Trump Vindicated, No CNN Apology - 9.20 - The Sean Hannity Show

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All right, Glad you're with us. Happy Wednesday, and it's
the Sean Hannity Show. We got a lot of news,
and I know it's gonna be a nutty day when
you have Katie Hopkins, the Galpy one actually in New
York City is gonna pay us a visit. Let me
tell you some of the things that we are following today.
I think one of the more bizarre stories that the
Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, the guy that appointed Greg

(01:29):
Robert Mueller as the special counsel, apparently was interviewed by
the special counsel. So you have Muller interviewing his boss.
There's such a dramatic conflict of interest here. It's it's
almost unimaginable to me, but it's happening. Uh. We've got
a lot more on the wire tapping issue that we're
gonna get into. We've got media meltdowns over Trump, how

(01:54):
wrong they were over Trump and wire tapping. Their meltdown
over the President and his comments and everything that he
has been saying about North Korea and Rocket Man. It
was funny, and it wasn't funny. It was also serious.
And the left is in a collective amount. You know what,
there's nothing. If this president gave every American man, woman,

(02:15):
and child five million dollars each, it would never be
enough for anybody. They are locked into their positions. They're
not budging there, not moving. They wake up in the
morning hating Trump, they go to sleep at night hating Trump.
They dream hating Trump. It's it's it's beyond derangement. It
is now pathological on the part of many. One of
the things Cheryl Atkinson wrote an amazing column for The

(02:37):
Hill that the headline is, it looks like Obama did
spy on Trump, just as he apparently did to me.
And I'm gonna get into that story today. We're gonna
have a weather update on Hurricane Maria as hurricane season continues.
It just as one of the you know, seemingly one
right after another job start. He's gonna be a fellow

(02:58):
part you know, co host on the show We're all
said and done, all right. Also, Lindsay Graham is making
a return appearance to the Sean Hannity Show. How many
years has it been since Lindsay Graham. He doesn't look
he doesn't like me, and he's been upset that I've
attacked him. But I I am inclined on paper. After

(03:20):
talking with all of my contacts in the Senate, all
of my contacts in the House, all the Freedom Caucus
guys that I was calling around all weekend, talking to
anyone that would talk to me, the person that made
the most compelling case for Graham Cassidy was Congressmen Mark Meadows.
And look, it's not gonna ever be the perfect bill,
and I want you guys to stay with me here.

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Obama Care is a train wreck. And you know, look,
let's be honest, there are probably a lot of you.
This doesn't impact me. You have your plan, your doctor,
you have your special doctor, you pay your co pay,
you're used to your plan, and you like it. All right,
I get it. It's like, well, I'm I'm doing great
under the remembers, callers would call him under Obama, I've

(04:03):
never done better in my life. I'm gonna I'm glad
you're doing so well. But there are still thirty million
more Americans on food stamps and eight million more in
poverty and I hate to tell anybody, but it's not
always just about us and how we're doing. It's also
about everybody else that has suffered. And millions have lost
their doctors, millions have lost their plans. You have more
counties in this country that have one option, and you've

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got an eight thousand dollar on average increase in premiums.
And so Obamacare has been implemented and it's destroying people.
They can't buy new cars, they can't do anything, or
they take the risk. Now, here's what Graham Cassidy does
do and what it doesn't do for sure. And I
still can't get a copy of written text. So I'm

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holding back my support until I can read the specifics
because the devil is always in the details. And one
question I really want answered is when California goes to
single payer Hillary Bernie Obamacare and they go bankrupt because
it's never gonna work. They can't come running back to
the federal government and say that, oh, we we want
more money. That's not going to be the answer either. Now,

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the whole concept of federalism, I like, this isn't pure
federalism though, because the federal government is giving the money
to the states, it seems to me on the surface though,
that if you block grant the money to states, and
you have all these Republican governors that want this, and
the reason they wanted is should be should be transparent,

(05:32):
playing and obvious. They know they can do a better
job with the money for the people in their state
than the federal government ever dreamed of doing. And that's
simple math that probably you're gonna get an extra fifty
cents on every dollar. It's gonna be so efficient, and
they're gonna be so much more accountable to the people
in their individual states. And I like the idea of

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the states being the breeding grounds of of innovative ideas,
as we always talk about, and the worst way to
spend any dollars through the federal government. So in my mind,
it's a it's a really strong idea and concept, and
I want you to have all signs of this, which
is why. And I I actually love ram Paul and
since he's been on the program, I actually did a

(06:17):
lot of research and he's right. The President probably next
week is going to use the administrative powers of of
deregulation and he's going to allow states to create a
competitive environment, which is gonna open the door to not
only cooperatives like josh umber In in Wichita, but also
the health care savings accounts, the two big ideas that

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were never discussed the last time we were all debating healthcare.
So all of this is good. Now it's gonna get
rid of the employer mandate, and it's gonna get rid
of the individual mandate. Some of the taxes leave, most
of them stay otherwise, And in terms of those of
you that are pro life, well, that is gonna end

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up in a separate area of government and funding, and
that means that it will be subject to the high
protection provisions as it relates to pro life moneys. So
that's actually a good thing. So those are two things
that that we have going in our favor. And then
I think that it's an opportunity to at least begin
the process of undoing Obamacare. Now I'm not supporting it fully,

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I'm I'm trying to give you the facts, is what
I'm really trying to do. And that's why we had
Randon yesterday. Here's where I think we stand. Although you
know something, everybody in the Senate there's so backstabbing and duplicitous.
It's so obnoxious. It drives me nuts. And in your
daily life, most of most of the people that listen
to this program, you don't. You don't do business this way.

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I'm sure everybody in this audience, except if you're in
school or you're younger. How many times have you done
a deal where you shake somebody's hand, Like if I
tell somebody on my staff, I tell my staff they're
gonna get a summer bonus. Okay, I don't turn around
and they say no, never mind, and then they say,
well you promised, And then I said, well I changed
my mind, and well we should have put a town

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on paper. My staff ever said to me put it
down on paper, I'd be like, Okay, take your paper
and get out of here. Because your word is your bond.
What you say, you mean, what you mean you say.
Lauren's getting a kick out of this. Glad to see
you're in a better mood today, because somebody has been
in a very foul attacking mode to the host these
days over issues that I have no idea about. You

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said you're taking on Linda's hate list. Hate is a bad,
bad trait. It hurts the individual that's hating. You should
love your neighbor as yourself. I love God with all
your heart, mind, body, and soul in your neighbor as yourself.
Those two rules, and upon those two laws rest all
the laws of all the profits that have ever came
before Jesus came. And Jesus is the one that utter
those words, because that means it's truthful and right and

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just in the good way to live your life. What
I just want to say, I gave up my hate
list because I have a contempt list, because the same
thing some tables in the temple, like Jesus, Now, that
was righteous indignation. Your contempt is well beyond righteous, but
well beyond tables in the temple, well beyond righteous indignation.

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And for you to justify your continuation of your hatred list,
don't have hate, I have contempt. Contempt is the same
thing people on some tables in the temple. All right,
you're not Jesus, and you're it's not the same righteous anger.
And Jesus was right because it's supposed to be a
place of fort righteous right now, it's supposed to be
a place of worship in a nice light. Okay, all right,

(09:33):
your rights are over for the rest of the day
to talk. Okay, because I'm making a point. So Mitch
McConnell was reluctant, he didn't want to bring Graham Cassidy
up and my attitudes. Okay, so let's say it fails
right now. It appears now this is the duplicity. Let
me as I get back to my point. I'm getting
word that people like Rob Portman and other people out
there are saying, behind the scenes, oh gosh, thank god

(09:56):
you're opposing it. I don't want to have to take
that stand. And Senator Mari and where is he from Kansas,
He's doing the same thing. And you know what, And
then when people tell me that they hear these people
say it, there's like fifteen sixteen senators that go behind
closed doors, and I get word back exactly how much
they hate Donald Trump and what they say, how they

(10:16):
want to stop as agenda. The only reason we're in
this position is because you've got a hundred House members
that stabbed us in the back and never had any
intention of repealing and replacing. And then you have six
or seven Senators, including Portman of Ohio and others, that
they vote for repeal in and then seen when it
actually matters they're not going to do it, just like
the show votes in the House. So these are very

(10:39):
frustrating and unique obstacles, but you still want to progress
for the sake of the American people. So the answers
either do nothing and wait till eighteen and maybe vote
them out. Maybe it's just too much work, So you've
gotta get done what you can get done now. So
McConnell didn't want to have a vote, but he's planning
a vote for next week because the looming September thirty

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deadline to pass the bill with just fifty votes will
create enough pressure to finally pass the repeal. It's not
a full repeal, look Grand Paul's right, but the President
will use his administrative powers which will create the opportunity
to pave the way for healthcare cooperatives and health savings accounts.
And I'll brief you on that in the days to come.

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I just don't have enough time now. But it did
get a pretty critical boost in this sense, is that
the error Zona Governor Doug Doocey. Now, Lindsey Graham's challenge
is going to be to get two of these four people,
assuming some other jerk in the Senate doesn't back away
from their promise to at least improve the health care system.

