July 19, 2025 • 33 mins
Sean spends time looking at the Late Night TV industry and its overall demise. First one is Colbert but it won't be too long before the rest fall! Sean has the latest on this!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, thank you Scott Shannon, thanks to all of
you for being with us. Right down our toll free
telephone number this Friday, it's eight hundred nine to four one, Sean.
If you would like to join us, we would love
to hear from you. A lot of news to get
to today. I don't know why everybody I know, we'll
get into this later, is talking about this big concert
(00:25):
jumbo tron kiss that took place. It was just a
weird moment. It was at a Coldplay concert. And I
guess you don't like to have if you go to
a ball game or you go to like for example,
where I I love the Florida Panthers two time now
back to back Stanley Cup champions, just saying, and I
(00:46):
think they have a good shot at a third one.
But anyway, so they have these moments where there are
people that put audience members up on the big screen,
the jumbo screen, and anyway, so they showed this couple
that are up there. Linda, you've seen this right, we'll
talk more later. And anyway, the band's front man is
(01:08):
Chris Martin. This guy was once married to what Gwyneth Poultraw, Paltraw,
whatever name is. I just I care less. Whatever company
she runs, what is it called goop? Goop?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, cop, Yeah, she's a raging liberal. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, it doesn't matter. And they did a conscious decoupling
or something. See, my memory is pretty good for a
little weird.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
How much you know about this? I'm starting to get concerned.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, you're getting concerned anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So are you listening to the sad cold Play songs
like when You're alone? Like what's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I couldn't name one Coldplay song, not one, can you?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I have a bunch of their albums. Actually, I think
they're they're pretty good. Sky Full Stars is probably my favorite.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
All Right, So the front man's I'm not gonna be look,
I'm not even gonna make an inference, but I mean
they're getting hammered. I mean anyway, So the camera pans
towards this couple, and the guy's got his arms around
kind of like the upper chest area what looks like
to me? And I'm looking at the picture right here
(02:18):
in front of me in the New York Post and
their hands at another point are intertwined. And then the
moment where they realize they're up on the jumbo trum
actually happens, and they see that, and immediately, you know,
she flings her hands over her face, turns around, he
ducks down out of view. Martin, you know, thought the
(02:40):
camera had captured a sweet moment. Oh look at these two,
but their reaction kind of initially leaves him confused. He goes,
uh oh, and then he could be heard saying on stage, well,
either they're having an affair or they're just very shy.
And anyway, I don't know much about mixed up what
has been written about him. And apparently the wife of
(03:03):
the guy saw this and deleted her married name from
her Facebook page. Did you see that?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I did?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I don't know. That was pretty quick. I was done,
like and it's.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Probably probably a little something something going on already. I
would think, you know, women are not stupid. I'm sure
she knew.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I don't know. Some people get away with this stuff.
I mean there's a part of me that's like, you know,
what if if you will that brazen and you want
to go out there and and by the way, we
have members on our staff saying, oh no, if you're cheating,
you should go to an obscure restaurant. I'm like, why
would you know that? Why would you think that way?
It's not about it, it's just listen, nor what person
(03:49):
supposed to be common it's supposed to be common knowledge.
Where to go to cheat?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
The whole idea of cheating is that you're doing something
nefarious that you're not supposed to be doing. Like any
other crime, whether it's a crime of passion, crime against community, taking, robbing, whatever,
it's something you're not supposed to be doing. So it
should be done on the down low. It shouldn't be
done on the jumbo tron. Now, obviously that wasn't their choice,
but they shouldn't have even been standing the way they
(04:14):
were standing. What they should do is.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
They were in Jellette Stadium for crying out loud. I
mean the I know.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's my point. So, like you know, I don't know,
go to like your local sushi restaurant in a town
you don't live in. Just the thought, if you're gonna
do it, at least do it where you're not hurting people.
You know, you're already committing a sense.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
No, there's no such thing as doing it and not
hurting people. By doing it, you're hurting people. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Sean I think doing it on the jumbo tron or
your entire family finding out, your little kids, finding out
that's really hurting people. They could hurt a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Last I hate it, you know. I'd go to events
in New York and they'd put my face up there,
and half the time I get booed.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
In New York. New Yorkers get.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I get triggered. No, I'm not triggered at all. Just
Thenews dot Com and John Solomon will join us later.
That's the biggest story of the day. We're going to
get to. We have new declassified emails showing key spies
were shocked to learn that the Steel dossier was used
in the Russian medaling. In other words, I'll give you
(05:20):
a quick summary of it. So you have rank and
file people that are in the intelligence community, in other words,
career people that are dedicated to their craft, good at
their jobs, loyal that are straight arrows, and then all
of a sudden that information that they determine there is
nothing nefarious in terms of any collusion or any efforts
(05:44):
by Vladimir Putin to influence the election. They write about
it repeatedly and extensively, and then it ends up in
the hands of the big people, and they start polluting
it and destroying it and contaminating it and using it
to harm Donald Trump. And apparently now because of a
(06:05):
Foyer request by John Solomon, who will join us later,
we now know that it was a conscious effort to
destroy Trump. The whole thing was a hoax from the
very beginning. We spent three years on this program going
over this, So we're going to get to that. Now
we have the demise. I've been predicting this forever. How
(06:25):
long have I been saying that these late night comedy
shows are all on cancelation Watch Linda, how many times
have you heard me say that they're officially on cancelation watch?
All right, Well, the first one is down, and that
would be Stephen Colbert, who I actually think is the
least likable of all of them. As much as I
(06:45):
hate Kimmel and I don't like Kimmel, Kimmel's a jackass,
and you know, goes after Oh Malania Trump's accent, and
he's tried to have fights with me. Every time he does,
I just bury him, I mean on X and social media.
