Best of Hannity: Defenders of Truth

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What should happen. Time out, let's reassess, maybe we got
this wrong. What would you hope to happen that the
FBI would slow down because this is the outcome determined
to the document that's just had a hole blown through it.
They don't slow down. They used a document they now
know to be a bunch of garbage twice more to

(00:23):
get a warrant against Carter Page. I hope carter Page
gets a lawyer ensues the hell out of the Department
Justice and FBI. Two more warrants were obtained by the
Department of Justice and FBI after being told in January
by the Russian guys, all a bunch of bull. But
it gets worse. Here's how they described the interview to

(00:45):
the court. The FBI found that the Russian based subsource
to be truthful and cooperative. Nothing about it. Oh, by
the way, he said, everything in there is a bunch
of bull. You knew in January twenty seventeen. If there
was no doubt before, you know by the guy who
prepared it that he disavowed everything is not true. It's

(01:08):
a grain assault. You shouldn't I didn't say all these things.
Instead of stopping, they keep going and instead of telling
the court, the court the truth what they're required to do,
they lie to the court a fewer regularities. How would
you like this to happen in your life? How would
you like to be on the receiving end of this?

(01:29):
To our people in the news business, what would you like?
How would you like this to be your news organization?
All right? That of course, Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham, I
thought he hit his high watermark during the Cavan R hearings.
He's been phenomenal. Now I'm not going to get into
this argument. Let's bring in Joe and Hunter and the
whistle blower and the compromise corrupt congenital liar, and we'll

(01:53):
make it all part No. I actually don't agree with that,
get it over. But Lindsey Graham said to me last night,
you can tell your audience for me from me that
all of this is going to be investigated at the
highest levels. These not letting it go. So and the
reasoning is is you get out of this because you

(02:16):
give them an extra week, they'll throw another fifteen articles
of impeachment out at the president because that's how freaking
nuts they are. Anyway, eight hundred and nine four one, Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program,
and I could be persuaded either way as long as
it gets done, because we're not going through this with
nothing and then allowing quid pro quo Joe to walk
away with his zero experience on Hunter Scott Free. That's

(02:40):
not how it works in this country. Finally, we've got
an attorney general and a prosecutor that have made it
clear that everything that we reported I've never had in
my entire life, thirty one years in radio and now
my twenty fourth year at Fox and article that shocked

(03:01):
me about me. Jeff Lord did it? What's his website
to get It's? Uh? And I know he works with
the Spectator. Oh, Jeffrey the Jeffrey Lord dot com? Did
you read this? Did? The guy's unbelievable and now wend
for a lot of years he followed, He listens every day,
he comes on when we invite him on anytime we
want him. Like them, as he writes the vindication of

(03:24):
Sean Hannity and a relentless pursuit of the truth, I
was like, nobody's gonna care. We were right about Obama.
Nobody ever wrote about it. We spent and by and
he gives credit to a lot of our ensemble cast members.
We didn't do this alone. And the mob think of
all they've gotten wrong. So let me tell you something
a little secret, and I'll tell Quarta too since he's here.

(03:45):
So Carter Page is going to join us. Yeah, well
he is joining us, so but being very patient. So
Jeffrey the other day goes to the rally and Hershey,
So he's sitting in a car, cars in front of him.
Guy pays his way through the parking attendant because he
sees Jeffrey through his rear view, which is just incredible.

(04:05):
And Jeffrey's like, no, I have vi IP passes. I'm
already paid for it. Give us money back, you know,
He's true. Jeffrey's sweetheart gets through Pox's car. He's like
walking around. Couldn't even get to the front of the line.
Either people wanted to talk to him about Yushan and
talk about all the good things you're doing, or they
wanted to talk to him working for Reagan supporting Trump.
He said, people are fired up and they're pissed. He said,

(04:29):
they're so angry about what's happened, and I have to say.
It's pretty it's pretty incredible, he said. People love Chan.
You're well loved out there, so you know, you know,
not to say anything. But when it was a little odd,
you get in the middle of this crap. And we
have done I think our deepest dive we've ever done
on any one topic. And I thought we did a

(04:49):
really good job betting Obama when the media wouldn't. We
worked really hard on all of that, but we were right.
And I'm very proud of everybody that had a part
to play in that, because that it's our goal. It
is about the pursuit of truth and everybody else is lying.
Now I want to introduce Carter Page, and I love
what Lindsay said there about Carter Page. Now in the

(05:10):
course Carter, I want, I want to walk through this
systematically with you. How many times do you think radio
and TV you've been on my shows? I've lost track
a long time ago, Sean, but it was it was
an honor the first time, and uh, you know now
you can't stand me anymore. It's uh, you know, I mean,
what to be on the number one show and uh

(05:32):
on TV and I mean it's uh, I mean, it
was it was a great honor, But twenty five of
the greatest, biggest, best radio station in the country. How
many times did I press you? And at times to
the point where you were uncomfortable over what you what
you were doing in Russia, what you did for a living,
why you were there, what would you do with information?

(05:54):
Who did you sit down with in terms of three
letter agencies in the country when you got back? Oh
hard do you think on a scale of one to ten?
I pushed you at times on those issues. You kept
pushing and pushing, shun and digging nice about it. Well,
now while you were I mean, it's consistent with what you, Linda,
the entire Hannity ensemble have been doing for so long.

(06:15):
It's really just digging for the truth. And you know
again it's it's confidential government information. The things I was
involved in, I tried to respect that confidentiality, but unfortunately eventually,
you know, there are a lot of criminal leakers in
other people that have worked for and in the US government.

(06:36):
As you're you're at the epicenter, Carter, this was all
they used you. They used you. They they stripped you
of all your civil liberties, all your constitutional rights. You
were denied all of them. They spied on you for
a year, but really you were just the conduit a

(06:58):
one step two step as well, which is once you
get the fies a warrant to spy on carter page
and okay, we can use the whole Russian narrative. And
I thought Kimberly Strassell tying this back to fusion GPS
in May was very revealing because the official story is
it started in July and that's another lie. But that's

(07:21):
what your country did to you, just like the way
they treated General Flynn. So I want to I want
to stay focused, and I need to take more time
than this half hour. I will because I would push
you and I would say, well, who did you meet
with when you came back from Russian And you would say,
very uncomfortably, well, I would sit with people from the
government and and then I said, you'd answer every question
they had, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, and you'd have lunches

(07:43):
and dinners. Right then. Remember those conversations. I remember him vividly, Sean.
Do you remember when I got a little pissed off
one day because you would you would ducking me and
dodging me, and I was calling you out. I said,
you're not answering me, are you. Yes, one particular interview
you remember, yes, Yes, I remember that one, very very vividly.

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So what I began to figure out based on the
information as it was unfolding At some point and I
think I said it to Linda in the middle of
the interview. I can actually talk to him by hitting
a button when you're talking. I said, he worked for
he worked for our intelligence community. He was in the CIA, remember, Linda, Yes,

(08:25):
bus And then I pushed you harder, and then based
on the way you ducked, I knew that was correct.
How many years did you serve your country in this capacity?
Now it's out there, you can talk about it. Well,
it goes back. I mean my first time when I
worked in the Pentagon and starting in the middle of
ninety three through the end of ninety four. Um, you

(08:48):
know that's that's what's the start. And you know I
spent some time at it Langley then, so you know,
by the way you see, he's still he's still blocked
into his whole method of thinking. That's fine, you don't
have to give us every detail. But when when somebody
is working with the greatest intelligence agencies and on the planet,

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and you're in a country like Russia. And by the way,
of course, Putin interfered in our elections and Russia. Did
we already know that, and Devin nun has warned about
it in twenty fourteen. They didn't do anything to stop it.
But I'm just guessing that if they discover that you're
working for the CIA, your life might be in jeopardy. Right,
didn't Putin? Wasn't he responsible for poisoning some people that

(09:32):
he didn't like? That's the allegation. Yes, yeah, And when
you would come back and I kept digging and pushing you,
and I'd ask you again and again, I said, well,
would you meet with the CIA? Would you meet with
the NSA? And in the answer was always yes. So
the reality is is now we know not only did

(09:55):
they strip you of your constitutional rights and liberties and
civil liberties, but they even altered a document to do
it because the CIA confirmed that you were not only
did you're not only did work for them, but you
were in good standing. Is that true? Now? Do we

(10:16):
now have that as fact? That was in the report? Yes, yes, Sean,
and I greatly appreciate that they revealed that and they
also they made it just the opposite, they said, they lied.
They altered the document that was exculpatory for you and

(10:36):
said just the opposite, didn't they. Yes, And again I
would highlight what you said a few minutes ago about
as a way of getting at President Trump, because this
is precisely what they've been doing to him NonStop throughout
this the last several years. And I mean it's up
on the screen now with this all this impeachment stuff.

