wiw? how?nnounc welcome to "hannity". and tonight, stay tuned. by the way, a major announcementemt from our frien, our colleague, g.a. caldwell. but first, let's right in. butt the 2024 electiohen is only 136 days away. early voting in pennsylvania, new that begins in 87 days. rolls out to other day states thereafteother. r in and the very first presidential debate is less than one week away. and just six days, two left wing self-proclaimed journalists who are really just talk show host from fake news cnn. they will moderate thursday' ne now, needless to say, the odds a are stacked against donaldre trump. the former president recently said he thinks therep.h pres is% chance that cnn will be fair. our prediction is the odds are actually much lower now.e for starters, i think we can expect the first half of the cnn presidential debate to be dedicated, dedicated to questions about january six and abortion. the left's abortio mongering about trump's desire for political retribution. democracy in peril. critical topics, inflation. biden inflation. crimes committed by joe biden's unvetted illegal immigrants from 180 plus countries, including those countries with terror ties and ourolitic top geopolitical foes. is that going to come up? wealtos ome up expect that fake. cnn will put their one sidede-se questions. they're going to put them on the screen and probably leavd questionen and pe them the with provocative, biased language that will framed to hurt donald trump and e easier for joe biden. for jod askeddonald trump aske why he supported insurrection. oh, that's not opinionated. this will be the most obvious bias on display, meaningmost obn what they put on the screen, how they frame the question and hoy framw put it on the scr. now they just walk by words here. it will be framed in a way to help biden and hurt trump. that's what i believe will happen. i hope they prove me wrong. and hoi y provwronw about vicete president harris' tweet, by the way, if we're going to talk about these topics fro m june of 2020, the one supporting a bail fund for the in themmer summer of 2020. >> will that even up?denyin what about democrats denying past elections? demarcg o cratic party election deniers. you might recall some of this. take a look. >> folks, you know it.i kn i know it. they know it. owwe won that election. >> troubling evidence of then. fact that not every vote was being counted. >> there are still n legitimate concerns over the integrity of our elections and of ensuring the principle of one person the, one vote.. >> you can run the best campaign. >> you can even become the nominee. and you can have the election stolen from you. >> i think he's an illegitimate president that didn't really. >> so how do you, you know, fight against that in 2020? you are absolutely right. the president is an illegitimate racist russian attempt to have the election. >> and frankly, the fbi is weighint.g in on the electio. i think make the make it makes his election illegitimate. but illegitimate. t fear and my biggest fear is that he's going to do it againal with help of vlad, his best pal, and we're going to be stuck for six more yearss of of this guy. and that is terrifying. andit's. would you be my vicereside presidential candidate of folkns who are? >> i absolutely agree. i believe was a stolent election. i'm not saying they stole it from me. elec it from the votersgi of georgia. >> now, i also predict the moderators will play a hugeh role in the debate, cutting off donalde mode trump.perfor how they will perform the so-called fact checkers. so they're going to doe so-c in realng j time while giving joe biden a free pass on everythinbideg. you know, god forbid they ever decide to allow donald trump to finish his two minute or one minute thought uninterrupted before thought thh his microphone. god forbid they let viewerones r the country, decide for themselves. i actually do hope that i'selvem wrong and maybe i will be. but it's a pretty safe bet that it's all but certain that this debate will be wor three on one. don't take my word for it. we reporon it, you decide.he 2 let's take a closer look, shall we, at the two moderators. let's begin with jake tapper.gi or as i often affectionatelye fo bifer to him as fake jake for his biased coverage. noasw, this left-wing nightmare got his career started as a press secretar reery for a pennsylvania democrat. he then worked for a d.c.orke public relations firm and a gun control group named handgun control inc. tapper even had a stint at thedn far left publication salon.com before making his way to news cnn to play the role of, quote,h journalists. now, currently, tapper is athe's the center of an ongoing defamation suit. he's accused of smearing hecontractor who was helping americans out of afghanistan during joe biden'se amer disasts withdrawal. we're going to keep an eye on that. so but clearlyp an fake, jake. l he's a left-wing talklksh show host. he doesn'tow hos like donald tr. we