Fed Surplus - 2.13 - The Sean Hannity Show

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people on the left now say that they are ashamed

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of America. Wow, fifty of all voters say they're proud
of the United States, while the third say they're ashamed
and not sure how they feel. All right, whopping of
liberals say they're ashamed of America. We'll just thirty we're
proud of America. Three quarters of Republicans are proud of
the United States. Only six percent of shame of Democrats. Um,

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I'm sure this is all tied to Donald Trump and
hating Trump and Trump obsession, etcetera, etcetera. That's what I'm
thinking it's all about. And and I get it, I
understand it. Of those people just cannot get over the fact,
and there are a lot of them, even on the
Republican side, they just can't get over the fact that
Donald Trump won. They can't um a lot of news today.

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I want to get into this. Some great, great good
columns out there that we're gonna be delving into here,
not the least of which is you know, I've read
this on the air yesterday, and the more I've had
time to think about it, the more I realized just
how profound this is. So you have Senator Chuck Rassley
and Senator Lindsey Graham questioning and sending a list of questions.
I read them yesterday, I won't do it today for

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the former National Security Advisor Susan Rice regarding what they
are flagging as an unusual email that she sent to herself,
and it was sent on Trump's inauguration day, just just
literally minutes before she departed the White House for the
last time. And we have Grassley's the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Graham,

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who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism.
They release a statement and the letter they wrote to
Rice outlining the concerns of their email her email as
it relates to the Senators or the Senate's probe in
Russian interference. Now. They both say they received the email
in question as a result of a request from to

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the National Archives for records of meetings between Obama and
then FBI Director James Comey, And the email that Rice
sent to herself was January. Now Donald J. Trump was
sworn into office just afternoon. She sent this to herself
at twelve fifteen, and it seems to document a meeting

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that she had just attended with then President Obama, FBI
Director James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates two weeks before,
on January five. So they're talking about a January fifth meeting.
And Rice's note reads as follows on January five, follow
again this, but she's writing it eleven fifteen day years later,

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just as she's leaving the White House for the last time.
On January five, following a briefing by I C leadership
on Russian hacking during the presidential election, Obama had a
brief follow on conversation with the FBI Director Jim Comey,
Deputy Attorney General Sally Aids in the Oval office. Vice

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President Biden and I were also president. That meeting reportedly
included a discussion of the Steel dossier and the FBI's
investigation of its claims, and President Obama began the conversation
by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect
of this issue is handled by the intelligence and law

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enforcement communities by the book. Why would she say that now?
The President stress that he is not asking about initiating
or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated
that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it
normally would by the book. From a national security perspective, however,

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Obama said he wants to be sure as we engage
with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if
there is any reason that we cannot share information fully
as it relates to Russia. A portion of the email
remains classified. The correspondence continues reading the President asked come
to inform him if anything changes in the next few

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weeks that should affect how we should share classified information
with the incoming team. Remember, they made those rules changes
just as they were going out the door. I wonder
if that's impacting this in any ways, thought to self,
and maybe I'll send myself an email and grass Lee
and Graham said in their statement that they found it
odd that Rice felt it was necessary to send to herself. Yeah,

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it is odd. That is the quintessential c y a
such an unusual email purporting a document of conversation with
them President Obama and his interactions with the be I
regarding the Trump Russia investigation in her final hours as
a member of the Obama administration. Now, grass Lee and

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Graham suggests that despite Rice's claim that Obama had told
call me to proceed quote by the book, a lot
of questions now have arisen about the conduct of FBI officials,
the d o J, the State Department in the course
of the investigation. Why would she feel the need to
do this? And grass Lee and Graham sent, right, So
a list of questions. It's gonna be interesting to see

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where that goes. And it's gonna be interesting to see
if anything else has written about what happened on January five?
Is it getting very is it getting more odd and
more strange by the moment? I gotta tell you, um
now we have Now this is another interesting point. This
is in the political So two weeks before he leaves office,

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Obama's telling senior members of the administration that he wanted
to keep then President elect Trump's transition team in the
dark about details of the FBI's Russia Gate investigation. That
kind of contradicts what Rice is writing herself that that
he didn't want to get involved in anything involving law
enforcement with this anyway that would maximize the bureau's ability

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to gather evidence that could lead to the prosecution of
top Trump Bates, and even Trump himself. You're beginning to
think of trappis set here, don't you. Anyway? Former President
Obama suggested in January that information related to a federal
probe of Russia election interference might have to be withheld

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from AIDS to then President elect Donald Trump. According to
an internal White House email released Monday by these two
GOP senators, and the warning Obama delivered was on January five.
This is the conversation that Rice is now chronicling on
the moment before she leaves office. She must feel very

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sensitive about it, and the President stressed he's not asking
about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective.
From a national security perspective, Obama said he wants to
be sure as they engage with the incoming team, we
are mindful to ascertain if there's any reason that we
cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia. That's

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kind of unclear what the officials might have said in response,
the grass Lee Graham are saying here that part of
this is classified. But the passage after that states that
Obama asked Comey to let him know if anything changes,
Well he not the president. Well why would Comey tell
him after he left office? Now, in this press release

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last week, remember we learned that the FBI love birds
Peter Struck in Lisa Page had prepp then FBI Director
Comey on details of the Russia Gate investigation, with Struck
telling Page that the president quote wants to know everything
we're doing. And yesterday we found out that comes last
briefing with Obama aluded this, you know, notorious Christopher Steele

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Golden Showers dossier, and that revelation was included. But this
letter sent by grass Lee and Graham to Susan Rice,
I don't know. This is something here that I can't
put my hand on yet put my finger on, but
I'm looking. It's all happening in a very very just

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little bits and pieces. Some of you have complained. My
good friend Michael Myers will write me occasion when do
we get to the end zone? When did we find
I said, well, you're appeeling layers of an onion. It
doesn't happen overnight. Now, this raises serious questions about what
happened at that January five meeting and who knew what,
when and where, and what did they know and when
did they know? It was watching some of the testimony

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today by the FBI director and and the CIA director
and a bunch of others before the Senate Intelligence Committee,
and Christopher Ray is going to test testify before them
as the growing conflicts between the White House. But they're
going into close session, and they kept saying over and
over again, that's probably something we'll speak of later. We'll

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probably talk about that later. We'll probably talk more later,
which is a little bit frustrating if you actually want
answers now Byron York is gonna join us today, and
he points out that sources for Comey's Flynn exoneration where
Peter King and Trey Goudy, So we now can corroborate
his bombshell report that it will explain later in the

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program that they disgraced FBI Director James Comey told Congress
behind closed doors that he didn't think General Flynn had lied,
and that others in the FBI didn't think he lied. Well,
then it raises the question, why would General Flynn ever
plead guilty to lying to the FBI, which is a crime.
I mean, that's the most fascinating thing. Why would they?

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Whyever would he do that? Is this a case where
there was a threat of prosecution of his family? You know,
they've had to had to be your reason if they
didn't think that he had lied there. I want to
find out what that's all about. There's a great piece
by Rowan Scarborough today in the Washington Times and it's

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the dossier's ten core collusion accusations remaining unverified twenty months later.
You know, we forget about you know what's in the
dossier for crying out loud. We just know that it's
unverified and sallacious and full of lies. And he actually
took the time to go through all of this, and
he you know, when you look at the whole dossier

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and how that became the predicate for a warrant and
the foundation for a warrant. And they didn't tell the
FISA Court judge that it was bought and paid for
by the opposition political campaign. They didn't tell the FISA
Court judge that it was not verified you know, for
the ongoing special counsel into the Trump Russia election coordination,
it's helpful to separate what counts, because I don't think

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without any dossier ever have a Robert Mueller here. But
it was funded by Hillary in the d n C.
And they sent it through the same law firm. And
it's bad enough that they were going to use those lies, unverified,
salacious lies in part from the Russian government, according to
the Grassy Graham memo that came out last week. Anyway,

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the dossier I think takes on even more importance. Anyway,
So they identified ten cores collusion accusations that the Trump
campaign launched an extensive conspiracy with the Kremlin to interfere
with the presidential election. To date, no public verification verification

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that Trump, for decades developer of tall buildings, maintained an
eight year relationship of give and take with Russian intelligence
to date, no public verification that Trump and senior campaign
aids actively supported the Russian hacking of the Democratic Party
computers to steal and release stolen emails. No public verification

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that Carter Page and campaign manager Paul Manaphor personally conspired
with Moscow to hack the Democratic Computers when the hacking
began in Tift. Neither man was associated with the Trump campaign.
Both deny the charge. Page testified under oath that he
had never met or spoken with Manaphort, so we have
no public verification on that Darsier part or that page

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in Annapolis, grad energy investor and former resident of Moscow
traveled to that city in early July to deliver a
speech at the university. Dasier says he met with two
top Kremlin Kremlin operatives that's discussed bribes and working to
lift economic sanctions. Page testified under oath he had never
met or spoken with either of them, and he filed

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libel suits. Anyway, bottom line is there's no verification of
any of it. But that's what was paid for, and
that was what was used as the basis for a
fiser warrant and never thought in my lifetime, I just
really roll along. Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred nine four one, Shawn,
if you want to be a part of the problem.

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A lot of people are asking, all right, let me go.
This is a great question. Arnold and Georgia. Arnold, how
are you welcome to the program. I'm glad you called listen.
Uh my theory, Well, this is what happened to me.
The government can keep you going as long as they
want to until you're completely broke, whether you're guilty or not.
And I've been in that position. I know you're talking about.

