December 18, 2025 • 31 mins
On the Sean Hannity Show, guest host Greg Jarrett speaks with former congressman Jason Chaffetz about the surge in antisemitic incidents in the U.S. and abroad. They cite FBI and ADL data, a New York Post editorial on recent New York City attacks, and concerns over public chants calling for a global intifada. The conversation questions political and civic leadership, noting criticism of New York City's incoming mayor and a lack of strong denunciations from some Democrats, including Chuck Schumer. They also highlight law enforcement foiling an alleged pro-Palestinian bombing plot in Southern California and debate the need for consequences and cooperation to deter violence. Listeners are invited to weigh in after the interview.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett
filling in for Sean today. I'm a Fox News legal
analyst and former trial attorney in San Francisco in a
previous lifetime. We're going to be talking to Jason Chafitz
in just a moment about the appalling number of anti
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Semitic attacks around the nation and the world. In the meantime,
we do want to hear from you, So if you'll
give us a call when I finish talking to Jason,
I'll talk to you. And our number is one eight
hundred and nine four one seven three two six. Give
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us a call at one eight hundred nine four one.
Sean love to hear from you. In the meantime here
in the United States, I'm sad to report, but you
already know this that violence against Jews is on the rise.
According to the FBI, among all religiously motivated hate crimes,
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the data shows almost seventy percent target Jewish people. The
Anti Defamation League the ADL reports that in the three
months following the start of the war in Gaza, anti
Semitic incidents in the US skyrocketed by three hundred and
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sixty one percent. It's abated somewhat, but we still see
it happening over and over again, and not just in
Bondai Beach, Australia at the outset of the Hanukkah celebrations,
fifteen people gunned down, others terribly wounded. But we see
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it in the United States still, which prompted a New
York Post editorial today by the Editorial Board recounting the
alarming anti Semitic attacks in just the last few days.
And I'll recite those in just a moment, but I
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want to bring into the conversation. Jason Chafitz, former congressman,
is the author of the book They're Coming for You,
and Jason, thanks for being here to talk to us
about it, because I find it so insane. It is
really hard to believe that in this day and age
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we see anti Semitic attacks, and so, you know, it
invites the question where did this come from? Did the
Free Palestine movement, the pro Hamas movement just serve as
an excuse for open expressions of Jewish hatred so that
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now people think, well, we have permission to voice are
religious biggest bigotry and hostility towards Jews is is that
what has happened.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I think that's part of it. Greg, again, thanks for
having me on. I I that the numbers are stunningly high.
It's absolutely disgusting. It's counter to the productive, to the
foundation of our nation where we could practice religious freedom.
That was the whole foundation of our of our nation
and I and I but if you look at it
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on a global scale, there have been attacks on Christians
and Jews. I mean for millennia they've been going on.
But the uptake is what's so scary. I think if
you take the global number, you'll see that Christians actually
attacks on Christians. When you start to look at Nigeria
and some of the mass slaughtering that's going on there
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is just unfathomable. But certainly, after the attacks on Israel
in October seventh, the problem that I have here in
the United States, and I think this is partly what
happened in Australia, is the anti Semitic chants, rants, calls
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for death and destruction were not met with any sort
of resistance. There were no consequences for it, and there
continued to be an uptick of this type of violent
type of rhetoric. And so when they have these people
that go out and say, oh, you know, they're they're
so evil and they're so bad, and we're gonna have
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the impetatas from you know, from C to C. You know,
it looked no further than the mayor of the incoming
mayor of New York and somehow he can't denounce that.
He's tried a wordsmith a little bit, but still hasn't
denounced some of the other type of of efforts. And
I find that this should not be a partisan issue,
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but it has become one because I don't see in
mass the Democrats taking a firm stance saying we will
not tolerate this anymore. And the consequence has been violence
and more violence and death. And it's scary.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I covered the Secondada in the Middle East as a
correspondent there, so I know what it's all about. I've
seen it with my own eyes, the bloodshed. And you know,
this most recent malicious chant globalize the into Fada is
a call for violence against Jews. Is no other way
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to explain it, to rationalize it. That's what it is.
It is pure hatred, born of ignorance. It's frighteningly reminiscent
of Nazi Germany. And what's so troubling is that the
newly elected mayor of New York City refuses to condemn
the phrase. He just refuses to condemn it, which is
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I don't know how to describe that. But he is
encouraging the hatred, the verbal attacks and the physical attacks,
isn't he.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But the only thing I maybe would disagree, I would
and maybe I would.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Go ahead disagree with me what you.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Said is that it's born of ignorance. I think it's
on purpose. I don't think it's born of ignorance. I
think there are too many people that believe that this
is what has to happen.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, you may be right, And I.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Don't think it's ignorance. I think I think there's a
lot of ignorance in religious It's funny to me because
there's so many people who preach tolerance, and yet they're
the least tolerance among us, right, So there are clearly
a lot of people that are naive and and and
and so focused and that they can't see the rest
of you know, the world, but you know the foundation
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of our nation, it's well and and what we're taught
in Christianity you know, I happen to believe in Jesus Christ,
and I you know, I'm considered myself a Christian and
and but you know, love thy neighbor and and but
our foundation of our nation was based on religious tolerance.
