January 22, 2026 • 29 mins
In this hour of The Sean Hannity Show, Sean breaks down President Trump’s headline-making appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he directly confronted European leaders on NATO spending, energy policy, immigration, and global security. Hannity explains why Greenland sits at the center of a high-stakes geopolitical negotiation and how Trump’s deal-making approach reshaped the conversation—without a single shot fired. The episode also dives into Trump’s economic record, the failures of Obamacare, alternative healthcare options, and why Europe’s reliance on the United States is more critical than ever. A fast-moving, behind-the-scenes look at how global power, security, and economics collide on the world stage.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right
down are toll free telephone number. You want to be
a part of this extravaganza, It's eight hundred and ninety
four one, Shawn, if you want to join us. By
the way, nine Democratic lawmakers voting with Republicans in the
House Oversight Committee to advance a resolution to hold form
of President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying
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a subpoena to testify before the panel. The House panel
voted in a thirty four to eight split to advance
the resolution to a House to the House floor. It
also voted to advance a resolution to hold former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton in contempt for the same reason
that passed twenty eight to fifteen. Now you know, it's
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a very simple decision you have. If Congress subpoena is
you and they're demanding that you testify, you have every
right to go before that House committee and plead the
fifth and then you walk out of there and they
have no legal recourse at all whatsoever. The Clintons chose
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not to avail themselves to that option. If you go
back just a couple of short years ago, the same
decision was made by people like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon,
and they were held in contempt of Congress, and the
Attorney General at the time, the idiot Merrick Garland, decided
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to prosecute both of them, and both of them spend
time in prison. Peter Navarro in his seventies. It's horrible.
He's been on this program talking about it. And they
did it because they believed in the principle of executive
privilege and the right of a president to get advice
without having those advisors one day have to explain everything
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that they said to a president. Look, if you are
a presidential advisor and you're giving the president advice and
one day you have to explain to the entire world
in Congress what advice you gave a president, You're not
going to feel uninhibited in giving the advice you believe
you need to give a president. There's a reason we
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have executive privilege, and Pete Navarro sucked it up and
he stood on principle for constitutional reasons. I admire him
for it, and he paid the ultimate price. I mean
they put him in shackles, they put him in handcuffs,
they threw him in a jail cell I mean, this
happened to far too many innocent people. But if that's
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the standard that Democrats used, why would it not be
applied to the Clintons. If that's the standard that they want,
and if that's going to be the punishment for people
that are held in contempt in Congress. The Clinton's had
every opportunity to go there, and all they had to
do was plead the fifth and they could have walked away.
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That's all they needed to do. They chose not to.
Now I've seen a lot of pictures all you know,
all these Democrats, and I'm really pissed off at some
so called conservatives too. They're usually fair weather conservatives. They're
convenient conservatives. They are not historically loyal Trump supporters, not
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really as mag as they want to appear to be.
At this particular moment in time when things are going well.
They're fairweather friends. And it's frustrating because these these very people,
you know, they come and go. I call them grifters
and you know, convenient Trump supporters, et cetera. It doesn't
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really matter. But I'm just telling you, at this point
in time, we do need equal application of our laws.
You know, Do I think that if you go to
Congress and evoke the fifth that that is in an
honorable thing to do. I actually I'm fine with that.
I have no problem at all whatsoever. By the way,
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we have new statistics out in one of the most
remarkable achievements we had Cash Betel on TV this week
in history, in the history of the American presidency, the
US homicide rate under President Donald J. Trump has now
dropped to its lowest level in one hundred and twenty
five years.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Uh So, when you walk.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Away from defund dismantled no bail laws, reimagine the police
and you enforce the laws of our country. Guess what,
You keep Americans safe and secure, and you restore law
and order, which means that is a prerequisite for the
pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And it actually works anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Murders fell twenty one percent last year in thirty five
large US cities, according to Axios, the biggest one year
drop ever and likely the lowest rate since nineteen hundred.
According to Axios reviewed data that they're showing just amazing.
You know, this week it was the one year anniversary
of Donald Trump being president. You just think of you know,
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where were we one year ago? When Joe Biden was president,
incoherent at a touch, dazed and confused, mumbling, bumbling, stumbling.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You know, look some of the political players and some
of the let me ask rhetorical questions.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh no, no, no, no. Our borders are now closed.
There's no longer you know, unvetted uh illegals coming into
our country. Criminal illegal aliens are being deported in massive numbers.
Voluntary deportation because of incentives by the Trump administration has
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been a tremendous success. You look at the crime rate,
you look at the FBI statistics. I mean, imagine this
one hundred and ninety seven percent increase in arrest by
the FBI under Cash Betel and up till recently, Dan Bongino,
it's remarkable. You know, they have a top ten most
wanted list. They got five of the top ten, one
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more this week. A remarkable achievement. Now we have criminal illegals.
That means, you know, we have known terrorists in the country.
Because of Biden, Harris Mayorcus. They are being deported, they're
being found, they're being discovered. It's going to take forever
to finish the job, but they're doing their job. They're
trying to do their job in spite of all the
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obstacles that are put in place by radical leftists, and
they're getting it done. And then you look at what
the President has done on the world stage. He's played
a role in peace around the world. The nine separate
regions starting with I mean, I mean India, Pakistan is
a big deal, Cambodia, for Rwanda, Vietnam, I mean, all
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over the world. The President has involved himself and used
the leverage of the desire for access to our economy
as a leverage point to bring peace around the globe.