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They have endless streams of money, have an endless supply
of money, and they can always postpone your court date. Listen.
I know people that have been literally sent into bankruptcy
because of lawsuits, legal actions against them, whatever I mean.
And and it does raise actually a fair question. Is
there a two tier justice system between those that can

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afford the expensive lawyers and those that can Well, there
definitely is. I had come into bankruptcy thinking, if you're
if I'm not guilty, I have nothing to lose and
everything will come back. But it doesn't work that way. Well,
I've seen this happen in numerous instances what you're describing.
And so in other words, all right, you mean I'll

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get I'll get away with this, is it, I'll make
it go away? Yeah, people do that all the time.
You know, if people get sued all the time and
they give in the lawsuits that way, how much? All right,
it's a grand versus you know, a half a million dollars,
you know, ten years later and all the aggravation that
goes with it. My case, it was a it was
a case of losing part of my life, you know,

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being sent away. What did you do? No matter what?
So you didn't have the money for the attorneys, you know,
I didn't. I had some money for the attorneys, and
I got some from my parents also, and I was
highly played, you know, agent for as far as the
government work. But there's just nothing that you can do
about it. M hmm. And it was the same as

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General Flynn. Um. I don't know what the reasons are
I have. I'm not sure if I suspect something else
is behind the General Flint thing. They don't. If it's
not necessarily General Flynn that they wanted, it could be
someone else that like in my case, they wanted someone else,
And I wasn't gonna say anything about it. I mean,

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even though they weren't guilty either, you don't want to
involve them because it's just you don't just be going
around in circles. Yeah, uh, I don't look, assuming you're innocent.
I'm sorry you had to deal with all that. I
don't know what it is. But I will tell you this,
We've had a year worth of a media that's hysterical

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and unhinged and conspiracy theories one after another and no
evidence at all. But we have evidence in the issues
we've been covering, and a lot of it will continue.
On the other side. Information download Sean Hannity and the

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breaking news you might have missed today. That's Sean's Insider Information.
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of the program. There's a lot of news out There's
so much like happening all at one time. It's pretty amazing. Um.

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You know, I as I read the news every damn
wondering at what point is this all like information overload
for people? And then it gets to be too much
and people can't understand that there's different things going on.
For example, Um, you've got a bombshell email here with
Susan Rice suggesting Comy may have misled Congress about meetings
with Obama on and Russian hacking. That's to every other

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detail that we've given you. Then you got comey the
FBI agents didn't think Flynn lied. Then yeah. Now we
started asking, well, why did Flynn agree to a plea
deal that said that he lied to the FBI. Then
we're not even talking about I think the main crux
of that, which is, all right, he was supposedly talking
to his soon to be counterpart because he was going

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to be the n s A director and that would
be a normal process for any incoming person in that position.
And then of course the intelligence community they did nothing
wrong by picking up Russia is a hostile state against
the United States, so they picked up the phone call.
But then the normal practices of minimization of an American

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that they weren't practiced in that particular case, they didn't minimize.
They didn't and they unmasked Michael Flynn, and then they
leaked for intelligence. Then they had a full transcript of
everything that was said, and they go in and they
interview him. Well, that's like a perjury trap with illegally
obtained information, and I don't I don't know why Michael Flynn.
General Flynn went along with that, and I suspect they said, well,

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we'll probably go after you and your family and your
businesses for the last twenty years and and either take
this deal it's the best deal you're gonna get her.
Forget it. And that happens too, Susan Rice memo implicating Obama.
He said, to do it by the book. That is
the strangest email. Note to self, we did nothing wrong.

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Note to self, we are following by the book. That's
pretty odd. It's one of the more bizarre things i've
i've actually ever heard. Now we have Joe Degenneva is
out there. He's talking about the FISA memo. He said,
we're gonna see the Democratic memo. It's gonna be heavily
edited by the FBI and the Department of Justice and

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the c i A. And he said the most important
part of the story is that Odd Rosenstein and Christopher
Ray wrote a letter to the White House Council Don
McGann that they could not agree to the publication of
the Shift memo because it contained national security and law
enforcement concerns. Now, if you listen to the media, they're
telling you, oh, no, President Trump is the one that

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said no to this. No, it actually wasn't President Trump.
It was the FBI and the Department of Justice saying
no to releasing the memo. And the most important part
of that letter is when it says law enforcement concerns, well,
that means that there's a criminal investigation under day underway,
and release of some information in the memo by Schiff,

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you know, in some capacity, would impact some investigation. I
wonder who they're investigating. The answer is pretty clear, because
they're investigating the people at the FBI and the d
o J who provided false information to the fis accord
over a number of years. Here four separate times every
ninety days, you gotta redo this more, this warrant, four

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separate times. We got a story out today BuzzFeed. If
you remember as apparently working with others, remember they released
the the dossier contents great pieces I mentioned in the
last half hour by Rowan Scarborough. None of it verified zip,
none of it. But apparently there's been six months a

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secret mission to corroborate various claims in the Trump Russia
dossier that was assembled by Christopher Steele. So that's that's
gonna be interesting to watch others now try and corroborate.
I wander that I think they're still looking for videos
of hookers in the rich Carlton in Moscow urinating on

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a bed. Uh Cody Sheer there's a report on Breitbart
Today is scouring Europe for the fabled Trump Pepe tape.
I didn't make that up, it says Cody Sheriff. Shadowy
former tabloid journalists long been closely associate it with various
Clinton scandals, traveling across Europe for more than six months

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in an effort to secure purported evidence of compromising material
possessed by the Russians related to President Donald Trump. I
guess the next thing we're gonna have is photos shopped,
you know, pictures of Donald Trump. Ah, see there it is.
It's kind of like the tax returns. We've found them anyway,

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so apparently they're still looking for them. And then, of
course we have the issue of Sid Blumenthal. What was
his what was his role in all of this? You
know now that we have wanted admission that a Clinton associate,
Jonathan Wiener is an op ed that he published last
week in the Washington Post top State Department officials served

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under former President Obama administration, publicly confirming he passed on
information from Clinton operatives to the British by Christopher Steele
that was put in the dossier that got the what
Visor warrant Anyway, he's a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for International law enforcement, he wrote. He wrote that
he had a friendly relationship with Steele, and then he

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goes on to say that, you know, Steal's dossier had
all this information and so many sensational claims. But anyway,
more importantly, Fox News reports that former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's twenty sixteen campaign and the d n C
retained Fusion GPS through that d C law firms Perkins

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uh Cooy's I think it's what it's called. They paid
this law firm upwards of maybe twelve million dollars. It's
unclear exactly how much money went to the dossier. And anyway,
Wayner writes in this op ed in the Post that
he served in the State Department in the nineties before
leaving for private practice. He met Steele. They became friends
in two thousand and nine, and in when Weiner returned

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to the State Department, he wrote that he began passing
on more than a hundred of Steels reports or passing
them on with Russian experts at the State Department over
two year span. Pretty interesting. And then he also said
he met with Steele in the summer seen to review
the information contained in the Trump dossier so he could

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alert the State Department, and then he prepared a two
page summary after reviewing the dossier, and then he shared
it with Victoria's new landers, a State Department diplomat, and
she directed him to share it with then Secretary of
State John Kerry. And it gets more disturbing because around
the same time, Winer said he connected with his old

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friend Sydney Vicious Bluementhal. It was a long time you
know Clinton operative, and he wrote that he and Bluementhal
discussed Steele's report, and the Clinton operative gave him notes
from a journalist he didn't know, and Winner was referring
to Cody Shearer, the long time Clinton ally who was
never a journalist, but rather someone deeply connected to doing

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Clinton's dirty war behind the scenes. Weekly sit Standard described
him as one of Hillary Clinton's sketchiest supporters that was
in the Conservative Tribute. Anyway, sheers second dossier contain many
of the exact same claims as Steals dossier, so it
wasn't a supposed so that basically it's all coming from
the same sources. Some of this information was funneled to

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steal by Clinton operatives. He just throws it in there.
What does he care if he verifies that or not.
He's getting paid a lot of money. But what we're seeing,
as Monica Crowley wrote yesterday in The Hill, is a
federal abusive Obama Obama's watch, and I think when we
get to the bottom of it, is unprecedented. And then
add Susan Rice and that component to it, and this

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bizarre email to self, We're great, We're doing it by
the book self, just unbelievable. Tell you. The biggest outrage
of the week, though, all these media outlets that literally
trying to romantics is North Korea. Well, I get to
bother you at some point. I don't know what it

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is about the left and how they just they just
think that if we're just nicer to them, they're gonna
be nicer to us. I've never understood that. So you
have the opening ceremony in South Korea on Friday night.
The media echo chamber goes into full gear, heaping praise
on Kim Jong UN's sister athletes from the North and

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South Korea marching on the same team, waving reunification flags.
More history just a few seats away. Kim Jong UN's
sister right there behind the Vice president. She's on hand
for the Olympics as well. In a historic moment, South
Korean President Moon Jay inn shook the hand of Kim
Yo jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong

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The sister of Kim Jong un, shook hands warmly with
the South Korean president and the v I P box
at the Olympic opening ceremonies. But North Korea is stealing
much of the limelights. Kim John and sister landed at
Incheon Airport earlier since day three days at the world's
media running after the sister of North Korea leader Kim jongn.
And still we know very little about the woman who

