August 16, 2025 • 34 mins
Broadcasting into the news roundup hour, Sean previews President Trump’s Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin and plays new tape of Trump’s plan: press for a ceasefire, talk to Zelenskyy and European leaders, and push an “honorable” end to the war. Senator Lindsey Graham lays out what “winning” looks like—security guarantees, a lethal Ukrainian deterrent, and pre-invasion sanctions—while warning Trump will walk if Putin plays games. The discussion contrasts Biden-era policy with Trump’s tariffs and energy leverage that squeezed the Kremlin. It’s a candid look at outcomes if diplomacy fails and Plan B kicks in.
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Sean if you want to join us. So I've been
to forty nine of the fifty states. The one state
I have not been to which I have great admiration for,
and I mentioned this earlier in the show to New
Gingrich is the state of Alaska. Well, that will that
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will come to an end, assuming I arrived safely. This week,
as President Trump will be meeting with Vladimir Putin in
Alaska for a summit in the hopes of bringing about
a piece in Europe, which the President has been trying
very hard to achieve. The President commented on this at
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his press conference earlier today and said he's going to
tell Putin he's got to end this war.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Here's what he said.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Oh, I'm going in to speak to Vladimir Putin and
I'm going to be telling him you got end this war.
You got to end it. And he wasn't going to
mess with me. This war would have never happened. You know,
we had a discussion about it one time, and we
never had that discussion again. Would have never happened.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
And what he was talking about is in his first term,
he said, don't even think about going into Ukraine. They
had already annexed Primea in what twenty fourteen with Obama
and Biden. This entire issue was inherited by President Trump
and he's trying to resolve and untangled yet another Biden
Harris mess. Then the President went on to say that
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he's going to call Zelenski European leader after the meeting
and try and make a deal.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And here's what he said about that.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I'm going to meet with him. We're going to see
what the parameters are, and then going to call up
President Zelenski and the European leaders right after the meeting. Yeah,
and I'm going to tell him what kind of a deal.
I'm not going to make a deal. It's not up
to me to make a deal. I think a deal
should be made for both. I think Russia has to
get back into building their country. It's a massive country.
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I think they have eleven time zones. If you can
believe it, it's a massive. It's by far from the standpoint
of land, it's by far the largest. They have tremendous
potential in Russia to do well. They're not doing well.
Their economy is not doing well right now because it's
been very well disturbed by this doesn't help with the
president of the United States tells their largest or second
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largest oil buyer that We're putting a fifty percent tarif
on you if you buy oil from Russia. That was
a big blow. And then they say, gee, he wasn't
so nobody else would have done that. And I haven't
stopped there. I mean, look, I was all set to
do things far bigger than that, but I got a
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call that they'd like to meet, and I'm going to
see what they want to I like to see us
ease fire. I'd like to see the best deal that
could be made for both parties. You know, it takes
two to tango, right.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
All right, So he's going to try his best. Senator
Lindsey Graham, who will join us in a minute, that
Trump's going to meet Putin from a position of strength.
He said it on Meet the Press this weekend. Here's
what he said.
Speaker 10 (04:32):
I have every confidence in the world that the President
is going to go to meet Putin from a position
of strength, that he's going to look out for Europe
and Ukrainian needs to end this for honorably and it's
time to end this for honorably. But how we do
it will be historical, and I'm confident President Trump will
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get a good deal for all.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
All right, joining us now is South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator.
Great to have you back here. So the president inherited
this problem. Joe Biden never even picked up the phone
and called Putin and said, why are you amassing troops?
Why are you amassing this military equipment? Never tried for
a negotiated settlement before it even started. Now President Trump
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is trying to untangle a mess. Unfortunately, under Biden it
evolved into a proxy war as far as I'm concerned,
between the US and Russia, and hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of millions billions of dollars even that the United
States was giving Ukraine. We're now under Trump, we're selling equipment,
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military equipment to Ukraine because Putin has been so difficult
to deal with, but he has agreed to this summit.
How do we define success at this point? Because so
to be, I don't see a scenario where Europe is
going to step up and provide enough weaponry for Zelenski
to fight a real war against Putin, And we have
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to also keep in the back back of our head
that they're nuclear armed, and I don't think the United
States can sell them enough equipment that they can actually
neutralize Russia in the end, although it is impacting Russia
in a very negative way.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Well as a good history lesson. So what does winning
look like for the United States and the civilized world
that Putin does not do this again? There'll be no
third invasion that we will do the opposite of what
Obama and Biden did. We will set up a piece
this time with infrastructure in play that would deter Putin
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or anybody else from Russia doing this again. What would
that look like? Security guarantees to Ukraine, where that if
you invade Ukraine, you're invite in all of Europe, not
just Ukraine for the Europeans, guarantee security guarantees for Ukraine,
that we continue to sell Ukraine weapons to make them
the most lethal army on the continent. I had to
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pick an army to fight with right now, I'd pick Ukraine.
These are terrific fighters there have been fighting like tigers.
They're outmanned dramatically. I mean, this is the kind of
person you'd want fighting along your side, a Ukrainian who
is in it to win it and not lose their country.
So the bottom line, yeah, they've been like ten to one.
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Bottom line is three and a half years later, Putin's
taken like one percent of territory beginning where he did
in twenty twenty two. The bottom line is to keep
helping the Ukrainian military, that's the deterrent all of his own.
Keep selling them high end weapons as a deterrent. Have
security guarantees from Europe to Ukraine, backstop with the United States,
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integrate our economies and put European forces on the ground,
and have pre invasion sanctions, telling Putin, if you ever
invade again, we're going to crush your economy from day one.
But let me add something to your history review here.
I went to Biden and said he's gone in. I
went to the Munich Security conference. The guys going in,
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do yourself in the world of favor, get behind my sanctions,
pre invasion sanctions, telling Putin that if you go in
this time, here's what happens to you on day one.
