Demanding that congress provide direct aid of 2,000 who have suffered under no fault of their own and insisting that unnecessary and wasteful spending be stripped from the ongoing appropriations bill that is larded up with pork. Its an appropriations bill that nobody would have voted for if they had to vote for it by itself. Remember, this is the president keeping his word. Back in 2018, he said he would never sign another bill like this again saying its not right and its very bad for our country. Takeur a look. There are a lot of things that we shouldnt have had in this bill but we were in a sense forced if we want to build our military, we were forced to have. Ui there are some things that we should have in the bill. But i say to congress, i will never sign another bill like this again, im not going to do it again. Nobody read it, its only hours old, some people dont even know 1. 3 trillion, its the second largest ever. Jason President Trump was elected to be a disruptive force. He was never a go along to get along politician. A time and timeo again, President Trump has made it clear that he hears the call from American People to stand up to the Political Class and he hears calls to buck the status quo and to stand up to special interests. His only priority has been that of the American People and get ecthis, the president s call is even being welcomed by his most unhinged critics like speicher nancy pelosi and congresswoman ocasiocortez who say they are ready to boost the amount of direct payments, something the president insisted on this past summer. Heres the core question, what they also agree tot cut out the pork and all the reckless spending in the legislation was make they probably wont. Unfortunately, wasteful spending and misplaced prioritieshe are nothing new inside the democrats evergrowing far left wishlist. For example, republican senator rand paul today released his annual airing ofr the grievances documenting case after case of waste, fraud, and abuse inside the swamp. 15 million to buy a high speed boats for sri lanka, 130 million to promote democracy in nepal. 15 million to promote it in pakistan, 33 billion to promote democracy in venezuela that seems to be going so well so far. To be clear, new funding by the end of the year is imperative to prevent a Government Shutdown but congress has a choice to make, will they deliver needed aid to americans struggling to the pandemic, or will they retreat to the old ways of washington where pork packsai projects, foreign nations, and the special interests take priority over the forgotten men and women of the United States of america. Me now for reaction, Fox News Contributors katie pavlich, charlie hurt, along with former white house chief of staff reince priebus. The president has been very clear along the way, everyone has heard them talk about h wants more payments to the people who are suffering through no fault of their own, the amount he is targeted is 2,000. He said he doesnt want any pork in the spending bill, he said he wants to go after these hightech companies and not let them takeem advantage of section 230 and he also said he wants the ability to get us out of these endless wars but it doesnt seem like they were listening to him. He also said he didnt want to just arbitrarily rename a number of our military installations which is why he vetoed the National Defense act today, thats a separate issue than the covid relief bill and i say that because its not a relief bill at all, its smooshed together with a huge spending bill. Americans are in an unprecedented situation, washington is acting just like it always does and even in a crisis cant even change its behavior to prioritize programs that affect americans and maybe cut some of them that arent as useful right now, the fact that the University Got aid when they been charging full tuition for students who arent even in the classroom is absurd and nancy pelosi is using this to put republicans in a tough position by lying and saying President Trump and republicans never explained how the president wanted in terms of direct checks and thats just not true. President trump called for a standalone bill without any extra spending, no pork attached. In october, he called for a standalone bill on direct checks and the bottom line is this, not only calling for stimulus for the American People that he is calling for the opening of the economy which is really the only thing its going to get us out of this. Rand paul has been spot on this week when he says Congress Continues to enable bad behavior of democrats in blue states who continue to keep their economy shut down despite the Scientific Data showing that its safe to be open. There are a lot of people to get mad at congress for the timing of this, they have less than seven hours to read through this bill, more than 5500 pages. Itsgh nancy pelosi alone that controls the gavel that makes that decision. I recall that nancy pelosi has not met with t President Trump n but what wasear the seminal event that pushed her to do that to . It was the fact that she decided she no longer wanted to meet with the president because the president was going to put that out on television and that she didnt want the American People to see how those negotiations twere going. This is how disaster liberalism works, they take a crisis, they appoint all this other stuff with it and you get this wherehe we are today. Ive got to tell you back in 2018, Donald Trumps said he wasnt going to do this again. Its also important to remember that nancy pelosi and a lot of these people have been doing this for years. Joe biden has been at this for nearly 50 years, theyve beenort this game forever. Donald trump is new to this. He comes on the private sector, from the free market and hes trying to do