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has stolen the headlines at the piong Chang went to Olympics.
How about we know this, you know, to the Avanka
Trump of North Korea as they were describing her and
all these other accolades thrown her way. I'm stunned by
what happened. See and then was the worst of all
of them, Kim Jong UN's sisters stealing the show at
the Winter Olympics. She didn't say anything. New York Times

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even acknowledged that without a word, only flashing smiles. Kim
Jong UN's sister outflank Vice President Mike Pence in diplomacy
the Avanka Trump, the Washington Post says, of North Korea,
and it goes on from there. Um, did anyone in
the media point out that she's the minister of propaganda

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of one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history.
I guess they they have to know it. I assume
they know something about what's going on over there, because
it's not that hard to find out if you do
a little research. Then they go after the vice president
because he didn't shake her hand. Okay, the woman they're

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applauding is the official director of propaganda. This is a
government that has murdered around four hundred thousand political prisoners
and what many have called concentration camps that have been
in existence since between eighty and a hundred and twenty
thousand people are still imprisoned in those camps, and that
includes men, women, and children. UN report over two hundred

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thousand people from around the world. They've just simply disappeared
in North Korea. But she has a nice smile, And
don't forget the three Americans are currently being held hostage
in the rogue state. We forget that part, or that
Kim Jong un and his regime are also responsible for
the recent death of Erican otto warm Beer. He was imprisoned,

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he was sentenced to hard labor why for allegedly stealing
a poster. And on top of that, if you look
at North Korea while they're firing their missiles over Japan
and threatening the continental United States. In Guam, well they're
currently starving the people. Roughly thirty percent of the population
is starving in that state. Oh while the little despot

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Kim Jong un lives a life of luxury and his
sister enjoys a prime seat at the opening games of
this year's at Winter Olympics. Anyway, in the mainstream media
praising them, it's pretty disgraceful. And this is where I
get into this whole issue about I don't understand the
mindset of the left in this country. I don't understand

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anybody that could actually make an argument that it was
a good idea to give this this guy's father three
billion dollars and energy and we just got a promise
that he's never gonna build nuclear weapons. Will verify all
of this and didn't verification never happens, And here we
are years later, and he's got nukes. Now he's building

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intercontinental ballistic missiles, and now he's talking about taking out
American cities. And then he's firing and test firing missiles
over Japan and near Guam. And then but everybody wants
to suck up to a sister. And then one point
seven billion dollars in cash by Obama to iron the

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same Malas who have been chanting death to America, burning
American and Israeli flags and death to Israel. It's unbelievable.
You know, if if you're finding out, who would ever
think it's a good idea. Look, well, if we give
you one point seven billion dollars, you've gotta promise us
that you're not gonna build nuclear weapons. We can't tolerate

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a nuclear arm durant. But there's a mindset that thinks
that I think I assume they think that that's gonna work.
Now E really believe So I assume that that Neville
Chamberlain believed that he really had peace in his time
through the prism of history looked pretty stupid, but I
guess at the time he thought that. Yeah, I really

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have negotiated a piece for our people. Didn't work out
that way. I did not like the new Churchill movie,
by the way, for a lot of reasons. I did
watch it, and I've read a lot about Winston Churchill.
Love him as a historical figure. The biggest problem is
that they want to portray him in the worst possible light.

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All Right, Jay Seculo, at the top of the hour,
we'll get the latest with him. Also, we'll be checking
in with Byron York. You know, even Trump hater Peter
Struck didn't think that General Flynn lied. Unbelievable there is
if anybody's out there can't see through the media obsession

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with some issues. I mean, just watch some of your
local cable shows. It is so bad out there in
terms of what they don't report, what they should report,
what they stay away from reporting, how wrong they report,
and how conspiratorial they are, and what an extension they
are of all things liberal. You just can see it
like it's I don't know, plain is the nose on

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your face? It's so obvious. Alright, gotta take a break.
We'll check in with Ja Sekulo later on. We will
have much more on the news of the day, and
we'll get a lot of your calls in nine for
one Shawn, a toll free telephone number. About hours before
the president elect was sworn in his president, Susan Rice,
the outgoing National Security Advisor, sends an email to herself

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documenting President Obama's concern and guidance regarding Russian interference in
the presidential election, the Steele dossier, according to Graham and Grassley,
and information with the Trump's incoming team from a meeting
that took place on January seventeen. Now, the January fifth
date's interesting because the very next day and James Comey
was there. The very next day, James Comy meets with
the President elect and talks about the Stele dossier, among

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other things, and the Dave of four, Susan Rice writes,
the email is the renewal date for the FIES warrant
against Carter Page. Here's the problem, the problem, and nobody
knows what this was. I mean, at the end of
the day, the only person that knows what she was
doing on this is Susan Rice. So she's gonna have
to give an account for that. But folks, I mean,
look at the facts. You always tell law students get
familiar with the facts, understand the timelines, and there are

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multiple intersecting timelines on this where they come into the intersection.
Whether it's the FISA warrant, whether it is the interview,
whether it's this meaning, whether it's then the meeting with
uh uh the President elect and James call me, whether
it's the change of the Executive Order and how they
distribute intelligence information. I want to get all this would
be a fascinating study, and say November through February of

(32:44):
twenty seventeen, seventeen, what took place. I want to know
what happened. I want to know what happened. Hour to
Shawn Hannity Show eight nine one, Shawn is told pretty
telephone number, you want to be a part of the program.
That was Jay sekil Why don't you explain this a
more detail exactly what you're saying. So, Sean, here's the
thing I think that's important for people to understand. So

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this meeting takes place on January five, right, so they
already had the first series of FIZ and warrants. Understand though,
the two of the five signatures on those FIS and
warrant applications are at this meeting, So that includes the course,
it includes James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.
So they have this meeting on January five to brief
the president on the Russian investigation, and the President and

(33:27):
Susan Wrights in this email that she does two and
a half weeks after that event, says, the president, you know,
want to make sure the law was being fought, but
also was concerned about what we should or should not
share with the incoming administration. But remember this, on January five,
they have this this meeting with President Obama, James Comey,
Sally Yates, Vice President Biden, and UH and UH Susan Rice.

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The very next day, James Comy flies up to New
York meets with Donald Trump, the President elect, and reviews
with him intelligence matters and briefs him on the Steel dossier.
So what grass Lee and Graham have asked for, which
makes sense here, is why in the world would you literally,
as the new president is being sworn in and the

(34:12):
inaugural festivities are well underway, parade done, at the you're
getting ready for the swearing in, why in the world
would you do this memo in the last moment of
the last day as your last act, and there's only
one reason you're covering for something that either somebody was
at the meeting they were concerned with leak I don't know,
James Comby's leaked, or they were somebody saw them at

(34:32):
this meeting, or they were trying to cover their tracks.
We don't know. I don't know. But it's just if
you look at the way the facts lay out, including
the fact that this memo comes the day after the fires,
a warrant was renewed by the Fives accord. So this
just raises a whole I mean, I think what grass
Lee and Grandma said is right. It's odd and and

(34:54):
and pretty much. Yeah, and you like odd and unusual
as the words they It's just to see what it says,
y a. But it makes absolutely no sense. Is she
doing this at the behest of Obama? Does this now
bring Obama into it? In other words, what did he
know about the fires and what did he know about
all of this with with the dossier, etcetera. Well, look

(35:16):
what she says in the email. That part of it's redacted,
of course, so we don't know all of it, but
it said President Obama began the conversation by stressing his
continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue
is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities. Quote
by the book, the President stress that he's not asking
about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective,
reiterated that our law enforcement team and he should proceed

(35:38):
as it normally would buy the book, and then the
President said that he wants to be sure that as
we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to
ascertain if there's any reason that we cannot share information
fully as it relates to Russia. In other words, are
we not going to tell the incoming administration information we
have about Russia? That's what he said there. I mean,

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that's what she's saying that the president of the United States.
Then President Obama said, that tells your whole story. This
is the incoming president of the United States, and heater
withhold information from him. Yep, he's the president elect. Where
do you think, how do we get to the bottom
of what it actually means? I mean, does this now
open up an area of investigation into you know, other
emails that were sent back and forth text messages. Do

(36:21):
we now have to wait another year to get information
from Susan Rice and and others that might have been
involved in did Comy lie when Comy said that, you
know it only met with the president on X occasions,
not mentioning this one. You know, I don't know what
Comy did or did not do. This is what I
do know that Congress has asked Susan Rice a series
of questions that they want an answer to. I think

(36:43):
the date it's February. They want a response in writing
to these series of questions. Because, as as Grassley and
Graham said, this is unusual, to say the least, odd
and we do know. And again I think it's worth
stressing Sean, two of the five participants were people that
signed off on the five the warrants, which is an
unusual in and of itself, considering that they were the
FBI director and then the deputy attorneys are in the

(37:05):
United States. But there they were, and they're in the
Oval Office for this meeting. And why is it that
Susan Rice waited over two weeks to put this in
writing to memorialize this, So you're right, it is it
is a sense. It's to cover their tracks. I don't
know exactly what the tracks they're trying to cover are,
and I think that's where Congress, through its oversight, needs
to move and move swiftly, and it just looks like

