Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to the Sean Hannity Radio Show podcast, And then I speak for everyone, thank you for everything you've done to protect our nation's great legal heritage. In keeping with President Reagan's legacy, I do not ask about a nominee's personal opinions. What matters is not a judge's political views, but whether they can set aside those views to do what the law and the Constitution require. I am pleased to say that I have found, without doubt such a person. Tonight, it is my honor and privilege to announce that I will nominate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States suppoin Cham. I've spent my career in public service, from the Executive Branch and the White House to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the d C Circuit. I've served with seventeen other judges, each of them a colleague and a friend. My judicial philosophy is straightforward. A judge must be independent. It must interpret the law, not make the law. A judge must interpret statutes as written, and a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent. All Right, that was the President making his big announcement about Judge Kavanaugh as his nominee to replace Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court. I don't know whether I start with the insanity of the left, and let me also start by saying it didn't matter who Donald Trump chose. The same comments, the same lies, the same hysteria, the same politics. It's playbook one oh one. It happens in elections, and it happens with Supreme Court nominees. And that is the lies, the slander, the besmirching, the attacks, the manipulation of the American people. It is all. This is what the left in America is now reduced to. It is knee jerk ism. There is no vision, there is no insight, there is no plan. There is no even discussion about how to make the lives of you, the American people better. It's all about destroying any and all things Donald Trump. It's the media, it's liberal Democrats. And I've got all the audio that I will play in the course of the program that proves everything that I am saying is true. You could replace Judge Kavanaugh's name with any of the other contenders and you would still be getting the same type of liberal leftist hysteria and reaction. Just like I have been telling you, is the single most important midterm election that we will see in our lifetime, because it's about the following. Not only do they want open borders, to keep Obamacare, to impeach Trump but not tell you about it ahead of time. Not only do they want their crumbs back, the tax cuts back, but they also want to stop elections matter. Elections have consequences. The President gets to choose the Supreme Court justice. It is the Senate's role to advise and consent, and by the way, I urge them to do their job. But what you have been hearing and what you will hear throughout the show is not them doing their job. You have a man of impeccable background, a man with impeccable intellectual experience. This is a guy that has now served on the US Court of Appeals, which is probably the single most influential court short of the Supreme Court, the d C Circuit, from two thousand and six until the present. He's confirmed fifty seven thirty six. I mean, if you look at his family, I actually said last night on TV, take a look at that family, because They're about to go through absolute hell in terms of the slander that is now coming their way. The things those two little girls will now hear about their father are are just. And as I was saying it, it had already happened. That's how prepared they were to go after anybody. It doesn't matter his background, it doesn't matter that he has opinion. They don't care. They don't care who they hurt, who they slander, because it's all about politics to them. I mean, this is a guy whose background He clerked for Anthony Kennedy. He worked in the as an attorne and in the Office of Solicitor General. He worked in the as an Associate council in the office of Ken's starr, the Independent Council Um, and also a senior Associate Council to the President, that being George W. Bush Um. He has argued cases before the United States Supreme Court and other appellate courts. He teaches of places like Harvard and Yale and Georgetown America's finest institutions. We are told I mentioned yesterday, when you when it comes to the law, there is always nuance you're dealing. In the case of Judge Brett Kavanaugh with somebody who has devoted his entire adult life to studying and understanding and basing rulings on the Constitution. The most important thing I'm going to tell you today, By the way, the President has now just gotten off Air Force one and arrived for the NATO summit. Oh and by the way, there is he's going to tell NATO allies that they've got to pay their fair share, which is the right thing to do. Um. He has published articles in Yale Law Journals and Georgetown Law Journals and Harvard Law Review and Notre Dame Law Review, in Minnesota Law Review, and the Catholic University Law Review, in Marquette Lawyer. I mean, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal. This is a serious, serious intellectual that if you if you just stand back, and I know that even on the Republican side that not everybody. It was so much lobbying that I know of that was going on as it relates to this. Some people wanted Hardeman. Uh, some people wanted Barrett. My first choice would have been Barrett, that some people wanted, Um, you know, Mike Lee. Mike Lee would have been a great choice. Um. But it's it doesn't matter. This is the President's choice. He graduated Yale College, Yale Law School, was with the Yale Law Journal, and his whole life now has been the law, the Constitution. His entire life has been writing, studying, and has written opinions now on nearly three cases dealing with some of the most complicated complicated issues arising in federal courts. Because of being on the DC Circuit Court, the Supreme Court itself has endorsed his positions on many High States issues. I mean, they've been out there eleven by the way decisions endorsed his positions, advocated his opinions, no small He also has argued before the U. S. Supreme Court. But at the end of the day, let me tell you what this battle is really all about. This battle is about the left in America. What they cannot get done at the ballot box, what they cannot get done legislatively because it will be rejected and they will be immediately fired if they advocate their true views. It's sort of like telling Maxine Waters and others, all right, we hear you on impeachment, just stop chanting in peach forty five. At Peach forty five, we'll do it. But just you know, stop. Keith Ellison already is talking about impeaching Judge Kavanaugh if the Democrats get control of the House. I mean, this is how the left is going after Pam BONDI uh, And they're going after Secretary Nielsen, and Sarah Sanders can't go to a restaurant with her kids. And Mitch McConnell now has had it twice, and Kelly Anne has now had it again, and Avanka Trump and Melania Trump Baron Trump is twelve years old. Leave the kid alone, and the and the granddaughter of the President. Don Junior's four year old daughter was threatened by this idiot in Canada on Twitter that they're going after her. This is the environment now that the left has created. You saw this last night as as soon as I got off the air. You have the center I think for the American politics. And we've got the tape. I'll get to it. It's just so much to talk about, screeching and screaming. I have an entire pile in front of me of insane things that the left has said, starting with my favorite Nina tok Totemberg, whatever his name is, Totenberg saying that this is the end of the world as we know it. I mean she said it before the President even selected Judge Cavanaugh. You can't make this up. You know you have party leaders Dick Durban, by the way, this is great telling people like Tester and Bill Nelson and Claire mccaskell and Joe Manchion and Heidi hikim Uh you must commit political suicide read state Trump supporting states telling Democratic senators to give up your career over this um and under no circumstances give Judge Kavanaugh the benefit of the doubt. Terry mccauloff said, the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh will threaten the lives of millions of Americans. No, it won't. They don't like that they lost. That's what this is about. And just like we saw with the Women's March right after the president was inaugurated, and just like all the hope and dreams of every Democrat has been put in the hands of Robert Mueller that has come up empty. Now too, this is now. This is their stand, and they will scream and holler and him and hall and lie and slander and besmirch and use character assassination. There's a great piece I forgot where I saw this, I forgive me whoever wrote it. Who killed the center left in America? There is no center left. You know, you watch college students saying they despised Trump's Supreme Court nominee before he announced who it was. Knee jerk hatred that they have. You know, my colleague Shannon Bream had to cancel her show last night. She was at the steps of the United States Supreme Court, but because of the volatile protests, felt so threatened. He tweeted out, very few times I felt threatened while out in the field. The mood here tonight is very volatile. Law enforcement appears to be closing down First Street in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. And this is now you have a comedian bashing people that believe in life, saying abortion should be as easy as pushing the on demand button. I mean, you know what, did Bill Clinton say? Abortions should be legal? But rare a belief that you know, it's not a great thing, you know, or if you have rape or incestor the mother's life three exceptions. I've always embraced my whole life because I think there is context and nuanced to life, and I think those are three examples. All Right, when we get back, I'll tell you what I'm going to do before we get to the crazies, and I'm gonna play the craziest we got it all. The most important thing you need to focus on in this whole, this circus that the left is creating, what is the judicial philosophy of Judge Kavanaugh. Because rightly Republican presidents have messed up Supreme Court choices, everybody should be skeptical. I think that's actually a good thing. I will tell you what gives me. I don't know him, never talk to him, but I'll tell you what gives me the most hope about him and what concerns I have, which is probably the Obamacare statute that he rendered an opinion on that would allow it to be attacks. I didn't like that. But I'm gonna read to you what he said about what Judge Scalia stood for as a judge, his