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But that would be McCain his best buddy, That would
be Murkowski of Alaska. I know Alaska as health challenges.
We can help Alaska out. That's fine. Then you've got
Collins of Maine. And who's the last one rant? And
you got Rand Paul, And I thought, I listen, I
think Ran might there might be a compromise, and Rand
has the power, hopefully to make the bill better. I

(12:05):
like Rampaul. It's like few people that I really like,
and Washing. I really like Rampaul. I like Ted Cruz.
You know, I don't even know anybody else anymore because
that they never They don't want anything at this point
to do with me, because I'm too honest and too
truthful for them to. They just can't accept the fact
that the Republican Party has lost all identity and they're
so disorganized. And then I like the Freedom Caucus and

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Mark Meadows. I'll bring him on again this week, and
Mark Meadows makes a strong case for it. One of
the most bizarre happenings in all of this. There seven
days business days left before the Senate's last chance to
repeal Obamacare, but instead of putting the pedal to the metal,
you know, and getting these Senate holdouts in line. Washington Examiner.
I was stunned when I saw this today because they
just had let's say, a Memorial Day holiday, then they

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just had a fourth of July holiday, Then they had
most of the month of August off. Well, apparently that's
not enough, because the GOP is now only under a
major time crun to pass to the legislation before midnight
September because McConnell's too stubborn, a non cloture and won't
go with a simple majority, which he should do, which
historically we have done. And the Democrats are just so adamant,

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there's not there's not one reasonable bone in their body.
But I will tell you, if we don't begin to
change this fast, and the Democrats ever get back in power,
it's gonna be a single payer system because this party
has moved so far to the radical left. This is
not There's no blue dog Democrats anymore, very few of
them anyway. Now we find out that, well they're going

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away on vacation again. I'm like you, people have got
to be kidding me. Who gets this much time off. Alright, one, Shawn,
you want to be a part of the program, We'll
ask Graham the questions. I want to see the bill
before I get on board with anything, but I'm inclined
to support the principle of it, which I like. And
you heard Rand Paul's arguments against yesterday, and you'll hear
Lindsey Graham's arguments for today. And I just think the

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truth and reality they of seven senators that never had
an intention in keeping their promise in the same with
a hundred House members Republicans. All right, as we roll along. Eight,
all right, let's go to Tim and Philadelphia, because I'm
laughing at his comment that's on my collar screen here. Hey, Tim,
how are you glad you called? Welcome to the show?

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Thank you so much for taking my calls in honor
to finally be able to call it to you. Thank you.
The honor is all mine. What's going on. I'm a
big fan and a huge Trump supporter, and I've been
thoroughly convinced that this latest push into healthcare is nothing
more than a distraction. Um there, It's an avoidance to

(14:44):
get away from having to talk about immigration reform and
getting on the record um and also getting on the
record about tax reform. I believe that that Lindsay Graham
has um the no votes in his back pockets to
kill this at the at the very in and using
this to get away to distract us. And and I'm well,

(15:04):
let me ask you this because I don't have a
ton of time in this segment, but I really want
to explore this with you because I've actually look, I
don't think Lindsay is in the group of people that
really wants Donald Trump to succeed. So let's let's assume
for a minute you're right. And look, I'm not making
a final determination. I just like the idea of letting
states control as much as they can and not the

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federal government, even though it's not pure federalism, as I
explained earlier. But let me put that aside. Let's say
you're right, and let's say Lindsey Graham has the no
votes in his back pocket. What does he get out
of it? What does what does he get to do?
Because it's only the vote is gonna take place next week,
it's got a September thirty deadline, and then all the

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issues that you're right, they need to focus on they're
still gonna be held accountable for what they do or
don't do. Yeah, I agree, But I think that when
Trump pulled um the debt, the debt feeling off the
table so they couldn't use that, I think they automatically
came in the back door with this. This came out
of nowhere, and and I think that they're just going

(16:09):
to continue to try and distract and the Swede and
and just say, oh, we rain out of time. Well,
but here's the here's the problem with your theory. Because
I've thought through this myself. I don't think. I don't
think it's paranoid or insane what you're saying. But the
problem is September is what next week? When is it
next Saturday? So that the time is this is it.

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It's make or break time. This vote will be scheduled
next week, so it's gonna happen, and it's either gonna
pass or fail. And we've still got the thirteen weeks
following for them to stand up and pass their agenda
or don't. Right. Yeah, and I hope I'm wrong. I mean,
I agree with you, I support putting this back to
the States, but I just look, you know, I just

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don't trust Lindsey Graham, all right, believe me. I'll even
mention to him how much he hates me. Right the
other news of the day. When we get back alright
to the top of the hour, we'll get calls in
here on my phones are blowing up because I'm putting
Graham on. All Right, everybody calmed down a second. Here,
this is gonna be voted on. I want you to

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know what's in it. I want you to be educated,
and I want you to be informed, and I want
you to make a I want you to make an
informed decision. That's it, you know. I wish I could
put this picture up on the website where the bill.
You gotta remember this now comes after three failed GOP

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repeal attempts in the Senate, and you've got Bernie Sanders, well,
he wants Bernie Care Obamacare on steroids and in a
single payer healthcare system. And there are different ways in
which it impacts every different state. In other words, you know,
in some states Medicaid expansion is eliminated call sharing subsidies

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or eliminated tax it's are eliminated individual employer mandate their
eliminated um. Some have changes to traditional medicaid or taxes
or essential health benefits and price restrictions on older Americans
and health savings accounts. You know, as I know the
White House having spoken to my contacts there, the President

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is also going to use the administrative maneuvers. And I'll
talk more about this tomorrow. I don't want to get
too off track here, and it's going to begin to
confuse everybody because it's confusing. Um So, I think there
is there, there's a lot to get to in this.
It seems like it comes down to four people. And
I think the question we first have to ask yourselves?

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Am I right in my analysis? In this analysis? Am
I right in saying that Republicans have put the Republicans
have made it impossible to do the job that we
all would prefer if you don't? And then you could say, well, Hannity,
you know we just need to hold out in Okay,
that's great, but you hold out? And what's the hold

(19:03):
out for? What are you waiting for? Why are you
laughing in there? Something happened that's hilarious? What is it?
Go ahead? Tell me? I just love your qualists. What
did the call to say that? I think that rich
Online five is just all right, let me go. I'll
go to Rich. I'm not listen. I'm why did I
put rand on yesterday? Why don't I Why am I
putting Lindsey on today? Why am I putting Mark Meadows

(19:23):
on tomorrow? And some of the Freedom Caucus? Guy? Because
I want you to make an informed decision. That's the
biggest reason and my inclination before seeing the bill is
I like the principle of sending it back to the states.
It's got to have some restrictions and caps in terms
of they can't come back hat in hand, say no,
and we need more. We adopted single payers. So all
of you people that did a good job in your
state and you made every you turned over every nickel

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and made it work for the people of your state.
Oh now we want more of your money. That can happen. Alright, Rich,
go ahead, thank you. Lindsey Graham, listen. If the Tea
Party was smart and put up one guy instead of
seven guys the last time he ran, he would have
lost because as it was against seven guys, he only
had of the vote. I don't trust him. I don't
like him. He's gonna Trump had it from day one.

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If he and John McCain spent any more time on CNN,
they'd have their own show like Kennedy and Combs used
to have. And this is a one point four to
trillion dollar boondogg like he's trying to put forth. And
I'm glad Rand Paul was on yesterday and this morning
saying he's not going to vote for this. Well, I
talked to Rand's guy Sergio last night, and they're looking
for ways to make it better, they said, So we'll

(20:30):
see what happens. I mean, look great, repeal baby straight Listen.
I agree Trump can't do everything on his own. Everything
Trump can do on his own that was on his checklist,
He's done everything. So so here's your option, in your choice,
that you begin a process at least you stop the
bleeding of Obamacare. That is Listen. You're probably not living

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this nightmare in South Carolina because South Carolinians are way
too smart. But if you live it, if you live
in they voted Graham twice already, all right, you kill
him here, all right. So so the question is do
you want to begin improving it for the people that
have at the worst, or do you want do you
want to leave it in place? And then if the

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Democrats get in power before you're able to put in
the next generation of better Republicans, which could happen, then
you're stuck with a single payer system and it's over.
And my my, my thought is I'll take It's not
I'm not I'm not selling this to you because I
haven't read the bill. I'm saying I like the principle.

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Does everyone hear me? I like the principle of letting
the states determined through block grants. I don't want California,
New York, New Joysey and Illinois coming back hat in
hand though, and saying give me more money because we
blew it on a single payer system and we overspent.
So you people in the red states, you need to

(21:53):
subsidize all of us in these big states. Wrong. That
can't happen because you know what, I know, that's exactly well,
you want people to die. That's gonna be the next argument.
And at some point you gotta you gotta cotton run
here reality check for everybody. I'm sorry that a hundred
Republicans in the House are full of crap, and I'm

(22:15):
sorry that seven Senators that are Republicans they're full of crap.
But you gotta deal with the hand a delt sometimes
in life. Now we can rigidly stand on our mountain
and say we're not changing in principle, and I'm gonna
tell you what that's gonna get you nothing ZIP. And
so I'm trying to balance it here, and I'm I'm

(22:36):
keeping an open mind. I'd arg you Tube as well.
You know there are smart people Conservatives that are gonna
vote for this, Ted Cruz, the Freedom Caucus, UM, and
and again, I just there's too many questions. And I'll
ask Graham when he comes on. I can't if I
don't talk to the guy, can't find out what's in it.
I want to get a quick update with Joe astarti

(22:56):
weather bell dot com on what's happening with Hurricane Maria.
Apparently as we speak, I'm looking at the Drudge report
pounding Puerto Rico. How bad, Well it was, It's the
worst storm Puerto Rico UM has ever had. You know,
when you look at Harvey, Harvey was not the worst
storm as far as the wind and the intensity of
the storm, as the rain that did that in Texas

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and one Erma went through the Keys. Have been stronger
storms and the Keys, but this is now the benchmark
storm for Puerto Rico. It bisected the island, came in
on the southeast coast and is leaving on the northwest coast,
and came directly across And I would say that it
U it's a catastrophe for the island. I mean, I
cannot I can out word it any differently. Uh, it

(23:40):
is weakened considerably. I don't think it's anything beyond a
category two right now. It will take a couple of
days to rep back up again, but it will be
in that area to the east of the Bahamas. Uh,
probably by the weekend, and trying to rep back up,
and then we're gonna have to see how it interacts
with Jose, which is the dorm it's weakening off New England.

