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December 4, 2025 • 28 mins

Join Sean in this hour as he discusses the recent arrest of Brian Cole, the suspect linked to bomb placements at the RNC and DNC, after years of investigation. He also covers the president's orders to honor Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, honoring her memory following a tragic attack in Washington, D.C. Sean dives into the challenges of accurately reporting on high-profile cases, sharing lessons learned from past media narratives that often rush to judgment. Plus, get insights into the ongoing controversies surrounding media coverage of political events and the implications of misinformation in our society.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Right down our toll free telephone number if you want
to be a part of the program, it is eight
hundred and ninety four one Sean if you want to
join us. We do have some good news. Remember the
person that this guy we now have identified him Brian Cole,
thirty years old Virginia, works in the office as a
bail bondsman. And this is the guy that the suspect

(00:26):
that five years ago placed those bombs. While the RNC
and DNZ has now been arrested after an extensive investigation.
We'll get into more details as the program unfolds. The President,
as of today, has ordered flags to be flown at
half staff to honor Sarah Beckstrom, the National guardswoman that

(00:48):
was slain in this recent attack in DC. As a
mark of respect for the memory of Specialist Sarah Bestrom
the West Virginia Army National Guard. By the authority vested
to me as President of the United States, by the Constitution,
by the laws of our country, I hereby order the
flag of the United States shall be flown at half

(01:11):
staff at the White House and upon all public buildings
and grounds, at all military post, naval stations on all
naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of
Columbia and throughout the United States It's territories and possessions
until sunset December fourth, twenty twenty five. I also direct
that the flag shall be flown at half staff for

(01:34):
the same length of time at all US embassies and
around the world, and other offices and facilities abroad. Any
further went on to say, you know, all we know
is like everything else we've been lied to, you just
turned the open. It infuriates me when I hear this

(01:58):
guy may orcus. No, No, we robust vetting and screening
process that we've had. We're proud of our Afghan resettlement program,
and now we're arresting Afghan nationals left right and sideways,
and nobody's you know, doing a thing about it. One
of the things that I guess maybe I don't like

(02:21):
the word pride because it implies ego and it's not.
It's not pride. I'm just I'm glad. I've learned lessons
in this business, and I've learned from the past, and
I learned by accident. I've told the story that the
day that Richard Jewell was declared the you know that

(02:41):
he fits the profile of a loane bomber after the
Centennial bombing.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
In Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
This is, you know, nineteen ninety six, during the Olympics
that took place in the city of Atlanta. All of
a sudden, I'm on the I'm live, and I see
a story crosses, you know before me. By the way,
something is bleeding into my ears. Whoever is running the
board and anyway, so long story short is I didn't

(03:12):
know Richard Jewel was listening to my program. I didn't
find that out till later, and lo and behold, I
find out Richard Jewel was listening, and I was making
the case well, just because he lives with his mother,
which was the body of the article, does not mean
that he is a domestic terrorist. And maybe he's trying
to save money like a lot of people, do you know,

(03:33):
if you're trying to get into a head of life.
And he learned later, you know, had ambition, he wanted
to be a police officer, et cetera. And it ended
up that he was a hero. His attorney at the time,
land Woods, swears that he thinks that's what took his life.
He said it on this very program. But the point
is is I didn't rush to judgment. And then I
found out later he was listening to the show, and

(03:56):
I began to realize, don't rush to judgment, and even
if it means that you're not going to be the
first to report a story that's okay, and that has
served me well in my life, and that has led
to many high profile cases where we are right and
the legacy state run media is wrong. We were right

(04:16):
about Duke Lacrosse, we were right about UVA, We were
right about Freddie Gray and Baltimore. We were right about
this phony narrative Michael Brown, hands up, don't shoot Officer
Darren Wilson. I had sources telling me almost from day
one that there were numerous eyewitnesses that would corroborate Officer

(04:37):
Darren Wilson's story. And yet the media ran with these
stories every single time. And it's not like they learn
from their mistakes. They just keep doubling down on rushing
to judgment. And we watched this unfold during the entire
you know, since the day that Donald Trump came down
that escalator, you know, in twenty fifteen at Trump Tower

(05:00):
and the Russia hoax and it was a hoax, and
it was a lie, and it was disseminated, and it
was manufactured, and it was based on a bought and
paid for Russian ironically disinformation dossier, you know, bought and
paid for by his opponent at the time, Hillary Clinton.