Biden and his whole national security team said that would
be too provocative. I couldn't believe it. I had bipartisan
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support for sanctions against Russia before the invasion, but Biden
wouldn't do it. So what did Trump do before he
left office in twenty twenty? He gave the Ukrainians Javelin
anti tank missiles. And the only reason they survived the
twenty two invasion is that Trump had left them enough
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javelins to blow up Russian tanks to keep them from
coming to Kiev. They were within eight miles of Kiev,
and it was these javelins that stopped the Russian invasion.
So what do you do now? You end this war
honorably and justly. You're not going to evict every Russian
from Ukraine. That's not going to happen, but you can
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do it in a way that we did with East
Berlin and West Berlin at the line of contact freeze it.
You don't see territory to Russia, but you just acknowledge
their parts of Ukraine where the Russians occupy and try
to fix it later. But do what I just said
at security guarantees, build up of the Ukrainian armies of
former deterrence, pre invasion sanctions. Now Trump's the best guy
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in the world. To be in the room with Putin.
If you don't get that, you're an idiot. All the
people criticizing Trump are the same crowd that allowed Ukraine
to be invaded twice, and when they took a crime
in twenty fourteen, Obama did nothing. He didn't create the terrence.
He just ended the conflict in a phony way. And
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that's why he had the twenty twenty two invasion. Obama
and by never told Putin, here's what happens if you
do it again. They didn't help the Ukrainians. They refuse
to help the Ukrainians. They didn't integrate our economy. What
did Donald Trump do? He signed a deal with Ukraine
on critical minerals worth trellions of dollars. We have an
interest now worth protecting. Donald Trump has provided weapons to Ukraine,
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he has an economic deal with Ukraine and makes it
our interest to end this war. Well, so what's going
to happen in Alaska. You're putting the best person on
the planet in a room of Putin's why, because he
fears Trump. He would not invade on Trump's watch. You're
right about that, and he's going to do a deal
with Trump because you don't want to get on the
wrong side of Trump. Why is he meeting with Trump?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Trump put a fifty percent tariff on India, who's the
second largest purchaser of Russia and oil, and he's going
to do more unless this war ends. So I am
very hopeful, prayerful, and excited that Donald Trump has gotten
attention and we're going to end this war.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
All right, quick break, We'll come back more with South
Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham as we give you a preview
of the coming Putin Trump Summit, Trump Putin Summit that's
taking place in Alaska. We will be there Thursday and
Friday this week with full coverage both on radio and TV.
My interview with President Trump right after the summit. That's
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Sean Hannity, all right, We continue now with a preview
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of this week's coming summit with President Trump and Vladimir
Putin in Alaska. We will be there with our coverage
Thursday and Friday. Why would we think that Putin would
ever want to return any of the territory that maybe
he's gained in this conflict.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Well, what I would say to that is that after
the World War two, East Berlin and West Berlin was divided,
overtime communism failed in Germany's a reunited united country. They'll
be life after Putin. And here's the practicality of what
you're talking about. Trump has put Iran in a box
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help Israel destroy their nuclear capability for years without one
troop on the ground. He stood by Israel, but Israel's
done to fighting. Not one American soldier is going to Ukraine.
He's giving them weapons to fend off the invasion. They'll
come a time, and it is upon us. I've been
waiting for the moment to end this war. It is
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upon us. Putin's going to have a clear choice if
you don't accept a reasonable, just peace agreement. Donald Trump
is going to load up with most sophisticated weapons on
the planet for as long as it takes selling them
to Europe. Donald Trump is going after Putin.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
By the way, that's a big difference from from Biden,
who is giving hundreds of billions of dollars in equipment
to Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We're gonna make money. I don't want to be a
war property here. We're not. But we're going to sell
the weapons to Europe, which is good for We.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Can't afford to give them away, we don't. We have
too much doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
We can't afford it well, so we're going to build more.
We need more ourselves. Bunker Buster is the whole deal.
We're going to be rearming America because we've been helping Israel,
have been helping Ukraine. But here's what the magic of Trump.
Europe's going to pay for it. Europe's going to pay
for us, you know, rearming, helping Ukraine as well as
helping ourselves. But the main thing here is is Putin's
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going to have a choice. Before, under Biden and Obama,
there was no downside to continuing this war. They were
all talked, what's the magic word that Biden used against
Putin incursion? He said minor incursion.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
But when they.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Said, what's your message to Putin about invading you don't?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
You don't, don't don't.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Okay, The word don't has become a joke in the
English language when used by Biden. Now what has Trump done?
He's gotten Putin to come to Alaska. Now, why the
hell do you think Putin's come into Alaska to just
take a vacation. He's coming to Alaska because Trump has
got him in a byte. Trump has been selling, not
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giving weapons to Ukraine, and they're using them very effectively.
Trump hit the second largest customer of Russian oil purchases, India,
with a fifty there what has India done into last
week they made it well.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Also also got commitments for the European Union to stop
funding his war machine by buying our energy.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
This has been like our energy independence is going to
be accelerated. We're the becoming exporter of energy. We're selling
gas and oil to Europe that they were previously buying
from Putin. But here's the point.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Trump is going to.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Give the world a choice. If Putin rejects a fair deal,
then Trump's going to make it miserable for any country
to do business with Russia.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Stop.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Let me let me ask an exit question. Only because
of the constraints of time. What are the odds Trump
is going to have to stand up like Reagan did
and say yet and walk away and then just just
go full boar with what you're talking about Plan B.
We have about twenty seconds.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
There are one hundred percent. Is Trump thinks Putin's playing him,
He'll get up and walk away and the Russian economy
will get crushed. He's coming to Alaska for a reason.
Trump has got him in advice. I'm very excited about this.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Well, it'd be great for the world. I mean, honestly,
these wars have to stop. How many more people we
saw you know, more innocent dead civilians this weekend. Well,
you know what's the upside here, It just makes no sense.
