contract preventing him from being punished by abc news. >> in some communities, that sense of unfairness and powerlessness has contributed to dysfunction. >> and obama and jay z bash the country that has given them everything. jeff foxworthy stops by our studios. hannity starts right now. >> the obama administration continues to betray our fallen troops who died fighting in iraq they do nothing while isis continues to capture key cities that they won here's how josh ernest described the situation earlier today. listen to this. >> as with any military effort there will be days of progress, and periodses of set back. again, that's something the president said in october. i think over the course of the last four or five days we've seen all of this. >> would you say overall, the strategy has been a success? >> yeah i think overall, yes. are we going to light our hair on fire every time there is a set back? >> light our hair on fire every time there's a setback. this is not the first time the administration has dismissed ramadi's importance. you may remember this. >> the city itself is not symbolic in anyway it's not been declared part of the califate on one hand or central to the future of iraq, but we want to get it back. the issue is not brick and mortar it's about defeating isil. i would much rather that ramadi won't fall but it won't be the end of a campaign should it fall. >> he later took back those comments only after the mother of the first navy seal demanded an apology. joining me now are the mother of that fallen s.e.a.l. the president of america's mighty warriors debbie lee is with us. whose son mark made the ultimate sacrifice in ramadi. and a former navy s.e.a.l. is also with us who fought alongside of mark thank you both for being with us. first of all, i'm sorry about the loss of your son. you see that you know first it was tikrit that later got back in the right hands, fallujah mosul, ramadi where your son died. you watch these cities go and then we hear a press secretary, we can't light our hair on fire every time we have a set back. what is your reaction to that? >> you know it -- first they were saying there was no symbolic if it did fall then they watched as the comments from general dempsey, and now that it's falling, they are making up executions. we have blood on that soil my son's blood is on that soil. so many others have sacrificed greatly for that area, and there is it shows that there's things we could be doing differently there. there's tactics that could be employed that we could make a difference over there. and now they're only emblazened to go further and go into baghdad and take that area as well. >> miss lee, we played this last night, the president when he pulled out said everything is great, everything's going to be fine. and obviously his strategy is not working. george bush warned everyone about this what happened if we pulled out too early, here was his prediction. >> begin withdrawing before our kbhanders tell us we're ready would be dangerous, for iraq, for the region and for the united states. the means of rendering the future of iraq to al qaeda. it would mean we would be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. it would mean we allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in iraq to replace the one they lost in afghanistan. it would mean increasing the probability that american troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous. >> all of that has now come true your son lost his life there, what do you want to say to the president that made this decision? do they regret pulling out too early? apparently not, based on what josh ernest said. >> that's one of the things i talked about, and was very vocal about, when they pulled everything out, we needed to leave troops there to stabilize that area they weren't ready yet to take that over by themselves and just like president bush that's what we're going to see, that's what's going to be happening, mark wrote an amazing last letter home. he said it will take longer than most think, but we will get iraq to stand on its own feet. i saw that i went over in 2007 and went back in 2010. i saw the difference our troops had made i saw the successes. and because we didn't leave troops there to stabilize, now it's in the hands of isis and it's gut-wrenching to me to know the sacrifices that have been made there. we need to see our commander in chief allow our men and women who are the best military in the world to go in there and do what they do well and stabilize that country and it's unconscionable to me. we heard from president bush who was a real commander in treef, who loved his troops. the man that is serving today, it's unbelievable that he doesn't allow our troops to do and give them policies and rules of engagement that let them be successful over there. >> you were there, you knew debbie lee's son, my question is do -- all these questions about iraq to a republican candidate would be knowing what you know now about the war in iraq would you pull the troops out? i would like hillary and obama to answer that question. what's your reaction to the fall of the city you fought to liberate? >> i was proud to serve mark. he's a great seal teammate and friend he sacrificed his life. we had two other lives. so many soldiers and marines that fought bravely in those cities. we won, we won that war, the level of violence was radically lowered. and unfortunately, i think my big issue here is not about numbers of troops that would have been left behind it's about a failure of leadership we have a clear case here of leaders. >> we won the war, but we didn't secure the victory, is that true? >> that's true. >> if we were to have left intelligence and training forces on the ground would that be secured today? >> i don't think so. i think that we have a present and senior commander like general dempsey who are not allowing our troops to go out and fight an evil enemy. as evil an enemy as the u.s. military's pefr faced. we could have prevented ramadi from falling with a couple thousand troops on the ground and support from tanks and now we have all our military equipment. >> we handed them a victory. >> thank you for your service, thank you for being with us. debbie lee, i'm sorry about the loss of your son. it's unbelievable the way these events have unfolded. thank you so much. >> thank you. just remember memorial day, and the sacrifices that have been made for our country. >> yes, ma'am. >> while isis continues to seize iraqi cities president obama could not have been more wrong when he said this back in 2011. >> we're leaving behind a