now i didn't have a lot to do with it, we had a couple ringers, think you guys so much. see? i'm a man of my word, not like one of these fake news journalists that when they make a mistake they breeze through it. i always correct the record. we have a self fact-checker and you were looking at him. so way to go, guys. sean "hannity" is next. always remember to dvr the show. but first, i'm waters and these are my converse. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: >> welcome to the special edition of "hannity". i'm in for sean. this is a fox news alert. we are following two major breaking news stories tonight. the former fbi director met with the secret service director this evening after his 8647 post on

instagram. more on that in a moment. but first, less than 13 minutes of audio from the infamous biden her interview has been released by ask io's. and special counsel concerns about biden's memory at the time appear to have been more than warranted. we're joined now with the very latest. alexandria? >> hello jason, good to be with you. you will recall reading the transcripts of the special counsel interview when it was released last year. and from that alone it was clear that the president had meandered through responses to direct questions relating to his possession of classified documents post vice presidency. in his report, he highlighted the president struggling with memory and timeline but listening to the exchange recorded over two days back and now obtained by ask io's reveals the scope of that struggle. by biden's tone and extended pauses. >> where did you keep papers that related to those things they were actively working on?

[silence] >> well,... i don't know. this is what, 2017, 18? i remember in this time frame my son, he had been deployed or was dying. and and so -- >> the president's son had last been deployed in 2009 passing way and may of 2015, that was a date he had to be reminded of during the interview along with when president trump was first elected. the sin. >> trump gets elected in november of 2017 -- 16, 2016.

>> ask io's rights that day it took her more than two hours to clearly determine how the documents could have ended up in various personal desks and filing cabinets after biden left office. that was because biden kept veering into other subjects. despite determining that biden had willfully retained classified materials, the special counter to climb to bring charges partially because jurors would consider biden, quote, a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory that comes into better focus with this audio, as does the biden white house refusal to release the recordings. jason? >> thank you. also breaking tonight, the former fbi director james comey met with the secret service earlier this evening for roughly 70 minutes. the secret service also anticipates interviewing his wife.

following his 8647 post on instagram which can be interpreted as unassassination threat against president trump. here now to break down the latest is our very own senior white house correspondent. peter? >> and jason, secret service agents right now as we speak our testing the strength of james comey claimed that he didn't know there could be any violent connotations to this post where he showed seashells spelling out 8647. we have learned in last couple minutes that the interview lasted for 70 minutes and that the former fbi director was hauled in through the garage entrance of a federal building in bc. it was a standard interview to get his side of the story about why he posted what he called a cool shell formation from a beach walk. the shells of course spelled out 8647. comey was not arrested but according to president trump, that could change soon.

>> he knew exactly what that meant. a child knows what that meant. if you are the fbi director and you don't know what that meant, that meant assassination. and it says it loud and clear. >> he apologized and said -- >> he's a very bad -- >> what you want to see happen? >> i don't want to take a position on it because it will be up to pam and all of the great people i have. cash, pam, i have great people. and i will let them because if i tell you something, they will say i'm not going to get involved. >> some of the outstanding questions tonight, what did he think 86 meant in this context? what beach was he at? did he really find these seashells in an 8647 pattern just as a naturally occurring thing? and also, is it possible that he took the photo from someone else? we're hoping to get information

like that. all of these questions of course befitting of his new job as a crime fiction writer. jason? >> thank you. as tonight's tapes reveal during an interview, biden launched into a very strange story about mongolia. have a listen. >> you know i went to mongolia and there were some great pictures. of course i embarrassed the mayor of mongolia there. and what they would do at the time of the invasion, the mongols into europe.

>> interesting... will have to fact-check that one. and also breaking today, the house oversight committee chairman is launching an investigation into biden's use of the auto pen. he joins us now with the latest. all right chairman, you got your hands full. tell us first about what you announced earlier today about what you are doing with the auto pen. because i do some work with the oversight project, they were on this early. but you are going and looking at who is controlling this auto pen

because joe biden, he is demonstrating that he doesn't have all of the cognitive capabilities. that interview was from 2023. >> yes. that is hard evidence early into president biden's term as president. he clearly shows that he was in significant mental decline. it questions who was actually making the decisions. so what we found is that not just with the pardons he issued but many of the executive orders that the courts are now using to trump proof many of the executive orders that president trump is trying to implement to make the government more efficient. many of these executive orders as well as the pardons of biden's entire family is the result of our investigation. these were all signed with the auto pen. and clearly from that interview, which was many months prior to the heavy use auto pen, joe biden wasn't capable of making decisions. he was not coherent.

