out in real time. By the way, where is Kamala Harris tonight? Where's Gillibrand, Blumenthal, Feinstein? Their silence is deafening.

Pure utter hypocrisy, the same people that bludgeoned Justin Kavanaugh, smeared, slandered, besmirched him, just like many did Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork.

Sara Carter also asked Virginians about this looming scandal and the Democrats' double standard. Let's take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The business with Fairfax, I haven't seen anything to substantiate the initial claim. So, I need more evidence.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have a strong opinion on sexual assaulted and stuff like that. I think it's really upsetting but I don't think he will get likes a much attention about it as Kavanaugh did.

CARTER: And why do you think that is?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because he is a Democrat.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think you need to, instead of jumping into a story and a piece of information, the information should be given, reviewed. Is it legitimate? Is it not legitimate? And then you'll go from there.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: Do they believe now? We will have more later in the program.

Now, we need to turn our "Hannity Watch" to the hate Trump media. Tonight, we can report attorneys for Covington Catholic student Mick Sandmann are now prepared to file suit after he and his classmates were falsely accused of harassing tribal elder Nathan Phillips last month in Washington, D.C.  These were smears and that led to death threats, online abuse. Even temporarily, they had to close their northern Kentucky school.

In an exclusive statement tonight right here to Hannity, this program, famed defamation attorney Lin Wood who is now representing Sandmann says, quote, an agenda driven mob trampled on Nick's reputation and permanently damaged him. Now, Nick has no choice except to fight back against the lies, the threats, his weapon of choice is the truth. Remember, we told you on this program night after night, don't rush to judgment and we were proven right yet again as the media, Hollywood slandered, libeled, tried to destroy this teenager.

As the facts came out, we saw a very different story. That Nick stood there calmly, peacefully, and it was Philips who approached him. And also, remember, it was this group of Black Hebrew Israelites verbally abusing those Covington students by calling them future school shooters and that's among the nice thing they said.

Now, so far, Sandmann's legal team has sent at least 50 letters to media outlets, politicians, Hollywood celebrities and even Catholic organizations, warning them all of potential legal action. The list does include "The New York Times", actors Jim Carrey, Alyssa Milano, 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren, the archdiocese of Louisville and Baltimore.

And, remember, Lin Wood, he was Richard Jewell's attorney. I knew him in Atlanta. Remember Richard Jewell, falsely accused perpetrating the Olympic bombing. That's where I met Lin Wood, an amazing attorney and incredible track record of success in these types of cases. I would expect that justice will be served. We have more on that story.

All right. We have a major development tonight as to Robert Mueller's pit bull Andrew Weissmann. Catherine Herridge will join us later in the program. We'll talk more about that, the dirty dossier, and going right into the office of the special counsel. In other words, Hillary Clinton, that dirty dossier.

Joining us now, first, Fox News contributor Sara Carter, along with political science professor at Iona College, Jeanne Zaino, is back with us.  And radio talk show host, he's nationally syndicated, Larry Elder.

Let me start, Jeanne, with you.

What about all those people that said they believe? Now the lieutenant governor is being a serious sexual assault? Will, those people now say they believe it if it's a Democrat? And should they be consistent?

JEANNE ZAINO, POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR: They should be consistent, and let's being clear these allegations came out when the lieutenant governor's people released their statement at 2:00 a.m. And I myself am uncomfortable with the fact that they mischaracterized as "The Washington Post" said.  The reason "The Washington Post" chose not to run the story. So, I think there's a lot there to content with.

But I also think we have to be fair. As David French at "National Review", "The Washington Post" has handled this fairly consistently. They baited on both Kavanaugh and Fairfax.

(CROSSTALK)

HANNITY: Wait, I want to stay with the political players here, because the media is -- the media, we know, is they want to bludgeon Trump and in that case, they want to bludgeon Justice Kavanaugh. But those that said, I believe without any knowledge, those people now should come out. They have a duty to be consistent and come out and say they believe these sexual assault allegations.

Larry, should they also believe -- look at the issue of race in the history of the Democratic Party. Look at what happens when it is a Democrat. Is there a double standard?

LARRY ELDER, SALEM RADIO NATIONAL HOST/AM 870: Of course, there is a double standard. To my knowledge, Bill Clinton was only asked by one national reporter about the allegation that he raped Juanita Broaddrick and that national reporter was Sam Donaldson and Clinton just referred him to his lawyer. To my knowledge, Clinton has never been point-blank asked about that allegation by a reporter since.