(05:20):
It was designed to create a narrative against Donald Trump
to help them win the election and help him lose
an election. And then we've learned more about it since
we learned that the professionals, the career senior intelligence officials

(05:42):
in our country, thanks to Tulsi Gabberts d classification, they
did an assessment of that election and they determined, no,
there was no Trump Russia collusion. We know that it
got to Barack Obama's desk thanks to Tulsi's declassification, and
we learned that instead of accepting the result, so senior
career intelligence intel officials, that they ordered a new intelligence assessment,

(06:06):
one that brought that political narrative back to life.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Even though they had to.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Know nobody will convince me otherwise in my mind, they
had to know that it was bs. And then we
found out that it even got worse than that, and
that that Russian dirty dossier bought and paid for by Hillary,
even though top officials were warned to not trust it
in August of twenty sixteen. Is even indications that top

(06:35):
officials that came up with the later assessment knew damn
well that this was a phony assessment, but they didn't care.
It became the bulk of information for not one but
for PIZA applications that's going to a court to backdoor
spy on American citizens. In this case, they used a

(06:57):
Trump campaign volunteer by the name of Carter A. They
upended his complete and total life. We got him on
the program this week and as a backdoor into all
things Trump world. And you know in this dossier, remember
the money went to a law firm, Perkins cooy to
an odd research firm that hired Christopher Steele. He put

(07:20):
together a series of uncorroborated memos and it later become
became known as the dossier. And that's just one example
of our government being corrupt and our government lying to you.
But more importantly, the state run legacy media mob just
outright lining to you. You know, we saw the same
thing happen in twenty twenty. We know for a fact

(07:42):
that our government corroborated the veracity of the very real
Hunter laptop in March of twenty twenty. You would think
they would corroborate that to the American people, that this
was a very real laptop and it had very incriminating
information not only about Hunter Biden, but about about his
father and about their financial dealings, and have my income

(08:05):
goes to Pops? And which account should I pay Pops
for this home repair and that home repair and so
on and so forth. Never mind the porn and the
guns and everything, and the drug use and everything else
that was revealed that in that laptop from Hell. So
instead of telling the American people the truth, what did
the FBI do? They went about in the summer of

(08:27):
twenty twenty meeting with every social media company and basically
pre bunking that very real laptop that they had verified
as authentic. And they, you know, said, well, you may
be a victim of Russian disinformation. You got to be careful,
got to be very careful. Now they knew at the time,

(08:50):
and we've had Bob Costello, who was then Rudy Giuliani's attorney,
he had a copy of that laptop. They knew he
had a copy of that laptop. When they rated Rudy's
home and they took all of his devices, the one
device they didn't take is the one with Hunter Biden's
laptop on it. They knew the story would break, hence

(09:12):
weekly meetings with all these big tech companies. They knew
the story would drop. It dropped in October of twenty twenty.
They knew if it was verified as authentic, there's no
chance Joe Biden could have won that election. No way, impossible, mathematically,
in my mind, impossible. But when that story came out

(09:35):
and those big tech companies that they were warning could
be victims of Russian disinformation asked the FBI whether or
not it was real or not, or is this the
disinformation you were warning us about? They lied again. Now
why do I lay this foundation? We have now heard
for weeks that well, for the last week at least,

(09:59):
non stop, never ending corrupt legacy state media propaganda and
lying that somehow that Pete hag Seth put out a
kill them all order as it relates to the President's
efforts to stop a designated terrorist organization out of Venezuela

(10:20):
known as Trende Arragua. And that's why and we know
how many Americans are dying from opioid addiction and overdose
and fentanyl addiction and overdose. And that's all we've heard. Now,
a little shocking where the source comes from. Real Clear
Politics put a big highlight on this today, ABC News,

(10:41):
Martha Ratt. It's not exactly a member of the vast
right wing conspiracy, not somebody that I don't even think
likes Donald Trump a little bit. And this is her
report from yesterday.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Tonight, new information. According to a source familiar with the incident,
the two survivors climbed back onto the boat after the
initial strike. They were believed to be potentially in communication
with others and.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Salvaging some of the drugs.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Because of that, it was determined they were still in
the fight and valid targets. A JAG officer was also
giving legal advice. So again, David, that video will be key.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Even the top Democrat, Jim Hines on the House Intelligence Committee,
confirmed that the Navy admiral who's in charge of this
operation absolutely denies the Washington Post report. At Secretary of
Defense Pete hag Seth, a Secretary of War Pete hag Seth,
you know, sent out a kill them all order on