(10:57):
So yep. Now where I began to get more and
more information based number one on pushing you and then
your non answers answers which I called you out on.
I mean there was one show in particular I was
a little mean because you're not answering, car Carter, give
us the answers. We're looking for answers. But when Muller
brought you in, how many hours were you with Muller

(11:19):
and his team? A full day? A full day, Sean, yeah,
a full day, and nothing ever happened, did it? No?
And they were really annoyed because it was all Democrat
donors who were in the room with me, three and
three angry Democrats and they all knew as well then
who you were and what you did for your country

(11:41):
and your government and where you were true or false,
that's true. And they also, I mean it was really
the greatest invasion of privacy, right because I mean that's
after the warrants. That was in November of twenty seventeen.
The warrants expired a couple months earlier, and so they've
already been listening, you know, the US government has already
been listening to me and the Trump campaign and Trump

(12:03):
administration through my communications with them for for over a year. Right,
And they find nothing, and then they're they're just pushing
me to try to find some possible uhum, perjury trap
that they can they can catch me out on. So well,
and nothing came of it because I'm sure that the

(12:24):
letter that was altered to make you into a villain
when they said just the opposite. Have you seen that letter.
I've seen the description in the in the report. Um,
but you know what's interesting, Sean, And no, no, no, no,
you're not answering. I'm not letting you get away with that. Okay.
Have you seen the letter? Uh? Perhaps perhaps about it

(12:50):
in the brain was no, no, no? Was the letter
exculpatory and did it say you are a great American
that served your country? Well, the essence of it, uh, Sean, Look,
there are there is there's so much documents. There are
so many documents that the level of evidence clear and convincing.

(13:11):
I mean, but the overwhelming is that I'm trying to
get at the agency told them you were a person
in good standing? Can I say that? Yeah? Yeah, I
mean that's and then they changed it ye to say
just the opposite. Is that fair? Yes? Yes, yep. This
ought to scare the living crap out of every American.

(13:31):
What they did with General Flynn ought to scare the
crap out of every American. This is this is the
biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in history. And I
told you they used the dirty dossier. And without the
dirty Russian Clinton bought and paid dossier, they wouldn't have
gotten the fives warrant to spy on this guy. But

(13:52):
they also withheld exculpatory evidence. I'm gonna get into that
next card. So to start promparing your answers and phone conversations,
et cetera, and things you said. And then on top
of it, they knew they were lying, they altered documents
to continue the spying, illegal spying. Eight hundred and nine
four one Sean. Want to be a part of the program.
Carter's gonna hate me, but it's fine. Everyone in the

(14:15):
mob hates me already, so it doesn't matter. I'm perfectly
accepting my role as being You're braided by many. You're
bringing the country together, Sean, to the contrary by exposing
the truth. So well done. Trust me. Just like they
don't care about you, they don't care about me either.
All right, So we're doing a deep dive. Carter Page
is agreed to spend a little more time with us.

(14:35):
Steve Scalise will be checking in with us as well,
and Donald Trump Junior checks in as well today. We'll
also have time to your calls in the next half
hour eight hundred nine one Sean. But we gotta get
we gotta dig down deep here. We've got to fully
completely comprehend, understand exactly what it is, how corrupt Comey's
FBI has been and continues to be, because if we

(14:57):
don't get to the bottom of it, we're never gonna
solve the underlying problems, which means it puts everybody civil
liberties and jeopardy. That would mean your civil liberties. That
would mean your kids, your grandkids, everybody suffers when the
one percent, not the ninety nine rank and file intelligence

(15:18):
and law enforcement guys, special agent in the f FBI,
when they abuse and use the powerful tools of intelligence
and turn them on we the people. Or carter Page,
Stan Jr. Coming up as we continue. Carter Page, who's
been on the receiving end of all this. The foundation
to believe he was a foreign agent comes from a
dossier that we'll talk about in a minute, and that

(15:42):
dossier provided by Christopher Steel, and we'll talk about him
in a minute. They claim that carter Page meets with
three people known to be Russians, Russian agents, people associated
with Russian carter Page, while being wiretapped by his government says,
I don't know two of these people, and to this day,

(16:04):
there's no proof that he ever met two of those three.
The third person, he says, yeah, I met him. I
told the CIA about my meeting because I was a
source for the CIA, So they would have you believed
that carter Page is working against our government, not with

(16:25):
our government. So carter Page in the summer of twenty
seventeen is trying to tell anybody and everybody. I was
working with the CIA, I reported my contact with this person,
and nobody believed him. The CIA had told the FBI

(16:45):
it was true earlier, but it never made it through
the system. Somebody got so rattled at the FBI they
asked mister Klein Smith to check it out. He checks
it out. He communicates with the CIA. Is Carter Page
a source for you? An email exchange? They say, yes,

(17:09):
he is. What does mister Kline Smith do? He alters
the email to say no, he's not, And you caught him.
I don't know how you caught him because you gotta
dig into this email chain. Wow. What a powerful moment
that was Wednesday with the Inspector General Harowitz talking about

(17:30):
Carter Page is on our newsmaker line. Now, you know,
one little side note before I get into this Klin
Smith issue with you and what you explained on those
phone calls. Do you know, Carter, how many people tried
to warn me off you. You know how many people
told me you would burn me. How do you want

(17:51):
to know I never told you this? How many people
said me putting you on was gonna be a career
killer for me. I can only imagine Sean, because when
we had our first interviews years ago, I was just
getting attacked NonStop by all sides. So those people that
said that to you are just consistent with sort of

(18:13):
the mass. I don't even remember. I'm trying to go
back in the recesses of my mind. I can't even remember.
I just remember people don't don't trust a going I
remember now, I remember that that those the time didn't
know You're you're diplomatic, Sean, You're very You're so listen
to what Lindsey Graham just said. I want you to
tell this audience when you hear that, when you when

(18:36):
you absorb that, what do you think, Well, Sean, I
you know again, what he's talking about are things that
you and I have talked about for years. I'm just
happy that we now have a document from the government which,
you know, a serious, in depth investigation, which basically confirms

(18:57):
everything you your team have been digging into and reporting
for the last several years. You know, I mean, it's
it would never have been possible if it weren't for
you know, people like a Chairman Graham and Congressman Nunez
and so many people. And again you provided a platform
for them to actually state the truth. You know, you

(19:21):
actually told me that off air that I was over
the target and more right than I ever knew. You
remember telling me that absolutely. Yeah, So you know, when
you're doing like trying to put the pieces of the
puzzle together, tell us about this guy Klein Smith. Well,
the sad thing about him, I mean, again, there are

(19:42):
a lot of allegations of wrongdoing with him. The thing
that really disturbs me the most, again, I think the
overarching the seventeen separate instances of FBI misconduct and abuse
that we're exposed in the Investment Inspector General's report is
just you know, as as Chairman Graham has told you,

(20:03):
just ugly and damning, right. I mean this is that,
you know, the thing seventeen significant failures and accuracies and omissions,
but it's subsections into over fifty offenses. But go ahead,
I know, and you you've I know you've been digging
into that as well with your your whole ensemble team.

(20:24):
Uh here. But um. But the thing that bothers me
the most in my interactions with FBI lawyer Klein Smith
is when I again I had long series. I spent
over ten hours with the FBI in March of twenty seventeen,
I ended up getting more death threats, and you know,

(20:44):
and I told the FBI about the you know, the
terror threats that I was surviving then, and unfortunately, early
the next month, they had another, um another media report,
you know, in that in the constant series of craziness there,
and I got more death threats, you know, and unfortunately

(21:04):
it was related to a disclosure in that instance of
me being an FBI informant, right, so that gets out
into public, and you know, and I tell mister Kleinsmith
about that myself. You know, I had a direct email
exchange with mister Kleinsmith and also with um you know,
I mean one of the volunteer lawyers that was helping

(21:26):
me at the time. It had already spoken with him
a few times and so it was on his radar scope.
So yeah, I mean, I think what he did in
terms of all the dishonesty, I mean, that's bad. But
what's worse is the you know, life or death situation
that the FBI not only did nothing about Sean, they
made it even worse. Right, because that was early April

(21:47):
twenty seventeen, just a couple of weeks later in the
Washington Post, they reveal about the FISA warrants against me,
and I get more death threats, and let me care
go a little deeper into this. The threats are coming
from associates abroad, like from Russia. No. Actually, and again

(22:08):
it goes back to the report going to go to
in some sense, because in many ways I think you
would fit as a be defined in some ways as
a covert operative, and certainly on this program with me,
you were exercising plausible deniability to the best you could
until I finally figured it out. Took a while and
a little bit of digging and pushing and prodding and poking,