Maybe when he maybe, when he's not held under a
(07:06):
ABC Disney contract, which is probably coming pretty soon for him.
Maybe we can, maybe we can reignite that battle. I'd
look forward to it. That's one that I like anyway.
So Colbert got canceled. Here's what he said last night.
Before we start.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The show, I want to let you know something that
I found out just last night. Next year will be
our last season. The network will be ending the Late
Show in May. And yeah, I share your feelings. It's
(07:46):
not just the end of our show, but it's the
end of the Late Show on CBS.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I'm not being replaced.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
This is all just going away. And I do want
to say I do want to say that the folks
at CBS have been great partners. I'm so grateful to
the Tiffany Network for giving me this chair and this
beautiful theater to call home.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Oh it's not home anymore. Look. The reason that I've
been able to make this prediction, it is very, very simple,
is it is a ratings driven business. They stop being
funny a long time ago. They became hyperpartisan, political, left
(08:28):
wing radical hacks a long time ago. And when you
stop being funny and it's supposed to be a comedy show,
then guess what. And your audience goes away in mass
There was never any course correction by any of these three.
And that's Kimmel, Fallen, Colbert, none of them. The one
(08:49):
guy in Late Night that's funny is Greg Guttfeld and
he's crushing it, absolutely crushing it. President Trump took a
victory lap on Friday after learning THAT'SBS had canceled the
lay show. I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His
talent was even less than his ratings. Is that I
hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. I'll put the odds at
(09:10):
eighty twenty ninety ten somewhere in there that Kimmel is
definitely next. He has even less talent than Colbert. Greg
gutfelds much better than all of them combined, including the
moron on NBC who ruined the ones Great Tonight Show.
Who's talking about Jimmy Fallon? And Trump has ripped Colbert
in the past, calling him very boring and a total loser.
He's not funny. Look, I can acknowledge, even if I
(09:34):
am the butt of the joke, when people are funny.
How many times, Linda have we acknowledged on this program
when people do bits about me or attack me? But
it's done in a really funny way. We even play them.
I don't mind being I like a good sense of humor,
even if it's about me. Great, I love it. You know,
John Stewart. Why they picked Stephen Colbert over Stewart in
(09:56):
the first place was a dumb decision. Now, Stewart does
have this little sided to his personality, as does Bill Maher,
but at times they can be funny and they're far
more intellectually honest and curious than are all these three
late night guys combined. Now, So I think that I
think it's it's pretty obvious to say that it's probably over.
(10:20):
Jimmy Kimmel is probably going to be next Fallons. Already
they all been cut to four days a week instead
of five, and it's only a matter of time. But
the media is in for a root awakening now. Earlier
today too, the House gave final approval to President Trump's
request to claw back about nine billion dollars for public broadcasting,
and that means they passed legislation a defund MPR and PBS.
(10:44):
Why should there are more cable channels available that are
are for sale at bottom basement prices now because they've
been running to the ground, mismanaged, not funny, and and
they've gotten lazy, and their programming is is nothing but
fifteen year old show reruns. Then nobody watches them and
(11:04):
they don't make any money. If you wanted to buy
a cable channel and run you know, bar In Tones,
you'd probably get better ratings than some of these places.
But why should we be paying one red cent on
top of that? With all the political bias that they have.
And I'm going to make some other predictions here you
ready for predictions? Here's my predictions.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
He lost predictions.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Well, first of all, Kimo Rush, who have the back
of his buddy Colbert, love you, Steve and if you
and all your your Sheldon CBS.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
He does cry a lot, if we're being.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Honest, Okay, he's a big baby. I don't get it.
I don't get the crying thing. I really I do
not get the crying thing at all. So now we're
defunding this, But the landscape and media is changing. What
do you think is factored into this? Maybe the fact
that they have gotten so overtly political, is that factored
(12:04):
into the fact, you know, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and
early in Letterman's career, he was not as political. In
his later years, he was becoming more and more political,
and as he did, his ratings began to sink as
he was more political. Now he's just a weirdo, looks
like a homeless guy with a beard in a show
on Netflix that isn't particularly interesting. His guests occasionally are interesting,
(12:29):
and it's just a shame that all this is happening
now on the one hand. On the other hand, it's
just an opportunity for other people to emerge, and that's
why you see podcasts that are interesting emerging and doing
well and thriving. I think these people are just out
of touch with the rank and file of in the
American landscape and the American people. It's but there. But
(12:52):
here's the next thing that's going to happen. I think
there are probably fifty to fifty odds that CNN as
we know may not exist in the next couple of years.
I'm not sure MSDNC survives over the next couple of years.
I'm not sure that these newspapers New York Times, Washington Post,
LA Well LA Times has gotten a lot better. To
(13:14):
be honest, it's under new ownership. But I'm not sure
if these these companies can survive anymore. And I think
that the media landscape now does it have anything to
do with the fact that they are constantly twenty four
to seven three sixty five Hay Trump, Yes, it does,
because you're alienating more than half the country. Does it
(13:34):
Does it impact them at all that they they go along,
They don't call out lies like the border's secure and
Joe's not a cognitive mess and inflation is transitory. Yeah,
lying to your audience is a bad idea. If you
want a one on one, one on one on how
to be a little successful and broadcasting, don't lie to
(13:54):
your audience and tell them and give them news and
information that they're not going to get elsewhere where, and
try and talk about it in a very New York style,
fun talk radio way, and drink some coffee while you're
doing it. You know what I'm talking about. Indeed, you
add a lot of humor to the show. We'll get
(14:15):
into that later too, all right, So this is a
huge story, and it started with a foyer request by
our friend John Solomon just thenews dot com. He'll join
us at the top of the next hour, But we
have new details about the Steele dossier's impact on the
intel community in the twenty and their assessment of Russia meddling,
(14:40):
and with the release of these declassified documents and apparently
they would deeply in other words, they were deep classified documents.