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That's a large part with the First Amendment. It's all
about And so you can't. I just think there's too
many people calling for this type of violence and calling
for this type of resistance. And and when you start
calling people hitler, then you tell people, oh, then you
have permission to to take them out. What would you
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do if you got a chance to meet Hiller? Would
you do? Would you what would you do? Well, you'd
kill them? Right. So, but that's so weird. I can't
even say because then they attacked Jews, right like it
just circularly doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I mentioned a moment ago that you know, the
New York Post editorial board was trying to make the point,
I think in their editorial today, and it's a good
one and people should read it online that it's not
just Australia where this is happening still, No, it is
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right here in New York City. And they recite an
alarming number of anti Semitic attacks in just the last
few days. I'll give you a rundown on the West Village.
A Jewish woman targeted with profane slurs, being taunted, We're
going to get rid of you effing Zionists. Over in Brooklyn,
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Hanukkah celebrants denounced as effing Jews. One Jewish man grabbed
by the throat and throat with death. In Crown Heights,
an assailant shouted anti Semitic remarks it passers by and
then stabbed one in the chest. And the post makes
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the point these were attacks that were caught on camera.
How many others were not captured on videotape? And and
and how many go unreported. It's pretty frightening, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It is in the incoming mayor can't seem to, you know,
get his arms around the idea. You know, I worried
that in party was elected because he was on the
wrong side of this issue. And then you see what's
playing out. You know, the mit professor, Yeah, he's Jewish.
So I mean, is that just were we supposed to
believe that's just a mere coincidence. There's too much of
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this going on. But you know what, happened on Austray
was so that and deadly and terrorizing, and there are
too many that want to call this terrorism, that want
to create this type of tear, terror and fear. And
look at what happened in New York with the college
campuses and they The problem is you don't have leaders
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up and down both sides of the aisle denouncing this.
You see it on one side but not the other,
and that I think is a clear, clear pattern. Chuck
Schumer should be leading the charge for the Democrats. He
is the natural one to do this, and he's almost silent.
He'll put out some statements, but he has not shown
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any leadership on this issue. And he just kind of
scared with the tail between his legs, just not willing
to really go to the mat and say this is it.
You can you have stepped over the line. We are
not going to talk. You don't see that from him.
And yet being from New York, given his religious background,
you'd think he'd lead out.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But no, No.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It speaks volumes of where Democrats are on this issue.
And it's not just you know in New York with
Chuck Schumer And'mdani, you know, out in southern California, where
I grew up. The FBI foiled what the Attorney General
described as a massive and horrific terror plot by an
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extremist group planning a series of bombings in Orange County
and Los Angeles. According to you know, Pambody, it was
a plot by a far left pro Palestine, anti capitalist group.
But what jumps out at you is the pro Palestine,
which is likely pro Hamas poor people were arrested. But
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again the common denominator, Jason is the individuals appear to
have been motivated in part at least by anti Semitism
of the clause of Palestinians and using in fact the
methods of a moss which is terror bombings, which I saw,
you know, myself with blood on my boots in Israel
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during the second into Fauda.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Can I just make you're right that plot that was
spoiled in southern California, bombs that we're going to go
off at distribution centers on New Year's Eve? Well done
the law enforcement. I did a little side note here.
This has really bothered me. I'm glad to have an
opportunity to say this. Every single law enforcement from the
city to the county to the state to the FBI.
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They all stood up and said it was all because
of cooperation. We were able to foil this cooperation cooper
every one of them said cooperation. Oh, it was great.
They're patting each other on the back. But you know
when they don't cooperate if ice is involved, somehow, the
sheriff can stand up and say, we had great cooperation,
but if somebody's here illegal and they have somebody who's
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wanted for, you know, some heinous crime, they won't cooperate
with a fed to tell them they haven't atention. And yeah,
cooperation works. See how good it works, But we just
don't practice it here in California or any of these
other sanctuary cities and states the counties. It just it
really makes me mad because how many other crimes and
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accid terrorism could we have prevented if there was actually
true cooperation. But there's not. It was just lip service
and it made me mad.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, well, I'm glad you told us so. Jason. Good
talking to you. As always, Jason chaf hits everybody, and
be sure to get his book. They're coming for you.
It's a real eye opener. Jason. Take care, Happy holidays,
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Very Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Thanks Greg.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
All Right, we're gonna pause, take a quick break. We've
got some callers on the other side. If you haven't
called us yet, please do now. The number is one
eight hundred nine four one seventy three twenty six. We
have a full half hour of your phone calls coming up.
One eight hundred and nine to four to one. Sean.
I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean Hannity. Welcome back
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to the Sean Hannity Show. One of the topics we've
been discussing today was potential indictments against those who waged
lawfare against Donald Trump. And I'll give you one example,
the rad on mar Lago. It was a shocking abuse
of the law, and newly disclosed FBI documents prove it.
