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now raising a lot of eyebrows around the country. that is tonight's opening monologue. last night on this program we showed you video where former obama official evelyn farkas said she urged her former colleagues and people on the hill to get as much information and intelligence as they could on the trump team before president obama left office. on march 2nd during an nbc interview, dr. farkas who served in the obama administration from 21232015 as deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, eurasia listen to these comments very, very closely. >> i was urging my former colleagues and frankly speaking to people on the hill. it was more actually aimed at telling the hill people get as much information as you can, as much intelligence as you can before president obama leaves the administration because i have a fear that somehow that information would disappear. with the senior people who left. it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy. that the trump folks if they found out how we knew what we knew about their staff, the trump staff dealing with russia, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods. we will no longer have access to that intelligence. i became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open. i knew that there was more. we have very good intelligence on russia. then i had talked to some of my former colleagues, they were also trying to get information to the hill. >> sean: how we knew what we knew about the trump staff dealing with russia. what evelyn farkas saying here -- she is admitting what we have been saying, what sara carter and john solomon and james roman had all been saying. >> it was aimed at telling the hill people get as much information as you can. as much intelligence as it can before president obama leaves the administration because i had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people. >> sean: that's the intelligence? that you want your friends on capitol hill to get? next, she admits there was unmasking. that should not happen. >> the trump folks if they found out how we knew what we knew about their staff, the trump staff dealing with russia they would try to deal with those sources and methods. we would no longer have access to that intelligence. >> sean: oh, intelligence, unmasking, surveillance. intelligence leaking was taking place and by the way, in case some of you people don't know, that could very well be a felony. take a look. >> i became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and i knew that there was more. we have very good intelligence on russia. then i had talked to some of my former colleagues and they were also trying to help get information to the hill. >> sean: how did you know there with intelligence? you were out of the administration, how did evelyn farkas, a former obama administration official, working for the hillary clinton campaign, know about the surveillance and intelligence? during an interview on cnbc earlier today, farkas seemed to be walking back and changing her tune. it watched >> people are accusif admitting that there was surveillance. admitting there was unmasking and urging people or at least saying that intelligence leaking which can be a felony is the way it should get out. you weren't even part of the government at that point. >> so i was referring to the motivation. there has been a lot of discussion in the media about why are people leaking? i was trying to in a very shorthand passion explain at the very end of that quote that people were leaking because they were afraid of a cover-up. i do not absolutely do not condone leaking. it's against the law. >> sean: wait a minute, she said earlier get as much intelligence as you can. get it up to the hill, our friends. opposing leaking even though earlier this month she was obviously claiming to encourage it. farkas also played dumb on what information she was referring to. watch this. this is interesting. >> sean hannity and others have made a petition of this -- i want to expend what you meant by that and in particular when you talked about if they found out how we knew. how we knew? >> what i was getting at was the fact that we are having out a transition of power from the obama administration to the trump administration. if indeed there was an investigation ongoing, if indeed there was information that the obama administration had about russian interference and possible american involvement, i wanted to make sure that congress knew about it. >> was there a specific piece of information? >> no. i suspected they had information. again, knowing what i know about our intelligence communities, they are very professional. they have a very good eye on russia. >> sean: if indeed now she says -- wait a minute, this is the same woman that said if meaning the trump folks knew what we knew, if they knew what we knew about the trump staff dealing with russian the mike russians. dr. farkas cannot walk back her original comments. an interview she did back in february with the vox before that appearance on nbc. she was asked what her quote level of alarm was. here is her response. >> it has lower than it was then, i'm like finally, everybody else sees it. seriously? the reason i was so upset last summer was that effort i was getting winks and hints from inside that there is something really wrong here. i was agitated because i knew the clinton campaign and the world did not know. i did not think it would happen this fast. i did not think flynn would've survived a year but i thought it would be most of the year. did she know about flynn, these intelligence that eventually got leaked that took him out? what is she talking about here? who is giving her the winks and the hints all the summer? i'm just asking this question based on her own words. during an interview on msnbc, she said she is the victim of fake news because we played her entire comment in context. i'm not kidding paired watch this. >> on the dark campaign of fake news, that is still ongoing, we see even someone like myself get sweep up in all of this one people like me are speaking on behalf of process. people spend it to suit their needs. i think it may be that the russians are behind even such fake news today. >> sean: maybe the russians put these words in my mouth, asking about surveillance, unmasking and leaking intelligence. i'm asking questions based on what she said. mainstream media members continue