And Tulsa Gabbert has declassified bombshell emails showing the shocked
reaction of a top cybersecurity spy when he was belatedly
informed in twenty nineteen at the discredited anti Trump Steel
(15:03):
dossier had been used to develop the Obama administration's intelligent
assessment on Russia meddling in twenty sixty. Well, I was
just as surprised and shocked as well. When we get
to the bottom line of this and I tell you
this story, and John tells you this story, it will
blow your mind. That's coming up. We'll get to that
(15:24):
much more straight ahead.
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Gaines on the show. I like Riley Gines. You like
Riley Gaines. Riley Gaines is swimming to Alcatraz. Now there's
been all this my all these myths that you can't
(17:52):
escape Alcatraz, and Attorney General Bondi went out there with
Doug Bergram yesterday and they were looking around and maybe
they're going to turn this thing back into a prison.
But the issue, you know, all the lore surrounding this
and whether or not people can escape Alcatraz. And you've
ever been to the wharf in San Francisco, and you
(18:13):
look out there, you can you can see it, and
I think it's a good idea. Anyway, Riley Gaines, did
you know that she made the swim last year? I
couldn't believe it. Now last night, What's Up?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Said, it's insane.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh, she's such a she's such a great athlete. He
really is. So I brought it up last night and
she's now and she made this public. I would never
make a public I never want to give out people's
personal information. So she is making the swim today. I
don't know if she finished it. He's not so worried
(18:51):
about the sharks, she said about he said, the water's freezing.
And she's gonna make this.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
She tweeted out an hour ago. She said, and I
escaped Alcatraz at nearly thirty one weeks pregnant. I'm basically
just a human submarine for a baby girl. I just
texted it to you.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
That is pretty awesome. I mean, that's pretty badass. And
then she was talking about Clay Travis that he might
try to do it. I'm like, Clay Travis couldn't do
this in a million years. And I said, I'm betting
on you and I'm betting against him. Well, apparently he
was talking about it on his radio show today. Let's
hear what he said.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Riley actually texted me and told me, hey, I just
obliterated you on Hannity, and I was like, send me
the link. And I hadn't seen it and I had
totally forgotten about it. I mean, I think that I would.
I'm gonna have to swim it. I'm gonna have to
swim it. And maybe Sean needs to be in the boat,
like watching reporting a minute by minute.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Oh, I would get in the launch boat alongside. It
would be the safety boat to make sure when you
start to drown, we'll pull you out. And Sean could
just be there with the bullhorn trying to motivate you.
It is right, and I've had some bad bets with Sean.
I think I owe Sean like a thousand dollars on
sports bets over the year. He hasn't tried to collect yet,
and so I've been trying to avoid him because I
don't have a lot of cash on me all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I hate you, Sean Hannity. I also hate you Riley Gaines.
You're off the Christmas card list.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Wow, I didn't even know it was on the Christmas
card list. You know, I'm finding out from friends of
my life that Christmas cards are like a really big
deal to people. Do you send out Christmas cards?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's so funny you're saying this. I do not, and
I get yelled at every year.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, I've never sent out a Christmas card in my life.
Now I'm inundated with them, and there's been a very
big shift generational.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
If the word that you meant to say was I'm
blessed with them, blessed, buy them, blessed to receive them
inundated sounds a little ungrateful.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay, people send of these cards and on it. It's
like everybody the posts on social media is the same
thing they want. They want to portray the picture of
the most wonderful, perfect, beautiful life, perfect family, et cetera,
et cetera. Nobody has a perfect anything. We could all
pretend that we have perfect stuff when nobody has a
perfect anything. And I look at the pictures and you
(21:13):
see the little doggie in the walks on the beach
and the sunset behind them, and so many of them.
I don't know what the obsession is with dressing all
in white, but they dress in white. I'm like, I
hope to I pray to God. I never ever have
to send out a Christmas card with my face on it.
Does that sound a little anti Christmas?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I I kind of agree with you. I love the
cards where people send me pictures of their kiddos, especially
when they're younger. It's just super cute. But when you
start putting pictures of yourself on your cards and your
I don't know, I think it's weird. I'd rather see
a picture that was more about religion, more about God,
more about what the day is for.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well, that's the generational thing, because it used to be,
you know, a picture of the baby Jesus used to
be you know, Mary and Joseph.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And yeah, the two those those sorts of things. It's
now it's like ho, ho ho, here's Santa, where's your gift?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
That's like, come on, have you watched season five of
The Chosen yet?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I haven't watched season one of the Chosen yet, so I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
A little behind. I have told you a million times,
why don't you ever listen to me? You never listen.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I have to mand me you that's why.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah, I know, annoying me, and instead of annoying me,
you could be bringing Jesus into your life. I am
telling Jesus is.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
In my life. I don't need Chosen to put Jesus.
I'm actually the Bible in a year just so.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I've been doing that too, but I'm planning on doing
it in three years because I just I'm just a
little bit slower. It's hard. It definitely is very hard.
I have I've been doing it. But I love the
series The Chosen. Do you realize I've watched it in
full three times already, three times I have when I
watched it late at night. That's the last. Yeah, I
(23:00):
either play chess, look at real estate, or watch The Chosen.
Those that's my late night pattern. Goodness's why I never
get any sleep. And then I'm looking also for articles
while I'm watching it, and then Jesus will enlighten me
whether or not I should I should, whether or not
I should be talking about this issue. By the way,
we want to give a shout out today special shout out.
(23:20):
We got a request from Calvin Wimbish. He's a colonel
US Army Special Forces and it's a very cool story
that his dad and his mom. They live in Baltimore.
They've been married over eighty years this past April thirteenth,
nineteen forty five, and still alive and well together. Mom
(23:44):
is now ninety eight and told Dad he's got to
hang around until she gets over too. Wow, And they
have pictures of him. Very cool anyway, God bless them all.