And to my knowledge, Hillary Clinton has never been asked about the allegation that Juanita Broaddrick claims that Hillary verbally intimidated her two weeks after the alleged rape. Double standard, selective outrage to hypocrisy is the coin of the realm if you're Democrat.

What about when Hillary allegedly referred to her former husband -- her husband's former campaign manager Paul Fray as an F-ing Jew bastard? That was 1974, 10 years before the yearbook controversy.

And that same year, by the way, Jesse Jackson, recall, referred to Jews as Hymie and New York as Hymie town. He apologized and all has been forgotten. Talk about double standard.

HANNITY: Let me go to Sara.

You went to the commonwealth, you talked about the governor and lieutenant governor today. They have a big problem, the Democratic Party based on their standards. Is this just political? Is this only to bludgeon, oh, Republicans. Just like they support a border wall except when Donald Trump is present.

CARTER: Absolutely. I mean, I can tell you talking to people in state of Virginia, talking to the people on the street. These were mostly Democrats. You know, I had some independent, some Republicans. Every single one --

HANNITY: You were in northern Virginia.

CARTER: I was in northern Virginia. So, I really wanted to hear what everyone had to say.

They were extremely disappointed. They thought he was a liar. They said he should go. This is all about politics.

You could hear that people are frustrated. They don't want to do this anymore. They want people to stand by what they said and as far as the lieutenant governor is concerned, Sean -- I mean, I can't tell you how many people said well, let's just wait and see, especially Republicans. Let's just wait and see if he is street you had the same way Kavanaugh was treated over the last year.

There was a lot of frustration and a lot of politicking and people are just really sick of it.

HANNITY: You know, now, they are in a quandary, because they want to get rid of their governor and then they've got these allegations that have been made.

You know, I said at the time, Professor Zaino, I said, hey, the Republicans better take this seriously, these charges, those allegations against Justin Kavanaugh and to their credit not something Republicans often do, they handled it perfectly. They took the allegation seriously, and we now many of those allegations, at least two cases have been debunked. So, the rush to judgment, they were wrong again, allegations about spiking punch, lining up in the halls, gang raping women almost every other weekend.

Why would they have gone with that? The Democrats. And if that's the case, they have to do the same here, right?

ZAINO: Yes. And we have seen Democrats do that. And let's be fair, I mean, Larry was just talking about some of these allegations.

Well, let's look at Kirsten Gillibrand. She was one of the first to call out Bill Clinton recently. She also was also one of the first to call out Al Franken.

So, we have seen Democrats do that and we see Democratic women do that in particular. So, I think if we're going to fair --

HANNITY: I want to hear from Kamala Harris, Dianne Feinstein, Larry, you know them well.

ELDER: That's right. How about Bill Clinton 2008, according to that book "Game Change". He said to Ted Kennedy trying to get his support for Hillary a few years ago, this guy Obama would have been getting his coffee, closed quote. Still when Bill Clinton gives a speech standing ovations again, double standard hypocrisy, selective outrage.

HANNITY: I've got to roll. Thank you all for being with us.

All right. Directly ahead, a lot of news to break tonight. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders in studio. We'll preview the State of the Union.

Later, Griff Jenkins, he is with the migrant caravan. He has a live report and much more, straight ahead.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HANNITY: All right. This should be entertaining. Speaker Pelosi will be sitting right behind President Trump at tomorrow's State of the Union Address. But, President Trump is putting her front and center when it comes to blame at the crisis on our southern border.

Let's take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: She is costing the country hundreds of billions of dollars, because what's happening when you have a porous border and when you have drugs pouring in and when you have people dying all over the country because of people like Nancy Pelosi who don't want to give proper border security for political reasons, she is doing a terrible disservice to our country.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: It's all part of his message about Democrats that the president put out on Twitter last week, writing, quote: Democrats are becoming the party of late term abortion, high, high taxes, open borders and crime.

Here with reaction to all of that and more. I can't believe it it's the first time I have ever interviewed her in person is Sarah Sanders.

It's great to be in the swamp.

Well, let's start with immigration. What fascinates me the most all the Democrats that supported just a few years ago with Obama president, building the wall, funding the building of a wall and sounding just like president Trump.

SARAH SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: It's complete and total hypocrisy. I wish that I could say I'm surprised but I'm not. The Democrats have been for a number of things not just on immigration but across the board, whether it's trade, infrastructure, and the question is, will they decide at some point they love our country more than they hate this president and will they be willing to actually focus on what they were elected to do come here, solve problems and they're going to have to decide to work with the president in order to do that.