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As to whether it ever directly impacts the United States
or not down the road next week. At this time,
this is This has probably been the most back to
back I can remember. Now. We've had a lot of
storms and hurricane seasons, but I don't remember you being
a co host of this program before. Well, you didn't
have me on in two thousand and five, if you know,

(24:22):
you didn't know me as well. Because back then it
was as bad and we weren't on the year in
eighteen eighty six. I think our great great grandparents, you know,
may have been. But eighteen eighty six that hurricane season.
I look at that map and I just I just
can't even believe it's seven hits on the United States
by you know, when you're talking about eighteen eighties six
in the hurricane season, there's not one single solitary person

(24:44):
in this audience that as a clue of what you're
talking about. That not one person in that shoan. I
understand shoan as you know, as you know in history
and the constitution everything else, it is very important to
understand what happened before. I agree, that's why you're the
best active I agree. No, no no, no, I'm just if
I can't give you a hard time. I can't give

(25:04):
anybody a hard time. Um, all right, So where's it
going after this last question? Well, it's it's going to
go just to the east of the Turks and Caicos
Islands that just desolutely devastated by irma. IRMA went through
there as a Category five, and then after that it's
going to be a slow crawl northward, well to the
east of Florida. People in Florida just put their mind

(25:27):
and ease about this storm. I don't worry between October
one and tent If something shows up, I'll be back
to let you know. So that's I don't think Florida
has a problem from this. Once we get it to
the Carolinas. Well that now that there's where things start
getting interesting, because the the store may be out at sea,
but start trying to turn back to the northwest toward

(25:48):
the Carolinas for the middle of next week. So I'm folks,
I'm gonna tell you something. You know. I like to
I like to swing and win all the time and
be right, but I'm trying not to be wrong here.
So we're gonna be probably have to just say we're
going to put in this position four in a mile
southeast of Cape Patters by next Sunday and Monday, and
say during that time it may turn back to the

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northwest for a while. This is a very difficult pattern
relative to the Atlantic. We see it in the Pacific
storms dancing around each other. It's called the fuji are effect,
believe it or not. But in the Atlantic it is
a rare event, and so there's a lot of complexities
going on more so than normal. All right, job is starting.
We do love your historical knowledge, and one of the
things you've been able to teach us here on this

(26:30):
program is that they there are patterns with weather based
on the exact conditions, and you can go back and
actually figure out what they were, and it gives you
as much insight as possible, no perfection in to terms
of where what the track and the cone is going
to be like on each of these individual storms. So
we do appreciate everything you're talking about. Thank you, Job
is starting weather bell dot com. As you want to

(26:50):
follow this, um, you know, we're getting some new information.
This is really scary. It was reported last night the
Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's pre dawn knock no knock raid
on Manafort's home after he testified in the early morning.
He and his wife were reportedly taken out of bed
and held at gunpoint. I really held at gunpoint, and

(27:14):
Mrs Manafer it was personally subjected to a weapon search.
I know, probably as standard operating procedure, but it sounds
like a little bit of overkill here in my mind. Anyway,
they entered with their guns drawn, which I guess the
standard operating procedure. We don't want law enforcement ever getting
hurt and uh, but it seems like at that point,
I don't think he's a flight risk at that moment

(27:36):
in particular. Um, Now, this is the oddest circumstance. You
got the deputy Attorney general, Remember he appointed the special
council that Comy wanted because Comey leaked through his friend
to the New York Times and got his best friend,
Robert Mueller uh to appoint the special council. But the
person that made that decision, because Jeff's sessions, I don't
know why he did it, recused himself. I would wish

(27:56):
he didn't do it. The Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein,
a poins Mueller, and now Mueller's team apparently was interviewed
by Mueller, so Muller view Mueller is interviewing the guy
that made the appointment of him. Can anybody say conflict
of interest? You know, slight conflict of interest? This this
sounds too bizarre to be even possible, but it's all true.

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And you know, remember the timeline of this whole thing
as it relates to what happened with the leaking part
of you know when when it was announced, Yes, the
CNN has to admit that they leaked. Let's go to
the mainstream media. Remember i'll play this coming up later
in the program. The mainstream media set over and over
and over and over and over again mocking Trump for
wire tapping claims when Trump tweeted it on March fourth.

(28:43):
The bottom line is, and always has been, there is
no evidence that Donald Trump was wire tapped by Barack Obama.
It was and continues to be alive our conspiracy theory.
President is at it again. And whenever something like this happens,
I wonder what are the president's sources of information? Where
is getting these ideas? And that has been denied by
President Obama obviously has better sources than fake news, and

(29:06):
now we know it as well by the FBI director.
They are all saying it did not happen. So as
the President calling all three of those individuals liars, I
don't think they're taking seriously enough how devastating this is
to the American system for one president to say, my
predecessor y are tapped. We have been all right enough
of that. Now, this is what we were reporting on

(29:28):
the at the time with Sarah Carter. If you listen
to this now, there was also a separate vice was
an overall face and I don't have as much information
on that. That visa, though, was a general FISA that
covered the whole Russian hacking investigation. What we don't know
is who was connected to that visa. What was that
visa looking at? And that is very highly classified. Nobody

(29:51):
wants to talk about that particular visa right now. There
is a distinction between a five and then a wire tapping.
But they did tap. I mean they we're looking. They
did tap. They were looking. Cheryl Atkinson, she used to
work at CBS News and I think that I believe
now is with Sinclair and she has her own show.
And Cheryl Atkinson wrote a great piece today and she

(30:13):
went on to say, looks like Obama did spy and
Trump as he apparently did to me. And she reminds
us of what happened in in her particular case, and
she says we're missing the bigger story as it relates
to Manafort and how they did wire tap him before,
during the campaign, and after the campaign. And she says
it means the U S. Intelligence agencies. What I've been

(30:34):
arguing here secretly surveiled at least at least a half
dozen Trump associates. At least those are the ones we
know about. That would be Carter Page and Michael Flynn
and whoever they pick up. Incidentally, those numbers could be
in the how many hundreds, and Samantha Power unmasking and
Susan Rice unmasking, and you know Rhads unmasking, Ben Rhodes

(30:56):
and others. I mean, this is insane. And then you
got James Clapper and sal Yates acknowledging they too reviewed
communications of political figures. So what I've been saying is
this is weaponizing our intelligence agency the very powerful tools.
They can listen to anybody, they can surveil anybody, and
if they're gonna amask Americans and they don't use minimization,

(31:17):
we have no Fourth Amendment rights in this country anymore.
And they did the same thing to Sharyl Atkinson. We'll
get her on the program later this week. But you know,
the patterns here are really, really scary and dangerous if
you believe in the Fourth Amendment and your constitutional rights.
All Right, we got a lot coming up in the
course of the program, including yes, Lindsay Graham, and we

(31:40):
got Greg Jarrett coming up in much more one. Shawn
is our number. Having the best conversations with a friend
of mine. I just said, look, it's it's never what
we want. I don't like it, but it certainly seems
infinitely better than Obamacare. And I said, it looks like
it's gonna be or nothing. So my friend rights back,

(32:01):
I'll take nothing. So I wrote back, I said, okay,
I love you for that, but what about the people
other people that are screwed If it's better for them,
and we have to think of them in this, they're
stuck with Obamacare. It's a disaster, all right, Lindsey Graham. Next,
I know you're excited. If they get Graham caps D

(32:30):
to the floor, I will offer an amendment for straight
repeal and people, once again we'll have a choice, and
so people can direct their ire towards someone who doesn't
vote for what I think is immortalizing Obamacare, keeping it
forever and diving it up among the states, or they
can vote for a complete repeal that I'll put forward,
and so then Republicans will just have decide which they want.

(32:52):
It's at one point two trillion dollar federal grant program.
And let's just not repeal. I didn't promise people to
keep a trillion dollars spending program and reshuffle the money
among the states. This is not repeal, it's not even
it's barely Obamacare light. It keeps Obamacare. It's not what
we promised. We repeal the penalties the upon the individuals

(33:13):
who don't purchase insurance upon employers. We repeal that penalty.
We repeal the medical device tax and over the counter tax.
We save a d thirty four billion dollars if we
give power back to the states so that states can
come up with the system that works for the state.
Giving power to the patient, we drive a stake in
the heart of single payer healthcare plan. If somebody votes
against our bill, they're voting for Obamacare. If you're voting

(33:34):
for if you're voting for our bill, you're voting for
power to the patient, power to the state. You'll be
able to keep your health care plan. If you've got
health insurance, you can keep it. If you like your
health care plan, you will keep it. All right, You
get the message there. On the Obama side of this,
we had ran Paul on yesterday, and of course now
Mitch McConnell is saying that he didn't want to bring

(33:55):
Graham Cassidy to the floor unless he felt a good
pass And now McConnell has said that he will allow
this vote to come up Graham Cassidy next week and
hoping that the looming September thirty deadline to pass it
with just fifty votes because of reconciliation will create enough
pressure to finally pass the bill. One of the authors

(34:15):
of this bill, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, doesn't always
like me, is on our Newsmaker line, how are you?
I hate you? How well, listen, You're not the only
person mim McConnell. Mitch McConnell hates me more than you,
so don't worry about it, you Listen. I am actually
inclined to support this bill for a lot of reasons,

(34:38):
and I've spent a lot of time talking to a
lot of people, um, and I love the idea of
giving the states the power and the authority. I mean,
it's look, it's not it's not exactly you know, federalism,
if we're talking about government, government money. But I get
the intention. I agree, I agree, it's not what I

(34:58):
would like to do, but best last best chance to
stop single pair of healthcare. I think, so you agree
with me. It's not the best plan, but it is
certainly at least gives states options, which I do like
a lot, and it's certainly better than Obamacare. Here's a
Rampaul was on yesterday. His biggest complaints are this, It
doesn't repeal Obamacare and the taxes stay. Is that true? Uh? No,

(35:21):
not completely. We repeal the UH, the individual mandate, employer
and date put her the heart and at the federal
level that's the funded UH. The money goes through the
SHIPS program, which gives it high protection in terms of
the pro life community. We repeal the medical device tax,

(35:42):
we take the other taxes, and we blocked Granham under Obamacare.
Four states get the money. You're at California, Massachusetts, in Maryland.
They're very high cost medicaid blue states. So Kentucky's governors
on board because he believes he can do a better
job with the UH than Obamacare does for Kentucky. The

(36:03):
presidents on board because it truly is draining the swamp.
It is a repeal and replace. And here's what I believe, Sean.
If we get the money in power out of washed
him back to the state. Best end of the march
towards single payer of healthcare because states will not send
it back to Washington. You see, I tend to agree
with you on that front, and I think the ultimate
goal of many is a single payer system, which would