things differently. Donald trump is at his finest when hes listening to his own instincts, making these threats and the solutions are never tidy, they are never simple, we like everything to be tidy and simple but its not. When he vetoes a bill like this it sends a message and its him putting his foot down. Donald trump is at his very best when he is the skunk at the garden party and thats what hes doing here. Even people who dont particularly like him and dont like his style, they agree with him very broadly on these larger issues. Katie is right, people are being held hostage by congress and people like nancy pelosi who were playing these games, using these very important vehicles like the military, like covid relief, using these vehicles in order to get through all of their crazy, but as interest stuff that they could never get through in a straight upanddown boat out in broad daylight. That is disaster liberalism by its purest definition and i agree with katie and charlie the stuff wouldve never passed otherwise. Part of what im fascinated about is the process by which the president goes through this. You had one of the most unique seats and all of washington, d. C. , as a former chief of staff to the president , explain to us how that works, how does the president go through this process and make an ultimate decision . Merry christmas to you all and everyone watching. First of all, the first lesson is if the president says hes going to veto something and hes alluding to that, hes going to do it. He i dont know why anyone is surprised by this, i know we are not here but theres a lot of people who are surprised, he said he was going to h do it. His gut instincts are where he goes, he illustrates it and he does it. What the president does and he agrees with this and im respectfully explaining this, he puts opposite people around him that are very smart on particular issues and they argue it out. If hes talking about nafta the president think about this. The president has wilbur ross, steven mnuchin, bob lighthizer, steve bannon, reince priebus,bu you keep going down the list. He says okay, everyone, what do you want to do about nafta . Then you have gary cohn and some of the smartest people on these topics and their whole lives are based on these topics and they fight. The president t referees this argument and he learns from the best people. Here is the lesson for everyone, he is the same person he was back in january 2017 and he ultimately drives the debate, he is the referee and the decisionmaker. When he sends his negotiators to the house and the senate and says negotiate this bill and they are talking to them the whole way through, they are telling him whats going on but then they come back and the bill comes in and 90 of what they talk about is in there. The problem for the president is 10 of this stuff for 15 or 20 is complete garbage. He hadnt from the very beginning and he isnt now. Unlike other people as charlie alluded to a second ago, hes not what most people are like in d. C. , hes not can eat the 20 in that bill thatik most people would eat because he doesnt agree with that, that is why so many people appreciated his leadership. This could have been avoided, the president was pushing for this, everybody from Mitch Mcconnell right on down the line has been saying why arent you dealing with that . There is one reason and one reason alone nancy pelosi wouldnt bring it up, the democrats wouldnt go higher, it was because there was an election and i didnt want people to get a check while donald trump was the president s. Even she said it out loud. Katie pavlich, charlie hurt, and reince priebus, thank you all so much Merry Christmas and have a wonderful holiday. All eyes continue to be on the great state of georgia at the critical runoffs that will determine the fate of the Upper Chamber and tonight far left democrat Raphael Warnock finds himself embroiled in another controversy after Police Footage after a domestic dispute in march of 2020, earlier this year that was first obtained by Tucker Carlson tonight showed his exwife Holding Back Tears while telling police that he is a great actor, have a look. The way that he acts and today he crossed the line. That is what is going on here and hes a great actor, he is phenomenal at putting on a really good show. Jason i feelre for her. Meanwhile the georgia secretary of state is doing in the republican push to end no excusi absentee voting. Amid mounting concerns about election integrity. Joining me now for reaction is former white house chief of staff, karl rove. I got to tell you, im not missing being in congress right now, im not. Am focused on georgia because its bad enough having nancy pelosi with the gavel, ive lived through that but to give one to Chuck Schumer too, i cant even imagine. What is the latest on what is going on in georgia . Lots of things going on in georgia, early voting is underway. Began a week i ago monday. Republicans, won early voting in georgia narrowly, it starts out onbadly and its getting betters it goes on, republicans were the majority of the vote as they were the day before, its going to be close. Every bit of indication is that this rate is tight, the republicans have a modest lead, they began with an 88,000 vote margin for david perdue in november, 44,000 combined vote for republicans in the 21 person jungle primary for the seat that Kelly Loeffler holds. Its going to be close and everyone is throwing everything at and the democrats have a get out the vote machine that is hard to beat but will not ultimately beat it but nobody should underestimate what Stacey Abrams is capable of doing. Jason the libertarians are really interesting in this equation because theyre Something Like 100,000 that voted in the general election, where did they