But listen and putin, don't ever fool yourself. He's a
murdering dictator, thug. We know what we're dealing with. De
Lensky hasn't been perfect either, but honestly, we've we've got
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you know, the aggressor here has been from the get go.
Putin h Lindsey Grahm appreciate it. Hopefully this this ends
in peace for Europe, although Europe, frankly, has been pretty
pathetic in their in their contribution, if you even want
to call it that, Thank you, sir, eight hundred uh. Well,
by the way, Lindsay will join us on TV tonight
with more of a preview. We will be in Alaska
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Speaker 2 (18:18):
President Trump.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
When you look at the numbers, the statistics, the crime.
We saw this Doose employee, better known as Big Balls.
We did not apply that name to him, but everybody
knows them. Everybody's reporting it as such. He did something
that was pretty brave and amazing. There was a group
of young kids that were out and they were pummeling
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an innocent person on the streets of DC, an innocent
woman in this particular case. And he decided he was
not going to be like most people and stand by
and allow that to happen. And he got in the
mix and he got the crap beat out of him.
I give him nothing but kudos and you know, props
for doing doing so. Then, of course we had the
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issue in Cincinnati where you had a mob beating the
hell out of people. As it comes to the issue
of DC, President Trump said he's taking over DC police.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And here's what he said.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
This is Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to
take our capital back. We're taking it back under the
authorities vested in me as the President of the United States.
I'm officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of
Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what that is, and
placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control,
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and you'll be meeting the people that will be directly
involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough and
they know what's happening and they've done it before. In addition,
I'm deploying the National Guard to help re establish law
order of public safety in Washington, d C. And they're
going to be allowed to do their job properly.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Some statistics on this, and the President put these out Washington,
d C. If you look at the homicide rate and
these this is data based on estimates from twenty nineteen
to twenty twenty four, and the source of you care
about it is the Congress and statistics and local government statistics.
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The homicide rate of world capitals versus d C. It's
forty one, I believe per one hundred thousand. The next
closest country is in Uruguay and that's sixteen point one.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I mean, it's like almost three times. The number.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Baghdad is fifteen point two. Again, DC's forty one. Lagos,
which is in Nigeria is fifteen. Panama City, Panama fourteen
point three. Brazil thirteen, Costa Rica thirteen, Colombia Bogata eleven,
Mexico City eight, Lima, Peru seven, Buenos Aires, Argentina is
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five point five, and I can keep going. Kenya Nairobi
is five, Havana, Cuba four. How is it that things
are that out of control in our nation's capital. Well,
I can tell you in large part we know the answer.
It's defund dismantle, no bail laws. Now, I'm not exactly
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sure if there's a correlation to all of this, but
we're going to talk to Byron Nonelds about all of it. Anyway,
he joins us now, Congressman for my great free state
of Florida. Congressman, how are you should the president? Is
he right looking at that number comparing it to other
capitals around the world, countries that you would think have
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much higher, you know, homicide rates and violent crime rates.
Should should the president uh somehow get involved in protect
the nation's capital.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Absolutely, It's absolutely correct. The mayor and the City Council
of Washington, d C. Are not doing all they can
do to protect DC. A lot of it are these
these week on crime policies that they have cashless Spaiale
and the like. I don't know, most people don't know this.
In Washington, d C. To be tried as a minor,
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you can still be twenty four years old and be
tried as a minor in Washington, d C. Completely outrageous.
So what you have as a city that's not under
control the way it needs to be, not secure the
way it needs to be, and it's the nation's capital,
it's outrageous. The President's absolutely correct.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Remember when Ram Paul I think it was at the
Republican National Convention in twenty twenty, got there, all the
mob of people surrounding him. Whenever I go to DC,
I have to have security with me. I don't do
that everywhere I go. I really don't. I don't want
to live my life that way. In the Free State
of Florida, I tend to protect myself. I don't give
away my personal safety security strategies, but I don't need
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the security that I need in places like New York
City or places like DC. I mean, I think that
speaks volumes, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
It does, And what it speaks to, first and foremost
is a commitment to police officers, a commitment to law
and order, letting them do their job. And then the
secondary commitment is not having these woke DA's who refused
to prosecute or who watered down hemous crimes based upon
a woke ideology or dei or whatever the case might be.
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Look at the end of the day, if you're going
to have a safe community, people have to be held accountable.
That's the way this.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Works, all right.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Another issue that came up with you. Now we've had
three people that have said that they identify more with
their home country than they do with America. Now, Representative
Delia Ramirez says she's more Guatemalan than American. And this
is an elected congress person. I'm like, that doesn't make
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sense to me. Previously we had congress Woman Omaries more
with Somalia. Now you have this Democratic Party backed you
know Mom, Donnie like radical Fata in Minneapolis saying the
same thing. He identifies more with Somalia than he does
with America. And I'm trying to understand. I don't know, then,
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why if you identify more with your home country, why
are you even here? It doesn't make sense to me.
And here's what you said this week.
Speaker 12 (24:24):
Write a chance to meet Delia but let me just say,
you don't get to represent another country before you represent
the United States of America. David, you said it better
than I could. That is the oath we all take
as not just members of Congress. The president takes that oath.
Every governor and every state legislator in our country they
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take the same oath. And to say that you're more
Guatemala than American, I think is reprehensible. You have a
duty to represent the people, the American people who voted
for you to be their representative, not to put them in.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Second class status.
Speaker 12 (24:59):
But this is quite frankly, very typical of the left
because when you look at what they advocate for, doesn't
matter if it's Hamas or some third world country where
they think it's okay for people to come in our
country illegally, regardless of the implications on the American people.
Too many elected Democrats are far too concerned about representing
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interests outside of the United States of America as opposed
to representing the people that they were elected to serve.
