Where's The Trade War? - 7.25 - The Sean Hannity Show

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glad you with us. Are We got a lot on
our plate today, including UH the Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo just sat down and UH has said that the
President and the United States is not recognize the annexation

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of Crimian and nobody ever said that. And Pompeo did
rightly defend Trump's statement about the Putin summit, and now
they're talking about, well, maybe bringing Putin after the Mueller investigation,
which I think is probably very smart. But if you're
watching your media, you know, we go from who who
crisis to UH crisis to a crisis too, you know,

(01:48):
and even if it's just a tweet day and they
can't say, wait, Russia, oh my god, how's it? The
world is falling? The world is? I mean, it's by
the way, that guy actually did that in front of
Barack Obama because he's so worship worshiped him like the
media worshiped him. Uh. We'll go to Pompeo in a second,

(02:09):
because uh, I see Senator Corker is speaking, Um. Pompeio
is a great secretary of State. The guys brilliant um,
And it will be interesting to hear what he said.
And you go from Russia and you go to oh,
John Brennan, the former communist that's calling the president a
trader and treason us. Then we go to that hysteria.
Now it's the tape, the Cone Trump tape, which, by

(02:33):
the way, I have no idea why it was ever
taken or released. But you know, when you actually if
you actually look at it and listen to it objectively,
I'm not going to get into Okay, you know, we
might as well be arguing whether or not it's Yanni
or Landi Davis or you know, cash or check. Um.

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There's zero significance in that tape, nor is it any
new knowledge in that tape at all, or any criminal
statute in play in this tape. But that's not the
way the media is reacting to all of this. There's
no significance either. If you're gonna be blunt whether or

(03:16):
not the payment was by cash or by check, And
whether people want to acknowledge or admit this or not
is really up to them. But there are decisions made
by almost every big corporation, and I would probably venture
to say all of them that they decide is it
worth litigating or is it worth just making a deal

(03:40):
to make something go away? Whether true in some cases
it is true and people were mistreated, in some cases
it's not necessarily true. And those things happen every single
day of the week. And that's why you know, this
would not surprise me to be a conversation in any

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way shape, matter of form. You know, as I have
listened to this, to have tried to listen with my
headphones on, I have tried to listen to an enhanced
sort of we took the static out of it, a
little bit version of the tape. Um we I'm trying
to It's it's ambiguous to me. I think Rudy's interpretation

(04:22):
is right. You know that that the president is actually saying, well,
you wanted to memorialize it by paying quote a check.
Some here it the other way. I don't. I don't
even think that's this honesty. And some people hearing it,
because it's very hard to hear um. But again you
might as well, what are we gonna call Lannie Davis?
I'm going Lannie Davis for years. It doesn't matter. The

(04:43):
only thing that really matters is is there anything illegal
as it relates to the story of itself or is
it just more of the pile on which is to
destroy Trump. And when you start to make the comparisons
of how your media treats any issue involving Donald Trump

(05:04):
and then how they have ignored the biggest abuse of
power scandal in history to steal a presidential election, it's
kind of breathtaking to understand where their priorities are here
and what really is at stake is everything that I
tell you about what's at stake for, which is what

(05:25):
I call the most important mid term in your life.
Because if you can't tell the Democrats they do have
a specific agenda, they've they've actually been able to pull
members aside and say, yeah, we agree with you, but
stop saying it publicly. In Peach forty five and Peach
forty five and Peach forty five, like Maxine Waters, she's
not saying it anymore because she's been I would assume

(05:48):
anybody that's been saying it, that's not good for the country,
that's not good for them running. And as they get
pulled so hard to the left, what's the rest of
their agenda? Impeach the president. They want open borders into
abolish Ice, which is to me an amazing statement about
how far left the Democratic Party has gone. They want

(06:09):
to keep Obamacare. Uh, okay, with all the rate increases,
all the keep your doctor, keep your plans, save less lies.
You want to keep it because it's been a disaster
for every American. And you know, at least we got
rid of one part of it, the individual mandate, would
happen in the tax bill. So they want open borders,

(06:31):
they want to keep Obamacare, they want to keep impeach
the president, and they want their crumbs back. Nancy Pelosi
said it, now, Elizabeth Warren has said it. You know
that money that is in your check every single week
they want to pack. They refer to it as crumbs,
but that's you know, for some families, thousands of dollars
a year. And we'll find out Friday what the second

(06:53):
quarter GDP growth numbers are. We're expecting something in the
four plus percentage rain range. Remember Obama is the only
president in history that never got to three percent GDP
growth in a single year. And of course we he
added thirteen million Americans to the food stamp roles. We
now have lost over two million since Trump as president,

(07:15):
you know, millions more eight million to be specific, additional
Americans and poverty after eight years of Obama. Now we've
got a chance. How we finally got some economic momentum.
Barkley's I mean, had a shocking revision to their second
quarter growth GDP estimate of five point three. I'm just
if we get anything near four, it's gonna be a massive,

(07:40):
massive story for the American economy. Now more jobs available
in the country than we have people on unemployment. You know,
we actually have you know, the dismantling of a nuclear
test facility by Kim Jong un, hostages return, no more
missiles being fired over Japan. None of this matters to
the media. Then you have Hillary Clinton. You have a

(08:03):
rigged investigation when a certain indictment, if it was you
or me, it was all fixed and we know who
fixed it and nobody there non non, There's literally no
pulse in the media, no appetite to point that out, well,
Hannity is talking about Hillary. No, I'm talking about our constitution,

(08:25):
equal application of our laws, equal justice in our legal system,
and whether or not we have a two tier justice system,
because if we don't as a country, as a as
a constitutional republic, we're screwed. You know that. It is
it is. It is the end of America as you
would know it. And then we're no better than one

(08:47):
of these banana republics, you know, or or the former
Soviet Union or Venezuela where it's lawlessness and you got
the elite with their justice system and the rest of us.
Good luck to you, you know. And I'm not even
talking about the biggest confirmation of everything that we have
been telling you about what happened with the FISA courts,

(09:10):
the same people that exonerate Hilly Boom right into going
after Donald Trump. We have a Russia scandal in the election,
Hillary buying Russian lies through a foreign national with funneled money,
through a law firm that hires an op research group
that hires the foreign national that puts the Russian lies

(09:31):
in a dossier that then becomes the basis of the
top FBI d o J officials in the country that
literally lying to the FISA courts to get this application,
because as Andrew McCabe said, if we didn't have the dossier,
which is Russian lies that Hillary paid for, then we

(09:51):
also wouldn't have, uh, the FISA warrants. Okay, that's pretty revealing,
and we want to be fine. They never told the judges,
the FISA court judges Hillary paid for it, but they
knew it. That's an important piece of information. They never
told the judges that it was unverified. Rod Rosenstein even
said in May, well, yeah, when we put our signature

(10:13):
on this, you know, we're we're testifying to the truthfulness
of it. None of it was true and it's debunked
and it was. We have not only the original application
FISER warrant to the fis A court, and we got
three subsequent applications. Again, nothing from your news media. But

(10:33):
when it comes to you know what what ostensibly turns
out to be. You know, whatever, however long the tape is,
and I'll play it for you. You You know, the only
thing that really should matter is the rule of law.
How and a criminal investigation was fixed for a presidential candidate.

(10:54):
How courts were lied to by the top FBI and
d o J officials, how the people that paid for
the doscier even Brennan leaking that he's the c I
A director and he's taking unverified, bought and paid for
Russian lines and handing him over to Harry Reid and
look at what it's done to the country in the meantime.

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I mean, but they're gonna focus on something that every
lawyer in the country is saying is not a crime.
You know, the only thing that is there anything illegal?
And what Michael Cohen and the president we're talking about
the answers no. And unfortunately, there is a cottage industry
of Trump hate in this country right now. There's an
information crisis that is so bad that they would ignore

(11:42):
the biggest abuse of power scandal because of their absolute
pathological daily hatred of Donald Trump. Um. It's um, it's
pretty amazing at the end of the day. You know,
it really doesn't on a level that you just can't
even really understand, except that it's that corrupt in the

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country right now. So you know, that's where we are,
right Mike Pompeo speaking, Let's let's tip into this interest
to this committee, North Korea, NATO and Russia. On the
subject of Russia, I want to bring something to your
attention right off the bat. Today. Today the Trump administration
is releasing what we're calling the Crimea Declaration. I won't

(12:27):
read the whole thing, I will submit it for the record.
It's been publicly released as well. Um but one part
reads as falls quote, the United States calls on Russia
to respect the principles to which it has long claimed
to it here and to end its occupation of Crimea
end of quote. I want to share this committee that
the United States does not and will not recognize the
Kremlin's purported annexation of Cremea. We stand together with allies, partners,

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and the international community in our commitment to Ukraine and
its territorial integrity. There will be no relief of Cremea
related sanctions until Russia returns control of the Crimean Peninsula
to Ukraine. This Crimia Declaration formalizes the United States policy
of non recognition. There's another indicative of diplomatic progress. I

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want to mention this morning. Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was
in prison in Turkey for nearly two years, has been
allowed out of jail at Puka. He's still under house arrest.
So our work is not done, but it's welcome progress,
one that many of you have been engaged in, something
the State Department is spending been working on diligently as well.
We will continue to work for the speedy return of

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all Americans unjustly held captive abroad. President Trump will never
forget about our own. Our diplomacy on these issues is
advancing the goals of President Trump's National Security Strategy, which
laid down guiding principles for American foreign policy in December.
In late April, I started executing on the strategy of
Secretary State today. We're not going to stop our coverage

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of this. By the way, the the announcement of this
pastor that was held in Turkey, all this h Jay
secular is that guy's attorneying has been for a long time.
Andrew Brunson is his name, a Christian pastor. That's a
big deal and a really big announcement. Also Pompeo saying
they won't recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea and said there'll
be no sanctions relief until Russia returns control of the

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Crimean peninsula to Ukraine. And now it's official policy and
that the sanctions will stay in place. Oh so much
for they go. He's a Russian agent. MSNBC has been
saying good grief. And that's how instanine that represents NBC
News these days. All right, let's get back to Mike Pompeo,
Secretary of State, in his opening statement before the Senate