And he's trying to do even more. That's what this
whole Greenland play is all about. It's about long term
national security, geopolitical security against Russia and China, the world's
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top geopolitical foes. And you know, and this is why,
this is why Europe is so impotent and dumb and
stupid and ridiculous. As I reflect on a lot of
the takeaways of the President and Davos and his speech,
it is more historic and more profound than I think
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most people you know understand. And you know, I was
saying in the lead ups of the President going to Davos,
I said, you people I can't believe after eleven years
of Donald Trump being on the world stage, you have
no comprehension or understanding of him. Because if he says
one thing, the left just bubbles and phizzies like Alca
celtz aer in water and they just freak out because
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it's Donald Trump. That is their go to reaction and response.
But you know, then the President goes there and he
says no, he's ruling out the use of force in Greenland,
and the oh, thank you, thank you God, oh thank
Jesus for all of this, and then he makes a
deal with NATO that in fact, the US will in
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fact take control of Greenland. The US will use its
military might to protect the world. As the US now
develops its Golden Dome, it will be deployed in Greenland.
It will protect Europe, it will protect the people of Greenland,
and it will protect the United States and it will
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be a strategic location for national security and national defense
for many years to come. Oh thank god, he's rolled
back the threat of tariffs. I mean, this is, by
the way, by the way, why the tariff issue before
the US Supreme Court is so important because this president
uses it as leverage for national security negotiations and anyway.
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So the President did in fact talk about the emerging
deal that would involve the Danes with the Golden Dome
and mineral rights. He added that it would lock the
US into a permanent relationship with Greenland, and the President
you know, went into a long lecture that Europe is
heading in the wrong direction. And if you look at
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European policy on frankly, unfettered open borders and immigration without assimilation,
it is a self infl lickted you know, burgeoning disaster.
And you can see it in the form of Chorea,
courts that have emerged in Great Britain, no go zones
in parts of Europe, et cetera. The fact that they
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have embraced radical socialism, Marxism, redistributionism. It is killing Europe's economy,
the fact that they've adopted climate alarmism as a big
part of their agenda, and windmills over the lifeblood of
the world's economy, which is natural gas and coal and oil.
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It is it's a form of you know, suicide over time,
and just a financial disaster for Europe. And he's talking
about the American dream and how they really, if they
were smart they would duplicate what it is that we're
doing here, because the US is seeing economic change we've
not seen in decades, and we're now seeing the benefit
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of all of this. The Atlanta Fed predicting five point
three percent GDP growth, which is spectacular. I mean, you
think about the inflation rate under Joe Biden over his
four year period, it was nearly six percent. It was
in the fives. You know, under Donald Trump, we're now
at two point six percent. Inflation now at a at
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a record low, interest rates now at a record low,
gas prices at a record low. I mean, reversing everything
that Biden has done the last four years. You see
trillions in committed manufacturing investment money accelerated by one hundred
percent depreciation, and the one big beautiful bill that they passed.
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You see the President opening up the lifeblood of the
world's economy, energy in every way fashion that he possibly can,
that is now benefiting every American. Right now, you have
states now that are selling a gallon of gasoline for
under two bucks a gallon. Most states are under three
bucks a gallon. That never happened under Joe Biden. Kamala
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Harris famously said it's the cost of democracy. Well, lower
gas prices means that impacts everything you buy at every
store that you go to. So between lower gas prices, inflation,
and now the President's economic plan kicking in, and that
means for working class Americans, no tax on tips overtimes.
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For elderly Americans, senior citizens, that means no tax on
social Security included in the largest tax cut in American history.
And you combine all these forces together, trillions and committed
moneies for manufacturing, energy dominance, the largest tax cut in
American history. Yeah, there's a reason why. And deregulation, there's
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a reason why. You know, the third quarter of last
year we had four point three percent GDP growth and
now the Atlanta Fed is saying they're expecting five point
three percent GDP growth for the fourth quarter. I mean,
I can honestly see GDP growth, you know, hitting seven
percent at some point this year. And he's trying to
go to Europe.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
He went to.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Dabos, delivered hard truths to the assembled. You know, you
know elitists in Europe who need to be reminded of
what a disaster their policies are causing their own continent,
and then give them a stark reality check that without
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the US being a part of NATO, without access for
them to the US economy, they are dead in the water.
And how much they need the US economically, how much
they need the US also for national security and defense.
And when he said, Okay, I'm not going to invade
a Greenland. Oh thank Okay, now you're going to have it.