(22:29):
but I got there in my own head. And I
remember the moment I said to Linda, he works with
the CIA. I'm promise you he does, and she I think, Linda,
you looked at me and said you're probably right. Yeah, No,
I definitely did. I was like, I'm not surprised if
you so. Did you get any threats from any of
the people that you met abroad, Well, it's always a
threat shun. But the specific ones that I informed mister

(22:51):
Klein Smith of in which I had in depth discussions
with the FBI agents, you know, members of the of
the Kmie McCabe team back in March of twenty seventeen,
was you know, we're actually domestic threats and more specifically,
all stemming from the false defamatory reports that were paid

(23:12):
for by the by the DNC and pushed with their
consultants that were, you know, part part opposition research people,
in part bureaucrats in the DOJ and FBI. And you know,
you you've been uncovering that for years, so you know,
I mean, you know all kind of the background on
that part. All right, so let let me let me

(23:35):
go to this other area where weekends, So you have
these threats and all of this is unfolding in your
life and meanwhile you're doing just the opposite. And who
were the agents in the FBI? You said it was
Mueller's team and comey, I'm sorry McCabe and Comey's team.
Was it Peter Struck who interviewed you? No? And what's interesting, Sean,

(23:56):
it's funny, And so I guess I can say it now.
You know, I don't like saying it. The uh, I
mean the CIA guys that I've worked with with over
the years. I mean I don't want to put anybody's
life in general. Well, okay, but in that com players
that are well known to us. Who was it? No,
it was none of those, no one. I mean, you know,
there's there are abbreviations in the Inspector General Report, which

(24:19):
you've been looking through, you know, working through um, and
they're you know, they have various code names, but you
know similarly. And that's what I was leading into. So,
you know, the CIA people that I'd meet with over
the years would say, well, here's you know, here's my name,
here's my business card, here's my here's my email address.
But it's not right real name, you know, I mean,
they'd intimate to me. And unfortunately, the names that these

(24:43):
agents gave me in March twenty seventeen, I tried digging
a little bit, and I think they're they're not the
actual names, although they never admitted it to me like this,
you know who they are now, all right? So I
don't know, No, I don't know. I mean I know
I could. I mean, if they were standing in front
of me, I would be able to ident you'd be
able to identify them. Yeah. Um, at any point that
anybody ever apologized to you. That may sound like a

(25:05):
really dumb question. No, not only did they not apologize,
shun in terms of you know, people within the DJ
and FBI, and actually I do have an exception, I'll
mention that, but let's let's talk about a government context first.
Not only did they not apologize, they've actually been stonewalling
NonStop throughout the throughout the months and years since. I've

(25:30):
sent several letters, several requests to FBI Director Ray, you know,
asking for some disclosure, right because you know, I'm trying
to get to the bottom and kind of start rebuilding
my life. But you know, unfortunately the rebuilding process has
not really um at least that I've seen. I mean,

(25:52):
I'm exceptionally grateful of Attorney General bar and what he's
doing and obviously with him. Yet no, not yet, not yet.
I would imagine have you spoken with Dorham yet? Uh? No? Nope? Okay. UM, So,
at the end of the day, do you remember how
many times on s you do you love your country?
You love your country? Right, and you'd say, of course,

(26:13):
and you served your country, would you say the work
that you were doing for the CIA and other agencies
and other groups, etc. Was dangerous? It could be well,
and it became dangerous in you know, after on September
twenty three, twenty sixteen, when the defamatory news report came
out by US government propaganda agencies and they are, you know,

(26:36):
the media outlets they're funding Radio Free Europe based on
the defamatory Yahoo News article, right, which was then you know,
as we now know and now we're seeing the Inspector
General report, was you know, part of the basis for
this abusive process in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. You know,

(26:58):
I just think, well, first of all, I'm fascinated. I
think if one of the things that if I ever
had my life to do live over again, besides like
singing anthem songs like John bon Jovi and songs like
Garth Brooks and Kenny Chesney, I would love to do
this work because it's fascinating to me. It's very important work.
One of the things that worries me in all of this, Carter,

(27:19):
is that we need Faiza, we need There are evil
actors on the world stage. Russia is one of them.
Hostile regime led by a hostile actor. You're absolutely right, Sean,
and I think it when you interviewed both Senator Ted
Cruz and I he actually came on before me on Monday,

(27:40):
and you know, he said the exact same thing I
was going to say to you, right, I mean, what
we saw in Monday's report is just the first step.
Carter Page stay right. There are final moments with Carter
coming up, right, a final moments with Carter Page fully vindicated.
This week. I want you to wrap this up and
put a big ball on it and the Christmas spirit,

(28:02):
what you want America to learn from this and also
what you plan to do about this, considering they took
away your civil liberties and they did it by design
and on purpose. Sean, I think this is the start
of a huge rebuilding process. I mean, I think I
have been just so grateful to Chairman Graham and the

(28:27):
entire Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Kennedy who was on your
show this week as well. Just such a long list,
and I mean you've you have been on the forefront
in terms of the media and actually starting to set
the record straight, and I have there's definitely a lot well,
this is, you know, similar to what we were just discussing,

(28:49):
just a first step in a very long process. I think,
both in terms of rebuilding our country, our intelligence to
critical Yeah and so, and I'm I'm gonna help it anyway. Well,
I'm I'm I'm hoping to, you know, write and educate
the country about this. And I think that you know
the litigation process, our our court system. We've talked about

(29:10):
the problems in Congress. You know some of those death
threats I got were on March twenty, twenty seventeen, when
Congressman Adam Schiff is reading from that fake dossier into
the congressional record. You know, that was actually the worst
day of the terror threats that I lived through. What
I had him nail from the beginning a congenital liar um.

(29:32):
You deserve, you need your day in court, and I
hope you sue the living crap out of every single
one of these people involved in this, because you know,
not only were you serving your country and you love
your country, then they spy on your fort because they
don't like who is running on the other side. They
abuse their power. It's corrupt. We better fix it or

(29:54):
we're going to lose our constitution and country. Carter, I
want to wish you the best in the holiday season.
You have been to hell. I hope you feel a
certain sense of vindication now at this point you certainly
deserve it. Well, I really appreciate everything that you and
the team have done for since the very beginning. Sean,
you you were really you helped us put the pieces together.

(30:15):
It was a different it was light pulling teeth, but
you helped us. Carter Page, thank you. Eight nine one,
Shawn told free telephone number, Don Junior coming up straight ahead,
coming up next our final news round up and information
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filed a narcotics offense report, listing item sees in the card,
including a past plastic bag containing white powdery substance, a
secret service business card, credit cards, and Hunter Biden's driver's license.
It's a little hard to believe that Barisma hired Hunter

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Biden resolved their international disputes when he could not resolve
his own dispute with Hurt's rental car over leading leaving
cocaine and a crack pipe in the car. I said,
I'm not going to go over and we're not going
to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have
no authority, you're not the president. The president said, I said,
call him. He said, I'm telling you're not getting the

(31:20):
billion dollars. I said, you're not getting a billion. I'm
gonna be leaving here. And I think it was what
six hours. I look, I said, leaving six hours. If
the prosecutors not fired, you're not getting the money. Well,
son of them got fired. If the prosecutors not fired
son of a bee, they've fired him a vice president

(31:40):
of the United States of America. You're not getting the
one billion dollars. Why would a vice president want to
fire a Ukrainian prosecutor that all knows about a Ukrainian prosecutor. Well,
the New York Times and everybody else tipped off quid
pro quo Joe. We have great T shirts on Hannity

(32:02):
dot com. I've never seen them. I've never seen any
one item sell like these T shirts. Unbelievable hashtag quid
pro quon Joe with our friends at nine line. But
why because his son is being investigated by the prosecutor
and his son is making millions, zero experienced hunter making

(32:25):
millions and millions of dollars. How many times have I
said this? I'm not sick of playing at Linda. I
could play this on a loop because this sham impeachment.
These do nothing, lazy, psychotic, raging, anti Trump lunatics. This
is all they've done for three straight years, and they

(32:47):
deserve in three hundred and twenty six days, what's coming
And that's you, we the people. You get to shock
the world again. Pick your most hated fake news network
and there. You know, whatever time of night, it is,
close to midnight, maybe eleven o'clock, if it's a really
good night, you know, we can now project. Donald Trump

(33:09):
has just been reelected the forty fifth president of the
United States. Donald Trump Junior, number one New York Times
bestselling author, is a brand new book out, Triggered. He's
on the line with us, He's here with us. How
are you, sir, I'm well, buddy. Imagine Donald Trump Junior
turned in a rental car with crack paraphernalia in it.
Imagine I got thrown out of the Navy in two
weeks for blowing cocaine. Imagine I spent two years running

