0 together. are we there yet? well, we're out of time.f time that went fast. s special on foxsolutely station is absolutely hilarious and worth watching. >> and we're not just some . it's really, really good. we'll be back tomorrow night. in the meantime, the honorablejo jason chaffetz has the hannity out right now. >> jason does it.ur now. thank you, tucker. i appreciate thank you put on the best show. >> absolutely. love it every night. you and so thank you. >> you have a merry christmas. you, too a. all right. well, welcome to this special edition of "hannity". i'm jason chaffetz, sitting in for scott tonight. jason chaffet american taxpayers may be on the hook for another reckless, massive, bloated, one point seven trillion dollar omnibus spending h spree. it's a bill released inased the dead of night. thousands of the dea pages long. basically no, nobody read it. it's filled with waste. it. far left pet projects and allr swne with the support of the swamp. we have full coverage justamll ahead. but first, c tonight, ukrainian president zelenskyy arrived in washington today as congress debates, giving him anothert zee forty five billion in usa. here he is speaking to congress just moments ago from the united states to china, from europe to latin american and from africa, to australia, i the world is to interconnected and interdependent to allow someone to stay inside. and at the same time to feel bal safe when such a battle continues and your support is crucial. najas t, to stand in such a fight, but to get to theo turning point, to win on the battlefield. we have artillery. yes, thank you. i we have it. is it enough? honestly, not really. >> thank you for both financial packages you have already provided us with and the ones you may be willing to decide on your money is not charitys an is an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle. in the most responsible way. here for reaction, author of>> s the giant awakens, retiredtire lieutenant colonel oliver north, a colonel, thanks for joining us . there are some people that are0 concerned that a hundred and ten billion is that money well spent. the president's assuringt isl wh us that he is going to deal with it responsibly. but one hundred and ten billion american people aren't seeing that kind of money. peopls coming out their pockets. all >> well, it's coming out of all our pockets, but it's money well spent ir n my humblee opinion. this is very much like whaoptino ronald reagan did back in the 80s. and i do have some experiencere with that.ag i know that makes mean in a lot older than most of our viewers.p but in fact, he he believed indo supporting freedom fighters.. he did it in latin america. he did it in angola. guinea-bissau, mozambique. he did it in afghanistan. those people were willing, as ukrainian people are, to use their blood and our bullets. way and by the way, most of that hundred and ten billion total between the forty five to one point seven and the previous sixty five overover one point over one hundred and 10ten billion is spent here inod the united states . it's provided to contractors t and defense logisticians in the kinds of people who build the kinds of systems we're getting. so most of that money is spent h here in america. gooder, hardworking americans hv have the jobs. and when you look at that kind of an investment, what would be the difference if when the giant does awake and that's all that's all about communist china. it's not a plug for this book. the idea of it is to make sureme that they get the right message ,to make surpue that putin gets the right message. no more invasions. and that means the people in taiwan are going to need the same kinds of weapon systems that we're nowsystems providing to the ukrainians. and we better get hard at it because the communist chinese aren't backing down, but they're watching very carefullyg what we're doing. and so, jason , in my humble opinion, this is money wellt. spent and it's and it's expensive stuff. the patriot batteries themselves are very expensive. when you look at each one of the patriot pac three missiles, literally well comes in wellllio over. excuse me, a billion dollars a battery and a million dollars. a missile. so you're trying to shoot at stuff that's being flownow by putin as he's trying to redraw the boundaries of europe. a patrio t battery, one point five billion each patriot missile, four million. . >> the max range about one hundred miles. so the iranians, shockley drones. eighty pound warhead, twenty five k a piece. that's what we're up against. and he's got volleys and volleys of them that they're firing at infrastructure in the dead of winter. >> colonel , the concern is that vladimir putin turns this suddenly to world war three . i does. you're familiar with putin. does this provoke him in such a way that it gives him a justification to escalate war and take it outside the bounds of ukraine? >> look, he's been rattlingte the nuclear saber since