judicial philosophy. That's next. Al Right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity Show one, Sean, all right, Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the U. S. Supreme Court. It all comes down to judicial philosophy. Let me read you something. This gives me the most hope because this is what I'm going to read you fits my judicial philosophy. What I want in a justice as somebody that believes in coequal branches of government and separation of powers. And he described how like Scalia, this was at George Mason Law School at an administrative law conference that he is devoted to textualism and originalism. I read this last night. I'm gonna read it, you know. I let me read it in full at the bottom of the app let me because I want you to really absorb this because the most important thing you need to understand in this is what this means for potentially forty years. Justice Kennedy was on the Supreme Court for thirty years that is way beyond Ronald Reagan's presidency, and is this will impact our kids, our grandkids, our culture for many generations now to come. Besides sending kids off, of president sending kids off and making the difficult decision to allow American treasure, our children to go fight a war where they're gonna risk their life in their limbs because of the president is the commander in chief. This is the next single most important thing that a president us because it will it is part of their legacy, and I know we've had I known for many and at times myself Anthony Kennedy was a disappointment. And you know, just as soon or do I need anything he needs say anymore. It was a colossal mistake. But then you get people like Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Justice Alito, who I think has been phenomenal, Neil Gorsuch. So far it looks really good and it's about the future of American culture. So I'm what I'm gonna do is I'll take this quick break, I'll come back. I'm gonna read what he said about judicial philosophy and much more. One Shawn is on number We got a lot to get to new Ingrich and Alan Dershwitz and so much more. Alright now until the top of the hour, one Shawn, if you want to be a part of the program, you know, I don't understand. You know, it's so much had a call like an hour or two ago from a friend of mine at Fox and said, by the way, some guy at BuzzFeed wants to talk to you. I said, okay, I'll talk after the show, my radio show. It doesn't matter. They put up an article. There's nothing in this that is true, and I'm just trying to understand how the media works. I've never heard of Stephen Pearlberg of BuzzFeed. It's he says, he's a news reporter for them, and the headline is Bill Shine White House job isn't good for Fox News, For Fox Sean Hannity is increasingly estranged from Fox News management. And it goes on to talk about Bill Shine and and how he worked at Fox and was the president of Fox, etcetera, etcetera, and and now I was working in the White House. And then it goes on to talk about me and says, but according to people familiar with the matter, shines political ascent has brought renewed stress and paranoia. Fox News executive ranks more than a year blah blah blah blah. If the he's out, then it goes on to say about me instead, about after they hired Bill um and that somehow his new job, um, you know, is a problem for Fox. A spokesperson for Fox News and Hannity did not return requests for coming I said an hour and a half ago, I talked to them, and it goes Hannity's level of freelancing has irked some of at the top Fox News and its parent company, Century Fox, including Rupert Murdoch's sons James and Laughlin, who are increasingly feel like Hannity's gone rogue, as one source put it, and that Hannity talks to the president almost nightly. It goes on to say, and that I've spent time bad mouthing my network, which I love and I put my life's blood into I am so wan or that I got hired at Fox twenty three years ago. It has been a gift in my life. That just isn't true. And Hannity has maintained his leverage, uh and his singular importance to the network's conservative audience by bringing in huge ratings. Here we're number one, thanks to all of you that listen to this program. And uh, I just gotta tell you, my relationship has never been better with the management of Fox, and it's never been what they're saying here is not true. Rupert Murdoch has been wonderful to me. I don't know James Murdock that well, but I know Lachlan and he's been wonderful to me. So I'm kind of like, why don't you guys talk to me? First, maybe not people that must have some agenda. And um, I just have a great working relationship with everybody there except I guess a few people may not like me, but that's their problem them. You know, I assume some people disagree with my opinions. Anyway, onto more important matters. UM, I want to read because this all comes down to one thing, judicial philosophy. What do we want as conservatives, What do we believe the role of the judiciary is as conservatives Versus what does the left want? I love what News said on this program yesterday. If you just thirty seconds before the president comes out, just imagine that it was gonna be Hillary Clinton coming out to announce her second nominee to the United States Supreme Court, because she would be looking for a judicial activist, someone that wants to legislate from the bench, someone that doesn't respect coequal branches, doesn't respect separation of powers. We even have some members of the Supreme Court that have gone as far as to actually cite foreign law to justify their radical, judicial activist opinions. The people that I have most admired in my lifetime on the Supreme Court. If you've never taken the time to listen to arguments in the Supreme Court, you get audio in cases you don't get you don't that we obviously don't have cameras in the courtroom. There. It is the most fascinating intellectual exercise you will ever hear. And for example, somebody might be arguing a point and they don't get three words out, and they're being interrupted by a justice and they have to be quick and on their feet because all the justices have already read their arguments, and they basically then have questions about it. And it doesn't go on for a very long or extended period of time, but it is a powerful back and forth that sometimes takes place. And Anthony Scalia was well known for his wit, his humor, his intellectualism, and I love what he once said that, you know, there are times as a judge that you must do with the demands, not what you personally like. So as a conservative, we believe in separation of powers, coequal branches. We believe in the Constitution, that this is a constitutional republic. We don't think judges ought to be writing law from the bench to advance a liberal agenda, because that's what elections are about, and that's what the legislative branch of government is about and that's their job. So what Judge Kavanaugh said in two thousand and six at this administrative law conference hosted by George Mason Law School, Judge Brett Kavanaugh described how, like Justice Scalia, he devoted textualism and what is known as originalism and rejects unbridled judicial activism. Let me quote him to you, because this gives me the most hope about the president's action, because this is my judicial philosophy. This is what I believe in what he said, and he's actually said much of this. Last night he said, quote, what did Justice Scolias stand for as a judge? He wrote, It's not complicated, but it is profound and worth repeating. Often the judge's job is to interpret the law, not to make the law or make policy. He writes, So read the words or he spoke, Read the words of the statute as written, in other words, the law written by the legislative branch. Then he writes. Then he said, read the text of the Constitution has written mindful of history and tradition. And last night he talked and added the word precedence. He said, don't make up new constitutional rights. That are not in the text of the constitution. Don't shy away from enforcing constitutional rights that are in the text of the Constitution. And he wrote, changing the constitution is for the amendment process. We have a constitutional process to change the constitution. It's difficult. The bar is high, but it was designed to be high. And he writes, changing the constitution, you know, changing policy within constitutional bounds. As for the legislative branch, remember that the structure of the constitution, the separation of powers and federalism co equal branches. In other words, he says, are not mere matters of etiquette or architecture, but are at least as essential to protecting individual liberty as the individual rights that are guaranteed in that text. He goes on, and remember that courts have a critical role when a party has standing in enforcing those separation of powers and federalism limits. And he says, simple but profound. Now. He also talked about in a speech before Catholic University Law Review and wrote for them, he laid out his vision of the constitutional separation of powers and the role of a judge is an umpire in our system, and he said, at its core, in our separation of power system. To be an umpire as a judge means to follow the law and not to make or remake the law, and to be impartial in how we go about doing that he goes on. A good umpire should not be making up the strike zone as he or she goes along. Judges, likewise, should not make up the rules as they go along. We see this in statutory interpretation. For example, a good judge sticks to the established text and canons of instruction that helped guide us in interpreting ambiguous text. Justice antonin Scalia had a profound influence on statutory interpretation, and one of the things he has helped us to do is to narrow the areas of disagreement about how to interpret the statutes. In other words, what the legislative branch passes as law. Every judge now seems to start with the text of the statute and then he has commented on religious liberty issues and consistently. As a background of having defended religious freedom and the Second Amendment, he um you know argued in in interpreting the Second Amendment Heller versus the District of Columbia, he descended from the courts majority by writing the district's ban on the possession of semi automatic firearms is unconstitutional, and his descent was quoted approvingly by Justice Thomas and asking whether the challenge law complies with the text, history, tradition of the Second Amendment. Also on issues of free speech, etcetera, etcetera. The only issue that the big issue that I seem to have. He's also shown in an area of growth in when he worked with ken Star's office. You know, his views on as it relates to Clinton and obstruction and