we think we have identified who the staffers are. you have all done great work with that over at heritage oversight. we are going to bring everyone that we believe was involved in any role in the use of the auto pen, we will invite them to come into our transcribed interview if they want and then they will receive a subpoena and have a full-blown deposition. but we want to find out who was actually making the decisions in the white house during the last nine months of the biden administration when he was clearly in mental decline. >> and what do you -- where to be go next in terms of your investigation? there are senior staff -- starting with joe biden, right? the first lady. you have the chief of staff, you have these dual responsibilities and perhaps was in control of the auto pen. you have the cabinet, you have other senior staff that are interacting with them but they were routinely directed and told us that joe biden was of clear

cognitive capability, that he was sharp as a tack. and yet they went after and criticized the special counsel for his questioning and coming up with a summary that says, yeah,, this is an old man who really has a hard time. >> i mean that was breathtaking. that was her being nice to joe biden. but warning america, look, we have got a serious issue here with the president of the united states. anytime people like me or jim jordan raise the question publicly whether or not joe biden was fit to serve as president, people like jake tapper and people in the legacy media attacked us. they called us in sincere, rude just the worst names in the world. now they have all turned on a dime and they are doing -- they're trying to say there is a cover-up. someone covered up. we know there was a cover-up. the media, as usual, the legacy

media is late to the game. what we want to know is who was the ringleader of the cover-up and who was making the decisions? there were some major decisions made by joe biden, especially in the last three months of his administration. who made those decisions? somebody has to give the authority to use the auto pen. obviously joe biden wasn't the one who stuck the papers and the pardons in the auto pen. some staff or did it. who authorized the staffer to do that? there is no paper trail or evidence that we have found that that person was joe biden. so we are looking at the senior officials and don't rule out hunter biden. he spent a lot of time in the oval office in the last three months. we know that from press accounts and from sources that were involved in the inner workings of the white house. >> chairman, one last question that is about this interview. the secret service getting involved, bringing in and doing an interview with james comey, what do you think when you look at this? do you think that this was just some accident that the fbi

director, former fbi director didn't know what he was posting up about donald trump being obviously number 47? >> my opinion of him is so bad i don't know that i could give a fair and balanced answer to that question, jason. everything he was involved in that i was involved in investigating, there were mistakes made, there were lies told, there was incompetence demonstrated at every step of the way. so my confidence level in james comey is so low i can see he made a simple mistake but it wouldn't surprise me at all if that was intentional and they were trying to stir up some type of coup or some type of insurrection or whatever. they are losing their minds over trumps success at securing the border, all of the things the media said president trump couldn't do that he did in the first three weeks of his term has made people like comey very anxious now. and who knows what led to the decision to post that picture.

>> chairman, think you so much. and you were split screen here, you are seeing that air force one has touched back down here in the united states of america. the president of the united states and others on the plane, we anticipate will be covered like for you when we see the president exit the plane. you never know with donald trump, he may step up to the microphone and start answering questions and offering statements, you never quite know. we will keep eyes on it but the president of the united states now safely back in the united states of america. also tonight, another shocking revelation from tonight's release of the audios, it was biden's complete inability to remember he had kept classified documents. have you listen.

>> joining us now is senator marsha blackburn of tennessee. senator, we have the release of these tapes, there are more than six hours of tapes but we have only heard less than 13 minutes. what is your impression after hearing those 13 minutes? >> when you listen to these tapes, jason, what you see is that we had a president joe biden who clearly could not remember dates, times, places. was very confused and really saw

no reason that he should not have all of the documents that he wanted to have. because it was his memory, it was his position. i find it just so troubling. but you know one of the things, when you look at this, when you look at what james comey has done, you realize how deep the two tiers of justice really ran through the biden administration and thank goodness we have president donald trump, we have pam bondi, we have cash patel, we have people focused on cleaning this up and putting a stop to this. >> you were on the senate judiciary committee. my understanding here is -- i want to get a clarification. what will the senate judiciary do -- they have the gavel, what are they going to do? because the cover-up within the white house back you have general counsel's office, you have the white house counsel