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There was no probable cause, as the law demands, because
Trump had done nothing illegal. The Records Act is the
controlling statute, and it gives a former president custody and
possession of presidential records, and if the National Archives wants them,
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they go to court. The exclusive remedy is civil, it's
not criminal. The government's only recourse is to file a
to compel before a federal judge. What you cannot do
is conjure up imaginary crimes and then shop it around
to an anti Trump magistrate to sign off on a
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baseless search warrant. Now we know that Garland didn't care
about the law. He and his confederates weaponized it to
bring a meritless case against Trump to stop him from
his reelection bid. In twenty twenty four, more of your
phone calls on the other side. One eight hundred and
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ninety four to one seven three two six, give us
a call. Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show. I'm
Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean and it's been a pleasure.
I'll be back tomorrow, by the way, three o'clock to
six p m. Eastern time. I hope you'll join us then,
got a great lineup of guests. In the meantime, it's
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time for your calls and your questions, your comments, and
give us a call if you haven't already. One eight
hundred and nine four one seven three two six. That's
one eight hundred and nine four one Sean. All right,
let's go to Will in Michigan, who's been standing by
for a while. Will thanks for your patient. How are you?
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I'm driving my eighty thousand pounds and a half flight slaughter,
My SEMMI it's eighty thousand pounds flight slaughter.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, yeah, I have better you than me driving that thing.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
There easier than they look. But anyways, I have a
question on the vetting process and the getting the cabinet
set up for the president and why it's not done
between the time the Electoral College does their voting and
the time that he's sworn in. He got like two
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or three months there that they could be vetting the
candidates that he wants as his cabinet and have them
sworn in. And when Hea swears in, his cabinet's in
his office and they're getting the ball rolled right away.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, to wait what.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Six eight ten months before he finally got his whole cabinet.
I don't even know if he still has his whole Yeah, he's.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Got his whole cabinet in there, and you know, some
of them were approved quickly, some took a little extra time.
There's really only a month between the Electoral College in
December and January twentieth, when the president is they have
sworn in on inauguration day, and you know the practice
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is because there are new senators who take office in
January and you know, join various committees, including Judiciary, and
you know it has to go through committee first with
hearings and so, and you got to wait for the
newcomers to arrive, if there are any. I think the
real problem is not so much of the cabinet, but
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you know other positions that are incredibly important, and that
comes down to blue slips. And I talked about it
before a couple of hours ago, but you know, blue
slips are totally crooked. It refers to a US Senate
tradition that began in nineteen seventeen, believe it or not,
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where home state senators get to approve or disapprove of
presidential nominees for federal judgeships, US attorneys and it effectively
gives you know, those home state senators veto power over
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the president's choice, you know, and they can block and
have blocked important appointments, leading inevitably to a conflict, particularly
with President Trump, who wants ended and he's absolutely right
about it. A withheld or negative blue slip blocks a
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nominee from moving forward, and it gives minority party senators
leverage that they are not entitled to under the constitutions
and the appointment power of the President of the United States.
It's a tradition that was wrong when it started in
nineteen seventy it's wrong today, and it's high time that
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the Senate vote out the blue slips. But Will thanks
for your question. It was a good one. Aaron joins
us from Arizona, and I imagine it's a lot warmer
in Arizona right now than it is here in Chile.
New York City. Aaron, how are you.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Good? How are you doing great?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Fine?
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Actually seventy three out here right now. I didn't wanted
to say. I think the American people are ready.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Some people need to be held accountable for all this
corruption and everything's going on. You know, the FBI were
supposed to be investigating, and I'm sorry that you know,
Dan Bongngino is going to be leaving and everything.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
But it's it's sickening. It's hardening to keep seeing people
they got, you got them dead to right, and they're
not going to do anything for the crimes and the
fleecing and the corruption against the American people. They're just
let off Scott for you know, oops, it's over with,
thank you, And then it just continues on and continues
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on and continues on. It's getting really old.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, I agree with you. And it does not instill
much faith in our criminal justice system because you know,
it's abundantly clear that this long running, corrupt, last crusade
against Trump and in fact anybody connected with him. You know,
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I think now finally it is the subject of a
criminal investigation by the FBI, the Department of Justice, and
the US Attorneys and maybe we will see some indictments.
I hope, so there should be. And you know, it
incorporates all the way back to twenty and sixteen in
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the Russia hoax, which was code named Crossfire Hurricane, and
it's stretched on for years to the more recent targeting
of Republicans by the Biden administration code named Arctic Frost.
