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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Always a privilege and a pleasure to invite a friend
of ours back to the program. South Carolina Senator Tim
Scott is with us. By the way, he's got a
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new book out. It's going to be in bookstores as
of tomorrow. You can get it on Amazon dot com.
I'm putting a link up on Hannity dot com. I
just got my copy. It's a great book. You'll love it.
One Nation always under God, our profile and Christian courage.
Senator Scott, how are you, my friend?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well? Shotam doing really well. Thank you so much. And
let me just say thank God you vacation sometimes in
South Carolina because many folks see you out on the
golf course or walking around and they say that you
are humble, that you are approachable, and they just can't
believe it. So thank you for the way you represent
conservative values in my home states.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Listen. I was born and raised in New York, but
I left. I was like a radio nomad for many,
many years of my life. And I'm definitely a Southerner
of my heart. Now now I'm totally a Southerner because
I live in the Free State of Florida. But I realized,
you know what, this, this, this is more in keeping
with my values. I don't know if we should tell
this story or not. And I'll let you clean it
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up because I'm sure that I'm not going to tell
it as well as you would. But uh, you go
to a church. It's in Mount Pleasant in South Carolina
called Seacoast, right, Yes, Okay, so what's that twenty eight
years in County Okay? And yeh And I've been to
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that church on a number of occasions when i've been there,
and it's a great, great, great church. And I knew
you were there, and I met you there one time
and I said hello to you, and I got to
actually go out to dinner with you and the pastor
and your mom and man, your a force of nature.
Love her, she's awesome. And and but it started out
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with one day I'm listening to one of the pastors.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna call him out my
name and he starts saying, and turn off your TV
and all these all these people on TV given their
opinions and they're only doing it for one reason money.
I was so pissed off. I was so angry, and
I wrote you and then it ended up and it
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developed into a friendship with the pastor. I'm like, no,
I don't give opinions for money. I give opinions because
their heartfelt and sincere, and I believe them. And when
I started in radio, I worked for free and then
my first paid job was nineteen thousand dollars a year,
and I never thought I'd be successful. And I think
one day somebody's gonna wake up and pull me off
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both the radio and TV anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know, one of the things I'll say, Seana, that
was such a good lesson for all churches, specifically for
my church. To use generalization with talking about any group
of people or any one is not the way you
should do it. Matthew seven. One reminds us to be
careful how we judge because it will be measured against
you as well. And what you did, though, showed what
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I talked about at the beginning of the show. Your humility.
You were willing to listen to the pastor and who
wanted to make sure that we mended the fences by
telling the truth. And he was not targeting you. But
anytime you have a broad brush that captures a lot
of people, it's not the way to minister. And you
were kind enough to listen to him. Sit down, break bread,
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and frankly, I think you've been back since then because
you understand that Seacoast.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Why I actually watched Seacoast this weekend. I thought it
was a great sermon this weekend. I think it's a
great church. They have great music, they have a great message,
they have a great outreach program. They do a lot
for the community they built. They're wonderful people. I don't
agree with everything of anybody in any church, but but
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I've come to you know, greatly admire the ministry that
they have there.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I've been there for twenty almost twenty eight years, and
I'll say, without any question of founding pastor Greg Surat,
who had lunch with you and Josh Surats, a lead pastor,
really listen to you. I tell you what, sometimes the
hardest thing to do in life is to take constructive criticism.
We call it a critique, but it's so important to
take it from the people that come to your church
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so that you can get better. And that's one of
the reasons why when I wrote the book about Courage
Profiles and Christian courage, A part of it is looking
in the mirror and taking responsibility for what you do.
And you allowed my church to not use this broad
brush about people on TV wanting to do something for
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a paycheck. But in fact, anyone who knows Sean Hannity,
anyone who's watched your show, anyone who's listened to you
on the radio, the one thing we all conclude, you
do your homework. You don't come out and spout on
crazy things. You ste your homework, and frankly, give you
one example for your listeners, because it is so important
to drill down into this message of open opportunity with
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the truth, because the truth will set you free. You
were years ahead on the Russia collusion craziness and crap.