(33:34):
from a woman who was chasing me for child support.
I mean, imagine you imagine I took a billion five
from China. How about this, Imagine I took one point
five dollars from China. You think the standard would be
one if I took one point five dollars from China,
one point five dollars from China, they wouldn't. So you're
talking about a dollar and a half. You took a

(33:55):
buck and a half. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, if
you get a free cup of coffee and you're in China,
you're done with that. Then they don't even go ahead,
come sorry, go ahead. Yeah, you can't even make this
stuff up. I mean, and you're like, oh, no, kids
are off limits. They can attack Baron. They attack Baron,
and then you know that's not off limits. But but
Hunter is, you know, but the fifty year old child

(34:18):
of a guy. I mean, it's such. I can't take this.
I can't take this, this child, the Biden narrative that
I do hear from people, this dopey He's not a child.
He's forty nine years old. So let's cut the crap here.
Kids are off limits. If kids are off limits, well,

(34:38):
I didn't realize that when they spent two and a
half years trying to throw me in jail because I
took an unsolicited meeting. I mean, think about the difference, right,
I didn't take millions of dollars from foreign governments that
were corrupted under investigation. They didn't, you know, sit on
boards on businesses I know nothing about, you know, taking
millions of dollars in income when I don't even speak
the language. I mean, this is insanity, and it's the

(35:02):
double standard by which the other plan and they try
to take anything they can to try to create some
false equivalency about us, you know, and then the left
has lost their mind. You see it in the shame impeachment,
you see it in the nonsense, You see it in
the messaging that the media puts out there, Like Sean,
I do this stuff a lot these days. It's pretty
close to me obviously at this point. And like, I

(35:23):
didn't realize that when the media was screaming, well, the
I report found no bias, Like their definition of bias was, like,
no one actually said the word bias, so we're not
really sure. They also don't talk about that. The only
part where they said there was no bias was. They say, well,
there's no bias in the way they started the investigation,
because there's basically no threshold to start an investigation like that.
They don't say that there's no bias in any of

(35:46):
the things that they did, or any of the insanely
biased actions of all of these corrupt members over the
upper etralon of the FBI and all of those things.
They don't say that there's no bias there. They just said, well,
there's no bias in the beginning, and there's really a
low bar. But the media runs with it like, oh,
Igor's there's zero bias. It's not nothing to see here, folks.

(36:06):
You know, you know, we're learning more about that too,
which is, you know, a fairly stunning story about how
Christopher's it was actually working for a Russian oligarch with
ties to Boot and how again, just like the dirty
Russian dossier, was the basically the entire application, and they
all lied through their teeth. I had the nicest article

(36:27):
in my life ever written about me. It was written
in the American Spectator. Behind agents. They're altering transcripts because
they wanted to change, not to was so that they
can literally change and do the exact opposite so they
can justify the ongoing I mean, this is scary stuff.
I mean, this is insanity. If this is going on

(36:48):
in America in twenty nineteen, we wouldn't accept this going
on in a Banana Republic in twenty nineteen. But it's
going on here, and the media is pretending like, hold on,
there's nothing to see here, no worris, no issue here.
H man. You know, I've lost so much they in
our governments in the last few years. But honestly, in
the last done, I forget the government. I've gained so

(37:12):
much faith in the American people. I am pretty I'm
pretty convinced. Oh yeah, they see every by the way,
you get the same thing I get right everywhere you go.
Don't stop keep fighting. That's what I get everywhere. I
get it. In New York City. I mean I'm in
you know, I'm in New York City even and this
is this is not a you know, bashion of conservative
thought leaders, and they're coming up to be like, honestly done.

(37:35):
You know, I'm a Democrat, but this stuff is insane
at this point. I mean, there's facts that even even
the minimal facts that they're sort of being put out
there by the media because they can't hide some of
the stuff anymore. Even though they're crying desperately Sean, even
some of the things, like even the limited stuff in
that down they're like, man, this is really this is
scary stuff, Like I can't believe this is going on.
I will say, like, hey, before twenty sixteen, if you

(37:56):
didn't believe in the deep state, fine, I get that.
You don't want to believe in conspiracies. If you don't
believe in the deep state and the disgrace that it
is to this country, you're a moron at this point.
You know these if they're doing it, the entire upper
echelon of the FBI was involved, you know, those top
ten guys, I mean, what was going on here? And
the amount of guys that are like the real guys,
you know, the actual FBI, like the door kickers. The

(38:18):
amount of those guys that I've known, whether it's through
competitive shooting or some of those things, or the guys
that come up to be literally in the street like
I'm retired FBI or I'm current, Like you guys, just
keep fighting. This is a disgrace to our badge. This
is a disgrace to our organization. And they're right, because
of course it is. But I don't know how people
get faith back in these once great American institutions, sean,

(38:39):
because what they did, the crimes that they're trying to
perpetrate and almost got away with um, you know, and
who knows, maybe they still get away with it based
on everything they've been able to do so far. It's man,
it's scary stuff. All right, stay right there. I will
tell you this is a remarkable moment in history, and
I am I can not believe that everything that we

(39:02):
have said, everything that we have reported on, is now vindicated,
and it's worse than what we thought for two and
a half years we have. More importantly, no one's talking
about it. They're like, oh, oh, you know, no, there's
no you know, there's no retractions, there's no we got
this wrong, there's no Mia kolpos. It's just like, well,
this doesn't work well for our narrative, so we're not
going to even talk about this. And honestly, whether you're

(39:24):
a Republican or a Democrat, you don't want this happening again,
because you know, a couple of those guys nailed it
be like, hey, this could very easily happen on the
other side. And whether it's the investigation stuff, whether it's
the impeachment stuff, it is. It is insane, and it
is happening under our eyes, and we better wake up
as a country. Well I think we are. I mean,
that's the beauty of it all. But you know, when
you think of just how devastating everything. For example, they

(39:48):
care about they care about Russian interference, but only if
it's Donald Trump. They ignore the dirty dossier. They care
about election interference with Russia. Oh, hang on, only if
it's Donald Trump, not if not Hillary's dirty dossier. Think
about that. They care about obstruction, but not the subpoena
emails deleted, the bleach bit the hammers. They care about

(40:09):
election interference of foreign countries. We got a court decision
in Ukraine that says it happened there too. I believe
Russia was involved. I believe probably a million countries where
because they had access to her emails, top secret classmid emails.
Then we have the political outlines. How everything that they've
accused the Trump campaign of, they did that Alexandra Chaloupa dance,

(40:31):
the operative walks into the Ukrainian embassy colludes with Ukraine
to get dirt on your father and every associate in
his life. Yeah, well, I mean literally you play it
that Joe Biden's tape. I mean by their own standard,
is that not way beyond collusion? Is that not way
worse than anything they're even saying that Trump did because

(40:53):
there was actually because something actually happened. He's bragging about
it all right, as we can nue with Donald Trump Junior,
number one New York Times best selling author, is a
brand new book out, Triggered, And I'll tell you this
for all the time, his forty nine year old son,
and I love that I haven't taken a penny from China. Yeah.
Even his own lawyer said, well, no, he hasn't cashed

(41:13):
in his equity share yet, which will be quoting to
Peter Schweitzer, he estimates over twenty million dollars. So he's
lying again. I don't think there's been a dumber interview
than the interview with Hunter on GMA. Do you have
any experience in Ukraine? No energy, no oil, no gas, No,
Why do you think they paid you millions of dollars?

(41:34):
Who knew? Do you think maybe it's because your father
is in charge of Ukraine policy. Yeah, you know what, probably, Yeah,
that's probably why I can't believe interview. So they're on
their team exactly to prep for this because he's been
in hiding for you know, for the entire time of
this whole thing, but you know, hiding with from the
person he knocked up. I don't know, hide from alimony

(41:55):
or whatever it is. But imagine he had weeks to
prep for this interview to a home team source and
that's still the interview he gave. That's still the answer.
That to me just tells me that the entire thing
is so much worse than anything. Because if that's the
best they got, that's the best answer they can come
up with. It means they all knew it's just a
big joke. And because the media will never cover them,

(42:17):
because the media has decided it to be the marketing
wing of the Democrat Party, because of all of those things,
they're just gonna say, no worries, brush it under the table,
you can do it again, just lay low for a
few weeks. That's all that's going on in here. It's
it's truly a disgrace. And again I see it. I
see it from the American people. I see it through
the stuff that just people that come up in the

(42:38):
streets wherever I am in the country. But honestly, these days,
even in New York, I've never had it like this
in New York. I met in New York as almost
as long as as long as you I was born here.
Thank god I got out for a lot of years.
But honestly, in the streets in New York every day,
and you get it. I mean it is if I

(42:59):
didn't know better, And I know it's impossible mathematically. Although
Rudy in a city of what nine million registered Democrats
to their out number of Republicans nine to one, he's
still won. But I will tell you I've never seen
anything like it. The people that disconnect between those those
people that are supposed to be the servants, those that