and the role of independent councils at the time. Now we've got a special counsel and it's basically evolved into the same mess as the independent council law. Um. And then then the two thousand and nine reversed themselves and said, no, I don't, this is not what I support. So let me just go to the left for a second here, and we're gonna spend time. We've got new Gingridge coming up. We've got Alan Dersho, what's coming up. We've got uh, my friend Greg Jared is stopping by Sarah Carter Ali North today. We've got a lot of opinions. Let me play some of the insanity of Democrats in the Senate, and you know people like Schumer and Warren and Booker and Jillibrand and Durban and Feinstein and Blueman, Ball and the rest of them. Listen, President Trump, with the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, has fulfilled or is fulfilling two of his campaign promises for the first to undo women's reproductive freedom, second to undo a c A. And so I will oppose him with everything I've got. I want to know something about this judge's values, and what he's revealed so far is not something that reflects America's values. I will be saying with even stronger voice, and we as the United States Senate, forget partisanship or what have you, a respect for the constitution to avoid a constant constitutional crisis. We cannot let this confirmation process go forward, especially now that we have someone uh that has clearly said that they have a strong opinion should any of those issues come before the Supreme Court. Tell your story, are do not give up with the Senate to the right things against Cavanaugh. Deciding between the freedom of women to plan their own families and the strong hand of government, women lose in Kavanaugh's courts Kavanaugh's views on the Second Amendment or straight out of the gun lobby playbook. Washington, d C, where he grew up, would be wild West DC if Judge Kavanaugh had his way. Brett Kavanaugh appears to meet all President Trump's promises of how his candidate will rule on specific issues. His views are outside the mainstream, and there's every reason to believe he would overturn Row. So here is a memo to the Parkland students. If you care about common sense gun violence protection, Judge Kavanaugh is your worst nightmare. My colleagues should be a no on this nominee unless Judge Kavanaugh specifically commits that he will recuse himself on any issues that involve President Trump's personal financial dealings or the special Counsel. There is enormous grounds for suspicion right now about this nominee. We cannot go back to a time when women are made criminals for making a choice about what to do with their own bodies. We cannot go back to a time when they can't make a decision about their own contraceptive This is about replacing the authority of government, putting the government's authority ahead of the authority of a woman to make a decision about her own body and her future. So if you are a young woman in America, or you care about a young woman in America, pay attention to this because it will forever change your It's all out of the one on one playbook of the Left and the Democrat. This is a party now that has zero vision to make our lives better, and they cannot in any way except they lost in They are in a complete meltdown. They're gonna be in a meltdown in Europe, just like they were with Reagan. Now that the president's touchdown in Brussels, will go to London and then to Helsinki. These are very insane times. Where do you hear the stuff? We're gonna play at the top of the next hour. We got Greg Jarrett, Sarah Carter, we got New Gingrich, Allen Dershowitz, and Colonel North. We're trying hard. Three hours a day is all we ask one little baby hour at night just to drive the left nuts. It's all coming up. Eight nine one, Shan, we continue the Shawn Hannity Show. Alright, glad you're with a Sean Hannity Show. Right down a toll free telephone number. We'd love to hear from you. It's eight hundred for one, Shawn, you want to be a part of the program. A lot coming up today new Gingrich Alan Dershowitz joins us today. Uh, Colonel Oliver North and let me go back to where we left off in the last hour, because, as is predictable now, on every level, the left in this country, whoever the president chose, they would have opposed. I told you my favorite was Nina Totenberg. This is the end of the world as we know it, which she said on MPR. She's a Supreme Court reporter and uh, you notorious, you know, cheerleader of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And so that's her points, end of the world as we know it. Then I just played you all the senators, they all they could have just plugged in the name and they would have said the same thing about any choice of Donald Trump. I'm convinced if Donald Trump gave every man, woman and child in this country ten million dollars, they would still hate him. They wake up in the morning and they hate him. They they literally live for the next tweet so they can be outraged. They live in a constant state of feigned moral outrage. American people, meanwhile, are laughing. They get the president. They've gotten used to the fact he is not going to ever be an establishment figure. He wouldn't have been elected if he was. And they kind of like that he's gonna go tell NATO as he has landed in Brussels that they need to pay more as it relates to the treaty that we have. And they kind of like the fact that, you know, he's gonna go to London and they're gonna be crazy leftists that show up. It's very reminiscent of what Reagan had when he was president. They didn't like Reagan either. They don't like strong presidents. You know, let me just play a little bit more of the media and Democrats, you know, let me play them criticizing the president for he made the decision. They already hated it. You just have to remember how extensive the conservative agenda is here for for the Supreme Court. It's not just rolling back abortion rights. It's not just rolling back gay rights. It's not just eliminating um affirmative action. It's not just expanding the death penalty. I've never recalled a previous president outsourcing at least the initial selection process to an outside interest group, the way that this president has to the federalist society. Woman's freedom to make sensitive healthcare decisions hang in the balance with this nominee. It is near impossible to imagine that President Trump would select a nominee who is in hostile to our health care law and health care for millions and millions and millions of Americans, who is in hostile to a woman's freedom to make our own healthcare decisions. For the President, it's going to be all about the personal connection who he feels comfortable with in the moment saying he's going to pick the man so as R. E. M wants put at the end of the world as we know it. I've never seen a president United States in effect make himself a puppet of outside groups and choose from a group of right wing fringe ideologues. I frankly don't even think we should be considering this nominee alright, So, but there are others in red states, like I just saw the John Tester, he's in a big race this year that he might vote to confirm Kavanaugh. What's Claire mccaskell gonna do? She won't win, So are they're gonna have an election year conversion. Dick Durbin is telling them to give up their careers for this vote. I'd like to see him do that. And then you've got other people like Bill Nelson of Florida. Heide High Camp is another one mansion of West Virginia. I mean, all of these people are in big trouble because this is their red state Democrats. Now let me play for you. Let's go to like the media. This is MSNBC. Listen to this insane conspiracy theory. It is Judge Kavanaugh, who, I believe, alone on that list is the only one who's on the record at length on this question of whether a president is subject should be subject to criminal investigation, civil lawsuits, indictment, impeachment, and all the rest of it. I mean, he he's the only one from that list who said a lot on the record in print on this matter that the White House could have reviewed. And he's the one that they picked. Um. I can't imagine that under any other president picking him. You can imagine another Republican president picking Brett Kavanaugh, but with no other president picking him, would your first concern be that maybe he was picking him because the President thought he wouldn't indict him. Does the phrase judge shopping come to mind? And that's where he's electing the decisive vote in the court that will rule on whether he has to respond to a subpoena or not. He's a near term concerns. The next within this year, he may have to the court may have to rule whether he has to be questioned by by Moller. These are very near term questions. Yeah, off the rails, I know, unhinged joining us Now, there's new book is out just in two short weeks. It's on Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com, and it captures it all. It will be the definitive book on this Russia hoax, the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton frame Donald Trump. That's Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analysts and investigative reporter. Fox News contributor Sarah Carter um, it didn't matter who we picked, it was gonna be the same thing. Oh, it absolutely did. And for my favorite stupid quote comes from the ever of tuse and slow witted Terry McCullough, former governor of Virginia, who is a Clinton lackey for decades, and he tweeted out that the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh will uh destroy the lives of let me get the exact quote here. It is will threaten the lives of millions of Americans for decades to come. In other words, according to the comic, people will die. Look when you when you say something or tweet something that profoundly stupid, you are only hurting your cause, the cause of the Democratic Party. And maybe there are some people out there who legitimately, you know, might object to Kavanaugh, although he is ininently well qualified, head and shoulders above anybody else on the list of twenty five. But but fine, But when you conjure up the boogeyman like this that people are gonna die, it threatens the lives of millions. Uh, you're just self destructing. And that's the classic, you know, democratic theme. Now you heard it from Chuck Schumer, you played a clip of it, and you're hearing it from the media. Jeff Tubin over at CNN Andrew Mitchell at MSNBC. Man, hysteria, abortion will be outlawed throughout America. That is not what would happen. It would revert back to the States. That's only if row were overturned that's correct, it would go back. So in other words, would you agree with May? Probably forty eight states would have abortion legal, maybe all fifty. I would say forty