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they are. I want to talk a little bit about
the two memos that came out, the New Nest Memo
then the Grassly Grand Memo, and the Grassly Grand Memo
that was the unredacted version, which I think was very,
very revealing because at the end of the day, I
won't I won't bore the audience with given the full
history here, but James Comey and Peter Struck writing the
exoneration of Hillary on the email server scandaled months before

(37:49):
they interview her and seventeen other key people. That that,
to me is pretty unbelievable. I've never heard of an
investigation working that way. This is after, of course she
pretty much dole or the primary against Bernie was rigged,
all right. So she's funneling money through her campaign through
a law firm as the d n C that Donno

(38:09):
Brazil says she was controlling the money of meeting Hillary
through the same law firm. They pay for a Russian
dossier full of salacious information and We're even told in
the Grassly grand memo that it's Russian government information, but
put that aside. All right, so it's bad enough, she's
gonna pay for information. Nobody verified it. Fusion GPS didn't
verify it, the Clinton campaign didn't verify it. Nobody apparently

(38:32):
verified it. But then it gets worse. Then the Grassly
Graham memo goes on to say that the bulk of
evidence presented to acquire or the FISA warrant against Carter
Page was the dossier. Nobody had verified the dossier. And
then we find out the unverified dossier. By the way,
even James Comey said to Donald Trump, this is in October,

(38:54):
they're issuing the warrant, but he said in January it
was still unverified and salacious, right, So that's that's three
months earlier. Now, Um, he's apparently part of a group
presenting it to a FIS a court to get a warrant,
and the only thing we get is a footnote that
says maybe political in nature, when everybody knew Clinton bought

(39:14):
and paid for it. You know, well, I thought with Michaelissenoffs,
it was also interesting that they based his statement. The
press account was also in the in the application evidently,
and he so I just based that off the Steel dossier.
So it was it was evidence verifying its own evidence.
I mean it was the same. They were using the
same information to verify the same information. So with circular

(39:35):
in nature. I mean, I think if I was the
FIES a judge, I wouldn't be too happy about any
of this. And when you look at the what has
taken place here, I think that and I think this
is where where the questions line is. I don't think
there's any question that absent the Steele dossier, there would
have been no FIES and warrant even sought. That's according
to UH on the Nunas memo. That's according to what

(39:56):
UH is going to be was in the transcripts from
the testament one from Ron Rosenstein. Now here's what's interesting.
You have the the atom Ship memo, the Democratic response memo,
which has gone back to the UH Senate House Democrats
to work with the FBI to get it redacted the
way it UH so it won't give up sources and
methods and there and and Ship was very quick to

(40:17):
say they'll do that. I think they were trying to
kind of one step away or two steps out to
step the president. I think he outstepped them by just
sending it back. They were hoping he would send it back,
either not send it back or send it back redacted. Um,
and I think what he did instead, which I think
was the smarter and more appropriate roses here, it is
back to you. You get this cleared with the FBI

(40:38):
and work it out, and you saw a very mild
atom ship in response to that, A very mild atom
ship in response to that. But look, I don't think
there's gonna be anything. I mean I haven't I haven't
seen it, so I don't know, but I will tell
you this. I am working right now. I'm putting together
a complete timeline of everything Sean that took place. And
it's not over that long a period of time. It's

(40:59):
probably gonna be four months. And I think when you
see it in a timeline, it's gonna be breath taking.
Our audience is following this closely. Yeah, so you've got
in the summer of we know they're attempting to get
FIES warrants and they're not successful, right, we mean, they
make at least two attempts, they don't get FIES warrants,
and that's very rarely where they don't get them. But

(41:21):
they didn't get them here. They come back in with
the dossier, they get the fives and warrant on the dossier.
Then they have the interviews. You had the interviews with
General Flynn with the FBI. That's all taking place in
this period of time. Now we have the meeting, right
do you have a meeting on January five that we
now know about with two of the five signatures on
the fives warrant they're briefing the President of the United States,

(41:43):
President Obama. The next day, what happens President uh, the
president elect, it's briefed by In this particular case, James
called me the FBI director and the dossiers brought up
and he said it's unverified and silastious, and you're not
under investigation. Then the FBI comes back in and interviews uh,
General Flynn again. And and there's evidence now that FBI

(42:04):
did not think he was not telling the truth. They
just think he he was confused. That's what that's according
to James called his own testimony. So this is all
happening within months. I mean, you've got all of this
happening month. Then don't forget the executive order that was
changed the year before, right at the end of the term.
See that all of these end of the term stuff
happening and there's really no great explanation for any of it.
Then how do we get to the point where a

(42:25):
special counsel is appointed in this whole thing? And and
where are we in in that whole mess? Well, there's
a you know, here's how it works. So the Attorney
General is supposed to make an evaluation whether this investigation
can be done internally or needs a special counsel. I
said when you add, now, if you want to continue
the timeline out and during that same summer of you

(42:47):
also had the Fusion GPS matter with the Steel dossier.
You had the number four at the Justice Department, Bruce
Or's wife working for Fusion GPS assigned specifically to the
Russian dossier to work with Steele. He is meeting with them.
By the way, uh Wars meeting with Steele, Steele becomes
the basis of his His dossier becomes the basis of

(43:08):
the of the warrant. Then he leaks it to the press.
The FBI says they pull back their formal relationship with him,
although Bruce wore still meeting and talking with him, whose
wife is working for Fusion GPS. So this is a
shell game they played here, they moved, They just kind
of moving the It's almost like remember the game whack Up.
You hit the mold and hit one, and what it

(43:29):
is you You kind of hit one here and boom,
another one comes up. So I think what you have
to do, what I'm gonna do is put together a
full timeline on this to get an understanding. All right,
So you gotta make this timeline out. Um, I wouldn't
mind putting it on TV. Number one, number two, I
think it is an important time. But the number three,
how dangerous is it? You know? Two things have happened here.

(43:50):
We spent over a year with no evidence of Trump
Russia collusion, and every media outlet breathlessly hysterically reporting this
again and again and again and again. Okay, then we've
got instances where Hillary did pay for Russian lies about
an opposition candidate. And then it gets worse because that
was used as the bulk of information to acquire a

(44:11):
fiz of warrant against the opposition party candidate against one
of his members and then that was used to also
spying an incoming administration. Now, to me, when you put
all this together and then you add in there the
you know, struck and and page texts, and the fact
that Andrew McCabe is involved, and then the exoneration before investigation,

(44:32):
it seems like everything was fixed just for this. How
do you ever straighten out that if we can't have
elections in this country where bought and paid for Russian
lines don't raise enough eyebrows for people were in trouble. Well, look,
I mean you hit the kind of the nail on
the head there, and and the fact of the matter
is nobody knows, none of us know the full nature

(44:52):
and scope of what's going on here. I mean, there
are individuals that now and they may, by the way,
some of these government officials may not know the ins
and outs of everything that's involved here. But I think
what has to happen now is you look at this
and try to piece together what is taking place, what
is transpiring. You ask yourself what was the initial impetus,
the cause for all of this, and then how did
it play out over time? You know, we're leaving out

(45:14):
the leaking by James Comey of the conversation you have
with the President of the United States. That's why I'm
saying all of this has to now be I'm gonna
be meaning about this as soon as we're done laid
out in a comprehensive timeline. I mean, just a comprehensive
timeline to get a real understanding it exactly what was
at play during these critical periods. None of us know
for sure. We have hunches, ideas, but none of us

(45:35):
know for sure. And and look the fact that we
may never know, but it's got enough concerned that you
got Senator Grassley and Senator Graham, neither one of which
are conspiratorial, that are concerned about this. Well, I think
the fact that these committees now are releasing this information, Uh,
do we know for sure sources and methods were in
the Democratic memo? That what that the FBI sent back?

(45:56):
It had to be, right, Yeah, that's what that's the assumption,
and that there was concern oversources and methods, and that's
the basis upon which that the White House Counsel and
reviewing the documents would Will that be one reason to
send it back? I haven't seen it, so I don't know,
but that's you know I'm hearing the same things you're hearing,
and that was a concern, and Adam Ship did not
seem to deny that when asked on I think it
was ABC this Week or one of the programs, maybe

(46:17):
Space the Nation. Uh, he said, no, we're gonna we'll
we'll work with him to get it resolved. Say he
did not fight that push back on that fact. You
don't hear much about that right now at all. Realized
they've got to do it all right, Jay secular, We
appreciate your time as always. Eight hundred nine for one, Shawn,
toll free telephone number you want to be a part
of the program. Also coming up Byron York. He had
a great piece about how James Comey told Congress FBI

(46:40):
agents didn't think Michael Flynn lied. Well, then why would
he ever admit to that? Why did we get to
that point? David Brody has written a book about the
faith of Donald Trump. Will hit that today. We have
a great handedy tonight at nine on the Fox News Channel.
We'll continue let's hit our busy phones here. Eight hundred
nine for one Seawan is our toll free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program, right,
Jennifer's and Louise Yanna, Jennifer High, how are you glad

(47:01):
you called? What's going on? Hey? Sean? First, I wanted
to tell you thank you for all you do for
truth and for my president. Thank you's our president. Yes,
it's not just yours, you know, I know, I know. Um.
My question is what can we do collectively as a
people to get these people like or struck page off

(47:22):
our dime out of my government. I can't believe they're
still there. I mean, knowing what we know now, they
should all have been fired. Now there's a beginning of
a purging going on between people fired, being fired, resigning, moved,
and demoted. And I think it's only the beginning of
those things. I think there's gonna be a lot more
of that. Right, they gotta go, they gotta go absolutely