sovereign, self-reliant and stable iraq with a government that was elected by its people. we're builds a new partnership between our nations. and we are ending a war not with the final battle but the final march towards home. >> here with reaction is the host of war stories, you just heard from debbie lee, and you heard from leif and his comments they secured ramadi and mosul and fallujah one by one they keep falling into the hands of isis. >> the fall of ramadi is a particularly bad disaster it's going to result in a horrific blood bath that's happening right now, at this moment in the middle of the night, isis death squads are killing all the family members of any iraqi soldier or policeman. nearly all of them are sunnis. there are not 25,000 refugees i'm told today it's nearly 40,000 refugees from ramadi and fallujah stacked up on the western approaches to baghdad without food water or protection it's a again side that's going to rival bill clinton's rwanda again side of 1994. the government in baghdad is planning to retake ramadi with iranian equipped shiite militias my source says that isis is planning an attack on a shiite holy city to distract the iranian controlled militias from going to ramadi if isis takes karballah, which is southwest of baghdad, they're going to open up a new route direct to baghdad. the obama statement that they're going to help the iraqi government retake ramadi in the days ahead, is an empty promise. they turned and ran from ramadi this week just like they abandoned moos you will and tikrit this summer. >> why are we sending our brave men and women -- >> let me finish this. they're bragging about 36 air strikes in the last three weeks, and 8 in the 12 hours during which ramadi was falling. get this during operation iraqi freedom, when i was on the air from ramadi we were running 800 to 1,000 air strikes a day, what's got to be done? they need to arm the kurds and the christian militia, which is being formed up north, number two, put more u.s. intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance over ahead and more strike aircraft in the region. put u.s. advisers and j-tack's on the ground with iraqi forces. support the deployment of egyptian saudi and united emrats troops to ramadi. you have to target and kill the isis leadership you can't just capture an accountant and grab his wife. >> you think they're going to do that? you laid out a plan for victory, i don't see it happening. >> this administration god knows what's going on, the fact is you don't want -- >> would you want your son serving under this president right now, with what has happened? >> careful, you know better. >> colonel, thank you. appreciate it. >> bless you, brother. >> joining us now, author of the new york times best selling book things that matter now out in paper brac charles krauthammer, your take on the fall of ramadi? >> well you know people talk about the immediate circumstances, of course ramadi was lost when obama -- it was lost on january 1, 2012 when obama decided to pull out entirely and you showed that clip where he said iraq is stable self-reliant and i think he was right, it was. when you listen to general petraeus who won the war, at the end, he said himself in an interview about a month ago with the washington post we had secured iraq it was a fragile nation it was in tact and it had a future and we had assets on the ground. we didn't have to maintain 100,000 troops 200,000 troops. we needed a residual force, by leaving, we gave up not just the residual force, we gave up our influence over the government we were the dominant influence in iraq we gave up our assets on the ground and we gave up an unchallenged and unparalleled intelligence network we had in an bar, and precisely what we had and what we threw away. i wrote a column that's in the book it's called who lost iraq which i wrote in december of 2011 it ends by saying the future generations will ask, not just -- they're not going to ask who lost iraq they're going to ask why. >> charles. every republican is being asked the question what you would have done and now knowing what we know now, in 2003 how would you have voted? isn't it a question for the democrats, knowing what you know now about ramadi and moos you will and fallujah and earlier tikrit would you have pulled out? when is that question going to be asked? >> i wouldn't ask it as a hypothetical this is not -- you know this is not obscure knowledge that we couldn't have known. i and many others are arguing in december of 2011 it was very clear if we pulled out, they would be the bad guys in the region would come in you create a vacuum and what's happened iraq is being disputed between shiite extremists jihadists, meaning iran on the one hand and on the other hand sunni extremists and jihadi. >> unbelievable. >> the defense minister of iran of iran flew into baghdad. because they are now in charge. >> charles, thank you. very sad. >> my pleasure. >> a damning new report reveals hillary clinton used a second secret e-mail address during her time at the state department. >> i have said repeatedly i want those e-mails out, nobody has a bigger interest in getting them released than i do. >> after weeks of hiding hillary clinton takes a couple questions from the press, although that's not true. mark stein is here to explain. the latest clinton scandal, plus it's a busy night on hannity. straight ahead. when eating healthy and drinking water just isn't enough to ease my constipation i trust dulcolax tablets. i take dulcolax for dependable overnight relief and in the morning i am back to myself dulcolax, designed for dependable relief ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the ones with the guts to stand apart - join a league all their own. ♪ now according to the liberal new york times, during her tenure as secretary of state, hillary used a second private e-mail address, and clinton circulated multiple e-mails from this man, long time clinton political hack sydney blumen nall to senior state department officials. with all these scandals popping up around presidential candidates. ed henry asked miss clinton, she would finally take a question from the press, watch this. >> wait wait. yes, maybe, when i finish talking to the people here how is that? >> i might, i'll have to ponder it. >> but i will put it on my list. for due consideration. >> a little testy. something might have clicked there, a few minutes later, hillary did address the new report about a correspondence with sid vicious, for a short time of course. watch this. >> i have many many old friends, and i always think that it's important