(43:19):
have done nothing, those that are filled with psychotic rage,
that disconnect between them and their constituents. It's never been
like this. You talk about triggered, your best number one
best seller in New York Times book, They are triggered
at the very name Donald J. Trump. Well, it was
funny when we were out on you know, even on
the view promoting triggered, right, you know, that's an audience

(43:42):
of one hundred and fifty, not exactly a hometown crowd.
If they're going to the view is see me right.
So you know, we even turned them when we started
talking about some of the basic facts, some of the
basic things that some of these leftists, the stances that
they take that they can get away with, whether it
was you know, who be with the nonsense defending child
rapist Roman Polanski, whether it's you know, even their own

(44:02):
learney and sort of lost it. And I think that's
what you're seeing on a large scale, Like even the
people who are pretty liberal, even the people who are
and I don't want to say Democrat, because there's plenty
of good Democrats. They are hard working Americans. They've been
that way mostly frankly because their grandparents were Democrats, their
parents were Democrats. Those are the ones coming up to
me like, man, this the Democrat Party has left me.
And that can be no more evidence than by the

(44:24):
policies that you see the mainstream leaving candidates pushing and
they don't want to risk. I don't see any American
walking into the voting booth on November third next year
and saying, you know what, I'm gonna risk half mine
that worth. I'm going to risk my paycheck. I'm gonna
risk my job to give one of these lunatics a chance.
I just don't see it, Sean. They may tell you
that in polling because they're so afraid to say what

(44:44):
they actually think because of the media. Okay, it's that
whisper vote. But man, you're really gonna do that. You're
gonna risk your job, You're gonna risk your four oh
one kna Just I gotta let you go. But I
will tell you who's actually delivering. I don't see it.
The people get the last word on six days. People
get to shock the world, and I am counting down
the days, and I think it's gonna happen. But I'd

(45:06):
take nothing for granted. It's always the two minute drill.
You have no time out, you're down by six, you
get the touchdown, you hit the field goal, you'll win
the game. That's what I want to have happened, and
I pray does thank you, sir. Number one New York
Times best selling author now Donald Trump Junior, eight hundred
and ninety four one. Sewn, you want to be a
part of the program. Nothing in the dossier has proven false.
But in fact, the dossier said that there was a

(45:28):
Russian consulate in Miami when there isn't. The dossier said
that Michael Cohen had a meeting in Prague when he didn't.
The dossier said that Michael Cohen's wife was Russian, she's
in fact Ukrainian. And so as we sit here today
where you've, I guess, got a tweet mentioning a pe
tape presenting yourself not as a partisan hired by the

(45:50):
Democrats to pursue the president, do you regret this tweet? Sir?
I would be happy to put this investigation up with
any of the nonpartisan investor. I just don't know if
you're regret the tweet. Mister goldw my ten years as
a federal procest you regret it. I hope you read
the evidence, and I think you can judge you either
regret it or you don't regret it. I guess you
don't want to answer the question. You know what, mister Chairman,

(46:10):
earlier in this hearing, you said in your opening statement
that there is nothing more urgent than impeachment. Right now,
this is the most urgent thing we could possibly do. Well,
you know what, If you're a senior right now and
you can't afford your prescription drugs, that's more urgent than this.
If you're a manufacturer wanting to dominate the Western hemisphere
with the passage of the USMCA, that is more urgent.

(46:33):
If you're a farmer who wants to open markets so
that your family can survive and thrive, that is a
lot more urgent than this partisan process. If you're a
desperate family member watching someone succumb to addiction, solving the
opioid problem, probably more urgent than this partisan impeachment. If
you're a member of the next generation dealing with the
challenges of extinction and climate change, a budget that's out

(46:56):
of control, driving up the credit card of young people
in this country, what they'll have to pay back as
a consequence of our poor decisions, likely more urgent. But
House Democrats have failed at all of these things. Matter
of fact, I'd say the only thing under the Christmas
tree for most Americans would be a lump of coal.
But I think they're against coal too. The only thing
under the Christmas tree for Americans would be impeachment. All right,

(47:19):
glad you with US eight hundred and nine four one Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program,
News Round Up, Information Overload, we'll get to your calls
in mere moments. That was breakout Star Congressman Freedom caut
Is Member Matt Gates of Florida, the Panhandle, Pennsylcola. That
was him not only addressing Nadler, but the Democratic Council
at this impeachment Ukrainian coup attempt. One of the more

(47:42):
interesting things that has been unfolding is the trepidation that
is now obvious with the Democrats in Congress as they've
gone from four articles of impeachment down to two. Even
CBS's major Garrett says, they're walking away from bribery and
extortion allegations in full public view. So we have a
nebulous abuse of power and obstruction of justice. When there

(48:04):
is a conflict between the executive branch of government and
the legislative branch of government, well there is the right
of this in this case the executive branch to seek remedy.
The arbiter of such conflicts would be the judicial branch,
which is what the White House has done. As it
relates to executive privilege. Why as executive privilege important because

(48:26):
you have to be able to have honest conversations with
the president without fear that anything that you say is
going to be subject to some type of whim of
political hacks like the compromised and corrupt congenital liar Adam Schiff. Anyway,
joining us now his car has been Gates of Florida.
How are you, sir? Thanks so much, Sean, it's going
to be with you. And we've just received the notice

(48:46):
that Democrats are going to mark up these articles of
impeachment at seven o'clock pm tomorrow, and so we'll have
to really prepare for that experience. And you're right if
you watch how the Democrats claims have changed. Initially they
were talking about a quid pro luel. Then they couldn't
prove it, and so then they started talking about bribery.

(49:07):
Now they can't prove bribery, and so now they're trying
to go to abuse of power. They continue to move
the goalposts because they have outkicked their coverage on the evidence,
and I think we've proven that very effectively in the
Intelligence Committee and in the Judiciary Committe. I think it
was a total complete victory. Now in the course of
these hearings, both the Shift Show and the Nutty Nadler

(49:30):
extension of the Shift Show, and correct me if I'm wrong.
But there was only one fact witness that ever testified.
Every other witness was either a hearsay witness or an
opinion witness. And if we used the federal rules of evidence,
none of which would be admissible in any trial or
any court of law. And I have to assume the
Chief Justice would abide by those federal rules of evidence.
That would mean that only one person, so far that

(49:52):
it has spoken, either behind closed doors or in these
public hearings, would have the ability to actually be called
as a witness, and that would be Ambassador Sanla. Now
he did offer conjecture, he did offer hearsay, he did
offer two plus two guesses and opinions. But when it
came down to the fact as he knew them, he
did ask an open ended question of Donald Trump, what

(50:13):
do you want in exchange for the release of the
funds for Ukraine? I want nothing, no quid pro quo.
I want them to do the right thing? Is that?
Am I correct on that point? You are Sean. You
can essentially break down the Democrats witnesses into three categories
it's either hearsay, total conjecture and speculation, or it is

(50:35):
a sincere, substantive policy disagreement. I think people like George Kent,
for example, people like Ambassador Ivanovitch thought that the only
rightful thing to do was what they wanted from a
policy perspective, and because the President didn't share their view,
they believe he abused. Well, the last I check, Congressman,

(50:56):
the person that is the president and commander in chief.
That would be Donald J. Trump, who was elected duly
elected by the people of this country, and an ambassador
is supposed to serve the president and his policies. Am
I mistaken on that point? You're not mistaken. But what
you've just shared as an ideology that is not the
controlling ideology of the swamp in Washington, DC, you see

(51:18):
a lot of these bureaucrats and permanent members of the
diplomatic Corps. They believe that no matter who the president is,
it's their ideology, it's their view of the world that
should dominate because they're the real experts. They're the real
people who know everything well. Donald Trump ran on a
campaign to change the way we do business in the world,
to restore American greatness, and frankly, there are a lot

(51:41):
of people in Washington, DC, even in his own government,
who resent him for that type of change. It's not impeachable.
And I think we made the point effectively that if
this is the new standard firm teachment, that you don't
like how someone talks, how they do business, how they
conduct foreign policy, that you could compeach them. Well. By

(52:01):
that standard, we most certainly should have impeached Barack Obama
for telling the Russians he'd have more flexibility after the election.
By that standard, you would certainly impeach Jill Biden if
you were to make a statement that if someone investigating
his son and work fired that they wouldn't be getting aid. Well,
I mean, obviously in the case of Biden, I think
that's probably a big factor and why they moved away
from bribery and quid pro quo because it only applied

(52:23):
to Joe. Now, the question is do you believe that
the Democrats, when do you expect the vote will take
place in committee, which would be the Judiciary Committee, and
when do you expect the vote would take place before
the full Congress. As it relates to these articles of impeachment,
I believe by the end of the week, the House
Judiciary Committee will report out the two articles of impeachment

