Walls are closing in on james comey. We have, yet, another Major Development in our hannity watch on the deep state. Former fbi general counsel james baker of the man who served as jim comeys top lawyer, he, too, like others, is under criminal investigation for leaking to the media and baker has long faced scrutiny over his ties to mother jones reporter david corn. Remember, corn was the first journalist to report the existence of Christopher Steeles dirty dossier in the leadup to thehi 2016 president ial election. So, lets keep trackkn of comeys leadership at the fbi. You know, mr. Integrity. Okay, now, of course we know comey himself was fired by President Trump. His second in commandan Andrew Mccabe was fired for lying. Andrew mccabe is now currently under a criminal investigation. Comeys top investigator, peter strzok, was fired for his obvious political bias. He may soon be under criminal investigation as well as his exgirlfriend, top fbi lawyer lisa page. She was forced to resign over her bias. Then have you comeys chief of staff, james rybicki, he has resigned and now we know comeys general comeys general counsel jim baker, now we can report under an official criminal investigation. Something comey himself that he admitted to doing when heem leaked the fbi memos about President Trump, remember, to his professor friend atfe columbia and then to the New York Times for the very purpose of spurring a a special counsel investigation, which w coincidentally is being carried out by his close friend, Robert Mueller. How nice. So, what did all the people, they all wanted Hillary Clinton to win, one of them 100 million to zero. They all hated and continue to hate donald trump. They all worked together to rig our political system andd fix out outcome of the 2016 election by using their powerful top positions, not rank and file, the top positions at the fbi and the doj to help Hillary Clinton win, to cheat, to rig an election. And as we now know, they had an emergency policy and a media leak strategy in case clinton didnt win 100 million to zero. After james comey was fired, top officials inside the fbi were angry. They acted out of that anger, malice emotion without any evidence, no probable cause or reasonable suspicion and ended up launchinw what was a partisan investigation into the president of the United States with a wild conspiracy, accusing the president of working with Vladimir Putin to fire comey because russia told him to t do it. No evidence. Er they were angry. This was their punishment. This was their payback abusing power to attack the president that they never want elected. This brings us tonight to a hannity history lesson. Green greenwald recently pointed out that the fbi, in their investigation into donald trump, used eerily similar tactics to those pioneered by j. Edgar hoover. Remember, hoover served as fbi director for many decades and became infamous for aggressive investigation into americans who he suspected had ties to the soviet union. Hoover even suspected fdrs Vice PresidentHenry Wallace to be a lengthy probe and surveillance simply because hoover disagreed with wallaces policy. The fbi should never be in the business of investigating political differences or policy decisions. They shouldnt be, well, lashing out because of personal opinions that they have. The role of the fbi, which is the 99 of field agents of rank andge file, they do their jobs, they investigate crimes and criminals. O not politics, not policy, and especially not launching a counterintelligence investigation into a duly elected president with zero evidence because you dont like him. Today william barr, President Trumps pick to be our next attorney general, faced his first day of confirmation hearings on the hill. Senator Lindsey Graham, who will join us later, grilled him about whether or not he would investigate the fbis baseless, corrupt investigation into President Trump, taken out firing ofor the comey. F lets take a look. We shouldld always be on guad about the politician interfering in an investigation, but we should also have oversight of how the Department Works and those with this tremendous power use that power. Are you familiar with the january 11st New York Times article about fbi open inquiry into whether trump was secretly working on behalf of russians . Yes, mr. Chairman. Would you promise me and this committee to look into this and tell us whether or not, in the appropriate way, a counterintelligence investigation was opened upig by somebody at the Fbi Department of justice against President Trump . Yes, mr. Chairman. I think there were a number of investigations as i understand it, going on in the department. Have you ever heard of such a thing in all the time you have been associatedhi with the department of justice . I have never heard of that. Are there rules about how you can do counterintelligence investigations . I believe there are, mr. Chairman. So if you want to open up one against the president , are there any check and balances . Not outside the fbi. Well, we need to look at that. In terms of people who are actually enforcing the law, dont we want to make surere that they dont have an agenda . T thats right, mr. Chairman. Do you promise me, as attorney general, if you get this job, to look into see what happened in 2016 . Yes, mr. Chairman. Sean thats a good sign that william barr cares about equal justice, application of our laws and saying he will serve as a fair attorney general. Mr. Barr, there are no shortage of corrupt trump haters to investigate and many with