(36:25):
be an unmitigated disaster. Now it's interesting because I also
talked to members of the House, I mean for the
most part, and he just wants to see the details.
Both Congressman Mark Meadows of the Freedom Caucus and Dave
brad of the Freedom Caucus. Actually one other, Louis Gohmer,
who I talked to. Their all their their tentative, you know,
real close. Yes, is let me, let me talk about

(36:45):
what's going on inside the Senate. Is your buddy John
McCain going to support it. Well, here's where John is
has been. Uh. He voted about thirty times to repeal
and replace Obamacare like the rest of us. The campaign
in twenty twelve that Obamacare here was killing Arizona and
it is. Uh. He is for federalism, and this is
federalism versus socialism. Bipartisanship. John likes bipartisanship. I'm by Parson

(37:11):
when I think it makes sense. Here's what I've concluded, Sean,
that the Democratic Party is going left, not to the
middle on healthcare. That Bernie Sanders on the day we
introduced our bill, Um introduced single payer healthcare in full
blown fashion. And every Democratic candidate Sean running for president
is with Bernie. So to expect Chuck Schumer to produce

(37:34):
a compromise that would fundamentally alter Obamacare is unrealistic. Obamacare
is not good enough for the left, So there is
no biparson path. Uh, this is our last best show.
There's no two closer guys in the Senate than Newe McCay.
And if you can't get them, nobody's ever going to
get them. Well, here's what I'm not expecting John to

(37:55):
vote based on friendship. I'm expecting him to look at
the bill. The governor of Arizona his on board. Uh.
We now have a system where governors will have access
to funds that would have been in the hands of
a bureaucrat, and they can design systems as flexible as
we can make it. It's not as flexible as like
I would like ghost reconciliation, but you can do health

(38:15):
savings accounts. You can do a lot of things. And
to two Senator Paul Bill CASTI is a doctor. Also
he believes that this is a fundamental change in our
healthcare is delivered. And if my bill was everything rand
Paul said, why is the Obama so vehemently opposed to it?
It seems to me. And by the way, you do
have enemies that are talking behind your back. You do
know that. And I always tell you the truth. I'm

(38:37):
told that Rob Portman is running around thanking people for
opposing it so he doesn't have to And I'm told
what is name, Senator as a Moran from Kansas is
doing the same thing. Have you heard that? Uh? No,
I like them both. I think, Uh, you know, aren't
you glad that I give you all the dirt that
goes on in your own are Yeah? You better check
in with and when they lie to you what I

(39:00):
said about you can tell them, I said, Sam Brands, Okay,
Sam brandbacks on board. He's the governor Kansas does well. O.
How does a lot better than Obamacare? Because here's the deal.
What we're doing is giving money U two states? Uh,
in parity? Not just let me ask this. So after

(39:21):
California goes single pair with Jerry Brown. If this bill passed,
is there going to be any cap that they can't
come back hat in hand begging the federal government for
more money than they get originally. Yeah. The other states
will object because it will come out of their high
Here's what I think. If California goes to single pair
of healthcare, it's going to prove one or two things

(39:41):
that you are and I are right, or they're right.
Here's what I would think that if you reimpose the
employer mandate, people will move to neighboring states. You can
under this bill. It really is federalism. You can impose
the employeer mandate, the individual mandate in your own state.
You just can't drag the rest of it. It's not fause,
it's it's it's government. It's federal money and going to

(40:02):
the states. But I hear what you say. I'm not
I'm not I'm not being petty. We're putting the right now,
You're right. The money and power that is here's the deal.
The money in power is no longer in the hands
of a bureaucrat, is in the hands of people you
can vote for. If you don't like Obamacare, who you
complain to. If you don't like what I'm proposing, you
complain to your governor, to your state House representative. And

(40:22):
so here's what I think. If California wants to go
full blown Bernie Care and their system a collapse and
the people neighboring California would get a lot of people
moving into their states, let me ask this. Uh. One
of the reasons we're in this situation is because I
argue that there's a hundred House Republicans and the seven
or six or seven Senators Republicans that voted against the

(40:45):
same repealed bill that they voted for in really pisses
people like me off. And I think the Republican Party
has in many ways lost their identity. So here's my question.
I mean this is, basically, it seems like you're down
to four votes, assuming you can get Portman and Iran
and a few others, it seems like it's Murkowski, Collins,
Rand and McCain of those four you need to who

(41:07):
are you gonna get? Rather than talking about within people
on the phone, here's what I'll say. I can't think
of a better idea. If I could, I would present it.
Republicans were told for seven years by the Republican Party.
If you give us power, We're gonna repeal and replace Obamacare.
Democrats are serious about their ideas. I want to make

(41:28):
sure that every Republican and middle the road person knows
that we fought like tigers. We did everything to repeal
it if they did to pass it. So I think
the power of this idea is gonna take hold. I
think Obamacare is collapsing, can never be fixed. And I'm
hoping that what follows if this bill fails as complete disaster.
President Trump is a present behind it. So I'm hoping

(41:51):
that we get fifty votes. But I do know this,
We're gonna vote. Republicans are really good at talking about
what we don't like on healthcare. I am now in
the position of telling you what I am for. I
am for money and power. Going back home out of Washington.
All right, we gotta take a break. We'll come back
well more Lindsey Graham as we continue the Shawn Hannity Show.
All right, As we continue with Senator Lindsey Graham of

(42:12):
South Carolina, why did the full repeal fail when when
Republicans voted for that, you know, I think probably was
think it. Here's What I think happened is that everybody
was worried about what replaces Obamacare if you repeal it.
So I've answered both questions. I told the President Trump
last night. He says, this is really a beautiful concept. Uh.

(42:34):
You repeal it, and you replace it with something the
state centric, more accountability, uh, more voice for the consumer.
So I've always believed that the replacement part is tripped
this up. The other ideas sean were better than Obamacare,
but they're not. They were not fundamentally different. This is
fundamentally different in terms of who delivers your health care

(42:55):
and how it's delivered. It's a bureaucrat versus people in
your own state. And that's what President Trump likes the most.
And to my Republican colleagues, I'm the worst to say
that this is not a perfect bill. This is a
block grant versus what I think will be over time socialism.
Let's turn around. We can't go as far as we'd
like in a new direction, but let's at least go

(43:16):
in a new direction. Do you think Mitch McConnell should
get rid of the supermajority and culture? Uh No, I don't,
But that's not the issue. Here, we don't need sixty.
But after septe this didn't pass you with Well, here's
what I'm saying. Since World War Two, they've had the
majority in the House to send it in the presidency
five times more than we have. You gotta think about

(43:37):
what happens tomorrow. But rather than talk about that, can
I just say thank you for giving me a chance
to express my voice on what I think is the
biggest decision the Republican Party will make. Well, I agree,
that's all right. Let me because I know you're in
an airport and you're I'm driving your nuts, but I don't.
But I'll be honest, I don't. I don't really, I
don't really care, um, your public servant. But here's the

(43:59):
most important is the most important question. Listen, Okay, you
have a lot of pull with John McCain. You have
a lot of pull. And John McCain thinks that people
like me should go straight to hell, as he said
the first day back, which is really nice of him,
and that's I consider a compliment. And he considers people
like Cruise a wacko bird. But putting all that aside,
he did make this promise. You've been best friends with

(44:20):
the guy. You gotta you gotta be able to tell
me you can get McCain and Murkowski or rand or somebody.
Who are you you need to who are the two
going to be? Sean At the end of the day,
we're going to vote. And all I can tell you
is that I believe I've got a better idea than
Obamacare about factor of ten. And I didn't come on
the show to beat anybody up. I came on the
show to tell you that we've got a historic opportunity.

(44:42):
I'm actually I I just want to make And here's
what I think about Fenner McCain. I think he believes
in federalism. I think he likes bi partisanship. But I
just don't see a pathway forward. There's no way Schumer
can do anything major because the Democratic you've talked to him,
What has he said to you? What as he set
up to that he's looking at it? And let me

(45:03):
tell you what he said. I like the concept of
Graham Castie, what the Governor Doocey And let me say,
Scott Walker has been a hero here. But Governor Doocy
from Arizona came on board and that really helped a
lot because he believes this will work for Arizona. So
we're gonna vote. The role will be called and everybody
will be held accountable. And I look forward to the debate.

(45:23):
I am so excited. Finally is a Republican to have
something that I'm for, not just against Obamacare. And let
me tell you, they're scared to death. Do you think
President Obama would come out against this bill if you
didn't think it had a chance with that. Dan Sullivan
has been obviously what is the Lisa Murkowski, we had
a really good talk with her. Alaska's a unique state.

(45:44):
It's about more for patient cause because there's so few
people in such large territory. We're trying to be fair
to Alaska and give them what they need because they're
just so different. I'm excited. I think I think you
think it's gonna you think it's gonna pass. Do you
think this is gonna pap? I really, I really with
the President behind it. I taught the President Trump like

(46:05):
three times a day. Mike Pence has been on the phone.
I hope next week will have a majority of Republican
governors come out for this. I'm inclined to supported Senator.
I'm inclined to support it. I hope you can be perfections.
I hope you can. Last last question, the president is
expected to act administratively on an issue of seventy four.