go, where do they sway, do they show up and vote or are they disgusted with the candidates . My sense is some of them will come out to vote, i dont think it will be voting for the socialist, we do have in jon ossoff and Raphael Warnock, very far left figures who are not free enterprise, not limited government, not low taxes. My sense is there will be some libertarians to come out and vote. The libertarian vote in the senate race essentially where the people who kept purdue from winning 50 plus of the vote and avoiding a runoff, he was within 10,000 votes of doing that, 88,000 votes ahead of jon ossoff and 100,000 votes for the libertarian. He wants to run for governor in two years, hes not going to be endorsing anybody but a lot of his supporters have been endorsing david purdue and supporting david purdue because hes clearly the more acceptable if your limited government kind of person, hes clearly the morn acceptable choice. Jason is there anybody that is undecided at this point or is it merely a game about who shows up and whos able to get out the vote . U there are people whoth are undecided from two angles. One or two or 3 who are trulyre undecided about who they should vote for, should they votean for purdue and Kelly Loeffler . There is also a larger group of people, hard to quantify who is this important enough for them to get out the vote . The party who gets more of its people out as a result of making a convincing argument that it matters is going to be the group that wins. This is a state that has on a good day 5248 republican, it is no longer the georgia we took for granted in the 1990s for the first decade in the 20th century, its a rapidly growing state and very competitive and republicans have got to make a very strong argument that it matters who controls the United States senate. Jason Raphael Warnock, we saw that video of his wife from a few months ago saying this guy is an actor, saying hes a fraud so much so that she hadmo to cal the police. Is that going to factor into the minds of georgians, are they hearing that or is it wiped out by the hundreds of millions of dollars of ads that are being put out ts right now . She is very compelling when you see the whole footage, its very compelling and my suspicion is a lot of people are going to see it. Ho it is close to the election, we are 13 days away and at the end of the campaign a lot of people say i dont trust any of those politicians. I think its very compelling footage. The thing about warnock is it you have a 21 person primary, nobody knew much about him and since then, people have seen lots of footage of him giving sermons at his church. He gave the sermons, its his words you dont have to have somebody interpret it for you, you can listen to him say things that are way over the top. The police are gangsters and thugs come you cant serve the military and serve god,im socialism is getting a bad name, fidel castro has a complex legacy, the early church shared everything in common, its a pretty remarkable left wing view of what life ought to be like. Hes also very facile, heres a guy who sang socialism gets a bad name and he says im in favor of free l enterprise. Fidel castro has a complex legacy and i refuse to condemn him but when he gets hit on it, i believe there ought to be freedom inga cuba. Hes very facile and doesnt hold an opinion but he is much a leftwinger. Jason i know im just a guest host but im kind of disappointed i didnt get the white board but maybe i can graduate that at some point. We are both from utah but im suspicious about your utah credentials, rapid fired. Quickly. Jason look at the time, we got to go. Ou [laughter] another time. Merry christmas to you, thanks for joining. Coming up, President Trump has just issued pardons for 26 more people, weve got the details next. Plus last night President Trump granted a pardon for George Papadopoulos. He joins is next with reaction, plus congressman devin nunes weighs in, stay with us as this special edition of hannity continues. Two medical societies have strongly recommended to doctors to treat acute, nonlow back muscle and joint pain with topical nsaids first. A formulation they recommend can be found in salonpas. A formulation they recommend can be found in salonpas. Salonpas. Its good medicine. Hisamitsu. Jason welcome back this special edition of hannity. Breaking tonight, President Trump has pardoned former 2016 Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort and 2016 Campaign Advisor roger stone among others. This follows a wave of pardons last night that included a former 2016 trump campaign. Advisor George Papadopoulos who pled guilty to lying to the fbi while being investigated by robert mueller. Joining us now is author of deep estate target, how i got caught in the crosshairs of the plot to bring down President Trump, George Papadopoulos. My guess is youre going to have a much more Merry Christmas this week that maybe you ares. Goingo have the week before. From your perspective, tell us what is wrong with the mueller probe, i can answer that question for a bout of half an hour but from your seat what was wrong with the probe . First and foremost i would ealike to express my heartfelt gratitude to the president for granting this kindness and mercy toward myself on the cusp of christmas given that it did come at a time right before christmas, it was extra special to me and my wife and we are very grateful and something ill never forget. Regarding the bob mueller investigation, this simply was the weaponization of the obama T Administration intel agencies targeting americans, directly with a rival president ial campaign to essentially spy on them and find out what this president ial campaign was up to to set various traps for them. We saw it with the perjury trap with micha