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800-941 Sean, we have three top stories we are following.
Not only the biggest one is the deep state and the FBI director, there's no such thing as absolute privacy.
I'll get to that in a minute.
The latest on what I am describing as the healthcare debacle, which we'll get to, and so much more.
But I'm going to tell you something.
You got to pay very close attention to what I'm about to say.
There's a BuzzFeed story.
Remember the BuzzFeed, dossier, all that leak and all those stories?
Well, now it says the Senate Intelligence Committee has been given sweeping powers unseen since the Watergate error to investigate Russia meddling into the U.S. election.
But as its scope grows to include suspected ties between the Trump camp and Russia, investigators are starting to worry that politics, and I'll add the media, have overhyped the probe.
A month into its sweeping investigation into the Kremlin's efforts to undermine the U.S. election, the Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to answer all of those questions publicly, coherently, and fast.
And as the days tick by, they're less and less sure they'll be able to.
Even some Democrats now on the intelligence committee are quietly admitting after several briefings and preliminary inquiries, they do not expect to find evidence of active and deliberate collusion between the Trump campaign and known Russian intelligence operatives.
By the way, the same BuzzFeed that talked about the dossier of the ex-British spy that the FBI was going to pay a fortune to, that talked about hookers urinating on Donald Trump's bed at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow.
You mean that dossier, that BuzzFeed is reporting this?
Now, I want you to pay very close attention because this is not a game anymore.
There is a well-orchestrated, well-coordinated, well-thought-out disinformation propaganda campaign by your news media to never tell you the truth and never admit that they're wrong.
What do I mean by that?
All right, so the House intelligence chairman, you know, is grilling coming.
You know, in other words, John Solomon and Sarah Carter this week broke huge news.
They're on my TV show again tonight.
What was the news?
They confirmed that, in fact, there was a FISA surveillance granted against the Trump campaign or Trump Towers, and the server of Trump Tower was surveilled by the government in the weeks leading up to an election.
Anybody reporting that?
Anyplace else in the media?
They also confirmed John Solomon was an AP reporter for 20 years.
He's not part of the Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, Fox News, vast right-wing conspiracy.
And then they also reported that there was another warrant that was issued to surveil the Trump campaign, if you will, or Trump in the course of this campaign.
They found out that there was no evidence at all that showed any collusion with this whole Russia thing.
Remember, Hillary Clinton, about a week before the election, tweeting out, oh, the Russian connection.
Hillary Clinton advances the narrative.
Our friends in the media advance the narrative.
CNN breathlessly reports on the dossier that BuzzFeed put out that talks about hookers in a hotel room with Donald Trump peeing on the bed.
It's ridiculous, but it's real.
And then you've got all the, all of, go to Executive Order 12333.
Obama, in two weeks before he leaves office, makes it possible that all top secret intelligence information can be, in fact, shared with 16 other agencies.
Well, we didn't have the leaks from the intelligence community.
Let's go.
Five days into Donald Trump's presidency, a draft executive order to reopen CIA black sites.
That's leaked.
On February 2nd, President Trump's calls with Mexican and Australian leaders has leaked a transcript, February 9th, of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn's call with the Russian ambassador.
He lost his freaking career over that leak.
Forget about whatever other information is that.
That should never have happened.
That's a felony, a violation of the Espionage Act.
You go to February 14th.
You got Trump associates contacts with the Russians.
Well, there was no contact.
And that's what the, in spite of two warrants, two investigations, nothing has been found.
And the media is still hyping this and still reporting on it.
Are they ever going to admit that they're wrong?
I doubt it.
What about the February 17th memo suggesting 100,000 National Guard troops are going to be rounding up illegal immigrants?
Or the February 24th leak that Rex Tillerson's anti-leak memo or March 1st of Jeff Sessions meeting with the Russian ambassador.
He was a senator, and he met with ambassadors from all over the world in his capacity as a senator who leaked that information, all to undermine the president, his agenda, and it's happening at a rapid rate.
Listen very closely in light of the WikiLeaks revelations this week about the CIA building an arsenal of tools available to them where they can spy on your smartphone.
There's no encryption on Android, no encryption that is available on iPhones, that they can spy through your smart TV and listen and perhaps even watch, that they develop tools and could use stolen malware to attribute cyber attacks to nations like Russia, Iran, China, whoever they want to put fingerprints on.
You know, the FBI agrees to pay the author of this bogus Trump golden shower dossier until it got exposed, and they were going to pay this guy money to continue the investigation.
It all turns out to be nothing but lies.
This is incredible, and it keeps getting reported, and nobody in the media takes responsibility.
And Comey dropped out of a national security conference rather than discuss it or tell us that there's nothing, no, they're there, like the sources for Solomon and Carter are telling us.
And then he says this, their privacy doesn't exist.
Here's something that I don't mean to freak you out with, but I think is true.