Married over eighty years. You could barely spend three hours
a day with me without like losing it.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
So I guess his dad's birthday is today. He's one
hundred and one and the incredible. But their pictures are incredible.
So shout out to Calvin for being a good son.
I think that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I haven't really started the show yet today. I'm just
sort of one of those moves.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
We've been talking for the past forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I'm just I'm just kind of I don't know, not
the I'm going to get dialed in with John Solomon
in a minute. Because John Solomon is awesome. I love
him as a person. He's such a great investigative reporter.
He's a good friend. He's always working. I mean the
conversations we have late at night, always we're talking about stuff.
(24:50):
He has great storks. He works, It works hard. The
criminal referral that was filed by the director of the
US Federal Housing Finance Agency provides more details about the
mortgage and tax scandal plaguing the congenital liar Adam Schiff
and identifies the array of federal laws that he may
have violated by improperly claiming two primary residences. Refer was
(25:14):
sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Director William Palti says
that Shiff may have violated several statutes, including government wire fraud,
mail fraud, bank fraud, false statements to a financial institution
by claiming two homes, one of Maryland, the other in
California as primary residences and based on media reports, Adam
(25:37):
Schiff has in multiple instances falsified bank documents property records
to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from two
thousand and three to twenty nineteen from a Potomac, Maryland
based property. And he leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency,
(25:58):
which oversees Fanny May, Freddie Mac and the Federal home
loan bank system as a regulator. Fannie May, Freddie Mack
and the Federal Home loan Banks we take very seriously
allegations of mortgage fraud and other criminal activity. Remember they
tried to make a big deal. I was involved in
an investment property and they said, oh, Hannity apparently got
(26:23):
one of these government back loans, which by the way,
almost everybody in business does if you invest in some
real estate projects. And I was only one member of it.
And the funny thing is the loan was guaranted that
that loan took place during Obama's presidency, and they wanted
to tie it to Trump. WHOOPSI Daisy, Sorry about that, guys.
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So this runs very deep, the story that we're going
to spend a lot of time on with John Solomon,
and what we have are new details about the Hillary
Clinton out and paid for Steele dossier and their impact
on the intelligence community in twenty sixteen and their assessment
of Russian meddaling as it continues now to emerge. We
(27:09):
have now new declassified documents thanks to John Solomon's Foyer
request and the Director of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbard, and
she classified bombshell emails that show shocked reaction of a
top cybersecurity spy when he was belatedly informed in twenty
nineteen that the discredited and remember they were warned not
(27:32):
to use the Steele dossier before it became the bulk
of information for the four PISA applications to spy and
ruined Carter Page's life and then's backdoor spy on Trump
and developed the Obama administration's intelligent assessment on Russian medaling
and Steele if you're a call former MI six agent
have been hired in twenty sixteen by an op research
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firm which then was being paid by Hillary Clinton a
turn Ernie Mark Elias, and the dossier by the discredited
Steal was used by the FBI to obtain PAISA warrants
against the Trump campaign official and evidence continues to emerge
about how it was included in the intelligence community assessment
(28:17):
what's called an ICA on Russia and the twenty sixteen election. Quote,
we have a problem. This is a very key phrase,
the intelligence officer on the US National Intelligence Council wrote
when he learned by accident about the dossier's influence in
the December twenty sixteen Intel Community assessment, seemingly by accident
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from an email sent by another top intelligence officer who
had asked him to search for material and response to
a Freedom of Information Act request that, by the way,
is John Solomon, and the revelation so disturbed this Deputy
National Intelligence Officer for cybersecurity that he blew the whistle,
first to the US intelligence community's watchdog, then to Gabbard personally,
(29:02):
and then, by the way, sources relate all this to
justinnews dot com. At no time in my IC career
has dossier material ever been represented to me in a
work setting as something the NIC viewed as credible or
that was influential in crafting these products. Now, the CIA's
recent eight page Lessons Learned review, released earlier in June,
(29:25):
focused on the twenty sixteen assessment about Russia and November
twenty sixteen, which was made public in twenty seventeen. Now,
the review concluded, at the direction of John Ratcliff's CIA director, concluded,
the decision by the agency heads to include the Steel
dossier in the assessment ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles
(29:47):
and ultimately undermine the credibility of a key judgment. And
according to these newly declassified, partially unredacted September twenty nineteen
emails obtained by just Thenews dot com One surprising assertion
was the Steele dossier had played a role in the assessment.
Seemed to originate with a top ic election security official
(30:11):
who had been appointed by the Election Threats Executive and
within the Director of National Intelligence by then DNI Dan Coates,
just a couple of months prior, and the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence that in July twenty nineteen,
now an email from a redacted all of this, you know,
(30:32):
you just get into this. Let me see if I
can sum this up for you. The Obama administration, with
Obama's knowledge, apparently, according to this new information and Clapper's
knowledge and Brennan's knowledge, manufactured and politicized intelligence that was
put together by career, rank and file people that had integrity.
(30:58):
And what they did is, and I was talking to
John earlier, they polluted it, they hijacked it, They absolutely
purposely distorted it. And by the way, I was backed
up by the Durham report as well. And anyway, and
they even went on early on in December twenty sixteen,
weeks after the election. You know, even James Clapper's talking
(31:21):
points said foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on
the election infrastructure like in other words, so then it
gets in the hands of these political deep state operatives,
and that would be the people like Clapper and Brennan
and other high ranking administration officials, and they weaponized it
(31:41):
all to go after Trump in spite of the brief
saying it was highly unlikely that any of this had
any impact on the election, and we now know they
knew in December twenty sixteen that the Steel dossier had
been debunked. Anyway, the Commune Unications in the FBI Presidential
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Daily Briefing stated it should not go forward until the
FBI had shared his concerns. Remember if James coleme he
was warned not to use the dossier, he signed three
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All right, thank you Scott Shannon, thanks to all of
you for being with us. Right down our toll free
telephone number this Friday, it's eight hundred nine to four one, Sean.