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It's sort of like Europe, you know, had a collective
you know, you know, the temper tantrum when Donald Trump
first said they got to pay more than double what
they're paying for their own national security through NATO, but
then they paid it. And when Donald Trump said, you're
not going to abuse American citizens anymore with your unfair tariffs,
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and they balked and they whined and complained, and then
they agreed to pay tariffs to US. Similarly, they were
complaining about Donald Trump and standing up to Donald Trump
over his knowledge that Greenland is strategically important against our
top geopolitical foes. Well, now all of a sudden, he
can have it because he said he's not going to
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invade it. They needed this wake up call. I don't
know if they're going to fully embrace it, but it
doesn't matter what they do, because we're going to prosper
in spite of it all. It's all up to them. So,
I mean, it just was shock and awe. I don't
even know any other way to put it. To watch
Donald Trump take on Europe and excoriate them.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
The President said that the fireworks for future deal with
NATO over Greenland would include access to mineral rights for
the US and its European allies, as well as collaboration
on the goal of the Golden.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Dome missile defense system.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
If you look at the geopolitical importance of Greenland, it
is so strategic, and especially with China and Russia knocking
on the door, remember Vladimir Putin and President she Without
the US and the might of the US military, they
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don't really respect NATO nations. They don't view them even
as opposition. They don't view them as a geopolitical threat.
And this is where Europe as a continent has failed,
and failed spectacularly. They have given up on real national
security and defense. And it's you know, when the President said,
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many of you would be speaking German or maybe a
little Japanese. It's it's funny in the sense that you know,
all good humor is rooted in the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But he's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And the US, you know, came to the defense of Europe,
you know, honestly, Winston Churchill, I think, you know, such
a heroic figure, historical figure preserving Western civilization in his time,
and a Reagan reminded us, you know, but we are
one generation away from extinction. Freedom is and Winston Churchill
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would not he would not let up. He was unrelenting
in pursuing and knowing and understanding that America's involvement in
World War Two was imperative. And when he finally got
the opportunity, after what happened in Hawaii Pearl Harbor, he
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went to the White House. He would not leave until
he got a commitment from FDR that a Maria can
help would be on the way and it would save
the continent of Europe. And in fact we did, and
we did it at great sacrifice. The you know, American treasure.
You can see it on display in Normandy and Americans
slamming the beaches of Normandy, you know, to help Europe
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survive at that time, you know, the their great weakness.
But to just go back, you know, before the President
left on that trip on Monday. I think it was
Monday and the President was asked at maybe it was
Tuesday when the President was asked at this press conference,
you know, what are your plans? Are you willing to
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invade Greenland? He goes, you'll see, and then he goes
and he gives this speech as he did in Davos
and says, no, I'm not going to invade Greenland. And anyway,
the Secretary General of NATO, he said in a post
on truth Social that we have formed the framework of
a future deal with respect to Greenland and in fact
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the entire Arctic region. The solution, if consummated, will be
a great one for the US and all NATO nations.
Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the
tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February.
The first additional discussions are being held concerning the Golden
Dome as it pertains to Greenland. Further information will be
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made available as the discussions progress. Blah blah blah, thank
you for your attention to this matter, which is what
he always says. But top NATO officials reveal the details
of this stunning meeting with Trump that produced this framework
because after the President announced the framework and it was
agreed upon, the NATO Secretary General telling Fox News the
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US forcibly taking control of Greenland from Denmark was not discussed. However,
the issue, he said, well, that didn't come up. He
was very focused on what we need to do to
make sure that the huge Arctic region where change is
taking place at the moment, where the Chinese and Russians
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are more and more active, how we can protect all
of that, and the framework that has been agreed upon,
And you know, that was the focus of their discussions.
And you know, I know that Greenland was not on
most people's radar, you know, a month ago. But this
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president is thinking long term and strategically about geopolitical configurations
and about America's long term national security interests. I can
tell you right now that the odds that the Golden
Dome will be deployed during the Trump years are probably
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pretty low. Maybe it will be the technology will be
in its infancy, but it will be his legacy, it
will be his initiative, it will be his drive, it
will be the fact that he got the ball rolling.
I mean, when you watch the conflicts, I don't care
if it's in the Middle East and the Iranians firing
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two thousand pound ballistic missiles into Israel, and Israel's missile
defense system taking them all out of the air, or
most of them out of the year, or all of
the you know, thousands and tens of thousands, even hundreds
of thousands of missiles fired into Israel from Gaza, from Lebanon,
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from the Huti rebels, and you know, you watch, I mean,
it almost looks like the simulations that the legacy medium
mob made when Ronald Reagan proposed strategic defense. They labeled
Star Wars to mockt But had Reagan not done that,
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a lot of this missile defense technology would not exist today,
and Israel probably would have been wiped off the map
without it. And it took America and we created the
first missile defense system. We shared it with Israel, and
it has I've said for a long time it's a
band aid. But now the next generation of missile defense
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is going to be far greater. I already have spoken
to a lot of national security experts and defense experts.
I mean, they're gonna they're gonna be using lasers to
take missiles out of the sky. And there's not going
to be an ability of any foreign entity to fire
a missile into the US without it being shot down.
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It's just not going to happen. You can see the
beginning of the next generation of warfare unfolding before your
very eyes. You see it in the Middle East. You
see it with with Israel and their conflicts with enemies
surrounding them from from all sides, and how they have
been able to fight back by by keeping these you know,
very very damaged weapons from ever landing in their territory.
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And it's only going to get more sophisticated, and it's
going to keep the world to safer place. Eventually, I
would imagine that we'll be able to stop any missile
from landing anywhere in the world. We have some updates
as it relates to the situation on the ground and
the invasion of this church in Saint Paul over the weekend.