Even our memories are not absolutely private in America.
Any of us can be compelled in appropriate circumstances to say what we remember, what we saw.
Even our communications with our spouses, with our clergy members, with our attorneys are not absolutely private in America.
In appropriate circumstances, a judge can compel any one of us to testify in court about those very private communications.
And there are really, really important constraints on law enforcement, as there should be.
But the general principle is one we've always accepted in this country.
There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.
There is no place in America outside of judicial reach.
That's the bargain.
And we made that bargain over two centuries ago to achieve two goals.
To achieve the very, very important goal of privacy and to achieve the very important goal of security.
Widespread default encryption changes that bargain.
In my view, it shatters the bargain.
Hang on a second.
Really?
No thing is absolute privacy?
Do we have the right to surveil on American citizens as Bill Binney and Kurt Weeby and others are saying is going on?
And at every phone call, every text message, every email is being collected up by our government, metadata stored in Salt Lake City or wherever the different storage facilities are in the country.
You've got to be kidding me.
This ought to anger everybody.
By the way, the purge has now begun.
Finally, we've been talking about this for days.
It was my opening monologue on TV tonight.
And the Department of Justice spokesperson, we now have Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking 46 Obama-appointed U.S. attorneys to tender their resignation.
Thank God.
Finally.
And when are arrests coming after this?
And when do Americans get to know that their phone conversations are not being tapped by their government?
And when does the world hear what John Solomon and Sarah Carter confirmed that, in fact, two warrants were issued to an opposition candidate by a sitting administration, probably approved by Attorney General Lynch in the midst of a presidential election, and that no evidence of collusion was found that the media keeps reporting.
When is that going to be revealed to the American people so Donald Trump can move on and the delegitimization that goes on with the media?
You know something about this news media?
They don't want to admit that they were wrong in supporting Obama.
They never admitted that he was a rigid radical ideology.
They never vetted Obama.
After eight years of failure, they never told you about how bad his presidency was for the economy and what it did for American foreign policy and our stature around the world and how every single place that he put a fingerprint on got worse.
They didn't tell you who Hillary Clinton was.
They didn't investigate the laws that were broken with the illegal server in the mom and pop shop bathroom closet.
They didn't do their job and tell you about the millions of quid pro quo dollars that went into the Clinton Foundation and she's peddled her influence left and right.
They didn't tell you anything about this.
They have been on a narrative that we're now being told is false.
And Donald Trump was eviscerated in the media because he had the temerity to point out what was a truth, that surveillance was taking place against him during the middle of a presidential campaign.
What did these people know and when did they know it?
And why would Hillary get a pass when nobody else would get a pass for the crime she committed?
It is outrageous.
Now you got Democrats threatening to subpoena Donald Trump's tax returns.
Why?
Because they're still fixated on this Russia story.
Maxine Waters finally, earlier this week, she publicly declared she can't wait to impeach President Trump.
Then she had to retract this week.
When you have a congresswoman having to retract a claim she made yesterday about President Trump hiring hookers to pee on his bed, and she said it's absolutely true and she had to retract the story today.
Why isn't that big news?
When is the media going to acknowledge publicly that their reporting on Russian collusion is wrong?
When are they going to acknowledge that Donald Trump was right and surveillance took place?
When are they going to start being lazy, stop being lazy and partisan and do their jobs?
Will they ever serve the American people?
No, the alt-left radical propaganda destroy Trump media.
They're all in on him failing.
How about the Wikileaks revelations this week?
That the CIA espionage division, which is not, as I know, a part of their charter, is far more powerful than the NSA with zero checks and balances, that the CIA has the capability to deliberately mimic the hacking protocols of other countries like Russia so they can obfuscate their own hacks and blame it on another country,
which could cause a major international crisis, or the CIA's secret hacking division producing huge amounts of weaponized malware that can infest your iPhone, your Android, and they lost control of it after we developed it, or the CIA losing control of their cyber weapon arsenal altogether.
I mean, I'm literally now afraid for the country for crying out loud because Wikileaks has only released 1%, less than 1% of what they've got.
Add the numbers.
That's 900,000 pages.
And we got what?
9,000.
Good grief.
I can't, this is unbelievable.
You know, they're bragging about how much money Obama gives them in the CIA, unlimited power to gain favors, that he's using money so they don't go after him.
Then an intelligence leaks the likes of which we've never seen before in the history of this country.
And then related and surveilling presidential candidates, opposition candidates.
What did the president know?
When did he know it?
When is the media going to get off their ass and start doing their job, if ever?
And if they're not going to do their job, then let's just put fake news all over CNN's banner all day.
And why anybody would trust any of these people in the mainstream media at this point is beyond me.
They were caught colluding with the Clinton campaign.
And they hate me.
Why?
Because I see right through their BS.
I see right through their lies.
I see right through their phoniness.
I see their agenda.