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private one on one meetings in your life as well,
you've chosen that setting is the most efficient. As a
simple question, you can't get my seven minutes the secretary did?
Did you? Did he tell you what, whether or not
what happened in those two hours? Yes? And the predictor
of your question implied some notion that there was something
improper about having a one on one meeting. I completely
disagree with just I didn't ask you predicate. I asked

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you a simple question. I hope we're going to get
through it. Did he tell you what transpired in the
number of conversation with President Trump about what transpired in
the meeting? I was also president when President when he
and President Putin both gave us a sense of what
they discussed in the meeting that followed immediately after. Did
you have also had the chance to speak? Was Sergei
Lavrov twice about the Russian view on what takes place.
I think I have a pretty complete understanding. Good. Did

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you speak to the translator who was at that meeting? No,
I haven't. Have you seen any of her notes? Senator,
I have never been in lots of meetings. I've had
lots of note takers and lots of translators. Um, I've
never relied on the work that they did. Did the
President understand that took place in that meeting? And it
does not need to be the president discussed to be.
Did the President discussed relax relaxing US UH sanctions on Russia,

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including cats or sanctions? Senator? The US policy with respective
sanctions remains completely unchanged. So the President did not. That
is what you're telling me that I asked a very
specific question. Yes, I does it tell you that he
discussed UH relaxing Russia's sanctions or not? Yes? Or not?
Then the president are entited to have private meetings. I'm
telling you what US policy is. I came here today,

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but you you you told me that he had a
conversation in which he told you what transpired. I think
the nation and so all of us who are policy
market makers deserve to know so that we can fashion
policy accordingly. Did he tell the Putent that our release
or ultimately relaxed sanctions? Senator, what you need to conduct

(16:31):
your role? Your appropriate role? I will provide you today.
That is United States policy with respect to the issues
your request. You asked me about US policy with respects
to sanctions, and I can confirm to you that no
commitment has been made to change those policies in any way.
Did the President at this meeting call upon President Putent
to withdraw from christ This is a getting very interesting.

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We'll pick it up right there. You won't miss a
second of Secretary of State Pompeo in this case, being
grilled by the Honorable Senator Menendez of New Jersey. Alright,
till the top of the hour. Eight Sean is our number.
If you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's get back to We're gonna pick up

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right where we left off. The Secretary of State Putin
really just being harangued by Senator Menendez. I'm sorry, Secretary
of State POMPEIOI being harangued. Uh, I'm trying to do
two things at once. He can't work in computer and talk.
My brain doesn't work that well, Uh, Secretary of State
Pompeio being grilled by Senator Menendez. The Honorable Senator Menendez

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mean today with the United States governments understand the declaration.
I welcome and I'm glad that. It seems like we
had to do a lot of effort to get there.
But the question is, when he had a chance, did
he confront Putin and say, we don't recognize your annexation
of CRIMEA, we don't recognize your continuing hostilities in Eastern Ukraine,
and there's consequences for that. So the President was very

(17:58):
clear with Vladimer Putin about US positions are the US
positions that are the Trump Administration's positions, and he spoke
about them very firmly and clearly when he met with
Vladimir Putin, and that he told you that, Senator. I'm
telling you what he had a conversation with Vladimir Putin about,
and I'm telling you what US policy is today. I understand, Senator,
I understand the game that you're playing now, you know,

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Mr Secretary, with all due respect, I don't appreciate you
characterizing my questions. My questions is to get to the truth.
We don't know what the truth is. And the only
way that we will know what the truth is what
transpired in those two hours and in highly amazing a
period of time to spend alone one on one, is

(18:38):
by understanding at least that if you were briefed by
the president what he told you. I don't think that's
unfair to know to understand what policies. Let me ask
you this, where did the presidents say they were going
to change our force structure in Syria? Senator. Presidents are
permitted to have conversations with their cabinet members that aren't
repeated in public. Um I owe I owe the president

(19:01):
of the capacity for him to have conversations with him,
ride him the best foreign policy advice that I can.
It's what I was. Let me ask you this, UHR Secretary,
here's something, here's something you can answer for me, because
you're not going to answer any of the questions that
would get us to the truth. As CIA Director, you
stated in an interview with the BBC that you fully
expect Russia to continue its attacks on our democracy by

(19:23):
attempting to interfere in our mid term election as we speak.
In his conversation with Putin. Uh. I hope the President
laid out the consequences of interference in election, but I
know you can't tell me that, So actually I can't.
Did you want to share that one with me? I can't. No,
I can't. I want you want to share with me? No, Senator,
I can tell you that because the President has disclosed that.
The President disclosed what he said to Vladimir Putin about

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Russian interference in our elections, and he said that he
is confident that as a result of that conversation, Vladimir
understands that it won't be tolerated. I wish he had
said that in public in Helsinki. Let me ask you this,
Senator Graham and I and others are working on a
new bill to whole Russia accountable. Given that you assert
the administration is tough on Russia, will you commit to
working with us on a new Russia sanctions bill? Yes, sir,

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thank you. UH. North Korea UH. When you last appeared,
I asked you a series of critical questions about what's
our policy in North Korea, and and to your credit,
I must say that I largely agreed with what our
goals are. Now I want to ask you since we
haven't heard anything, not a classified briefing, not anything as
it relates to North Korea. Did North Korea agree with

(20:29):
our definition of denuclearization meaning the dismantlement removal of all
nuclear weapons, facilities, technology, and material for North Korea. I
think I can answer your question, but let me begin
by saying, Um, I'm engaged in a complex negotiation with
the North Koreans, and so I don't intend in this
public setting to share the details of every conversation took

(20:50):
place in those but I will I will attempt to
answer your questions without disclosing the contents of the negotiation.
I am very confident that the North Koreans understand our
definition denuclearization, a very broad one that it goes from
UH infrastructure and nuclear war, adds through chemical biological weapons.
We understand because you related for the record, did they
have they agreed with you that that is? I believe

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they thoroughly understand that and they understand it. But they
didn't agree. Did they agree to end the production and
enrichment of uranium and plutonium for military programs? I would
welcome the chance to respond to your questions, if you'd
let me finish it would it would be most simply,
I think you'd be most illuminating for the focuses central.
Yes or no? Could you repeat the question please? Center
was the previous question I did have the chance to answer.

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Did you did nor career agreed and the production and
enrichment of uranium and plutonium for military programs They have
agreed to denuclearize fully, Yes, Senator, Okay, what we don't
have it include? It certainly includes, it certainly includes the world.
I would I would love for you to come to
a classified setting and tell all members what exactly transpired
because we don't know. Thank you, Center, Rish, Mr Secretary,

(21:56):
thank you for doing this job. The President made it
wise to decision appointing you a Secretary of State, and
you're quitting yourself very well here today. And we appreciate
that you've always been straightforward with us. And I appreciate that.
I know many of my colleagues, not all, but many
of my colleagues fully appreciate that. UM, I want to
talk to say most, Center, are just gonna go with many.

(22:19):
I'm going to stay with many. UM let me say that. UH.
As far as what happened at the NATO's summit, UH,
very few Americans heard anything except the argument that went
on about the about funding. Now, I know the President believes,

(22:39):
and I know you believe, and I believe, and I
think most everyone believes that NATO is the most successful
military alliance in the history of the world. And as
you pointed out, it's certainly one of the pillars of
our national security and one that we need to support
and one that we need to work well. Um, there
there are very few downsides of NATO, but there is

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one blemish, and the President has underscored that publicly and well.
His predecessor attempted to do it, All their predecessors attempted
to do it. All those of us that meet with
the Europeans from time to time underscore it. And that
is the funding, or the lack thereof that that the
Europeans have done. Only eight of the uh NATO nations

(23:24):
are actually meeting the commitment of two percent. The first
of all the presidents to be commended for underscoring this
as only he can do in his unique way, and
actually getting them to start talking about it and now
finally starting to agree to that. But there were other
things that were lost as far as that meeting is
concerned and I'd like you to talk about those things

(23:45):
for a few minutes. Number one is on the deterrent side,
the four thirties commitment to increase NATO readiness and speed
up the time it takes allies to assemble and deploy forces. UH,
and that's a huge step forward. UH. The efforts to
improve mobility and establish a process us to enhance the
speed at which NATO can make decisions. UH. They fight
against terrorism and increasing allied resilience against terrorist threats through

(24:10):
a new framework to share biometric data is a major accomplishment.
And find the opportunity from Macedonia to receive an invitation
to join NATO and fulfill the promise from the Bucharest summit.
That was a positive step for the alliance and for
the Balkans. Could you comment on those, uh, very important
steps forward that happened at the at this NATO summit

(24:32):
in there. It was an incredibly productive NATO summit. By
from my conversations with Secretary General Stoltenberg, he said among
the most productive that he had ever been part of,
and he's been doing this a little while. UM. You
talked about the four thirties, thirty squadron thirty Italians UH
UH at thirty naval combatants ready to go in thirty days.

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That's something NATO has not been able to do for
quite some time. There's now a real commitment we have
to follow through to make sure that the implement a
should that occurs, it would be UH. It would be
a great thing to deter Russia if we can get
those countries and our allies to get to that level.
You talked about the increase in burden sharing. It seemed
to get all the focus. It's certainly important UH that
the Europeans are as committed UH to UH deterring Russia

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as the United States of America and need to demonstrate
that through their defense, not only dollars, but readiness as well.
We've seen reports about the absence of German readiness. They
need to truly be ready. The President also raised another
issue about energy and energy security at the NATO summit.
He talked about the nord Stream to pipeline and the

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risk that that creates to the alliance and the event
that Russia should decide to use energy as a weapon
UH to coerce UH either formally or informally H Germany
or other European countries. You raised it to the forefront,
and frankly, there are European countries that understand that risk
and support America and our position on that as well.