(11:42):
this drug smuggling vote. So let's see what they were able,
because it was determined that they were still in the fight,
because the two survivors were climbing back onto the boat,
and that they were apparently trying to salvage the drugs
that they were trying to smuggle into our country to
kill our fellow citizens. So there were survivors that obviously

(12:08):
we're still in the fight trying to recover the drugs
so they could ship them to our country and poison
and kill more Americans, you know, more American kids.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
And you know, we checked with a lawyer.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
By the way first before taking them out. And good
luck trying to spin this into the war crime that
the narrative that they've been saying. But that doesn't stop.
These people are so corrupt they don't care about truth. Linda,
There's a reason you said to me, when are you

(12:43):
going to when are you going to start talking about
the allegations of a war crime? Remember you were asking
me yesterday. I said, well, I've talked about it a
little bit, but I need more information because I don't
believe them. Remember I said that to you, Yes you did,
I did, I said I don't believe them.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
And this this is what I learned in my life.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
And it's not a it's not a pat of my
back to you know, a moment here, but I learned
a valuable lesson.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Don't rush to judgment.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
But the media so hates Donald Trump and anybody and
everybody associated with him, that they forever rush to judgment.
They never cared that marl Lago was valued at eighteen
million dollars by a judge who wouldn't allow a real
estate appraisal appraiser from Tom Beach to point out it

(13:42):
was over a billion dollar property. Not one Democrat, nobody
in the state run legacy media mob gave a hoot.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
They didn't care. They they they allowed.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
The lie to be perpetrated, just like they allowed what was,
you know, a legal non disclosure agreement, which is a
misdemeanor in New York that who's again the statute of
limitations that expired. They let that evolve into this novel
legal theory of you know, thirty four felony counts against

(14:15):
federal felony counts against Donald Trump. Nobody on the left,
no Democrat, said oh no, that you can't do that.
That would not be legal. That's not how our legal
system works.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
They didn't care. It's so corrupt, you know, it's sad.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
I'll tell you what else is corrupt, That there are
people that don't understand the nature of evil. I have
a hard time wrapping my mind around those that are
so ignorant of history and they don't know that. You know,
even in recent decades, Israel has been hit with tens
and tens and tens and tens of thousands of rockets

(14:53):
and surrounded by enemies, you know, that have in their
own charters the destruction of Israel. You know, death to Israel,
death to America. What part of that are you not understanding?
Culminating in October seventh, there's a small small population less
than ten million. You know, that's like losing forty thousand
Americans in a day. But you know, oh, we should

(15:16):
not take a stand against radical Islamis that want to
kill us. Two makes no sense. Let me go to
the big breaking news today, and they did have a
big presser. I mean, we might play a little part
of it from earlier. So after five years of the
Biden FBI, which had been weaponized and politicized, as we

(15:37):
have chronicled so often on this program. They just could
never quite figure out who planted the pipe bombs the
night before the January sixth riots took place, but they
wanted to blame Trump, and all the investigated materials from
Benny Thompson and Liz Cheney, they're just missing. We don't
know where they went, you know, for all the tape

(15:58):
that they played in their time extravaganza than never played.
Many of you will now peacefully arch to the Capitol
for your voices to be heard. Oh, let's let's leave
that part out, or if we have a hearsay hearsay witness,
a double hearsay witness that says that Trump tried to
commandeer the beast, And meanwhile, the driver of the beast

(16:19):
had already told the committee that, in fact, that never happened,
but they went with that fake narrative anyway, and now
never mind, people had to change their testimony on top
of all of it. But that's a different story for
a different day. So anyway, this has been a mystery
for some time. Two Republican congressmen who had investigated the

(16:40):
lack of progress and this pipe bomb investigation quote by
the end of February twenty twenty one, less than two
months after the pipe bombs were discovered, the Biden FBI
began diverting resources away from this investigation. And now, if
you fast forward, here we are, all these years later.
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the planting

(17:01):
of these pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican national
Committees on the eve of January sixth. And the arrest
comes one month before the fifth anniversary. You know that,
you know, And this is the irony of all of it,
with all the hearings and primetime and the show, and

