New levels of extremism and as they compete to out liberal each other on everything from Green New Deal to open borders and yes even leading murders both from prison, President Trump giving his early assessment of the candidate so far. Lets take a look. We will call him sleepy joe because ive known him for a well and hes a pretty sleepy guy. He will not be able to deal with president president xi and a different level of intelligence. Hes got Misguided Energy and done poorly and terms of the senate. He said very little legislation. I think he talks a lot but he doesnt get it done. Hes fading very fast, i think he is fading very, a thing of the past pretty soon. Very fast. I think she has a little bit of a nasty wit but that might be it. Not only is the democrats russian collusion narrative dead and buried but the spotlight shines bright on antitrump bias and spying and corruption inside the highest levels of government. It appears to be creeping closer and closer to the obama white house. Deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, shieded the Obama Administration and the fbi for the handling of the russia investigation. The Mueller Probe was tainted from the start. Take a look. They tried for a coup, didnt work out so well. [applause] i didnt need a gun for that one, did i . [laughter] all was taking place at the highest levels in washington, d. C. You have been watching. Youve been looking at things that you wouldnt have believed possible in our country, corruption at the highest level, a disgrace, spying, surveillance, trying for an overthrow and we caught them. Thats a man in his wheelhouse there. An the president s comments as we continue to learn more about possible spying efforts against the trump white house. According to newly released 2016 Text Messages, disgraced fbi lovers, peter strzok and lisa page appeared to suggest actually recruiting sources from within the new white house to gather information on team trump with names that included, according to our own sara carter, the wife of the chief of staff to vicepresident pence who previously worked with strzok on the clinton email case. Joining me, greg jared and tom fenton and congressman mike turner. Gentlemen, thank you for joining me this evening. Greg, ill start with you. While all of what we have experienced has been surprising to all of us. None of us are naive. All of us have experience. Alll of us remember dixon. We all know that the government can be secretive. This has been extraordinary at any level. What is your take now with this new revelation . Is this something par for the course . Or does this take it to change and turn into some place quite different . If the evidence is there, an i would like to see the explanations for these Text Messages, if the evidence is there, i dont know how you explain these messages. It does appear they are trying to plant a mole within the Transition Team to spy on the Trump Campaign. We already know as bill barr pointed out to great controversy that the Trump Campaign was being spied on. There was electronic surveillance, a confidential informant and now apparently there may have been a mole. The president was correct when he played the comment a moment ago. This was an attempt at a silentd nonviolent coup based on phoney information to drive him from office. Clinton was the financier, brennan was the instigator and clapper was the leaker and you had Christopher Steele and glen simpson who created it all and document comey and mccabe and strzok and page were driving the attempt to coup. Tom, your organization, judicial watch, has been pushing for years like a dog that will not let go. Some of us, some individuals, some americans think well this cant be happening. This is crazy talk. Every day, there seems to be something more remarkable. With the work you have done, where would Something Like this ultimately go . What do you think we can expect as we move forward . The more we learn, the worse it looks in terms of the spygate coup effort against President Trump. They are hiding Text Messages from andrew mccabe, peter strzok and lisa page. But there are others that are out there. You start off talking about the president ial campaign. You have to remember that the Democrat Party apparatus was involved in this. Si the Democrat National committee spent money on this effort to overthrow the president by working with russia intel. They were meeting with the fbi general counsel just shortly before the election. The lawyer for the dnc and hillaryus clinton. Joe biden was in this infamous early january, 2017 over office meetingbi with barack obama and susan rice and james comey, where they all talked excitedly about the dossier just before comey was launched by obama with President Trump team through the dossier. I think we are going to see an effort to make it seem as though joe biden was dropped in fromen the planet mars and was never involved in this. He has been involved a great deal. He is an experienced man and knows whats going on. All of us, mike, when we deal with things like this, people mention watergate. This isal exclusively different. Watergate was a team of people and the president involving reelection trying to get on the opponent. This is an agency, the highest Law Enforcement of the nation, colluding and spying and working to change an election that was legal and usurp a dual elected president. That is something we have never seen