HANNITY: They've got 90 percent of our heroin, fentanyl, killing hundreds of people every week, crosses that southern border. And the president wants to get every aspect of the border secure, including building the wall. They supported it.

At some point, don't they own the problems associated with the southern border crisis?

SANDERS: A hundred percent, they have to, because they are unwilling to actually fix it. And if you're not willing to fix the problem, then you get to own the problem. And so far, we have seen no willingness by Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats to actually work with the president.

HANNITY: I have known this president well before he was president. Well over a couple of decades, and he has kept pretty much every promise. He's tried and he fights.

What I told people after he decided, oh, they won't even sit down so we can't negotiate -- I said, a change in strategy. You don't know Donald Trump. I'm 99.9 percent certain the person that I have known for 20-plus years is fairly tenacious and unrelenting. And --

SANDERS: I would -- I would strike that fairly part and just say very.

HANNITY: Very, yes.

SANDERS: Yes.

HANNITY: And it's a certainty. I mean, he hasn't said it. If he has to, he's going to send the military -- the military down there now.

SANDERS: Yes.

HANNITY: And they were putting up razor wire. What if that 12,000 caravan goes to an area that is not secured and they decide to just rush across the border at once?

SANDERS: It'll be terrible.

HANNITY: I'd be disaster.

SANDERS: One thing you can be rest assured is this President's going to follow through. He's done it on every single thing that he laid out during the campaign. He has been taking things off of that list day after, day after, day. And this is one of the biggest priorities the President has.

And you can rest assured that he's going to follow through. He's going to protect our borders. He's going to protect people of this country. He's going to make sure that he does everything he possibly can under the constitution and under the law to make sure he's doing his part and fulfilling that promise.

SANDERS: All right. So a big State of the Union speech tomorrow, widely anticipated, highly anticipated. I would expect the President talks about success. President lays out his agenda for the next two years and probably challenges the Democrats. Basically, what you said, they hate him more than they want to work for the American people.

SANDERS: Absolutely. They have a job to do. The President's fulfilling his into the bargain, it's time for Congress to step up and do their part. You can be sure that President will certainly talk about the historic success that he has had over the last two years -- tax cuts, the economy.

I mean the economy is on fire and that is a direct result from this President getting rid of regulations, pushing through the tax cut legislation and continuing to promote ideas that in an environment where businesses want to come here and want to hire more people. Wages are up, unemployment is down. You're going to continue to see the President push for policies that help continue the economic boom.

You're also going to see the President call on Congress and say, "Look, we can either work together and get great things done or we can fight each other and get nothing done". And frankly, the American people deserve better than that.

And that's why you're seeing the President lead time and time again and call on Democrats to actually work with him and get things done.

HANNITY: Let's talk about the Commonwealth of Virginia, and very specifically the Governor, and now the Lieutenant Governor facing serious assault charges -- sexual assault charges. Where all those people that said "I believe"?

SANDERS: Yes.

HANNITY: Without any due process--

SANDERS: They only believe that -- I guess, those accusations, if they're against Republicans. I think what is happening--

HANNITY: Well, they bludgeoned Justice Kavanaugh.

SANDERS: Yes, and absolutely disgraceful what they did to him.

HANNITY: Yes. And they did it to Clarence Thomas. Well, in particular, every -- almost every weekend -- girls teenage girls were being drugged and boys would line up in the hall and gang-rape these girls, and this happened for almost every weekend.

But nobody ever told the parent, a teacher, a policemen, it wasn't credible at the beginning. Now the question is where are all those people that said "I believe"? And if they don't say it, isn't that hypocrisy?

SANDERS: Certainly. I think what is happening in Virginia may be one of the most outrageous things that we've seen in a long time. Not just the most recent discovery of the yearbook, but also Governor's comments earlier in the -- I guess, last week--

HANNITY: About infanticide.

SANDERS: Yes. I mean, literally making a decision that it's OK to kill a baby that's already been born, I can't think of it anything more--

HANNITY: After the birthing process--

SANDERS: --or grotesque. Yes.

HANNITY: During dilation, in other words, the birth has begun, "Oh, we'll deliver the baby. Make the baby comfortable. The mother gets to decide whether the baby gets any medical attention, and then we'll have a discussion?"

SANDERS: Yes--

HANNITY: That's called infanticide. That's killing a kid, a soul, an individual that's born, that's the essence of innocence.