It's clear and transparent.
I see that they are lazy and overpaid.
And they hate it when I say it because it's all true.
And you know who they don't care about?
You, the American people.
They are the opposition party.
Fannin was right.
And they're undermining information at a time we need it more than ever.
All right, as we roll along, the best news I can give you for the week is the following.
And it's given out by the Department of Justice spokesperson Sarah Flores.
As was the case in prior transitions, many of the United States attorneys nominated by the previous administration already have left the Department of Justice.
The Attorney General has now asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed U.S. attorneys to tender their resignations in order to ensure a uniform transition.
Until the new U.S. attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. Attorney's offices will continue the great work of the department in investigating, prosecuting, and deterring the most violent offenders.
The purge has begun.
Boom.
Game on.
Took them a while.
It took them a lot.
It took a lot of sabotage.
Now, the next thing I'd like to hear, and by the way, I want to be very clear because I know people in the intelligence community.
I know they are dedicated public servants, people that risk their lives for us.
So I want to be very, very, very, very clear that I understand the 98% of people that work in the intelligence community are good people that are willing to risk their lives to keep you safe, to keep us safe.
But those people that are involved in leaking sensitive information, they are creating a clear and present danger to this country.
Now, with all the new weaponry that the CIA in terms of spying developed, that WikiLeaks only exposed less than 1% of, I'm afraid of what the other 99.5% says.
I'm really getting nervous for the sake of the country.
Whoever these leakers are, and it's so much harder to find it because of the executive order adjustment of Obama two weeks before he left, that meant 16 other agencies had access to it.
If we don't find those people that are leaking this intelligence information, then we're putting the country in danger.
And I'm even urging those great people, those heroes, those warriors that we love and we count on and depend on, the good people in intelligence, find those leakers because they're hurting your business.
And what you do is critical for the safety and security of this country.
We need you.
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Could you imagine if we brought these private conversations and our staff public?
How many, how long would it be within the show's content before the call came in to say, that's it, you're all fired?
I have to say, I'm really looking forward to producing Sean Hannity 2.0, which is going to be the no-holds bard on some station where the FCC has zero authority.
Well, the only place that's available is SiriusXM.
I'm looking forward to doing that show with you.
You know, I remember when Howard moved over to SiriusXM.
I didn't want to go that far.
No, but he said, well, we're not going to be cursing gratuitously and doing stuff gratuitously.
I'm like, I listened recently one weekend, and the show is still a great show.
And he's full of crap.
He was cursing his head off.
He forgot what he said about that.
He said, no, it's more fun like skirting the line and not being able to say and then getting in trouble and then getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
But they say it all now.
There's no holding back, no holds barred.
You know, when I interviewed him, it was one of the more interesting people I've ever interviewed.
Because here's a smart guy, really, really into great broadcaster.
All right, great show.
And here's a guy that I would say to him, okay, I read that you go home every day, you go right down in your basement, you smoke pot, and you see a shrink four days a week.
And I'm like, what's wrong with you?
Snap out of it.
What are you doing?
Come on, you're richer than anybody else.
Be happy.
And then he starts, well, yeah, you're right.
And he starts explaining why.
Because I think he's actually a pretty complicated guy.
I don't really, he's shy in public.
Like Neil Bortz in a social situation.
By the way, Neil just got out of surgery the other day, hit a knee replacement, and I asked him how he's doing.
He sends me pictures of the nurses.
He's a 70-year-old child.
He's like a teenager.
And all these other radio personalities, it's so interesting to me.
Like, Imus is different in person.
Rush is a little bit different in person.
Levin is, he's not different in person.
Levin is what you hear is what you get.
I think I'm pretty much what you get.
I mean, I find it interesting that people that can be so bold in front of a microphone in real life are so introverted and in many ways really thoughtful.
It's like, I don't know, maybe it takes some hidden trauma or pain.
Maybe that's why I've never been, you know, the biggest radio host in the world, but we are who we are.
Maybe I need some trauma in my life or something, some drama that I can start sharing with the audience that they'd be living vicariously through, but they're not because it doesn't exist.
Anyway, I digress.
You know what the media, let me give you another example.
They're not going to admit that they didn't vet Obama.
They're not going to admit that they didn't tell you the truth about how he failed.
They're not going to say they're sorry for colluding with Hillary.
They're not going to admit that the Russia story they've been breathlessly hyperventilating about for months is false, that they were wrong, and that, in fact, a sitting president, they're not going to now switch and say, well, why did Obama, what did Obama know about the Pfizer warrant and the other warrant?
Why hasn't anybody in law enforcement, except through John Solomon and Sarah Carter, come out and said there's no there?
Today we got the first leak from a Democrat saying there's no there of all places, you know, the home of the big dossier urinating in the bed with Hooker's story people.
BuzzFeed released that Democrats are now suggesting there's no they're there either.