Then why don't they always have these stupid code nemes,
like you know, I mean, it's just dumb, and you know,
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among other things, they you know, they seized surreptitiously the
data of more than four hundred Republicans, including US senators,
members of the House. They were all victimized by the
FBI and the DOJ. Their phone records were seized without
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notice to the members of Congress, and the law requires
they be put on notice. And Judge James Bosberg, a
notorious federal district judge in Washington, DC, was behind a
lot of the seizures and the gag orders associated you
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can't tell them even though the law says you must
tell them that you're seizing their phone records. I mean,
this was a shocking abuse of power. And as I
said at the top of the first hour, it's a
crime deprivation of constitutional rights under color of law. And
thankfully this is now the focus of an intensive investigation
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in Florida. John Solomon joined me in the first hour
and said, it's a grand jury convened beginning January second
in Fort Pierce and they're going to be looking at
an ongoing criminal conspiracy that deprived Trump and others of
constitutional rights, which again is a crime punishable by up
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to ten years behind bars for each illegal act. And
I hope charges are brought. They should be. Our next
caller joins us from California. Diane, are you there, It's
Greg Jared and where are you in California.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I'm in Santa Cruz.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Ah, beautiful Santa Cruz.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I know it's endless summer here.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, well that's nice to hear if you're there. What's
your question or.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Comment, Diane, I have a comment about concerning the recent
university shooting. I think that the gun free zone idea
should be shelved, and I think that we should arm
all teachers and staff with non lethal firearms and make
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it known that the staff carries non lethal firearms.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, here's my question. And I'm not arguing with you
because I actually agree. But opponents of that say that teachers.
What happens if teachers who are armed make a miscalculation
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or misunderstand a situation, and god forbid, you know a student,
a child is killed? How do you get around that argument?
And if I like your argument, I'll steal it.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Well, I mean, there's always a worst case scenario. I mean,
I don't know that you can rule out every possibility.
And I think it's an American to take our weapons
from us. I think it's unconstitutional. And I've always thought
that the more people that were prepared to defend, the better.
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I even used to say I thought that when you
got on an airplane that everyone should be required some
sort of self defense, right, that would be a great deterrence.
So I think the deterrent part outweighs this the worst
case scenario in these situations, you know, at the.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Height of airplane hijackings, and particularly after you know, nine
to eleven in the plane flown into the World Trade Center,
you know, the Pentagon and so forth, Federal marshals armed
were on board a lot of flights across America. So
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if you can do that, then to your argument, Diane,
why not schools as well?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Well, I'm I might reveal my age, but when I
was in grade school, we used to our class used
to take regular trips to the gun range.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Really, where did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I grew up in Portland, believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Wow, things have changed in Portland.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Oh my god. Well it's always been a looney bin.
But it's but for some reason, that was a thing,
and it went away shortly after I got into high school.
But I just think that the that we've gotten away from,
you know, we need to take it. It's prophylactic, right,
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we can be prepared, you know. And wasn't it a
deterrent in World War Two to the Japanese that that
we were a nation of of militia. I mean, I
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think it's a deterrence and I think it's un American
to not even consider that it's it's constitutional right. And
so I don't know. I don't know what the legal
ramifications are. So you probably know better than I do.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Well, you know, the Supreme Court has weighed in on
gun free zones and their justification around schools and and
so forth. But it may be something that they really
need to revisit in you know, our age of rage
and violence. Diane, you're in Santa Cruz, which is largely pardon.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Me, I'm a fish out of water here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I was about to say, you probably have no friends.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
We call it the left coast. You do have to
keep your mouth shut. You can't say much. I did
offend somebody today when they said they went to an
office meeting and they had to rebuild their pronouns, and
I said, oh, well, I threw away my list of
pronouns when Trump got into.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I'm sure you got a rather nasty look in return.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
All the way around, I got the site.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, all right, Diane, thank you very much for giving
me a call. I appreciate it. Fun talking to you
going to San Antonio. Now Bob is standing by. Hi, Bob,
how are you doing good?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Rick, Thanks for taking my call. Sure, I want to
talk about Joe Biden. And now there's a double standard
when he he was caught with all this classified information
in three different locations, and the Democrats ran interference for
him so he would not get prosecuted. And they are
constantly lecturing America that nobody is above the law, unless,
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of course, you're a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah, and he.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Had no immunity or declassification authority, so he had no
excuse because he was doing it when he was vice president.
In fact, some of the documents that were classified came
from when he was the United States Senator before he
was vice president. So we talk about a violation of
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the Espionage Act, and yet they treated him with kid
gloves and then in the end, you know, the Special Council.
So we're not going to prosecute him basically because he's
too old and senile, but he's perfectly okay to be
president of the United States. You got to love that rationale.
Good point, Bob of Sandy an Tonio. Thanks for giving
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us a call. We're gonna take a quick break. I'll
be right back with more of The Sean Hennity Show.
I'm Greg Jarret. Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show.
I want to tell you about tomorrow. We're almost finished here.
We've got a great lineup of guests. For example, Peter
Schweitzer will be joining us. He wrote the book on
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Clinton corruption called Clinton Cash, and it comes on the
heel of newly to classified documents that expose how the
FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton and her Clinton Foundation was
shut down by Barack Obama's Department of Justice and those
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in the White House. Also joining us Mike Davis. We'll
talk to him about whether criminal charges will be brought
against those who waged a relentless lawfare campaign against Donald Trump.