(46:27):
I believe state law federal law that would allow states
to then move into healthcare cooperatives. Is that part of
your plan to in the sense of your factory, that
he can he can do that apart from us, President
Trump has really changed the regulatory environment. Uh. Here's what
President Trump is not gonna do if this fails. And
the choices to throw nine and eighty million dollars a

(46:49):
month to prop up Obamacare without any real change. Why
would you throw good money after bad? And here's what
people don't realize. Next month, they'll be four point eight
billion dollars of employers SESS sent out under Obamacare under
the employer mandate. Obama put it off on his watch.
Uh illegally, I think so. They're gonna be almost five
billion dollars in new taxes hit the economy in October

(47:12):
if we don't repeal and replace with our bill. All right, Senator,
I'll let you jump on your plane. Uh, well, if
you can, we'd like to have you back, maybe early
next week before the vote. Yeah, well, and we're trying
to do your show. And will you please also send
me a copy so I can read it. Yeah, I will,
and you know I will just let you go through it.
And again, Mark Meadows has been terrific. I think Mark

(47:32):
gets the big picture this, this is the last chance
to well, He's the one that's convinced me more than
anybody that's listen. I'm always inclined to sending stuff back
to states. I am, It's natural for me. So I
think this is probably the best compromise we're gonna get.
And uh, I actually applaud your efforts, considering you hate
my guts now, but we love having you on. Thank
you for being with us. Your gun. Let's make a

(47:55):
promo out of that, alright, Senator Lindsey Graham of South
Carolina eight hundred ninthful one, Shawn is a number till
the top of the hour, Shawn toll free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program. I
think probably one of the biggest lawyer interrogation beat downs

(48:15):
on public television was when Trey Goudy took on James Comy.
We're gonna play this here and then we're gonna place
Sarah Carter. Yeah, Trump was, in fact a FISA warrant
was issued. As a matter of fact, two of them
were issued. And then we're gonna play Greg Jarrett, who's
gonna join us on the other side of this saying

(48:35):
that Jeff Sessions need to needs to resign, and we're
gonna go through all the issues of why he's making
that case and that claim. But first let me start
with Trey Goudy. I had not sent classified material nor
received anything marked classified. Clintons that she never sent or
received any class and information over her private email. Was

(48:56):
that true? Our investigation found that there was class of
information since so it was not true that. I am
confident that I never sent nor received any information that
was classified at the time it was sent and received.
Mr Clinton said there was nothing marked classiout on her emails,
either sent or received. Was that true? That's not true.
There were a small number of portion markings on I

(49:17):
think three of the documents. I never sent um classified
material on my email, and I never received any that
was marked classified. Mr Clinton said, I did not email
any classified material to anyone on my email. There is
no classified material. Was that true? There was classified material email.
People across the government knew that I used one device.

(49:40):
Maybe it was because I am not the most technically
capable person and wanted to make it as easy as possible.
R Clinton said she used just one device. Was that true?
She used multiple devices during the four years of her
term as Secretary of State. But we turned over everything
that was worked. Really, did every single thing personal stuff?

(50:03):
We did not. I had no obligation to do so
and did not. Sector Clinton said all work related emails
were returned to the State Department. Was that true. No,
we found work related emails thousands that were not returned.
All I can tell you is that when my attorneys
conducted this exhaustive process, I did not participate. Terror Clinton
said her lawyers read every one of the emails and

(50:27):
were overly inclusive. Did her lawyers read the email content individually? Now,
there was also a separate vicet was an overall face
and I don't have as much information on that. That visa, though,
was a general visa that covered the whole Russian hacking investigation.
What we don't know is who was connected to that visa.

(50:48):
What was that visa looking at? And that is very
highly classified nobody wants to talk about that particular visa
right now. There is a distinction between a visa and
then a wire tapping. But they did tap. I mean
they were looking. He has spent seven months his attorney general,
and his tenure is notable for a series of failures

(51:10):
to act where action is demanded, and he has done
nothing about James Kummy or Hillary Clinton or Susan Rice.
He can appoint a special council to do it, a
second special council. You can't count on Mueller to investigate Comy,
for example, but he hasn't done it. And I argue
that he has not just been unproductive and ineffectual, he

(51:31):
has proven to be incompetent. And I hate to say that,
I really do an acting attorney general, which is anybody
who's been confirmed in any branch, including the Justice Department.
So there are plenty of people who could serve as
acting attorney general until a permanent one is named. So

(51:52):
there are plenty of options here. But Sessions needs to
do the right thing and resign, all right. Joining us
now is Fox News legal analysts Greg Jarrett is with
US and regular obviously on radio and television, And let's
start with Trey Goudy and when he had James call
me on and he's like, it's true. This, it's true. This,
it's true. This, it's true this, And I'm like he

(52:13):
he made the case and Comey solidified the case slam
dunk breaking violating laws. He totally did. Um. You know, look, first,
Comey used his office and took he stole essentially government documents,

(52:33):
and then he conferred him to his own benefit and
leaked them to the media for the sole purpose of
appointing a special prosecutor. That's a violation of the law
eighteen US one and a couple of other statutes. So
come he violated the law. But the other thing he
did was that he perjured himself. Apparently. Um, a year

(52:55):
ago he was asked under oath before Congress, did you
decide to prosecute him before or after you interviewed her?
And he said after, Really, James, because it's now been
revealed that he wrote a statement exonerating Clinton. Why did
the months before in May and there was seventeen other people,

(53:17):
the whole investigation was predetermined. He determined in advance that
he was going to exonorate Clinton. Now you know, was
it the fix was in. Did somebody tell him to
do that to protect Clinton or did he do it
on his own? But either way, it's obstruction of justice.
And it's also a lying to Congress. I thought that

(53:37):
was a crime too. And then it doesn't it put
into context when you put the tarmac meeting with Lauretta
Lynch and him taking her talking point. It's a matter,
not an investigation, doesn't it It begins to to fit
a narrative, and the narrative is is the fix was in.
You're absolutely right, so I mean, but then then bring

(53:59):
it to what your article says, you think I've always
liked Jeff Sessions. I'm not calling on him to resign it,
but I don't want him to step up. Look, I
think Jeff Sessions is a wonderful guy, a very fine U.
S senator. But it's easy to be a senator. You're
one of a hundred. Being an attorney general is a
very difficult job. And in my judgment, he's incompetent. He's

(54:20):
incompetent because he's failed to take action where action is demanded.
He has done nothing about Komey and Clinton, Susan Rice
and Loretta Lynch. Is there any way that behind the
scenes he's doing all of these things. We'd know it.
We'd know it. Yeah, we we would absolutely know it.
But he could reopen the investigation into the email server.

(54:43):
He could he could investigate. No, because he in his
confirmation hearings, if you'll recall, he recused himself from anything
related to Hillary Clinton, not just the Russian medalling, which
he put into motion, you know, hours after he was
sworn in. But he promised he would take no action
against Hillary Clinton, which means he needs to appoint his

(55:05):
second special counsel. Then then why would he be able
to appoint the special council because it was Rod Rosenstein
that did it the first time. No, you don't want
to use uh Rod Rosenstein and Robert he could do it,
even though he said he was recusing himself. He could
just say, Okay, I'm letting somebody else does exactly because
the second special counsel, he said he shouldn't resign before

(55:28):
he takes action against Clinton. Call me and Rice, here's
what you do. You appoint his best special council, the
second special counsel, and then you resign. And that's what
he should do because he's not up for the job.
I hate to say that because I really like the guy.
Is it there's still time for him to get these
things right, though there is there. I mean, he's the
attorney generally the United States. He's the top lawyer in

(55:51):
the US. He can take action against Clinton, come and
Rice and Lauretta Lynch, and he can he can undertake
investigation except for for Clinton, in which he would have
to appoint a special counsel because he recused himself. All right. Now,
there's a Washington Examiner piece, uh, that came out today
about Robert Mueller, and this, to me is the most

(56:14):
bizarre story in this whole fiasco because it's become a fiasco.
And anyway, Mueller's office interviewed the Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein.
Now isn't you even believe it? Well, I mean, I
mean Rosenstein appointed Mueller. So here is the underling interviewing

(56:34):
his boss as a chief witness in an obstruction case
against Donald Trump. So so Rosenstein is both prosecutor and
chief witness. He can't do that. I mean, for God's sakes,
you you get disbarred for doing something like that as

(56:54):
a lawyer. But everything seems to be out of whack.
I mean, Comey himself has legal issues, but he's not
being investigating because he's best friends with Mueller. Then you
have Rosenstein or Rosenstein I'm not sure how you say. Um,
he is now involved in being interviewed by Mueller, but
he appointed Mueller. I mean, and then you've got all
the people that Muller appointed. You got eight of them

(57:15):
Democratic Democratic donors to Clinton Obama the Democratic Party, zero
Republican donors, and Mueller's firm Democrat Hillary Clinton donors. Is
there any question, Sean that Mueller is out to get
Donald Trump? No, I'm convinced. Now here's what bothers me.
I have my sources in the White House and I

(57:36):
talked to them and they said, no, he's gonna be fair.
And I'm like, what do you what are you thinking?
I don't believe he's fair. Nows not. They're being snuckerd
And I've talked to them also and they told him that, yeah,
I have. And what do they say when you say that, Well,
they don't believe me, but I guarantee you bad. Bet.
Mueller has been a long time partner ally of James Gummy.

(57:59):
He is angered. When come he was fired, he is
out to get the man who fired him, which is
Donald Trump, which is why he leaked the information government
information made on a government in a government car and
a government computer that he sent via his friend to
the New York Times's a crime, it is, uh, you know,
under the UH Privacy Act. It's a crime. It's also

(58:23):
a crime to use your political public office for a
political purpose. It's also crime to steal government documents. That's
what he did. Um. And you know that all these
crimes that all these people have committed, and it's overwhelming
the evidence and fairly incontrovertible. And I'm looking at all

(58:43):
of this, and nobody investigates this. And Trump was right
on March fourth when he talked about wire tapping, and
nobody seems to even care about that because then it
goes back to surveillance, unmasking, leaking intelligence. Those are all
crimes we've basically had with this president. A leak a day, right,
no other president has has. Obama was like Gladys Kravitz. Uh,

(59:08):
you know, who was the nosy neighbor. Nobody, nobody under
fifty knows who the hell you're talking about. The woman
who was peeking behind the blinds, and listening to conversations.
That's Barack Obama and his administration and Susan Rice and
Samantha Power and John Brennan and all the others who
were listening in. They were spying on President Trump and

(59:28):
they are that listening to his conversation. I want to
get back to this, Gregg Jarrett, Legal analysts and uh
with the Fox News Channel. You can get his columns
on Fox News dot Com. We'll take a quick break,
we'll come back, We'll we'll continue on the other side.
We'll pick it up right there. Katie Hopkins is in
the next room, giddy and jumping for joy because for
the first time she's in studio. Quick break right back,
will continue. Alright, as we continue, Gregg Jared, Fox News