They're now trying to get a softer landing and slowly leak out.
There's no they're there to the Russia story.
What is the media going to say?
We apologize.
All those reports, all the hysteria, all the breathlessness was for nothing.
Uh-oh, sorry.
Whoops, mistake.
When are they going to admit any of these things?
When are they going to look at the law that Hillary, the laws that Hillary Clinton broke?
Really?
Why do I think that if I broke laws like she did, right now this radio program would either be coming to you from jail or somebody else would be sitting in this chair.
I told you to ban that.
It's banned.
Do not play it again or you're getting fined $100, Mr. Jay Son.
Don't you someday want to see a woman?
It goes for all Hillary cuts.
Don't play her at all ever.
It's illegal.
There's a, you know, by the way, has anyone in the media told you that the national debt declined by more than $60 billion since Donald Trump became the president?
I doubt it.
Anyone tell you?
I know some people reported this, but not a lot of people.
Trump's first unemployment report shows solid job growth, 235,000 job increase following a 238,000 job rise in January.
Oh, excuse me.
Has anyone told you that when we get right now, the U.S. has a 39.1% corporate tax rate, the highest top statutory corporate rate in the entire G20, and Trump wants to lower it to 15%, which would incentivize businesses to stay here, build factories and manufacturing centers here.
Is anyone talking about the pathetic comment of Mitch McConnell, tax reform unlikely by August?
What are these people doing?
How did they, and that gets to the heart of, you know, or three, I had more good.
Let me give you the good news first.
300 refugees admitted to the U.S.
The FBI is now investigating.
Thank you, Donald Trump.
Or what's happening?
Donald Trump sent B-52 nuclear bombers to South Korea after North Korea fired missiles at Japan.
And the U.S. warmed of an overwhelming response.
Who do you think they fear more, Obama or Trump?
I love the reputation that he has, that people think he's a cowboy in a loose canon.
That's good because he's not.
But if they think it, there's fear there.
Fear is a great motivator and perhaps a great motivator not to attack us, not to attack our allies.
U.S. consumer confidence has now reached its highest level in a decade in the months that Donald Trump's been president.
The Southwest border apprehensions is at the lowest point in five years.
We'll call that the Trump effect.
We have Trump jobs booming, shows America's were right and the experts were wrong.
John Carney's piece on Breitbart today.
Samsung plans the U.S. expansion and is going to shift in manufacturing from Mexico.
Initial capital investment is expected to be around $300 million.
It's a lot of money being promised, isn't it?
That brings me to, I don't think the president was served particularly well with the rollout of this health care bill.
Now, let me stop and say this.
None of us right now knows what the final form of this bill is going to take.
Here's what we know, that they had an opportunity because all of the potential roadblocks, obstacles, disagreements were all out there before they released this thing.
When was it?
Monday night this week.
And they could have brought in the people that were saying that they're going to be against it within their own party, the Freedom Caucus study group.
They could have brought in, you know, these people at these think tanks like Club for Growth, Heritage Action, Freedom Works, Americans for Prosperity, Cato, they're really smart people.
These people, they spend their whole day studying how to do things better and make the country work more like businesses.
And they have really deep thinkers and scholars that put into action big ideas like healthcare savings accounts.
You know, I first read that book by Musgrave and some other guy, Patient Power, many years ago.
It was a Cato Institute book.
That's when I became sold on healthcare savings accounts.
John Goodman was the other author.
You know, Michael Tanner, I think, is still there.
He's a smart guy.
I knew him from my years in Atlanta.
And he was married to the Libertarian presidential candidate.
What was her name?
Lord.
I forget her first.
I forget.
It's off the top of my head.
Nancy Lord?
I don't know.
It goes back a long time.
So they had an opportunity to bring all the critics in and then write the bill and do the compromising behind closed doors.
I was right, Nancy Lord, right?
Yeah.
They had the, that's not bad because I wasn't there since 96.
Yeah, she was the VP candidate for the Libertarian Party once.
Lovely lady, Michael Tanner.
I think they got divorced, but they're great people.
Anyway, so they had an opportunity to put this, and they didn't.
So now it's gone through two committees.
Now it's evolved into a three-phase process.
Now it's become, you know, people are disappointed.
Now, the president who's gulping water, trying to fix everything at once and moving at the speed of Trump, and I'll have on TV tonight a list of all his 50 accomplishments.
I won't read them here because it's easier to talk and then show it on the screen on TV, so we'll do that tonight.
So he had a lot of accomplishments in 50 days.
It says 50th day.
He doesn't have time to deal with all this.
Now the president is spending all of his time either fighting back a corrupt abusive media that is biased, jilted, and lazy, and fight back this idiotic Russia claims.
Now he's got to go out and fix the mess that the Republicans created for him.
And after eight years of running on repeal and replace, not having a consensus replacement plan is just, it blows my mind how stupid that is and how incompetent they look.