(47:45):
offensive that they're offensive that I pay these people salaries.
You know, the fact is that if they have, if
you work for the FBI, you're not You're supposed to
be about the law, about equal application under the law.
You know, they're even talking about not only an insurance policy,
they're talking about, Oh, we don't want to piss off
Hillary God forbid, she wins. I mean it's it's just bizarre,

(48:08):
all right, thank you. It should scare you, it should.
And I don't see a lot of civil libertarians out
there and liberals out there saying this is not what
we want in this country. We don't want, you know,
Russian propaganda bought and paid for used to get FISA warrants.
But by the way, we're not going to tell the
judge any of the pertinent information about the lack of

(48:31):
the veracity in this document, nor who paid for this document.
Back to our phones. Thanks, Jennifer, appreciate it. Uh. John
in Massachusetts, John High, how are you glad you called Sean?
How are you so glad to talk to you? A
long time listener both of your shows? Yes, sir, what's
going on? I get a question in your opinion, in

(48:52):
light of all this new information has come out over
the past few weeks and months, how do you see
the smaller investigation ending? Where do you it's gott to
end at some point? You know, one of the problems
with special counsels is what we call investigative creep um.
You know, look at the case Patrick Fitzgerald going after
you know, in the Valerie plan case. He knew on

(49:13):
day one who would leaked the information and it was
Richard Armitage. Now he should have just shut down and said, okay,
I figured out who, what the who the leaker was,
and it was Richard Armitage. And then they break it
all the way down into you know, putting Scooter Libby
the squeeze on him day in and day out. Give
us information about the Vice President Cheney at the time,

(49:34):
and you'll go free, and then we'll go after Dick Cheney.
I mean, it's an enormous amount of power. It's politicizing
political or criminalizing political differences. And they seem to have
an ending, you know, ability to move into areas that
they never would design to go into. And that's the
danger of special counsels and what that said, I think

(49:57):
we need one to investigate the investigators and into this
particular case. I do believe laws were broken. I do
believe that crimes were committed here, and I think those
people involved in them, you know, should pay the price.
Do believe Jeff Sessions is doing the diligence? You know,
it's hard. Look, I don't think you should have ever
recused himself number one, And I think none of this

(50:19):
happens had Jeff Sessions not recused himself. That's number one.
Number two, Um, he moves too slowly and it seems
to be lacking urgency. I know he's moved into the
Iranian one issue and into some other issues. But I
gotta tell you, Um, you know, I I don't see
enough happening, And if I was him, I would appoint

(50:41):
the special counsel now to investigate the investigators. It also
takes him out of it, and I think there's probably
you know, it sounds, you know, like I'm contradicting myself.
I don't want more special counsels, but things are so
bad here. I don't think there's any other way to
get to the truth on this. It's gonna be very
interesting when we get the Inspector General's report in just
a couple of weeks. That's gonna, I think, open up

(51:03):
a lot of people's eyes. But I don't think it's
ending soon. But I think it's ending. Remember we heard
it might end by Thanksgiving, by Christmas, by the New Year,
by the end of February. Um, maybe they're wrapping it up,
you know, the big fight now. I guess it is
over you know whether or not Mueller gets to question
Donald Trump, and I would say the answer should be
an emphatic absolute no. I don't think you should have that. Um,

(51:26):
Henry is in Oklahoma next Henry High. How are you
glad you called? And welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. Well, hello,
Mr Hannity. I just wanted to say thank you for
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(52:29):
I got it. Yeah, man, enjoy the switch. Um alright,
my friend just wanted to say thank you and let
your other listeners know. You know, I've smoked for forty
plush years and I just put them down almost immediately.
So look, I saw the impact that had on my parents.
I wish this product or a product like it existed
at the time. I really do. Um. Let's go to Cannon, Kentucky. Ken, Hi,

(52:52):
how are you glad you called? Hi? Sean? Uh? First
of all, I just like to say from our area
that since that area, we have a saying for you
that you are a great American. Well, that means you're
listening to my buddy Sean Hannity's Bill Huntingham, you're a
great American. I want a full report Donald J. Trump
is now saving the country and why these liberals want

(53:13):
to get him out of office. I don't know. Pretty good,
you are correct what I want to say, though, as
a retired law enforcement officer and I proffered many affidavits
for search warrants to see this happening through the Fiser
Corps like it is when you proffer or construct, or
you're any part of anything that would offer a fake

(53:35):
bossier to the Fiser court and commit a fraud upon
that court, you lose what I call credibility. If we
were to ever do that, we would go from a
police uniform to a different kind of uniform, and it
wouldn't be a police uniform, it would be a prison uniform.
And that's why I find it hard to believe that
these people are still in existence with the FBI in

(53:59):
the d O jaylike they are. I can't I claim
it hard to believe. Well, listen, I I find it
hard to believe. And it's really sad that this type
of thing could happen. You know, our founders and framers
they often talked about the size, the scope, the influence
of government, and in this capacity, is that the power

(54:20):
would corrupt them. And when you have a group of
people at the very top that seemingly feel they know
what's past and they're not going to apply the law
equally to Hillary, They're gonna give her a pass and
they're gonna put the fix in and then they're gonna
go to a FISA chord after they've been denied at
least once, maybe two times, and try and get a

(54:41):
warrant so they can get a sneak peek into what's
going on in an opposition party's campaign. That's problematic. And
to use the other candidates information, not tell the court
about it, not verify the salacious information, and that's bad enough,
and do it all because they want to impact an election.
That's what this can is down to. That's why this

(55:01):
is so big. Watergate, Yeah, that was about impacting an
election by stealing your opponents research, okay, a third rate
burglary and then covering it up. This is far more sophisticated,
far more dangerous, because you're using the powerful tools of intelligence,
the powerful tools within the FBI and the d o
j IS as the mechanism to pull this off. Even

(55:26):
one one final comment here, Sean is what I find
hard to believe, even beyond that, every night I watch
you on television and I see all the events that
have taken place through the d n C and Hillary Clinton.
And I mean, anybody can look up the definition online
or wherever their Webster's dictionary of organized crime. If that

(55:49):
is an organized crime. I've never seen organized crime. And
to think that the mafia was the largest organization in
this country that represented organized crime. That would be like
shrouds boy. Compared to the DNC and all the weaponizing
they've done within the agencies of our federal government is
a scary thought. It's very scary. A lot of going

(56:12):
on here that's very scary. I appreciate the call. Thanks
so much for being with us. All right, let's go
to UH Lady sim in Calabasas, California. How are you?
I wonderful? Hello, my hiro Sean? What's going on? How
are you? What an honor for me to speak with you?
I m once. I'm from a South Korea, immigrants South

(56:36):
Korean and my very own eye. What's going on? The
papaganda against UH South and the America, this evil regime
and using this Olympics to papaganda, massy papaganda holding It's

(56:57):
a messy papaganda. Let me tell you something, Sean. I'm
gonna thank two American finest arm impulses sacrifice for keeping
freedom my motherland South Korea for seven decades. You will
stand by to us. We appreciate so much with South Korean,

(57:21):
appreciate so much. We will never forget you. Not only
that Mr President Trump, Vice President Mike Sense stood up
for this evil dictator monster and North Korean Kim Johan
and three roodiums, and and I am so glad you

(57:42):
are elected as our president. Thank you so much. You
are to you guys are doing commending jobs and saving
our USA and South Korea and freedom loving world, the
countries all over the world. Thank you so much. All right, well,
that's very nice to you. Listen, we all are blessed

(58:05):
by America. And I've always said that if America doesn't
stand for liberty and freedom and human rights, then who's
going to You know, there's a lot of criticisms of
this country, but I can't think of a world without
the United States and the moral compass we have. And
that is the country that has accumulated all this power
and sacrificed so much of it for others. And no

(58:27):
country has accumulated that power and abused it less and
used it for as much good as we have. And
that is the American legacy and dream. No we're not perfect.
I'll be the first to say, no, we're not a
perfect country, but we have been a country that has
used it for good. Unfortunately, now we have some cleaning
up inside to do first destroy? Are you aware of

(58:50):
a gentleman by the name of Oleg Deripaska. I've heard
the name. Fair to call him a Putin linked Russian oligarch. Well,
I'll leave that characterization to others, uh, and certainly not
in this setting. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Juiciary Committee,
last week sent a letter to a London based lawyer
who is a law who represents Mr derri Posca and

(59:12):
asked if Christopher Steele was employed either directly or indirectly
by Oleg dear appost at the time he was writing
the so called Steele dossier. Um, do you know if
Christopher Steele worked for olegda Posca? That's not something I
can answer. Could we discuss it in the classified setting?
There might be more we could say there. Next is Russia,
where President Putin will continue to rely on assertive foreign

(59:35):
policies to shape outcomes beyond Russia's borders. Putin will resort
to more author terian tactics to main control amid challenges
to his rule. With respect to Russian influence efforts. Let
me be clear, the Russians utilized this tool because it's
relatively cheap, it's low risk, it offers what they perceive

(59:55):
as plausible deniability, and has proven to be effective at
sewing division. We expect Russia to continue using propaganda, social media,
false flag personas, sympathetic spokesman, and other means to influence
to try to build on its wide range of operations
and has ascerbate social and political fissures in the United States.