to ignore the facts in this case. the media does not want to focus on this today. they want to focus -- two white house officials helped give nunes intelligence reports. i would argue it is purposely dishonest if you read further into the report, it isn't really a story. it just says the official played a role. tonight i am calling on the intel community to stop being distracted by the hate trump media -- destroy trump media, general sessions needs to convene a grand jury. the only thing we know first sure that the intel was leaked about retired lieutenant michael flynn, that's a felony and a crime. as for dr. farkas, we have to know what she knew about the unmasking about the surveillance and when she knew it. and hughes she was coming to kidding with and who was giving her the communication. and what did she know about leaking or getting the information to her friends on the hill. here with reaction, newt gingrich. you cannot write a novel like this, mr. speaker. and that you write really good novels. i've read them. >> i keep trying and i've got to say, reality has outstrip in my fiction. it's so convoluted now. such weird behavior. one of the things i mentioned to you the other day, why would you have these committees define the question in a narrow way that only involves trump? not bringing in bill clinton's half a million dollars from the russian bank, sending 20% of uranium to russia. i am from looking at foreign influence in the american system. there is a grave danger that destroyed the roman republic, moaning just pouring in to a corrupted system. i want to see it done fairly come out in the open. i think it's very important that one people in either party are suspected, that we have a fair and transparent and open system, right now this is a one-sided witch hunt. filled with allegations. when someone blurts out the truth, a few days later they are so scared, they try to walk the truth back and reject a reporting of their own words. that tells you something about the level of fear on the left. >> sean: when she is saying get as much intelligence to people on the hill as you possibly can and if they found out meaning the trump folks -- if they find out, how we knew what we knew about their trump staff dealing with russians -- there is no ambiguity there. we are not parsing of words. we are not slicing and dicing like ted koppel here. we are playing it in its entirety. >> listen, remember this too. the changes in the rules by the obama team in january weren't about hard intelligence. the changes were about gossip, rumor, slander, facts that cannot be checked out. they said just distributed to the all of the different agencies and by the way, that means leaks? what the heck. they weren't trying to get hard information up to the hill. we have processes for that. then you can brief with the house and senate majority and minority leaders. there is a lot a way for the intelligence community to get information to the congress to keep it secret. this is been a blatant effort, in the case of general flynn to smear him. so much of this is based on people who are committing felonies, breaking the law. in order to pursue a political agenda. >> sean: that is the only law we can actually confirm has been violated here. that is a felony, the leaking of intelligence. if we get the issues, if we just used evelyn farkas' own words. my interpretation is very clear. she talks about surveillance of the term campaign, and then when she talks about unmasking about the trump folks, that would be unmasking and then the next thing is welcome to gather as much intelligence and get it to our friends on the hill here. it seems to me that this has gone much deeper than anybody else in the media is willing to talk about. what should happen? with the intelligence community, shouldn't they bring her in? should a grand jury be convened? >> i don't understand what the two intelligence communities are doing. i get the chairman nunes has this wave of felonies that are occurring under the executive branch of the obama administration but chairman berger has the same understanding -- you clearly have here -- first of all the way she described it, this is te largest organized effort. this is not one or two random people going rogue. she talked about the we have to collectively get it up there. who? presumably the democrats. what is it about? not about a russians, not about hacking. its efforts to understand the trump team as they go through the transition to plan. that clearly has to involve felons. >> sean: coming up right after this break, more with newt gingrich. what republicans need to do to get their act together and get on the same page? laura ingraham is here to weigh in on the surveillance of the trump campaign and the unmasking and of course the leaks and also the republican invite. lou dobbs, austan goolsbee and ari fleischer. on this very special edition of "hannity" ." that can be triggered by over 200 different allergens. live claritin clear. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates... maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance. then you're a couple. think of all you'll share... like snoring. does your bed do that? 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they got that on november 8th. it is not the freedom caucus that is responsible for the g.o.p. failure to repeal and replace obamacare. this legislation wasn't wrong from the beginning. it was free to behind closed doors. not one single member saw the bill until it was rolled out. that made it a disaster. i do not know who is telling the white house to focus their anger on the freedom caucus but i do think it is misplaced. i have talked to them, they want to make a deal and work with the president and the country. my advice tonight to speaker ryan and her best to mike to mike the rest of congress is simple. you need to get all the different factions in your caucus together. get them together with senators like rand paul and mike lee and mitch mcconnell and secretary price. i have this before. get all the factions, the moderate scum of the tuesday group, the study group, the freedom caucus. order pizza, get beer. i don't care if you include coloring books. get a consensus bill like you've been promising the country for eight years, get it done and get it on the president's desk. that is your mission. follow your mission and your promise. not ideology. it is what is good for the american people. a promise he made