And it was so unnecessary.
And they put the president in a horrible position.
He shouldn't have to now spend his precious time fixing this mess that they created.
Since November 8th, they could have been writing a bill, working with each individual group, getting a consensus.
And the way it should have been rolled out is the president, along with every Senate Republican, every House Republican in front of them, this is our bill to fix the broken Obamacare system, to repeal it and replace it with, and then explain it to the country.
Now, we may get there, but it didn't have to be this public.
It didn't have to be this painful.
It didn't have to look like they're incompetent.
It didn't have to look like they're confused.
It didn't have to look like there's an intramural war, a civil war going in within Republican ranks.
Maybe we get there.
Maybe we don't.
You know, and then the charge is now being thrown out there today that, well, if it doesn't happen in the Freedom Caucus and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, stop it.
They own Obamacare.
No, they don't.
No, they don't.
It's the obligation.
This is the president's number one top signature piece of legislation.
Serve the president and serve the people and do your damn jobs and get it done.
This is not complicated.
You repeal it, healthcare savings accounts, free market solutions, cooperatives.
Why do you think I'm spending?
Do you think I love Dr. Umber?
I actually love what he did.
He's brilliant.
Cooperatives, 50 bucks a month, patient unlimited care.
Get a catastrophic plan associated with it.
You have the big event, heart attack, cancer, bad accident.
God forbid, you're covered.
What's so freaking complicated about this?
What is it?
I'm just, I don't even know what to say anymore.
Two committees down, two to go in the House.
The budget committee comes up next week.
And then I can't, listen, I follow the news every day.
Yesterday I put on Rand Paul, and then we put on Paul Ryan.
And they're saying exactly the opposite things.
And I read through the bill.
Jamie Dupree did an unbelievable analysis of this.
I probably didn't leave enough time, but the House Repeal and Replace ends the Obamacare tax, cutting taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Not every tax is totally eliminated.
For example, the Cadillac tax on expensive health plans is delayed until 2025.
It's not repealed.
The reason is the revenue raised from that tax could still be used to make the CBO score look better because it would be bringing in billions of dollars to the Treasury.
If you want to parse the word repeal, the reconciliation bill does not officially repeal the Obama health bill, just like the 2015 bill did not repeal it either.
So both of them are wrong on that point.
But when you add in the phase three of the bill, when you're able to call it repeal and replace, though it may not get done, then you could say it.
It does eliminate the Obamacare mandate that forces Americans to buy government-approved plans.
We know that.
The reconciliation part of the bill does not eliminate the individual or employer mandate because that's not allowed under the budget reconciliation.
There are real, there are technical issues here that are legitimate.
It is hard.
I'm going to concede it's not exactly easy.
I'm saying it should have been handled differently.
So I get a little sympathy on that part, but they should have done that behind closed doors.
Instead, the plan reduces to zero the amount of the tax penalty that's leveled on the individual or the employer.
So that's technically, but they're only effectively repealed.
So he's right about that analysis.
It provides states with flexibility over how Medicaid dollars can be spent.
And you have arguments over who gets covered and whether or not this is a new entitlement.
And the plan empowers individual Americans to buy health insurance that's right for them, not the plan that's forced on them.
That's true, but that's an interesting item because there are some GOP lawmakers who say they're not sure that's possible.
Dave Brad is one of them saying exactly that to reporters today.
But there's obviously, and listen, I'm not, I've got to be honest.
If I'm confused reading the volumes of information I read every day, you have to be confused.
And the fact that I talk to two people on two sides of this issue within the same party and they say directly the opposite things, it's enough to make me want to pull my hair out, bang my head against the wall, and be put in a padded room.
That's how annoying this is to me and how government is so screwed up from top to bottom.
And I'll be honest, the person who's not been served here is the president.
I think he absolutely has been put in an untenable position because they didn't get their act together in the House and said it.
That's it.
And everybody needs to go in a room, throw their phones away, lock themselves in there until they fix it, and come out with an announcement that they fixed the problems and disagreements.
Here's my advice.
Anyone give a rip what I think?
No, apparently not, because I told them to do this beforehand.
Told a lot of people, did I not, Linda?
You nodding your head means nothing to me.
Yes, you did.
We have exhausted it, and it is absolutely frustrating beyond all belief.
The Central Intelligence Agency lost control of its entire cyber weapons arsenal.
What do I mean by cyber weapons?
Those are weaponized viruses, Trojans, and malware designed to penetrate the smartphones, smart TVs, computer systems of the world, and then control them, disable them, insert information to them, extract information from them.
Now, this is a historic act of devastating incompetence to have created such an arsenal and stored it all in one place and not secured it.
Wikileaks discovered the material as a result of it being passed around a number of different members of the U.S. intelligence community out of control in an unauthorized fashion.