five at least some with restrictions, others with the rental notification three months. Sure, some of the stuff that has actually been upheld into the Casey decision planned parenthood versus Casey. So and and Democrats, if any of them have an ounce of intelligence. No, they're lying to the American people, but they're assuming that Americans are so stupid that they'll buy into their lie. What about You're in Washington every day, Sarah, and you're in the halls of Congress every day, and I just really want to get your reaction and what you hear. We have gotten a little insight lea from Makowski saying, uh, well, there were some people on the president's list I would have had a difficult time supporting, but just based on what was publicly known about them, we're not dealing with that. And Susan Collins seemed to be okay, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. I know they would have picked other people, but I can't imagine they would oppose the president on such an important decision with such a close margin in the Senate. I don't it doesn't appear that they will. And and like you said earlier, Sean, they're going to be a lot of Democrats, I mean, who are hanging in the balance come the elections, and they're not gonna wanna, you know, go against the voters, um, who are going to be watching them very carefully in some of these states that are so important come November. I also think it's really disingenuous of the Democrats. It goes to show you it's like children screaming and crying. You know, they didn't get their way. They were going to be angry no matter who was picked. And it's disingenuous to the American people to put out these overexaggerated lies. Um. Of course, the selection of a Supreme Court justice is very important. I think what they're so frustrated about, so angry about, is that Kennedy, you know, left that seat open and allowed the President to put someone in his place. Uh, they're very angry about that. This is just a reaction to that. They're just spewing out lies out of anger. And I think that you know, in the end, what they're most angry about, particularly the Democrats in this situation, is the fact that this is solidifying a legacy for President Donald Trump. This is part of that legacy that he will have. And who knows if other seats will become vacant in the future, and that that would be even more extraordinary. Um let me, let me go back to last night and it didn't matter. It was basically, let's protest fill in the blank. This is Podesta's Center for American Progress. Now it's given me a headache and we really have to go back to Hey, hey, ho ho, I mean it is it's so un original high school cheerily, it's the standard high ho ho. Come on, man oh man. Elections have you know, I don't understand they really want a justice that will legislation from the bench. Why would Congress want to serve their power because they know they'll never get it done at the ballot box or legislatively. Absolutely, and they love people like Stephen Bryan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg who do exactly that that they view this Constitution as you know, gumby it. It is so flexible and elastic, you can stretch, shouldn't contorted and twisted anyway to do how you have just dated yourself. Gumby was my favorite. It was it was sort of one of those claimation things. What was the one on Sundays about Um? It was a Christian one David and David that was so great. I watched that one, UM, and I bet you Sarah Carter has no idea what we're talking about with Gumby. She's too young. I didn't know what you were talking about on the other day. Um. Well, you know, the bottom line here is I don't see with all the noise, I don't see where they win. How do they win? And John McCain is he seems ill and not gonna be counted on his vote anyway. Look, I think you were right when you pointed out that people like Mansion and Hyde, Cap and Donne Lee and Tester and others are going to be under enormous pressure. These are democrats in ultra red states that Trump won by hugh huge margins, and so they will be saying to themselves, shall I betray the idiots in my party and vote to help myself perpetuate my own power? And and they'll always choose themselves because that's what Washington politicians. That's not what Dick Durban is advising them. You know, Durban's the guy who smeared uh twelve years ago Brett Kavanaugh by calling him the Forrest Gump of Republican politics, which only you know, goes to prove just how dumb Dick Durban is. We'll take a break. Greg's book by the Way out in two weeks, The Russia Hoax, the illicit scheme, and by the way, you want to get your copy as soon as possible to clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump. Amazon dot com, Hannity dot Com, or with Sarah Carter and Greg on the other side, than we've got Alan Dershowitz. We've got new king Ridge Hall coming up right as we continue on Sean Hannity's show, We've got Alan Dershowitz at the bottom of this hour. We'll talk to him about the president, Supreme Corps choice, criminalization of political differences. Um, Why Greg Jarrett, are they now putting off the sentencing of Michael Flynn yet again? And what about Manafort that's rotting twenty three hours in solitary confinement having been convicted of nothing and the only charges earlier about a two thousand and five tax case. Well, judged today in in Virginia order did he be moved out of the location hundred miles away and into a jail in Alexandria, Virginia so acceding to the request of Manafort's lawyers. Um, why is he in jail at all? She should never be in jail. It's outrageous, it's over the top. This was Amy Berman Jackson, the Washington DC judge who issued that particular order, and she's being blatantly unfair. Um, the allegation was he was tampering with witnesses. Well, even if he were, that's not grounds for putting a nonviolent uh individual suspected of a tax odd case behind bars. You give an ankle bracelet, confined him to his home. You take away his computers and his cell phone. It's as simple as that. And could you could actually turn off all cell service in the phone. We have the capability you take all these devices away in and out. Yeah, you don't put him in solitary confinement in a jail. What do you think's going on, Sarah Carter as it relates to this case, what do you think it is? Honestly, Sean, I mean, from the very beginning, I think they're trying to squeeze Manifort there. Judge ellis my friend. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's just there's no doubt here that they're putting all the pressure they can. They looked for a very old case. They brought a case against him that has nothing to do with Russia collusion or anything connected to Russia and the campaign. Um, they're squeezing him. They're making his life miserable, they're making his family's life miserable. And they're just hoping with all hope that they could either get him to sing or like you say it, and the judge said, uh, compose, compose some kind of song that they can think their teeth into. And now we know you know Wiseman? Why you know Andrew Wiseman, who has been notoriously known and reprimanded by judges for his behavior in the courtroom, for withholding exculpatory evidence, for playing dirty tricks. I mean, I guess that's why they call him the pit bull. We'll see he's in trouble now too. So all right, we'll see I gotta run. We'll see you both on TV tonight, Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett. Uh, we'll check in with Professor Alan Dershowitz on his take on the President's choice for the Supreme Court New Gingri Cholie north All coming up. Stay with US. President Trump, with the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, has fulfilled or is fulfilling two of his campaign promises, first to undo women's reproductive freedom, second to undo a c A. And so I will oppose him with everything I've got. I want to know something about this, just values, and what he's revealed so far is not something that reflects America's values. I will be saying with even stronger voice than we as the United States Senate, forget partnisanship or what have you of a respect for the Constitution. To avoid a constant constitutional crisis, we cannot let this confirmation process go forward, especially now that we have someone that has clearly said that they have a strong opinion should any of those issues come before the Supreme Court. Tell your story, be heard, do not give up. We must convince the Senate to do the right thing as then against Cabina, Cava, Gus cabin deciding between the freedom of women to plan their own families and the strong hand of government. Women lose in Kavanaugh's courts Kavanaughs views on the Second Amendment or straight out of the gun lobby playbook. Washington, d C, where he grew up, would be wild West DC. If Judge Kavanaugh had his way, His views are outside the mainstream, and there's every reason to believe he would overturn Row. So here is a memo to the park Land students. If you care about common sense gun violence protection, Judge Kavanaugh is your worst nightmare. My colleagues should be a note on this nominee. Unless Judge Kavanaugh specifically commits that he will recuse himself on any issues that involve President Trump's personal financial dealings or the special counsel. There is enormous grounds for suspicion right now about this nominee. Ah, the doom, the gloom, the predictable talking points, working fearmongering. It's actually pretty sad um anyway, glad you with us twenty four now until the top of the hour. One Shawn is a toe free telephone number. Joining us now is somebody that I have a great respect for that doesn't always agree with my political views in any way, shape, matter, or form um. But he has talked at length about how we are now in this country criminalizing political differences. He has a brand new book out that is now costing him dearly at Martha's Vineyard, which I'm getting a real kick out of. It's called The Case against Impeaching Trump. Uh. Alan Dershowitz, Professor Dershowitz from Harvard A Law School is with us. Um, I'm sorry that I'm getting amused by the happenings on Martha's Vineyard. But it's actually, on the one hand, it's sad, and I'm sorry you have to go through it. It's very sad. On the other hand, I think it is very indicative of the polarization that has gone way off the rails in the country. In my opinion, I agree that it's you know, it's not a about me on Martha's Vineyard. I could do a few of parties. Um, it's about how you can't talk to each other. Look, you and I disagree about so many things, but we talk to each other. We have our disagreements, then we shake hands and we come back for the next level of agreement. To a disagreement. In America, whether it be on college campuses or when it