(01:00:17):
There should be no doubt that Russia perceived that its
past efforts has as successful and used the two thousand
and eighteen u S midterm elections as a potential target
for Russian influence operations. An op ed by a number
of former intelligence analysts called the Nunas memo and its
release quote one of the worst cases of politicization of

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intelligence and modern American history. And quote you said you
had concerns about that memo. I know you can't get
into the um greaty details of that, but can you, um,
can you say in your view whether or not one
of those concerns is that it may have uh selectively
cherry pay information without presenting the entire fact pattern that

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led up to that vice of warrant application. Well, center,
I would just repeat what we said at the time,
which is that we had then and continue to have now,
grave concerns about the accuracy of the memorandum because of omissions.
We provided thousands of documents that were very sensitive and
lots and lots of briefings. Uh, and it's very hard

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for anybody to distill all that down to three and
a half pages. Al Right, So that's the FBI Director
of Christopher Ray writing, you know, he's not answering Tom
Cotton's question, and that is whether or not Christopher Steele
was employed by Russians while writing the Bony Russian dossier.
And then of course Ray testifying that you know, he
has grave concerns about the Newness vis A memo. But

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I'm assuming that's because they don't want any memo out
there because they're the ones being investigated by the House
Intel Committee. All Right, when we come back, great piece
by Byron York is out how comy and even stru
told Congress the FBI didn't think that Michael Flynn lied,
then why was he charged with that? All Right, we'll
take a quick break, we'll come back. News Round Up
Information Overload is next coming up next, our final News

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round Up and Information Overload, Our UM. And I'm a
big believer in the idea that the FBI speaks through
its work, through its cases, through the victims. UH, it
protects UH. And I encourage our folks not to get
too hung up on what I consider to be the
noise on TV and the social media. So you haven't
seen any evidence of some sort of inherent political bias

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and the agency. No. That was Christopher Ray earlier today
and testifying about these not seeing any bias at the FBI,
which I don't believe he even believes that. But what
is he gonna do? Yeah, I see a ton of
bias at the FBI. Let me just come here before
the committee and and and tell everything that I believe
is wrong. Somebody that I think has been on the

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on the outside that's been doing amazing work on all
of this is Byron Yorkie joins us now he's with
the Washington Examinery that he has a great column out
and it's Comey told Congress that FBI agents did not
think that Michael Flynn lied. Well, then that raises the
question about General Michael Flynn, who quote admitted to lying
to the FBI when they came to his office in

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January of seventeen. Why did the General Flynn go along
with that and be if they thought he didn't lie,
why would they make him agree to that? Uh, Byron York,
welcome a board. How are you hey? So thanks for
having me? All right? So, if Comey and the other
agents didn't believe he lied, why would Michael Flynn agree
to take that plea? Well, I think something changed. I

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mean the timeline here is that, you know, you have
to think back to January February and how crazed everybody
was about Russia and Flynn and talking with the Russian
ambassador and all of that stuff, talking about sanctions, and basically,
the FBI goes to interview Flynn on January, the fourth

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day of the Trump administration, and asked him about these
conversations that he Flynn has had with the Russian ambassador
during the during the transition, which, by the way, was
a perfectly proper thing for an incoming national security In
other words, he's talking to his counterpart or he's soon
to be counterpart, exactly exactly, and he was getting called.

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Flenn was getting calls from hundreds of people around the
representatives of foreign governments around the country. If Hillary Clinton
had won, her incoming national security advisor would have been
getting calls from hundreds of representatives of foreign governments around
the world. So um, anyway that the FBI comes up, well,
but the Justice Department really comes up with this theory

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that maybe that these conversations that Flynn has had, these
entirely normal conversations, violate the Logan Act. I'm sure you've
told your listeners about the Logan Act. That's that two
hundred year old law that has never ever been successfully prosecuted.
Perhaps he violated that, or maybe maybe that Flynn might
be susceptible to blackmail. So they went and questioned Flynn.

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Not clear, wasn't they made their intentions clear before they
actually questioned him or not he met them without a lawyer. Nevertheless,
when Congress inquired wanted to know what was going on
in early March, James Comy goes to Capitol Hill talks
to lawmakers. They say, well, what about Michael Flynn. Tomy says, well,
the FBI agents who interviewed him do not think he lied,

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and one of them was Peter Struck. One of them
was indeed Peter Struck. So you go from there. That's
in March of last year. Go from there to December
one of last year, when Flynn pleads guilty to doing
just that tow line in that particular interview with the FBI,
And the question is what changed? And I have to

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tell you I don't really know the answer. I don't
lay out the answer in the story because I don't know,
but but I do know. I have a theory. Now,
it's only a theory. You want to hear it. My
theory is I'll be happy to hear. Okay, I think
and this again, I'm telling everybody, this is a theory.
Now if the surveillance, lack of minimization, unmasking, and we

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know he was unmasked, and then the leaking of raw
intelligence which we know took place of General Flynn. When
that meeting took place, I believe it was the twenty
four of January or somewhere right after he became National
Security Advisor, correct January. Okay, so at that point they
already knew everything that he had said in the transition

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to his Russian counterpart. The I're asking him about a
conversation of which they had a recording and a transcript
which they had read. And I doubt they told him
that he had a recording or they had a recording
or a transcript of it. Well, Flynn is a former
director of the Descent Intelligence Agency, and as such, everyone

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that I've talked to believe that when certainly would have
known that this is the kind of conversation that would
have been wire tapped. In other words, the US intelligence
would have been wire tapping the Russian ambassador. So my
theory goes like this that they he either misremembered, which
is very possible. I mean, if you asked me who

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was on my show last Friday, I'd have to sit
here for a while and think. But if he asked
me about Reagan's economic statistics in nineteen I can rattle
them off in seconds. So I'm not sure what he
remembered or didn't remember, or if he lied on purpose
or didn't lie on purpose, or he misremembered or didn't
But let's put that aside for a second. They should
not have had that information because when we in fact,

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when there is surveillance as we should have of foreign
enemies or a hostile regime such as Russia in this
particular case, who's talking to the soon to be counterpart
is the Russian ambassador, UM, and they pick up in
a mirror can on that line. They're supposed to minimize
that those reports are supposed to be written without identifying
or amasking the American that was speaking to the Russian ambassador,

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and they would usually, if a proper protocol were followed,
they would write an American that the ambassador was talking
to an American and then they wouldn't then that raw
intelligence would not be leaked either. So I suspect that
there was some type And we know what happens with
grand juries, and we know what happens with aggressive prosecutors,
and here you have a big special counsel set up

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and they want to justify their existence. And I think
he was probably given a choice either you agree the
ally to the FBI, or we're gonna go back into
all of your financial dealings and that includes that of
your family and your son and others, and that would
put them in jeopardy. That's my that's my working hypothesis. Well,
it has been reported that UM that Flynn's son, who

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was in business with him for might for a while
have been in jeopardy, and that amazingly enough, after Flynn
pleaded guilty that the sun was no longer um. In
other words, he fell on his sword for his kid,
and that's what they came up with. But we also
have to remember there's a lot that goes on between
March of last year, when Comy tells this to Congress

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and December one, when, um, when Flynn pleads guilty. First
of all, the president fired Comy uh. And then as
a result of that, you have the appointment of Robert Mueller,
the Special Counsel. Then you have Mueller creating this office
and hiring a bunch of gun Hope prosecutors, the people
who would make prosecutors. So the thing that changed his
Comy's out and the prosecutors in, and the prosecutor that

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has to justify his existence. There's no doubt that these prosecutors,
the specific ones that call me has hired h Weisseman
and others have a reputation for kind of take no
prisoners prosecutions, and um, you know, I don't know. I mean,
the people who were very supportive of Flynn say that, Look,

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people sometimes plead guilty to get an investigation off their back.
They've had enough, they've suffered enough, they're broke. Uh, they're
worried about family members. They do these things like that.
I've had other people who say no, they had, you know,
clear information that he lied. So but but if he
the timeline doesn't work because if you have James Comey

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saying he and his fellow agents didn't think he lied,
this is before the special prosecutors appointed, then then how
did we ever get to this point? Did that make sense?
If it doesn't make sense, No, no, I I totally
understand what you're saying. We should say that prosecutors acusing
at the I agents normally do not make the prosecutorial decisions.

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And we should have a big exception because remember in
the Hillary Clinton email case, Well, the Attorney General essentially
gave James coming the power to make a prosecutorial decisions,
but normally they don't. So what we had here was
FBI agents going over to questions uh Flynn. But the
decisions would be made by the people like Sally Yates

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who came up with this theory of blackmail or the
logan act or of some sort of criminal exposure. Sally
ages Is only testified once about this. She testified in
May of last year before a Senate judiciary Subcommittee, and
she talked about how she went after this interview with
Flynn on January. She thinks the news is so critical

(01:11:31):
that she started to go over to the White House
and talk to the Council. Don began, so first he
hears of it on January. Then tell him about this,
and Don McGann says to her, and this is according
to her account, says to her, look, what if Michael
Flynn lied to the Vice pressent. Let's just say he did.
What's that to the Justice Department? I mean, what's what's

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the crime there? And that is when Sally Flynn apparently
goes into her theory about what she called the underlying
conduct being the Logan Act, possible Logan Act violation and
this idea which again to her theory that Flynn might
be vulnerable to blackmail. So she Sally Yates said to
intervene and have the FBI question UH plan on on

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pain of perjury. So you know, I have to say
I wrote this story about what Comy told lawmakers. You know,
I just think that's important information. I don't know what
might have changed, but I do know that a lot
of lawmakers view this whole Flenn case as really weird. Well,

(01:12:33):
list the things that happened. I'm troubled by it, all right,
by Ron YORKA, will hang in there. We'll have a
couple more questions on the other side. Nine one, Shawn's
a toll free telephone number. And as we continue, by
Ron york is with us with the Washington Examiner and
his pieces out Comey told Congress FBI agents didn't think
Flynn had lied. Look, look where, colleagues, and you can

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tell me anywhere you disagree with me, but this is
what I think. Where we are, I think you have
Hillary Clinton was protected by call me and struck. I've
never heard of an exoneration written before an investigation that
allowed her to stay in the presidential race. I think
the crimes that were committed were overwhelming and incontrovertible. If
we're going to follow the law, mishandling classified information, etcetera.