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And I finally talked a little bit about the NATO mission.
It's it's new role in fighting terrorism. Um I want
to I want to say thanks to so many of
the European countries that have stepped forward, even just this
past a few I guess it's now two weeks since
the NATO summit. Over a thousand additional commitments from allied
NATO partners headed to assist US in Operation Resolute Support

(26:23):
in Afghanistan. That's a great commitment, something that President Trump
worked hard on at the summit, and really good outcomes
for America. Well, thank you so much. You're you're to
be personally committed for those great successes, as is the
President for leading in that regard. Uh. It's unfortunate that
our friends and allies, UH feathers were ruffled a little
bit just because we said they weren't paying their bills.

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But that's been going on for some time and I
think we're going to tolerate that. But they've got to
step up, and I know you underscored that, and the
President has certainly underscored that with him. UM, I want
to talk about Iran for just to moment. UH. They're
one of the big unreported stories as far as UH
foreign relations is concerned. Is the issues and the difficulties

(27:11):
that the Iranian people are having internally financially and under
and otherwise. And I know we're not in a classified setting,
but there there is some open reporting on these sources,
and the regime that's there is struggling with this. Indeed,
I think that's probably why UH they tried to poke
the president the other day to try to take their

(27:32):
to try to take the the heat off of the
heat they're getting at home. Could you talk a little
bit about what's going on internally, again, knowing that we're
in in UH an open setting the center, there is
UH enormous economic challenge inside of Iran today. It's a

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it's an economic structure that simply doesn't work when you
foment that when you're a country of that scale that
moments tear UH through Lebanese has Blah, through Shia militias
in Iraq into Yemen. UH conducts assassination attempts in European countries.
UH provides enormous support for as ASAD outside of Lebanese

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has black in Syria. That's expensive and I think the
Iranian people are beginning to see that that's not the
model that they want. UM, that the Iranian expansion is
m that the supreme leader in Costum Sulamani so favor
is not what they're looking for. And I think you're
beginning to see the economic impact combined with understandings inside
of Iran of the cleptocracy that it is UM leading

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to fundamental decisions that the Iranian people will ultimately have
to make. You agree with me that that acceleration of
that understanding by the Iranian people has been very rapid
over the last six months. Uh, yes, it's I think
it's I think it's been going on longer than that,
but yes, it's going been going on longer. But I'm

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talking about the acceleration. Yes, Senator, I think that's a
fair statement. Thank you. If I could just one interjection, UM,
I know the phrase paying their bills has been used, UM,
and we need every NATO country needs to be UH
contributing two percent of defense. And I've noticed those near
the Russian border always do. Um, But there's that's a misnumber,

(29:20):
is it not? What we want them to do is
contribute at least two percent. There's not. These NATO countries
are not not paying bills to the United States as
sometimes as projected. Is that a Is that correct? The
shortfalls that the President identified really are in two buckets. Um.
There is a NATO Common Fund that is contributed to
by every nation, and the United States is by far

(29:41):
the largest contributor that fund. And then there are moneys
that are paid for nations to raise their own militaries
and to defend themselves. That's the that's the two percent
number to which we've been with. It's not it would
be a mischaracterization to say to make it appear that
they're not paying bills to the United States. That's correct,
That's that's correct. Center cardon. This is so great. Thank

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you for being here. It's my understanding that the President
is going to invite Mr Putin to the United States
to follow up on the understandings reached in Helsinki. Can
you just briefly tell me what those understandings or agreements
reached in Helsinki at the meeting? Sure, I can certainly
share with you the things that we've been tasked to
follow up on by President Trump following that meeting. UM,

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there's a handful. UH. So there there is an agreement
to establishing business to business leadership exchanges as historically had
been undertaken but had fallen away. UH. The would be
business leaders that would participate in this. UM. I understand
that this went on for years and years and and
and was ceased. UH. And fully, could we could do
it briefly? I understand you want to give a complete thing,

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and I appreciate that, and it's what you asked for.
I understand a business to business next issue, the President
is asked us to look at re establishing a counter
terrorism Council that was held at the level of the
Deputy Secretary State for many years but had also ceased
to happen. UM. I think at this point, I think

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that makes sense in terrorist terrorism. UH. We are working
to see in Syria what are the possibilities that can
be achieved so that the now between six and seven
million displaced person externally displaced persons have the opportunity to return.
We made clear this should happen through the political process

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in Geneva. UM. But we are working to see if
we can't get Russian Russia to be more cooperative in
towards terms of driving towards a political resolution there that
would take it. I'm way more interested in this than
I thought I would. What we'll do is we're going
to take a break the White House. By the way,
the President is expected he's been meeting with European leaders
issues of trade, and of course the pastor. This pastor

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has been held hostage for a long period of time,
that has been released from Turkey and um his name
is Andrew Brunson. By the way, Jay Sekul is representative
all this time. And that's really big news actually, and
thank goodness for me get an update on that. You know,
I didn't think I wanted to air that much of this.
This is getting fascinating. Not only is the Secretary of

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Steve Pompeo talking about Russia, but Iran in North Korea. Well,
monitor that the President is expected to make an announcement
as it relates to EU trade, which is amazing, and
that American pastor Andrew Brunson has been released from Turkey.
We had a lot of news to get to straight
ahead alright, hour to Sean Hannity Show. We're awaiting the
White House is gonna have some announcement. I think it's

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gonna have to do with the concessions that the President
is secured uh from the Europeans to avoid a trade war. Um.
And this is interesting, UM because I'm I'm looking at it,
and this is pretty amazing. And it's what I said
would happen. How many times, Linda, did I not say
over and over again, there's not gonna be a trade war.

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The President's the go shitty. Well, we now have some
of the details that finally emerged and that the President
secured concessions from Europe. That's not not gonna be a
trade war, uh, Dal Jones reporting. And it just came
before the Trump European Commission president. You know they're gonna
have this joint presser coming up. Um and the major

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averages uh rallied on the news. I nobody he negotiates,
it's what he does. And uh. Anyway, so the NASDAC
went up about one percent to DW Industrial went up
about a half a percent. Wait of these GDP numbers
on Friday, You're gonna be pretty amazing from all indications.
Will see for the second quarter. But here's what the

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president got. The Europeans agreed to lower industrial tariffs and
import more US soybeans. The Europeans agreed to work on
more US liquefied natural gas exports. And Trump also said
he's hoping to work something out on a fair trade
deal with Europe and they're gonna have probably more details
when they speak. We're literally watching a little box outside

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of the White Household. I think it's on the South
lawn um And in the meantime, we got news today,
and I think this is great news. I've known about
this case forever. We've talked about this case, and that
is the American pastor, his name is Andrew Brunson, US
citizen from North Carolina, spent nearly twenty one months in
prisoned in Turkey because he's a Christian, and the pastor

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has been on trial for the crime of Christianization. And
our friend Jay Sekulo in the American Center for Law
and Justice, we have confirmed that the Turkish government has
now issued in order releasing Pastor Andrew Brunson from prison,
allowing him to be returned to his home in Turkey.
This is the first critical step that we believe will

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result in the freedom of Pastor Brunson, so he can
return to the United States and be reunited with his family.
And while all of this is going on, UH, really
content just hearing with the Senate and the Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo. And let's go back to that, and
we'll go to the Russians White House. Uh, and when
that announcement happens, thoughts on that. So I have a

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personal experience. I had a private conversation with North Koreans.
We didn't issue a read out on the conversations, quite intentionally,
and the North Korean press chose to characterize it, which
we thought it was in America's best interest not to
respond tip for tat about the nature of that conversation.

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We we knew the truth, we knew what had taken
place there. Um, And you know, it's the North Korean press,
and so I assume that most reasonable people will discount
it fairly significant in the same way that one might
the Russian press. Uh. These are important decisions about how
much disclose about private conversations were it had, because everyone

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knows that you may have an expectation that you'll have
another private conversation one day, and the absence of their
belief that that private conversation has the capacity to remain
in that space reduces the freedom to have those conversations.
And I know you've had this in your life too, Senator.
I know you've had private conversations and you valued them.
It was just you and someone else in that room,
and it was important, and you didn't give anyone to

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read out from it because you wanted to have the
chance to do that again, because you thought you could
make real progress with that person. Right, Let's talk about
North Korea. You brought it up, um. You mentioned that
you traveled the court North Korea to continue on, as
you put it, I guess, to follow up on commitments
made in Singapore. Let's talk about those commitments for a minute.
You you mentioned that they have committed to the denuclearization.

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They may have a different readout than we do on
what that entails, but but so far they seem to
be walking back. Uh any commitment, real commitment that was
made there, What commitment, firm commitment other than discussion of
returning remains. I'm not discounting that, but but in terms

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of denuclearization, what real commitments were made. Yeah, I'm not
going to get into the private commitments that have been shared.
I don't think it's fair to characterize them walking back
from commitments. Um, remember where we were right? So it
all depends what you draw as the projected line to say,
are we in a better place or a worse place

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than we would have been absent the Singapore Summit? One
can draw counterfactual reference. Will never know where we might
have been, but I will concede there is an awful
long way to go. I'm not trying to oversell the
accomplishments that we've had towards the path of the nuclearization
to date. There remains a great deal of work to
do that will will be highly contested. That is, the modalities,

(37:46):
the means, the timing of this will be things that
I'm confident will be discussing for a period of time. Uh.
There there have been public reports and and I know
the United States is tracking the disassembly of a missile
engine test site. Uh, something that Chairman Kim committed orally.
It wasn't in the written agreement itself, but Chairman Chairman
Kim committed in his conversation with President Trump to do

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They're beginning to dismantle that. UM it has to do
with their missile program. It's a good thing. UH steps forward. Okay,
thank you very quickly for the time. Is out something
completely different the country of Rwanda right now, and you
may be familiar with this because of this week's focus
on religious freedom. Yes, as indicated a move towards severe

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restrictions on religious freedom, particularly from outside groups. What are
the plans of the State Department to uh to let
them know that that is not that is not in
their own interests nor ours. So I share your concerns.
I'll need to get back to in terms of what
actions we think we think. I know we'll call it out.
I know will will label it for what it is. UH.