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Federal authorities now have arrested a third person, one of
these anti ice agitators when they storm this church service
in Saint Paul. Harmey Dillon will join us at the
top of the hour. She's with the Civil Rights Division
of the DOJ. We'll talk to her about it. Pam
Bondi has been on the ground now for the last
forty eight hours and she just arrested a third person.
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The FBI director says is people are being charged with
violating the Face Act, which prohibits and we've gone over
this in detailed provisions two forty seven and two forty
eight with interfering with the exercise of religion at a
place of worship and anyway that announcement has been made,
and now a third arrest has taken place as well.
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On the issue of Don Lemon, a Minnesota federal magistrate
judge refused to sign the complaint, charging you know, he's
calling himself an independent journalist, Don Lemon, in connection with
the protest inside the church. Let's go back to what happened,
and again you go through the Face Act.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It's very very clear.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And in terms of what the restrictions are, and Keith
Ellison's interpretation of it is insane because the law itself
Barr's conduct that injures, intimidates, or interferes with a person
seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom
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at a place of religious worship. And there are other
federal statutes that likewise can be a place by the
Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, and I'm sure they're
going to pursue it now. Keith Ellison tried to make
the case and he's just wrong on the facts that
it really was only designed to protect abortion clinics, when
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the statute expressly extends to places of religious worship, making
it a federal crime to prohibit all these things from happening.
As it relates to Don Lemon, the Attorney General is
enraged at the magistrate's decision, according to a source. But
let's go back and listen and we'll get into this
in more detail at the top of the hour with
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Armey Dilon from the DOJ.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
But let's remind you of what was being done to.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
People whose only crime was they were trying to practice
their faith and exercise their first Amendment to freedom of religion.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Rene God, Renee God, shame?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where
are your people?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
The house?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Why are you not at Wimble every day fighting for
the humanity, standing for our people?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Where are you?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
You drink your coffee, you got your jewelry, you have
your nice clothes, But what do you do? What do
you do to stand for your Somalia, Latino communities.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I'm not gonna come in. You have no comment exactly the.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Day good all these comfortable white people who are living lavish,
comfortable lives while children are dragged into concentration camps. You're
living real life, nice lives with your lattes, doing absolutely
nothing for your Latino and Samali brothers and sisters. You
you come here to a man wearing a suit? Is
a preacher? Did Jesus wear a suit? Did Jesus prophet
off the words no Jesus would die with you?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Do not touch me?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
You touch it again and see what happens.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
You can You are a fake Christian? Why are you
not standing with your Famlia Latino communities? Why do I
not see you out at Whipple every day protesting this
attack on humanity? Where are you your sinners? You're pretending
to be Christians, but we know you live an easy life,
don't you a very easy life? Well, people are starving. Shame.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
This is now the face of the radical left in
the country.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Don lemon Well.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
He claims that he is an independent journalist that'll be
up to the courts to decide, but he sounds like
an advocate and part of the group and part of
the organization with his commentary.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
But I'll let you decide if you think that.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Listen, this is the beginning of what's going to happen
here when you violate people's due process, when you pull
people off the streets and you start dragging them and
hurting them and not abiding by the constitution. When you
start doing all of that, people get upset and angry.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
And if you remember what the Civil rights movement was about,
the Civil rights movement was about.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
These very kinds of protests, and for some reason in
our modern era, people think that in order to have protests,
you got to be you know, coordened off to a
certain area and you know what time you can protest.
There's nothing in the constitution that tells you what time
you can protest. You can protest at anytime. That's the
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whole point of it is to disrupt, to make uncomfortable,
and that's what they're doing. And that's what I believe
when I say everyone has to be willing to sacrifice something.
You have to make people uncomfortable in these kinds.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
If you see how uncomfortable people uncomfortably and how harsh.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
People are being treated on the streets, you have to
be willing to go into places and disrupt and make
people uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Oh, that's say, accept there are laws that protect people's
right to worship. That's going to be problematic for them.
Interesting moments Jack Smith on Capitol Hill today, we'll play
some of those later in the program. He says he
stands by his decisions as a Special counsel and he
would prosecute Trump based on the same facts. Today, Jim
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Jordan just tore him to shreds today and he went
through the history of Jack Smith's activities and then he
specifically remember remember Cassidy Hutchinson, he was a hearsay witness.
And meanwhile, they had on record the driver. Remember, the
narrative was that Donald Trump tried to commandeer the vehicle
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that he was being driven in and forced that vehicle
to drive to the Capitol. The driver said it never happened.
So instead of using that testimony, remember in the Predetermined
Outcome primetime hearing Liz Cheney, Benny Thompson, and of course
their records have been destroyed. We don't know where they are.