when you get into politics to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what's on their minds, and he's been a friend of mine for a long time he sent me unsolicited e-mails which i passed on in some instances, and i see that that's part of the give and take. >> here now with reaction is the co author of the brand new book climate change the facts. mark stein is with us. just a month ago, let's see, clinton's office issued a statement claiming she only used one e-mail address when she served as secretary of state. and by the way, it wasn't the one she corresponded with sid vicious with. and her lawyer denied the same thing too. apparently she used more than one e-mail address? >> yeah the lawyer apparently gave an incorrect term to the united states congress on this matter. look you got jeff foxworthy on the show tonight, sean. hillary is playing a brand new game show are you dumber than a bunch of rocks. that's basically what the position she's taking with the american electorate. she's engaging in essentially a sort of a miamiing of an election campaign. she turned down ed henry because she wants to take the people's questions. they're carefully vetted stooges, she has her colleague from the clinton foundation george stuff his pants with cash, conduct an utterly fraudulent interview with the author of the book about it, she's equivalent to beyonce lip syncing at the inaugural a few years ago. they have to get serious in treating her like they do others. >> she doesn't allow them access, mark that's how's able to navigate through these waters. she so far is -- the strategy they've adopted is don't talk to the press, don't talk to anybody, we'll march in those people that are in our camp and say they're regular people. so far, she's gotten away with it why would they change? >> yeah and it's working for her. when she sits down and does the big interview, it will be with some favorable -- >> george stephanopolous. >> he'll ask her tough questions like do you think republican men have a problem dealing with you as a strong woman? you know this is a joke and it is unbecoming. i'm happy to see -- i would love elizabeth warren to run, not because she's a socialist lunatic, but she comes by her socialism honestly just as they've had female prime ministers across the world now from canada to new zealand and they've come by their socialism honestly and what is at issue here is the corruption and entitlement. and at some point we have a ridiculous situation, where the clinton foundation has no other purpose. if you give $1 million to the clinton foundation because you're worried like chelsea clinton says about diarrhea in africa $60,000 of it goes to diarrhea in africa and $940,000 of it gets put toward keeping the clinton machine running. she's not a sparkling performer like you, it's like putting your wave machine on stage. no one is paying for the quality of her speeches. they're buying access and they're buying influence. >> let's go the tense exchange over releasing the e-mails, and this is what she said today. >> i have said repeatedly i want those e-mails out. nobody has a bigger interest in getting them released than i do. i respect the state department they have their process that they do for everybody, not just for me. but anything they may do to expedite that process, i heart illy support. you know i want the american people to learn as much as we can about our diplomats and experts. i said i'm repeating it here in front of you today. i want them out as soon as they can get out. >> will you demand it? >> well they're not mine. they belong to the state department. >> she doesn't want the e-mails out. that's why she purposely erased them. the ones she wanted to that's why she wiped her server clean. we earned today from documents from the department of defense and state department that she knew the day after exactly who was responsible for benghazi it was not spontaneous, it was planned ten days in advance, and it had nothing to do with the youtube video. this is a lie, but she's getting away with so it seems. >> and we talked about this actually a couple months ago, sean this exact issue. i said to you, it's like you telling the irs, no sorry, i don't keep any financial records. you can ask fox news and my radio guys and you can ask these other fellows if they sent me any checks in the last year that's what they have to do here she doesn't have any e-mail records. they have to piece them together from all the other people. >> we might have hope. >> it's ridiculous. hugh hewitt asked mike morrell whether or not he thinks that her system was hacked. maybe we'll be able to get it from vladimir putin or the chinese hp here's how the exchange went. >> as a professional matter do you believe that one or many foreign intelligent servers have everything that went to and from that server? >> i think that foreign intelligence services the good ones have everything on any unclassified network that the government uses whether it's a private server or a public one. >> what does this mean? putin may have it all backed up does that mean if she becomes president, she is potentially subject to blackmail because of the erased e-mails they have in their position that fact be damning to her and cause a lot of legal problems for her? >> no i would absolutely bet that the russians have them the chinese have them if we're lucky, a couple reasonably friendly intelligence services might have them as well. like the french and the british. it might even be that isis who actually are quite sophisticated when it comes to the internet have them. there's no doubt that if you wanted to get them from the chinese, the chinese could cough up a full set of hillary clinton e-mails. they're insulting the people's representatives in congress sean. >> well said. great to see you. coming up the new york post is reporting george stephanopolous stephanopolous's contract with abc news is for over $100 million. maybe that's why they're standing by their chief anchor. later, on this busy news night, michelle malkin and jeff foxworthy will be here in studio as hannity continues. thanks for the ride around norfolk! and i just wanted to say geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years! roger that. captain's waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. could've parked a little bit closer... it's gonna be dark by the time i get there. geico. proudly serving the military for over 75 years. introducing the first ever gummy multivitamin from centrum. a complete, and tasty new way to support... your energy... immunity... and metabolism like never before. ce