That's not a white supremacist statement, that's not a nativist statement.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
That is a real statement.
Speaker 12 (25:32):
That is a constitutional statement, and it is the standard
that every elected official should have Listen.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
And if maybe people think Somalia or Guatemala are better
countries than the US, I don't know how to interpret
what they're saying. Do you do you believe they're suggesting
that they think it's that or are you thinking that
they have more of an allegiance to that country. What's
your interpretation of it.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I'm not even going to try to interpret it, Sean.
The eye of the beholder is the United States Constitution.
The eye of the eye of the beholder is the
American people, not another nation. If you want to have
that stands that viewpoint, If that's what you feel you
want to portray when you when you're speaking, then go
represent those countries. Either be their ambassador to the United
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States at the UN go do that, or go live
in those countries and run for office over there. But
if you're going to take the oath of office in
the United States, it doesn't matter if it's city council,
mayor state rep. Congress, Senate, governor president. You take that oath.
It is an allegiance to the Constitution and to the
people of the United States. Of America first and foremost.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Oh, I agree. All right, let's talk about some other
issues that are going on. What do you make of
what we're learning from the declassified information Tulsa Gabbert is
released to me. I think the investigation Cash Fattel, Pambondi,
Dan Bongino that they're involved.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Wen.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Do you think when you look over a period of
time that there has been and remains a grand conspiracy
to destroy Donald Trump and put cinder blocks on the
scales of presidential elections.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Yeah, it's one hundred percent. I believe that. And now
we're seeing the declassified information that supports that. It's not
even a hypothesis now becoming a fact right in front
of our eyes. And I think what we're seeing is
the deep state is the weaponization of the government, of
the intelligence apparatus, obviously against President Trump, but really against
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Republicans overall. I mean, the President says it better than
anybody that you know, they're not after him, they're after us.
He's just standing in the way. And what this is
about is having absolute power and control over the apparatus
of the federal government. And you have too many players
in the deep state who are willing to subvert information,
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put out false information, weaponize our government nice media against
the American people so they can they can institutionalize their
radical agenda on the American people at its core. That's
what I believe is going on. It just so happens
that Donald Trump was the was the man in the
arena at the time. But they would do this to
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anybody else if they'd do it to him, Sean, They'll
do it to me, They'll do it to you. They'll
do it to anybody that they feel is a legitimate
threat to them holding on to power in Washington.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Amat of collateral damage and the amount of money the
people surrounding Donald Trump have had to spend, and the
sleepless nights and that I'm sure was associated with it.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Is incalculable to me.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
All right, quick, freak, We'll come right back more with
Congress Van Byron Donald's of my free state of Florida.
On the other side, we'll get to your calls eight
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Congressman Byron Donald's is with us eight hundred nine four
one Shawn number. We'll get to your calls on the
other side of the half hour break. Here's how I
see it. We now, with this declassified information, know a
couple of things. We know that they knew and were
warned ahead of time as early as July of twenty sixteen,
that Hillary Clinton was going to go forward with what
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they knew to be a phony narrative that Donald Trump
colluded with Russia as a means of distracting from Hillary's
email server problems. We know they were warned not to
use her bought and paid for dirty Russian misinformation dossier,
which even Bruce or warned, James, call me about in
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August of twenty sixteen. We then know that it didn't work.
They first initially tried to use it to prevent Donald
Trump from winning, and then afterwards, our senior career intelligence
officials they came out with an assessment and determined that
there was no Trump Russia collusion. And this is in
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early December. Barack Obama didn't like the outcome. Apparently he
got with his top deep state group of officials and
they decided to come up with another intelligence assessment, one
that totally contradicted the real intelligence assessment. That then was
a plan to undermine Donald Trump's presidency as far as
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I'm concerned, and for three years, I can tell you,
on this program and on my TV program, we were
unpacking every single layer of that onion and we did
get to the truth. The rest of the media pedal
lies and conspiracy theories, which I think has led to
there they have no legitimacy left, and I think that
legacy media for the most part is dead, gone and
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buried as a result because they lied all the time.
Is that in and of itself that one presidential cycle?
Do you believe that these people need to be held
accountable and will they be held accountable? Because I don't
want to raise expectations for people.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
I do think they need to be held accountable. The
question now is going to be what is the criminal
standards that you're going to hold them to. I think now,
I'm really happy that the President revoked all their security
clearances because it's proven now that they never deserved them
in the first place, and so I'm glad their security
clearances are revoked. But they are the threat to our
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constitutional republic shown. They're the threat to democracy. And as
much as they were trying to project onto Donald Trump
and onto MAGA and onto Republicans, no, it's the radical
Democrat power structure that is the threat to democracy. So yeah,
a lot of people need to be held accountable. And
I think the top of that list, if you were
going to ask me today, is probably going to be
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John Brennan and James Clapper. They're going to be one
and two, and then it really falls in line after
that because and the reason why I say that is
because they're the ones that actually had to go carry
out the work in the bowels of the intelligence agencies
in order to weaponize the federal government against an American president.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
You know.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
And then in twenty twenty, I would argue they had
verified in March of twenty twenty the authenticity of Hunter's laptop.
They went out and pre bunked it all summer long,
meeting weekly with big tech companies. They knew the story
would break because Bob Costello, Rudy Giuliani's then attorney had
a copy of it. They knew he had a copy
of it. They knew it would be leaked. And then
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when the story did break in the New York Post,
they wouldn't verify what they knew to be true, that
it was authentic. And then I would argue, from twenty
twenty to twenty twenty four, the weaponization of the DOJ
and law fair that was designed to bloody up Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
So we would not be a viable candidate. Am I wrong?