You called for what it was. It was a disinformation
campaign and it took over eight years for the information
and frankly, the evidence, the facts the bubble up as
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they have been under Tulca Gabbert. We now know you
were right. The homework you did was reinforced by the
investigations and frankly the information that Obama had, that Biden had,
but they refused to let it go because that's the
actual corruption. The swamp. The bottom of the swamp is this.
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I don't think the American people can make decisions for themselves.
So we're gonna lie, We're gonna cheat, and we're gonna
deceive the American people. You knew it, you could smellet
and then you get the homework and you uncovered the
truth years before all the evidence percolated to the top.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You know, it was us in an ensemble cast. I
can't take all the credit for it, but we did
work very hard on it.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There was an interesting piece on Fox News this weekend
and the headline was Trump one point zero alums share
chilling Google message from before their second term return. And
I talked about people like Dan Scavino and others, and
they described the matter as Biden law fair kicking in
and anyway, Google received and responded to a legal process
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by the FBI compelling the release of their personal information.
So I've been through this now twice in my life.
Senator where my personal private text messages and at the
time emails I have not had an email account in
years and years and years were released publicly and it
was big news all over. It was everywhere. It was
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fake news, CNN, We're going wall to wall, Hannity's messages
just released with Paul Maniford, Hannity's messages with Kaylee McK
and Andy Mark Meadows or released. And what's so amazing
about this is, you know what their main criticism on
criticism MSDNC, Fake New, CNN and all these other channels
and impress is they would read my text messages and
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they're like, wow, it sounds like his monologues on TV. Man,
he really believes this stuff. That was their main criticism.
And I'm like, well, does that imply you don't believe
what you say, because I couldn't believe that that was
their main criticism.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
What amazing journalism and journalistic integrity that we are yearning
for in this country. Once again, I stand where I
still at the beginning of this show. You have been
a true patriot, and I don't say that. Look, you
and our friends, when we're not on TV, when we're
not on the radio, we talked about We've done a
Bible study together. So let me just say it very clearly.
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You are a man of integrity and one of the
most important uncovering of absolute governmental democracy at its worst,
political scandals at the highest levels, perhaps one of the
greatest cover ups in American history Russia collusion, and you
got it right. And I just think, what.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Do you think is going to happen with all of this?
Because I hate to over promise and underdeliver, and there's
been too many times where we get very, very close
and people think that people are going to be held
accountable and then not held accountable. I think the evidence
here is overwhelming. It's incontrovertible. They made the whole thing up.
I think everything they've done to Donald Trump for ten
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years is balls. Under this umbrella. People have abused their
power at these three letter agencies. I think they've put
they put cinderblocks on the scales of elections.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
What happens, we have to hold them accountable. This is
one of the reasons why I'm excited to see the
leadership of Senator Chuck Grassley. Here's a man who's been
through the grinder and he is always playing it straight.
This is not a political animal, nor is he a
political guy. He calls balls and strikes. And one of
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the things he has said very clearly, and he said
it with disgust in his voice, this political weaponization has
caused critical damage to our institutions. And this is one
of the greatest political scandals of our time. And the
new administration has a tremendous responsibility, tremendous responsibility to the
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American people to fix the damage done and to do
so with the maximum speed and transparency. I will add
to that, You've got to hold the people accountable, or
no one will trust this government as they should because
they shouldn't trust the government. They can have confidence then
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and when you were involved in election engineering, that's exactly
what it was. When you're putting cinderblock after cinder block
after cinder block on the scale, and you have the
memo that says Hillary Clinton approved, she approved, and she
followed the advisor of her foreign policy advisors like Julianne
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Smith to smear Donald Trump by magnifying a scandal that
wasn't real. It's that kind of nonsense that speaks to
the depth of people committed to power, not American progress,
but power so if we don't hold them accountable, the
people won't trust us. We have a responsibility to bring
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all the information to light, trace it back to its source,
and then hold accountable the source of election engineering, because
that is the most disgusting in the last thirty years
of political history and one of the worst in American history,
according to AGRA.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
All Right, quick break more with Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina,
brand new book out today, One Nation, Always under God,
profile and Christian Courage Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com,
bookstores around the country. Will continue and then your call
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continue with our friend, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has
got a new book out today, One Nation, Always under God,
Profiles in Christian Care, Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com,
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bookstores around the country. Let me go back to your book.