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What we do need to see what we it is
tragic and UH. Anyway, I share your concerns and it's
a it's a huge challenge for us. Thank you, Thank
you Senator Caine, thank you, Mr Chair, thank you, Mr Secretary,
Mr Secretary. Just a couple of thoughts, UM, I was
very discouraged at the Helsinki summit when the President basically

(39:14):
was offered a choice in some of the questions, did
he believe US intel or did you believe Vladimir Putin's
protestations that he had engaged in hacking of the election,
And he basically said, my own people have made a
great case to me. Vladimir Putin has made a great
case to me. I don't see why Russia would have
done this. Um He came back and corrected at the

(39:35):
next day in the United States, but at the end
he said, I believe my Intel community, but there's a
lot of people out there. It could have been someone else.
And then this dragged on for a couple of days.
You know where I live, You know, I have a
lot of constituents who used to be your employees at
the CIA. People come up to me all the time
in Virginia and say I'm with the i C. And
they are very demoralized by this. They're very demoralized that

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when standing next to Vladimir Putin, the president's words were
to see jest that he trusted Vladimir Putin over them.
Um There was the suggestion, when President um Trump said
it was an incredible offer about Ambassador McFall, that he
was also potentially willing to throw not just Intel folks

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under the bus, but State Department diplomats under the bus.
They live in Virginia too. They feel the demoralization of
your comments today that we're gonna go to bad for
current reformer. That's very, very helpful. But what I want
to ask you about is is our military um in
our military leadership. There was an article yesterday in the
Washington Post General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

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of Staff. As of Monday, Dunford still hadn't been briefed
on Helsinki, even though it directly affects more than one
million troops done for overseas. Do you know why there
would be have been no briefing of General Dunford about
the discussions that took place at Helsinki? You have to
ask that apart Defense or Chairman Dunford. UM. But you

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don't dispute that that was You have no knowledge that
there was a briefing of General dunfer to today about
the Helsinki discussion. Do you know you just read me
a piece from the Washington Post. Yeah, but I'm asking
your knowledge. Do you have any knowledge that the administration
has shared discussions about US Russia military issues with the
head of the United States Joint chiefs of Staff I've

(41:24):
actually spoken with Chairman Dunford about it. I was with
him yesterday in a series of meetings and we had
a chance to have a conversation about it. Yes, okay,
so about our absolutely okay, So yesterday may have been
the first time he was briefed about it. I want
to ask about I was gonna ask about General Hotel,
the the information that Jean Shaheen, Centator Shehen mentioned earlier.

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Um he expressed wearing it's about working with Russia and
the Russian Defense Ministry. I love this is an interesting statement.
They went after General Hotel, the head of cent Com
who overseas as you know, US military operations and at
least including Syria. Quote. With his statements, General Hotel not
only discredited the official position of his supreme Commander in chief.

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Are you aware what the official position is that is
being referenced in that statement. You'd have to speak with
the Russian Ministry of Defense to know what it was
he was referring to. But you can understand why we're
concerned if it's being reported in Russian press as Secretary
Flake and a Senator Flake and Senator Shaheen said that
they're talking about official positions that the President is outlined.
Just as far as you know, General hotel statements did

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not violate any official position the United States? Did they
same to be giving a great deal of credit to
the Russian Ministry of Defense fruitfulness. Let me ask you
by General Hotel, I might not share that same. Let
me ask you about General Hotel as far as great
credit and have great belief in his truthfulness. So you
do not believe that any of the statements that he's made,
including those that I read, violate any official position in

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the United States? Do you if you would that that's
the best approach to General Hotel the Department Defense? I mean,
I'm not when out third three orders removed? If if
I could introduced for the record, there's an interesting article
in BuzzFeed News just recently today that just lists a
whole series of headlines, and I think these are instructive. Mr.
Chair Trump's announcement that he will in US career drills

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catches Pentagon off guard. Pentagon and Soul is surprised by
Trump pledged to halt military exercises. Pentagon caught off guard
by Space Force announcement. Trump signals withdraw very soon of
US troops from a serious surprising Pentagon and State Department.
Pentagon caught by surprise by Trump's travel ban, pushes for
summer rockies to get special consideration. US joint chiefs blindsided

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by Trump's transgender ban, Northcom caught off guard as Trump
orders troops to US Mexico border. If I could introduce
this for the record, Mr Chair, I worry about an
administration that would take the Putin position over our intel community.
I worry about the administration that would suggest it might
be a great deal to consider handing over a former

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diplomat for questioning. I worry about an administration that is
catching the Pentagon off guard, that is not consulting with
General Dunford, are briefing him for a week after a
summit of this importance to our military. Mr Secretary, you're
aware of the NDA prohibition, the current prohibition on Russian
and military Russian and US joint military operations, are you not.

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I'm aware of the existence of that provision. Yes. Uh.
The provision prohibits any use of funds. It's in the NDA,
any use of funds to support joint Russia and US
military operations. And it also gives the Secretary of Defense
the ability to undertake a national security waiver. If he
thinks that that's the right idea. Does the administration accept

(44:43):
the legality and binding nature of that provision of laws?
I think the d D General Council will be the
right person. We're gonna step back from this. Pompeo hearing
with the Senate and the President meeting with europe and
leaders and has come to a trade deal as he
takes to the podium, deal potentially with John Bozeman. John,

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you're here someplace, hi, John, Thank you. Senator Mike crap Po,
thank you, Mike. Senator Steve Danes, Senator Hovan thank you.
They're all here. Senator Cindy Hyde Smith, Cindy, thank you
very much. Senator James Light. We're gonna stay with this.

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As the President of the European Union UH president literally
is named Junker. He's now at the podium with the
President as they announced these trade deals and trade talks
the e C president. Representative Kevin Brady with a new
tax bill. How's it coming, Kevin? Good? Representative Mike Conaway, Mike,

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thank you, Mike. Represent Editive Dan new House, thank you, Dan.
Representative Christie norm I have to call her Governor. Now
that was a great win. Thank you, Christie. Representative David Reichert, David,

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thank you. So we had a big day, very big.
We met right here at the White House to launch
a new phase in the relationship between the United States
and the European Union, a phase of close friendship, of
strong trade relations in which both of us will win,

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of working better together for global security and prosperity, and
of fighting jointly against terrors. The United States and the
European Union together count for more than eight hundred and
thirty million citizens and more than fifty of the global

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g d P. In other words, together we're more than
fifty percent of trade. If we team up, we can
make our planet a better, more secure, and more prosperous place.
Already today, the United States and the European Union have
a one trillion dollar bilateral trade relationship, the largest economic

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relationship anywhere in the world. We want to further strength
in this trade relationship to the benefit of all American
and European citizens. This is why we agree today, first
of all, to work together towards zero tariffs, zero non
tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non auto industrial goods.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. We will also work
to reduce barriers and increase trade in services com coals, pharmaceuticals,
medical products, as well as soybeans. Soybeans is a big deal,
and the European Union is going to start almost immediately

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to buy a lot of soybeans. Are tremendous market by
a lot of soybeans from our farmers in the Midwest, primarily,
so I thank you for that junk load. This will
open markets for farmers and workers, increase investment, and lead
to greater prosperity in both the United States and the

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European Union. It will also make trade fairer and more reciprocal,
my favorite word, reciprocal. Secondly, we agreed to a strengthened
and strengthening of our strategical operation with respect to energy.
The European Union wants to import more liquefied natural gas

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LERGY from the United States, and they're going to be
a very, very big buyer. We're going to make it
much easier for them, but they're gonna be a massive
buyer of l n G so they'll be able to
diversify their energy supply, which they want very much to do.
And we have plenty of it. Thirdly, we agreed today

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to launch a close dialogue on standards in order to
ease trade, reduce bureaucratic obstacles, and slash costs dramatically. Fourthly,
we agreed to join forces to protect American and European
companies from better and really better than ever we've We've

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never done like we're doing. I can say from the
standpoint of the United States, we've never done this well.
But we're going to do a lot better after we
do this deal. I know the deals that were currently
working on. Likewise, the European Union is going to do
a better, stronger, bigger. We will therefore work closely together

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with like minded partners to reform the w t O
and to address unfair trading practices including intellectual property theft,
forced technology transfer, industrial subsidies, distortions created by state owned enterprises,
and over capacity. We decided to set up immediately an

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executive working group of very intelligent people on both sides
that'll be our closest advisors, and they're going to carry
out this joint agenda. In addition, it will identify short
term measures to facilitate commercial exchanges and assess existing tariff

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measures and what we can do about that to the
betterment of both. While we are working on this, we
will not go against the spirit of this agreement unless
either party terminates the negotiation. So we're starting the negotiation
right now, but we know very much where it's going.
We also will resolve the steel and aluminum terror fishes,

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and we will resolve retaliatory tariffs. We have some tariffs
that are retaliatory and that will get resolved as part
of what we're doing. And with that, Joan Claude, please,
Mr President Lydian, gentlemen. When I was invited but president
to the White House, I had to one intention. I

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had the intention to make a deal today, and we
made a deal today. We have identified a number of
areas on which to work together, work towards. There are
terrorists on industrial goods. That was my main intention to
propose to come down to zero terrorists on industrial goods.

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We've decided to strengthen our corporation and energy. You will
build more terminals to import liquefied natural gas from the US.
This is also a message for others. We agreed to
establish a dialogue on standards as far as agriculture, is concerned.