office, you have these attorneys who were there at the white house. there is the first lady, there is the attorney general. do you believe there is a fiduciary responsibility to inform others that the president of the united states, the person with the codes to the nuclear bombs was not of the cognitive capability to make good, rational back regular decisions? and it's amazing to me also what they did in terms of going after special counsel. they try to discredit him immediately. >> of course they did. because they were running the country by committee. we all continued to hear that. that biden was not the one that was making decisions. but, yes, indeed, this is something that needs our attention and our investigation. both the house and the senate. it is also going to need investigative work by the department of justice and the fbi.

and jason, we have got a lot that we are looking at. but the american people voted on november fifth to change how things were done. they gave a mandate to donald trump. they want to put an end to this two tiers of justice. they want to put an end to having government weaponize against people. and look at what is happening with deportations. and you have got mayors like our nashville mayor here in tennessee that is trying to defend these criminal illegal aliens and protect them from deportations. you need to look at all of this. >> senator, you do have your hands full. as we look live at air force one touching back down at joint base andrews, stay with us. we will cover that life and coming up, tapes of biden answering questions from special

counsel were just released and they show how bad biden's cognitive decline was. we will play more of the tapes, dr. mark siegel joins us next with this special edition of entity continuing.

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>> welcome back to this special edition of "hannity". this is a fox news alert. president trump just walked down the steps of air force one, arriving back in the united states after his historic trip in the middle east. and now we continue our coverage with our top story tonight, the tapes of then president joe biden answering questions from special counsel robert hur about his handling of classified information. they were just released and as expected, a revealed a man who

was struggling cognitively. so what does that mean about joe biden's health and mental state while he was the most powerful man on the planet? joining us now is fox news senior medical analyst, dr. mark siegel. dr., think is so much. now like i've said, we have seen less than 13 minutes of six hours of tapes but it is pretty scary. it is even worse than what was written down on a piece of paper. when you hear the dramatic pauses, the slurring of the words, the forgetfulness about major dates that anyone could come up with. what does that tell you as a doctor? >> jason, i have to point out that we were talking about this on this show almost five years ago when he was running for president. and i never considered those gaffes. i mean i hadn't considered -- examined him but they seemed like pure disorientation, loss of memory.

his position at the time, kevin o'connor was explaining away his gate and you just saw how well president trump walks down the stairs of air force one. will president biden, not to make a comparison, was stumbling, halting and it looked to me like a neurological kind of gate. like something upstairs was wrong. yes atrial fibrillation which can cause vascular dementia and we never saw an mri. we only saw excuses made, excuses for gaffes. i'm actually not surprised to see this. but what is really disturbing of course is to see in the audio itself that he doesn't remember when his poor son died. that he doesn't remember when he left the office of vice president, he doesn't remember when donald trump was elected. and probably worst of all, he was let off the hook on the classified documents because he doesn't remember that they are classified documents. that is not someone fit to be commander in chief of the united states. >> we're talking with the doctor here about the biden tapes being released tonight by ask eos but

we are also simultaneously watching president trump who is back on the ground, now aboard marine one and back in the united states of america. marine one is about to roll out and get in the air there at joint base andrews. we will continue to show you the video of what is going on here until it goes out of the camera shot. but dr., let me go back to you here because that is the concern. the most rigourous, vigourous job on the face of the planet. where you have to make split-second decisions. it could be as dramatic as nuclear war but you have to deal with things that affect people's lives, that deal with the military in a split second. did you hear or see anything that would lead you to believe that in those minutes that he was cognitively up to the role and responsibility of being the president? >> no, absolutely not. and actually have to point something else out that our viewers may not know.