But Jim Jordan just laid into Jack Smith. If he
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thinks Cassidy Hutchinson was lying about lunging towards the steering wheel,
a story she was not there, and he gets Jack
Smith to say that he would have precluded Cassidy Hudgson's
testimony because it was hearsay, and slam Jack Smith over
him considering even using this woman as a witness even
though everyone knew she He said that was lying and
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wasn't telling that she wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
She doesn't know. And Lance Gooden was amazing today. There
were so many good moments.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We'll play that for you coming up, all right, eight
hundred nine four one sewn our number.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
You want to be a part of the program,
Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right
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four one, Shawn, if you want to join us. By
the way, nine Democratic lawmakers voting with Republicans in the
House Oversight Committee to advance a resolution to hold form
of President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying
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a subpoena to testify before the panel. The House panel
voted in a thirty four to eight split to advance
the resolution to a House to the House floor. It
also voted to advance a resolution to hold former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton in contempt for the same reason
that passed twenty eight to fifteen. Now you know, it's
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a very simple decision you have. If Congress subpoena is
you and they're demanding that you testify, you have every
right to go before that House committee and plead the
fifth and then you walk out of there and they
have no legal recourse at all whatsoever. The Clintons chose
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not to avail themselves to that option. If you go
back just a couple of short years ago, the same
decision was made by people like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon,
and they were held in contempt of Congress, and the
Attorney General at the time, the idiot Merrick Garland, decided
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to prosecute both of them, and both of them spend
time in prison. Peter Navarro in his seventies. It's horrible.
He's been on this program talking about it. And they
did it because they believed in the principle of executive
privilege and the right of a president to get advice
without having those advisors one day have to explain everything
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that they said to a president. Look, if you are
a presidential advisor and you're giving the president advice and
one day you have to explain to the entire world
in Congress what advice you gave a president, You're not
going to feel uninhibited in giving the advice you believe
you need to give a president. There's a reason we
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have executive privilege, and Pete Navarro sucked it up and
he stood on principle for constitutional reasons. I admire him
for it, and he paid the ultimate price. I mean
they put him in shackles, they put him in handcuffs,
they threw him in a jail cell I mean, this
happened to far too many innocent people. But if that's
(02:38):
the standard that Democrats used, why would it not be
applied to the Clintons. If that's the standard that they want,
and if that's going to be the punishment for people
that are held in contempt in Congress. The Clinton's had
every opportunity to go there, and all they had to
do was plead the fifth and they could have walked away.
(03:00):
That's all they needed to do. They chose not to.
Now I've seen a lot of pictures all you know,
all these Democrats, and I'm really pissed off at some
so called conservatives too. They're usually fair weather conservatives. They're
convenient conservatives. They are not historically loyal Trump supporters, not
(03:21):
really as mag as they want to appear to be.
At this particular moment in time when things are going well.
They're fairweather friends. And it's frustrating because these these very people,
you know, they come and go. I call them grifters
and you know, convenient Trump supporters, et cetera. It doesn't
(03:42):
really matter. But I'm just telling you, at this point
in time, we do need equal application of our laws.
You know, Do I think that if you go to
Congress and evoke the fifth that that is in an
honorable thing to do. I actually I'm fine with that.
I have no problem at all whatsoever. By the way,
(04:03):
we have new statistics out in one of the most
remarkable achievements we had Cash Betel on TV this week
in history, in the history of the American presidency, the
US homicide rate under President Donald J. Trump has now
dropped to its lowest level in one hundred and twenty
five years.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Uh So, when you walk.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Away from defund dismantled no bail laws, reimagine the police
and you enforce the laws of our country. Guess what,
You keep Americans safe and secure, and you restore law
and order, which means that is a prerequisite for the
pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And it actually works anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Murders fell twenty one percent last year in thirty five
large US cities, according to Axios, the biggest one year
drop ever and likely the lowest rate since nineteen hundred.
According to Axios reviewed data that they're showing just amazing.
You know, this week it was the one year anniversary
of Donald Trump being president. You just think of you know,
(05:03):
where were we one year ago? When Joe Biden was president,
incoherent at a touch, dazed and confused, mumbling, bumbling, stumbling.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You know, look some of the political players and some
of the let me ask rhetorical questions.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh no, no, no, no. Our borders are now closed.
There's no longer you know, unvetted uh illegals coming into
our country. Criminal illegal aliens are being deported in massive numbers.
Voluntary deportation because of incentives by the Trump administration has
(06:04):
been a tremendous success. You look at the crime rate,
you look at the FBI statistics. I mean, imagine this
one hundred and ninety seven percent increase in arrest by
the FBI under Cash Betel and up till recently, Dan Bongino,
it's remarkable. You know, they have a top ten most
wanted list. They got five of the top ten, one
(06:26):
more this week. A remarkable achievement. Now we have criminal illegals.
That means, you know, we have known terrorists in the country.
Because of Biden, Harris Mayorcus. They are being deported, they're
being found, they're being discovered. It's going to take forever
to finish the job, but they're doing their job. They're
trying to do their job in spite of all the
(06:47):
obstacles that are put in place by radical leftists, and
they're getting it done. And then you look at what
the President has done on the world stage. He's played
a role in peace around the world. The nine separate
regions starting with I mean, I mean India, Pakistan is
a big deal, Cambodia, for Rwanda, Vietnam, I mean, all
(07:10):
over the world. The President has involved himself and used
the leverage of the desire for access to our economy
as a leverage point to bring peace around the globe.