Speaker 6 (33:38):
No, it's absolutely correct, Sean. Everything you just said there
is one true. It's a dang Shane at the media
lied about it.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Unbelievable times we're living in, hopefully these if we don't
hold these people accountable, and we often don't, I think
we really are putting at risk the country. Byron Donalds,
we always appreciate you. Thanks for checking in. As always,
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to forty nine of the fifty states. The one state
I have not been to which I have great admiration for,
and I mentioned this earlier in the show to New
Gingrich is the state of Alaska. Well, that will that
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will come to an end, assuming I arrived safely. This week,
as President Trump will be meeting with Vladimir Putin in
Alaska for a summit in the hopes of bringing about
a piece in Europe, which the President has been trying
very hard to achieve. The President commented on this at
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his press conference earlier today and said he's going to
tell Putin he's got to end this war.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Here's what he said.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Oh, I'm going in to speak to Vladimir Putin and
I'm going to be telling him you got end this war.
You got to end it. And he wasn't going to
mess with me. This war would have never happened. You know,
we had a discussion about it one time, and we
never had that discussion again. Would have never happened.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
And what he was talking about is in his first term,
he said, don't even think about going into Ukraine. They
had already annexed Primea in what twenty fourteen with Obama
and Biden. This entire issue was inherited by President Trump
and he's trying to resolve and untangled yet another Biden
Harris mess. Then the President went on to say that
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he's going to call Zelenski European leader after the meeting
and try and make a deal.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And here's what he said about that.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I'm going to meet with him. We're going to see
what the parameters are, and then going to call up
President Zelenski and the European leaders right after the meeting. Yeah,
and I'm going to tell him what kind of a deal.
I'm not going to make a deal. It's not up
to me to make a deal. I think a deal
should be made for both. I think Russia has to
get back into building their country. It's a massive country.
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I think they have eleven time zones. If you can
believe it, it's a massive. It's by far from the standpoint
of land, it's by far the largest. They have tremendous
potential in Russia to do well. They're not doing well.
Their economy is not doing well right now because it's
been very well disturbed by this doesn't help with the
president of the United States tells their largest or second
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largest oil buyer that We're putting a fifty percent tarif
on you if you buy oil from Russia. That was
a big blow. And then they say, gee, he wasn't
so nobody else would have done that. And I haven't
stopped there. I mean, look, I was all set to
do things far bigger than that, but I got a
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call that they'd like to meet, and I'm going to
see what they want to I like to see us
ease fire. I'd like to see the best deal that
could be made for both parties. You know, it takes
two to tango, right.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
All right, So he's going to try his best. Senator
Lindsey Graham, who will join us in a minute, that
Trump's going to meet Putin from a position of strength.
He said it on Meet the Press this weekend. Here's
what he said.
Speaker 10 (04:32):
I have every confidence in the world that the President
is going to go to meet Putin from a position
of strength, that he's going to look out for Europe
and Ukrainian needs to end this for honorably and it's
time to end this for honorably. But how we do
it will be historical, and I'm confident President Trump will
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get a good deal for all.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
All right, joining us now is South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator.
Great to have you back here. So the president inherited
this problem. Joe Biden never even picked up the phone
and called Putin and said, why are you amassing troops?
Why are you amassing this military equipment? Never tried for
a negotiated settlement before it even started. Now President Trump
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is trying to untangle a mess. Unfortunately, under Biden it
evolved into a proxy war as far as I'm concerned,
between the US and Russia, and hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of millions billions of dollars even that the United
States was giving Ukraine. We're now under Trump, we're selling equipment,
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military equipment to Ukraine because Putin has been so difficult
to deal with, but he has agreed to this summit.
How do we define success at this point? Because so
to be, I don't see a scenario where Europe is
going to step up and provide enough weaponry for Zelenski
to fight a real war against Putin, And we have
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to also keep in the back back of our head
that they're nuclear armed, and I don't think the United
States can sell them enough equipment that they can actually
neutralize Russia in the end, although it is impacting Russia
in a very negative way.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Well as a good history lesson. So what does winning
look like for the United States and the civilized world
that Putin does not do this again? There'll be no
third invasion that we will do the opposite of what
Obama and Biden did. We will set up a piece
this time with infrastructure in play that would deter Putin
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or anybody else from Russia doing this again. What would
that look like? Security guarantees to Ukraine, where that if
you invade Ukraine, you're invite in all of Europe, not
just Ukraine for the Europeans, guarantee security guarantees for Ukraine,
that we continue to sell Ukraine weapons to make them
the most lethal army on the continent. I had to
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pick an army to fight with right now, I'd pick Ukraine.
These are terrific fighters there have been fighting like tigers.
They're outmanned dramatically. I mean, this is the kind of
person you'd want fighting along your side, a Ukrainian who
is in it to win it and not lose their country.
So the bottom line, yeah, they've been like ten to one.
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Bottom line is three and a half years later, Putin's
taken like one percent of territory beginning where he did
in twenty twenty two. The bottom line is to keep
helping the Ukrainian military, that's the deterrent all of his own.
Keep selling them high end weapons as a deterrent. Have
security guarantees from Europe to Ukraine, backstop with the United States,
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integrate our economies and put European forces on the ground,
and have pre invasion sanctions, telling Putin, if you ever
invade again, we're going to crush your economy from day one.
But let me add something to your history review here.
I went to Biden and said he's gone in. I
went to the Munich Security conference. The guys going in,
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do yourself in the world of favor, get behind my sanctions,
pre invasion sanctions, telling Putin that if you go in
this time, here's what happens to you on day one.
Biden and his whole national security team said that would
be too provocative. I couldn't believe it. I had bipartisan
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support for sanctions against Russia before the invasion, but Biden
wouldn't do it. So what did Trump do before he
left office in twenty twenty? He gave the Ukrainians Javelin
anti tank missiles. And the only reason they survived the
twenty two invasion is that Trump had left them enough
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javelins to blow up Russian tanks to keep them from
coming to Kiev. They were within eight miles of Kiev,
and it was these javelins that stopped the Russian invasion.