everybody. we continue with newt gingrich. mr. speaker, how do you roll out a bill and not show one member of the house what's in the bill? how do not appeal to moderates moderates -- >> as you know, my newsletter came out yesterday, posted on fox news. it came out -- i outlined the mistakes that were made. it was an astonishing failure, to follow what ronald reagan and margaret thatcher taught us. we were so successful in that contract of the american congress. these guys were talking process, the guys were democrats were tg health care. it's not their job, second, you have to have something that people can believe in and understand and it cannot be so complicated that nobody understands it except -- you cannot write a bill and i am very worried they have learned nothing. you cannot write a bill designed around the very arcane senate reconciliation rules. totally fake scoring. and get anything you can explain to the american people. i think there is a way to get this done. it starts with something that's a major argument. if you design the right bill, if you did the right things for rural america, you did a lot of democrats -- you get a lot of democrats to vote for because people back home would win it. popular and communicated enough to win the argument so they have to find some gimmick. friday, the freedom caucus actually blocked the republicans from throwing away their majority. if they had voted for a bill that was at 70% approval -- 17% approval, ten or 12 days to run. hillary care broke 40 years of democratic control. obamacare lead to the democratic party defeat in 2010. a vote on friday might well have been the end of the republican majority in the house. i'm very concerned about where they are at right now. >> tucker: i'm very concerned that they did not have the sense to work on a bill knowing the it is a coalition party. look, you are right about process. the average american has no idea what reconciliation is and they don't care. this is what they want to know. am i going to have better care at a lower cost for me and my family? that is it. if this bill does not get that done, and you can't communicated and you don't have consensus -- why did they unveil it and why did they keep it secret? >> to make it worse, donald j. trump was elected as an outsider because people don't trust washington. there's going to be a part two and part three -- no one elected the current president to trust people. his job is to make sure it is accountable, it's verifiable but i do think the establishment is working overtime to try to drive away president trump and at the freedom caucus in order to move president trump toward the senate. i think it will backfire. i think they'll figure it out. i was very concerned today. >> sean: do you believe that the president was not served well by his own party? i think he did a lot of heavy lifting. he shouldn't have to do and be, he was put in the position to d do. come on they not do their job on the legislative side. i don't understand it. >> this was a congressional failure, not a presidential failure. they reassured him up until the last couple of days. it was all fine, it was all terrific but this is part one. then there's going to go to the senate and right at totally different bill. how can a pass both the house and senate? if you have not thought through all three steps, don't take the first step. >> sean: and for eight years. >> i'm concerned about about what they do next. >> sean: how can you not be ready for this moment? mr. speaker, good to see you. when we come back, a new report suggesting during the 2016 election the fbi director james kony wanted to expose that russia was trying to metal in the election but it was the obama administration that stopped him. why would they do that? laura ingraham weighs in on this. the latest on our blockbuster in terms of surveillance, a masking in the leaking of intelligence. the speaker of the admitted earlier today that he is worried president trump will reach out to democrats if republicans do not work out a solution. laura ingraham, next. and lou dobbs. i've been an army paratrooper for twelve years. i've logged hundreds of jumps in the course of my career. for the past six years i've been a navy federal member, too. thanks to my go rewards credit card, every time i pay for something like this, i'm earning rewards. if you get scared big guy, cliff and i got you. cliff's been driving a boat for six months pretty solid now. para-sail-ing! here we go! open to the armed forces, the dod, veterans and their families. navy federal credit union. >> live from america's news headquarters, former national security advisor michael flynn offering to testify in exchange for immunity. that is according to "the wall street journal." flynn's lawyer confirming there were talks with congressional panels and that his client wouldn't agree to be questioned in such a politicized environment without assurances against unfair prosecution. admitting he misled vice president mike pence against the content with the russian investor to the u.s. north carolina lawmakers passing a bill to roll back the states bathroom bill, that log requires folks to use the bathroom matching their birth certificat certificate. it discriminates against transgender people while companies boycotted the state costing north carolina billions in lost revenue. now, let's take you straight back to "hannity" ." >> sean: welcome back to "hannity," james comey attempted to go public as early as the summer of 2016 with information on russia's campaign to implement the u.s. presidential collection but it was the obama administration officials that blocked him from doing so. two sources with knowledge on the matter -- russian president vladimir putin said accusations of russian interference in the election our lives. take a look. >> although this things are fictional, lies. all these are used for domestic political agendas. >> you and the russian government never tried to influence the outcome of the u.s. presidential election and that there will be no evidence found? >> ronald reagan was debating about taxes and no. no. >> sean: i don't take putin at his word and nobody should and his history with a little mixed up. it was actually president george h.w. bush who said read my lips. but the sentiment stands that russia was not involved. as was discussed by james comey and clapper and admiral rogers. we continue now with fox news contributor laura ingraham. i don't really