(52:45):
that again show a real retreat from the facts for Democrats,
and I think by the end of next week you'll
have the House of Representatives impeach the President of the
United States. I called this Sean. I called it back
in January as soon as these people took hour they
were going to impeach from in care. The reason, the country,
the basis the charge. They just want to do it

(53:06):
to delegitimize our movement. We are part of the most
powerful political movement in modern American history, and it is exciting,
and the country is doing well. When you look at
these economic numbers. I mean, the Trump economy is on fire.
Investment from all over the world is coming here so
that we have more jobs, so that we have more
opportunity for people. And because they can't have a substantive

(53:29):
debate with the president because they have no potential presidential
candidates who could possibly be Trump, they're trying to do
this to process and demoralize us. But as part of
the MAGA Coalition, I would just say to the country,
you know, we are going to continue to fight You're
going to see folks like Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows myself
continue to fight and committee and on the floor, and

(53:50):
we are going to make the Democrats pay for what
they are doing. Well. Impeachment and fatigue is kicking in.
And I think the biggest barometers numbers that I see
every day, which are cable numbers, and it's becoming a disaster.
You've got fake news CNN. If you can believe it,
then numbers are at a three year low. You have

(54:11):
to work hard to chase away the few viewers that
you do have, and even Area fifty one Roswell Rachel
Maddow's conspiracy channel is losing audience daily. We won by
well over a million plus last night. Polls now are
also showing and I think this is even more indicative.
You've got firehouse strategies with the optimists. Well, the president

(54:32):
had had close races in battleground states like Michigan, Pennsylvania,
and Wisconsin, but not now. Right now, Trump is up
by an average of six percentage points. And all three
of those matchups, all hypothetical matchups, including quid pro quo Joe,
and it's even going to be better when we passed
the USMCA. It will be a major legislative victory for

(54:53):
President Trump. It will juice this economy yet again with
optimism and buying power and expanded markets. And you're just
going to see the American economy continue to take off.
The Democrats, the mainstream media, they tried to kill us
months ago that we were growing into a recession. It's
the yield current had been inverted and so the American

(55:13):
economy would crumble. Well, you know, let we have powered
forward thanks to the great American worker and great American companies.
So what Donald Trump continuing to serve as our president
and getting the USMCA passed, we are going to see
yet another American economic renaissance. Have you had an opportunity
to see the comments of the Attorney General Bill Barr

(55:34):
yet today Bill Barre saying the Attorney General yep. On
the Attorney General is absolutely right. The inspector General can
dig up facts, but it is not to the inspector
General to make an illegal determination or whether or not
there is criminally chargeable conduct. And the Inspector General is
only seeing one part of the case. Mister Durham has

(55:55):
I think done a lot more investigative work into the
criminal origins of the Trump Russia investigation. Well, that was
not the man I mean there. As the Attorney General
pointed out today. You know, I pointed out yesterday, the
Inspector General is limited in his scope inasmuch as we
only has the ability to look within the confines a

(56:15):
very very small bubble, even of you will, of the
Department of Justice and the FBI. He can't go outside
of that, nor can he be in a grand jury,
nor can charges come out of it. He just didn't
make conclusions, but he certainly didn't conclude or exonerate anybody.
He said, well, there's no smoking gun, but that doesn't
mean that one doesn't even exist. Now, absolutely right, And

(56:35):
I think that we're starting to see the pieces come
together with the work that mister Durham is doing to
find out how our government persuaded other governments to do
things that wouldn't be legal for our own government to do.
And I believe they did it for political purposes because
they did not want to see Donald Trump as the president.

(56:55):
We have learned been saying that the Russia hoax is
not a misunderstanding. It is a criminal enterprise intended to
be legitimize the voters. How many Democrats do you see
defecting beyond the two that didn't even support the inquiry.
I think we're looking at somewhere between two to fives
that won't be voting for impeachment, But there will be

(57:18):
no Republicans that vote foreig impeachment. Remember it was Nancy
Pelosi who said that impeachment would be horrible for the
country unless it was bipartisan. My prediction is that the
only bipartisan vote will be a bipartisan vote against impeachment,
a rebuke of Nancy Pelosi's conduct against her own standard.
It seems with Nutty Nadler in the committee, if he's

(57:39):
not nodding off, pretty amazing that he falls asleep during
his own committee hearing. I don't think I've seen that before.
What is the feeling? Because it looks tense from the
outside looking in, it is tense that it should be.
You know, I am sick and tired of these people
turned to rip the rules and then insist on the
quorum against the Republicans. They literally had Democrats donors asking

(58:01):
other Democrat donors what they thought about evidence that neither
one of them had personal knowledge of and we're all
just supposed to sit there and watch while they're overturning
an election. And so I did interrupt with my perspective
and my defense of the president. And if they continue
to try to railroad the American voter, I think that
the country can count them on the group of us

(58:21):
that be out there fighting, like Jim Jordan and John
Ratcliffe and Debbie LESCo and Andy Biggs. We're going to
be making our case forcey. Well, there certainly has been
a moment for you, I think a breakout moment in
terms of your leadership within the caucus. Stay right there,
Matt Gates, Congressman Florida. Find the moments and we'll get
to your calls after the news at the bottom of
the hour with Matt Gates. All right, so walk us

(58:44):
through a timeline here, because I guess Congress is in
sessions supposedly every day next week. Oh yeah, we have
been told that we are to be here in Washington
and to expect votes. Obviously, our government is running out
of money because instead of budgeting and through the appropriations process,
Democrats have been obsessed with IP and investigations. So when

(59:05):
does the impeachment vote? Do you think likely get out
of committee, get to the full House, sent to the Senate.
It will take the rest of the Mollek to get
it out of committee. My suspicion as the impeachment will
be out of the House of the following week, possibly
as early as Tuesday or Wednesday, but possibly bleeding into Thursday,
and then I suspect to Sendate not to take it
up immediately. I expect that they'll come back after the

(59:28):
holiday break and you know, then we It remains to
be seen how much McConnell will treat this freakily. I'm
of the view that it's so ridiculous and baseless that
it could probably be dealt with on a motion for
summary judgment. I don't think they should do that. I
think they should actually let these guys present their case.
Let them present their case, and I'll tell you why,
because everyone's gonna say, see, no, it's awful for the country.

(59:52):
But let people see how awful it is. Let them
see there's nothing here, because there's nothing, they have zero,
they have zip. And then when they're done, then every
Republican can in good consciould say, Okay, we heard you out, goodbye,
it's over and We'll wait for the next ten times
they try to impeach him, because in three twenty nine days,
I guess now, guess what we the people have the

(01:00:12):
final saymag Cage. But I got a role. If this
is a counterintelligence investigation, who are they trying to protect?
Who should they be trying to protect? Well, if it's
the threat outlined in the friendly foreign government information, you
would be looking to protect the election process, which would

(01:00:35):
include the candidate campaign, the candidate, and the American people. Okay,
So did they every brief Hillary Clinton about efforts to
foreign foreign influences involving her campaign? Do you know? I've
heard that, but I don't know for a FACI they
did good for them and they stopped it. Was there
ever a defensive briefing given by the FBI Department of

(01:00:57):
Justice to Donald Trump about the concern there was not?
What would you call a counterintelligence investigation that never had
a protective element. I'm not sure, sorry, missus Sherman. Okay,
if without eventually trying to protect the entity being influenced,

(01:01:18):
is it legitimate? It would depend on each fact and circumstance.
Here's what I'm trying to tell you. If you opened
up a counter intelligence investigation to protect somebody, you should
do it. Did they ever try to protect Donald Trump
from foreign influence? They did not brief Amen. The President
Obomba and his inner circle knew a lot more about
the dossier and the scope of the investigation than President

(01:01:40):
elect Trump and his team. No, I don't think that's
fair at all. You think that they were equal on
as far as the briefing. As far as I know,
they knew, they knew the same set of facts as
did the leaders of Congress. There was no difference between
what the FBI told the Fister Court and what the
Trump about the Trump Russian investigation and what you told
the new president of the United States what the FBI
and the FISA application said in October of twenty sixteen.