So what do you do now? You end this war
honorably and justly. You're not going to evict every Russian
from Ukraine. That's not going to happen, but you can
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do it in a way that we did with East
Berlin and West Berlin at the line of contact freeze it.
You don't see territory to Russia, but you just acknowledge
their parts of Ukraine where the Russians occupy and try
to fix it later. But do what I just said
at security guarantees, build up of the Ukrainian armies of
former deterrence, pre invasion sanctions. Now Trump's the best guy
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in the world. To be in the room with Putin.
If you don't get that, you're an idiot. All the
people criticizing Trump are the same crowd that allowed Ukraine
to be invaded twice, and when they took a crime
in twenty fourteen, Obama did nothing. He didn't create the terrence.
He just ended the conflict in a phony way. And
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that's why he had the twenty twenty two invasion. Obama
and by never told Putin, here's what happens if you
do it again. They didn't help the Ukrainians. They refuse
to help the Ukrainians. They didn't integrate our economy. What
did Donald Trump do? He signed a deal with Ukraine
on critical minerals worth trellions of dollars. We have an
interest now worth protecting. Donald Trump has provided weapons to Ukraine,
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he has an economic deal with Ukraine and makes it
our interest to end this war. Well, so what's going
to happen in Alaska. You're putting the best person on
the planet in a room of Putin's why, because he
fears Trump. He would not invade on Trump's watch. You're
right about that, and he's going to do a deal
with Trump because you don't want to get on the
wrong side of Trump. Why is he meeting with Trump?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Trump put a fifty percent tariff on India, who's the
second largest purchaser of Russia and oil, and he's going
to do more unless this war ends. So I am
very hopeful, prayerful, and excited that Donald Trump has gotten
attention and we're going to end this war.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
All right, quick break, We'll come back more with South
Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham as we give you a preview
of the coming Putin Trump Summit, Trump Putin Summit that's
taking place in Alaska. We will be there Thursday and
Friday this week with full coverage both on radio and TV.
My interview with President Trump right after the summit. That's
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Sean Hannity, all right, We continue now with a preview
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of this week's coming summit with President Trump and Vladimir
Putin in Alaska. We will be there with our coverage
Thursday and Friday. Why would we think that Putin would
ever want to return any of the territory that maybe
he's gained in this conflict.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Well, what I would say to that is that after
the World War two, East Berlin and West Berlin was divided,
overtime communism failed in Germany's a reunited united country. They'll
be life after Putin. And here's the practicality of what
you're talking about. Trump has put Iran in a box
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help Israel destroy their nuclear capability for years without one
troop on the ground. He stood by Israel, but Israel's
done to fighting. Not one American soldier is going to Ukraine.
He's giving them weapons to fend off the invasion. They'll
come a time, and it is upon us. I've been
waiting for the moment to end this war. It is
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upon us. Putin's going to have a clear choice if
you don't accept a reasonable, just peace agreement. Donald Trump
is going to load up with most sophisticated weapons on
the planet for as long as it takes selling them
to Europe. Donald Trump is going after Putin.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
By the way, that's a big difference from from Biden,
who is giving hundreds of billions of dollars in equipment
to Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We're gonna make money. I don't want to be a
war property here. We're not. But we're going to sell
the weapons to Europe, which is good for We.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Can't afford to give them away, we don't. We have
too much doubt.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
We can't afford it well, so we're going to build more.
We need more ourselves. Bunker Buster is the whole deal.
We're going to be rearming America because we've been helping Israel,
have been helping Ukraine. But here's what the magic of Trump.
Europe's going to pay for it. Europe's going to pay
for us, you know, rearming, helping Ukraine as well as
helping ourselves. But the main thing here is is Putin's
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going to have a choice. Before, under Biden and Obama,
there was no downside to continuing this war. They were
all talked, what's the magic word that Biden used against
Putin incursion? He said minor incursion.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
But when they.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Said, what's your message to Putin about invading you don't?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
You don't, don't don't.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Okay, The word don't has become a joke in the
English language when used by Biden. Now what has Trump done?
He's gotten Putin to come to Alaska. Now, why the
hell do you think Putin's come into Alaska to just
take a vacation. He's coming to Alaska because Trump has
got him in a byte. Trump has been selling, not
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giving weapons to Ukraine, and they're using them very effectively.
Trump hit the second largest customer of Russian oil purchases, India,
with a fifty there what has India done into last
week they made it well.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Also also got commitments for the European Union to stop
funding his war machine by buying our energy.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
This has been like our energy independence is going to
be accelerated. We're the becoming exporter of energy. We're selling
gas and oil to Europe that they were previously buying
from Putin. But here's the point.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Trump is going to.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Give the world a choice. If Putin rejects a fair deal,
then Trump's going to make it miserable for any country
to do business with Russia.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Stop.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Let me let me ask an exit question. Only because
of the constraints of time. What are the odds Trump
is going to have to stand up like Reagan did
and say yet and walk away and then just just
go full boar with what you're talking about Plan B.
We have about twenty seconds.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
There are one hundred percent. Is Trump thinks Putin's playing him,
He'll get up and walk away and the Russian economy
will get crushed. He's coming to Alaska for a reason.
Trump has got him in advice. I'm very excited about this.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Well, it'd be great for the world. I mean, honestly,
these wars have to stop. How many more people we
saw you know, more innocent dead civilians this weekend. Well,
you know what's the upside here, It just makes no sense.
But listen and putin, don't ever fool yourself. He's a
murdering dictator, thug. We know what we're dealing with. De
Lensky hasn't been perfect either, but honestly, we've we've got
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you know, the aggressor here has been from the get go.