a lot of power that they have abused. No shortage of crimes here. Tonight we are going to begin to lay out a road map of corruption for the new attorney general to be. Our own Gregg Jarrett has compiled a comprehensive list. To start, we are not go through the full list tonight, with fisa abuse. That is lying to a fisa court. That is committing a fraud against a court to get a warrant to spy on a Trump Campaign associate using Hillary Clintons bought and paid for phony dossier that was full of russian lies. T look at your screen. James comey, Andrew Mccabe, sally yates, Rod Rosenstein all likely committed fraud on a fisa court presentinget Hillary Clintons dirty dossier as unbiased, verify in evidence, when in reality, it was never verified, never corroborated, and full of russian lies, and they never told the courts that it was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton. Next up, mr. Barr, you getxt this job, you need to look into the theft and leaking of government documents. Jim comey obviously committed a serious crime when he intentionally leakedus his fbi memos about his conversations with the president. Its important to also look at abuse of power charges that would be comey, mccabe, strzok, all fired, lisa page. Bruce orh should have been deported twice. Disagree with politically all trying to get hillary a clinton elected and then having an insurance policy, and a media leak strategy if, in fact, donald trump did win. Lets not forget about lying to the fbi. After all, this crime shouldnt only apply to an american war hero like general flynn and trump t Campaign Staff like george papadopoulos, who had to spend two weeks in jail for nothing. Andrew mccabe was fired over that charge. Is he going to receive the same treatment as general flynn and be prosecuted . The doj also will need to tackle the unauthorized leaks. We now know that james baker is already facing a criminal investigation tonight over this charge but so, too, are we going to look at John O Brennan and James Clapper and what about susan rice and Samantha Powers . Should they not be investigated over the massive amounts of names that they unmasked while serving in the final year of the Obama Administration . And because of james comeys biased and inept investigation of Hillary Clinton, exoneration beforeol investigation obvious violation of the espionage act, mr. Barr must also revisit Hillary Clintons various crimes. Like, oh, deleting subpoened emails and hard drive and washing it with bleach bit and bust up devices and ripping out sim cards. We will show you howht mr. Barr should tackle that in tomorrow nights monologue. First, lets get back to barrs testimony on capitol hill earlier today. In a concerningg statement, he actually said that the Mueller Investigation is not a witchhunt. I strongly disagree. Take a look. You say you have known mueller a long time. Would you say you have a close relationship with mr. Mueller . I would say we were good friends. Would you say that you understand him to be a fairminded person . Absolutely. Do you trust him to be fair to the president and the country as a whole . Yes. When his report comes to you, will you share it with us as much as possible . Consistent with the regulations and the law, yes. Do you believe mr. Mueller would be involved in a witchhunt against anybody . I dont believe mr. Mueller would be involved in a witchhunt. Sean maybe we can assume barr is trying to placatelv democratic fears, giving the benefit of the doubt. Not rushing to justice. A belief in innocence until being proven guilty. Because we know, in fact, Robert Mueller is an witch hunt. You need look no further than the peopleh that mueller hired. We are talking about multiple, big time democratic donors, those that made tens of thousands of dollars combined and contributions to the campaigns of obama, john kerry, clinton, and other democrats. Mueller, he hired zero republicans. Not one. Top mueller attorney jeannie rae actually worked for Hillary Clinton. Howw could you hire Hillary Clintons a attorney at the Clinton Foundation . And muellers socalled pitbull according to the New York TimesAndrew Weissmann . He actually attended hillarys Election Night party. And weissmann has also come under fire for aggressive prosecution tactics like withholding exculpatory evidence, p including one case, andersen accounting, they were forced to close their doors, tens of thousands of people lost their jobs before the Supreme Court overturned weissmanns prosecution 90. In another case, muellers pitbull weissmann sent four innocent Merrill Lynch to prisoner for a year. Youll never get that your back in your life. Before that case was overturned by thehe fifth circuit of appeals. We are supposed to believe that that trackk record, appointing those people, thats a fair, unbiased investigation as carried out by an obvious aggressive partisan team of lawyers that mueller picked. He also picked strzok and page. We know where they stand. We will continue to monitor all the latest developments surrounding the deep state throughout the show tonight. First, we turn to the hannity wash on the government shutdown. Today, President Trump invited democrats to the white house. Hes trying to make a deal. He is offering them every opportunity, invited them to lunch and a meeting to discuss border security. That invitation once again rejected by, oh, i will give you a dollar, nancy pelosi and company, making it all the more difficult for the president to negotiate with a group of people. How do you negotiate with