comes to Supreme Court confirmations, you have to pick sides and the other side has no virtues, and your side has no vices, and everybody lives in silos, and nobody wants to interact with anybody else. And it's it's it's a shame. Um. You know, the folks in the viney to learn their lesson, and they're now back communicating with me. It's in writing now. Now they're writing the emails telling you who I am wrong. Look, that's better. And then I'm going to have an event at the Big Theater in Martha's Vineard where I challenge anybody to come and ask me questions, and I will not leave the event until every critical question, every critical statement has been made. That's what town halls are about. That's what democracy is about. But saying that I don't want to talk to you, you you have nothing to tell me if you're on Trump side, that's the end of the issue. That's just not America. It's not the America I grew up in where I went to Brooklyn College. We thought about everything every issue. I grew up during. McCarthy is m one of my One of the professors of Brooklyn College who arguments with was Eugene Scalia, Justice Scaliah's father, and we remain friends. Uh and I remained friends with his son. I didn't agree with Justice Scalia about everything he wrote, but I love Justice Scalia as a person and as an individual, and we became good friends over time. I think that's the America I want to see us get back to you. You were actually kind enough and I actually have never been to Martha's vineyard, but you're kind enough to say, hey, listen, why don't you come. I have these talks. No no, no, I mean and and I'm like you, if it's the right environment, I'll talk to anybody for as long as it takes. You know, as a conservative, it's it's been my friends and people I know that are shouted down and threatened and literally run off the stage. Um, it's gotten so bad. Look where they did to poor Sarah Huckabee just taking her family to a restaurant. Look, you know, look at what Secretary Nielsen had to go through in a restaurant and then at her home. And it's now also you can add to that Pam Bandi and Steve Miller and Kelly and Conway, and the horrible thing said about the president's son and grand daughter who's four years old, and Milani and Avanca, I don't know. I mean, I look, for example, a Judge Kavanaugh, and I read everything I possibly can. I had no dog in this this race at all, and I know people did. And what I see as a guy that is a strong intellectual with incredible and impeccable um, with an impeccable background, that has written thoughtful, smart, well researched opinions, not all that I agree with Obamacare being one of them. And I would listen. And I saw his family last night, and I heard his comments last night. And I read his comments in two thousand and nine in the Minnesota Law Review, and I read his comments on originalism in two thousand and six. And this guy is a real scholar. He's not only a real scholar, but he's a scholar with an open mind. He's changed his mind about issues. I know because he's interacted with the number of my friends and colleagues at Harvard Law School. You can imagine they don't all agree with him, and people, for the most part admire him and like him. It was an upbedding Today's New York Times by a che Lamar who is a very liberal Democrat. He cried when Donald Trump got elected, he was really so distraught, and he writes a problem saying, this is a brilliant man, an open minded man. I heard the same thing from several other colleagues who know him well. Am I going to agree with all of his opinions? Of course not. But what's happened to judicial confirmation? Look when Scholia came up for confirmation, there was I think to one or something like that Ginsburg, something over ninety Brier. But now everything is along party lines, and the judiciary is becoming very politicized, and the Americans are the poorer for it. We need an independent judiciary. We need judges who are open minded, nonpartisans, who will apply the law fairly the way they see it. Obviously they're going to be influenced by their ideology, by their background, but nonetheless they're doing it honestly in an attempt to implement the words of the Constitution. You know, I loved his words when he said the job of a judge is not to is to interpret the law, not to make law or make policy. To read the exact words in a statute which is written by the legislative branch has written and read the text of the Constitution has written, mindful of history and tradition, and don't make up new constitutional rights not in the text. Don't shy away from enforcing constitutional rights that are in the text. And he said, changing the constitutions for the amendment process, changing policy because for our legislature. Now I agree, And in my new book, The Case Against the Peaching Trump, I take a very literal view of the impeachment criteria. Constitution says to be impeached and removed, you have to be found guilty of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors. And some of the people on the left are saying, well, that doesn't mean when it says even if there's um, you know, kind of maladministration, that's good enough. Or uh, if he does something bad an office that we don't approve of, that's bad enough. But that's not what the Constitution says. Constitution says, you be two thirds vote, you can't change that. Why should you be able to change bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors. Treason, You can't change it. It's in the text of the Constitution. If you don't like it. To men the Constitution. But sometimes being a literalist gives you more rights because you literally have to apply the rights in the Constitution. And impeachment is a good example to lay it out. As a liberal, why I want to see the Constitution adhere to literally and very much in tune with what the frame's had in mind. Staliah once said, a good job must conclude as the law demands in spite of it, even if they personally do not like the decision. I thought that was pretty powerful. Well, you know, he once came to my class and we talked together for two hours, and I put to him a bunch of quick cases where he had come to conclusions that I didn't agree with. And he said, in the end, you know, some of these conclusions he didn't agree with um, but he had to apply the law. Now, look, every judge deviates from that. Bush versus Gore was not the ideal example of nonpartisan law enforcement. You could take different views on that. But when you get a case that goes along party lines, you really have to wonder. But you know, nine of the cases in the Supreme Court are not decided to long party lines. You get Ginsburg joining with with Roberts and you get Kagan uh joining with Thomas. So it depends on the nature of the case. But look, we all ought to have an open mind. We are to listen. I haven't made up my mind about Kavanaugh. I want to hear what he says. I want to read more of what he's written. I, you know, like some of the things he said, and I don't like other things he said. I want to hear what he believes about precedent. I don't care what he cares about a particular case because when he's on the bench thirty years from now, those aren't going to be He's actually written about precedent about our grandchildren. Yeah, he said that the Constitution has written, the Statute has written. But he also said mindful of history and tradition. I took that to mean precedence. I did too. I did too, and I think that's right. And I think he will abide by precedent. He's not going to overrule ro versus way. He may not expand it, not extend it. He may look at it in a narrow way, but he's not going to Professor. This is a great question. Well, everybody fearmongers on Roe v. Wade. I would argue to you. And I think a lot of people think Roe v. Wade that ends abortion in America. It does not. It would send it back to the states, And I would argue, I think I could make a strong case that in at least forty eight states, maybe more abortion would be legal. There would be different variations, you know, in terms of restrictions or parental notification and such. But UH, and states like New York and California and so many other Blue states, they would be the most liberal laws in the country. Would not. Abortion is not at risk y. It is reported that you is reported that you supported Judge Barracks in the Seventh Circuit. Now, she has said that she believes the fetus is an innocent human being that deserves protection. Did that mean that she would not allow New York to permit abortion, because if you? Because she answered that too. Though she said that she she liked Scalia because she wrote extensively on originalism. Uh was a believer in that her own personal views will not impact her decisions, and she was very clear about that. And we must follow what the law and the Constitution demands. But the Constitution is doesn't mention abortion at all. But it does say it can't be deprived of life without due process of law. And there are some right to lifers who say there should be a constitutional right to life and a state can't take that away from me. There are three positions on abortion, the ro Versus way, privacy, Trump's the right to life. There is the position that says leave it to the states. Then there's the third position, not articulated by very many, which says that the fetus has a right that can't be taken away by the state. And what I would love to hear it because I think that Barrett may come up again for consideration Justice Ginsberg or anybody else, I'd love to hear her views on that issue. I I totally agree with you, and I think you know this. Also, remember when we had John Kennedy was running and he gave his speech on Catholicism. I mean, the greatest ever given, one of the greatest speeches ever given. A right. Your book is phenomenal. By the way we put it up on Hannity dot com. It's called the Case against Impeaching Trump. Professor Alan Dershowitz, who has been with us and sadly he has been targeted and full don't talk to Alan Dershowitz, which is ridiculous. We'll take a quick break, we'll come back, all right. As we continue, Professor Allen Dershowitz at Harvard is with us. He is brand new book. It's on Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com, bookstores everywhere. Um, we only have about a minute and a half. Let me give it to you and and just give us more information. I've been reading your book and I'm absolutely loving it because it makes me think more than anything else. And you talk about a purity in terms of we have all got to be civil libertarians, especially with spies and campaigns and lying de FISA court judges. That really worries me. I think that's right, and I think that civil liberties today may be used to protect the President Trump. Tomorrow, they're