If you would like to join us, we would love
to hear from you. A lot of news to get
to today. I don't know why everybody I know, we'll
get into this later, is talking about this big concert
(00:25):
jumbo tron kiss that took place. It was just a
weird moment. It was at a Coldplay concert. And I
guess you don't like to have if you go to
a ball game or you go to like for example,
where I I love the Florida Panthers two time now
back to back Stanley Cup champions, just saying, and I
(00:46):
think they have a good shot at a third one.
But anyway, so they have these moments where there are
people that put audience members up on the big screen,
the jumbo screen, and anyway, so they showed this couple
that are up there. Linda, you've seen this right, we'll
talk more later. And anyway, the band's front man is
(01:08):
Chris Martin. This guy was once married to what Gwyneth Poultraw, Paltraw,
whatever name is. I just I care less. Whatever company
she runs, what is it called goop? Goop?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, cop, Yeah, she's a raging liberal. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, it doesn't matter. And they did a conscious decoupling
or something. See, my memory is pretty good for a
little weird.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
How much you know about this? I'm starting to get concerned.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, you're getting concerned anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So are you listening to the sad cold Play songs
like when You're alone? Like what's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I couldn't name one Coldplay song, not one, can you?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I have a bunch of their albums. Actually, I think
they're they're pretty good. Sky Full Stars is probably my favorite.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
All Right, So the front man's I'm not gonna be look,
I'm not even gonna make an inference, but I mean
they're getting hammered. I mean anyway, So the camera pans
towards this couple, and the guy's got his arms around
kind of like the upper chest area what looks like
to me? And I'm looking at the picture right here
(02:18):
in front of me in the New York Post and
their hands at another point are intertwined. And then the
moment where they realize they're up on the jumbo trum
actually happens, and they see that, and immediately, you know,
she flings her hands over her face, turns around, he
ducks down out of view. Martin, you know, thought the
(02:40):
camera had captured a sweet moment. Oh look at these two,
but their reaction kind of initially leaves him confused. He goes,
uh oh, and then he could be heard saying on stage, well,
either they're having an affair or they're just very shy.
And anyway, I don't know much about mixed up what
has been written about him. And apparently the wife of
(03:03):
the guy saw this and deleted her married name from
her Facebook page. Did you see that?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I did?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I don't know. That was pretty quick. I was done,
like and it's.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Probably probably a little something something going on already. I
would think, you know, women are not stupid. I'm sure
she knew.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I don't know. Some people get away with this stuff.
I mean there's a part of me that's like, you know,
what if if you will that brazen and you want
to go out there and and by the way, we
have members on our staff saying, oh no, if you're cheating,
you should go to an obscure restaurant. I'm like, why
would you know that? Why would you think that way?
It's not about it, it's just listen, nor what person
(03:49):
supposed to be common it's supposed to be common knowledge.
Where to go to cheat?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
The whole idea of cheating is that you're doing something
nefarious that you're not supposed to be doing. Like any
other crime, whether it's a crime of passion, crime against community, taking, robbing, whatever,
it's something you're not supposed to be doing. So it
should be done on the down low. It shouldn't be
done on the jumbo tron. Now, obviously that wasn't their choice,
but they shouldn't have even been standing the way they
(04:14):
were standing. What they should do is.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
They were in Jellette Stadium for crying out loud. I
mean the I know.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's my point. So, like you know, I don't know,
go to like your local sushi restaurant in a town
you don't live in. Just the thought, if you're gonna
do it, at least do it where you're not hurting people.
You know, you're already committing a sense.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
No, there's no such thing as doing it and not
hurting people. By doing it, you're hurting people. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Sean I think doing it on the jumbo tron or
your entire family finding out, your little kids, finding out
that's really hurting people. They could hurt a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Last I hate it, you know. I'd go to events
in New York and they'd put my face up there,
and half the time I get booed.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
In New York. New Yorkers get.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I get triggered. No, I'm not triggered at all. Just
Thenews dot Com and John Solomon will join us later.
That's the biggest story of the day. We're going to
get to. We have new declassified emails showing key spies
were shocked to learn that the Steel dossier was used
in the Russian medaling. In other words, I'll give you
(05:20):
a quick summary of it. So you have rank and
file people that are in the intelligence community, in other words,
career people that are dedicated to their craft, good at
their jobs, loyal that are straight arrows, and then all
of a sudden that information that they determine there is
nothing nefarious in terms of any collusion or any efforts
(05:44):
by Vladimir Putin to influence the election. They write about
it repeatedly and extensively, and then it ends up in
the hands of the big people, and they start polluting
it and destroying it and contaminating it and using it
to harm Donald Trump. And apparently now because of a
(06:05):
Foyer request by John Solomon, who will join us later,
we now know that it was a conscious effort to
destroy Trump. The whole thing was a hoax from the
very beginning. We spent three years on this program going
over this, So we're going to get to that. Now
we have the demise. I've been predicting this forever. How
(06:25):
long have I been saying that these late night comedy
shows are all on cancelation Watch Linda, how many times
have you heard me say that they're officially on cancelation watch?
All right, Well, the first one is down, and that
would be Stephen Colbert, who I actually think is the
least likable of all of them. As much as I
(06:45):
hate Kimmel and I don't like Kimmel, Kimmel's a jackass,
and you know, goes after Oh Malania Trump's accent, and
he's tried to have fights with me. Every time he does,
I just bury him, I mean on X and social media.
Maybe when he maybe, when he's not held under a
(07:06):
ABC Disney contract, which is probably coming pretty soon for him.