they wont come to the table to talk . And this comes as a new Migrant Caravan is one the move now tonight in honduras. According to human rights group, thats traveling with migrants, the caravan has now swelled to approximately 2,000 individuals, raising fresh fears and concerns about more clashes as they move into the southern border of mexico. And then back to the United States. Without a doubt, this is good for everybody on both sides of our border if we had physical barriers. Remember, wall makes everybody safe. We dont want to encourage the journey, which is literally difficult, people die. Which is subject to human trafficking. Physical abuse, sexual abuse. Other lifethreatening conditions, for those that want to come here just for a betteree lifeet. I have said many times, i think that the vast majority. They want a better life for themselves, their goods, their grandkids. They told mike we to have a system where we bet everyone and anyone coming into our country. Americansal have lost their livs because of Illegal Immigrants. 90 ofle the drunks, heroin for example, coming into this country, come from the southern border. That makes it a lifeanddeath matter, not a political ploy. Maybe democrats should take note. The president s agenda has been extremely successful. Good news on the economic front tonight. T. German Automaker Volkswagen announced they a are expanding operations into tennessee. That is good news following the big news the president weeded out, volkswagen will be spending 800 million in chattanooga tennessee, and theyll be making electric cars. Congratulations it had all my chattanooga tennessee. A job well done. A big win predicates better. He knew poll finding that the economic fundamentals are stroni prayha democrats threatening to destroy all that optimism with their far left, nannys date, socialist dreams. The democratic mayor of new york, comrade bill de blasio, actually putting a new plan to confiscate, thats right, confiscate, private property from landlords. Those he claims create unlivable conditions. Hes even saying, wealth is in the wrong hands of people of new york. That sounds like he wants to confiscate money from some people and redistributed to other people. Those coastal comrades in california, they are pushing their w own radical far left agenda. Another nanny state proposal to ban paper receipts because paper is filled with toxins. America better wake up. Socialism is on the rise, and the move, taking up the democratic party. Meanwhile, unemployment is at a record low. Record low for africanamericans, hispanic americans, asianamericans, women in the workforce, Consumer Confidence remains high, wage growth is the best it has been in a decade. But democrats are trying to turn back all the progress, burdensome regulation, and of course they dont want energy independence. Some want a 70 or 80 tax rate for you to socialized medicine, government mandated climate shal while making our nation left see a less safe, secure, open borders, they want to control your business, control your decisions, they want all the power, and all your money. How does that make your life better . With reaction to all this tonight, the other for number one best seller come up with russian hoax, , Gregg Jarrett, along with former attorney general pam bondi. This list of crimes, we watched william barr today do some things he said that would make you say uhoh. But he cant for example say he supports locker her up. He was shocked at the text messages. He was dismayed by this we fisa abuse. Bruce ohr and his wifes involvement in the dossier, and finally, the counterintelligence investigation by the fbi, with no legal standards, no probable cause, no reasonable suspicion, simply because they could. The arrogance and audacity of the fbi to do this was really quite breathtaking, and you could tell, from William Barrs response, so hes got his work cut out for him, sean. Sean you part out a list of specific people, specific crimes. You when i could never understand my Jeff Sessions never followed up and applied to the law as is written. We are not asking is all we are asking. He wasnt really the attorney general, the defective attorney general was Rod Rosenstein. And he was angry eric trump for getting blamed for writing a recommendation that james comey be fired. He tried to recruit cabinet members to depose the president. He is the one who appointed a special counsel. So when you have the guy in charge of the fbi, which was rosenstein, in bed with his subordinates who were coming after trump, of course there could be no justice. Sean pam bondi, the first time i think we introduced to his former attorney general of florida. Weird. Sean welcome to your new life. In that position, you watched the testimony today. Are you confident that mr. Barr will apply the law to all of these serious examples of abuse of power and corruption that we have spent a lot of time exposing on this show . Sean, i read an oped that was published about why william barr is the best selection in the country to be our u. S. Attorney general, and now i am even more convinced than ever. He said the right things today, he was honest, he was genuine, and he will go into it with an open mind, i but this is a tough man, and he is going to do what is right. I have no doubt in my mind, actually. Sean does that mean Hillary Clinton obstructed justice and violated the espionage act will be held accountable . All p the people that committed fraud on the fisa court, are they going to be held accountable . I believe so. Hes a