(01:13:19):
With the email server scandal, we'll learn a lot more
with the Inspector General report, and then so she's allowed
to continue on. She pays for a Russian dossier full
of salacious lies and misinformation, and now we've learned that
that was the basis the bulk of the information given
to a visor court by Callmey and others, and they're

(01:13:39):
just trying to justify it. And I think it was
all designed to impact an election, and then when they
lost the election, of impact an incoming president in ways
that we've never seen before. Is there any part of
that you disagree with? Well, I think there's some of
the things. I wouldn't go as far as as what
you say, although they're I mean, clearly there are a
lot of things are obvious facts. I mean, Christopher Seels
worked for the Hillary Clinton campaign. But I think, um,

(01:14:03):
once we once we straighten out all these all these
actual facts, and that's going to take a long time,
I think we have this kind of step back and
look at the troubling aspect of the FBI inserting itself
into a presidential election on both sides. And you know,
basically we had a presidential election in which both candidates
were under FBI investigation, and I think you've got to

(01:14:24):
wonder whether maybe the FBI was has just and well,
let's go, let's go. Do you doubt that the fix
was in? What have you ever heard of an investigation
that exonerates They begin the exoneration letter months before they
interviewed the principles. No, I haven't. And you know, we've
seen some of the early drafts. We know that in
May he was James Comen was circulating drafts of that

(01:14:44):
exoneration level letter. Obviously, the interview with Hillary Clinton doesn't
happen until July second, and he has exonerated on July five. Yeah,
you've explained it to your listeners many times. But but
not only did they write the asoneration letter before interviewing Clinton,
they they did it before uh, interviewing lots of critical people,

(01:15:07):
seventeen other people. Yeah, well, let me ask you. This
community out like candy, and it was astonishing the way
they did it. So it's bad enough that Hillary pays
for this phony Russian dossier with salacious lies, but then
it becomes the bulk of the reason presented before Viser
court to get this this visor warrant on on carter

(01:15:28):
page so they can see what's going on within the
Trump administration or the Trump campaign rather and later on
the incoming presidency and the president elect. And they never
told anybody. In other words, they didn't tell the court
that it was Hillary Clinton bought and paid for. And
also it was unverified because in January, when James Comey
went up to Trump Tower to talk to Trump, he

(01:15:48):
said it was unverified installationous. But that's not what they
were telling the court in October. Yeah, if I could
add one thing about this, this warrant. You know, you've
heard some defenders of the FBI say no, no, no,
they weren't spying on the campaign because they didn't get
the warrant until after Carter Page had left the campaign.
But the fact is one of these warrants are very
powerful things, and they allow the FBI to listen to

(01:16:12):
phone conversations going forward after the warrant is issued, but
also to look at email and text and any other
thing that leaves the record going backwards as far as
they've got the records. So carter Page had had emails
with members of the Trump campaign and say may or
June of this warrant would allow them to read all

(01:16:32):
those And by the way, the warrant also allowed the
FBI to break into pages house and plant listening devices
if they chose. Unbelievable, do you do you have the
same issues that I have with the team that Robert
Mueller has assembled. All the Democratic donors, people like Andrew
Weissman and his track record going back to Anderson Accounting

(01:16:54):
and Enron and for meryal executives being overturned nine zero
in the Supreme Court, will spending a year in jail
that's overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, tens
of thousands of jobs lost. You have a problem with
some of these people, Yeah, I I do. I think
it certainly looks bad. And you you could also have
mentioned the Wiseman sending this kind of cheerleading note to

(01:17:16):
Sally Yates when she refused to enforce the president's executive order,
which which got her fired quickly, and Wiseman was a
was a big fan of that. Um, I think it
would be better. Uh, it just seems like it would
be obviously better to hire a political prosecutors for this.
I also think, and I wrote about this at the time,
haven't seen as much since that Mueller and James Comey

(01:17:39):
are good friends, and James Comey is going to be
if there is, if there is to be a case
of obstruction of justice against the president, the firing of
James Comey is going to be the centerpiece of that case,
the key witness, the star witness will be James Comey,
who will be a good buddy of the prosecutor. So
you know, it's just it's not a great situation, all right.

(01:18:00):
Byron York, Thank you for being with us. Eight Sean
a t the top of the hour, Shawn, if you
want to be a part of the program. A lot
has been made about past presidents and their faith and anyway,
there's a new book out by my friend David Brodie.
It's really well done and fascinating and interesting, and it's

(01:18:21):
called The Faith of Donald J. Trump. And David's the
chief political correspondent of the CBN Network. And here's the
President talking at the National Prayer Breakfast. In their selfless deeds,
they reveal the beauty and goodness of the human soul.
When catastrophic hurricane struck, first responders and everyday citizens dove

(01:18:44):
into rushing waters to save stranded families from danger, and
they saved them by the thousands. Neighbors open their homes
to those in need of food, clothes, shelter. Firefighters brave
blinding smoke and laims to rescue children from devastating wildfires.
During the horrific shootings, Stranger shielded strangers and police officers

(01:19:11):
ran into hail of boats to save the lives of
their fellow Americans right in Las Vegas. A terrible day,
a terrible night, but such bravery. Families have adopted babies
orphaned by the opioid epidemic and given them loving homes.

(01:19:34):
Communities and churches have reached out to those struggling with
addiction and shown them the path to a clean life,
a good job, and a renewed sense of purpose. And soldiers, sailors,
coast guardsmen, airmen, and marines have spent long months away
from home defending our great American flag. So all we

(01:20:01):
have to do is open our eyes and look around us,
and we can see God's hand in the courage of
our fellow citizens. We see the power of God's love
at work in our souls, and the power of God's
will to answer all of our prayers. When Americans are
able to live by their convictions, to speak openly of

(01:20:24):
their faith, and to teach their children what is right,
our families thrive, our communities flourish, and our nation can
achieve anything at all. Here with us today is another
symbol of hope. A very brave nine year old girl
named Sophia Marie Kampa Peters. Sophia suffers from a rare

(01:20:50):
disease that has caused her to have many strokes. At
one point, the doctors told Sophia that you would not
be able to walk. Sophia replied, if you're only going
to talk about what I can't do, then I don't
want to hear it. Just let me try to walk.

(01:21:12):
She tried, and she succeeded, and one of her doctors
even told her mom, and they're right here in the
front row where they should be. This little girl has
God on her side. Thank you, Sophia, Thank you mom,
great mom. I said, do you love your mom? She said,

(01:21:35):
I have a great mom. I love my mom. Right.
Just two weeks ago, Sophia needed to have a very
high risk surgery. She decided to ask the whole world
to pray for her, and she hoped to reach ten
thousand people. On January, as Sophia went into surgery, she

(01:21:58):
far surpassed her goal. Millions and millions of people lifted
Sophia up in their prayers. Today, we thank God that
Sophia is with us, and she's recovering, and she's walking
very well. And I have to say this, Sophia. You

(01:22:18):
may only be nine years old, but you are already
a hero to all of us in this room and
all over the world. Thank you, Sophia. As long as
we open our eyes to God's grace and open our
hearts to God's love, that America will forever be the
land of the free, the home of the brave, and

(01:22:40):
the light unto all nations. All right, David Brody joins
us now. The Faith of Donald J. Trumpets up on
Hannity dot com, bookstores everywhere, Amazon dot com. How are you, sir,
Good sir, Thanks for having me on. I've actually enjoyed
the times I've been on with you and your network,
and you guys are actually nice to conservatives. It's rare.
It's rare. I'm not used to read exactly. Um now,

(01:23:05):
unlike say Michael Wolf's book, you actually spoke to the
president about his faith, about his religious views. And you know,
somebody said, I was reading the Heritage Foundation at the
end of seventeen and they were pointing out that this
president is governing in his first year, governed more conservatively
than even Ronald Reagan. And everyone's you know, this big argument,

(01:23:28):
is he a populist. Is he a nationalist? I'm watching
a guy governing as a Reagan Conservative. Um, what did
you learn about his faith that might surprise people? Well,
there are a few things. And first of all, it
funny you mentioned Michael Wolfe because I was basically going
to say, this is the book Michael wolf probably doesn't
want you to read. It actually has interviews with President
Trump and Vice President Pence. Actually the interview with the

(01:23:50):
President Trump was done in the Oval office too, with
Mike Pence in the West Wing. Um. Look, there a
couple of things. First of all, what was really striking
in this book is he talks about the impact that
evangelicals have had on him. When and I see evangelicals,
you're talking about leaders that are around him, not just
Paula White and some of these other folks we've heard about.
Where we're talking specifically about many televangelists, many Pentecostals that

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he has never even experienced before Sean, and all of
a sudden, there's this whole world that's opened up to him.
So he says, the quote in the book is basically
how this has impacted him greatly. And what we're starting
to see now is a spiritual voyage, especially in the
last couple of years, where behind the scenes there are
a lot of folks that are I want to say,
witnessing to him. They're really kind of sharing Jesus with

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him in a way that is something that he's not
used to. Mainline presbyterian Um, the way he grew up
is not the way necessarily he's getting an experience. Now. Well,
I was gonna ask you in this context because I
know people like Darryl Scott and and he put together
a group of of he's the head of the National
Diversity Coalition for the President and others, and I know

(01:24:55):
that they do talk to him about these things. I
know Franklin Graham talks to him about these things, and
I know that he's interested in these things. And it's
it's interesting when he gets in an environment where he
can actually talk about it. As we just heard, he
does show the side of him. You know, for me,
a certain fundamental aspect of faith is discerning good versus evil.