(17:22):
now all the missing documents and testimony and evidence. It's
amazing that just disappeared. Where's Liz Cheney when you need her?
There had been the summer before. Liz Cheney never bothered,
Benny Thompson never bothered, the corrupt state run legacy media
never bothered.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
There.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
There were five hundred and seventy four riots in the
Summer of Love, that's the summer before January sixth, five
hundred and seventy four of them. A dozen Americans lost
their lives, thousands of cops were injured. We saw the scenes, Rocks, bottles,
molotov cocktails, assault against police officers. Yeah, over a thousand

(18:02):
of them were injured. Then we had also billions in
property damage. We had a corrupt media with you know,
they'd be reporting the scene over their shoulder was a
city ablaze, mostly peaceful Democrats.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
They said the same thing.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Their vice presidential candidate at the time goes on Colbert,
They're not going to stop writing. They shouldn't stop writing.
That never got investigated, and we're not going to stop
supporting the rioters. You would think that would be disqualified. No,
they only cared about one riot because that's the one
that they could use and exploit. You know, you hear
about all the different you know, and I think what

(18:41):
happened in the case of George Floyd, and I was
probably one of the first to say it. Based on
my knowledge of targeted strikes in the human anatomy and
fifteen years of doing situational self defense, I could tell
you one of the most sensitive areas on the human body,
and if you are in a fight for your life

(19:03):
is one's neck. And if you go back to the
George Floyd case, it was wrong from the get go.
He was handcuffed while he was on drugs, It doesn't
matter if he's on drugs. You can manipulate this guy's
fingers and I guarantee you he's going to feel it
and he's going to comply. There's no need to put

(19:25):
a knee on the neck of this guy. Wait, what
did it go on? Nine minutes? Some ridiculously long period
of time. But you can't keep a knee on somebody's
neck that long. If you ever watched mixed martial arts,
and you know, if you watch biting of any kind
and you see somebody getting choked out, and once somebody

(19:46):
locks in a choke hold, there's two different variations of it.
One would be if you get your arm locked in
deep enough, you can literally squeeze the two carotid arteries
on both sides of one's neck, cut off the blood supply.
That person's going to be out probably ten to twelve
seconds probably. You know, I could show you videos where

(20:08):
you know, if someone's coming up to you and you
it's called a targeted strike. You can hit somebody's carotid.
If you hit it in the right spot, that person,
in all likelihood is going to have a fraction of
a second where blood to their brain is going to
be cut off, and at that moment that individual is
likely to fall to the ground, and if they try
to stand up right away, they're likely to fall back

(20:30):
to the ground.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
And you know, then you can have.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Of course a tray hold, which is really really dangerous
and I don't recommend it even for situation of self defense.
There are better ways to defend yourself. But I'm not
going to give self defense lessons here on the program.
So anyway, all those riots took place, what happened took place,
but we have every single weekend, and it became a

(20:56):
racial issue. With George Floyd. It just never should have happened,
especially because he was in handcuffs and you had enough
police officers on the scene that you could have detained him,
and you could have controlled the situation in such a
better way. And he had facial abrasions that was so
over the top. But you know, and people were rightly outraged.
But every single weekend in this country, you can make

(21:18):
a prediction how many people in Chicago, many of the minorities,
will be shot and shot and killed. And we don't
know their names, you don't read their stories, you don't
because the left can't politicize it. The left can't politically
weaponize it. And that's what you know, this whole notion

(21:39):
of black lives matter, well does every human life. If
you like me, as a Christian, I believe every life
was created by God, a creator, an almighty, all powerful.
We all have unique fingerprints. Biblically speaking, the hairs of
our head are counted, the brains of sand on every
beach are counted. Pretty amazing, pretty deep, pretty profound. We've

(22:03):
talked to atheists on this program, and there are universes
within universes within the universes. But anyway I bring that
up is they only wanted to politicize this because they
wanted a bludge in shrump.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
So the exculpatory information was not put in Liz Cheney's hearing,
you know, And what she did is so selective and
it's it should outrage anybody that has any that's fair minded.
It anyway, But what we're learning is, you know, by
the end of February list that they gave up on

(22:37):
this investigation. The suspect has now been arrested. Now we
have new information. Our Attorney General Pam Bondi at this
press conference earlier today, FBI made this arrest. Bryan Cole Junior,
identified as a suspect, has been charged with an explosive
device use of an explosive device, according to these officials,

(22:59):
and then Pam Bondi credited investigators and prosecutors were sifting
through evidence that had been sitting at the FBI for
four long years, noting that no new tips led to
the arrest. Bondi goes on, this investigation is ongoing as
we speak, search warrants are being executed, and there could

(23:20):
be more charges to come. In an email to a
spokesperson for the Prince William County Public Schools, they confirmed
to NBC that Cole graduated from this particular high school.
I won't mention it, but the suspect step grandfather said
in a brief phone call that he spoke to the
FBI about a step grandson but declined to comment further.