all of this, before all this begans bea on the twenty fourth of february. he and putin does this routinely. and in my humble opinion, i don't think vladimir putind fi could fire a nuclearre weapon anywhere in europe. i think there have been so manyn mutinies in his armed forces. there are some people are juste not going to push the button. they're not going to go to the right place with that missile launch system. they're permissive action link program is entirely different than ours. thanthat weapon has to be ine in the right place to be fired. it's a very specific t target. and as pilots that aren't going to fly their weapons, the downside from my opinion, the downside of the patriot batteries is they'rerang only sending one the maximum range fo r patriot missile is about one hundred miles, okay? mie there's a minimum rang go o because you don't want to gove off right over your head. head. and if vladimir putin puts his hypersonic weapons on on an mood russia,a s over are they going to authorize the the launch of the patriot missile into russia? i mean, there's a whole bunch of things that need to be worked out in this thing. not not only the train takes>> n to make surege folks can do it. sure.>> and certain things are always been there. >> done that. yes. well, and i think discussion in this country, i wish we had happened with our more of a debate about it. lieutenant colonel oliver north ,thank you for joining us tonight on "hannity". do appreciate it. all right. t. now, congress is rushingto to pass a massive one points seven dollars trillion dollar omnibus spending bill to fund the government, meaning the incominggovernme house republican majority won't get a say when they take power. >> in january . here with the latest from capitol hill is our fox's own chad pergram chad. >> p jason , good evening. the goal is to finish the bill tonight, perhaps 3:00 in the morning. one poin.t seven trillion dollars without much time to consider the bill. >> otherwise, the government closes saturday and responds to the criticism from these conservative republicans, saying that the process behind this omnibus is broken. thousands of pages and it's been out, you know, less than 48 hours. this there are democratsying and republicans saying the process of moving big pieces of legislation in this congress is broken. i'm going to vote for this omnibus. >> i think it is the least bad option we have going. >> we expect a coalition of all senate democrats and 10 republicans to vote yes. many of the gop leaders will come from retiring senators roy blunt of missouri. s e rob portman of ohio is another senate minority leader. mitch mcconnell. inoritsays if the gop was in chi of the senate, he'd handle things differently. but republicans have no choice. >> but given r the reality ofy. where we stand today, senators have two options. senatothis week just to give our armed forces the resources and the certainty that they need or we will deny ito to them in the bill.dollars fo forty five billion dollars for ukraine, but some republicans like marjorie taylor greene and speaker candidate andy dybiggs oppose helping ukraine.l >>pi green callengd the aid abs. she referred to vladimir zelenskyy as a shadow president . >> biggs asked how much money was enough. there are other gop knows i'm for giving them money in vermont, but all at once, you t know, all ofhe a sudden it's going to be gone. >> and it was. and now we're back doing it again. g itsenate majority leader chuck schumer indicated he's concerned the senate majoey not be able to forge an agreement tonight that couldsc triggehumerr a procedural vote o break a filibuster on friday. and jason, i'vprocedure just bed there might be a holdup the on the bill over title 40 to republican mike lee of utah e on thatget a vot tonight. >> and i'm told that the democrats are concerned that that might pass back to you. o thank you very much. house republicans appear to be united in their opposition to the omnibus bill . so the big question is ,on whatl will senate republicans do? this package contains billions in pork and woke handouts, provides border security for counle eastern countries, but doesn't guarantee much for our own and emboldens biden's bureaucrats, all while undermining american prosperity. >> and it's all happening just weeks from when a new house majority will take power.hous here with more, house minority l whip steve scalise. e scalis whip scalise had the honor and privilege of servingyo with in the house. i've been down this path h with you before because it'spel' nancy pelosi's policy. basically take it up till december 20 . s everybody wants to get home. it's christmas. there's bad weather. what can house republicans do at this point other than hope that the senate stalls this bill ? what's the plan? well, jason , we're fighting fit it. we're whipping against this bill , but we're alsing o exposh just how many bad things are in this bill . and i think that's wherey