(01:02:03):
I don't remember clearly enough all that's in the FISA application,
but we sure didn't lay that out for anybody, President Obama,
President Elect Trump, or the leaders of Congress. Oh another
call me lie higher loyalty had Jim mister SuperPatriot. Wow,
pretty devastating, all of which we're gonna highlight tonight like
we did last night, we highlighted all of shifts lies

(01:02:25):
twenty four Now to the top of the hour, joining
us now, Jay Sekulo. He is a Counsel to the President,
chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice.
You know, Jay, you've been a part of our coverage
as well. You have been part of this ensemble team.
You've watched us unpeel the layer of the onion. Everything
we said has now been confirmed premeditated fraud perpetrated on

(01:02:49):
a FISA court for the using as the basis of
their application a dirty of all things Russian dossier that
we now know is unverified yable, the word verified at
the top of the At the top of that application,
James Comey signed three of them. What James Comey just
said there is factually inaccurate a lie. He's been caught

(01:03:11):
in a lot of lies in all of this. Well,
you know, it's interesting about James Comey because one of
the things that Harwood said, Lindsey Graham has done a
great job on this, asked the question about, you know,
individual James Comy's being vindicated by your report, and Harrowitz said,
nobody who touched this should be deemed vindicated by my report.

(01:03:34):
So I think that was number one. I knew this
was going to happen. I knew as soon as Harrowitz
were to testify and explain what he wrote in those
four hundred and seventy pages that the truth would come out.
But one of the ones that's getting overlooked was a
question that Lindsey Graham asked Harwitz. He said, was the
FBI agent spying on Donald Trump when he went in there?
In other words, an FBI agent was sent in reportedly

(01:03:55):
to brief the president. Harrowitz it was a pretech, meaning
the process by which they have to do these meetings.
And then he says, and this is what's so interesting
about this. If you don't have a Graham says, if
you don't have a foundation for a warrant, then you
can't just pick up and go. When Harrowitz says, the incident,
the event, the meeting was a briefing, and the FBI

(01:04:16):
considered and decided to send that agent there to do
the briefing. So the agent was actually doing the briefing
but was also using it for the purpose of investigation.
That is outrageous. That is spying on Donald J. Trump.
There's no I mean, and there it is in black

(01:04:36):
and white. Then Christopher Steele. Is it fair to say
that there was a political that's Steele had a bias
against Donald Trump? And then he goes through the whole
it was paid for paper by the Democratic Party. Was unreal? Well,
I think all of it is. I mean, and this
is the point. Let me go back to Michael Horowitz

(01:04:57):
saying that the IG report did not vindicate anyone who
touched this, which was the main talking point of the
media mob when this thing came out. But he's only
look at this in a very narrow he has a
narrow purview here, like he's in a bubble because his
authority only extends to the FBI and to the DJ

(01:05:20):
the FBI. Former FBI Director James cumm he said this week,
and that your report vindicates him. Is that a fair
assessment of your report? You know, I think the activities
we found eric Gunn and vindicate anybody who touched this. Yeah,
I mean, that's that's Sean. That's why I was saying
it doesn't vindicate anybody. And now we've got Durham who's

(01:05:42):
really looking at all of this. So I think the
reality is that these guys like you said, you know,
the right to remain silent I would be quiet if
I were these guys. And then, of course what's happened
defies an abuse. The abuse, by the way on the
court itself is breathtaking. Why have we not heard from

(01:06:02):
the FISA court judges that were well lied to, repeatedly
and given false information because the law also requires let's
go back. I want to play for you first, as
I asked this question, and I want to play for
you what Rod Rosenstein has to say about the FISA warrants.
And it's an affidavid career law enforcement, and you have

(01:06:24):
to have it verified and you swear to the best
of your knowledge it's true, and we now know it
was unverifiable from the get go. Through the prism of this,
I want you to answer that question the way we
operating the Department of Justice. If we're going to accuse
somebody of wrongdoing, we have to have admissible evidence and
credible witnesses. We need to prepare to prove our case
in court, and we have to fix our signature to

(01:06:46):
the charging document. That's something that not everybody appreciates. There's
a lot of talk about FISA applications, and many people
that I see talking about it seem not to recognize
what a FIES application. FIES application is actually a warrant,
just like a search warrant. In order to get a
FISA search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a

(01:07:07):
career federal law enforcement officer who swears that the information
in the affidavit is true and correct to the best
of his knowledge and belief. And that's the way we operate.
And if it's wrong sometimes it is. If you find
out there's anything incorrect in there, that person is going
to face consequences. Now when you hear that, and now
we know it's UNVERIFIABLELT we know they never went back

(01:07:30):
and corrected the record, and they just doubled down on
something that was nothing but pure nonsense to secure these
warrants to backdoor, as Bill Barr said, into everything world Trump,
which is the campaign, the transition team, and deep into
his presidency. Well, I think that's right. I mean, this
is the whole problem. I mean, the entire process, from

(01:07:53):
scart to bottom on this was outrageous. You know, Sean,
there's another asp do you relate it out very well?
But there's another aspect to this lawyer. They talked about
the doctored the email to the FISI court just whose
team he worked on, Bob Muller. It's a great point.
So let me ask you what you think happens here.

(01:08:13):
Now I'll go back a little bit because Bill Barr,
I think this interview that he did with both well
Pete Williams at a NBC and then later with the
Wall Street Journal, and the claims of collusion against Trump
were baseless. And it's inexplicable that Obama and Brennan talked
to the Russians but they wouldn't talk to Trump, a
point that Lindsey Graham made, And the ig scope is narrow,

(01:08:36):
and as we learned today, Horowitz did not decide about
improper motive with the limited information he had. And you know,
one big fact that I found interesting is Comey refused
to re up his classification to be asked about such matters.
And the FBI withheld information from the courts. They relied
on the bought and paid for sham dossier that was unverifiable,

(01:08:58):
and you know, and it went on and the FBI
case fell apart. And then add to that, Jay, they
withheld exculpatory evidence, and add to that that they actually
altered information that they presented to the court. So here's
what Bill Barr says. The attorneys are in the United States.
He said they hit information about the lack of reliability
even when they went the first time for the warrant.

(01:09:21):
But in January, he says, after the election, the entire
case collapsed, when the principal source says, I never told
steal this stuff and this was all speculation and I
have zero information to support the stuff. At that point,
when their entire case collapsed, what did they do? They
kept on investigating the president well into his administration. This

(01:09:44):
is the indictment of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Bruce Orr,
Peter Strock, Lisa Page, and then go back a step
further and others. We don't even know who they are.
How is it possible We went through the Muller investigation
and they didn't find this, And then I, you know,
I said that on my broadcast, forty million dollars, forty

(01:10:08):
FBI agents, eighteen lawyers, and they didn't know any of this.
We did get a little hint and remember that little
note in the in the report about a lawyer being
you know, removed from that They said it was he
was a functionary not really evidently. Look, I think Bob
Mueller was absent without leave um and I think he
let the prosecutors run the shop. And look what you got.

(01:10:29):
Look at those articles of impeachment if you want to
call him that, you know, abuse of power and obstruction
of Congress for exercising your constitutional privileges. Do you talk
about week that's not even realistic. But you know what
is realistic, Bob Mueller's reports not in it. You know
that that's such an interesting point, all right, So where
do you see when as as I don't think the

(01:10:52):
Attorney General would be saying what he said in these interviews,
I don't think that Durham would be saying what he's
been saying without them having lockdown evidence already that is
damning about a much broader, much wider conspiracy, and that
has taken them across the pond to Great Britain, Italy

(01:11:12):
and other countries, which I believe in the end is
gonna You know, as Jim Jordan said, we had four
people spy it on. We thought only two or three,
but no, now we have more. But more importantly, did
the outsource spying on Americans to friendly intelligence agencies? Allied
agencies for the purpose of circumenting American law. So I

(01:11:34):
think John Durham's statement is the best statement. He says
he had the utmost respect for the mission of the
Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went
into the report prepared by Mike Harwitz and the staff. However,
our investigation is not limited to developing information from with
in component parts of the Justice Department. That's very important.
Get not limited to just begin to people at DJ

(01:11:56):
who will agree to speak to him. Our investigation, I'm
a Durham's investigation has included this is important. Our investigation
included developing information from other persons and entities, both in
the US and outside of the US, based on the
evidence collected to date, and while our investigation is ongoing.
Last month we advise the Inspector General that we do

(01:12:17):
not agree with some of the report's conclusion as to
the predication and how the FBI case was open. Where's
this all going? We'll ask Jay Seculo on the other
side of the break at the final moments with Jay Seculo,
Chief Council for the American Center for Law and Justice
and the Council to the President, all right, So I

(01:12:37):
guess sometime in the spring or early summer we're going
to get the Durham report and the interim. Is it likely?
Do you hear as you read between the lines all
these years you spent as a lawyer, high profile twenty
some on cases argued before the US Supreme Court? What
a bar and what is bar? And Durham signaling in
their statements this week that they're doing a comprehensive investigation

(01:13:01):
that goes beyond the scope of what the Inspector General
had authority to conduct and capability to conduct. So I
think what you have here is you're going to see
a US attorney that has really turned over every rock
and we're going to we are going to find out
what took place here, not only the irregularities, many of
which have been pointed out by Harwitz, but how this originated,
why it was wrong when it was originated, and who's