SANDERS: And that is the very opposite of who we are as a country. One of the greatest things about America is that we value life, and that we protect it at every form. And the fact that you have these individuals who are supposed to be leaders of our country that are calling for these types of policies to be enacted, I think it's absolutely abhorring--

HANNITY: It's cruel, it's grotesque, it's gruesome, it's evil, and this isn't about the abortion debate. This is about infanticide. Great to see you in studio.

SANDERS: It's so good to see you too.

HANNITY: All right, we appreciate you stopping by. Well, you have a hard job, by the way, I forgot to mention that.

All right a lot to get to tonight. Absolutely shocking reports about the immigration crisis Griff Jenkins reports from the caravan, a shocking MS-13 shooting in New York City, we'll tell you about that. And we've got big breaking news, a huge development on Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel in the Deep State, straight ahead.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HANNITY: All right. The crisis on our Southern border intensifies as we speak. We have several disturbing stories, including one of human trafficking of young girls into slavery, in the sex trade. But first joining us live is in Mexico with the very latest on that migrant caravan, making their way to the Southern border, Fox News Correspondent, Griff Jenkins.

Griff, the one thing I want to know is, do we know where they have picked as a spot to try attempt to cross the border?

GRIFF JENKINS, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's a good question, Sean. Listen the journey that began on January 15th is now ended here. This is our final destination in Piedras Negras, just across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas.

And they got here with the supporting coordination of the Mexican government. Dozens of buses brought them here. You can see the police here guarding it -- the fence. They've actually got the migrants -- the 2,000 plus behind the fence, trying to keep them in, because of the security situation. Just about two miles to my north is the border.

Now an important thing, and we'll try and give you a look along this fence as we go along. Permiso, permiso, permiso, gracias. As we go along the fence to try and let you have a look inside the shelter.

I just want to tell you about the Del Rio sector, just across the bridge, the border police -- Border Patrol Chief there Matt Hudak says, that there are apprehensions for family units and we see a lot here are up 300 percent since last year. And the number of water rescues is five times that.

Here is, by the way, along that border area, that's all river and no fence, no wall. There is a migrant that says -- he won't tell me exactly where he's going to cross. He's going to cross illegally. His name is Antonio listen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For security reasons, I cannot say which way we're going to take. Plus, if Mr. Donald Trump is watching, so I tell you -- I can't tell you where I'm going to get into your country.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

JENKINS: So we we'll find out. There was talk amongst migrants. They're getting a little restless. We'll find out in the early morning hours or late night if they try and get out of here and get across that river that's just miles away, Sean.

HANNITY: All right, Griff Jenkins how many people now are we talking about in this particular caravan -- one of three caravans?

JENKINS: So we're talking about 2,000 plus over here, but you've got over 10,000 -- closer to 12,000 that just go their temporary visas down in the Southern border. They'll begin coming their way North very soon. They're here legally in Mexico, at least for time being.

And you've got two more caravans, one starting on Thursday, the 7th and another one starting on the 16th, next week originating in Honduras, the same place that these guys started on January 15th, Sean.

HANNITY: All right, Griff, thank you. Amazingly Mexican government it's helping this now. They will, I'm sure, be repercussions. This crisis is out of control -- Completely out of control.

Most recent example, a horrific shooting taking place in New York City subway, now being credited to MS-13. The police is saying that the attack was gang-related. No word yet on the suspects' immigration status. But many MS-13 gang members have been caught crossing that border.

Meanwhile, this weekend, Texas Border Patrol Agent Donna Doss was killed while in the line of duty. Former DHS Special Agent, Tim Ballard penned an op-ed on foxnews.com. "I've fought sex trafficking as a DHS Special Agent. We need to build the wall for the children".

And also joining us for reaction Former Acting ICE Director, Fox News Contributor Tom Homan, as well as Former DHS Special Agent, Tim Ballard, author of the book, Slave Stealers: True Accounts of Slave Rescues-Then and Now.

All right. Tim, you spent 12 years at the border. We don't hear a lot about the human trafficking side. You now have chronicled, on numerous cases, we have some videotape that we're going to roll. This particular one is in Haiti you said to me off air, thousands of young girl smuggled into the U.S., take it from there.

TIM BALLARD, FORMER DHS SPECIAL AGENT: Absolutely. And I spent--

HANNITY: And raped 30 or 40 times a day.

BALLARD: 30, 40 times a day is conservative, frankly, for what's happening to them once they get into the United States. These kids are coming in, they're being trafficked. There's Mexican cartel -- I have two stories just two weeks ago.