And he's trying to do even more. That's what this
whole Greenland play is all about. It's about long term
national security, geopolitical security against Russia and China, the world's
(07:34):
top geopolitical foes. And you know, and this is why,
this is why Europe is so impotent and dumb and
stupid and ridiculous. As I reflect on a lot of
the takeaways of the President and Davos and his speech,
it is more historic and more profound than I think
(07:55):
most people you know understand. And you know, I was
saying in the lead ups of the President going to Davos,
I said, you people I can't believe after eleven years
of Donald Trump being on the world stage, you have
no comprehension or understanding of him. Because if he says
one thing, the left just bubbles and phizzies like Alca
celtz aer in water and they just freak out because
(08:18):
it's Donald Trump. That is their go to reaction and response.
But you know, then the President goes there and he
says no, he's ruling out the use of force in Greenland,
and the oh, thank you, thank you God, oh thank
Jesus for all of this, and then he makes a
deal with NATO that in fact, the US will in
(08:42):
fact take control of Greenland. The US will use its
military might to protect the world. As the US now
develops its Golden Dome, it will be deployed in Greenland.
It will protect Europe, it will protect the people of Greenland,
and it will protect the United States and it will
(09:03):
be a strategic location for national security and national defense
for many years to come. Oh thank god, he's rolled
back the threat of tariffs. I mean, this is, by
the way, by the way, why the tariff issue before
the US Supreme Court is so important because this president
uses it as leverage for national security negotiations and anyway.
(09:29):
So the President did in fact talk about the emerging
deal that would involve the Danes with the Golden Dome
and mineral rights. He added that it would lock the
US into a permanent relationship with Greenland, and the President
you know, went into a long lecture that Europe is
heading in the wrong direction. And if you look at
(09:50):
European policy on frankly, unfettered open borders and immigration without assimilation,
it is a self infl lickted you know, burgeoning disaster.
And you can see it in the form of Chorea,
courts that have emerged in Great Britain, no go zones
in parts of Europe, et cetera. The fact that they
(10:12):
have embraced radical socialism, Marxism, redistributionism. It is killing Europe's economy,
the fact that they've adopted climate alarmism as a big
part of their agenda, and windmills over the lifeblood of
the world's economy, which is natural gas and coal and oil.
(10:35):
It is it's a form of you know, suicide over time,
and just a financial disaster for Europe. And he's talking
about the American dream and how they really, if they
were smart they would duplicate what it is that we're
doing here, because the US is seeing economic change we've
not seen in decades, and we're now seeing the benefit
(10:58):
of all of this. The Atlanta Fed predicting five point
three percent GDP growth, which is spectacular. I mean, you
think about the inflation rate under Joe Biden over his
four year period, it was nearly six percent. It was
in the fives. You know, under Donald Trump, we're now
at two point six percent. Inflation now at a at
(11:21):
a record low, interest rates now at a record low,
gas prices at a record low. I mean, reversing everything
that Biden has done the last four years. You see
trillions in committed manufacturing investment money accelerated by one hundred
percent depreciation, and the one big beautiful bill that they passed.
(11:42):
You see the President opening up the lifeblood of the
world's economy, energy in every way fashion that he possibly can,
that is now benefiting every American. Right now, you have
states now that are selling a gallon of gasoline for
under two bucks a gallon. Most states are under three
bucks a gallon. That never happened under Joe Biden. Kamala
(12:04):
Harris famously said it's the cost of democracy. Well, lower
gas prices means that impacts everything you buy at every
store that you go to. So between lower gas prices, inflation,
and now the President's economic plan kicking in, and that
means for working class Americans, no tax on tips overtimes.
(12:24):
For elderly Americans, senior citizens, that means no tax on
social Security included in the largest tax cut in American history.
And you combine all these forces together, trillions and committed
moneies for manufacturing, energy dominance, the largest tax cut in
American history. Yeah, there's a reason why. And deregulation, there's
(12:46):
a reason why. You know, the third quarter of last
year we had four point three percent GDP growth and
now the Atlanta Fed is saying they're expecting five point
three percent GDP growth for the fourth quarter. I mean,
I can honestly see GDP growth, you know, hitting seven
percent at some point this year. And he's trying to
go to Europe.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
He went to.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Dabos, delivered hard truths to the assembled. You know, you
know elitists in Europe who need to be reminded of
what a disaster their policies are causing their own continent,
and then give them a stark reality check that without
(13:28):
the US being a part of NATO, without access for
them to the US economy, they are dead in the water.
And how much they need the US economically, how much
they need the US also for national security and defense.
And when he said, Okay, I'm not going to invade
a Greenland. Oh thank Okay, now you're going to have it.
(13:49):
It's sort of like Europe, you know, had a collective
you know, you know, the temper tantrum when Donald Trump
first said they got to pay more than double what
they're paying for their own national security through NATO, but
then they paid it. And when Donald Trump said, you're
not going to abuse American citizens anymore with your unfair tariffs,
(14:10):
and they balked and they whined and complained, and then
they agreed to pay tariffs to US. Similarly, they were
complaining about Donald Trump and standing up to Donald Trump
over his knowledge that Greenland is strategically important against our
top geopolitical foes. Well, now all of a sudden, he
can have it because he said he's not going to
(14:31):
invade it. They needed this wake up call. I don't
know if they're going to fully embrace it, but it
doesn't matter what they do, because we're going to prosper
in spite of it all. It's all up to them. So,
I mean, it just was shock and awe. I don't
even know any other way to put it. To watch
Donald Trump take on Europe and excoriate them.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
The President said that the fireworks for future deal with
NATO over Greenland would include access to mineral rights for
the US and its European allies, as well as collaboration
on the goal of the Golden.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Dome missile defense system.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
If you look at the geopolitical importance of Greenland, it
is so strategic, and especially with China and Russia knocking
on the door, remember Vladimir Putin and President she Without
the US and the might of the US military, they
(15:33):
don't really respect NATO nations. They don't view them even
as opposition. They don't view them as a geopolitical threat.