care what putin says in that sense but here is the problem. when you look at the narrative that has gone on all this time without any evidence and that it must be learned with newt in the first segment, at a very deep level the unmasking of trump and president-elect and those around him, leaking intelligence which is a felony -- now we've got a really deep issue here that we do know happened but the media ignores that part. your reaction? >> sean, the truth about this comey revelation -- oh, comey wanted to reveal this. i always like to think about the motive. we have to be our journalistic detective here. who has a motive to release that information now? a lot of democrats just want to keep the story going to look at feed the media beast every so often. which goes nowhere. who has motive here? i would argue that comey could have motive, someone close to him could have motive to release this. look, i was a crusader for the truth and get this information out before the voters went to the polls. or, sean, you could be someone high up in the obama administration who who was outt that meeting. who wants to burn their reputation. look, we did not want to influence the election. we were being very judicious in not putting out this information until october. we wanted to be clear that everyone in the intelligence agencies were on board at that russia was actually trying to tamper with the election. what we know is that they are still leaking. the leaking never stopped with these people. they are now releasing information about what happened in a comey meeting with top obama administration officials? this is helping no one except perhaps the obama people. >> sean: what is your take on evelyn farkas? she is out now. she is with hillary. and her original comment which he walked back today and a major way, my interpretation was very clear what she was talking abou about. surveillance, unmasking and potentially leaking to our friends upon the hill. intelligence. what to make of those comments? why is she still on tv? where is her lawyer? >> i think your initial comments are probably more accurate. it blew up in the last 24 hours. to me, it is becoming increasingly clear. i think you agree that there are a number of trump transition people whose names were unmasked and released to various friends in the press. these individuals had nothing to do with the russian investigation. zero. but they wanted to demonize these people and they wanted to most of all, sean, delegitimize the trump conservative populist agenda. they were going to delegitimize him on immigration, tax reform, health care. keeping perpetual cloud over hi him. his staff looking for information that i think had nothing to do with russia, to try to besmirch the reputation of staffers in the -- when devin nunes and the democrats cop up this information finally, we are going to have a very different view about all of this. we're going to realize why the democrats frankly are trying to demonize devin nunes. >> sean: the great analysis as always. we will have more with laura right after the break. she will be joined with our own lou dobbs. speaker ryan says he is worried the president will reach out to democrats to get the deal done on health care if they do not come up with a solution in the republican party. we will get to that and ari fleischer and austan goolsbee will weigh in on the surveillance of the trump campaign. we u have the very latest, tonit on "hannity" ." , or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis. various: (shouting) heigh! ho! 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this is a bad bill. this was not the perfect thing, the enemy of the good. this was a disastrous piece of legislation from jump street. >> sean: not one single house members on the bill before it was rolled out. >> even though they were in regular order, not -- this is a calamity, legislative calamity and it was led by speaker ryan. the same guy who apparently president trump is going to have lead a tax form. exponentially, passing legislation becomes far more difficult -- because the speaker thinks he some sort of ten pot dictator. >> sean: what is your reaction, lawyer? >> [laughs] >> sean: then you state of the speaker, you go sell it. everyone's trying their best to help. was a mistake made by not building the consensus before the release? bringing the moderates, tuesday, sunday, study group caucuses together? >> right, this was botched. this was botched, the communication was botched by all parties. i think they allowed paul ryan to quarterback most of it. they came in kind of toward the end to try to repair things with the freedom caucus and then with the more moderate republicans. it's ridiculous to start pointing fingers at the freedom caucus. i don't understand donald trump's tweet about that at all today. let me just say this. mark meadows in october of 2016 when paul ryan was dis- inviting donald trump to his big fall fest event in wisconsin, mark meadows stood by donald trump as did all these other members of the freedom caucus. i would be very careful if i were president trump in alienating kind of the only people who were with you in october. in the republican hierarchy. >> i think you're exactly right but let's say it straight forward. somebody has told the president of the united states something that is not true. there is no way in the world that this president should think based on fact, the empirical straightforward reality, that it mark meadows who is the chairman of the freedom caucus -- that jim jordan, founder of the freedom caucus is doing anything but serving the nation. their constituents and principles. in the president. >> that is their job. >> these are three of the finest congressmen on the hill. >> they are good people. lou is right. for paul ryan to come out and say g, we are afraid the president is going to work with democrats. well, who's fault is that? if you are quarterbacking all of this, then you have to be straight with the president about who is in your caucus. there are some more moderate folks. some more conservative folks. paul ryan knew -- >> sean: everyone should have agreed before -- >> yes, you have to lay the groundwork. yet seven years to do this and you come in and rush this thing and then oh, it all fell apart and it is mark meadows fault? ridiculous. >> sean: there is a fix. start from the beginning. build the coalition and get the job done for the american people and move on to the next legislative -- >> let me say one thing quickly. there will be a train wreck and it won't be at the white house. it's going to be when the president of the united states finds out. that he was misled and backs were misrepresented. this president will not put up with it and the boys and girls who play cute on this one are going to pay a hell of a price. >> sean: ari fleischer and austan goolsbee will be here next as we continue a very busy night here on "hannity" ." so how old do you want to be when you retire? 