Maybe we can, maybe we can reignite that battle. I'd
look forward to it. That's one that I like anyway.
So Colbert got canceled. Here's what he said last night.
Before we start.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The show, I want to let you know something that
I found out just last night. Next year will be
our last season. The network will be ending the Late
Show in May. And yeah, I share your feelings. It's
(07:46):
not just the end of our show, but it's the
end of the Late Show on CBS.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I'm not being replaced.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
This is all just going away. And I do want
to say I do want to say that the folks
at CBS have been great partners. I'm so grateful to
the Tiffany Network for giving me this chair and this
beautiful theater to call home.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Oh it's not home anymore. Look. The reason that I've
been able to make this prediction, it is very, very simple,
is it is a ratings driven business. They stop being
funny a long time ago. They became hyperpartisan, political, left
(08:28):
wing radical hacks a long time ago. And when you
stop being funny and it's supposed to be a comedy show,
then guess what. And your audience goes away in mass
There was never any course correction by any of these three.
And that's Kimmel, Fallen, Colbert, none of them. The one
(08:49):
guy in Late Night that's funny is Greg Guttfeld and
he's crushing it, absolutely crushing it. President Trump took a
victory lap on Friday after learning THAT'SBS had canceled the
lay show. I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His
talent was even less than his ratings. Is that I
hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. I'll put the odds at
(09:10):
eighty twenty ninety ten somewhere in there that Kimmel is
definitely next. He has even less talent than Colbert. Greg
gutfelds much better than all of them combined, including the
moron on NBC who ruined the ones Great Tonight Show.
Who's talking about Jimmy Fallon? And Trump has ripped Colbert
in the past, calling him very boring and a total loser.
He's not funny. Look, I can acknowledge, even if I
(09:34):
am the butt of the joke, when people are funny.
How many times, Linda have we acknowledged on this program
when people do bits about me or attack me? But
it's done in a really funny way. We even play them.
I don't mind being I like a good sense of humor,
even if it's about me. Great, I love it. You know,
John Stewart. Why they picked Stephen Colbert over Stewart in
(09:56):
the first place was a dumb decision. Now, Stewart does
have this little sided to his personality, as does Bill Maher,
but at times they can be funny and they're far
more intellectually honest and curious than are all these three
late night guys combined. Now, So I think that I
think it's it's pretty obvious to say that it's probably over.
(10:20):
Jimmy Kimmel is probably going to be next Fallons. Already
they all been cut to four days a week instead
of five, and it's only a matter of time. But
the media is in for a root awakening now. Earlier
today too, the House gave final approval to President Trump's
request to claw back about nine billion dollars for public broadcasting,
and that means they passed legislation a defund MPR and PBS.
(10:44):
Why should there are more cable channels available that are
are for sale at bottom basement prices now because they've
been running to the ground, mismanaged, not funny, and and
they've gotten lazy, and their programming is is nothing but
fifteen year old show reruns. Then nobody watches them and
(11:04):
they don't make any money. If you wanted to buy
a cable channel and run you know, bar In Tones,
you'd probably get better ratings than some of these places.
But why should we be paying one red cent on
top of that? With all the political bias that they have.
And I'm going to make some other predictions here you
ready for predictions? Here's my predictions.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
He lost predictions.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Well, first of all, Kimo Rush, who have the back
of his buddy Colbert, love you, Steve and if you
and all your your Sheldon CBS.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
He does cry a lot, if we're being.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Honest, Okay, he's a big baby. I don't get it.
I don't get the crying thing. I really I do
not get the crying thing at all. So now we're
defunding this, But the landscape and media is changing. What
do you think is factored into this? Maybe the fact
that they have gotten so overtly political, is that factored
(12:04):
into the fact, you know, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and
early in Letterman's career, he was not as political. In
his later years, he was becoming more and more political,
and as he did, his ratings began to sink as
he was more political. Now he's just a weirdo, looks
like a homeless guy with a beard in a show
on Netflix that isn't particularly interesting. His guests occasionally are interesting,
(12:29):
and it's just a shame that all this is happening
now on the one hand. On the other hand, it's
just an opportunity for other people to emerge, and that's
why you see podcasts that are interesting emerging and doing
well and thriving. I think these people are just out
of touch with the rank and file of in the
American landscape and the American people. It's but there. But
(12:52):
here's the next thing that's going to happen. I think
there are probably fifty to fifty odds that CNN as
we know may not exist in the next couple of years.
I'm not sure MSDNC survives over the next couple of years.
I'm not sure that these newspapers New York Times, Washington Post,
LA Well LA Times has gotten a lot better. To
(13:14):
be honest, it's under new ownership. But I'm not sure
if these these companies can survive anymore. And I think
that the media landscape now does it have anything to
do with the fact that they are constantly twenty four
to seven three sixty five Hay Trump, Yes, it does,
because you're alienating more than half the country. Does it
(13:34):
Does it impact them at all that they they go along,
They don't call out lies like the border's secure and
Joe's not a cognitive mess and inflation is transitory. Yeah,
lying to your audience is a bad idea. If you
want a one on one, one on one on how
to be a little successful and broadcasting, don't lie to
(13:54):
your audience and tell them and give them news and
information that they're not going to get elsewhere where, and
try and talk about it in a very New York style,
fun talk radio way, and drink some coffee while you're
doing it. You know what I'm talking about. Indeed, you
add a lot of humor to the show. We'll get
(14:15):
into that later too, all right, So this is a
huge story, and it started with a foyer request by
our friend John Solomon just thenews dot com. He'll join
us at the top of the next hour, But we
have new details about the Steele dossier's impact on the
intel community in the twenty and their assessment of Russia meddling,
(14:40):
and with the release of these declassified documents and apparently
they would deeply in other words, they were deep classified documents.