Please join me tomorrow on The Sean Hennity Show. For now,
I'm Greg Jared
Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett
filling in for Sean today. I'm a Fox News legal
analyst and former trial attorney in San Francisco in a
previous lifetime. We're going to be talking to Jason Chafitz
in just a moment about the appalling number of anti
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Semitic attacks around the nation and the world. In the meantime,
we do want to hear from you, So if you'll
give us a call when I finish talking to Jason,
I'll talk to you. And our number is one eight
hundred and nine four one seven three two six. Give
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us a call at one eight hundred nine four one.
Sean love to hear from you. In the meantime here
in the United States, I'm sad to report, but you
already know this that violence against Jews is on the rise.
According to the FBI, among all religiously motivated hate crimes,
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the data shows almost seventy percent target Jewish people. The
Anti Defamation League the ADL reports that in the three
months following the start of the war in Gaza, anti
Semitic incidents in the US skyrocketed by three hundred and
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sixty one percent. It's abated somewhat, but we still see
it happening over and over again, and not just in
Bondai Beach, Australia at the outset of the Hanukkah celebrations,
fifteen people gunned down, others terribly wounded. But we see
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it in the United States still, which prompted a New
York Post editorial today by the Editorial Board recounting the
alarming anti Semitic attacks in just the last few days.
And I'll recite those in just a moment, but I
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want to bring into the conversation. Jason Chafitz, former congressman,
is the author of the book They're Coming for You,
and Jason, thanks for being here to talk to us
about it, because I find it so insane. It is
really hard to believe that in this day and age
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we see anti Semitic attacks, and so, you know, it
invites the question where did this come from? Did the
Free Palestine movement, the pro Hamas movement just serve as
an excuse for open expressions of Jewish hatred so that
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now people think, well, we have permission to voice are
religious biggest bigotry and hostility towards Jews is is that
what has happened.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I think that's part of it. Greg, again, thanks for
having me on. I I that the numbers are stunningly high.
It's absolutely disgusting. It's counter to the productive, to the
foundation of our nation where we could practice religious freedom.
That was the whole foundation of our of our nation
and I and I but if you look at it
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on a global scale, there have been attacks on Christians
and Jews. I mean for millennia they've been going on.
But the uptake is what's so scary. I think if
you take the global number, you'll see that Christians actually
attacks on Christians. When you start to look at Nigeria
and some of the mass slaughtering that's going on there
(03:55):
is just unfathomable. But certainly, after the attacks on Israel
in October seventh, the problem that I have here in
the United States, and I think this is partly what
happened in Australia, is the anti Semitic chants, rants, calls
(04:18):
for death and destruction were not met with any sort
of resistance. There were no consequences for it, and there
continued to be an uptick of this type of violent
type of rhetoric. And so when they have these people
that go out and say, oh, you know, they're they're
so evil and they're so bad, and we're gonna have
(04:41):
the impetatas from you know, from C to C. You know,
it looked no further than the mayor of the incoming
mayor of New York and somehow he can't denounce that.
He's tried a wordsmith a little bit, but still hasn't
denounced some of the other type of of efforts. And
I find that this should not be a partisan issue,
(05:05):
but it has become one because I don't see in
mass the Democrats taking a firm stance saying we will
not tolerate this anymore. And the consequence has been violence
and more violence and death. And it's scary.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I covered the Secondada in the Middle East as a
correspondent there, so I know what it's all about. I've
seen it with my own eyes, the bloodshed. And you know,
this most recent malicious chant globalize the into Fada is
a call for violence against Jews. Is no other way
(05:45):
to explain it, to rationalize it. That's what it is.
It is pure hatred, born of ignorance. It's frighteningly reminiscent
of Nazi Germany. And what's so troubling is that the
newly elected mayor of New York City refuses to condemn
the phrase. He just refuses to condemn it, which is
(06:09):
I don't know how to describe that. But he is
encouraging the hatred, the verbal attacks and the physical attacks,
isn't he.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But the only thing I maybe would disagree, I would
and maybe I would.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Go ahead disagree with me what you.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Said is that it's born of ignorance. I think it's
on purpose. I don't think it's born of ignorance. I
think there are too many people that believe that this
is what has to happen.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, you may be right, And I.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Don't think it's ignorance. I think I think there's a
lot of ignorance in religious It's funny to me because
there's so many people who preach tolerance, and yet they're
the least tolerance among us, right, So there are clearly
a lot of people that are naive and and and
and so focused and that they can't see the rest
of you know, the world, but you know the foundation
(07:09):
of our nation, it's well and and what we're taught
in Christianity you know, I happen to believe in Jesus Christ,
and I you know, I'm considered myself a Christian and
and but you know, love thy neighbor and and but
our foundation of our nation was based on religious tolerance.
(07:30):
That's a large part with the First Amendment. It's all
about And so you can't. I just think there's too
many people calling for this type of violence and calling
for this type of resistance. And and when you start
calling people hitler, then you tell people, oh, then you
have permission to to take them out. What would you
(07:52):
do if you got a chance to meet Hiller? Would
you do? Would you what would you do? Well, you'd
kill them? Right. So, but that's so weird. I can't
even say because then they attacked Jews, right like it
just circularly doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I mentioned a moment ago that you know, the
New York Post editorial board was trying to make the point,
I think in their editorial today, and it's a good
one and people should read it online that it's not
just Australia where this is happening still, No, it is
(08:30):
right here in New York City. And they recite an
alarming number of anti Semitic attacks in just the last
few days. I'll give you a rundown on the West Village.