There are numerous press reports in the New York Times and Washington Post, some in Politico, that people close to President Donald Trump had been monitored in a counterintelligence activity, possibly by some parts of the U.S. government, possibly FBI.
FBI had been mentioned, NSA had been mentioned.
On the other hand, it seems that many of the leaks to the media are coming from the Central Intelligence Agency based upon how they're described.
There are a number of collaborations that are evidenced by the material that we publish between the FBI and CIA, National Security Agency, and CIA.
So I think there's a real question whether that technology is being used or has been used in these types of investigations.
And here's something that I don't mean to freak you out with, but I think is true.
Even our memories are not absolutely private in America.
Any of us can be compelled in appropriate circumstances to say what we remember, what we saw.
Even our communications with our spouses, with our clergy members, with our attorneys are not absolutely private in America.
In appropriate circumstances, a judge can compel any one of us to testify in court about those very private communications.
And there are really, really important constraints on law enforcement, as there should be.
But the general principle is one we've always accepted in this country.
There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.
There is no place in America outside of judicial reach.
That's the bargain.
And we made that bargain over two centuries ago to achieve two goals.
To achieve the very, very important goal of privacy and to achieve the very important goal of security.
Widespread default encryption changes that bargain.
In my view, it shatters the bargain.
Now think how deeply, think deeply about what the FBI director said there.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean Tolfrey telephone number hour two of our program here.
That is the FBI director James Comey saying repeatedly, there's no such thing as absolute privacy in this country.
Even a conversation with your spouse, a conversation with your attorney, a conversation with your doctor.
Well, whatever happened to attorney client privilege or doctor client privilege?
Whatever happened to the idea that you don't have to testify against the spouse in a case if you have incriminating information.
You know, we have all of this precedence.
Now, if you put this together, what Julian Assange has revealed this week through WikiLeaks is we have the CIA unbeknownst to anybody in the public, at least to me.
I never thought this was their charter.
I knew it was the NSA's charter.
I knew it was other law enforcement's charter.
But they have created, as he says, an arsenal of spying techniques that none of us knew about.
Like, if you think your iPhone is encrypted, that absolutely was proven not true this week.
Your Android, not true.
They can hack into that.
Your own television set that you think is off can become a spying mechanism of the government against you.
And then, of course, then we have this whole issue and the question of, well, the term really is called spoofing, but what it means is that they developed the ability to spread malware and put fingerprints where you think, even though they're doing the spying, but you would think it was spying done from Russia or China or Iran.
And their fingerprints are totally off it.
And could that connect to this whole Russian narrative, especially in light of John Solomon and Sarah Carter's explosive piece that's being ignored by the news media this week, where in fact a Pfizer warrant was granted, surveillance did take place in Trump Tower or off-site where their server for the Trump Tower is, which is where their campaign, every bit of campaign information was on those servers.
Everyone during the campaign had a Trump organization email.
Did they spy on that?
Well, they're going to deny it because probably that didn't come within the parameters that they set out for themselves when they got a FISA court approval.
And by the way, FISA court approvals, you know, only one in 10,000 is denied.
That's not exactly, you know, it sounds like a rubber stamp court.
And then the second warrant that was issued here.
Now, the good news is we have discovered that a Pfizer warrant was issued, another Pfizer warrant was issued, and we discovered that any allegation, all the reporting of this hysterical, abusively biased news media that doesn't tell you the truth, that is set with one goal in mind to destroy President Trump, is that they've never gone back and said, oops, sorry, all of the reporting we did on Russia is false.
Now we have on the record reported information that shows, yes, there was surveillance at Trump Tower.
Yes, there were two warrants issued.
No, there was no evidence whatsoever of collusion of any kind with the Russians.
And maybe we could put that months and months old false narrative, fake news narrative, to bed.
You know, you may not like the recent revelation about General Flynn.
Put that aside for a minute.
The release of a private conversation, the fact that no Fourth Amendment rights, First Amendment rights are granted a general who's doing his job and reaching out to his future counterpart as he's moving from civilian life into government life, and that they released a transcript.
Now, okay, maybe he didn't tell the whole truth to the president and vice president.
They shouldn't have known that conversation took place.
He never should have had to answer a question about that conversation.
Let's see, we have draft executive orders that were leaked to reopen CIA black sites.
That happened five days into Trump's presidency, and President Trump's call with Mexican and Australian leaders was leaked, and a transcript of General Flynn's call with the Russian ambassador.
They didn't have a surveillance warrant on General Flynn.
You know, do you believe in privacy?
Do you want privacy in your life?
Would you like to know your phone conversations are not tapped by your government?
Your text messages are not surveilled by your government.
Your emails are not surveilled by your government?
I'd like to know that.
Trump associates, you know, their contacts with Russians, that's leaked.
Memo suggesting that 100,000 National Guard troops will be round up, will go out and round up illegal immigrants.
That was leaked.