these things wax and wane. so you may have good moments, you may even have good days and you may be the last to know what you are suffering from but everyone else around you knows so that makes this a massive cover-up which is what we have been expecting and stating for a long time. a good day or a good sound bite doesn't make you qualified to be president in that moment. and another thing that has come up and i don't want to speculate but could he have been given something to make him do better or perform better at a certain moment? we don't know the answer to that either. i think it is time for full disclosure. there's a lot of reasons president trump one but probably the main one is at the american public feels that they were lied to and there is a cover appear. >> how responsible due think the white house physician -- there is always at the president side within very short distance, a medical dr. that is there to serve the country. not just the president but to serve the country and protect the country from a president who may get hurt, may have an

episode, may have a medical situation. how culpable is that person? is it possible that person and just claimed that they were oblivious to it? >> no. i have written a lot of these myself, not for the white house of course but the fine print that i was screaming at the time, wears the mri scan? on where you calling this problem orthopedic? and by the way, "are you saying the neurological exam was normal? and the neurological look at valuation was normal? when in retrospect it hardly looks like that. he's got a lot to answer for right now. i take those documents very seriously. as any physician should. they shouldn't off you skate, especially not the american public regarding the highest office of the land. >> dr., think you so much for joining us tonight as we watch this video. when the president takes off, there are three helicopters that take off for a variety of reasons, safety reasons, deception reasons. to protect the president of the

united states, we have kept a look on it. that is president trump now making his way away from joint base andrews as he makes his way in the united states. and the release of the hur report was the first instance of a independent source revealing that joe biden did in fact have cognitive issues. he wrote this in his report that biden was an elderly man with poor memory. but of course at the time, the media rushed to biden's defense and did their best to cover it up. here's a reminder. >> what you make of that? >> he leaned into inset ims and pathetic elderly man who has a good memory. >> the doctor defending his memory, the president mistakenly referred to the president of egypt as the president of mexico. he did later get it right. >> if someone says you were too far left you contact to the center. the man is 80 years old. >> he rides a bike. >> the intellectual curiosity, well done. of course the media and the left

are now seeing a slightly different tune. in fact "politico" reported this morning that weather or not a democrat admits they knew that biden had problems has become something of a litmus test for the party as they try to move on from there crushing defeat in 2024. but even with the public pressure, some people still insist that there was nothing wrong with biden at all. that includes the former national security advisor, jake sullivan who says he was completely shocked by biden's horrible debate performance despite the fact that according to a new book, biden once forgot sullivan's name and called him steve. here with more, two ways, the morning meeting, the former democratic strategist dan and our fox news contributor miranda devine. again, i really appreciate you coming on. you strike me as someone who calls balls and strikes here. and politically i mean there is

some excuse and some understanding that, hey, we need to put the president in the best light this was so over-the-top and now it has really turned where democrats, all they can say is we are looking forward. they don't seem to do anything else other than looking forward. is that going to cut it with the american people? >> no, it's not. i mean it didn't even cut it frankly with democrats in 2023 and 2020 forward 70 cut 80% of them in polls kept saying he was too old to run. but you had three legs of a stool that tried to prop him up. you talked about the white house and how they would say she is sharp as a tack, they would browbeat anybody that attempted to question them. you had the media that thought that if they give an inch it was going to give a mile to donald trump so they took the talking points and ran with it, never asked questions. and then you had all of these members of congress, governors that all had their own examples of it in private. i was a lobbyist in washington at the time, we heard from members at fund-raisers and when

ties were loosened in the evening. and ironically it was those same members that kept telling democrats we are not going to have a primary, we'll have to rally around joe biden. and now it is laughable that they are trying to pretend what everyone knows. they lied, they tried to cover and a blowup and their face think the best advice is to be first, be honest and get out there and the american people tend to be fairly forgiving. >> i think that is true and sound advice. but miranda, i don't see many democrats heeding that advice. and go back for us because boy, when that report came out, it was explosive. but they went after him, right in front of the white house counsel who was sitting in the meeting and i already heard what went on in that meeting, they still defend the president. >> yes while they were taking their marching orders from the president who was outraged at the idea that anyone would think that he was addled when he was

obviously addled and that interview. but i think there is more to it. he was sort of addled but crazy like a fox, i would say. it is almost muscle memory for joe biden to get himself out of a tight spot. and when you read the transcript, you can see that every time the prosecutors got near a difficult question, that was going to incriminate joe biden, he immediately started filibustering and rambling on with these ridiculous stories about mongolian archery and old school things. and he did it, i believe, to throw them off the scent because he knew that rob hur had limited time with him, as you said six hours. and he also knew that he was guilty. that he had those classified documents. one of the segments that was

released tonight, he is just feigning ignorance and acting very vague. so i'm not saying that he is cognitively deficient and he certainly was but he was canny enough to avoid answering any of those questions. and i think the biggest story is why have we only seen eight, 13 minutes coming out of the trump department of justice? we know why the biden apartment of justice hid this audio from the public. i think that really, we are being diverted away from a worse crime by the department of justice after joe biden and may be many of those people are holdovers now and they don't want the full audio to get out. because i think what it will show is that they let joe biden off the hook even though they had him red-handed every which way with classified documents all over his house.