A Jewish woman targeted with profane slurs, being taunted, We're
going to get rid of you effing Zionists. Over in Brooklyn,
(08:52):
Hanukkah celebrants denounced as effing Jews. One Jewish man grabbed
by the throat and throat with death. In Crown Heights,
an assailant shouted anti Semitic remarks it passers by and
then stabbed one in the chest. And the post makes
(09:14):
the point these were attacks that were caught on camera.
How many others were not captured on videotape? And and
and how many go unreported. It's pretty frightening, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It is in the incoming mayor can't seem to, you know,
get his arms around the idea. You know, I worried
that in party was elected because he was on the
wrong side of this issue. And then you see what's
playing out. You know, the mit professor, Yeah, he's Jewish.
So I mean, is that just were we supposed to
believe that's just a mere coincidence. There's too much of
(09:55):
this going on. But you know what, happened on Austray
was so that and deadly and terrorizing, and there are
too many that want to call this terrorism, that want
to create this type of tear, terror and fear. And
look at what happened in New York with the college
campuses and they The problem is you don't have leaders
(10:19):
up and down both sides of the aisle denouncing this.
You see it on one side but not the other,
and that I think is a clear, clear pattern. Chuck
Schumer should be leading the charge for the Democrats. He
is the natural one to do this, and he's almost silent.
He'll put out some statements, but he has not shown
(10:41):
any leadership on this issue. And he just kind of
scared with the tail between his legs, just not willing
to really go to the mat and say this is it.
You can you have stepped over the line. We are
not going to talk. You don't see that from him.
And yet being from New York, given his religious background,
you'd think he'd lead out.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But no, No.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It speaks volumes of where Democrats are on this issue.
And it's not just you know in New York with
Chuck Schumer And'mdani, you know, out in southern California, where
I grew up. The FBI foiled what the Attorney General
described as a massive and horrific terror plot by an
(11:26):
extremist group planning a series of bombings in Orange County
and Los Angeles. According to you know, Pambody, it was
a plot by a far left pro Palestine, anti capitalist group.
But what jumps out at you is the pro Palestine,
which is likely pro Hamas poor people were arrested. But
(11:52):
again the common denominator, Jason is the individuals appear to
have been motivated in part at least by anti Semitism
of the clause of Palestinians and using in fact the
methods of a moss which is terror bombings, which I saw,
you know, myself with blood on my boots in Israel
(12:16):
during the second into Fauda.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Can I just make you're right that plot that was
spoiled in southern California, bombs that we're going to go
off at distribution centers on New Year's Eve? Well done
the law enforcement. I did a little side note here.
This has really bothered me. I'm glad to have an
opportunity to say this. Every single law enforcement from the
city to the county to the state to the FBI.
(12:40):
They all stood up and said it was all because
of cooperation. We were able to foil this cooperation cooper
every one of them said cooperation. Oh, it was great.
They're patting each other on the back. But you know
when they don't cooperate if ice is involved, somehow, the
sheriff can stand up and say, we had great cooperation,
but if somebody's here illegal and they have somebody who's
(13:01):
wanted for, you know, some heinous crime, they won't cooperate
with a fed to tell them they haven't atention. And yeah,
cooperation works. See how good it works, But we just
don't practice it here in California or any of these
other sanctuary cities and states the counties. It just it
really makes me mad because how many other crimes and
(13:22):
accid terrorism could we have prevented if there was actually
true cooperation. But there's not. It was just lip service
and it made me mad.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, well, I'm glad you told us so. Jason. Good
talking to you. As always, Jason chaf hits everybody, and
be sure to get his book. They're coming for you.
It's a real eye opener. Jason. Take care, Happy holidays,
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Very Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Thanks Greg.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
All Right, we're gonna pause, take a quick break. We've
got some callers on the other side. If you haven't
called us yet, please do now. The number is one
eight hundred nine four one seventy three twenty six. We
have a full half hour of your phone calls coming up.
One eight hundred and nine to four to one. Sean.
I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean Hannity. Welcome back
(14:11):
to the Sean Hannity Show. One of the topics we've
been discussing today was potential indictments against those who waged
lawfare against Donald Trump. And I'll give you one example,
the rad on mar Lago. It was a shocking abuse
of the law, and newly disclosed FBI documents prove it.