You chose certain people to focus on in this book
and inspiring stories of American Christians and what they did
and what they were able to accomplish. Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison,
for example, he faced an angry mob that were trying
to destroy him in his newspaper. You talk about Apollo thirteen,
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astronaut Jim Lovell, whose faith sustained him while up in space,
or Darthea Dix, who revolutionized how America dealt with mental health,
and many others. How did you? And these are not
people that are often well known or often written about.
What made you choose these people in particular in this book?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah? So, one of the things I wanted to make
sure the readers took away from this book is that
the Good Lord so often uses ordinary people, not the
Ivy League educated, not the power brokers of the day.
He so often uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
Think about your background, Sean he you have not always
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been on radio and TV. You were a blue collar guy.
The Good Lord gave you a gift that had to
be uncovered. And my hope is that the future of
this nation depends on ordinary people having the courage to
respond to the call of an extraordinary God to make
sure that every single institution in our country is completely
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covered by faith, from our journalists to our astronauts, to
retail folks like Hobby Lobby. The story of David Green,
powerful story. Think about in healthcare, the story of Danny
Thomas and Saint Jude's Hospital, how it came to be
a praying Catholic. We need to understand that every single
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institution in this country, when it worked right, it worked
upon the foundation of a Judeo Christian rock in ethos
that led people to do the right thing. And that's
one of the reasons why I started this show off
by celebrating your praises when you were just walking on
the streets of Charleston. How you uncover the Russia crap,
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the collusion that was nothing but the election engineering of
the left, And why it is that we can celebrate
integrity and character. I'll finish with this shop. Too often
in the day's time that we live, people want to
celebrate the wrong people doing the wrong things, and instead
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my book One Nation Always under God, available right now
at Amazon or where books are sold. We're going to
celebrate people, true patriots and warriors who changed their institutions
within this country for good because they had the courage
to stand for the ris thing, just like you did
with this Russia collusion nonsense. We need more Americans standing
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in the gap when it counts the most, and when
we do that, our greatest days are absolutely ahead of us.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
This book is phenomenal. It's One Nation Always under God
profile and Christian courage, Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com,
bookstores around the country. Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina, we
always appreciate you being with us. God bless you. I
got to give kudos and I have two great people
on tonight, Linda, I have Texas Governor Greg Abbott. I
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love what he's doing. He has now threatened to arrest
and expel Texas House Democrats who fled the state to
avoid a redistricting vote if they don't return today, and
dozens of Texas Democratic state representatives arrived in Chicago Sunday
night to stall the vote. Now, this whole issue of
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jerrymandering district thing is done on a state by state basis,
and what Democrats have done in these predominantly blue states
is they jerry mander so that they can maximize their
potential to win as many congressional seats as possible. What
they're doing in Texas is exactly what Democrats have been
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doing for years. I'll never forget when I lived in
Atlanta between ninety two and ninety six, it used to
be a joke. Cynthia McKinney was the congresswoman. I don't
know if you remember from Atlanta to Savannah, which is
a long distance, and it was like it was sort
of like a you know, imagine a snake and all
the curves in there, and they would basically carve out
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from Atlanta to Savannah, you know, every what they believed
to be democratic household to keep it a democratic seat,
because at that time when I first got to Atlanta
and to Georgia, it was more of a democratic state anyway.
So Abbott has size the Democrat's dramatic departure. Rather than
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doing their job voting on urgent legislation impacting the lives
of all Texans, they have fled Texas to deprive the
House of the quorum that is needed to meet and
conduct business. The Texas House is said to reconvene today,
and he said derelic Democrat House members must return or
face being removed from their positions by the Texas Attorney
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General Ken Paxton. And that is unfolding. We'll have more
news on this tonight when we come on the air.
But here is Texas Democrats speaking out against the very
thing New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California have already done.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Listen today, this corruption ends today. The people of the
state of Texas have said enough, enough of your games,
enough of your lies. Today the corruption Donald Trump and
Greg Abbott ends.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
He would rig these maps to have politicians pick voters
so that he can not have to deal with a Congress.
