boom. tune in each night at 8:00 for the show that s the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. p don t forget, you can always dvr us. tucker is back monday. jason: welcome to this special edition of hannity. t deep state in panic.. i m jason chaffetz in tonight for sean. at this hour, we are inching closer andea closer toward a reckoning. fox news is reporting that the durham probe into the origins of the russia witch hunt is a criminal investigation.s that means u.s. attorney general john durham has the power to subpoena and filed criminal charges. keep in mind, according to reports from thehe washington examiner, four notorious deep state figures are wrapped up in the investigation, including obama s cia chief john brennan, obama s director of
whole host of others, and they dig, they dig, and they get the facts. these folks on the other hand don t want to take the time to do that. they want to sit there and spin grassy-knoll style conspiracies and try and sell that and the wonder of the ratings tanked because of them. nobody believes them. jason: joe, joining me here in new york. the duplicity of how they can pivot back and forth is just stunning to me. when you seeta the montage, you study the media livid. you study the media for a living.io what your reaction to that? the mueller report ended up being an investigation search for a crime. that didn t stop for people to d half years engaged in reckless speculation to assume that president trump, candidate trump was guilty and work backwards from there. look, we always heard for two years, right? let s wait for the mueller report. let s wait to see what s in the mueller report before we draw our conclusions. now, we have john durham, and already a conclusion has been made
national intelligence, james clapper, fired fbi special agent peter strzok, and the author of hillary clinton s dirty russian dossier, christopher steele. last night, one of the potential subjects of the investigation, who now works at cnn, seemed awfully nervous. watch this. um, i found that the timing interesting, given the increasing heat around the impeachment inquiry. and so, uh, the timing is interesting, i ll just let it go at that.t. jason: clapper can try to spin it any way he wants, but john durham is a serious prosecutor, and this is a serious criminal investigation. and james clapper is not the only deep state official who should be anxious this evening. several top lawmakers are now calling on the inspector general to investigate leaks from a 2016
hopping around the globe, searching for evidence to bolster a right wing conspiracy theory. f again and again and again, the president and his minions targeting seniorga law enforcemt and intelligence officials. this investigation, if not born in the sin, was born in political taint. for the people who have been the targets of what seems lika right wing conspiracy theory, you know, led by sean hannity and donald trump, it s got to be an unnerving experience to know that this is now ratcheted up to that level. i found the timing interesting, given the increasing heat around the impeachment inquiry. i think it s incredibly concerning. i think it s the most concerning development we ve seen out of the justice department since donald trump had become president.s this raises serious questions whether the president is using the justice department to go after his enemies. indeed. the justice department the opening up a full-blown criminal investigation into its own russia inv
into at least alluding to it and one of her closest advisors came on the network and talked about it. what is she thinking? i think this is a desperate attempt to remain somewhat relevant. it s all i can possibly imagine. it may be a desperate attempt to escape whatever it is she knows, that barr knows, and his reason to reopen the investigation. she can t possibly think she can win.n. she ran on a smear campaign of donald trump, saying all the horrible things he do to women yet we know that donald trump has been the quintessential president for women. he has lowered unemploymentui to record lows for women, he has doubled the child tax credit, he created 3 million jobs just for women in this country. he s been the women s president. she couldn t run on those scare tactics anymore. she knows that barr knows, and