going to be used to protect the democratic president and the rest of us. And that's what I'm so concerned about, the civil liberties of President Trump and the constitutional rights, because if you can take away the constitutional rights of the president, you can take away the constitutional rights of everybody. And you know, as I've said, if Hillary Clinton had been elected and the Republicans were trying to each our locker up I would have written the same book that just would have had a different title, would have said the case against impeaching Quinn. You know, I look at every fact, I look at all the cases. But I'm trying to be a neutral civil libertarian. I'm not trying to be a partisan defender of anybody. And I wish more Democrats and more Republicans would approach these problems in a neutral, objective way. We can't criminalize difference. As Paul Manafort has been convicted of nothing, it's a two thousand five tax case, and twenty three hours a day now for a month he's been locked up. That that is not justice to me. I agree with you, and Judge Llis agrees with you, and he said yes that you know, he can't strike it down as illegal, but he was very upset about special Counsel and about how how putting the screws to him to make him sing, not only sing, but composed. That opposed to me, sounds like subordinate subornation of perjury. And so they can impeach or prosecute Trump. That's their goal. That's scary, that's that's not America. To me, it's not no. I agree, we have to have neutral standards. The case against impeaching Trump, Professor Alan Dershowitt, Thank you, And then I speak for everyone, thank you for everything you've done to protect our nation's great legal heritage. In keeping with President Reagan's legacy, I do not ask about a nominee's personal opinions. What matters is not a judge's political views, but whether they can set aside those views to do what the law and the Constitution require. I am pleased to say that I have found, without doubt such a person. Tonight, it is my honor and privilege to announce that I will nominate Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme charm All right, that was from last night the President Judge Kavanaugh s elected to be the next Supreme Court justice. The left, of course going crazy, and even people Conservatives, Republicans all that had advocated for other people um are weighing in left and right. We do have a lot of background about his judicial philosophy, as I have been saying all day, which really is at the heart of all of this. Here to weigh in is former Speaker of the House, author of the best seller Trump's America, The Truth about Our Nation's great comeback. Um another massive runaway bestseller New King Rich. I want to ask you this. You know, I actually quoted you last night on the five I was hosting, and then on on Hannity, And I think that, you know, if every American before the president spoke, just imagine that Hillary was about to come out and make her second choice for the U. S. Supreme Court, how would we feel? But yet you still get a whining and the complaining, and and there is a natural doubt, you know, is he really gonna be in the mold of Alito Scalian Thomas everybody. I think that's a legitimate fear based on past failures. Sure. Look, I think first of all, we have so often had our hopes broken by people like Suitor who turned out to be such total disasters that it's reasonable to be anxiety. Right. On the other hand, this is a guy who has been on the court now for twelve years, which, considering these fifty one shows who there are fifty three rather so he got on He got on the Appeals Court at forty one years of age. He has authored three hundred opinions. Eleven of his descents have been picked up by the Supreme court who sided with him and overrode the liberal majority on his court. Uh. He is very clearly on most issues, UH, deeply committed to a constitutional reading of the law. UH and to being bound by the founding fathers. And in that sense, he's very much I think like Celia. Uh. In fact, he was described by a liberal professor who wrote a very positive obed saying that he thought he should be approved even though this is a pro Clinton, liberal democrat but who knows in person. Said look, he said, this is this guy is like Celia, but even better educated. And he said, you're gonna be very impressed with That's a that's a hard mountain of climb, because Kalia was a genius. Um. Yeah. The thing that well, we don't just say that. We were very fortunate close and I were actually in the White House hatting dinner with Vice President pens and that watching the introduction, and then we went to a little reception for the Kavanaugh was including a chance to talk at linked with his father, who's a very charming man, uh and who talked about how how true real a all was that you said, you know, his wife used to come home and she would but here's here's Uh. Now, Judge kavanaught about eleven or twelve years of age, and over dinner, she's practicing her closing argument as as a prosecutor now, uh, to convict some guy. And it's his job at eleven and twelve years of age to take a part of arguments. And he said, that's where his legal training began, was with mom sitting there at the kitchen table. Uh. And they're just a charming family. And I think, you know, devout Catholics, active in in coaching his two daughters and men basketball, active in helping serve food for the poor. I'm gonna will be fascinating to watch the Left try to demonize him, because I think he's actually a very decent human being. You know, it's interesting you say that, because last night I said, oh, by the way, you see that family, and I put up the family on the screen. I said, they were about to absolutely smear, slander, and try to destroy that man and his family. And by the way, it was happening even as I said it. Uh. With the in terms of the Democrats and and their reaction, I'll tell you where I get the most hope in terms of what his judicial philosophy is and we do have a lot in terms of his background, and you know he has weighed in on on really important issues including religious liberty and separation of powers and freedom of speech and the Second Amendment UM and you rightly point out raining in the administrative state of Obama. That was another big one America's interest. But where I get the most hope, Mr. Speaker is when he said, well, what did Justice Scalia stand for as a judge? This is back in two thousand and six. He wrote, it's not He said this in a law review article. He goes, it's not complicated, but it is profound and worth repeating. Often, the judges job is to interpret the law, not to make the law or make policy. So read the words of the statute as written. Read the text of the Constitution has written, mindful of history and tradition. Don't shy away from enforcing constitutional rights that are in the text of the Constitution. Changing the constitution is for the amendment process. Changing policy within constitutional bounds is for the legislatures. And remember that the structure structure of the Constitution, separation of powers, federalism are not mere matters of etiquette or architecture. What are at least as essential to protecting individual liberty as the individual rights guaranteed in the text. And remember the courts have a critical role when a party has standing and enforcing those separation of powers and federalism limits. Simple but profound. And he said more on that, and that is the judicial philosophy I would be looking for, you know, Larry aren the the President. Hillsdale said to me last night, we don't emphasize often enough that the only document directly voted on by the American people was the Constitution, that it was adopted in popular votes in every single state, and that it represented the will of the people. And therefore, when you start to capriciously change it, it's not just the fifty people who went to Philadelphia and wrote it, but it's the thousands and thousands of citizens who who knew that they were voting for a contract, that this was why they were willing to become part of the United States. And I think that you have with somebody like Judge Kavanaugh, a person who feels deeply the burden of history and the burden of America, and the sense that he is there to continue and to carry on a tradition, not to destroy it. And replaces. What do you make of the predictable knee jerk reaction of the left. I mean, you saw the screaming and the yelling, and the hysteria and the fearmongering. That again, it's all predictable. But I seem to sense, uh, even a greater level of hatred and intensity in the in the era of Trump. I mean that may even be higher than what they did to Robert Bourke or Clarence Thomas. Well, it is, I think, and it isn't a sense first of all, that it starts the idea, I know, I hate him. Who is he? Yeah, exactly. By the way, think whoever Trump nominates, I'm gonna hate, whether it's a man or a woman. Just let me know the name, so I'll know who I'm hating. Uh. And you had a lot of as you and I were kidding yesterday, the wonderful scene of the students who were asked what they thought of Trump's now they said, that person's really a racist. He can tell and he had not in anybody yet. But they had already been taught. They've been pre programmed, uh like like badly trained parents to automatically say anti Trump things without any regard for the facts. So, but here's a sense I had that maybe I'm being too optimistic. But it's my nature as an American to be an optimist. Um, it's it's my nature of having all four grandparents from Ireland not to be one but go ahead, Well, but they got here, Yeah they did. But I'm just saying it. In life got better, you're always expecting the worst. Trust me, that's closed as attitude. Don't say things are going well exactly exactly, don't tempt fate exactly. But there's my point. I think for average, normal, everyday Americans, they look at this very pleasant guy with this very nice family. They look at his very reasonable tone and his reasoned, intelligent articulation, and when they see people screaming on the other side, uh, it diminishes the impact and the effectiveness of the radically extremists. And I think that's really what's happening. I want to say, the most amazing single statement on the left in the last couple of days was the Democratic with Dick Durban saying, look, if we have to sacrifice a couple of red state senators to stop this, uh, then I'm willing to sacrifice from the First of all, if you the whip, you're not supposed to go around sacrificing your members. No, it's really a very bad idea. No, I actually think it's a good idea. I think he's right on that. I think they should. Um. Look, Nina Totenberg actually said these words, it's the end of the world as we know it. I mean, it doesn't. And by the way, she said that before he was selected. By the way, that that's almost two years late, because actually elections, that's exactly right, the end of Nina Totenberg's world. But it makes you a little about the speed with which they learned at her institution. It took almost an extra year and a half. Um. So, I guess the question is I mean, I've listened to Ram Paul. He says he has an open mind. Ted Cruz has an open mind. Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski I would argue that they're probably the four people that you've got to pay the most attention to. Um. I look at this guy's background and record in judicial philosophy. I'm a trust but verified kind of person. That's just my nature. Um. I've read everything I could possibly read about him and his opinions. I didn't like the healthcare opinion. That bothers me because even though Obamacare was sold as not being attacks, he kind of thread the need a little bit like John Roberts and made the argument that if it's attacks, then it's legitimate and actually paved a way for it to continue. Does that trouble you, well a little? But I tell when Roberts that it was just made no sense at all. Although it was a little bit in the tradition of John Marshall, whose sidestepped Jefferson very cleverly in Madison versus Marbury in a way that is often misrepresented in law school, that was a sign of weakness on the court, not strength. Uh. And I thought I was with Roberts. You had the same kind of thing that he was playing a game that made no sense in the long run. Um. But I think having having said that, if you take a guy who's had three specific uh papers that he's written in the majority, you have somebody who's had eleven de cents where the Supreme Court sided with him against the Appeals court, you have, uh, you know what is now all of these years on the court. Um, that's you know, you've got to find something somewhere. Um by just thinking, I mean not nobody's going to be perfect, but he has got to be in the high nineties in terms of impact. And frankly, to have somebody at this level of intellectual caliber arguing our side and being in the room with the other injustices will combine with garsis Is having joined them, I think we'll move the court substantially towards a more cons institutional distposition just because of the integrity and the weight of their their research and their reasoning. So I think he will be a major step. As the President said last night, what I thought was, I do think Trump has probably handled this as well as anything in his presidency so far on the way he consulted and then his speech last night. Uh and and he was quite clear about that this is this is about returning to the Constitution, and I have no doubt that Kevin All is going to be extraordinarily dedicated to it. That doesn't mean you and I are always going to agree with his interpretation, but we're always going to know he did it based on having studied the Constitution. We'll take a break, we'll have more with New Gingrich on the other side, and as we continued in Ingrich is with us his best selling book New York Times bestseller, Trump's America, The Truth about our Nation's Great Comeback. One of the things that really stands out to me is I can't think of, and you're a better historian than I am, of a time that there was a presidential candidate that actually te cleographed and gave us the names of potential Supreme Court justices beforehand. And just like Jerusalem is now the capital of Israel, just like the Iranian deal is dead, just like the tax cuts were past, and just like the wall is being built, this president is seems as absolutely committed to keeping promises more than anybody I've seen. Yeah, I mean, the amazing thing about Trump is that he on little things, he's just amazingly all over the place, and you have no way of predicting what he'll do on big things. He has a steadiness and a consistency that is absolutely historic, and that is in fact changing history. Uh. And it's a it's it's sort of amazing to see the same guy have both these sets of characteristics. But there's there's no question the decision I remember last night, have beef chance to talk to UH the Attorney General Jeff Sessions about this, because he was in the room with Clifton Me and UH a number of other people, UH, including UH Leonard Leo. When we got to the discussion about having a list, and Trump was paying attention and said, well, you you really think this would be helpful? All of us said, look, you know, people need something to get a grip on how serious you are and how real you are, and the right kind of list with the right kind of names send a huge signal, which of course it did. UM. And then Trump has been very faithful to following through on that. And of course the job he has done, not just on the Supreme Court, but you look at what he's done is and my my newsletter today both at English Productions and at Fox News dot Com, I talked about how much change he's made below the Supreme Court. And of course what he's doing is he's building a farm team for the future. UH. And he is really looking at younger and younger people, having somebody UM that that is like UM the Kavanaugh who is in his early fifties. Kavanaugh, he serves UM as long as Justice Ginsburg will be on the court in two thousand and fifty. Mm hmm, that's amazing. That's amazing. I mean and and by the way, elections matter. But I've gotta let you go. Um. Mr Speaker, it's always a pleasure to have you. I think we have you on TV tonight. We look forward to seeing you. I'll be with you there all right, Mr Speaker, thanks for being with us. By the way, Amazon dot Com bookstores everywhere. Trump's America, the truth about our nation's great comeback, which the mainstream media ignores, will take a break. We'll come back a lot more coverage and Ali North as we continue the Shawn Hannity Show. We had many hours of productive conversations. Uh. These are complicated issues, but we made progress on almost all of the central issues. UH. Some places, it's a great deal of progress. Other places, there's still more work to be done. We now have a meeting if I'm with John, set up for July twelve, that could move by one day or two, uh, where there will be discussions between the folks responsible for the repatriation and remains will take place at the border, and that process will begin to develop over the days that follow. So very productive conversation about the the process by which we will deliver on the commitments that were made in the Singapore summit. The North Treeans also confirmed the missile engine testing facility. We talked about what the modalities would look like for for that destruction of that facility as well, and so some progress there as well. UH. And then we have laid out a path for further negotiations at the working level so that the two teams can get together and continue these discussions. We talked about what the North Koreans are continuing to do and how it's the case we can get our arms around achieving what Chairman Kim and President Trump both agreed to, which was the complete denuclearization of North Korea. UH. There's no no one walked away from that. They're still equally committed. Chairman Kim is still committed. Might a chance to speak to presid the Trump this morning. No, my counterparts book with Chairman Kim. During the course of our negotiators as well, UH lately had productive good faith negotiations. Are you any close into a sense of a timeline or denuclearization and aline declaration or their movements invest instruction. I'm not going to get into the details of our conversations. But we spent a good deal of time talking about each of those two things, and I think we've made progress in every element of our discussion. The idea of a nuclear showdown with North Korea keeps you up at night. I would recommend deleting your Twitter app. He has not merely being cavalier with a threat about nuclear war. He's being cavalier in a way that it makes him seem demented. These are the messages from a person who is not well, from a leader who is not fit for office. President Trump is goading Kim Jong un to test a nuclear missile again, to prove its reliability, to show him wrong. And fundamentally, I think it comes across as two kindergarteners who are jostling each other, except that each has nuclear weapons. True late after Americans die, after that nuclear holocaust, or after a million dies, and that's where we are. This is not an exaggerations. Comments about nuclear weapons have experts worried he could literally inadvertently trigger a catastrophe. Darmn Kim and I just signed a joint statement in which he reaffirms his unwavering commitment to complete de nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. He was very firm, and the fact that he wants to do this, I think he might want to do this as much or even more than me, because they see a very bright future for North Korea. The sanctions will come off when we are sure that the nukes are no longer a factor. I noticed that some of the people are saying that the president has agreed to meet. He has given up so much. I gave up nothing. I'm here historic day. Let's just I think most people like me want to know what was going on in that room one on one. Well, the big thing is, this is now my twenty fifth hour of being up and negotiating, and we've been negotiating very hard. This is about the complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of the entire peninsula. So without that, we could not have had a deal. I mean, one thing up, we want to de nuke the entire peninsula. We want to de nuke that whole situation. That is a hotbed. And you know what's been happening for years and nobody did anything about it, and you have to. We have no choice. We had to. The relationship was really good, the you know it built and I talked about early on in the relationship and the feeling, well, we had a very good feel right from the beginning, and we were able to get something very important done. And actually something's happened after that was sign shown where we're getting rid of certain missile research areas, certain missile testing sites, and they getting rid of a lot. Did you talk about a trip to the United States? Did you talk about I think at the right time, he'll be absolutely all right. There you have it. That was part of my interview with the President in Singapore immediately after meeting with Kim Jong un, And of course your media's predictable reaction, and what do we get. We got American hostages home, we got one missile launch site now being dismantled. We got talk of d nuclearization, we got the remains of Americans going back to the Korean War now being returned. And Mike Pompei was saying, don't believe what you're hearing. That this is