Rex Tillerson's anti-leak memo, that was leaked.
Jeff Sessions' meetings as a senator, that's leaked.
And then we're getting confirmation from the FBI director.
There's no such thing as absolute privacy.
Oh, well, then I guess I thought differently.
I didn't know my government could surveil my emails, phone conversations, my text messages without a warrant of some kind.
Bill Binney is with us, former technical director of the NSA World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group.
Kirk Webbe is with us, former senior analyst for the NSA.
Welcome, both of you.
Mr. Binney, you spent 32 years at the NSA.
I always understood that it was the NSA's role to be involved in the wiretapping and only a limited part of the CIA's role.
Am I right about that?
Yes, that's and internally in the U.S., it's the FBI's role.
Yeah.
So in other words, what is your take on the creating of this arsenal that was exposed by WikiLeaks?
Well, I think they CIA didn't trust the NSA because they didn't always share information with them, so they had to start up their own effort, and they did that accordingly to be able to tap in.
And so they, I think they got copies of the attack systems and software that NSA had, as well as the other Five Eyes countries that contributed to that.
And so they started with that and built up on their own from that.
And you said to me in previous interviews that one of the reasons after 32 years of service at the NSA that you left is because you saw widespread surveillance of the American people and that every one of our phone calls, text messages, emails are being surveilled and stored by our government, every single person listening to this program.
That's correct.
Doesn't that shock you?
Well, I thought it was totally unconstitutional.
Of Exodus scrapping the Constitution of the United States, so we basically have no rights anymore under it.
And fundamentally, I thought they all should be indicted, impeached, or otherwise put away in jail.
Unbelievable.
What's your take on this, Kirk?
Oh, Sean, you know, your lead-in to this segment was just spot-on.
The bottom line is the U.S. intelligence apparatus is disorganized, it's corrupt, and it's inefficient to the degree not seen before in our national history.
And the two victims of this dysfunction are, one, the American people who pay billions for everything we're seeing, and two, the American people whose trust in government and the Constitution is being completely undermined.
Unbelievable.
It's unbelievable.
I mean, do you agree with Bill Benny, Kirk, that every phone call, every text message, every email is surveilled, or at least they're creating bulk data, metadata that they're saving and that they can access whenever they damn well please?
Yes, that is absolutely true.
And if everybody wants the proof, go look at the pictures of Bluffdale, that 1 million square foot data storage capacity facility out west.
And be aware that the United States government, the NSA, is building right now at Fort Mead, Maryland, another storage facility that's 2.8 million square feet.
And you're saying that every form of communication is automatically stored.
Yes.
Now, either you're a conspiracy theorist, you're paranoid and insane, or it's really happening.
Well, Sean, it's really happening, and their logic goes like this.
I don't have all the people, enough people, to see all that stuff.
So important stuff might get by me.
So I have to store it in case I get a tip off about it, and then I still have to go look at it.
Let's say they don't like Hannity's being tough on the intelligence community.
Maybe we could embarrass Hannity.
Could they do it?
Absolutely.
In a heartbeat.
In a heartbeat.
And they just, what, run up my name, my phone number, and pull up everything I've done in the last 15 years of my life.
Yes, absolutely.
And maybe even alter some of it to make you look bad.
Hang on right there.
We'll continue this discussion.
We'll also get to your calls this hour, 800-941-SHOT.
All right, as we continue with all the revelations, all these intelligent leaks, all the WikiLeaks information on CIA weaponry, cyber weaponry that they have built over the years, Bill, when you look at what we're discovering...
and apparently WikiLeaks is claiming this is less than 1% of the information that they have on the CIA and what they've been doing.
Now, by the way, I want to be very clear.
I believe in intelligence for the safety and security of the American people.
You spent 32 years of your life doing this to protect the American people.
But when I have an FBI director telling us there's no such thing as absolute privacy, and then these revelations that, you know, not only can they look at you and spy on you through your TV, but apparently they've looked into hacking the computerized vehicle control systems of cars and trucks.
And, you know, they talk about the possibility of undetectable assassinations.
Now, that might be great for an ISIS member, but why does that scare the hell out of me if it gets in the wrong hands on the wrong people in government?
Well, you see, that's the problem I had with it, too, when I first started seeing this approach that they were taking of doing mass collection of everything.
I mean, even with the expansion of Everything on the internet, you know, all the devices coming on the internet, your toaster and everything, that's only going to make it worse.
And it's just something that needs to be addressed.
It can be done, but it has to be done by embedding software into the network to be able to monitor what was going on in the network, who was doing what.
How do you detect, for example, duplication of data going through a switch or duplication of data coming out of a server.
You could detect people draining material off your device, but nobody has built that in.
The entire network wasn't built with that kind of security from the very beginning.
That's what we did in our original program back in the 1990s, and that's why they killed it.
They didn't want anybody knowing what they were doing.