And Tulsa Gabbert has declassified bombshell emails showing the shocked
reaction of a top cybersecurity spy when he was belatedly
informed in twenty nineteen at the discredited anti Trump Steel
(15:03):
dossier had been used to develop the Obama administration's intelligent
assessment on Russia meddling in twenty sixty. Well, I was
just as surprised and shocked as well. When we get
to the bottom line of this and I tell you
this story, and John tells you this story, it will
blow your mind. That's coming up. We'll get to that
(15:24):
much more straight ahead.
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Gaines on the show. I like Riley Gines. You like
Riley Gaines. Riley Gaines is swimming to Alcatraz. Now there's
been all this my all these myths that you can't
(17:52):
escape Alcatraz, and Attorney General Bondi went out there with
Doug Bergram yesterday and they were looking around and maybe
they're going to turn this thing back into a prison.
But the issue, you know, all the lore surrounding this
and whether or not people can escape Alcatraz. And you've
ever been to the wharf in San Francisco, and you
(18:13):
look out there, you can you can see it, and
I think it's a good idea. Anyway, Riley Gaines, did
you know that she made the swim last year? I
couldn't believe it. Now last night, What's Up?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Said, it's insane.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh, she's such a she's such a great athlete. He
really is. So I brought it up last night and
she's now and she made this public. I would never
make a public I never want to give out people's
personal information. So she is making the swim today. I
don't know if she finished it. He's not so worried
(18:51):
about the sharks, she said about he said, the water's freezing.
And she's gonna make this.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
She tweeted out an hour ago. She said, and I
escaped Alcatraz at nearly thirty one weeks pregnant. I'm basically
just a human submarine for a baby girl. I just
texted it to you.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
That is pretty awesome. I mean, that's pretty badass. And
then she was talking about Clay Travis that he might
try to do it. I'm like, Clay Travis couldn't do
this in a million years. And I said, I'm betting
on you and I'm betting against him. Well, apparently he
was talking about it on his radio show today. Let's
hear what he said.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Riley actually texted me and told me, hey, I just
obliterated you on Hannity, and I was like, send me
the link. And I hadn't seen it and I had
totally forgotten about it. I mean, I think that I would.
I'm gonna have to swim it. I'm gonna have to
swim it. And maybe Sean needs to be in the boat,
like watching reporting a minute by minute.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Oh, I would get in the launch boat alongside. It
would be the safety boat to make sure when you
start to drown, we'll pull you out. And Sean could
just be there with the bullhorn trying to motivate you.
It is right, and I've had some bad bets with Sean.
I think I owe Sean like a thousand dollars on
sports bets over the year. He hasn't tried to collect yet,
and so I've been trying to avoid him because I
don't have a lot of cash on me all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I hate you, Sean Hannity. I also hate you Riley Gaines.
You're off the Christmas card list.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Wow, I didn't even know it was on the Christmas
card list. You know, I'm finding out from friends of
my life that Christmas cards are like a really big
deal to people. Do you send out Christmas cards?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's so funny you're saying this. I do not, and
I get yelled at every year.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, I've never sent out a Christmas card in my life.
Now I'm inundated with them, and there's been a very
big shift generational.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
If the word that you meant to say was I'm
blessed with them, blessed, buy them, blessed to receive them
inundated sounds a little ungrateful.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay, people send of these cards and on it. It's
like everybody the posts on social media is the same
thing they want. They want to portray the picture of
the most wonderful, perfect, beautiful life, perfect family, et cetera,
et cetera. Nobody has a perfect anything. We could all
pretend that we have perfect stuff when nobody has a
perfect anything. And I look at the pictures and you
(21:13):
see the little doggie in the walks on the beach
and the sunset behind them, and so many of them.
I don't know what the obsession is with dressing all
in white, but they dress in white. I'm like, I
hope to I pray to God. I never ever have
to send out a Christmas card with my face on it.
Does that sound a little anti Christmas?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I I kind of agree with you. I love the
cards where people send me pictures of their kiddos, especially
when they're younger. It's just super cute. But when you
start putting pictures of yourself on your cards and your
I don't know, I think it's weird. I'd rather see
a picture that was more about religion, more about God,
more about what the day is for.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well, that's the generational thing, because it used to be,
you know, a picture of the baby Jesus used to
be you know, Mary and Joseph.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
And yeah, the two those those sorts of things. It's
now it's like ho, ho ho, here's Santa, where's your gift?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
That's like, come on, have you watched season five of
The Chosen yet?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I haven't watched season one of the Chosen yet, so I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
A little behind. I have told you a million times,
why don't you ever listen to me? You never listen.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I have to mand me you that's why.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah, I know, annoying me, and instead of annoying me,
you could be bringing Jesus into your life. I am
telling Jesus is.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
In my life. I don't need Chosen to put Jesus.
I'm actually the Bible in a year just so.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I've been doing that too, but I'm planning on doing
it in three years because I just I'm just a
little bit slower. It's hard. It definitely is very hard.
I have I've been doing it. But I love the
series The Chosen. Do you realize I've watched it in
full three times already, three times I have when I
watched it late at night. That's the last. Yeah, I
(23:00):
either play chess, look at real estate, or watch The Chosen.
Those that's my late night pattern. Goodness's why I never
get any sleep. And then I'm looking also for articles
while I'm watching it, and then Jesus will enlighten me
whether or not I should I should, whether or not
I should be talking about this issue. By the way,
we want to give a shout out today special shout out.
(23:20):
We got a request from Calvin Wimbish. He's a colonel
US Army Special Forces and it's a very cool story
that his dad and his mom. They live in Baltimore.
They've been married over eighty years this past April thirteenth,
nineteen forty five, and still alive and well together. Mom
(23:44):
is now ninety eight and told Dad he's got to
hang around until she gets over too. Wow, And they
have pictures of him. Very cool anyway, God bless them all.