have the tape and we'll play it in just a momenand wet. his colleague, dana bash, frankly, just as bad. she is a career cnn employee working at the fake news for over 30 years. her low rated daytime show inside politics typicallydm utilizes large panels of liberals who go round and round in a circle bashing trump and other republican sg prai and, then heaping praise onse biden and democrats. n and deourse, dana is a big supporter of the left's favorite political new tactic. vourite we're very real on editd videos showing joe biden'secline mental and physical decline are falsely referred to as cheap fake videos. take a look. a lot of memes and what the the white house is calling whitfakekes, which means that these are there are videos that are being put out on social medis a and thenampl amplified on conservative media that in some casesifa are just t right and in other cases are highly, highly misleading. president biden. it's the question that i it'sned this conversatio with is how much to talk about it versus how muche're it's just kind of ignored. and we're trying to kind of do both hertryingh heree. now, it's simple. anybody that's parroting a democratic party talking point as fact, yeah, they shouldn't be allowede moderate a presidential debate unless they're honeseratt with h sides and say, i'm a liberal. i have a liberal point of view . now, dana, the videos are real. they're unedited . now, of course, both dana bash and fake jake tapper are more than to spread this kind of left wing garbage under e of journalism and truth. for them, it's a means an end. they probably see it as a service to the country s rvice toto prevent donald tru winning again. and of course, like manyli m ine media, they want to be loved by their left-wing media colleagues wan. by the way, something i can promise you i never want in my life. i've never even been to a white house correspondents n dinner t all the years i've been on the air. and i'm proud of the fachet i don't think they like me. i don't really like them too much either. anyway ie they can hide their utter contempt for all things donald trump. you think they'lir contel, be ae to do that? i don't think so. but let's let you decide let's. >> insults, invective, and outright lies. that's >> ins what we heard fromp in donald trump in iowa this weekend. >> we're not carryin weekendg his remarks live because, frankly, he says a lot of things that are not true a and sometimes potentially dangerous. >> most importan sometimest quew is the culpability of the president of the united states and the fac ost impot he went h to that rally and called for and incited violence, a fitting end to the trump presidency, a speech full of puffery and lie s. >> although, of course, with this president, it always could have been worss prese. long national nightmare over is that opinionationaln or do they really believe that's journalism? dulieve it's expect this democratic duo to be fair and unbiased now? tapper even one suggested that trump was unhealthyggeste and heavy and made fun of his affinity for mcdonald's. like mcdonald's. anyway, he also retweeted a post from george conwamakingy calling trump, quote, 100% insane in 2020. dana bash proclaiming that a trump loss in arizona would be john mccain's last laug losh more recently, bash saying, quote, unfortunatelyy sh for america, the supreme court was correct to keep trump on ballot. unfortunately for america is that dana, or are you a journalist now? there's no problem. by the way, if jake and dana bash want to hos t far left talk shows on fake news, cnn moderating a presidentia l debate, claiming to be a journalist, that's a different story. claimi jouknow it has to be somd of bad joke. they need to own who they are. they're liberal talk show host. in reality, it's just one partfh of the democratic party strategy to work with state run media and the mob to prop up their candidate. you're going to love this. our old friend james carville,is he's now calling on the white house to get everyonon thee in e media on the same page with some kind soviet style enforcement mechanism. g me james, you're scaring me. take a looe ak in this way for k white house. the president needs to givech a speech and in 15 minutes in a poll and they know or may not kid yourself, they know exactly what negative to accentuate. and then you can have some kind of enforcement mechanism. but ins. what is hopefully we get this in a debate, it takes a coherent line of attack coming out of biden againswitht trump so we can all pick it up. >> now, that would be insane. and that's how insane the left is becoming. now, here's their message in a nutshell. democracy's in peril ifvo you vote for anyontee but. joe biden. we saw the in recent weeks, w in the last week and a half. maddow so worried that trump is going to put her in a camp. pday camp, i don't know, sleepover camp. i don't know what she's talking about. aoc, i think she's going to get arrested. joyless, baker. she