going well, but it's gonna be a step by step process and we certainly don't have missiles being fired over Japan anymore. We talk about all of this now through the prison the President on his way to Brussels with a NATO summer where he's going to demand that they step up and pay their fair share, that America is not the piggy bank of the world. And then of course off to London where we expect protests, just kind of like when Reagan was president, um, massive protests, and then off to hell sinking to meet with Putin here to win on all of this. There was a thing or two about Warren, a thing or two about foreign policy. Is Colonel Oliver North, how are you, sir? I'm glad to do with your brother. How are you? I'm good last night, I'm getting in better shape every day. I'm trying. I'm more. I'm just trying to do what you do every day. Hey, um, let's start, let's start. I try. I cannot understand America didn't drop a hundred and fifty billion dollars on the lap of Kim Jong un. And we've made all those progress and all the naysayers never thought little rocket man fasted um fire and fury, uh my buttons bigger than yours and works would ever get us there. And some people saying, oh, he's gonna blow up our relationship with NATO, and why is he meeting with putin your reactions. Well, let's let's start with we're Secretary Pompeo was first in this trip, and he went straight to point. And now, of course he's made a bunch of other stops, were assuring the Japanese and South Koreans, and going by Afghanistan. Just to mind everybody out there, we still care about the outcome. Ah, if you look at what's happened in North Korea, add to your list that their test site has been destroyed, whether intentionally by or by the earthquake that came first. All of that is gone. And so in order for him to continue testing nuclear weapons, he's going to have to rebuild that, and we can certainly see that from the overhead. What bothers me most about this whole experience that we've been going through the last several days is the idea that somebody put out the word that the North Koreans are still doing bad things now that it's trying to jeopardize the whole process by saying, look, he's he's going to get away with it. The president's off in his stance, or the US is having the wool pulled over our eyes. I think what's really of concern to me is not that we're having the wool pulled over our eyes, because that's not going to happen. This is not Obama, certainly not Clinton. And when you look at what what's transpired, you somebody inside the U. S. Intelligence Services leaked that information, which I believe first to put in the Washington Compost, has now been spread all over the place. And as you've played some of these cuts from these these talking heads and the idiot that works, they're a little promulgating the same idea somewhere inside the Intelligence Services or the State Department. That information came out. Whether it's right or wrong, it's wrong for it to come out. I don't believe it's correct. I think that what you've got is an effort to sabotage this whole thing, just like we've seen with so many of this president's initiatives. On top of all the other things that you went through a my adding to it, the destruction of nuclear test site. The Alanian scientists who were making all this happen with the money that was provided by the United States under Mr Obama. All of those scientists, except for a small hintful, have I've seen it come home. They're back, They've gone back to Tehran. In other words, they're not benefiting in their nuclear program by paying for the North Korean testing and research and development. That's a very very positive thing. It also means that things are hurting in Tehran as a consequence of this. What the Iranians are gonna do is they're gonna look very carefully at how we start denuclearizing, the steps that have to be taken, and they're going to benefit from that because they'll know better how to hide things. Much bigger country, much less information that we're getting from there right now than we are from North Korea. How does this relate to NATO? The NATO nations have been traditionally, not just in the last five years, not in the last five weeks, because in the last fifteen years, since the wall came down, they've been getting away with less and less of a commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty organization. Poland, Poland has made more of a commitment than most of the countries have been since way before Poland. If you look at the Baltic countries, all of them have been under paying and yet they've reaped the benefits of American ships being in the area, American troops being in their countries helping them prepare, and all of that is a major sign of improve from what we've had. Let me ask you this because I'm watching the news and all right, so the President should you know, landed already in Belgium for this whole thing, and he's gonna take one more. He took a shot at NATO before he left on Twitter that the American people were not the world's piggy bank. And that's all true, but we don't mind doing our part and and helping. And you know, so there's gonna be protests which we saw during the Reagan years in Europe, which are gonna be big and allowed, and the left and the media in this country you're gonna go nuts. Um, I actually view that as American strength. Then you've got this whole battle going on with Teresa May and her time. You know, Boris Johnson looks like he's making the move now that he wants to be Prime minister. So the President's going into London in the middle of that change. There's there's a bunch of very unhappy members of various governments around, some of them pretty far left in the case of Great Britain, pretty far right. In the case of point in North Korea, when has to remember with a ken maybe in charge, but it's very likely that he's got a very powerful poltara proletariat excuse me, uh, the folks that are running the country from inside. They stand to lose a lot without this nuclear weapons program. And so if his pollet guro is telling him how far he can go, he doesn't have full control over what's happened. And my guess is that some of what you're seeing experience when with the Secretary of State making the visit. In the case of the European countries, they have been they've been getting away with, well, not murder, but with essentially under paying for years on what's been going on out there. You cannot fix those kinds of problems overnight. You can't fix the nuclearization overnight. You're not going to get the Iranians to cooperate overnight. But what you have to have is a strong nat of that can save for example, as the savers are being rattled in Tehran, if you close the Straits of Hormuz or you mind them, that is an act of war, and that's kind of. I think what NATO is If the Iranians do that, they're cutting off the lifeblood of the world's economy, which is oil and energy. It to me that would be a moment where the Iranians will then pay the ultimate price. Well it is, That's why I'm saying it's but NATO has to stand up and say that's an active war open streets. Okay, is the president going to align NATO? Um it? See it. Look, on the one hand, they seem to just everything. They're all reacting to President Trump. This president now is beginning to show America's strength on the world stage. They don't particularly like it. I think they preferred Barack Obama and his policy of appeasement. And you know, so they're reacting, but it's in America's best interest and that's and you know, one of the things that everybody, you and I have not forgotten, but too many of our listeners have, the folks that have been making the decisions for the last eight years plus because many of them are still in the government. The High States loved it when Barack Obama ran around the world apologizing for America's strength and power in our economy. Now that the American economy is booming. You see things like the Chinese the value of Chinese currencies dropping like a stone. You see what's happening with Brexit, and you see Teresa May is getting nervous and nervous meliy said Nickers and or not. And she's got conservative members of her coalition saying we're walking out because you're getting too soft on these guys in Brussels, meaning the European Union. Look at the European Union is made up of globalists. The people who govern and they think that they are governing all of Europe really aren't. All they can do is set kinds of policies that were the very kinds of things that caused brix Brexit to begin with. Right, right, get go. Why why did the British vote in favor of Brexit on the referendum because in favor of getting out of the Europeanian Because it was a massive intrusion on the sovereignty of the British Isles. That's what it was all about. They don't believe in sovereign They since that's why we take so much grief about building a wall to protect our borders. Look at the only other country that's got a wall that protects the entire country Israel. Israel is getting yeah, of course it works, and they're getting beaten all over the place. Where people are advocating BDS, I mean boycott, divest and sanction. They'd love to be able to do that with us, not the Israelis. I'm talking about the European Union. I mean, it's the fact of the matter is this is the most powerful country on the planet Earth. It needs to be to protect our freedoms. That's why I'm the president of the n r A. That's why I'm out trying to raise all I'm asking for the n r A. It's the same thing President Trump needs desk for. Just sign up, just one more person if you if you've got an n r A membership, sign up one more from your family, your neighbors, your friends, your co workers. Same thing for they're going after you. And not that you're not used to it, but yeah, well that's that's that's shocking. Listen, if I didn't have protesters that the places where I pier out there, you know, it's all it's happening to other people. It's happened to people like you. Your whole life and frankly me more often than I ever talked about. But you know I'd be I feel like I'm failing in my job if it didn't happen. Alright, my friend, thank you, semper five, safe home, God bless you, Semprifi, appreciate you. Quick break up. All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today. We have an amazing Hannity tonight, news information that you won't get anywhere else. All Right, we got breaking news by the way, with John Solomon, also New King, Rich, Alan Dershwitz, Joe Degenneva, Greg Jarrett. As your media goes insane, we will have it covered. That's tonight. I'm Fox. We'll see you then and from London tomorrow. And by the way, Lisa Page testifies tomorrow we'll have breaking news. I promise see tomorrow. See tonight at n I'm back here tomorrow