Putin h Lindsey Grahm appreciate it. Hopefully this this ends
in peace for Europe, although Europe, frankly, has been pretty
pathetic in their in their contribution, if you even want
to call it that, Thank you, sir, eight hundred uh. Well,
by the way, Lindsay will join us on TV tonight
with more of a preview. We will be in Alaska
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President Trump.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
When you look at the numbers, the statistics, the crime.
We saw this Doose employee, better known as Big Balls.
We did not apply that name to him, but everybody
knows them. Everybody's reporting it as such. He did something
that was pretty brave and amazing. There was a group
of young kids that were out and they were pummeling
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an innocent person on the streets of DC, an innocent
woman in this particular case. And he decided he was
not going to be like most people and stand by
and allow that to happen. And he got in the
mix and he got the crap beat out of him.
I give him nothing but kudos and you know, props
for doing doing so. Then, of course we had the
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issue in Cincinnati where you had a mob beating the
hell out of people. As it comes to the issue
of DC, President Trump said he's taking over DC police.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And here's what he said.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
This is Liberation Day in DC, and we're going to
take our capital back. We're taking it back under the
authorities vested in me as the President of the United States.
I'm officially invoking Section seventy forty of the District of
Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what that is, and
placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control,
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and you'll be meeting the people that will be directly
involved with that. Very good people, but they're tough and
they know what's happening and they've done it before. In addition,
I'm deploying the National Guard to help re establish law
order of public safety in Washington, d C. And they're
going to be allowed to do their job properly.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Some statistics on this, and the President put these out Washington,
d C. If you look at the homicide rate and
these this is data based on estimates from twenty nineteen
to twenty twenty four, and the source of you care
about it is the Congress and statistics and local government statistics.
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The homicide rate of world capitals versus d C. It's
forty one, I believe per one hundred thousand. The next
closest country is in Uruguay and that's sixteen point one.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I mean, it's like almost three times. The number.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Baghdad is fifteen point two. Again, DC's forty one. Lagos,
which is in Nigeria is fifteen. Panama City, Panama fourteen
point three. Brazil thirteen, Costa Rica thirteen, Colombia Bogata eleven,
Mexico City eight, Lima, Peru seven, Buenos Aires, Argentina is
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five point five, and I can keep going. Kenya Nairobi
is five, Havana, Cuba four. How is it that things
are that out of control in our nation's capital. Well,
I can tell you in large part we know the answer.
It's defund dismantle, no bail laws. Now, I'm not exactly
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sure if there's a correlation to all of this, but
we're going to talk to Byron Nonelds about all of it. Anyway,
he joins us now, Congressman for my great free state
of Florida. Congressman, how are you should the president? Is
he right looking at that number comparing it to other
capitals around the world, countries that you would think have
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much higher, you know, homicide rates and violent crime rates.
Should should the president uh somehow get involved in protect
the nation's capital.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Absolutely, It's absolutely correct. The mayor and the City Council
of Washington, d C. Are not doing all they can
do to protect DC. A lot of it are these
these week on crime policies that they have cashless Spaiale
and the like. I don't know, most people don't know this.
In Washington, d C. To be tried as a minor,
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you can still be twenty four years old and be
tried as a minor in Washington, d C. Completely outrageous.
So what you have as a city that's not under
control the way it needs to be, not secure the
way it needs to be, and it's the nation's capital,
it's outrageous. The President's absolutely correct.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Remember when Ram Paul I think it was at the
Republican National Convention in twenty twenty, got there, all the
mob of people surrounding him. Whenever I go to DC,
I have to have security with me. I don't do
that everywhere I go. I really don't. I don't want
to live my life that way. In the Free State
of Florida, I tend to protect myself. I don't give
away my personal safety security strategies, but I don't need
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the security that I need in places like New York
City or places like DC. I mean, I think that
speaks volumes, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
It does, And what it speaks to, first and foremost
is a commitment to police officers, a commitment to law
and order, letting them do their job. And then the
secondary commitment is not having these woke DA's who refused
to prosecute or who watered down hemous crimes based upon
a woke ideology or dei or whatever the case might be.
(23:27):
Look at the end of the day, if you're going
to have a safe community, people have to be held accountable.
That's the way this.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Works, all right.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Another issue that came up with you. Now we've had
three people that have said that they identify more with
their home country than they do with America. Now, Representative
Delia Ramirez says she's more Guatemalan than American. And this
is an elected congress person. I'm like, that doesn't make
(23:54):
sense to me. Previously we had congress Woman Omaries more
with Somalia. Now you have this Democratic Party backed you
know Mom, Donnie like radical Fata in Minneapolis saying the
same thing. He identifies more with Somalia than he does
with America. And I'm trying to understand. I don't know, then,
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why if you identify more with your home country, why
are you even here? It doesn't make sense to me.
And here's what you said this week.
Speaker 12 (24:24):
Write a chance to meet Delia but let me just say,
you don't get to represent another country before you represent
the United States of America. David, you said it better
than I could. That is the oath we all take
as not just members of Congress. The president takes that oath.
Every governor and every state legislator in our country they
(24:44):
take the same oath. And to say that you're more
Guatemala than American, I think is reprehensible. You have a
duty to represent the people, the American people who voted
for you to be their representative, not to put them in.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
Second class status.
Speaker 12 (24:59):
But this is quite frankly, very typical of the left
because when you look at what they advocate for, doesn't
matter if it's Hamas or some third world country where
they think it's okay for people to come in our
country illegally, regardless of the implications on the American people.
Too many elected Democrats are far too concerned about representing
(25:20):
interests outside of the United States of America as opposed
to representing the people that they were elected to serve.
That's not a white supremacist statement, that's not a nativist statement.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
That is a real statement.
Speaker 12 (25:32):
That is a constitutional statement, and it is the standard
that every elected official should have Listen.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
And if maybe people think Somalia or Guatemala are better
countries than the US, I don't know how to interpret
what they're saying. Do you do you believe they're suggesting
that they think it's that or are you thinking that
they have more of an allegiance to that country. What's
your interpretation of it.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I'm not even going to try to interpret it, Sean.
