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>> sean: welcome back to "hannity," we discussed how wikileaks exposed the mainstream media here in america and the clinton campaign. lets take a look. >> journalism is that, i said it in 2008. because i was investigating barack obama. and his backgrounds. and his associations. in his career. and his lack of knowledge. and his radical belief system. and immediately ignored a lot of it. so my question to you is, knowing what wikileaks revealed about the podesta emails on cleansing corruption, on ...

>> sean: welcome back to "hannity," we discussed how wikileaks exposed the mainstream media here in america and the clinton campaign. lets take a look. >> journalism is that, i said it in 2008. because i was investigating barack obama. and his backgrounds. and his associations. in his career. and his lack of knowledge. and his radical belief system. and immediately ignored a lot of it. so my question to you is, knowing what wikileaks revealed about the podesta emails on cleansing corruption, on ...

Complex public records and difficult public positions that i think deserve a full and fair hearing. im going to be pushing back on our moving forward with eight different confirmation hearings this week. the same week that were also going to be voting on the budget reconciliation -- and the same week that donald trump is at least allegedly going to faebl hold the press conference where he will radio veal how he plans to deal with his conflicts of interest. >> what would be wrong with starting th...

Protected. we had an experience certainly in the clinton administration when several nominees for attorney general were not put forward because it they did not pass that background check and you dont want it to get to the stage of a confirmation hearing when something comes up and how can you ask questions if if you havent opinion able to look at the financial disclosures, especially in a case where you have all these balance nairs where they have complicated back dprounds. >> well and they have...

Friends try to run out the clock, and in this letter from the head of the office of government ethics, it has left the nominees with unknown or unresolved ethics issues. >> the government ethics office sent out a letter on friday saying they usually have weeks in advance to go through a nominees financial disclosures, and there are a few nominees who will be having their hearing on wednesday who the government ethics office says have not completed their financial disclosure work, and the reason ...

So they could get double the sentence they normally would face. gregg: you referenced donald trump and the white reference, the obscenities heard yelling white people and donald trump. the victim was ordered to say i love black people. that is strong evidence of a hate crime, right? >> yes, absolutely. theyre definitely going to be charged with crime motivated by racism. one of the things i want to point out, it should be treated like any crime motivated by race, and i dont necessarily feel that...

>> thats absolutely correct. i think the mental stability or unstability of this perpetrator, the subject of this horrendous attack definitely be on the forefront of the investigators that are currently conducting the interview and the additional agents who are scouring the backgrounds and scouring all kinds of information on this subject to determine what that motive could be. once again, we have an active shooter situation. unfortunately as good as we are at federal law enforcement and local l...

To worry, all of being thoroughly vetted. heres a transition vetter -- we certainly appreciate with the pro-life community and other groups are doing to weigh in on these various nominees. all of that information is being taken into consideration very, very carefully. >> has been pouring through all the positions on mr. trumps list saying there is a way to calm conservative fears. >> there are very many other excellent judges on the list that have no red flags and in fact are very solid judicial...

Thoroughlyto vetted. >> we certainly appreciate with the pro-life community and other groups are doing to weigh in on these various nominees. all of that information is being taken into consideration very, very carefully. >> has been pouring through all the positions on mr. trumps list saying there is a way to calm conservative fears. >> there are very many other excellent judges on the list that have no red flags and in fact are very solid judicial backgrounds that would maketh excellent choice...

Jeremy, even before a president calls a great ally, there is an intel briefing on maybe what that ally is grappling with or, you know, its not all -- >> theres an intel briefing in something that we used to call a leadership profile which is really a two-pager on what makes that leader tick. what are they interested in? what are that are backgrounds. the president knows what issues to raise and what not to raise. then it can get a lot more tactical. if theres a particular threat as there was in ...