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The European Union can import more so it means from
the US, and it will be done. And we also
agreed to work together on the reform of d w T.
This of course is on the understanding that as long
as we are negotiating, unless one party would stop the negotiations,

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we hold off further teriffs and Twitters has existing terriffs
on steel and aluminium. This was a good constructive meeting.
Thank you do not well, Thank you very much, joint
l and I just want to conclude by saying, this

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was a very big day for free and fair trade,
very big day indeed, Thank you very much, everybody, Thank you,
thank you. All right, that's the EC President Junker. The
EU can import more soy beans, they're gonna try and
get natural gas. Trade war looks like it's averted. And um,

(53:27):
the US and Europe working towards zero uh, you know, imports, etcetera, etcetera. Um,
now it it's pretty interesting. Was the you know, the
president was especially looking out in both cases for energy,
the industrial concessions that they gave to and energy as

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it relates to natural gas, which by the way, would
be in Europe's best interest for national security purposes. You know,
it's hard. I gotta make editor real decisions here. And
these hearings with Secretary of State Pompeio is so good. Um,
what just happened is a frankly amazing development and great

(54:10):
for the economy and probably a preview of what's going
to happen with other countries. But after the President met
with European leaders earlier today and demanding a fair trade deal, yeah,
he actually got them to step up to the plate.
I mean, you know, because the President put tariffs on

(54:31):
imported steel aluminum, saying that they pose a threat to
national security. Um. And he also threatened to slap tariffs
on cars. Nobody wants a trade war, by the way,
the President never wanted a trade war. But nobody's ever
stood up to these countries and said, yeah, we want
fair trade, we want something fair. And the President has

(54:51):
been pushing the EU, which includes many of our oldest
and yeah, most committed allies, the same people that don't
pay their fair shares relates that atoh, even though it's
defense for them, and they were warning they were going
to retaliate on American products with twenty billion dollars if
Trump puts duties, etcetera, etcetera. But well, it looks like

(55:13):
now the the concessions that Trump secured is now avoided.
The trade war that everybody in the media was predicting,
just like they predicted doom and gloom over North Korea,
little rocket man, fire and fury, and my buttons bigger
than yours and mine actually works just like they did

(55:34):
with Vladimir Putin, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, no,
we're not taking sanctions off of Putin and Russia, and
nor are we gonna recognize the annexation of Crimea. But
now the Europeans are agreed to lower their industrial tariffs,
import more US soybeans, which helps our farmers. Also the

(55:56):
industrial concessions the president god that helps, and steel and aluminum,
and then of course the Europeans are greening now to
take in more US liquid natural gas exports. And if
the President had followed the advice of everybody else, don't
don't skip, don't rock the boat, we would have gotten
these trade concessions. So somebody's fighting for American workers here.

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And I know it's a little uncomfortable when you're getting
a fight. I know it's uncomfortable when you say that
this isn't fair and we expect reciprocity and we're tired
of one sided deals and you gotta wait it out,
and everybody's sweating. Well, but it helps America. It helps
people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and all

(56:43):
these other states. UM. Anyway, so it was pretty interesting
to watch this joint presser UH with this guy Junker
from the European Union. It was representing them, and he
made his first visit UH to the White House. The
guy's name is the EG European Commissioner President. His name
is Jean Claude Genkar And anyway, so they finally spoke

(57:06):
and yeah, they reached their goal and that's now good
for the American workforce. And then everybody that predicted a
trade war now has egg on their face again, just
like they said, the economy is not gonna work. Let's
find out what the second quarter GDP is gonna be
on Friday, as Barclay has had it at five point
three percent. I don't think it's gonna be that high.

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But remember Obama never had a single year at three
percent GDP growth, the only president in history and we
can see the growth of the economy, the Fed saying
that it's it's roaring at this particular point, Wall Street
reacting positively, the Dow up two hundred, and then we've
got Nasdak up, you know, literally a hundred. All good

(57:49):
news for investors on top of the you know, there's
always gonna be I'm not the big stock market guy.
I don't trust the stock market. So you got all
that good news. Today, we've got inter Key, an American
pastor's name is Andrew Brunson, j Secular. The American Center
for Law Injustice has been representing him, and the Turkish
government has finally issued in order to release him from prison.

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Is returned to his home in Turkey, and it's the
first step towards bringing him home to the United States.
That's big news. Then you've got Mike Pompeo just laying
out senator after senator, and we're gonna dip back into
these hearing. Senator Ram Paul is up now with the
Secretary of State. We're gonna move on to other issues,
probably at the top of the next hour, because you know,

(58:33):
this is where I'm balancing all this news breaking today.
Let's listen to. Instead of a smaller group of issues,
we have a bigger group of issues. The nuclear issues
are back on the table if we have to renegotiate
the nuclear agreement and the ballistic missile issue. And the
point that I think that we need to think through
in discussions with Iran is that I think Iran, from
their perspective, we'd see getting rid of their ballistic missile

(58:55):
program as basically unilateral surrender. It's not my viewpoint. I
think it's what I believed to be their viewpoint. I
think they also see Saudi Arabia as a great adversary,
and I think they see Israel as a potential adversary.
And so I don't think unless you know, be great
if you've got all three to come together and have
a multilateral agreement on not developing nuclear weapons and not

(59:15):
having ballistic missiles, I don't see the other two coming
to the table frankly to do that. And so I
think in moving forward, I think it's just importantly you
understand this isn't going to be easy. The first Rand
Agreement also was a multilateral agreement. You had multilateral sanctions.
You now have more unilateral sanctions, and you're gonna have
a unilateral agreement that's sort of your own agreement. So, UM,

(59:39):
I just think we shouldn't be so optimistic. And I
guess i'd like to hear from you. How do you, uh,
what makes you believe that a RAND will come to
the table to discuss s ballistic missiles center right. I'm
under no illusions about how important, UM A RAND views
it s ballistic missile program. I I agree with you there. Uh.
The question for President President Trump face was was the

(01:00:01):
j c P had good enough? He concluded it wasn't
remotely good enough. I think he said it was one
of the worst deals in history. I don't want to
get the language wrong. And so he concluded, UM, we
would find ourselves in a better place with an opportunity
to revisit all of these issues, the broad spectrum of issues,
not just the nuclear portfolio, but the missile program, uh,
their malign activity around the world, all of them in
a package. UM. It did accept the understanding that there

(01:00:23):
would be those that wouldn't come alongside of US. UM,
but you should know there is a coalition. It's not
it's not American America alone. UM. We have others who
believe that this was the right decision to the Israelis,
the Saudis, the Marats, the Bahrainis, other smaller European governments,
not the E three themselves, but there are number of
folks who are beginning to coalesce around an understanding of
how we can appropriately respond to Round to take down. Uh.

(01:00:45):
They're the nuclear risk to the United States as well
as the risk from these other malign activities. Thank you, Senator,
you don't thank you, Mr Chairman, and UH, thank you
Secretary pomp Pale for your service Secretary in Pumpeo. We
have quite the record of President Trump's business relations with Russia.

(01:01:07):
Extensive reporting and public records show a large amount of
money from former Soviet States and Russia into Trump projects.
Trump International Tower and Hotel in Toronto, the Trump Hotel
in Panama, the Trump Project in Soho in New York
City are a few of the big examples here. And

(01:01:28):
here's another one. A Russian oligarch bought a property from
President Trump for candidate Trump at the time or maybe
a little before, for nine million in two thousand and eight,
less than four years after, President Trump paid forty one million,
so more than double this money. Uh. Donald Trump Junior

(01:01:49):
in two thousand and eight, stated at a real estate
conference in New York, and I quote here, Russians make
up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of
our assets. End quote. Uh. Donald Trump tried to build
a Trump tower in Moscow for thirty years. He even
tweeted in Trump Tower Moscow is next. That's end quotes.

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In answering a question from indicted Russian operative and alleged
by Maria Boutina, candidate Trump made clear as desires with Russia, statium,
I would get along well with Putin and that I
don't think we need the sanctions now. The Russian ambassador
to the United States has said the president made and

(01:02:31):
this is his quote, important verbal agreements with President Prutent
and he seems to know more about um, more about
Helsinki and what happened there than the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
As we saw in Helsinki and throughout his presidency in
the campaign, this president is extremely sympathetic to the very

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Russian government that attacked and continues to attack our democracy
and those of our allies. It's a fact of political
life today that many Americans are concerned about the unthinkable
that a U. S president could have compromised a compromising
relationship with a foreign power. President could clear this all
up in three simple ways, releasing his tax returns and

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those of the Trump organization, and the taxes from the
various family businesses, some of which we don't even know about.
After Helsinki? Do you think that the American people deserve
to know what's in President Trump's tax returns and business
interests that that are intertwined with Russia. So I'm gonna

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try to stay out of the same political circus that
you and I ended up and last time I was
sitting here and simply respond by saying, Uh, this same
president with which you seem to express such deep concern
is engaged in a massive defense build up which threatens
Vladimir Putin's regime. He instructed has to put together a

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nuclear post review that has said Vladimir Putin on his
ear because of its robustness and the recapitalization of our
nuclear program. He's kicked at sixties spies, We've been Kaspersky.
I've got eleven billion dollars in the secretary. You've already
actually haven't even begun described, but you've already you haven't
answered my question. So let me try it a little
different way. Wouldn't you want to know, as secretary of State?

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I mean, I I'm taking you, in your sincerity here
as secretary of State, whether all these Russian financial interests,
oligarchs and others are part of the decision making of
the president. I mean, wouldn't you want that out in
the open and to understand what went on? It's Helsinki.
It's It's an easy kind of yes or no question.

(01:04:45):
I don't need secondhand understandings of what President Trump is
instructing his administration to do to push back against rest.
I have firsthand understanding and and directive. Let me ask
the question a little bit. We've opposed lordstream to We've
got a four by thirty out of NATO that said
that also is a big setback for Russia. I mean,

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I'm happy to continue the list. I'm I'm happy there,
but I will I will submit the entirety of this
administration's actions against Russia for the record, if I might
please do back a truck up and get it on
in here. Candidate Trump has failed to keep his promise
to disclose his tax returns. Every presidential candidate since Richard

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Nixon has disclosed. Jimmy Carter even sold his peanut farm
to avoid a conflict of interest. The situation with President
Trump's potential foreign policy conflicts of interest is unprecedented and unacceptable,
and under the emoluments clause, I think it's unconstitutional as well.
But let me just ask a couple of questions about Helsinki.

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You talked about what you were tasked with. UM, the
Director of National Intelligence CODE stated that at the Aspen
Security Forum that he did not know what happened during
the one on one meeting na Helsinki. Did the president
personally debrief you on this conversation? Are you confident that
you know everything that President Trump discussed with President Putin?