and remember that his lawyer pulled one of the authors of these tell-all books, no way would i have let joe biden go into that interview if he was not sound. you think i would do that as his lawyer? it is insane and i think there is more to this. and i just wonder why pam bondi doesn't release the entire audio instead of just selectively linking bits. >> i think this is an outstanding question. because based on what was going on with the oversight project, the court had determined -- my understanding is that by may 20th, they either needed to -- the trump affirmative justice needed to make a determination as to weather or not they would continue to fight the release or if they were going to cough up all of these. so in a 6:00 p.m. hour on a friday night, with 13 minutes come out, i think that begs

another question for another day. dan and miranda, really do appreciate you joining us tonight on "hannity". coming up, the former fbi director met with the secret service tonight after his controversial 8647 post. greg jarrett and nicole parker will join us with more is this special edition of "hannity" continues. from cars to clothes, electronics to groceries. vo: now, politicians in congress could make our energy bills skyrocket too, by cutting clean energy production and raising taxes on energy. it'll cost families hundreds more. and kill thousands of manufacturing jobs. tell congress, don't make our energy bills even higher by cutting clean energy production. for pain in multiple spots like here, here, or here, salonpas patches... stick firmly and remove comfortably... once your pain is gone.

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meaning to kill. of course for years james comey led a politicized and weaponized fbi. that is exactly what the new fbi director is trying to root out. as part of that effort, director patel announced today that the bureau will be leaving its longtime headquarters at the hoover building on pennsylvania avenue in washington, d.c., and at 1500 fbi employees will be moved out of the d.c. metro area into the rest of the country. here now with reaction are a form fbi special agent nicole parker and fox news legal analyst, greg jarrett. thank you both for being here. nicole, first of all things for your service in the fbi. a two-part question. how good is it to have the fbi disburse into the countryside than just residing in washington, d.c.? and the other part of it is what are the odds that james comey had no idea what 8647 meant?

>> well first of all, i think it is absolutely fabulous that they are getting agents and personnel out of d.c. and sending them back to the field. because you know what? that's where crimes are happening. send agents back to the field, that's what americans want, they want to be safe and i can tell you that a lot of the politicized asian came out of fbi headquarters in washington, d.c. so that is great, that is phenomenal. thank you doing that, that is something i highly recommend it and i'm glad to see he is taking swift action. and i can tell you a lot of fbi agents are very happy about the changes he has made because morale had hit an all-time low when i left the fbi. but i do think things are getting back on track. as far as james, i was an fbi agent under his leadership, i wouldn't exactly call it leadership. i do believe that he was the person that destroyed the fbi. that was the beginning of the destruction of the fbi. in my opinion, 2016 when he said no reasonable prosecutor would charge hillary clinton and then

goes on into the operation cross fire hurricane debacle, it was one thing after another. and i believe that he has a very bruised ego. he did not like that president trump fired him while he was visiting in l.a. office for the fbi. but that firing was fully -- it was justified. and as fbi agents, we were glad that jim comey was fired because we thought that he destroyed the fbi and sadly the fbi has never recovered since. >> i was the chairman of the oversight committee when james comey came before us and lectured us on the idea of intent. he was so arrogant about his approach on intent and lecturing us about that and the country, not just me but in answering our questions. his intent here is questioned and does he just get full protection and say it is the first amendment and i didn't know and i was innocent. does he have all of those

protections moving forward? or is he culpable, potentially, if he did this, allegedly -- i'm trying to put all of the disclaimers i can in there. how culpable could he potentially be? >> well jason, the legal standard is he no that his public message could be understood as a threat of harm to the president, particularly in the context of two assassination attempts? in other words, did he mean it as a true threat. if so, yes, he could be prosecuted because the courts have said a true threat is not protected as political speech under the first amendment. look, comey knew exactly what he was doing. so he immediately tried to cover up his intent, as you point out, by claiming that he didn't realize the term 86 did notes