(14:32):
There was no probable cause, as the law demands, because
Trump had done nothing illegal. The Records Act is the
controlling statute, and it gives a former president custody and
possession of presidential records, and if the National Archives wants them,
(14:52):
they go to court. The exclusive remedy is civil, it's
not criminal. The government's only recourse is to file a
to compel before a federal judge. What you cannot do
is conjure up imaginary crimes and then shop it around
to an anti Trump magistrate to sign off on a
(15:15):
baseless search warrant. Now we know that Garland didn't care
about the law. He and his confederates weaponized it to
bring a meritless case against Trump to stop him from
his reelection bid. In twenty twenty four, more of your
phone calls on the other side. One eight hundred and
(15:38):
ninety four to one seven three two six, give us
a call. Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show. I'm
Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean and it's been a pleasure.
I'll be back tomorrow, by the way, three o'clock to
six p m. Eastern time. I hope you'll join us then,
got a great lineup of guests. In the meantime, it's
(16:00):
time for your calls and your questions, your comments, and
give us a call if you haven't already. One eight
hundred and nine four one seven three two six. That's
one eight hundred and nine four one Sean. All right,
let's go to Will in Michigan, who's been standing by
for a while. Will thanks for your patient. How are you?
Speaker 5 (16:26):
I'm driving my eighty thousand pounds and a half flight slaughter,
My SEMMI it's eighty thousand pounds flight slaughter.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, yeah, I have better you than me driving that thing.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
There easier than they look. But anyways, I have a
question on the vetting process and the getting the cabinet
set up for the president and why it's not done
between the time the Electoral College does their voting and
the time that he's sworn in. He got like two
(17:02):
or three months there that they could be vetting the
candidates that he wants as his cabinet and have them
sworn in. And when Hea swears in, his cabinet's in
his office and they're getting the ball rolled right away.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah, to wait what.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Six eight ten months before he finally got his whole cabinet.
I don't even know if he still has his whole Yeah, he's.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Got his whole cabinet in there, and you know, some
of them were approved quickly, some took a little extra time.
There's really only a month between the Electoral College in
December and January twentieth, when the president is they have
sworn in on inauguration day, and you know the practice
(17:46):
is because there are new senators who take office in
January and you know, join various committees, including Judiciary, and
you know it has to go through committee first with
hearings and so, and you got to wait for the
newcomers to arrive, if there are any. I think the
real problem is not so much of the cabinet, but
(18:10):
you know other positions that are incredibly important, and that
comes down to blue slips. And I talked about it
before a couple of hours ago, but you know, blue
slips are totally crooked. It refers to a US Senate
tradition that began in nineteen seventeen, believe it or not,
(18:34):
where home state senators get to approve or disapprove of
presidential nominees for federal judgeships, US attorneys and it effectively
gives you know, those home state senators veto power over
(18:55):
the president's choice, you know, and they can block and
have blocked important appointments, leading inevitably to a conflict, particularly
with President Trump, who wants ended and he's absolutely right
about it. A withheld or negative blue slip blocks a
(19:18):
nominee from moving forward, and it gives minority party senators
leverage that they are not entitled to under the constitutions
and the appointment power of the President of the United States.
It's a tradition that was wrong when it started in
nineteen seventy it's wrong today, and it's high time that
(19:40):
the Senate vote out the blue slips. But Will thanks
for your question. It was a good one. Aaron joins
us from Arizona, and I imagine it's a lot warmer
in Arizona right now than it is here in Chile.
New York City. Aaron, how are you.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Good? How are you doing great?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Fine?
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Actually seventy three out here right now. I didn't wanted
to say. I think the American people are ready.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Some people need to be held accountable for all this
corruption and everything's going on. You know, the FBI were
supposed to be investigating, and I'm sorry that you know,
Dan Bongngino is going to be leaving and everything.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
But it's it's sickening. It's hardening to keep seeing people
they got, you got them dead to right, and they're
not going to do anything for the crimes and the
fleecing and the corruption against the American people. They're just
let off Scott for you know, oops, it's over with,
thank you, And then it just continues on and continues
(20:41):
on and continues on. It's getting really old.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, I agree with you. And it does not instill
much faith in our criminal justice system because you know,
it's abundantly clear that this long running, corrupt, last crusade
against Trump and in fact anybody connected with him. You know,
(21:08):
I think now finally it is the subject of a
criminal investigation by the FBI, the Department of Justice, and
the US Attorneys and maybe we will see some indictments.
I hope, so there should be. And you know, it
incorporates all the way back to twenty and sixteen in
(21:30):
the Russia hoax, which was code named Crossfire Hurricane, and
it's stretched on for years to the more recent targeting
of Republicans by the Biden administration code named Arctic Frost.