ba the country is getting engaged. and , you know, you just mentioned through chad pergram that mike lee is going to attempt an amendment to try to reverse what the administration is doing, let letting title 40 to expire.. e lei hope mike lee successful,t there's absolutely nothing in this bill for border securit y. hundreds of billions ofions dollars. nobody can tell you what's in it. it was jus of t filed and they'e going to vote on it in dark ofin night. it would it woul d be ironic, but appropriate that they would try to vote on it at 3:00 in the morning. this is a bad bill for taxpayers, but we've got the to change the way that business is done in washington. it's what we w ranha on . we won the house majority on that. but you see them running this thing through by dark of nightha with billions in things thatni they'rght.e doing, border secury and foreign countries, and they're impeding border security iriesn our country. everything about this is the wrong way to go. i hope they reverse course. >> now, mitch mcconnell said there were two choices, but isn't there actually a third choice? ar, aren't the houseouse republicans encouraging to say,b why don't we juslit do a continuing resolution, come back after the new year and continue to address this? >> it don't do it.hat is the week of christmas? >> that's exactly right.ha it's a third option that would at least keep things going, but cat have all of this pork all this new spending that nobodn y can explain. >> nobody can tell you tel what is in it because they were just throwing things in. it was like a christmas tree being thrown together and litt p up right a at the end of christmas. and it's a lot of coal.t a lo it's not a lot of gifts rightgi. now. my understanding is there's something like seventy five hundred earmarks. is that a practice that once republicans have the majority in the house willu continue to support? and will will there be earmarks inre a republican controlled house? >> one of the things we'vee th talked about is actuallyth changing the way the entire appropriations process works. yoappropri andu go on as majorie i've already laid outd a schedule working with kay granger, who's going to be the chair of the appropriations committee, so that we ca wn actually pass all the bills through the house before summer, get them over to the senate. but wen need to lay down a marker early that the senate has to do their job and not wait till the midnight hour. this has becomjoe a problem that's going on for years. now where the senate waits until september 30th. they just do w c.raits. after c. short term funding bills because they know they can wait until christmas eve, throwsome something together in this bigth omnibuins bill where they have everything under the sun that nobody can read . we have to change that way of a doing business and we havend to lay that marker down early. but we've built a calendar where we can get our work done earlier, too, and make clear to the senate, we're not doing this. things are going to change. i wishchange they would change t now. and that's why we're actively working against it and exposing all of these items that are in the bill that people are still to this day, just finding outlee about. >> well, a little over twoe over weeks, the republicans hand is strengthened. i don't know why we're not doing everything we can to delay it until january . 4th. but you're in the house,ar congressman, so havee in t a mey christmas. glad you're there on the halls of congress doing what you're supposed to be doing. >> congressman scalise, thank you very much. come back at this ugly omnibus package is over 4000 pages. it hasn't been read . it's a gift to democrats and one "wall street journal" columnist notes it attached thousands of earmarkl nos in the washington's latest ruse. kim strassel writehington's, ito that congress, in a new trick, is attaching dozens of pieces of standalone legislation to this retirementand changes public lands management, health care policy, cosmetics reti, electoral count act changes, horse racing rules, adding that this monstrositye is cooked in a backroom and memberrules claim they had o choice but to vote againstd the shutdown. back room. ducking ducking accountability.accounta. and just how bad is it? t? well, tucked into the one pointr seven trillion dollar monstrosity over for a hundred million dollars for border security, fo r countries like jordan, lebanon and egypt, but hardly addresses security in our own border. even >> even as the crisis rages on . but members won't read it anyway. they'll vote . they'll go home for christmas and americans will be put last once again, no accountability, no transparency, no realions t solutions to confront a whole host of growing crises. well, here for reaction, hoover institute senior fellow victor davis hanson, along with america first legal founder steven miller and wall street journal columnist kim strassel. kim, i want to start with yorte i