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That's a very easy yes or no. If you don't
want an answer it all, move on to the next one.
Yes or no. I'm very confident that I received a
comprehensive debriefing from President Trump. Go ahead, Okay, Now do
you know for a fact whether President Trump or President
Putin discussed any investments in Trump properties or any Trump
projects such as the previous attempt to build a Trump

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real estate project in Moscow. So again, I'm gonna try
and stan out of the political circus. No, but were
you were you? Were you task with that? You gave
us a list of what you came here to talk
about American foreign policy today. I have attempted to articulate
President Trump. All of these business interests are entwined, sir,

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with our foreign policy. Yes, a foreign policy that has
led to a massive defense build up, a new clear
posture review that has frightened Gladi Budden, all sixties spies,
I mean, Twitter, nineteen sanctions. Let me also ask you
about an additional question on Helsinki. When I was a
member of Congress, I tried to desperately get President Obama

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to do one of those things. President Trump hosted top
Russian officials at the White House last year. He bragged
about how he had fired James Comey. At his press
conference with Putin. President Trump called Special Counselor Muller's investigation
a disaster for the country. Can you tell us what

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President Trump discussed about the investigation during his private meeting
with President to I'm not gonna talk about were you
task with anything in that respect, Centator. When I'm tasked
about something for American foreign policy, I promise you this
committee will know okay, and you weren't tasked with anything there, Centator,
When I'm tasked with something by the President relates to

(01:07:55):
foreign policy, I assure you that this committee will be
made aware of it. Thank you for very much. Thank
you Center Gardner, thank you Mr Chairman, and thank you
Mr Secretary for your service of the country and your
time with us today. When you were last year, I
asked you a question about whether or not you agreed
with Secretary Mattis that North Korea's the most urgent security
threat the United States faces and light of recent developments,

(01:08:17):
do you still agree with that at the time you
said that you did. Yeah, it's still it's still a
real priority. We also talked about what would you believe
it's the most urgent national security threat? I do. But
but but having said that, I don't recall the precise
timing when I was here. Uh, I think it was
an April prep Yeah. So, so it is the fact

(01:08:40):
that we're having conversations and we haven't had additional missile
tests and nuclear testing. All right, We're gonna leave it there. Well,
have full coverage of this proascinating hearings all day today
as it relates to the Secretary of State Pompeo. I'm
not gonna turn this into the circus that it was
the last time I was here. He's got some great answers.
He really has been handling himself. Well, we'll show you

(01:09:02):
the highlights tonight. Also media breathless hysteria about everything, um
but great news as it relates to the They're not
gonna be a trade war with Europe. That also coming
out today. This American pastor held what two years twenty
one months in prison in Turkey because he is the
crime of Christianization. He's actually now been set free and

(01:09:27):
now we just gotta get him back to the US.
So we'll get to all that. Seawan Spicer comes up
in the next hour of the program and uh, you
know they had to cancel his book event because of
the environment in Massachusetts. Unbelievable. Please don't just come here
today and then go home. Go to the hill today.
Get up and please get up in the face of

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some congress people. If you take here, you ain't say
nothing yet. Yeah, you have members your cabinet that are
being booed out of restaurants. That's just taking up at
the house. God is on our side, on the side

(01:10:14):
of the children on the side of what's right, that
if we can't protect the children, we can't protect anybody.
And so let's say the course, let's make sure we
show up wherever we have to show up. And if
you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in

(01:10:34):
a department store, at the Castle station, you get out
and you get a cloud, and you got back on
them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, and
I welcome any more getting their faces. Remember Obama said that,
well send Mr Purchase, tear up Shawn Handy. But think

(01:10:56):
about this cabinet members. Oh, we're talking about Secretary Nielsen,
We're talking about Pam BONDI, we're talking about Sarah Sanders.
You know, we're talking about I mean, it's never been
this bad. And then you got so called leaders of
Congress encouraging this. Our friend shaw on Spicery has a
brand new book out. It's actually phenomenal. I've been reading.

(01:11:17):
It's great. It's called The Briefing in Anyway, and he
shares a lot of the stories in his new book.
But he just actually had a book tour stop canceled
at what's called Massachusetts. BJ's wholesale club over apparent concerns
about the political client climate, which, by the way, it's
pretty bad out there. And anyway, Mr Spicer, so tell

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us about what happened here, because I thought in America
you're actually allowed to go out and do book tours
and you should be able to do so in a
safe environment. Obviously, don't think they don't think it's particularly
safe in light of what I guess we just heard
and past instances. Thanks for having me. I don't know
exactly what's changed. Last few days we've got I think

(01:12:01):
it's close to fifty book stop stops on the book
tour right now. I've sold out a stop in San Francisco,
another one in California. We've got three in Rhode Island
in the next couple of days. But for some reason,
these guys pulled back and said that they wanted to
because of the political climate, didn't want to go through
with it. I think it's unfortunate that the left is
able to do that and and trying. I mean, if
you notice every time someone comes out with something, uh

(01:12:24):
that talks about what really happened during the election, which is,
you know, my book, I think pulls back the curtain
on what was going on during the campaign and the
convention and the first you know, key months of that
of this new administration. I think that there's an attempt
to try to silence the left is trying to silence
our voices on this. And uh, you know, God bless
your outlet and others, your show and others for for

(01:12:45):
actually engaging in discourse on such on these important matters.
But I'm just I'm literally shocked that the left is
that always talks about transparency and engaging, you know, literally
wants to shut down the discourse. Well, the this has
been now a little secret that we conservatives have known
about for years, and that is, you know, all started

(01:13:07):
on left wing college campuses where they wouldn't even let
conservatives speak or or talk um. You know. I I look,
your book is penalog of briefing politics to press the president.
But you know, everybody kind of forgets that these are
real people. Sarah Sanders has real children, in her particular case,
getting thrown out of a restaurant because she works for

(01:13:30):
the president and you don't like her views. I'm in
business if I owned a restaurant and say, oh, welcome
to the restaurant. Can I get you a drink? That's
you know, whoever walks in who cares, you know, their
money is as good as anybody's. But I mean again,
that's that's just one indicator of how bad things are.
But now people are being told, um, really you were
at the tipping point of all of this in your

(01:13:53):
work in the campaign, and then you became the first
press secretary for Donald Trump, and then it was you know,
full on attacks all over pop culture Saturday Night Live,
you know, culminating I guess in your cameo at the Emmys.
But it does take a toll on an individual, and
you have a family, and you have friends, and they're

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watching you go through this every day. Yeah, I mean,
look Sjohn, I talked about this extensively at the book.
I didn't think it's appropriate as a spokesman to go
out there and be talking about, you know, exactly, the
the intensity that the job hadn't the toll that it's taking,
because that's not why you're there. And you're there to
serve the President United States and further his his his
policies and advance his agenda. Uh and and make sure

(01:14:35):
that you're conveying what his views are but you know,
I talked about one instance in the book where I
help people. You know, they a bunch of folks on
the left put my house up for sale on Zillo.
You know, my wife gives me a cause is uh,
you know, what what do we do? And you know,
it's that kind of you know, intimidation, it's that kind
of attempt to to go after people that I just

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it's amazing to me if anyone on the right, if
you or I and shoot, we've had our own experiences
where they attack and criticize and scrutinize every single thing
we do. Somebody does you know, goes after us on
the left and it's it's excused what you know, they
always talked about, well they had to do it, or
here's why it's not that bad. You played the clips
at the beginning of the show or this segment, rather
about them them talking about getting in people's faces, pushing back, resisting.

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I mean that we have now gone from peaceful protesting
and expressing ourselves and peacefully to now trying to encourage
and incite intimidation and potentially violence in some cases. You know,
why is it that I, in many ways, for myself
and I'm speaking for me, um, and I get all
of this, believe me, and I've had it going on

(01:15:40):
for a long long time. But I also kind of
view it that I signed up for it. In other words,
you know what, I purposely went into radio. I give
four hours of opinions every day. I know there are
people that don't like me personally, don't like my opinions,
and they still listen a lot of them, but or
some never listen. Then they just have false impressions. But

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you know, I feel like you or Sarah Sanders, You're
you're doing a job as a White House spokesperson, and
they want to engage and fight you at a level
that I've never seen before. And by the way, that
job has always been horrible. It's the worst job in
any administration, which is means you know you're crazy to
take it. Well, it was an honor and privilege to

(01:16:22):
do it, and part of the reason I wrote the
book is to give people an insight into what it's like,
what it's like to do that job every day, what
it's like to get there, how how I grew up
in Rhode Island, and then enough, you know, staying in
front of the podium serving the president of the United States.
But I wanted to be able to pull back the curtain.
And also, I think the other thing is and here's
why I thought it was really important. If you go
through the section on the campaign, and it talks about

(01:16:44):
how the R and C and the campaign we're working
together in the data that sols the media will have
you believe that every other every reason in the world,
as many as Hillary has gone through, is why Donald
Trump's elected. There is actual decisions that people like Brad Carson,
Brad car Scales and other during the campaign, We're making
des asion based on sound data. We knew where to
send our team, and I wanted to codify that so

(01:17:04):
that people could look at that and say, see, these
guys actually ran a smart campaign. They had a great
data operation. They had a smart field operation going door
to door, bringing people to the polls, getting the tastabs
and tea ballance or vote early. But the reality is
that it was a well run machine. The media didn't
want to talk about it. They don't want to acknowledge it.
I needed to write this book to make sure that
history recorded how well that that operation actually, how was

(01:17:28):
this impacted your own family? Because one of the facts
that I found out, and I think I had known
it and forgotten it. Um because I live five years
in Warren, Rhode Island, which is the adjacent town of
where you grew up in Barrington, and you know the
three towns actually, you know Barrington, Warren and Bristol is
sort of way like the midway point of Portsmouth between

(01:17:50):
between Newport and Providence, which people would know. And I
know that like Bristol has the biggest Fourth of July
parade I've ever seen in my life. I mean, it's
really amazing and barring and is an amazing place as well,
and so and we had that in common, and it's like,
you know, this is you know, small town USA, and
then you find yourself standing at that podium. Well, the