before . Would you agree, mike . One of the things that ien think we have that we would beou very concerned about is the fact that here we have our democrat institutions being undermined by the intelligence community, our Law Enforcement community, who geare entrusted with tools that are supposed to be keeping us safe. They are supposed to be part of what goes to the heart of our national security. Instead, they are using these tools to undermine our democrat principles, tore undermine a dul elected president. What we have seen now, even with brennan, clapper and comey, andn the things they have said on national tv, post the Obama Administration, their absolute opposition to this president. It is evident in the way we see the abuse of power and the department of justice and the fbi and our intelligence agency. Thank you. With the Mueller Report done, we finally have a sense that this is Serious Business and that we can actually look at it without being afraid and with the seriousness of taking care of business, that it is not really about trump, it is not even a partisan issue. This is about what can happen in a power framework where there has been no accountability for generations. Do you think we are finally at this point that we can do this and that we will do itdo in looking at it seriously and completely . If i were james comey, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, brennan, clapper, i would be very, very worried and not sleeping very well. The Inspector General has spent a year examining the origins of the trump russia collusion investigation. We normally see government investigations, committee stuff. This is different. It never becomes anything. There is never a result. I think you will see criminal referrals in the next 60 days in the i. G. Over to the department of justice. Bill barr has made it abundantly clear he is serious about undertaking a legitimate investigation, because he realizes the evidence appears tn be there that if the fbi, in particular, there was a cesspool of corporation among the upper corruption among the upper echelons. This is our chance to say to everyone in the political field we are t serious about taking ce of these issues, that there will be repercussions. Our infrastructure relies on the legitimacy that the American People give to it because we trust them. Great, gentlemen. Thank you, tom. I appreciate everybody. Sorry. We are sort of time here. Directly ahead, joe biden is having all sorts of trouble on the campaign trail. Is his shot of the presidency already over . Austan goolsbeee and Ari Fleischer will be there for that debate. Stay with us here on the hannity special, the 202 election. 2020 election omar, look. [ thunder rumbles ] omar, check this out. Uh, yeah, i was calling to see if you do laser hair removal. 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And its simple, easy, awesome. Welcome back to the special edition of hannity the 2020 election. New economic numbers are coming out today. The president s policies are facilitating growth this nation has not seen in decades. Joins us liver from our west coast newsroom, which i know well, with the latest. Trace . Tammy,he not only is the economy strong but getting stronger. This is the First Time Since 2015, Economic Growth is above 3 . That is an indicator consumers and businesses are shopping. You dont need an economic guru to tell you people shop because they have more money or they are confident they will continue gettingeo money. White house economic adviser, larry kudlow, offered his analysis. Watch. Numbers are numbers and gdp is gdp. I think the morale of the country is picking up. I do love these numbers. They are beating what everybody else thinks is happening. Well, it is certainlyly beatg what liberal economists and New York Times op ed columnist paul krugman said was happening. He saider we were heading toward recession. But consider this, even about the Government Shutdown in january, the First Quarter growth was so impressive that analysts didnt even need to figureiv in the usual excuses like bad weather. The bottom line here is the economy is doing so well that its even doing well on msnbc. Tammy . There you go. Thats when you know that you have got some good economy there. Trace, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Bidens campaign is only onedayold but it is already stamped with his signature trademark, gafs and missteps. Cnn reminded viewers of the fact that he had to drop out because of plagiarism accusations. Lets take a look. He never makes to 1988, because he drops out in 87 following a plagiarism scandal. In 1987, he has only been in the senate 15 years. He is seen as an up and comer. He is considered someone who could be the nominee. He givesn a speech very similar to a speech a British Labor party member had given. Prior to entering the president ial race yesterday, uncle joe did not bother to call the mother of heather heyer, the woman referenced in his campaign video. Who was when he finally did reach out, killed in charlottesville. It seems to have been too little too late. Lets take a look. I got a call from him yesterday at 4 30 in the afternoon. That was the first time i had ever spoken to joe biden or anybody related to his office or anything. I think he said something about i would have reached out sooner but i wasnt sure how you would feel. I commented, yes, i noticed you didnt mention her