read your article. it's brilliant. es as always.mi you're one ondf the best minds on this stuff. verbalize for us how bad this bill is. >> well, you know, jason , at least past despicableomnibu omnibuses, we're only just about spending on everything undeser the sun. but this just goes to show youan what the natural and horrible limits of this process when int people disappear into back rooms this time, e de they decided to attach dozens of pieces of consequential legislatiociton, stuff that they couldn't be bothered to get through during the year. legislatand stick it on here. t and now alhel of these guys can say, well, we had to vote for this bill . vote fbecause we had to present prevent a shutdown. whethe and they conduct the question of whether or not they would have voted for those individuarl pieces of legislation, big stuff like retirement security savings, changes and the electoral count act and public lands management. i mean, where does anyone actually stand on any individual thing? don'tin this? we don't know. and they did that by design. they're doing that by design spcause they can just come up with a no spend a ton ofen mones ,pass a bunch of stuff and never have to take a vote on any of it. >>e yeah, let's remember that. >> i think it's more than 75% of what we spend in this country is mandatory programmatic spending. don' is just the quote unquote discretionary part of the budget. don't think this is the total budgett think . congress doesn't vote ondg the majority of the budget, but one of the thing s they do have t to vote on , stephen , is thhee border and the negligence. it's happening on the border. we see it every day, at leastfo only on fox news. you see it. but when you read and try to decipher what's in thisy bill , having had only hours wh look at it,e what's your red on what's happening here? >>ead on this is an unmitigated legislative atrocity. this is the worst spendings bill in our lifetimes. it neuters border security. it guts immigration enforcement. it ties the hands of our border ice of agents and our ice officers from enforcing duly enacted law. and it doesn'tin nothing to fore biden to end, catch and release even though in mere days house republicans would take overchane and given the chance, pass p a provision on the spending bill ending catch and release and forcing biden to deport illegal aliensng catch. as we speak right now, anatriot american patriot , mike lee, leeis fighting, desperatelyfigg fighting to get border securityt on this bill . y but doesn't just finance open borders. it finances critical race theory. in the form of equity and anti-racism. finance is the radical agenda ds ideology that is destroying the education and the welfartrge of our children. radic it finances one radical left initiative after another, enmeshing democrat priorities and doiative a every aspect of o government and all we would need to stop this madnesf s is a two week c.r., a two week short term bill so that kevin mccarthy and the house republicans can stand up for this country instead. tonight, we have stand a spectaf people waving the flag of ukraine while nobody p inr leadership in the senate is standing up for the united states of america. enough already, victor. i want to play this sound from senator tester from montana. ther e are a lot of lame reasonsuppot to support this bill . tbut i want you to listeno wh to what senator tester said. it also sends a tremendous signal out to everybody in treme ndthe world. we can actually function if we would not. and by the way, this past year.k it so i don't want to assume it will , but i think it will if we don't passs ts this bill , it just sends it sends a signal of weakness to the whole world's. >> is that really the best>> reason that a senato tr has for voting for this bill ? >> that's about the lowest barr. i've ever seen. as far as standards go . i i mean, if you do it in the middle tonight and during the holiday season in the lame duck congress and it's four thousand pages that nobody's read and you're supposed to beg proud of that, that's goingtoa to send a different message than the senator thinks. >> butr we live in la la land, an alternate universe, and we'rd e thirty one trillion dollars in debt and interest rates are going ups in about for point five and the federal debt. >> so just d as services debt, p we're going to pay fouayr hundrn and fifty billion dollars and it's going to increase d toa trillion at the rate we're going. so these one and a halfa tr trillion dollailr deficits are just normal now and nobody talks about it. and sonobody t there's nothing t bill to address physical sobriety. >>o ad are the deficits and then the three big issues thate bieverybody is worried aboutcusd we've discussed is the border. e nothing. they're in fact, negative attitudes toward the border. >> and thee n inflation. e infl and it's going to make inflation worse. g nothing about crime. there's no federal task force, no federal strateg