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>> i sense that there is some trick question coming. i do not think that we should be committing felonies. >> sean: so, ari fleischer, what are we learning here from john solomon and james rosen and sara carter and even evelyn farkas? a felony was just committed in the case of daniel flynn and their talk about releasing intelligence for political purps on nbc. what is your reaction to that? >> i will tell you what i am learning. any development on this issue that has the remote possibility of supporting donald trump's point of view is illegitimately gathered and disseminated and should never be shared. on the other side, any fact or development that opposes what donald trump is saying is probably gathered and ought to be disseminated by everybody and the democrats doing it should be praised. this is the coverage of this issue. there are two sides to it but the only side that gets hammered is anyone giving support to what donald trump has said and i say that as someone who opposes his first tweets because he went too far when he said that about barack obama. but it has been lopsided. >> sean: but trump may have been surveilled. the fisa warrant, surveillance took place -- that leaks took place. unmasking took place and we are talking about now there is no privacy for the american people so my question i guess -- >> i don't think that we know that. >> sean: oh, we do. >> we should be more circumspect talking about what we know from classified information that has not been released. >> sean: for eight months, your liberal friends of the media have been talking about russia and the trump campaign collusion. do you have any evidence at all? >> as i have said all along, sean, i've been totally consistent on both the wikileaks side and on the side. i do not think that we should be encouraging people to leak anything illegally. and i don't think that we shoul should -- >> sean: the house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes, we also know that sara carter and john solomon and james rosen have all said that the surveillance occurred. >> wait a second -- >> sean: and in the case of general flynn, that intelligence was leaked which resulted in him losing his career. which is a felony. >> as i said, i have all along -- i think if people are leaking information illegally, we should investigate that. that doesn't mean we should ignore if the russians were involved in trying to -- >> sean: i never said that. >> they should also investigate that. >> sean: james call me, james clapper, that seems to never get covered by the media. >> that is exactly right. such a leap of faith to say that the trump people colluded with the russians to do this but that's what everyone wants to believe at least in the media and among the democrats -- it's totally -- the republican senator was asked because of his relationship to donald trump could he be a fair investigator since he was for donald trump? nobody said to the lead dunham mark democrat because you are against donald trump, can you be fair? this whole media approach to this, suggesting only one side could be wrong. and that is donald trump's side. i want to have an investigation but i have so little faith that the press is going to be the one who has any sense of fairness in this issue. >> sean: is there any sense of evidence that shows collusion after eight months of allegation? >> no, anyone no one has seen. no evidence of collusion. but that's what the investigation is and i think with the russians did getting involved was nefarious in and o. that ought to be investigated. >> sean: we know that obama tried to influence the elections in israel and unseat prime minister netanyahu. but i guess it only matters if it is against us. i've got to roll. we have a very important question of the day. plus, some of your voice mails you left for me on the hate -- in some cases -- "hannity" hotline. no matter who you are, a heart attack can happen without warning. a bayer aspirin regimen can help prevent another heart attack. be sure to talk to your docton aspirin regimen. bayer aspirin. the markets change... at t. rowe price... our disciplined approach remains. global markets may be uncertain... but you can feel confident in our investment experience around the world. call us or your advisor... t. rowe price. invest with confidence. ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity." time for our "question of the day." how do you think republicans can come together and get the job done and fulfill their promises. we bond your comments. go to facebook.com/seanhannity, @seanhannity on twitter. time now, your messages, mean or nice, it doesn't matter, on the "hannity hotline." watch. >> i just lost 16 pounds. i'm very proud to wear the flag pin, by the way. i enjoyed meeting the members of the service. have something to say, nice, mean, it doesn't matter, called the number. 877-225-8587. that's how the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with us. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight... >> when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration law, our nation is less safe. >> bill: the big battle over sanctuary cities continues. seattle now suing the feds. tonight, we'll talk with theow attorney general, jeff sessions. >> sanctuary cities are safe havens for criminal aliens and not their innocent victims. >> bill: judge pirro is outraged because it takes so long for illegal alien cases to be even heard in court. she will be here. also, bernie goldberg on whether cable news is destroying america. and watters with a very unusual spring break story.