(01:25:16):
And I know we get into this all the time
with Republican presidents. If Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union
an evil empire, the left goes crazy. Or if George W. Books.
Bush talks about, you know, Iran and Um and Iraq
and North Korea as being an access of evil and
Donald Trump isn't willing to give let's see billions of

(01:25:38):
dollars to Mullas and Iran that are talking about blowing
us up and wiping us off the face of the
earth or North Korea. You know that that frightens people
on the left, But there seems to be a more
fundamental understanding of the evil nature of some of these
regimes and just how they treat their own people. Well,
that's right. That's been a big magnet for evangelicals as
to why they're attracted to Donald Trump. You know, Donald

(01:25:59):
Trump's the world in in absolutes, and so do we evangelicals.
And there's a kinship, a doctor phil moment, as I
like to call it. And I think that's really important.
And I also think to understand Donald Trump, you have
to really know him, actually know him, because in private,
as you know Sean, when the cameras are not rolling,
evangelical leaders will come to recognize more compassionate side. There's
a story in the book Sean about a private car ride.
Mike Pence is telling me the story of the Vice

(01:26:20):
president just a few months ago before the book came out,
telling me the story. It's Mike Pence, Franklin Graham, Tony Perkins,
Donald Trump in a car in Louisiana two thousand and sixteen,
the flooding down there. This was before he was president.
Trump becomes deeply moved by what Graham's Christian ministries Maritan's First,
had done for flood victims. So right there on the spot,
it's just before them in the car, he tells Graham

(01:26:41):
he's gonna he needs to give the ministry a hefty
six figure check, and he says, I got to do something.
I've just been moved by this so much. And Graham
politely told Trump to send it to Tony's home church,
not Home's home church that had been instrumental in the
recovery efforts. So you know, once again, camera's not rolling
a different side of Donald Trump. Look, Walter Cronkite to
to to quote the you know the liberal bastion media, right.

(01:27:02):
I mean, Walter Cronkite always talks about in seeking truth,
you have to get both sides of a story. Well,
here's the other side of the story that media doesn't
really want to tell well, I think that's that's an
interesting way to put it. Look, I also think New
York is a very different place. And I speak from
experience because I was born and raised in New York
on Long Island, and I was raised Catholic, and I
was an altar boy. And you know, then I go

(01:27:23):
on this radio adventure that takes me five years in
Rhode Island and five years in California, and two years
in Alabama and four years in Georgia, and then you know,
fortunately I got back to New York and I was
hired by the Fox News Channel. But in the time
that I traveled, I began to see and and this
is in no way disparaging of of any other part
of the country or region of the country, but when

(01:27:43):
I got to Alabama and Georgia, it was a a
very different Christianity than the Catholicism that I grew up in,
and I came to like it, appreciate it, identify with it.
And I don't think it's that there are play says
like this in New York, but the differences in Alabama.
It's every other street there's a church. Yeah. Well, and

(01:28:07):
it's interesting you say this because this is pretty much
what the President told me in the Oval office. He said, look,
I didn't hang around these people before. I don't know,
I didn't know any of this. But now they're opening
my eyes to you know, this whole kind of other
side of the faith that he didn't know anything about.
And you know, it's funny because a story in the
book is a bishop, Wayne Jackson, who was one of
the folks that prayed at the inauguration. Be's a lifelong Democrat. Uh.

(01:28:27):
He Trump goes into Great Great Faith Ministries International in Detroit.
Trump visited, visits the church, and then it was Wayne
Jackson telling me that the moment Trump got out of
the car, this is a quote from Wayne Jackson, the bishop.
He says, quote, the spirit of the Lord told me
that he is going to be the next president of
the United States. So these are the circles that Donald

(01:28:48):
Trump is running in. Now. A little bit more of
that prophetic side, a little bit more of that definitely
that evangelical side that is kind of blown Donald Trump away.
But at the same time, he respects people of faith,
the clergy, I mean, he members of time. He's seventy
one years old. He remembers a time where you you're
dressed up for church. You didn't come in baggy pants
and and sneakers. And you know this is a respect
for clergy that he has. I remember Daryl Scott, you

(01:29:09):
mentioned Darryl Scott. He specifically said to me that in
meetings with clergy, Trump adopts the position of the lesser,
not of the more powerful. If you are fascinating, that's
that is pretty interesting to hear from Daryl Scott. Do
you think that the president is getting more faithful, his
faith is growing? Do you see that or maybe in

(01:29:30):
your conversations with him you've seen it absolutely. And there's
a few different things that can point to. First of all,
you know, of course you did that interview with the
president right off the top in his presidency. I was
able to do the third interview with him, and during
that interview he said, I need God even more in
this job. And just the other day, about two weeks ago,
at the TV Network anchor luncheon before the State of

(01:29:50):
the Union, I was actually there in the room in
the State Dying room with the President. He's talking about
how basically, as a businessman, Heart isn't involved, but as president,
Heart is involved and compassion is involved, so he's getting
a whole another side of this. And then at the
National Prayer Breakfast, what did we just see? I mean,
we had a president who, in his first year at
the National Prayer break Fast talked about the ratings of

(01:30:11):
the Apprentice more uh, he talked about the ratings of
the Princess, about his accomplishments. But what did he do
this time around? You know, years time? He didn't talk
at all about the Apprentice, didn't talk at all about
his accomplishments. It was more of god less of him.
And it was a subdued, very poignant speech, and even
the New York Times enjoyed. And that's saying something. But
the point is is that we're seeing some movement on

(01:30:33):
his on his behalf for sure. You know. I remember
during the campaign and a lot of evangelicals took a
lot of heat if they supported Donald Trump for president.
I mean, okay, he was divorced, and he wasn't a
perfect person, and he made the tabloids, etcetera. And I
think it was Jerry Fallwell Jr. I know it was
Jerry Fallwell Jr. That said, we're looking, we're not electing

(01:30:53):
a pastor here if I was electing a pastor, I'd
be looking for something different. I'm looking for a strong
press that didn't think can fix the country. Well, that's right,
and he nailed it right on the head. And look
in the view of evangelicals, they see a culture that's
securiorating quickly in the last decade. For sure. They want
a bold culture warrior to fight for them. And and
by the way, Sean showing that God does indeed have

(01:31:14):
a sense of humor, he gave them Trump, which I
think is kind of funny. But anyhow, the bottom line
is it's basically in God's perfection. It's a match made
in heaven because Trump and evangelicals actually share quite a
few important cultural points of is of interest. I mean, look,
there's a disdain for political correctness and all of that
Judeo Christian values. He remembers Bible reading in school, he

(01:31:35):
remembers prayer in school. He patent, he loves pattent in
the fifties, he remembers America who once was dot dot dot.
And but on these on these cultural issues, he comes
down on the side of where evangelicals come down on
and where I would come down on. Well, that's right,
and you talk about fruit. Everybody talks about the spiritual fruit, Well,
where is it in his life or where is it
in your life or my life? And look, the spiritual

(01:31:57):
fruit can be said from a public polo see standpoint.
He has delivered a plus for evangelicals in the first years.
A matter of fact, I talked to an evangelical leader
the other day, I said, so, what's on the to
do listen to two th eighteen? He said, my goodness,
we're starting to run out of things. I mean literally
the president from Jerusalem to the Gorsage to the life issue,
he's been spot on and evangelicals have loved every minute

(01:32:18):
of it. All Right, David Brody, congratulations on a great book.
It's called The Faith of Donald Trump. And uh it
is in bookstores everywhere. Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com.
And we appreciate you being with us. Alright, Sean is
our toll free telephone number. You want to be a
part of the program, right, Hannity Tonight, nine Eastern on
the Fox News Channel. Right, So tonight we're gonna have

(01:32:40):
what is in the memo that's been or the dossier
that's ever been verified? Well, the answer is nothing. Absolutely
positively nothing. And then that raises a questionable why are
we always talking about this anyway? We have Sebastian Gorka,
James Calstrom, he's great, ed Henry new king Rich. We
have Jesse Water Versus, Jessica Tarloff, Dan Bongino, and Francisco

(01:33:03):
Hernandez on the immigration battle. That's all coming up. Set
your DVR nine Eastern Hannity Fox and as always, thanks
for being with us. We'll see you back here tomorrow.

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