(01:18:13):
irony for both of us too is that it's not
exactly the hotbed of conservative or Republicans. Oh no, not
at all. And until I get a kick out of,
you know, when people ask me, I just never thought
it was possible to get this because of where I
came from, my background, and I constantly pinched myself when
I was at the White House going this is an
honor that I never thought was possible. Um, considering where

(01:18:34):
I was from, my my my my background, and my
parents weren't political, we weren't well connected. Um, but I
had a great family that was like you also served
in the military. You have a very strong family. Yes,
And and again, I just what I loved about writing
this book, Sean, was the ability to share that with others.
People ask me all the time, what was the greatest
thing you liked about serving in the White House, And

(01:18:55):
honest to God, the best part was sharing it. Whether
it was family, friends, or sometimes there's like a weak
stranger on a tour and I could said, hey, Ken,
I can I there anyway, I can see the briefing
or whatever, and they might forget who I was, but
they will never forget that moment um, And to make
their lives have that special moment was something that I
always will treasure. That was awesome being able to share it,
knowing how special it was for me, and being able

(01:19:17):
to write a book that talked about my trajectory from
you know, growing up in Rhode Island tending up to
the White House. Um, it really is specially to be
able to share those those you know experiences with others.
You know, look I know it's been hard. Uh. In particular,
what is you What would you want people to know
about Donald Trump being so close to him in the

(01:19:37):
campaign and in the White House that they don't know
because there's an image of the president that I know
is very different than the man and the guy that
I saw in the campaign and know it as president.
I mean, if you read them, if you listen to
the media, which is now all opinion, there's there's no
reporting anymore. It's all a bias against him I've never
seen in my life, and they under the so called

(01:20:00):
guys a journalism. What would you want people to know?
Two things? Number One, when it comes to the man,
I write about this extensively, both personally in their actions
that interactions that we had and watching him deal with
some others, he can be unbelievably empathetic and caring and concerned. Um,
it's it's a side that doesn't get out. Number Two,

(01:20:21):
there's this view that I get on a lot of
interviews that you know I heard he doesn't listen to
anybody and nothing could be further from the truth. He
invites input, he wants a briggers debate on the issues,
but ultimately he's the decider. And I think what happens
is often the media says, well, because they don't like
the outcome that clearly he didn't listen to anybody. Nothing
could be furtherest from the truth. He invites critique to debate,

(01:20:44):
he encourages it to hear from all sides, and but ultimately, yes,
he does make that decision and makes it clear once
he's heard everything. Uh. And I think those are the
two big takeaways that I have. What do you make
of this tape that was released by Michael Cohen of
him and then candidate Trump. Honestly, you know, I I

(01:21:04):
look at it. Obviously, the content piece of it, which
is what everyone's talking about. I'm really disappointed that somebody
that he trusted is running around keeping him. UM. I
just I think that that is a betrayal of trust
that I wouldn't do, you know, I just I think
it's the betrayal of trust. The idea that you're secretly
doing this is something that I I'm rather disgusted with. UM.

(01:21:28):
As for the substance of it, I mean, a lot
of this was known. UM As far as I'm concerned,
I didn't see, you know, every legal scholar on TV.
But we're in an environment. I don't care if it's
the putin UH press conference or maybe after that, the
the idea that John Brennan, the former communist that is

(01:21:49):
calling the president treasonists, might lose his his security clearance,
which I think he should, or this particular tape and
the media's reaction to it. I mean, it is ad
on NonStop. You know, just go for the jugular every
second of everyday, hysteria. You lived it in that room.
I mean I watched the exchanges. I'm like again, I

(01:22:12):
I mean, I'll debate anybody, but I couldn't do your
job without telling him to go blank off. But here's
the thing. It didn't start then. It started well before then.
And that's the thing. I think everyone wants to look
at everything in isolation. I walked through this in the book,
that this was something that started well before he became
the nominee, that this idea of taking him down and
coming after him in very very personal and visceral ways,

(01:22:33):
and then anybody around him started well before that. And
what happens is everybody wants to stop and say, well,
this all began with Donald Trump's you know, inauguration. It
didn't happened well before this came. It happened the day
that he and Malania came down the escalator at Trump Towers.
All right, stay right there. Sean Spicer with Us is
a new book is out, uh, and he's obviously in

(01:22:53):
an environment whether I guess you know, people are afraid
uh to talk. That's called The Briefing Politics to Press,
Us and the President, and it's on Amazon dot com,
Hannity dot com, bookstores everywhere. Well, and as we continue,
Sean Spicer with Us as a brand new book, The
Briefing Politics, the Press and the President. All right, so
let's talk about some of the people in that room

(01:23:15):
you saw every day, you know, like Jim Acosta as
if he's a real objective and balanced reporter. Um, I
don't you know, how do you deal with somebody that
obviously has an agenda, obviously wants to pick a fight.
So it's on TV that night? Well, what what do
you do? I mean? I I think what I really
thought was, you know, concerning me, is that the behavior

(01:23:38):
that he exhibited, the antics I think are unbecoming. I
think if you're a journalist and you don't call that
out and say that's not representative of who we are
our industry and how we should act. That's the biggest
problem there. I think a costic gets away with it
because his colleagues not only encourage it, but tolerated and
the idea that that's why, that's how a journalist should act.
We when a conservative did this to Obama in the

(01:24:00):
Rose Garden, the media called it out and said that
it was unbecoming. But now when a constant does it
on a daily basis, and he did it last week
to the President himself, he does it on a daily
basis in the press briefing room, that that it's tolerated
and it's acceptable. You I don't know where we've lost
the decorum in the press room that you you get,
you raise your hand, you get called on. There's a
level of entitlement and elitism that he believes he is

(01:24:22):
entitled to as many questions as he wants, as often
as he wants, when he wants them. And I think
that that that is unbelievable and it leads to the
decay and why people really it's like it's like a
cancer that metastasize and spread all over the room. I mean,
I see it almost every day. But well, listen, congratulations
on the book. Um go to when you're in Rhode Island. Uh,

(01:24:44):
you want to go to the Black Pearl for their
clam chowder. It's my favorite place on earth. And uh,
we always appreciate you being with us. The books phenomenal.
It's called the Briefing, Politics, the Press, the President. We'll
take a quick break. We'll come back on the other side.
We'll get your calls in final half hour Sean Hannity Show,
straight ahead, top of the hour. We're gonna get to
your calls here in just a second. You know, one
of the things that really ticked me off about the

(01:25:05):
Republicans after seven and a half years of Repeal Replace Obamacare.
For twenty years, we talked about big ideas like Musgrave
and and good men and patient power and health care
savings accounts, and you know, for almost a decade, for
crying out loud, we've been harassing poor Josh Umber, the

(01:25:26):
doctor down in Wichita, Kansas. As he was explaining the
paradigm he created, which is a medical co op where
adults pay fifty bucks a month, kids ten bucks a
month unlimited care. Uh, he literally negotiates directly with the
major pharmaceutical companies. You leave the doctor's office with the
medicine in hand and at a ninety discount that he

(01:25:48):
gives back to you. And he's not making money on this, um,
but uh, it is the best concierge care at the
most affordable rate. And if you couple that your daily
daily average medical needs with catastrophic insurance that would take
care of a bad accident or god forbid, a cancer
or a heart attack or something horrible, although that would
be covered, but you pay a low rate because you

(01:26:10):
know as high as the deductible that you will want
to pay. But your everyday doctor needs are handled as
an adult for fifty bucks a month. There's now hundreds
of these co ops that he's helped develop around the
country and apparently now they're at risk because of a
bill the past in the Senate and I didn't even
know about it, And uh, that's why I wanted to
have you on dr number. How are you? Yeah, thank

(01:26:31):
you very well, Sean. Thanks for having us and I
appreciate you bringing attention to the cause. Um. Yeah, there
was a bill that came out of Ways and Means
Committee that's just maybe not great for supporting the direct
care movement and patients overall. And so the whole coalition
of doctors have been working hard to try to educate

(01:26:51):
legislators on the best way to move forward. And wait,
who is responsible for this? Because I know Ram Paul
is very cooperative in the Senate for healthcare cooperatives, and
we're hoping to fix it in the Senate. It came
out of Ways and Means committee. Um, and uh. I
think there was a bit of lobbying in the background
by more corporate groups, uh, who are are less standard

(01:27:15):
DPC and so the only one you're lobbying for is
the patient to get better care at a lower cost
and concierge's attention. And you know, for fifty bucks a month,
I could see you every day of the week. If
I was in your co op, by the way, I
would harass the living daylights out of you. Oh I
banged my foot. Oh I banged my knee. Oh I
I got a bruise on my head. Oh, Linda hit

(01:27:37):
me again. You know it was all my big connected absolutely. Um. Yeah.
The bill said, for the sake of the federal definition
that direct care is a form of insurance. And then
tried to give it an exemption um as to not
be regulated as insurance for the time being, and then
put some caps on how patients can use health savings

(01:28:01):
dollars to pay for affordable care. And it's just it's
completely messy, uh and confuses the issue because we're clearly
not insurance, insurances, insurance. We're just doctors providing affordable care
um and so this really, you know, is a roadblock
to patients being able to access just high quality, affordable care.

(01:28:21):
Have you gotten in touch with the Freedom Caucus guys,
because they're the ones that I think would understand that
the most and be able to help fix it for
you if you talked to any of them. We are,
We're working diligently behind the scenes and working with John
Goodman and other uh you know fathers of h s
A uh to maximize this, and I think we'll get there,
but it's gonna be you know, patients might need to

(01:28:42):
really be involved and let their senators know that they
want a free market in their health care system. Well,
let me let me We'll put up the number of
people want to call just to save Listen, I don't
care if they bring health care savings accounts in which
they should have done a long time ago. Anything but
Obamacare is going to be better. But these healthcare cooper
because it's the best idea I've ever seen in medicine.