(59:51):
Analysts with us. All right, let's get back to the
discovery that in fact I was right, the President was right,
You were right, Sarah Carter was right, John Solomon was right,
a couple of my colleagues, Mark Levin was right, a
few of us who were right. And there were warrants
for Trump Tower visa warrants, and we she still thinks,
Sarah Carter, that there might have been one criminal warrant

(01:00:13):
that visa, though, was a general FAISA that covered the
whole Russian hacking investigation. What we don't know is who
was connected to that visa. What was that visa looking at?
And that is very highly classified. Nobody wants to talk
about that particular visa right now. What we know so
far does not indicate that Trump Tower my lines, as

(01:00:33):
he put it, unless you were saying that he owns
every single thing in Trump Tower. That president came out
about this, right, we all remember those tweets on March four.
Let me just read them again for anyone he's forgotten. Terrible,
just found out that Obama had my quote, wires tapped
in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This
is McCarthy, is um, he continued, How low is President
Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred

(01:00:55):
election process. This is Nixon Watergate? Bad open parentheses or
guy he was derided for this. But Mark, is he
somehow vindicated tonight that we still haven't gotten to the
bottom of right. My problem is that finds a warrants
are all secret. It's a secret court with secret judges,

(01:01:16):
and there's nobody very hard to obtain, supposedly, right, except
if you submit false information and support of your application
for a warrant. So apparently, um, they used the anti
Trump dossier, which was purely fabricated, to support the warrant.
This is the Michael Steele dossier. Just to remind people

(01:01:38):
that talk about hookers at the Ritz peeing on a bed, right,
I mean, it was totally absurd and called me wanted
to pay that guy. Comey wanted it, he liked it.
He used it in support of the warrants. So they
spied on the president with fabricated evidence in support of
a warrant. See, this is the problem with fiss secret court.

(01:02:00):
So there's nobody there to challenge it. There's nobody there
afterwards to challenge it because nobody knows it's happening except
the judges. And the judges were snookered. They were fooled
by this fake evidence. And the President is right to
be outraged. How Come there's very few people in the media,

(01:02:20):
even in the legal profession, that are willing to analyze
this the way you are because they hate Doutald Trump.
The mainstream media hates Douttle Trump. They're out to get him.
They'll do anything to bring him down. And look I
I talked to lawyers all the time who communicate with me,
uh by phone and email, and they're outraged by this

(01:02:41):
whole thing, but they're afraid to talk. So I talk,
and I write columns and and you have the same
bullseye on your back as I did. Welcome to the club.
You and I both Welcome to the clock and down
the street. It's a little dangerous, yeah, a little bit alright, Greg, Jared,
great work, and you're gonna join us tonight on TV
Hannity on the Fox News Channel ten Eastern, by the way,

(01:03:03):
moving a nine eastern starting next week. We'll take a
we have a few surprises about that. Did I tell
you about the surprises yet, Linda, We have a few
little surprises. Take a quick break, we'll come back. We'll continue.
This is the Sean Hannity Show. Good grief. She's joined

(01:03:23):
us in studio, which is even worse on the spot.
Oh my gosh, here's Morgan writes me today, goes congratulations
on moving to nine and can we get rid of
can we play something like that? Katie really loves here.
Let's go hands out? Do you not give me this? Row? Oh? Per,

(01:03:46):
first time in studio Katie Hatkins is gonna sing Florida
Georgia line Baby, this is how we roll. Let's hit it,
Miss Tams, got a little hang running. I'm ready a
little stronger than you think. You want a stronger drink
and take it. Feel right. This is exactly like it's

(01:04:10):
listening to hell. This is where the party's at. This
is hey roll. This is how we roll, How we roll.
I haven't got any lyrics, so I'll just say what
we would. Light it up with your hands up. This
is how we roll. This is how we teach you

(01:04:31):
get out the first grade bullets up the sky. This
sounds like fransom. Yes, so you just purposely made it alright,
Like one and only Katy Hopkins is calling me is
in their studio today. She comes in with a British flag. Yes,
that music that you like is your introduction? Is horrific testing?
What do you use in real life? What kind of

(01:04:52):
music do you listen to in real life? What do
you like? I like anything from the eighties. I like
kind of the Pet Shop Boys, anything that's got a
fake You've gotta tell me. George Michael next Elton John
couldn't be more popular in light of Donald Trump saying
rocket man, how gorgeous. Wasn't that amazing? It was the
best moment of my life? Say he's stats. He goes,

(01:05:13):
if this rocket man carries on North Korea? We all
just went yes. Finally someone in the UN speaks a
bit of our language. Let me play the media. I'm
only gonna play a snip. We got like three minutes
of the media and I played it early in the
program today. These people losing their minds over Donald Trump
calling there's two bits speaking normally, speaking like a speaking.

(01:05:36):
It's what we had someone who spoke like a normal
person and said the stuff that we say at home.
He says in the U. N what's so wrong with that?
We've got a human in the white well, blow me down,
Blow me down. You work at the Daily Mail, so
you work at one of the better organizations. Although if
you have when you attack me over there, you people
are vicious. When you are vicious, me tell you you've

(01:05:57):
got lovely teeth. It's one thing I tice. I walk
up here to studio, you look around. That's American thing.
You are so good at teeth and as a pretty
good not mine. Look like these are the best teeth.
These are the best teeth money can buy. I see that,
and you or you can't tell their fake. You can't
tell anything. You know they look a lot younger than you.
That suggests their fake. Your song? Mean, why are you

(01:06:18):
being so mean to me? Just telling you the truth?
So here's a funny story. So I played ice hockey
my whole live roller hockey, street hockey, that's all. I
played his hockey hockey hockey. And all of my friends
lost teeth, all of them got stitches except me. So
I figured I dodged the bullet. Maybe I belong in TV.
But as you walk up to your office, is here
in your studio? That's one of the things you noticed
as a brit is this blinding white teeth? And also,

(01:06:39):
gentlemen here, maybe there's a hint there for you people
in Great Britain. What do you like to wear a
tight pant? That's the other thing. I don't like my
tie jeans? Is that what you're saying? Just walking up
behind gentlemen on the way here, it's a lot of
high and tight pants pants, yes, what plants plant a
loans pants? Yes? Alright, So listen, what if you like
white teeth? One people in Britain is called I know,

(01:07:02):
I know it is. My daughters have braids. I missed
out obviously, That's why my teeth looked like that. I
think your teeth looked fine. I never noticed your teeth ever,
wouldn't notice? Okay, So I fell off a roof two
and a half stories, landed on my face. This part
of my arm from here down was dangling like this,
and you, alad, I bust well, I was there two

(01:07:25):
other guys makes you laugh. Me nearly dying makes you
laugh on the floor with your faith mastered in your
hanging off all aloud. You know, nobody knew who Sean
Hannity was when I was a contractor, and nobody cared.
I don't think. Yeah, but that's quite a good way
to be, isn't it. Would you prefer to be known
or not known? I don't like and I like anonymity better.

(01:07:48):
And nobody believes it now, you guys in TV and radio,
you get pet I never went into this for money.
I went into it because even when I worked for
free and for nineteen grand a year in radio number one,
I never dreamed I'd be successful ever, and you're still not.
I'm still not Number two. Are you such a wise ass? God?
What happened to you? Did your mother drop you on

(01:08:08):
the head? Number two? I did it because I always
want my country. I just love my country. I want
my country to do better. And it shows. And that's
why people love you so much. And people on my
Twitter are really nice about you. They love you very much. Alright,
So Pierce, I was gonna have him call, and he
just said, I can't. I'm a dinner. He's so important,

(01:08:29):
Deco can possibly pull himself away for thirty second, but
he had time just to go, oh, well done forgetting
your news. So it's funny because he was on CNN
up against me and I lost. Yeah he did. He lost,
but you could say that no he did. But that's
not the point. I mean. It is the point. You
beat Piers Morgan and I beat him on my columns

(01:08:50):
as well, then you get more clicks on him. Yes,
I tell him to find man in the best red
section because he'll ever go there. But also but he
don't live in guns So I win in America. And
I said to him recently, I said, how stupid were
you as soon as you kept telling America to disarm?
I'm like, thank you chen, see you later. You know,

(01:09:12):
I'm very pleased that you beat him. But no, he's
not a bad man. A bad man, no, I Actually
he's irreverent, icond of classic, He's tough. I love his
Twitter fighting. Well he does a morning show, right, yeah, right,
well that's not Is that an excuse for having fifteen chin's?
I don't know what what you get a morning show?
Does that mean I have to the women have fifteen chins?
No they don't. They still look very hot. Pierce Morgan

(01:09:35):
ate the sofa. This is not okay. Why are you
being so much so? Last time you didn't meet me
in person and you just said to me you're a
lot younger and still had I did not say any
of that. You called me chubby. Well, I just said
that you were sweating from under your man boobs or
your moves, and you try to wrap him around me.
No I did ninja? Move on you? Ninja pretty ninja.

(01:10:00):
I now train martial arts five days a week. You're
so hot? Do you know how hot you are? Can?
Literally wait a minute, do let me do haward'son. No? No,
how hard am I tell me? On a scale of
one to ten, you're about to so you're you're so
nice for my ego. This is really help. He is
helping you, not really much. I don't you know, I'm

(01:10:22):
not by the way you're you're much. You're tinier than
I ever dreamed, And like, I can't believe all this
irreverence and irreverence and hate comes out of somebody so tiny.
It's really annoying. What's annoying that everybody always says that
because they have an impression of me that you're better
than like or maybe even fact. And so when I'm
in cars and people have heard me on my radio

(01:10:44):
show and have a radio show, yeah right, and uh anymore,
they say your voice is different to how I imagined,
And I say, well, what's my voice like? And they
say your voice is fat? So I don't know how
your voices. I'll tell you what everybody would be a
bad me, so I will tell you to get out more.