HANNITY: Look at these videos we're seeing.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BALLARD: Yes, these are traffickers. These guys were making child pornography from Haitian children and sending them to our pedophiles here in the United States. We are the demand. This is an important part. United States is the demand for child sex. We're the highest consumers of child pornography in the world.

HANNITY: How many young girls are we talking about and how young?

BALLARD: 10,000 children according to State Department CHIP report. 10,000 children every year are smuggled into the United States for the single purpose of commercial sex.

HANNITY: And they go to states like New York, California.

BALLARD: They go to the big cities, New York, Atlanta--

HANNITY: How do you know they're raped 30, 40 times a day?

BALLARD: Because we rescue them, and we have them out and we're talking to them. I just talked to one of our survivors who were -- is our care surviving. She's scared to death. She said it's bad enough.

HANNITY: 10,000 a year children--

BALLARD: 10,000 a year children. Adults -- you add the adults and you're going to double that number.

HANNITY: Why isn't this been discussed more?

BALLARD: Well, I've been screaming for years about it. Yes, it needs to be -- I think it's hard for people to listen to and understand. But we need to talk about it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HANNITY: I remember Tom watching you with Kamala Harris. And I'm not trying to get your worked up, because I know you do. And here we have another border agent killed in line of duty. And she's saying -- don't you see the perception between ICE and the Ku Klux Klan? And I'm thinking, "Wow".

I mean you guys are all putting your lives on the line, trying to protect our borders, our sovereignty, our laws, our constitution. That's how a Senator Presidential Candidate treats you?

THOMAS HOMAN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR, FORMER ACTING ICE DIRECTOR: What she fails to recognize is that men and women of ICE are enforcing the laws that Congress enacted. ICE isn't making this stuff up. So, I guess, she needs to look in the mirror.

If we're racist for enforcing the laws, is she racist because she's part of the legislative branch that enacted them? The answer is no. No one is racists in this mix. The men and women of ICE, they strap their gun to hip every day to defend this nation. They deserve the respect not the verification.

HANNITY: Is there any other options short of the President pushing tenaciously for that wall? That will--

HOMAN: No, the wall is needed. Every place they've built a wall -- everyplace 100 percent the time, San Diego, Yuma, El Paso, Tijuana, every place we've built a barrier it had an immediate impact on illegal immigration.

HANNITY: 97 percent reduction in Yuma, for example. Real quick, what if they all rush to the border at once in an area that's not secure?

BALLARD: They're in, they're in.

HANNITY: All right. They're -- so we're not going to shoot them? We -- this is to say for safety and security people on both sides. So they'll just rush across, 12,000 strong perhaps, and then nothing happens.

HOMAN: We need to look at San Diego in example. When that caravan rushed the border, two things stopped that caravan, the existing barrier and the men and women in green. And that's what our great President wants.

HANNITY: They were accused of gassing children.

HOMAN: Well, our President has asked for barriers --

HANNITY: Tear gas.

HOMAN: --men and women in green. And the Dems are offering technology. Technologies don't catch people. You need a wall. A barrier has worked every place we've had it.

HANNITY: We're going to run more of that tape throughout the week and get more of these stories. 10,000 a year?

BALLARD: Yes, sir.

HANNITY: Children.

BALLARD: Yes.

HANNITY: Brought to this country through sex trap.

BALLARD: And they want a wall. The kids that we rescue -- please build the wall, because it pushes us into the ports and saves us.

HOMAN: And they come between the ports of entry, not through the ports.

BALLARD: That's right.

HANNITY: All right. When we come back Trey Gowdy on a huge story regarding Mueller, his team Catherine Herridge, also full report as we continue from the swamp Washington D.C.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HANNITY: All right. On this show we have highlighted night after night, the corruption, the anti-Trump bias of Robert Mueller's pit bull, that guy Andrew Weissmann I keep telling you about.

Now we're learning tonight more about his dealings with the dirty dossier, that's the steal, phony, Russian, unverified dossier that Clinton paid for. Here with our very latest our own Catherine Herridge in Washington. Catherine, great to see you, great work.

HANNITY: Thank you, Sean. That's right, the congressional transcripts confirmed by Fox reveal at Andrew Weissmann now a top deputy in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation was briefed in August 2016 on the opposition research behind the anti-Trump dossier, highlighting how early and widely the democratic funded research was shared among senior FBI and Justice Department officials.