United-statesWisconsinNorth-carolinaRussiaCapitol-hillDistrict-of-columbiaIsraelWashingtonUkraineRussianAmericansAmerica >> good evening. my question. >> call me tom. >> my question relates to the equality act. discussed at length tonight. as we all know the conservative supreme court may rule current federal law doesn't protect lgbtq americans. my question is if that happens, what would you do if republicans try to block the equality act from passing congress to fix that if they filibuster it or what happens if they say only pass it for sexual orientation not gender identity. >> right. obviously what we're talking about here is a government that has been broken in many different ways including this way. they're not responding to the needs of the american people and this days they're willing to discriminate against the lgbtq community. what i have done for the last ten years is try and organize americans at the grass roots to push for justice throughout the society. so in this case, i understand that there maybe people in the congress who will push for the wrong thing. and it seems to me the only real way to push back against them is go to the grass roots and get the people their constituents to push. i have also talked about putting in term limits for congress people and senators. one of the things that is true in the united states about attitudes towards the lgbtq community, is that there's been a generational shift. and if we push through bha i have talked about, that people in d.c. find very awkward and unnerving. 12 year term limits for congress people and senators we get a wave of new blood. into the congress of the united states. i mean, we have a broken system. this is an example to me of a straightforward break down in terms of american values in american democracy. our only real response is to push at the grass roots as hard as we can and secondly to have structural change in our government to break this strangle hold on the government and the right of the human beings who live in the united states of america. >> next bring in james roman. from l.a. a non-fiction author and producer of the broad way show. he supports mayor pete buttigieg. >> aids is the gift that keeps on giving. big pharmaceutical companies is the insurance industries profit. similar treatments are not a cure for aids. pharmaceutical companies profit ir rationally. there is no incentive to develop a cure they continue to profit from people that have hiv. for the rest of their lives. as president, how would you finance the science of developing a cure so that we can scale back the pharmaceutical industry. >> that is right at the heart of our broken government. that question. we have a group of corporations led by the drug companies who have bought our government. if you look at how we're being treated under law by those companies, it is somewhere between infuriating and scary. they charge us more than they charge any other people in the whole world. sometimes ten times more for the same drug. and in this case, they're actually working to preserve long term extremely valuable monopolies for themselves. the way we can go after that is by directing science through universities through research to solve the problem. so if you look at what mr. trump has done, he has cut research funding across the board in every one of his different budgets. i think that's the exact wrong thing to do. what we should be doing in a case like trying to come up with solutions to aids with cures for aids. is going directly to the best scientists and funding them as much as necessary and conceivably effective to solve this plob. it's bigger than that. these companies are bought the government. they are controlling what's going on. they charge us what they want. we can't go to canada. the government is prechted legally by negotiating with them. what's going on here and we have to break the power of the corporations to own our government and to control what happens to us. >> mr. steyer, you lived in san francisco. in the 1980s. this was the height of the aids crisis. how has that a shaped your view on this topic? >> i am lucky enough to live in san francisco. it's true that the aids crisis in san francisco in the late 80s and 90s was out of control epidemic that no one really understood how broad it was going to be. how many people were going to be infected and how many were going to die. what it showed to me was a couple of things. the community actually came together really strongly. to respond to it. i go to a church which is still bragging about how much work they did in the aids epidemic. i have friends who quit their jobs to run hospices. that people really came together and in addition for to jamess question, the amount of research that went into developing the cocktails that basically didn't solve the problem, but it allowed people to live. out of normal life span. was something that was a huge effort throughout america. but very specifically on the west coast. so i look at this as a place where there was something very scary and out of control. that americans -- don't forget president reagan would never admit to the crisis or do anything about it. the country responded itself. researchers responded. people in the community responded. people in churches responded. actually there was a great deal of caring that went out and as devastating as it was in san francisco, it wasn't nearly as bad as people were worried about. and that was really as a result of the work and caring that people put in. >> our next question is from carter brown. he was fired from his job in texas after his coworkers discovered he was transgender. he started an organization for black transgender men like hips. your question. >> good evening. >> carter. >> today at least 19 black transgender women were murdered in the u.s. this year. antitransgender violence is an epidemic that many transgender americans believe is not only largely due to lack of protection but extreme lack of prosecution of the horrific crimes. specifically what will you do to ensure that law enforcement and the judicial system prioritize penalizing the crimes and violence and murder against transgender citizens as hate crimes? >> so, carter, there is nothing that i can think of that would be more painful as an american than what you just said. that there are citizens in our society who are being targeted for murder as a result of who they are. that is something which absolutely the resources police resources, shelters for people to go to. trying to take people off the street who maybe homeless. in my hometown of san francisco, 10% of the homeless people are transgerund youth. i know this is a question at some level of resources of protection, but also of support. for people who are in the circumstances and