And this is where Europe as a continent has failed,
and failed spectacularly. They have given up on real national
security and defense. And it's you know, when the President said,
(15:56):
many of you would be speaking German or maybe a
little Japanese. It's it's funny in the sense that you know,
all good humor is rooted in the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But he's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And the US, you know, came to the defense of Europe,
you know, honestly, Winston Churchill, I think, you know, such
a heroic figure, historical figure preserving Western civilization in his time,
and a Reagan reminded us, you know, but we are
one generation away from extinction. Freedom is and Winston Churchill
(16:33):
would not he would not let up. He was unrelenting
in pursuing and knowing and understanding that America's involvement in
World War Two was imperative. And when he finally got
the opportunity, after what happened in Hawaii Pearl Harbor, he
(16:54):
went to the White House. He would not leave until
he got a commitment from FDR that a Maria can
help would be on the way and it would save
the continent of Europe. And in fact we did, and
we did it at great sacrifice. The you know, American treasure.
You can see it on display in Normandy and Americans
slamming the beaches of Normandy, you know, to help Europe
(17:18):
survive at that time, you know, the their great weakness.
But to just go back, you know, before the President
left on that trip on Monday. I think it was
Monday and the President was asked at maybe it was
Tuesday when the President was asked at this press conference,
you know, what are your plans? Are you willing to
(17:40):
invade Greenland? He goes, you'll see, and then he goes
and he gives this speech as he did in Davos
and says, no, I'm not going to invade Greenland. And anyway,
the Secretary General of NATO, he said in a post
on truth Social that we have formed the framework of
a future deal with respect to Greenland and in fact
(18:03):
the entire Arctic region. The solution, if consummated, will be
a great one for the US and all NATO nations.
Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the
tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February.
The first additional discussions are being held concerning the Golden
Dome as it pertains to Greenland. Further information will be
(18:24):
made available as the discussions progress. Blah blah blah, thank
you for your attention to this matter, which is what
he always says. But top NATO officials reveal the details
of this stunning meeting with Trump that produced this framework
because after the President announced the framework and it was
agreed upon, the NATO Secretary General telling Fox News the
(18:48):
US forcibly taking control of Greenland from Denmark was not discussed. However,
the issue, he said, well, that didn't come up. He
was very focused on what we need to do to
make sure that the huge Arctic region where change is
taking place at the moment, where the Chinese and Russians
(19:09):
are more and more active, how we can protect all
of that, and the framework that has been agreed upon,
And you know, that was the focus of their discussions.
And you know, I know that Greenland was not on
most people's radar, you know, a month ago. But this
(19:29):
president is thinking long term and strategically about geopolitical configurations
and about America's long term national security interests. I can
tell you right now that the odds that the Golden
Dome will be deployed during the Trump years are probably
(19:49):
pretty low. Maybe it will be the technology will be
in its infancy, but it will be his legacy, it
will be his initiative, it will be his drive, it
will be the fact that he got the ball rolling.
I mean, when you watch the conflicts, I don't care
if it's in the Middle East and the Iranians firing
(20:12):
two thousand pound ballistic missiles into Israel, and Israel's missile
defense system taking them all out of the air, or
most of them out of the year, or all of
the you know, thousands and tens of thousands, even hundreds
of thousands of missiles fired into Israel from Gaza, from Lebanon,
(20:32):
from the Huti rebels, and you know, you watch, I mean,
it almost looks like the simulations that the legacy medium
mob made when Ronald Reagan proposed strategic defense. They labeled
Star Wars to mockt But had Reagan not done that,
(20:55):
a lot of this missile defense technology would not exist today,
and Israel probably would have been wiped off the map
without it. And it took America and we created the
first missile defense system. We shared it with Israel, and
it has I've said for a long time it's a
band aid. But now the next generation of missile defense
(21:17):
is going to be far greater. I already have spoken
to a lot of national security experts and defense experts.
I mean, they're gonna they're gonna be using lasers to
take missiles out of the sky. And there's not going
to be an ability of any foreign entity to fire
a missile into the US without it being shot down.
(21:38):
It's just not going to happen. You can see the
beginning of the next generation of warfare unfolding before your
very eyes. You see it in the Middle East. You
see it with with Israel and their conflicts with enemies
surrounding them from from all sides, and how they have
been able to fight back by by keeping these you know,
very very damaged weapons from ever landing in their territory.
(22:03):
And it's only going to get more sophisticated, and it's
going to keep the world to safer place. Eventually, I
would imagine that we'll be able to stop any missile
from landing anywhere in the world. We have some updates
as it relates to the situation on the ground and
the invasion of this church in Saint Paul over the weekend.