getting rid of somebody by violence or murder. gee whiz, i just didn't know, he said. is that believable? not a chance. he was a pedicle prosecutor, head of the fbi. 's office put mobsters away, he knows what it means. he is not an idiot, he is malevolent. but now he is trying to weasel out of it by playing dumb which is what he always does, as you know. he lied about the russia hoax, he deceived the court, he lied to the american people, he is devious. and when he was finally forced to testify in the house, you will remember this. he said, i don't recall or i don't know 226 times. so his standard backup defense is always when he gets caught a sudden case of amnesia or terminal stupidity. he is not stupid, he is conniving, he is scheming, he is unscrupulous not to mention vainglorious. he is truly a despicable person and i think he is lying about what he did in this case.

>> i only have about 20 seconds for each of you but reaction to the tapes and their release and what you heard? seriously, 20 seconds each. >> the fact that joe biden was our president and that is how -- he is totally incoherent, he did not know what was going on in our country, that is terrifying and i'm grateful that we now have a very highly competent and present president. thank you president trump. >> greg? >> even before he was selected i was writing columns, doing podcasts, explaining how he was mentally incompetent and it only got worse. i agree with nicole. and retrospect, and frinkly at the time, it was truly frightening. >> thank you both for joining us tonight on "hannity", we do appreciate it. coming up, more reaction to tonight's huge breaking news from former u.s. attorney. stick with us is this special edition of "hannity" continues.

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♪ ♪ >> welcome back to this special edition of "hannity". special counsel robert hur concerns over biden's memory were validated by tonight's release of audio from his 2023 interview with the former president. biden repeatedly forgot years in which key events from his life took place. have you listened. >> so what was happening though with dying. it was 2018? any 13 that he died? maybe 2015.

>> his son had passed away in 2015. not 2017. joining us now with his reaction to all of the big breaking news tonight, the former u.s.

attorney brett tolman. first i want to get your reaction to the release of these tapes. less than 13 minutes of 16 hours of tapes. the special counsel goes out there, makes a statement and just gets attacked and pummel by the white house up and down. but they were in the room, they knew this was happening. are people culpable they are of protecting covering up? is there a fiduciary duty and responsibility to inform, say the attorney general or congress? maybe the gang of eight? what is their role and responsibility covering up what was obviously cognitive decline of a president? >> no question there was a cover up. i find it fascinating that if you listen to it, most people are going to focus on the president's responses but if you focus on those asking the questions. it is remarkable to me that this is an interview to determine whether or not there is sufficient evidence to charge an individual with a felony and i

have never heard questioning like this. this is the type of questioning you here when you see a very vulnerable witness or a potential incompetent witness. it is not the kind of questioning that you go into what would be a hostile environment and asked very hard, difficult questions and expect to have details conveyed back to you in order to determine whether or not a felony had occurred. so i listen to the investigators and then i listen to the president attorneys and it is remarkable to see how often that they are jumping in an order to rescue and save the president. that is the biggest indicator to me that we had a president at that time that was incapable of leading this country. and what it also says to me was to look at everything important that happened afterwards, who was pulling the strings, who was the one that was operating the

auto pen. what about the pardons and the clemency that was granted later? it puts all of that in question now that we see what the president was like in this interview. >> that's fascinating. being somebody who has actually done these types of interviews, that is a fascinating perspective. before we run out of time, i have to ask you about james comey. you know him, you work with him. but in many ways, it's just stunning where he is at and what he did. what is your whole perspective on this fiasco? >> never was there such a meteoric rise and such a remarkable fall of an individual that placed politics above all else and revealed himself to be more inclined to do something that serves his own self interest rather than the interest of the country. and it is shocking for those of us that work with him and admired him in the early part of his career.

but i hope that it is thoroughly investigated and i hope a strong message is sent. it is the predictability of being prosecuted in this instance that is going to be the deterrent. >> very quickly, brett. can he claimed the first amendment right of ignorance? is that good enough? or is he potentially more reliable than that? >> i think it is a violation of 871 given his position, given his knowledge, given the leadership that he has in this country, his former position. to me, when you post something that says 8647, to me that is a call to others. it is screaming for others to do what we don't want to see happen. with another assassination attempt of a sitting president. >> thank you for joining us tonight on "hannity". stay with us on the special edition, we will be right back. ♪ ♪

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