Married over eighty years. You could barely spend three hours
a day with me without like losing it.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
So I guess his dad's birthday is today. He's one
hundred and one and the incredible. But their pictures are incredible.
So shout out to Calvin for being a good son.
I think that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I haven't really started the show yet today. I'm just
sort of one of those moves.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
We've been talking for the past forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I'm just I'm just kind of I don't know, not
the I'm going to get dialed in with John Solomon
in a minute. Because John Solomon is awesome. I love
him as a person. He's such a great investigative reporter.
He's a good friend. He's always working. I mean the
conversations we have late at night, always we're talking about stuff.
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He has great storks. He works, It works hard. The
criminal referral that was filed by the director of the
US Federal Housing Finance Agency provides more details about the
mortgage and tax scandal plaguing the congenital liar Adam Schiff
and identifies the array of federal laws that he may
have violated by improperly claiming two primary residences. Refer was
(25:14):
sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Director William Palti says
that Shiff may have violated several statutes, including government wire fraud,
mail fraud, bank fraud, false statements to a financial institution
by claiming two homes, one of Maryland, the other in
California as primary residences and based on media reports, Adam
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Schiff has in multiple instances falsified bank documents property records
to acquire more favorable loan terms, impacting payments from two
thousand and three to twenty nineteen from a Potomac, Maryland
based property. And he leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency,
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which oversees Fanny May, Freddie Mac and the Federal home
loan bank system as a regulator. Fannie May, Freddie Mack
and the Federal Home loan Banks we take very seriously
allegations of mortgage fraud and other criminal activity. Remember they
tried to make a big deal. I was involved in
an investment property and they said, oh, Hannity apparently got
(26:23):
one of these government back loans, which by the way,
almost everybody in business does if you invest in some
real estate projects. And I was only one member of it.
And the funny thing is the loan was guaranted that
that loan took place during Obama's presidency, and they wanted
to tie it to Trump. WHOOPSI Daisy, Sorry about that, guys.
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So this runs very deep, the story that we're going
to spend a lot of time on with John Solomon,
and what we have are new details about the Hillary
Clinton out and paid for Steele dossier and their impact
on the intelligence community in twenty sixteen and their assessment
of Russian meddaling as it continues now to emerge. We
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have now new declassified documents thanks to John Solomon's Foyer
request and the Director of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbard, and
she classified bombshell emails that show shocked reaction of a
top cybersecurity spy when he was belatedly informed in twenty
nineteen that the discredited and remember they were warned not
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to use the Steele dossier before it became the bulk
of information for the four PISA applications to spy and
ruined Carter Page's life and then's backdoor spy on Trump
and developed the Obama administration's intelligent assessment on Russian medaling
and Steele if you're a call former MI six agent
have been hired in twenty sixteen by an op research
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firm which then was being paid by Hillary Clinton a
turn Ernie Mark Elias, and the dossier by the discredited
Steal was used by the FBI to obtain PAISA warrants
against the Trump campaign official and evidence continues to emerge
about how it was included in the intelligence community assessment
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what's called an ICA on Russia and the twenty sixteen election. Quote,
we have a problem. This is a very key phrase,
the intelligence officer on the US National Intelligence Council wrote
when he learned by accident about the dossier's influence in
the December twenty sixteen Intel Community assessment, seemingly by accident
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from an email sent by another top intelligence officer who
had asked him to search for material and response to
a Freedom of Information Act request that, by the way,
is John Solomon, and the revelation so disturbed this Deputy
National Intelligence Officer for cybersecurity that he blew the whistle,
first to the US intelligence community's watchdog, then to Gabbard personally,
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and then, by the way, sources relate all this to
justinnews dot com. At no time in my IC career
has dossier material ever been represented to me in a
work setting as something the NIC viewed as credible or
that was influential in crafting these products. Now, the CIA's
recent eight page Lessons Learned review, released earlier in June,
(29:25):
focused on the twenty sixteen assessment about Russia and November
twenty sixteen, which was made public in twenty seventeen. Now,
the review concluded, at the direction of John Ratcliff's CIA director, concluded,
the decision by the agency heads to include the Steel
dossier in the assessment ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles
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and ultimately undermine the credibility of a key judgment. And
according to these newly declassified, partially unredacted September twenty nineteen
emails obtained by just Thenews dot com One surprising assertion
was the Steele dossier had played a role in the assessment.
Seemed to originate with a top ic election security official
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who had been appointed by the Election Threats Executive and
within the Director of National Intelligence by then DNI Dan Coates,
just a couple of months prior, and the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence that in July twenty nineteen,
now an email from a redacted all of this, you know,
(30:32):
you just get into this. Let me see if I
can sum this up for you. The Obama administration, with
Obama's knowledge, apparently, according to this new information and Clapper's
knowledge and Brennan's knowledge, manufactured and politicized intelligence that was
put together by career, rank and file people that had integrity.
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And what they did is, and I was talking to
John earlier, they polluted it, they hijacked it, They absolutely
purposely distorted it. And by the way, I was backed
up by the Durham report as well. And anyway, and
they even went on early on in December twenty sixteen,
weeks after the election. You know, even James Clapper's talking
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points said foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on
the election infrastructure like in other words, so then it
gets in the hands of these political deep state operatives,
and that would be the people like Clapper and Brennan
and other high ranking administration officials, and they weaponized it
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all to go after Trump in spite of the brief
saying it was highly unlikely that any of this had
any impact on the election, and we now know they
knew in December twenty sixteen that the Steel dossier had
been debunked. Anyway, the Commune Unications in the FBI Presidential
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Daily Briefing stated it should not go forward until the
FBI had shared his concerns. Remember if James coleme he
was warned not to use the dossier, he signed three
of the four warrants. I think John'll do a really
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