thinks trump's goingw the to cancel the view. oh, the horror, the fear.the sh mongering. they've all jumped the shark. and remember, this is fromar the same party that says democracy will be over unlessm a you them total control over everything. the same partyover that tells you not to believe real video showing joe biden's cognitive p decline. the same party that works hardar to censor real stories that hurt them politically. the laptop the same partyar that uses lawfare as ait political weapon. and they're fine with it. you know, these are thele people who value and cherish democracy, really. >> anyway, joiningue now, formei arkansas governor mike huckabee, fox news contributor tammy bruce. here tammy, there's a lot there. maybe cnn will prove me wrong. i've been wrong before.fair and if they're fair, i don't believe kieran's will be fair.i i don't believedo their questioning will be fairtn . i think that choosing people and not allowing donald o trump say at all and whors the moderators are is in and of unfair. and i hope that i can come on the air that night right after the debate and say i was wronr thg, but i doubt it yeah. and you know what this will show us? it already does with his acceptance is that donald trump is not afraid. donald trump does not need a nannisd.y like joe biden doese donald trump will not justp will speak to people in a friendly room. he is committed to the countryo .s and in this particular instance, he knows that there has to be a debates to . he knows that's what's good for the election, and he knows that it's now it'sdt to be faira but this is a man who has been through now years of unfairness, of attempted soft coups, lies about censorship, about lawfare, about being persecuted. he knows it. and amazingl andy, he has not backed down because obviously now it's not about him. he's not doing it for himself. there has been nhio benefit for him. there have been negatives and what they don't understand is that this is a man with a commitment to countrycommit that transcends that personal dynamic foe counr him. and so i think that, you know, joe biden needed a nanny the to arrange this debate for him to be able to function, to do because he's afraid of donald trump and else who dares to ask him a question. so you're right. and this will play oute in frot of the american people. the goodn fron news is they know that this is donald trump's opportunitis iy to make sure his points get across. he is the one who can do it,ly perhaps the only one in this environment that can do it, considering you've got i call him joke. tapper a democrat operative t once in all ways, just likeap george stephanopoulos and danaas bash, his former husband, hu a chief of staff at the cia under barack obama. i meanat u, this is a swamp, lit literally. and so werally ande what to exp. and if they were journalists and wanted to be fai ther, they would have declined doing this debate. doin they're not. >> you know what? i don't understand, governor huckabee. .i'm member of the press. i can produce thousands of hours of straightnds of h neh on radio and tv. over the course of my career, thousands of hours of investigative reporting. russia, russia, russia. we got it right as evidenced by the horowitz report and the door reports they validated our coverage or barack obama's radical associations honest about who i am i amng for a conservative i will be voting for donald trump. i don't hide that fact when i h i when i moderated the newsroom desantis debate, i said up front. i am a conserver tive.act-base this is going to be a factstuc based debate. i stuck to the facts and. they had their debate and i think it came off very well. so o why are they why dothey they want to claim there's something they're not? why won't ct just own who they are, which is just being a liberal talk show hoste ju, a member of the press? i'm a conservative talk show host. talkshow h admit who they are? >> well, because it wouldy me totally mess up their m.o., which is to pretend to be journalistsso whic. if they're journalists, then i'm a double not spy. n ii'm james bond reincarnated. that's just ridiculous. >> i like it for that role.you i see a little sean connery and tell you somethingsayi. >> you know, i want to beo james bond. and i've got to tell you,d what's really absurd, though, p withis that this stuff with js carville, he's out there the actually insisting that the media collude with the candidat e and the current president to cheat in the election. he's not even subtle about it. this is shocking. i mean, when ever should we have the government and the press workinwheneverg together n an election that's, not how this is supposed to work. and as far as like rachel maddow, she's going to lose her show.n' it won't be because donald trump gets her canceled. it's going dona to because nobody n watches her and they cancel her because of poor ratings. yhes hewe're living in a crazy s i think most of us recognize the reason