particularly vulnerable. then the question about the second part of the question was what are you going to make sure the hate crimes are prosecuted. >> correct. >> this is a straightforward attack on humanity itself. to kill somebody for who they are. that is got to be the definition of hate crime. we have got to prosecute those as severely as possible. as symbol of who we are. a symbol of the thing that we won't put up with. and everybody prosecutor has to know that. this is something that goes to the heart of american equality. and justice. and that's got to be straightforward, not a 99% rule. 100% rule. >> thank you, sir. >> next up we have a sophomore at ucla. studying commuters science. computer science. >> i'm working with other amazing queer students to put on queer hacks. hack a than bringing visibility to the queer community and tech. and make them feel like they belong. i know growing up i didn't feel welcome in tech. especially when my classmates and stem classes would debate the validity of same sex marriage. regularly sp shamelessly. according to it a study in the journal of the american medical association, in states which legalize same sex major the rate of attempted suicide among high school students declined by 7%. resulting in approximately 134,000 fewer children attempting suicide each year. what measures will you take to ensure long term protection of same sex marriage rights and address mental health issues and suicide rates among lgbtq students? >> so, you're asking a question that to me goes to the heart of social acceptance of people. and that's starts with leadership at the top. that the president can in terms of his or her behaviors, show exactly where their heart is. when i think about this from the standpoint of what you can do to change the way people view themselves and other people view them in the lgbtq community, i think on the very first day there should be steps taken to undo the example that mr. trump and mr. pence have laid for the country. that would mean undoing the ban on transgender military people. it would mean undoing the ban on visa for same sex partners of foreign diplomats and mean appointing people from the lgbtq community to high important parts of the administration as an example of what we are. some of this is definitely about law. i know that there are still 28 states in this country where you can be fired for being part of the lgbtq community. i know that there are places you can be thrown of housing. the same 28 states. for being part of the lgbtq community. laws really matter. the president also has an amazing amount of soft power in how he or she behaves who he or she apoipts. and fighting for the things that we all care about. to me the question is how do you show the world that your heart is 100% behind the idea of full acceptance of this community. not 99%. but 100% and when you see statistics. one of the statistics that absolutely went to my heart was when i heard that half of the transgender young people attempt suicide. if that doesn't explain to you that the very dire situation that they feel themselves to be in, then you must have a heart of stone. and anyone who doesn't want to do whatever it takes to protect the young people, really must search their soul to find out what their deepest values are. as an american that would seem as basic as you can get in terms of protection, equality, justice, my goodness. i don't see there's another side to the conversation. >> we'll next bring in deb jackson. the parent of 12 year-old who we heard from earlier tonight. for most of her life she was a conservative republican and in southern baptist. now an advocate for transyouth. your question. >> debby? >> we can all change. and shout out to the husband tom back home. good name. access to affordable and affirming healthcare should be the right of every person as you mentioned for transgender youth it can be especially critical when they have disfore ya and suffer through the wrong puberty. puberty blockers are rarely covered and can cost thousands. many otherwise support i families out there who want to help their kids can't because of the financial barriers. how can you help lower the cost of the critical life saving medications? >> so that's a great question. because it goes to the heart of a very specific problem. and it also goes to the heart of a much bigger problem in society that it's part of. because obviously we have a huge problem in healthcare cost in general. and as a result of the huge healthcare cost crisis, we have a giant healthcare availability crisis. it is very clear to me that all of that care should be available to every transgender youth. that is a drcritical part of thr life and has to be part of every healthcare plan and part of the public option that believe in. healthcare is a right for every american in the 21st century. it's an absolute right. this is a critical part of the healthcare for these young people. so in other words, once again, how is it possible that we're having this huge healthcare problem? because the government failed us. we have a broken government. corporations have bought it. and ultimately you have to ask, how are we going to break the strangle hold on the democracy to serve people in this way? for ten years i have been putting together coalitions of ordinary american citizens to beat the corporations. we can win. i have been winning. we'll have to to do it in a big way in washington d.c. we'll have to return the government to the people. really that's what i'm running for. just this problem. to deliver the real change for people's lives in a positive way that corporations will not allow us to do right now. because it's not profitable for them. >> next we'll bring in kevin. who works at uc l.a. school of public affairs and also for l.a. county as a consultant on hate crime research. your question. >> good evening. unlike the current federal administration i believe in data. so centered around that. lgbtq americans will not be counted on the 2020 census. what is your plan to account for this and make sure our identities are not erased. >> let me ask you a question about this. when you say they won't be counted, what do you mean by that? they will not be identified? >> like lgbtq identities have will be removed from being asked as a question. on the census in 2020. >> it's clear this administration is scared of data that contradicts the under lying belief. i think -- look. it's absolutely krital to