(01:11:06):
Is this your show of mine? Do I get to
say it's always mine when I'm on? You know that?
So people do say you're a lot skinnier and younger
and taller in person. So I'm like, what that weld
short guy on TV? What do you mean by that?
That's like a horrible thing. I think it's because on
the like seeing you now, you look at this sort
of blow that you'd go for a beer with. You

(01:11:27):
look like a sort of friendly guided And on TV,
I guess you've got your suit on and you're purposeful
and you're supporting Trump, and so you seem bigger and
more stern. Maybe that's it's bigger like this you seem friendly. Well,
TV and radio are very different. I'd ask you for
directions if I saw you on the street. Now, what
does that mean asking for Is that some kind of
code that you want to a British thing? Like? There's

(01:11:48):
people you wouldn't ask directions. So I passed the low
bar standard low bar, and my bars low like. I
used to work in Disneyland Paris and as a security
as my holiday job. Why we used to pull pedophiles
out the Peter Pan made. So that's my bar. Did
you did you have a flask that you'd take STIPs from?

(01:12:08):
Although really had like a uniform and everything, and I
could run around being dramatic and I was useless. I
was the most use I could see you playing a
Disney character. Yeah, me too, I would But the problem
with that as you hit one of the kids, you
would lose your patients. So why did you lose your
radio shop? Because after the Manchester bombing, where you know,

(01:12:29):
another jihadi lunatic took out our children, girls, girls and
my daughterday, Yeah, I came down and I tweeted, we
need a final solution to that's yeah, And that wording
on that tweet was sufficient. Were you in your just
be honest, we don't care. Were you in your mind
thinking about the final solution? No, I was thinking you
were saying, we need an answer. My husband was going,

(01:12:50):
you need to You're going to have a busy day,
you need to move because you know I'm usually responding
to that sort of thing. Did you correct it right
away as soon as you figured it out about five
minutes and they still fired you from the radio show? Yes,
And the tweet wasn't related to my radio show, wasn't
on amal and if it was just a tweet on
their own accounted and then amended. And you know, this
is a serious topic because there's people right now sitting

(01:13:13):
in there underwear in New Mexico, right in New Mexico,
and that's only one state, and seriously, they're paid there
are groups paid millions of dollars to monitor shows like
mine and in the hopes that I say one thing,
one thing, and and even if I made an honest mistake.
You were on the show once and one of these

(01:13:33):
groups wrote something about us. Do you remember what one
of those groups was writing about me and Katie and
we crossed the line, and that we're talking about underwear
or something stupid, just something irreverent and fun and just
kind of lightning the program up a little bit. You
don't remember. It would have been maybe it's shaving my
legs I usually took. I think it was something like that,
something some stupid about raises something stupid and you know,

(01:13:55):
something fun, something relatable. And I have a gun at
my head every hour I'm on there because they want
to kill me. Politically speaking, they weren't me dead and
they want me silence. And it's not individuals operating like that.
There's a coordinated systematic effort through networks of linked individuals
in different kind of lobbying groups, and that's how it worked.

(01:14:18):
I would have been gutted if I got fired for
my numbers, but given we were the most listened to
radio show in my time slot, I guess I can
take away that, but I couldn't syndicate my radio program
in Great Britain. I bet it would do well. Of
course it would do well. It would fly. Then they wouldn't.
But they wouldn't put me on the ear. Not a
chance because because of you know, I have a passion
for Trump, a passion for Trump. That's not a permissible

(01:14:40):
The people Britain have a passion for Trump. Yes, there's
loads of them. And that's why. You know, part of
my radio show was this one last remaining space. I
felt like I was holding open the cupboard doors in
London and lattin this little thing come through that went,
we love Trump. And then I'd have gaze for Trump
because they don't have a voice. And then you'd have
you know, even the left I'm a liberal lefty ice

(01:15:00):
port Trump, and they had a voice for a moment
in time. But now those doors are shut. By the way,
we don't even know who's running your government anymore. Jes
we don't know, We have no clue. All right, stay
right there, we'll take a break. Katie Hopkins. You know
there's no point ever and having a topic when we
bring her on the air, because she's just going to
take over the program anyway. And poor Haraldo, you were
just brutal to him. And he's a friend of mine.

(01:15:21):
You're a brutal He's like, I know the President. I'm
still gonna say that's exactly what he was doing that.
I don't get a care if you're friends with the president.
I don't care if you you mentioned your husband. How
many years have you been marrying? Too? Long? Like eight years,
which is an all time record for me and beats
my first marriage, which was less than a year. I
bet you're really easy to live with too. So I'm

(01:15:41):
like a joy you like this at home? Yeah, he
wakes up in the morning and he goes, oh damn,
And I'm like, what is it? Because I just really
married to you. He's got that. We'll take a break,
Katie Hopkins as well us. We'll get to your calls
and we'll play some of these tapes I've been talking about.
We'll get back to that. Sometimes basic security your life
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(01:16:03):
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Katie Hopkins is blowing up the radio show again. Why

(01:17:31):
we invite her on? I have no idea. We'll continue
pready to reveal and replace Obama's executive artists. Then you've
come to the right place, the Sean Hannity Show. All right,

(01:18:11):
Sean Hannity Show, we'll get to your calls next half hour. One, Shawn,
Katie Hopkins is in town. Um so, I got a
crazy busy night, but you and my team are going
out to dinner, and I'm gonna stop by and hang
out with you for as long as it's humanly possible.
What you mean is you're you're dipping out, but you're
just gonna put a head in just politely. Uh, Okay,
I'm dipping out, and yes, I'm just stopping in and

(01:18:34):
I'm gonna say hello. Uh. And you know, I can't
imagine you and Linda together drinking, which is gonna be
a very bad scene. You don't have to imagine it anymore.
We're gonna bring it live to you here in New York.
It's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. I mean,
I think we ought to put out an All Points
bulletin and we were going to Facebook live at Here's
the thing. If you guys are hanging out with Jason,
you know where you're gonna end up at the end

(01:18:55):
of the night. I don't want to go there. That's
a bar for men, not for women. You know what,
Katie Hopkins deserves to see, Kyote Ugly. We're gonna put
Katie Hopkins on the bar like Coyote Ugly. No, we're not.
We're not. No, you don't have to put her on there.
She probably that's why she'll end up And you know it, Yes,
we do know, Jason, how would that go over at
your favorite tavern? They'd love to have her. They they

(01:19:17):
love with that attitude. All they have to have. They
might offer a job before the night. I don't even
think Ethan's allowed to go because he just got married.
Have you ever been there, Ethan? Would you ever go?
I would never go, so get married? I did. How
long ago April? You still like her? I still loved it.
Why would you think, why would you think he doesn't
like him? What his question is that you have a

(01:19:38):
look at her and think rats the wrong one. No, no, no,
I I look at her and think, what the hell
was she thinking? Right? Is she hotter than you? That
is such a good game, you know, when two people
are walking towards you, and you go who did better?
He did? She did? And then you pick the person
out of the partnership that did better. You got a
hotter wife, way hotter had her in your marriage, Katie,

(01:19:59):
Oh me, I'm weigh hot at now. It's totally my husband. Actually.
So now they have this ridiculous standard. What is it
fit and properly? What does fit improperly? Properly that you
abide by the state propaganda which says that Palestine is fantastic,
that Trump is wrong, that Clinton is always right. Anyway,
Katie Hopkins, we love you. We're glad you can come

(01:20:21):
to New York. I will what do you call it?
Pop in and out and out? Show your face, show
my face, show my bottom, let's show your bosom, show
your face. Okay, Katie Hopkins, read to see you in
New York. We love you, Thank you, so much, and
you guys have fun tonight and I'll pop in as
you say, thank you, alright, eight nine one, Shawn, Your calls,
comments intuitive, inside observations are straight ahead. The bottom line is,

(01:20:45):
and always has been, there is no evidence that Donald
Trump was wire tapped by Barack Obama. It was and
continues to be a lie, our conspiracy theory. President is
at it again. And whenever something like this happens, I
wonder what are the president's sources of information? Where is
he getting these ideas? And that has been denied by
President Obama, by the former Director of National Intelligence, and

(01:21:07):
now we know it is well by the FBI director.
They are all saying it did not happen. So as
the President calling all three of those individuals liars, I
don't think they're taking seriously enough. How devastating this is
to the American system for one president to say, my predecessor,
why are tapped? We have been living in really through

(01:21:28):
the Trump campaign and unto this hour, this alternative reality.
The way that Donald Trump seems to think about what
a president can do feels very Nixonian that he has
a much more inflated view of a president's powers for
him to believe that a president could, even in theory
because the election is on going and tap her, tap

(01:21:49):
the opponent of his preferred candidate Trump's mind is a
little bit of a mystery to me. Now, there was
also a separate facet was an overall face and I
don't have as much information on that. That visa, though,
was a general FISA that covered the whole Russian hacking investigation.
What we don't know is who was connected to that visa.

(01:22:09):
What was that visa looking at? And that is very
highly classified. Nobody wants to talk about that particular visa
right now. There is a distinction between a visa and
then a wire tapping. But they did tap, I mean
they were looking. Hold on a second, Maggie, because I
do think it sounds like the president was right. If
Paul Manafort has a residence in Trump Tower and Palm

(01:22:29):
Manafort was being surveiled and wire tapped, Trump Tower was
wire tap? Now it was not. I'm sorry, how do
you know? Well, I don't know, but I know that
what we know so far does not indicate that Trump
Tower my lines as he put it, unless you were
saying that he owns every single thing in Trump Tower,
that president came out about this, right, we all remember
those tweets on March fourth. Let me just read them

(01:22:51):
again for anyone he's forgotten. Terrible. Just found out that
Obama had my quote wires tapped in Trump Tower just
before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthy is m
he continued, How low is President Obama gone to tap
my phones during the very sacred election process. This is
Nixon Watergate? Bad open parentheses or sick guy? He was
derided for this, But Mark, is he somehow vindicated tonight?