Then why don't they always have these stupid code nemes,
like you know, I mean, it's just dumb, and you know,
(21:56):
among other things, they you know, they seized surreptitiously the
data of more than four hundred Republicans, including US senators,
members of the House. They were all victimized by the
FBI and the DOJ. Their phone records were seized without
(22:18):
notice to the members of Congress, and the law requires
they be put on notice. And Judge James Bosberg, a
notorious federal district judge in Washington, DC, was behind a
lot of the seizures and the gag orders associated you
(22:39):
can't tell them even though the law says you must
tell them that you're seizing their phone records. I mean,
this was a shocking abuse of power. And as I
said at the top of the first hour, it's a
crime deprivation of constitutional rights under color of law. And
thankfully this is now the focus of an intensive investigation
(23:05):
in Florida. John Solomon joined me in the first hour
and said, it's a grand jury convened beginning January second
in Fort Pierce and they're going to be looking at
an ongoing criminal conspiracy that deprived Trump and others of
constitutional rights, which again is a crime punishable by up
(23:27):
to ten years behind bars for each illegal act. And
I hope charges are brought. They should be. Our next
caller joins us from California. Diane, are you there, It's
Greg Jared and where are you in California.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I'm in Santa Cruz.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Ah, beautiful Santa Cruz.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I know it's endless summer here.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, well that's nice to hear if you're there. What's
your question or.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Comment, Diane, I have a comment about concerning the recent
university shooting. I think that the gun free zone idea
should be shelved, and I think that we should arm
all teachers and staff with non lethal firearms and make
(24:22):
it known that the staff carries non lethal firearms.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, here's my question. And I'm not arguing with you
because I actually agree. But opponents of that say that teachers.
What happens if teachers who are armed make a miscalculation
(24:49):
or misunderstand a situation, and god forbid, you know a student,
a child is killed? How do you get around that argument?
And if I like your argument, I'll steal it.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Well, I mean, there's always a worst case scenario. I mean,
I don't know that you can rule out every possibility.
And I think it's an American to take our weapons
from us. I think it's unconstitutional. And I've always thought
that the more people that were prepared to defend, the better.
(25:29):
I even used to say I thought that when you
got on an airplane that everyone should be required some
sort of self defense, right, that would be a great deterrence.
So I think the deterrent part outweighs this the worst
case scenario in these situations, you know, at the.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Height of airplane hijackings, and particularly after you know, nine
to eleven in the plane flown into the World Trade Center,
you know, the Pentagon and so forth, Federal marshals armed
were on board a lot of flights across America. So
(26:15):
if you can do that, then to your argument, Diane,
why not schools as well?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Well, I'm I might reveal my age, but when I
was in grade school, we used to our class used
to take regular trips to the gun range.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Really, where did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I grew up in Portland, believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Wow, things have changed in Portland.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Oh my god. Well it's always been a looney bin.
But it's but for some reason, that was a thing,
and it went away shortly after I got into high school.
But I just think that the that we've gotten away from,
you know, we need to take it. It's prophylactic, right,
(27:04):
we can be prepared, you know. And wasn't it a
deterrent in World War Two to the Japanese that that
we were a nation of of militia. I mean, I
(27:24):
think it's a deterrence and I think it's un American
to not even consider that it's it's constitutional right. And
so I don't know. I don't know what the legal
ramifications are. So you probably know better than I do.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Well, you know, the Supreme Court has weighed in on
gun free zones and their justification around schools and and
so forth. But it may be something that they really
need to revisit in you know, our age of rage
and violence. Diane, you're in Santa Cruz, which is largely pardon.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Me, I'm a fish out of water here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
I was about to say, you probably have no friends.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
We call it the left coast. You do have to
keep your mouth shut. You can't say much. I did
offend somebody today when they said they went to an
office meeting and they had to rebuild their pronouns, and
I said, oh, well, I threw away my list of
pronouns when Trump got into.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I'm sure you got a rather nasty look in return.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
All the way around, I got the site.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, all right, Diane, thank you very much for giving
me a call. I appreciate it. Fun talking to you
going to San Antonio. Now Bob is standing by. Hi, Bob,
how are you doing good?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Rick, Thanks for taking my call. Sure, I want to
talk about Joe Biden. And now there's a double standard
when he he was caught with all this classified information
in three different locations, and the Democrats ran interference for
him so he would not get prosecuted. And they are
constantly lecturing America that nobody is above the law, unless,
(29:16):
of course, you're a Democrat.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah, and he.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Had no immunity or declassification authority, so he had no
excuse because he was doing it when he was vice president.
In fact, some of the documents that were classified came
from when he was the United States Senator before he
was vice president. So we talk about a violation of
(29:39):
the Espionage Act, and yet they treated him with kid
gloves and then in the end, you know, the Special Council.
So we're not going to prosecute him basically because he's
too old and senile, but he's perfectly okay to be
president of the United States. You got to love that rationale.
Good point, Bob of Sandy an Tonio. Thanks for giving
(30:01):
us a call. We're gonna take a quick break. I'll
be right back with more of The Sean Hennity Show.
I'm Greg Jarret. Welcome back to the Sean Hennity Show.
I want to tell you about tomorrow. We're almost finished here.
We've got a great lineup of guests. For example, Peter
Schweitzer will be joining us. He wrote the book on
(30:23):
Clinton corruption called Clinton Cash, and it comes on the
heel of newly to classified documents that expose how the
FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton and her Clinton Foundation was
shut down by Barack Obama's Department of Justice and those
(30:44):
in the White House. Also joining us Mike Davis. We'll
talk to him about whether criminal charges will be brought
against those who waged a relentless lawfare campaign against Donald Trump.
Please join me tomorrow on The Sean Hennity Show. For now,
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