get the data on subjects like this. because i think that kind of information gives a power to this community politically. that is really important. and when i said how you make change? my answer was grass roots. this data is the proof that at the grass roots the lgbtq community has real power. so it's absolutely critical. that we get this information. if it's not going to happen in 2020. i know in california we're spending an extra $80 million to make this census work. whatever happens as president, i will collect this data. because this is going to be the data that empowers this community to make the changes and scare the politicians into doing what's right. it's that critical to me. >> next up we have robert. a human resource consultant in cathedral city, california. your question. >> how would you ensure that lgbtq people are represented in the military command positions specifically would you consider having an lgbtq person as the under secretary reporting to the secretary of defense? and how would you choose that person. >> let me say this, first of all, i think it's absolutely critical that antidiscrimination laws be applied very clearly and severely in terms of the lgbtq community. second of in the military that there be senior members of this community so that, in fact, those -- the ideas and the feelings are represented directly, not indirectly. whether that appointment should be a specific appointment to a specific job is a different question. what i believe is, we need members of this community at senior levels across the government. you know, i started a grassroots organization, one of the biggest grassroots organizations in the united states called next gen america, which is really about registering, engaging and turning out people who otherwise wouldn't vote. on the way over here, i checked to see how many of the people in that organization, which is at least 1,000 people, self-identified as part of this community, and the answer was 30%. so, what i believe in is representation at the highest level of americans, of every single type, but specifically making sure that the people of this community are represented at high levels so that at no point is there a discussion that doesn't include people who are lgbtq members openly, proudly and will stand up for the rights of this community. >> and mr. steyer, your next question comes from maria, who is the policy and operations manager for the los angeles lgbtq center. maria, your question. >> hi. i want to start by saying that i.c.e. detention centers are an lgbtq issue. lgbtq asylum seekers are being denied parole in detention centers across the country. two have died in i.c.e. custody due to lack of access to hiv care. at least 24 immigrants have died in the past three years in i.c.e. custody. will your administration be ready from day one to put in place strong measures and penalties to increase oversight over health care access, hiv health care access in detention centers across the country and save lives of lgbtq asylum seekers. >> of course we will. what we've seen from i.c.e. in terms of inhumanity, this is a perfect example, but it's not the only example. i think it's absolutely critical for the united states of america to treat people in a humane and decent fashion. it's very obvious that this president and this administration has chosen to not only break the international laws in their treatment of asylum seekers, but to break the basic laws of humanity. when i think about why i started the need to impeach campaign two years ago, yeah, he's a criminal, it's true that he more than has earned impeachment, but it goes much beyond this and it goes to exactly this kind of issue. the actual president of the united states committing crimes against humanity, like this, in our name, is something that we should end right now. certainly the first day of my presidency. >> and mr. steyer, some of the other candidates in this race, some of who were on stage tonight, would create a special envoy within the state department to deal with lgbtq rights. is that something that would happen in a steyer administration, as well? >> i think -- let me talk about that for a second. so, i know that there's 71 countries in the world that openly discriminate against members of the lgbtq community. and i know that the united states, as a value-driven country, where we're projecting to the world what we care about, what we're willing to do about it and the kind of world that we're trying to create with our democracy and freedom-loving partners, should definitely include a specific attempt to represent the rights of lgbtq people who live outside the united states. so, i think it's entirely appropriate as part of our foreign policy to have a person specified for that role, but also to make it clear that part of human rights, part of civil rights, that we expect in our own country, without equivocation and that we expect people around the world to observe, is the rights of the people in this community. so, i would support that, and i think it's got to be part of our foreign policy to stand up for what we believe in most deeply. >> tom steyer, thank you so much for being here tonight, sir. and thanks to all the candidates who joined us for our democratic presidential town hall, equality in america. and thank you to our live audience here for your insightful, amazing, brilliant questions. tune in on tuesday night for the cnn/"new york times" presidential debate live from ohio. erica hill picks up our coverage after a quick break. sometimes your small screen is your big screen. and with the xfinity stream app, which is free with your service, you can take a spin through on demand shows or stream live tv. download your dvr'd shows and movies on the fly. even record from right where you are. keep what you watch with you. download the xfinity stream app today... ...because xfinity stream tv week is here. watch shows like south park and the walking dead now through october 13th. this is "cnn tonight," i'm erica hill in for don lemon. a blockbuster day in the impeachment inquiry. we're going to catch you up on all the headlines over the next two hours. we begin with breaking news. sources telling cnn a senior adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo is leaving. michael mckinley was brought in by pompeo and leaves as the questions about ukraine and how dealings with the country were handled escalate. 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