joe biden took this debate is because he was promised bidenok thi that it wos be sponsored by visiting angels and a place for joe. and somehow that seemed like a fitting sponsorship for this debate. but i'm convinced of this. donald trump, no matter what rulesand i' they put on hiw matter how biased they are, he i s going to go into there. he will make it very clear that there's a contrast between his four years and joe biden's four years. the american people be ablen. to see it. and this nonsense about cheap fakes. come on, give me a breaknsense if there are cheap fakes and these are not real videos, thenk all cnn has to do is to show us the unedited videos that they say are the authentic ones. let's see them. why don't they shoauthentic lewo because they know that what we are seeing, those are the realty deal. yeah. all right. james bond, mike huckabee, thank you, tammy bruce, who wants to be james bond. thank you as well. i think you've both been greate for the record. grw to an witrn no update from the anti-trump law fair out of new york tonight. h thtrumpet new efforts from dac to silence donald trump, all while allowing violent, anti-semitic rioters at columbia university to go free. here with reaction, trump legalh spokesperson eleanor harbor rnd harvard law professoar alan dershowitz. selina, we got into this some last night. let's go a little bit deeper. and where does this stand in terms of the trump legal team and what what what you're trying to do? sure. da alvin bragg has now tried a renewed attempt to continue the gag order againstp th president, the same gag order that violates every american's first amendment rights, let alone the candidate for president, leading candidate for president. he's renewing his claims that it is necessary to maintain them even though the trial is over. mainhe is saying that the reason is because, once again, those very scary maga make america great again. icans republicans in our country, the people that love our country, happein the n to the cause of fear for a judge. i get death threats. sean pretty much every week. i don't blame the dnc. don't blame anybody that's uneducated. i don't go on a tirade about it. i take it because i'm a public i person, because it's kind of what i asked for. but here we've got a guy who'swe political and we have him using anything he can to take the constitutionalusinng that s of americans, especially the rights of us to choosetutioe the leading candidate for president of the united states of americaa by taking away his voice. it's so desperate and patheticga . it's not enough that they can't win in court because they get overturned. non't courtause thew they have e their opponent. it's absolute election appearance. let'ponents s get your take, professor. i don't think the trump legal team has any other options but what they're doing. your thoughts? well, they havs any othee appea. i have a piece in tonight's "wall street journal" in whichch i urge people like us filet lawsuits against new york. after all, we have the right to hear donald trump in the election and this gag order says that joe biden can accuse donald trump of being a felon, having been convicted by an unfair jury, unfair judge ofe a non crime. he has the right to dohe h thatt but donald trump has one hand tied behind his back because heecause can't respond in full. he can't talk about the judge's daughter. he can't talk about the unfairness of the jurors.en the i guess even the d.a. is now d saying, well, maybe you can talk about the witnesses, but the first amendment applies not only to donald trump, the speaker, but tno o all of us, the viewers and the listeners. we have th ve to hear a fullr and complete debate, not a partial debate in which trump is restricted about what he can say. so i hope that the gag order will be appealed by trump's lawyers and i hope amicus briefs, friends of the court breach will be submitted by ordinary people, saying i look, you're depriving us of our right to hear somebody. kno we're undecided. we don't know who we're going to vote for. we may be influencedwhgoing vos sordid and unfair conviction. e we want to hear the other side. and that's why it's so important the gag order be lifted at this point, not to donald trump sake alone, not for the republican party sake, but for the sake of allf al americans and particularly undecided voters who have a right to hear both sides of the issu ularly ue. well said, professor. all right. thank you, elina thank you forus updating us as well. we appreciate both of you. all right. when we come. back, biden doesn't seem to want to talk about the shocking crimes . i and this week has beenen a a disaster committed by his unvetted dis illegal immigrants. and these crimes are happening all across the country. we'll give you the latest. we get reaction from senator rand paul. that'sd paul ahead. by the way, a big announcement from our friend and colleague, gianna caldwell. straight ahead. >> you k