(01:23:15):
You realize? And I said this to a reporter earlier.
Today's begging me to do an interview with him, and
I'm like, I turned down the New York Times Sunday cover.
I'm not doing you. Actually, it's a nice person. Person wants,
but you need to get your opinions out. So many
of your critics, you say, don't understand you. I said,
they're never gonna understand me. And I said, if I
gave every one of them a million dollars, they would

(01:23:38):
still hate me and still think I am evil. I said,
So I'm not going to convince them. And why am
I gonna waste my time trying I'm not. There's nothing
I can do or say that's ever gonna make anyone
in the media like me. Now there you hear the
media was mocking the President when he tweeted out that,
in fact, Trump Tower had been wire tapped. Oh turns

(01:24:00):
out he was right, And it turns out he's right
almost so many times he's proven right. Who's right about
bin Laden? How early was he was talking about bin Laden?
Then we first reported with Sarah Carter on radio and
TV on March the eighth. The President had tweeted that
out March the fourth. The media beat him up day
in and day out. That's when they started suggesting he's
a liar, liar, liar, liar, and he's mentally unhinged. Well,

(01:24:24):
now CNN, their anchors admit Trump was wire tapped. In
other words, if their wire tapping Paul Manafort in the
conversations when he is the campaign chair, everything called Sarah
Carter and John Solomon reported is true. So they finally admit.
But it doesn't matter. This president could do nothing right
in their eyes, nothing they have. They're locked into their positions,

(01:24:46):
and their position is delegitimized. Uh and character caricature, pain
of caricature of the president. I'll give you another example.
Let me play this CNN criticizing what I thought was
an amazing speech at the United Nations. Look, this wasn't
a speech. This was a sermon, and he wasn't a president.
He was a preacher up there. Given his dark worldview

(01:25:08):
about threats and conflict. This was a speech about conflict
around the world, not a speech about cooperation. And that's
a real shame. I do think, Um, there is a
bit of a contradiction in in In in his presentation
today talking about sovereignty, talking about a renewal spirit for
all of these nations, talking about nations needing to be patriotic.
I imagine if you talk to folks in Venezuela, you

(01:25:31):
talk to folks uh in Northa, in North Korea, they
imagine that they are being patriotic, right, almost trying to
teach himself at an eighth grade level about you know,
basic sovereign multinational issues. But I agree completely, Uh, this
was this was absolutely, very stark, very absence of any
of the normal universal values and mutual cooperation that we

(01:25:53):
try to seek in Asian international bodies. Well, Wolf, I
thought that was one of many examples of how intellectually confused,
if not outright in coherent, this speech was, if you
just think about it, in one breath, he was urging
the world to come together and collectively confront the threat
of North Korea, and then in the next breath he
is chiding the world. So this is a guy who
goes around thumbing his nose and international entities and international

(01:26:16):
attempts to confront global challenges. This was a very somber,
uh dark speech, if you will Wolf And I'm remember
thinking back to the first appearance that President Obama made
here in two thousand nine as president, of course, a
far different reception. Of course, he had a booming, enthusiastic applause.
It was remarkable to see a leader of any country,

(01:26:38):
but the president of the United States, standing in the
well of the United Nations General Assembly, threatening to totally destroy,
not retaliate, not hurt, not isolate, not prove a point,
totally destroy a country. And I spoke a short time
ago to a senior UN diplomat who described it to
me this way, saying that he diplomats around him were
taken it back. He describes to me like a wind

(01:27:00):
had gone through the room. When the President uttered those words,
we will totally destroy North Korea, said it was an
emotional reactions those words about North Korea that particularly sparked
a reaction in that room audible gasps. I'm told, extremely unusual,
uh and emotional reaction. As this diplomat said, Now here's

(01:27:25):
what they're not criticizing before I play this for you.
They're not criticizing that rocket Man. I love that nickname.
It is so good. You know, Elton John's gotta be
loving this. Somebody told me that Elton John's rocket Man
song skyrocketing to the top of the charts again, and
it's a great song. I have seen Elton John in

(01:27:46):
concert twice. I saw him once at Rush Limbaugh's wedding
and that was amazing. And then um, I happened to
see him. I got an invite last minute when I
was covering the Super Bowl last year with the owners
of the Patriots, Robert Krafty. So why don't you come
to our private party after I interviewed him on the
TV show. So I'm like, can I bring my staff?
And He's like, sure, bring everybody. So we all went

(01:28:08):
and there was another private concert and he's just an
amazing performer as evidence through the many decades that he
has done this, and it's just it's timeless. Music is
what it is. He really has captured and understands music
better than anybody anyway. So CNN is now criticized. What
can he do right? In their view? Nothing there there

(01:28:30):
It is twenty four seven Trump arrangement syndrome. Hold on,
we have a special dedication for you. It's gonna be
hands up, everybody, all out your cell phones him. I mean,

(01:29:03):
so it's timeless anyway. Let me here's the media. He
can do nothing right at the u N. Nobody's critical
of the fact that he's firing missiles rocket Man over Japan.
He's threatening Guam, he's threatening the free world. He's a lunatic,
and of course he's kept no agreement has ever made.
So the whole world's in jeopardy. Let's blame the guy
that's telling them they better knock it off or they

(01:29:24):
will see the death and destruction before the rest of
the world does. All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Here E nine for one Shawn toll free telephone number
right really close to my hometown where I grew up,
Franklin Square a Long Island, New York in Rockville Center.
It's Susan. Susan. Hi, how are you glad you called?
Welcome to the program? Hi Sean, what's going on? How
are you? I'm great. I wanted to tell you how

(01:29:47):
excited I am that you're going back to nine o'clock.
I was upset when you went to ten, but I
still watched. Thank you. Nine o'clock is such a great
it's a great time spot. And then you can go
against you know what's her name with the You know,
it seems everybody I'm going up against at nine o'clock.

(01:30:08):
Where's the same glasses? I'd so? I bought myself a
pair and maybe I'll wear it my first moments on
the air. You know, let me can I comment about
this because thank you for your support and you you
are unbelievable. You know what motivates me is and you
know Franklin Square, because Franklin Square and Rockville Center are identical, really,

(01:30:29):
and Lynbrooke, Malverne, all those towns closely closely, they're they're
just very much Middle America. World War two heroes fought
all over. I mean, just amazing place for me to
grow up and and tough, but not too tough, you
know what I mean, really good salt of the earth,
people that make the country great. Everybody's trying to set
this up as Hannity versus conspiracy theorist. Well no, now,

(01:30:54):
you and I both know they're gonna be on her side,
and I am just giving you the unbridled ratings truth
here in August. I'm at ten, she's at nine, and
literally she she barely beat me, and she was number one.
I was number two. So I'm starting out as the
underdog here, and but you were number one for a
very long time, yes, sir, after well I'll be I'll be. Listen,

(01:31:18):
I am number one in my time slot now I'm
but you know, I'm not looking for the first day.
I'm not looking for the first week or I listen.
All my life, I've gone up against giants. I went
up against a thirty year veteran, one of the most
talented guys in radio and talk radio in the country,
Neil Boorts, and I was the only guy that was

(01:31:39):
able to compete with this guy over all those years.
I went up in New York when I first went
to afternoon Drive against Bob Grant. Bob Grant as you know,
a legend in New York. When I went on TV,
it was first against Larry King, Haraldo Rivera and Brian
Williams all on the first night I went on the air.
And I can proudly say I've won every battle. But

(01:32:02):
I'm not I'm not predicting anything except I'm going to
ask for your support and the support of this audience
to make us number one. And you know, let's see
where we stand a few months from now. You know
what I'd love to see you do those panels that
you haven't done them in a while, where you have
an audience and you ask some questions and they're from
all sides of guile. They're very effective. I love them

(01:32:26):
because when you have regular people in you know, in
that audience. I like it too. You're getting average Americans
who are giving you their opinion. And think about this.
Hillary Clinton is running around the world. Now, she's running
around with this book. She can't figure out what happens. Well,

(01:32:47):
you know what happens is no one liked you, and
you know, I mean, it's it's so it's so ridiculous.
I say, let her stay out there, because if she
stays out there, She's the face of the Democratic Party.
I want. What motivates me is I want this country
to be stronger economically, with more opportunity, with the forgotten

(01:33:11):
men and women, having the same shot that we had.
You from Rockville Center, me from Franklin Square. I want
this country safe and secure, and I want America to
prosper and to be the best nation it can be.
Nobody else, nobody else in television talks ever about solutions
to our problems, and and for me, it's it's I listen.

(01:33:32):
I'll be in a political fight with everybody. I don't care.
But it's not all about politics either. When you when
you win, you got to also govern. To me, it's
always been about the agenda. It's always about the people
that make this country great. Um, I can tell you
I am as motivated now than I've ever been in
any time in my life because the stakes are that important.
So uh, I listen, your support means everything to me.

(01:33:55):
I trust me. I handle these things a lot better
than anybody knows. And I'm ready for what I've signed
up for here and I'm excited to be back. And
the only thing I'll promise you is this, Susan We're
gonna a work our tail off every day to put
the best show on a number two. Hey, Susan, we
have a lot of surprises coming. Stay tuned. Okay, so wait,

(01:34:19):
just one more thing. A lot of surprises coming. Stay tuned.
You're ready for my my list? Yes, okay. I'm a photographer.
And the other day when Linda was saying that you're
face up on Drudge with a great shot, yeah, she's
absolutely right. I would love to photograph you. But it

(01:34:41):
was a great shot. So you're a photographer. I am
all right. I couldn't look at Drudge most of the
day that day. I looked at the news stories. I
didn't want to look at a picture of myself. It's
weird because it's yourself. Everybody else looked at it. All right,
all you're very nice. Listen, Susan. If I didn't tell you,
I out of surprises. Okay, never never give your secrets away,

(01:35:07):
never ever. All, I gotta take a quick break. We'll
come back, we'll continue. It's the Shawn Hannity Show. All right.
That's gonna wrap things up for today. Don't forget Hannity
moves to nine pm next week. But we're on a
ten tonight on the Fox News Channel. You don't want
to miss it. The battle over Obamacare, the history of
North Korean aggression, the insane media freak out over the

(01:35:30):
president's speech, and much more. We have Michelle Malkin tonight,
Joe consc is going to talk about the media freak out.
Then we got Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett. How is it
possible that Rod Rosenstein actually was interviewed by Mueller? Sarah Carter,
Greg Jarrett, and Judge Janine Tonight ten Eastern on Hannity.
See you back here tomorrow, See you tonight at ten.

(01:36:00):
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