(23:42):
And I remember at the time, you know, I've been
friends with Dan Bongino a long time, that they went
after Dan Bongino for comments he made. Now he's going
to join us on Hannity tonight. But here's what we know.
Investigators say that the suspect had possible anarchist leanings. Now
I'm not rushing to judgment. I'm just telling you what
the New York Post is reporting, and we'll we'll do

(24:03):
more vetting and verifying as it goes forward, but we
are learning certain things. A picture is beginning to emerge.
Just to keep you in the loop, federal agents, you know,
swarm the Woodbridge, Virginia home of this thirty year old
following the break in this case, and it's not clear
what the charges yet are going to be and what
he's going to face. Very antisocial described as that a

(24:25):
woman who said who lived in the neighborhood for decades.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
He has a dog that he loves.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
He walks every day twice a day to seven eleven
with his dog and wear his headphones. He seemed quiet.
He would never make eye contact, almost like he didn't
see you, added a second neighbor quoted in this story,
and I'm pretty shocked at another neighbor who lived in
the area. This is very uncommonly, you know, very uncommonly
friendly and neighborly place to live. After arriving at the

(24:53):
Bureau in March, FBI Deputy Director longtime friend of the program,
Dan Mangino made the case a top priority, writing on
X last month, we brought a new personnel to take
a look at the case. We flew in police officers
and detectives working as task force officers to review FBI work.

(25:17):
We conducted multiple internal reviews, held countless in person surveillance,
videotele conferencing meetings with investigative teams. We dramatically increased investigative resources.
We increased the public award for information in the case
to utilize crowdsourcing leads. And he suggested last year on

(25:38):
his podcast before he went to the Bureau and joined
the Bureau that in fact, it could be an inside job,
and a report released in January by Congressman Loudermilk and
others assessed that little meaningful progress had been made in
the case.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Now if you go back, I actually remember this. It's
so funny I remember it.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
But the lack of leads in terms of you know,
who planted the pipe, I mean, that's a big part
of the story. That was a big part, and they
never got to the bottom of it. And Dan Bongino
had put out that there is a massive cover up.
This is what he said at the time you know,
this was January. You know again, this happened in January

(26:21):
twenty twenty one. They don't want you to know who
it was because it's either connected an anti Trump insider,
or this was an inside job. Pongino is a pretty
smart guy. He said these bombs were planted there. He said,
I have zero doubt it was his setup. And whoever
goes into the FBI, you better get an answer about

(26:41):
why the only publicly available information on the suspect was
a grainy still frame. It doesn't look that grainy to me.
What I've been watching all day on TV looked pretty
clear to me. Anyway, eight hundred and ninety four one
Shawan is a number if you want to be a
part of the program.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
The woman one that.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Won the Nobel Peace Prize. Remember her name, Maria Corina Machado. Anyway,
she won last year's Peace Prize to restore freedom in Venezuela.
She actually put a piece in the New York Post
today and this is what she said, because we're going
to get into this whole issue, more details about you know,
the rush to judgment against Pete's as Secretary of War.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
And you know what is it's.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Actually a common technique of you know what, they call
it a double tap attack. And now Martha Raddo's even
at ABC is confirming, Oh yeah, we're learning that in fact,
those guys are trying to you know, recover the drugs
and was still in the battle. Anyway, She points, a
criminal cartel has taken over my country and it's reached

(27:45):
now extends into the US. Anyone who believes this is
just another authoritarian regime is dangerously mistaken. This is organized
crime and power armed in bankrolled by America's enemies across
the Hemis. Narco terrorist groups and dictators who shield them
are clawing for more control. They don't just threaten their

(28:06):
own nations, They weaken democracies and poison our societies. And
they're targeting the United States directly. By the way, when
she got the Nobel Peace Price, she said Donald Trump
deserved it, not her.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
I think maybe we'll interview her one day.

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