During his closed-door testimony last August, Justice Department Official Bruce Ohr confirmed that he met with Weissmann and at least five other FBI and Justice Department officials immediately after a July 30th, 2016 breakfast meeting in Washington D.C.

That breakfast was with former British spy Christopher Steele who authored the anti-Trump dossier, one of Steele's business associates and Ohr's wife Nellie who also worked for the opposition research firm Fusion GPS.

Ohr told congressional investigators that Steele shared specific allegations about the Trump campaign and collusion with Russia. Weissmann is now a lead prosecutor on Mueller's team handling the case of former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. At the time in 2016, he was Chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, the Fraud Section.

Now the Ohr transcript is significant because it indicates he shared this Steele information four months before the presidential election and that matters, because it appears to conflict with the timeline of the House Democrats' surveillance memo. It's also important to note Ohr's attorney has declined to comment on his testimony to The Hill.

HANNITY: And that's three months before it was used as the bulk of information for FISA.

HERRIDGE: The data points really matter here.

HANNITY: They really do. Great. You've been doing great reporting.

HERRIDGE: Thank you.

HANNITY: Thank you. Joining us now, new member of our team, Fox News Legal Analyst, Former Republican Congressman and Fox News Contributor Trey Gowdy. Trey you were part of all this. So the FBI and the DOJ were warned by Bruce Ohr that Clinton paid for it, Steele hates Trump and it's unverified, and it still became the basis of a FISA warrant, still became the basis to lie to the American people before an election -- Russian lies.

And then also there was direct connection with Andrew Weissmann, the pit bull of Robert Mueller that brings it right into the Special Counsel's Office. Would we say conflict of interest at hand?

TREY GOWDY, FOX NEW CONTRIBUTOR: Well, ironically enough, Sean, I'm the one that asked Bruce Ohr that question. I asked him had you had any contact with any member of Special Counsel Mueller's team?

And that's how Andrew Weissmann's name came up. And I'm not saying it's not interesting. It was a very short part of the transcript. What's most interesting is what you and Catherine put your finger on, which is the chronology.

I already knew Adam Schiff's memo was incorrect. I did not need Bruce Ohr to tell me that. But what Bruce Ohr did tell us is the information was given to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and Andy McCabe well before that FISA application in the fall of 2016.

HANNITY: But Weissmann too, yes?

GOWDY: Well, let me say this about Weissmann. Ohr testified that Weissmann was present for one of the meetings. He didn't say how long, he didn't say what was discussed and if he gave him a thumb drive, I don't have any indication that Weissmann then took the thumb drive and looked at it.

I know he's not being cautious, as I was also part of another interview with the guy named Jared Kushner, who showed up at a meeting at Trump Tower and some of my colleagues on the other side made a lot of hay out of the fact that Jared was there.

He didn't know what the meeting was about. As soon as he found out what it was about he began trying to get out of the meeting. So I think it is fair to ask Andrew Weissmann and Robert Mueller when did you know what and what were you doing talking to Bruce Ohr, who by the way had been terminated as an FBI source.

HANNITY: But let me ask you this--

GOWDY: But I don't want to speculate.

HANNITY: All right. But there's another chronology here. Comey, OK, says to President-elect Trump it's not verified, but salacious, but he signed off on the FISA warrant months earlier. And then you've got, we know from transcripts, Robert Mueller was being fed information from the fired wire leaker Steele through a conduit Bruce Ohr to the Special Counsel's Office. Why wouldn't they look into dirty dossiers' collusion?

GOWDY: Well, I'm -- I know -- so Lindsey Graham's going to do it. I know Michael Horowitz is doing it. I think, John Huber, the former U.S. attorney is going to do it. The only group that's not doing it right now is a House, because the Republicans lost. But I think Lindsey and Michael Horowitz are going to shed some new light on the FISA process.

HANNITY: We got a lot more work to do. By the way, welcome to the Fox family. Good to see you. All right, when we come back we're not doing a Villain of the Day. We have the Hero of the Day and your mail.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HANNITY: All right. No Villain of the Day. Well, you see heroes of the day. America's First Responders who saved her life of Chargers Coach Anthony Lynn. And by the way we have to mention -- and I was on the Super Bowl, the absolutely beautiful rendition by Gladys Knight of the National Anthem at the Super Bowl and it was amazing.
 
Content and Programming Copyright 2019 Fox News Network, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Copyright 2019 CQ-Roll Call, Inc. All materials herein are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of CQ-Roll Call. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content.