(01:13:22):
to be ultimately held accountable. I think there's gonna be
a lot of accountability. Well, I think there needs to be. Jay,
they nearly were successful and ondoing a duly elected president
as president. They haven't given up yet. Although these articles
impeachment basically are a give up. But look, they tried,
they continue to try, and the presidents remained strong, and

(01:13:42):
the Mudel report went nowhere. These articles impeachment in that
Senate will go nowhere, and that's going to be the
end of this, and then we'll be on in the
next fight and the next Do I think they stopped
fighting this president? No, I do not. They're talking about
if he wins re election after he's not convicted in
the Senate, well we'll impeach him again, even at the
American people vote to put him back in office. I

(01:14:02):
think that the risk fact. I think that's a lot
of talking, a lot of yak in and a big mistake. Well,
don't you think there's nothing here either, Jay, First it
was a quid and a pro and a quo, but
that was really only Joe and then bribery and extortion,
and then they reduce it to the oh, well, the
executive branches is protecting executive privilege and they're seeking remedy

(01:14:23):
about abuse some power. You wanted abuse some power? Professor
Turley said this. He's one hundred percent correct. I'll tell
what abuse some power is writing up an article of
impeachment about obstruction of Congress when you're exercising your constitutional rights.
The Supreme Court, in a long line of cases, has
said you cannot be penalized for exercising rights you have
under the United States. Well, Jay, when you have three
branches of government, and the executive and the legislative branch

(01:14:47):
or in conflict, well, that would be the purpose of
seeking remedy in the judicial branch. That's called Listen. On Friday,
We're gonna find out because I've got, as you know,
sean three cases for the president, two up there on
subs one up there on a stage which may be
converted to an order. Uh. And those cases may well,
we may know Friday. We I think we will know

(01:15:07):
Friday if they're going to hear them or not. And
they will be the three biggest cases the Supreme Court
has ever taken, if they take them on the issue
of presidential authority, Article two, separation of powers. All right, Jay, Seculo, Uh,
Counsel for the President, Chief Council, American Center for Law Injustice,
Show what the bocrazy? Hello, snow fly very July. I

(01:15:41):
am agree. Any brother is angry. You see nothing yet,
and you know what I'm angry. I'm angry because I'm
so tired. I'm tired of this now. Don't get me wrong.

(01:16:03):
I'm not tired of fighting Donald Trump and as many
many impeachable offenses. And I'm not tired of speaking truth
to power. I will never tire of that. But I
am so tired of being lied to by a president.
I'm tired that the entire Republican Party thinks that we

(01:16:26):
are all stupid. I mean, this has committed obstruction of justice,
abuse of power, bribery, obstruction of Congress, and the American
people know this, and we also know the Republicans are
picking party over country. So when the Republicans mentioned Vice

(01:16:52):
President Biden Son, or when they attack the whistleblower, or
question the patriotism and motivation of lou Tenant Colonel Vinman,
a soldier who earned a purple Heart in the service
of our nation, they think that we are all so
stupid that will believe them. Well, guess what can't we

(01:17:15):
see right through their lives and both All right, there
you have the freak out squad on the job is
so hard. I mean, I'm so tired. I'm an actress
and everything, and you gotta you gotta sit in the
trailer for hours and do nothing, and you then you
gotta go on, Cameron, actually work for a minute or two,

(01:17:36):
and then they then you wait some more and it's hard.
It's really hard work. Yeah, okay, Uh did you hear
what she said to it sounded like Ashley Judd, remember
when she was saying, I can't even repeat it. I
can't repeat what she said either, because I'm gonna repeat
it and then I'll get in trouble. My name is
Ashley Judd. I'm a feminist. I am a nasty woman.

(01:18:04):
I'm not as nasty as a man who looks like
he bades and Cheeto dust, a man whose words are
a desk track to America Electoral College sanctioned hate speech,
contaminating this national anthem. I'm not as nasty as Confederate
flags being tattooed across my city. Maybe the South actually

(01:18:29):
is gonna rise again. Maybe for some it never really fell.
I'm not nasty like the combo of Trump and Pence
being served up to me in my voting booth. I'm
nasty like the battles my grandmother's fought to get me
into that voting booth. I'm nasty like the fight for

(01:18:51):
wage equality. Scarlet Johansson. Why were the female actors paid
less than half of what the male actors earned last year? See,
even when we do go into higher paying jobs, our
wages are still cut with blades sharpened by testosterone. Why

(01:19:11):
is the work of a black woman and a Hispanic
woman worth only sixty three and fifty four cents of
a white man's privileged daughter. This is not a feminist myth.
This is in equality. So we are not here to

(01:19:32):
be debumbed. We are here to be respected. We are
here to be nasty. I'm nasty, like my bloodstains on
my bedsheets. We don't actually choose if and when to
have our periods. Believe me, if we could, some of

(01:19:53):
us would. We don't like throwing away our favorite pairs
of underpants. Tell me why are pads and tampacs still
tax Oh that was a brand name. Why are tampons
and pad still taxed when viagra and rogaine are not?
Is your erection really more than protecting the sacred, messy

(01:20:18):
part of my womanhood? Is the bloodstain on my jeans
more embarrassing than the sitting of your hair? Anyway? What
can I tell you? And then the mob and the
media is corrupt as they are. By the way, a
quick collod to our friend Charlie Kirk. Charlie is the

(01:20:39):
person running this organization, Turning Points USA. I do not
accept many speaking engagements at all because my work schedule
is insane. This will be my last day of programming
before I take my long Christmas break and the only
time a year I take a long break. And anyway,

(01:21:00):
but I am it's such a worthwhile cause organization, and
I wanted to go down because you have a bunch
of incredible young people that are a part of this organization,
the next generation. You know, when when Hannity goes off
into the mausoleum one day somewhere Hannity's America's Mausoleum, Well,
there'll be people like Charlie Kirk and Canada's Owens holding

(01:21:21):
down the shop. Your organization is grown by leaps and bounds.
And I'm going to be speaking somewhere someplace to your
group undisclosed location this week. That's right, Sean. It's an
honor to be on the show. Thank you, And with
so much going on in the news, it's quite a
week to be doing this. And the President will also
be speaking Saturday, evening, and we're honored to have you

(01:21:42):
there and to have thousands, well, that really good thing.
I'm going before him because I don't want to speak
after him. I mean, you see his rallies when and
as closed as a met we are one glorious nation
under God. We are one united American family. It's great clothes,
that's that's right. And it's just so against the media
a narrative that you do such a good job of

(01:22:03):
pointing out their hypocrisy and their absurdity when you have
over four thousand students to assemble over Christmas break in
an undisclosed location. It might be South Florida, it might
be somewhere else, but to rally around America, to rally
around the Constitution, and to support our president in the
midst of this impeachment fight. And it's a great honor
to have you, Sean. We take that as a serious

(01:22:25):
compliment to the work we're doing and what you're doing.
So you got four over four thousand, and how many
will be at my speech, like one hundred or two
hundred maybe, Well, we we're going to try to have
more at your speech and the President's speech, but no
guarantee we can pull that off. Well, if you pull
that off, you know, I'll start thinking about twenty twenty
four if that happened. But that's not gonna happen, so
I don't have to worry about it. Well, you know

(01:22:45):
it's gonna be amazing. Well, I will say this, it
is when I hear you got four thousand kids coming
to an event. You're right over Christmas holiday. And there
are some towns by the way that hate my guts
because of my coverage of spring Break and Panama City
Beach in particular. But what I didn't like is you
had all these criminal elements coming in with these drugs,

(01:23:08):
and these kids literally are dying and there's nobody there
to really protect them, and nothing's organized and no good
is really happening for those kids. And you had people
specifically going in with drugs manufactured in their backyard with
god knows what, and kids were dying. So I wanted
to do something about it. But when you have kids

(01:23:29):
that get together and they love their country and they
want to do well for their country, that you know what,
you should be very proud of all your success. Well,
thank you, Sean, and you'll play a big part of that.
And just to be able to rally against the Left
is doing and the Democrats are trying to impeach this president.
It goes right against the narrative that you have young people, students,
the next generation standing up against this scam impeachment, with

(01:23:50):
people like you and the President that have done so
much for our country. So it's going to be an
amazing weekend and truly historic in many different ways. Well, look,
we appreciate it, and I I really do look forward
to going down there. Um. I don't get to go
out on the road like I used to. I don't
have the time I would love to. But when I
see a group of four thousand kids like you've been

(01:24:11):
able to assemble, um, that that makes me feel good
about where the country's headed. I look forward to see
you all later this week, and I wish you all
the best and congratulations on all of your success. Thank you,
God bless you, Sean, and thank you for your doing
it for our country. It's a truly an inspiration. God
bless you too. All right, my friend,

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