The eye of the beholder is the United States Constitution.
The eye of the eye of the beholder is the
American people, not another nation. If you want to have
that stands that viewpoint, If that's what you feel you
want to portray when you when you're speaking, then go
represent those countries. Either be their ambassador to the United
(26:20):
States at the UN go do that, or go live
in those countries and run for office over there. But
if you're going to take the oath of office in
the United States, it doesn't matter if it's city council,
mayor state rep. Congress, Senate, governor president. You take that oath.
It is an allegiance to the Constitution and to the
people of the United States. Of America first and foremost.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Oh, I agree. All right, let's talk about some other
issues that are going on. What do you make of
what we're learning from the declassified information Tulsa Gabbert is
released to me. I think the investigation Cash Fattel, Pambondi,
Dan Bongino that they're involved.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Wen.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Do you think when you look over a period of
time that there has been and remains a grand conspiracy
to destroy Donald Trump and put cinder blocks on the
scales of presidential elections.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Yeah, it's one hundred percent. I believe that. And now
we're seeing the declassified information that supports that. It's not
even a hypothesis now becoming a fact right in front
of our eyes. And I think what we're seeing is
the deep state is the weaponization of the government, of
the intelligence apparatus, obviously against President Trump, but really against
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Republicans overall. I mean, the President says it better than
anybody that you know, they're not after him, they're after us.
He's just standing in the way. And what this is
about is having absolute power and control over the apparatus
of the federal government. And you have too many players
in the deep state who are willing to subvert information,
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put out false information, weaponize our government nice media against
the American people so they can they can institutionalize their
radical agenda on the American people at its core. That's
what I believe is going on. It just so happens
that Donald Trump was the was the man in the
arena at the time. But they would do this to
(28:17):
anybody else if they'd do it to him, Sean, They'll
do it to me, They'll do it to you. They'll
do it to anybody that they feel is a legitimate
threat to them holding on to power in Washington.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Amat of collateral damage and the amount of money the
people surrounding Donald Trump have had to spend, and the
sleepless nights and that I'm sure was associated with it.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Is incalculable to me.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
All right, quick, freak, We'll come right back more with
Congress Van Byron Donald's of my free state of Florida.
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Speaker 2 (29:57):
Right, we continue.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Congressman Byron Donald's is with us eight hundred nine four
one Shawn number. We'll get to your calls on the
other side of the half hour break. Here's how I
see it. We now, with this declassified information, know a
couple of things. We know that they knew and were
warned ahead of time as early as July of twenty sixteen,
that Hillary Clinton was going to go forward with what
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they knew to be a phony narrative that Donald Trump
colluded with Russia as a means of distracting from Hillary's
email server problems. We know they were warned not to
use her bought and paid for dirty Russian misinformation dossier,
which even Bruce or warned, James, call me about in
(30:40):
August of twenty sixteen. We then know that it didn't work.
They first initially tried to use it to prevent Donald
Trump from winning, and then afterwards, our senior career intelligence
officials they came out with an assessment and determined that
there was no Trump Russia collusion. And this is in
(31:01):
early December. Barack Obama didn't like the outcome. Apparently he
got with his top deep state group of officials and
they decided to come up with another intelligence assessment, one
that totally contradicted the real intelligence assessment. That then was
a plan to undermine Donald Trump's presidency as far as
(31:22):
I'm concerned, and for three years, I can tell you,
on this program and on my TV program, we were
unpacking every single layer of that onion and we did
get to the truth. The rest of the media pedal
lies and conspiracy theories, which I think has led to
there they have no legitimacy left, and I think that
legacy media for the most part is dead, gone and
(31:42):
buried as a result because they lied all the time.
Is that in and of itself that one presidential cycle?
Do you believe that these people need to be held
accountable and will they be held accountable? Because I don't
want to raise expectations for people.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
I do think they need to be held accountable. The
question now is going to be what is the criminal
standards that you're going to hold them to. I think now,
I'm really happy that the President revoked all their security
clearances because it's proven now that they never deserved them
in the first place, and so I'm glad their security
clearances are revoked. But they are the threat to our
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constitutional republic shown. They're the threat to democracy. And as
much as they were trying to project onto Donald Trump
and onto MAGA and onto Republicans, no, it's the radical
Democrat power structure that is the threat to democracy. So yeah,
a lot of people need to be held accountable. And
I think the top of that list, if you were
going to ask me today, is probably going to be
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John Brennan and James Clapper. They're going to be one
and two, and then it really falls in line after
that because and the reason why I say that is
because they're the ones that actually had to go carry
out the work in the bowels of the intelligence agencies
in order to weaponize the federal government against an American president.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
You know.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
And then in twenty twenty, I would argue they had
verified in March of twenty twenty the authenticity of Hunter's laptop.
They went out and pre bunked it all summer long,
meeting weekly with big tech companies. They knew the story
would break because Bob Costello, Rudy Giuliani's then attorney had
a copy of it. They knew he had a copy
of it. They knew it would be leaked. And then
(33:21):
when the story did break in the New York Post,
they wouldn't verify what they knew to be true, that
it was authentic. And then I would argue, from twenty
twenty to twenty twenty four, the weaponization of the DOJ
and law fair that was designed to bloody up Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
So we would not be a viable candidate. Am I wrong?
Speaker 6 (33:38):
No, it's absolutely correct, Sean. Everything you just said there
is one true. It's a dang Shane at the media
lied about it.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Unbelievable times we're living in, hopefully these if we don't
hold these people accountable, and we often don't, I think
we really are putting at risk the country. Byron Donalds,
we always appreciate you. Thanks for checking in. As always,
eight hundred and nine four one Shawn is a number
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Speaker 2 (34:05):
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