(22:26):
Federal authorities now have arrested a third person, one of
these anti ice agitators when they storm this church service
in Saint Paul. Harmey Dillon will join us at the
top of the hour. She's with the Civil Rights Division
of the DOJ. We'll talk to her about it. Pam
Bondi has been on the ground now for the last
forty eight hours and she just arrested a third person.
(22:48):
The FBI director says is people are being charged with
violating the Face Act, which prohibits and we've gone over
this in detailed provisions two forty seven and two forty
eight with interfering with the exercise of religion at a
place of worship and anyway that announcement has been made,
and now a third arrest has taken place as well.
(23:10):
On the issue of Don Lemon, a Minnesota federal magistrate
judge refused to sign the complaint, charging you know, he's
calling himself an independent journalist, Don Lemon, in connection with
the protest inside the church. Let's go back to what happened,
and again you go through the Face Act.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It's very very clear.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And in terms of what the restrictions are, and Keith
Ellison's interpretation of it is insane because the law itself
Barr's conduct that injures, intimidates, or interferes with a person
seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom
(23:53):
at a place of religious worship. And there are other
federal statutes that likewise can be a place by the
Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, and I'm sure they're
going to pursue it now. Keith Ellison tried to make
the case and he's just wrong on the facts that
it really was only designed to protect abortion clinics, when
(24:17):
the statute expressly extends to places of religious worship, making
it a federal crime to prohibit all these things from happening.
As it relates to Don Lemon, the Attorney General is
enraged at the magistrate's decision, according to a source. But
let's go back and listen and we'll get into this
in more detail at the top of the hour with
(24:37):
Armey Dilon from the DOJ.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
But let's remind you of what was being done to.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
People whose only crime was they were trying to practice
their faith and exercise their first Amendment to freedom of religion.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Rene God, Renee God, shame?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where
are your people?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
The house?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Why are you not at Wimble every day fighting for
the humanity, standing for our people?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Where are you?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
You drink your coffee, you got your jewelry, you have
your nice clothes, But what do you do? What do
you do to stand for your Somalia, Latino communities.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I'm not gonna come in. You have no comment exactly the.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Day good all these comfortable white people who are living lavish,
comfortable lives while children are dragged into concentration camps. You're
living real life, nice lives with your lattes, doing absolutely
nothing for your Latino and Samali brothers and sisters. You
you come here to a man wearing a suit? Is
a preacher? Did Jesus wear a suit? Did Jesus prophet
off the words no Jesus would die with you?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Do not touch me?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
You touch it again and see what happens.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
You can You are a fake Christian? Why are you
not standing with your Famlia Latino communities? Why do I
not see you out at Whipple every day protesting this
attack on humanity? Where are you your sinners? You're pretending
to be Christians, but we know you live an easy life,
don't you a very easy life? Well, people are starving. Shame.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
This is now the face of the radical left in
the country.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Don lemon Well.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
He claims that he is an independent journalist that'll be
up to the courts to decide, but he sounds like
an advocate and part of the group and part of
the organization with his commentary.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
But I'll let you decide if you think that.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Listen, this is the beginning of what's going to happen
here when you violate people's due process, when you pull
people off the streets and you start dragging them and
hurting them and not abiding by the constitution. When you
start doing all of that, people get upset and angry.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
And if you remember what the Civil rights movement was about,
the Civil rights movement was about.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
These very kinds of protests, and for some reason in
our modern era, people think that in order to have protests,
you got to be you know, coordened off to a
certain area and you know what time you can protest.
There's nothing in the constitution that tells you what time
you can protest. You can protest at anytime. That's the
(27:21):
whole point of it is to disrupt, to make uncomfortable,
and that's what they're doing. And that's what I believe
when I say everyone has to be willing to sacrifice something.
You have to make people uncomfortable in these kinds.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
If you see how uncomfortable people uncomfortably and how harsh.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
People are being treated on the streets, you have to
be willing to go into places and disrupt and make
people uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Oh, that's say, accept there are laws that protect people's
right to worship. That's going to be problematic for them.
Interesting moments Jack Smith on Capitol Hill today, we'll play
some of those later in the program. He says he
stands by his decisions as a Special counsel and he
would prosecute Trump based on the same facts. Today, Jim
(28:08):
Jordan just tore him to shreds today and he went
through the history of Jack Smith's activities and then he
specifically remember remember Cassidy Hutchinson, he was a hearsay witness.
And meanwhile, they had on record the driver. Remember, the
narrative was that Donald Trump tried to commandeer the vehicle
(28:32):
that he was being driven in and forced that vehicle
to drive to the Capitol. The driver said it never happened.
So instead of using that testimony, remember in the Predetermined
Outcome primetime hearing Liz Cheney, Benny Thompson, and of course
their records have been destroyed. We don't know where they are.
But Jim Jordan just laid into Jack Smith. If he
(28:54):
thinks Cassidy Hutchinson was lying about lunging towards the steering wheel,
a story she was not there, and he gets Jack
Smith to say that he would have precluded Cassidy Hudgson's
testimony because it was hearsay, and slam Jack Smith over
him considering even using this woman as a witness even
though everyone knew she He said that was lying and
(29:16):
wasn't telling that she wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
She doesn't know. And Lance Gooden was amazing today. There
were so many good moments.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We'll play that for you coming up, all right, eight
hundred nine four one sewn our number.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
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