They will provide oversight, accountability, and real checks and balances
like our founders wanted us to. This is wrong, This
is an American and this is undemocratic. Republicans are stealing
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our democracy right before our very eyes.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But guess what.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Texas Democrats are here and we have a message.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
For Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Not on our watch. We will not have our democracy
thinking on our life. Donald Trump wants more power. That's
what this is about.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I've heard enough of this. This is what they do.
And you know what, They've been playing this game forever
for decades. Did you know notice that Michelle Obama took
a shot at our friend Stephen A. Smith. He said,
watching ESPN is like watching the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Oh,
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I wrote, Steve and A's gonna be on TV responding
to this tonight. This is gonna be fun anyway. Here's
Michelle Obama.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
But there's drama in them.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
If I listen to ESPN, for an hour. It's like
watching the Real Housewives of Atlanta. I mean, you know,
it's the same drama and they're yelling at each other
and they don't get along, you know. I mean stephen A. Smith,
he's just like.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Every other Real housewife amazing.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
So that's why I'm like, what's the difference. It's just,
you know, it's just sociological drama. I mean, the fact
that people, over seasons of working together still can't get along.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
They still have the same arguments, you know.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
And it's not just women, but this happens in sports too.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I find it fascinating is there's no comparison at all
to sports and people's passion for sports just the opposite.
With sports. Now, you definitely have people that have their
team and but one of the most unifying events. That's
why I couldn't stand when the Kaepernack issue came up.
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And here you have one of the more unifying events.
You have people that have a common passion a sport.
Let's say it's football or baseball or basketball or ice hockey,
which is like one of my favorite sports. And the
Florida Panthers are my favorite team. And you know, yeah,
you go in the stadium, you're like high fiving strangers.
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You know, if you buy popcorn, you're passing it around
to strangers. You're just hanging out, You're having a good time.
Everybody has a shared passion for a sport. Even if
there's people around you that they're chairing for the other team,
usually end up getting along with them too, because they
have the shared passion for a sport. It very different
to the petty insanity that these Real Housewife shows have.
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Have you ever watched any of these Real Housewives shows, Linda, I.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Have to say I have not.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Come on, you've never watched any of them.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I really I cannot stand reality television. I really can't.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Oh man, you got it. You just you have to
watch it.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I can't do it.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Man.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
These people are so fake. They're living in a bubble.
It's I mean, it's kind of like Congress. Actually, they
live in a bubble. They have no idea what it's
like to be a regular person. You know. They all take,
you know, whatever they need to get through the day.
Like Nancy Pelosi, she looks like she's had some work
done recently.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Uh. It is weird all the work that people get done.
I will say that part. It is very strange.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Erry, dude, They're unrecognizable. I'm like, that's not how people
are supposed to look like. Try aging gracefully. It's a
new thing.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I don't know if it's a new thing. I mean,
it's definitely my choice, I know. And I'm not saying
anybody on Fox. I'm just saying I know. I know
people in television, guys that get botox, I know guys
that have had work done. I'm like, what are you
out of your you know how many minutes? You know
how long it takes me to put makeup on for TV?
And now you have to wear For those that don't understand,
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you have to wear makeup on TV. This is otherwise
you're going to look like a ghost. It's just with
the lighting in your face. It just is the way
it is. And how long do you think it takes
me to put I put my own makeup on. I
don't have a makeup artist. And like in the early
days when I was like, I.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Do it, it's record time. I mean, it really is.
I've watched you just try to do your try to
do your makeup. It's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Please stop because I don't care and and most nights
I have jeans on, which is although I although I
will say this, my family has asked me not to
wear jeans all the time, so they've they've found me
a pair of blue khakis, except they feel like jeans.
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So I don't care if that satisfies that. I mean,
I guess it's bad when your whole family is embarrassed
the way you dress. And you know, I'm jeans.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Jeans are great.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I mean, if I had my way. You've seen me
on on the Fox Nation podcast. What do I wear
my black Nike T shirt and jeans? But that's the
real Sean, That's the real me. When we went out,
uh and we did punchlines on Patriots? Did you ever
get a chance to watch it?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
I did, indeed, and you were you were very to me.