(01:29:02):
And you know what, I just know that you know
all these other doctors that are duplicating your model, and
you're generously helping them. You're not getting paid for it. Um.
It just shows that how committed you are to healing
your patients. UM. Anyway, two oh two, two to four
three one is the number. We'll put it up on
Hannity dot com. Keep us in the loop. And if

(01:29:23):
you need any help getting in touch with these congressmen,
let Linda, you know, we'll just open up the phones
for her. And they get they run for the hills.
So that's right, Josh, I mean you corna right, Josh.
I mean your corner knows how I roll. First of all,
I roll harder than anybody. I ne would tell lays
either from singlepool. That's right. I'm fighting for the freedom
of healthcare, that's true. I mean that's a great thing.

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I mean everybody could afford fifty bucks a month, and
that's the thing in an unlimited care and it takes
care of the blood pressure, it takes care of cholesterol,
takes care of cuts and bruises and and even broken
bones in most cases. I mean, for crying out loud,
we've done all those things. Um you know. I just
in fact, today we had a patient, she's twenty one
year old with brain tumor. Her insurance was charged twenty

(01:30:07):
four dollars for medicaid. I think they denied it. We're
able to get it down to forty one per treatment
over the course of the term, it'll be nineteen dollars.
But you know, that's what we're fighting for, the ability
to help our patients. And that's not partisans. You gotta
say that again. Can you just say those numbers again?
That is unbelievable. Okay, is this your show or mine?

(01:30:27):
I'm just helping. I'm just helping out. I don't need
your help. With Sean Hannity show go Ahead. Insurance was
charged four thousand dollars and we can get it down
to as low as forty one dollars to treatment, but
over the course of the six month treatment. But you
don't what the why does the insurance companies embrace you.
I mean, that would be the best thing they ever
did they should and I think often. Um, that's why

(01:30:51):
we're confident we can fix a lot of this because
we're on the right side of it. Everybody wants to
support affordable care, but we do got to get to
legislators to be knowledge about how this system works, and
and ultimately get employers and patients and then eventually insurance
companies to see that we're all on the same side
and we're innovating in the direction that helps patients, proves

(01:31:13):
access to lower costs. Really dramatic stuff here, all I
appreciate it. Dr Umber uh Atlas M. D Wichita, Kansas.
I wish you were in New York. Um, I would
use you in a heartbeat. Although one of my best
friends with my doctor so I have, I couldn't leave
him hanging. He's well, I just harass him. I just
you know, I sent him a picture the other day
because you know, my my poor mother in law turned

(01:31:35):
her ankle. I'm like, what should she do? What do
you think? He diagnosed it on the phone, and just
to be safe, we got to our picture. But she's
better now. All right, thank you, sir, all I appreciate it.
One Sean, let's go to uh let's say hi to
is it howdy in Florida? Howdy? How are you? Hi?
How you do when you're a great American? Oh? Good sir,

(01:31:55):
thank you for joining us, and we appreciate you calling great.
So keep it short and sweet, Yes, sir, what do
you got like? Like Linda said, well, you know, I'm
a problem solver, been a problem solver all my life,
and so I look at this problem of the whole
fist Accord and all that kind of stuff, and the
I think that the recourse we should use is that
the House of Representatives should impeach the fist A Court

(01:32:16):
to be able to flip it up into the open
air so that the way that it does business shows up.
I mean, you gotta you gotta know that in the
first what thirty five years, thirty eight years of the
fist Accord, they only turned back twelve applications, and then
somehow mysteriously in two thousand and sixteen and two thousand
and seventeen they turned back thirty four in each of

(01:32:36):
those years. But it's assuming the fist A Court assumes
that the applicant is has got the best interests of
the United States, and that they're that they're honest, and
they will remember it was first rejected according to reports,
the only thing that put it over the top, and
Andrew mcga McCabe even said so, the only thing to
put it over the top was the dossier. Without the dossier,

(01:32:58):
there's no fis a warrant. Now we know that sea
was never verified. Now we know it's full of bought
and paid for Russian lies, and it was and everybody
knew it, but they didn't tell any of the judges.
So the judges were lied to and manipulated. And it's
unbelievable to me that there's not consequences for this. Who's
going to do the consequences. It would have to be

(01:33:19):
the judges on the Fife Accord would have to turn
around and say and they would have to be the
ones that would put the pressure back on the Department
of Justice. They would have to do it. So the
only way to do that is to get the House
of Representatives to impeach them so that that pressure is
there of Okay, tell us what happened, who did it,
why did it happen? And this doesn't need to be
in a public forum, but it needs to be to

(01:33:39):
the House of representatives who they are accountable to, and
then turn all that upside down so that the Fife
Accord goes, hey, we can't let them do this to us.
They're making us look bad, and then you get the
pressure the Department of Justice. Listen. I don't think your
idea is bad in any way. I just think that,
you know, the sad reality is what we talked about
with Jason chaff Fits earlier, and what Monica Crowley said

(01:34:00):
is that they're not going to do their job. And
here you got Meadows in Jordan's fighting like hell to
get that job done and they're still not doing it. Uh,
let's say how to Bob Is in Florida. To Bob,
how are you glad you called? Thanks Sean for taking
my call. I want to make a quick couple of
quick comments on the Greg Jared book. I ordered The
Russian Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and
frame Donald Trunk from from Amazon in advance. It showed

(01:34:22):
up yesterday afternoon. You got it on released. Good for you. Yeah,
and and I really wanted to tell you a couple
of surprises. So why I ordered the book was primarily
because I wanted to support Greg Jared's effort. And uh,
you know, I I've paid attention to this matter since
it first started, so I felt I was knowledgeable on it.

(01:34:43):
So I didn't think I would learn much from his book.
But I encourage everybody to order it because I've learned
a lot already. And Uh, this guy has written something
that's very important here, and everybody who is unhappy about
this whole hoax thing should order a copy today. Look,
I I it's number one in the country right now

(01:35:04):
on Amazon. It was the last time I looked. And
there's a reason for it. And I watched this guy
write the book. I mean, I have no financial interest
in it except to get the truth out. And I
watched him literally footnote and pound out every word of
this book. And it's got everything. It's like the Bible
of this the biggest abusive power scandal in the in

(01:35:26):
US history, and he's got it all there, and intelligent
people are gonna read it, and then the case is
so overwhelming, and then you're gonna read it, you're gonna think, well,
what about all the fake news people that don't cover this? Why?
And you'll know why because they don't care and they
don't care about equal justice and all they care about
is the political destruction of any conservative at the end

(01:35:48):
of the day and protecting their precious Hillary. Sad but anyway,
I appreciate your call. Uh, make sure that Gregg hears
about your endorsement big time. A J Houston, Texas. What's
going on, baby? What's happening? First of all, as my
girl says, the fake media ought to know. Nobody's paying

(01:36:12):
attention to them anymore. Second of all, the Rhino Republicans
better know if a good Republican running against they're gone.
They can kiss the good back because we the people shot.
We the people are tired of all the talking. You
and the risk Joe, all these guys, y'all got the
news out. Y'all got the truth out. What is taking

(01:36:34):
them in that Congress don't want to do their job. Well,
here's the problem. If they get elected. They want their
crumbs back. They want open borders, they want to keep Obamacare,
they want to impeach Donald Trump so that they want
to end the they want to end investigations into the
truths Now, I gotta tell you something this, This is
a horrible choice for for for conservatives because that means

(01:36:57):
you're gonna have to hold your nose and vote for
weak people a lot of people. That's why I say
they better hope a good Republican not running against them.
I know if they running again, the them, we got
the whole I know. Just keep what's going on. But
at the same time, John, we the people. They're getting
to them people chances to hide, reach and get rid

(01:37:18):
of seeking. Congress's doing nothing. Don't go to y'all got it?
Why don't they do the job? Man? That's what we're asking.
Just do your job, keep your promises. It's not that hard.
It's not that hard. You know what it's like if
I if I say to my kid, my kids, all right,
if you do good in school, I'm gonna take you

(01:37:39):
to Disney. Well they're past the Disney I guess you
never passed the Disney age, except I am. I'm over it,
and that my kids do whatever was that I needed
him to do that I don't take him to Disney.
My kids would rightly be piste off at their dad
and think their dad doesn't keep his word and his promises.
And it won't be slightly they were say with, they

(01:38:01):
will be pissed off. It ain't no fight in the
fake news. They won't even tell you about the shooter
in Canada. I mean, come calling people, we all know,
come home now. Good word, y'all got keep it up
and keep the truth coming, all right, big time. I
gotta role here though, But listen, we love you. You're

(01:38:22):
a great American. Keep up the fight, all right. All right,
let's check in. Amanda is in North Carolina. Amanda, Hi,
how are you glad you called? We have about a minute, Amanda,
It's all yours. I don't know. It was such a
joy to hear your daughter yesterday at the video. That
was so fun. My my daughter beating up on me too.
But yeah, thank you. You know, by the way, she's

(01:38:43):
not that shy in real life. I can tell you
that part I was. It was. He did come across
a little bit as shy. My question is, I'm just curious,
what is the what's the end game here? I mean,
we all know it's fogus, we all know, I mean,
but who actually I can tell you what the end
game is. It's simple. This is why this is the
most important midterm election in our lives. The end game
is simple. They want to impete Trump absolutely do everything

(01:39:07):
they can do to destroy him. They want their crumbs back,
they want open borders, they want Obamacare, and they don't
want the deep state that helps them get exposed. It's
that simple. It's all about power. I gotta run though, Amanda.
We love you, Thank you for being with us. All Right,
Hannity Tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. We'll
loaded up. We have Rudy Julianni, Allen Dershwitz, Joe de

(01:39:31):
Jenev has been on fire, Jesse and Jessica Herman, Kane,
Sarah Carter, and so much more as we literally we
break down these hearings with Mike Pompeo, the tapes that
show nothing. And then of course we have a freed hostage.
Nobody talks about that, and we we don't have a
trade war with Europe. Tonight at nine on Hannity, Fox

(01:39:53):
News News. You won't get anywhere else. See it tonight,
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