name, because you hadnt contacted me. So we sort of acknowledged that much. Meanwhile, President Trump seems to be optimistic about the upcoming race as perhaps he should be. Amid his opponents gaffe, he is feeling very confident. Watch what he had to say this morning. I just feel like a young man. I am so young. I am the youngest person. T. I am a young, vibrant man. I look at joe. I dont know about him. I would never say anyone is too old. They are all making me look very young in terms of age and in terms of energy. Joining me former chair of economic advisers, Austan Goolsbee and fox contributor, ari fleisher. Hi, guys, thanks for coming on tonight. We pretty much know what we can expect from President Trump. President trump does seem to be having a very good time. Austan, let me ask you, we are in an extraordinary economic framework. What do you think when it comes to joe biden who will not be able to ignore his role with the obama two terms and the nature of the economy . What should be his approach . He did mention the economy on his video. What should he be saying to the American People about what he is going to offer differently than what President Trump has done . I think you saw in joe bidens announcement that it felt like a lot of his focus is going to be, lets call it about cultural issues and about American Values and the american way. So i dont know that it is going to be rolling out a series of policy fact sheets or something, if thats what you are saying. I would comment that it struck me from the president s reaction today that the president looked like he doesnt want to run against joe biden and he is trying to throw up a series of critiques. Really . A 72yearold man accusing his opponent of being too old . If you look at joe bidens approval rating, he got 100,000 donors in one day, that he leads the primary in the polling and his net favorability is 15 points better than the president s, i can understand why the president would be a little nervous about joe biden. I would hope he would have a volot of donors. He has been running for president since 1987. He does have name recognition at this point in time and that gett you a higher bump in the popularity and approval polls. He has really been behind the scenes to a degree, certainly during the Obama Administration. He has never really taken a huge debate framework to have to deal with that, especially with what the Democrat Party has to offer. He did raise a lot of money. Mo the president is correct and people in the gop are going after joeafte biden. Wouldnt that be an interesting way to send a message to the democrats that, yeah, sent joe biden, because he is the guy thats the easiest to beat . What do you think . I dont think President Trump is worried about any of the democrats. Thats the president s style. Let me correct one thing austan said. President trump did not say that joe biden was too old but too sleepy. Get your facts right. I think joe bidens real issue is he is a fish out of water in the modern Democrat Party. He has such a liberal contingent that has captured the energy, the hearts, the minds, and the souls of so many democrats. Can an old style, old school, moren moderate politician like joe biden prevail over all those democrats . My suspicion is that joe biden is going to run out of air like a balloon. You are going to watch him fly through the air with the air gradually coming out. I think he has peaked at his highest numbers on the day he entered and it is down hill from here. Austan, would you say h that at the same time that you have a fellow who is entering as though he is entitled to this . This is almost like the next in line, the kind of framework that voters rejected in 2016, that hillary was the next in line . Is that going to be a fit . I think that would be a mistake if he took that tone, because the presidency is not owed to anyone. Anyone that runs for president should explain what they want to do and why they think they could do the job better than the person who is there now or t whoever their t opponent is. I did not take that from the tone. If you watch joe bidens announcement, it wasnt at all of the, hey, its my turn. So i am owed this. I dont think, thus far at least, joe biden is not having a problem in the Democrat Party. He is leading in the polls within the Democrat Party. His net favorability is vastly in excess of President Trumps. Ari might be right that he might go down from here. He is not starting from a position of weakness, by any means. You would have to admit, i think as we saw, in 16 on both sides of the aisle, that the while certainly with the republicans thatt the primary season and the debates really show us what people are made of. Do you think joe biden is going to . Having a poll right now is thing. You have got an entire season of debates and a primary season. Thats whats going to take its toll on mr. Biden, wouldnt you agree . M yeah. I think there is a dynamic to primaries and campaigns and thats what defines the candidates and determines who is the winner and the loser. Hillary was defeating barack obama by a solid margin, doubledigit margin in 2008. Bidens issue is he has to denounce who he is. You have seen him walk away from heartfelt positions in the 70sh 80s, and 90s. In 03, he voted for the iraq war. How is that going to go over in a democrat primary . That is something barack obama used successfully against hillary clinton.