It reminded me a lot of the Patriot Awards. You know,
just now you had a tag team with Jimmy, and
Jimmy was like pushing the envelope, pushing the envelope, pushing
the envelope. You're like, all right, all right, and then
you would take a bath.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That's kind of like you on radio, and you're even
worse of your life.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I mean Jimmy. Whenever I have Jimmy on TV, I
always say, okay, well, I'm not responsible for what he's
what's about the come flying out of his mouth? I
kind of say he's a very he's a.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Very nice guy. You say anything else, it's a very
nice guy.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
No, he's a great guy. The difference between you and
Jimmy is I've got seven seven second delays on this
radio program where I can literally, if you say the
F word, I can bang out seven of them and
it won't go over the air.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
That really, and I.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Think I've had to use I think we have topics,
we have Okay, the dumb button I think has been
used more for you than for any caller.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I don't know about that. We've had some pretty rough
callers in the past ten years. The Trump arrangement syndrome
is very real.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I do like talking to liberals on the show. If
you're a liberal and you want to call it, call it,
because most of you are not that smart, we'd be
very upfront about it. You don't have very nice to Katie.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
She's just the middleman.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Oh, you mean liberals when they call him, they mean
to Katie.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
They're just mean in general, that's their default.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So just well, then then we have the other, the
other extreme, which is sucking up to you and sucking
up to Katie, and that that is noise the crap
out of me because they're.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Doing no, my god, no, trust me, they're not Ice
Green for eight years. Trust me, they're not.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
CARDI is in Texas. God bless Texas. A little drama
going on in your state all day.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
I am a longtime caller, first time I actually got
through to you, first time listener. I guess no, wait a.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Minute, long time listener, first time caller, how's that. I'll
help you out, got to let you go.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
So I wanted to dive back into the stuff on Friday,
a little bit on on Toby and Clapper and Brennan,
and I think knowing the government the way I do,
I had a lot twenty four years in law enforcement,
So I don't believe that Comby's going to suffer. If
he does, I will, I will be so sticking happy.
It's it's unreal. I don't believe he will because of
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the dirt he has on people. But if any administration
has that, I don't give it crap attitude, and we're
going to prosecute everybody involved. It is the current administration
and that's the only faith I have. And I just
I wanted your opinion again on after you've had a
weekend to kind of split that stew and.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Know it's a very very long, detailed, complicated story that
for people that are new to it. Now, let me
backtrack the fact that I went into a long explanation
on Friday show why I often will spend time repeating myself.
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And it's not to hear my own voice. It's not
because I'm so arrogant. It's not because it's not. It's
because if I say something three times, nobody's ever going
to remember it. If I say something three hundred or
three eight thousand times, people are going to remember it.
This is a story now we have covered going back
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years and years and years on this program, and that
is the Rush of Russia Russia hoax. I spent three
consecutive years, three and a half years covering this story,
and I would argue whether and for my critics out there,
they say, oh, why does he repeat himself? Because the
only reason the country knows about Hillary Clinton's bought and
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paid for Russian disinformation dossier is because I wanted the
country to have it burned into their brain. Because I
knew one day this day would come. I knew we'd
get to this point. I believed it with all my
heart and totally. So if I get criticized for repeating myself,
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I hope people do understand it. That's like monoclonal antibodies.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Right, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
But let me tell you something. If I'm James Comy
and based on the timeline of when he knew what
he knew about Russia collusion and the dirty disinformation dossier,
and he used that as the bulk of information for
the three FISA warrants that he signed, I would argue
right there he related the law. And I think that
the fact that cash Bettel's opened up a grand conspiracy
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is going to be very telling. Over time. We have
to see what happens, though I don't want to overpromise
it under the lover anyway, my friend, I appreciate you
being with us. Eight hundred and nine four one shown
is a number if you want to be a part
of the program. All right, that's gonna wrap things up
for today, all right, The showdown in Texas Governor Greg
Abbott taking a strong stand against Democratic legislators, oh for
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doing that which Democrats do in every blue state pretty
much in the country. He'll join us. Stephen A. Smith
gets attacked by Michelle Obama. He will respond tonight. Also,
Senator Tom Cotton is saying maybe it's time to look
into Jack Smith. Laura Trump reacts as well, and Senator
Mark Wayne Mullen say, DVR Hannity Tonight nine Eastern great
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show tonight on the Fox News Channel. We'll see you
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