And you know how to protect everybody's communications to 100%.
Can you do that?
To a very high degree, yes.
I mean, certainly we may not be able to protect against every possible approach of penetration, but we can sure get very close, yeah.
Unbelievable.
Kurt, what's your take on all of this, and how should the American people take the new information that, in fact, surveillance took place at Trump Tower in the weeks leading up to a presidential election?
Sean, that alone constitutes prima facie evidence that the intelligence community is out of control.
And I think Assange said that.
It's out of control.
And it truly is.
The oversight committees in Congress have for years assured us they're doing due diligence.
Let me tell you, I want to read you something from one sentence from the CIA archives online.
Quote, indeed to this day, there are no written agreements governing access by the oversight committees to intelligence information.
What does that tell you?
It tells you the intelligence community does what it darn pleases and it can find any rationale and any authority, including Executive Order 1233, to do anything it wants.
We're in trouble.
What kind of phones do both of you use?
I use an Android.
And what do you use, Kurt?
Same thing.
Why Android over Apple?
Yes, and it's not that Apple phones aren't good.
Bill and I are pretty practical guys.
We buy what's reasonably priced and we use it.
So you're not thinking surveillance.
I got it.
All right.
But I've heard that the Apple encryption is better.
That's what I actually researched it.
And anyway, but very, very revealing, very frightening.
And I got to be honest, I'm almost afraid to see what's in the 99% of other information that Wikileaks has.
All right.
Thank you both.
Mr. Trump said, there's a lot of killers out there.
Do you think America is innocent?
Did I lie?
Did I?
Was that an alternative fact?
That's what they said, right?
And look at the way they jumped on Mr. Trump.
How could you compare America with Mr. Putin?
No, you're not as good as Mr. Putin or Russia because the judgment of God is not on Russia.
The judgment of God is on America.
You're the most rotten nation on the earth.
That is why God has come and you are number one on his list to be destroyed.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
There's Screwy Louis Furrakhan.
America, you're the most rotten nation on earth.
That is why God has come and you are number one on his list to be destroyed.
So he tweeted that out.
And I tweeted him back, screwy Louie.
I said, okay, then leave and take your hatred with you.
And maybe that mother wheel that you say transported you to have a conversation with the dead Elijah Muhammad, maybe that mother wheel that hovers above us can transport you the hell out.
It's amazing the type of hate that is out there, the level of hatred.
This anti-Semitic rants, this racist rants.
It just goes on.
If he doesn't like it here, if he thinks we're rotten to the core, then go.
I'll pay for your trip out to wherever you want to go, wherever you want to go.
I'll even include champagne and caviar.
But you have to promise never to come back.
How is that?
800-941-Sean, toll-free telephone number.
If you want to be a part of the program, Wade is in Vermont.
Wade, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Sean, how are you?
I'm good, sir.
What's happening?
You know, I'm so upset, Sean, with what I see going on with the repeal and the replacement of Obamacare.
And it's got to the point that every time I see or hear Paul Ryan, I just feel like I need a shower.
You know, the guy to me is just slimy.
I believe he flat out lied to you when you went down to visit him.
And then yesterday on your show, he made it clear that he doesn't want to sit down with anyone and try to hash things out.
He said he didn't want to sit down on my TV show and do it.
Well, you've got to be specific here.
But yeah, I agree with you.
Yeah, you know, I've been saying for over a year, I feel like there's been a coup d'etat in this country.
We just haven't been made aware of it.
You know, you see these politicians and they're saying that they're just doing what they promised they would do when they were running for reelection, and that was to repeal and to replace Obamacare.
But, you know, someone needs to go back and show them some of their campaign commercials because we voted based on a complete repeal of Obamacare and turned it back over to the free market.
You know, I like what Rand Paul said on the show yesterday is that it really ought to be a free market issue.
I don't believe the government should be involved in the insurance market, period.
I guess I'm just talking to myself because I actually prefer the Freedom Caucus Rand Paul approach as well.
I agree with you.
Yeah.
I'm going to take the free market out of the equation.
Anytime you mandate something, you take the free market out of the equation.
You know, you look at any state that used to not require auto insurance, and what happened as soon as they required it, the rates doubled, you know?
Let me tell you what they're saying because if you noticed, I let both men talk and I asked, I think, the right questions of both of them, okay?
You did.
And then let me tell you where I think a major strategical mistake was a strategic mistake was made.
And because, listen, they both tell you it's repeal.
Then Paul Ryan will say, well, it really wasn't repealed in 2015 either because of the reconciliation issue.
And then Rand will say it was complete repeal.
And I mean, to be honest, I want to bang my head against the wall.
It gets so frustrating to me because it need not have gone down this way.
And I thought it was a very, very poor rollout for a party that for eight years was dedicated to repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Now, what they're going to say is, well, it's a three-step process.
Step one, reconciliation.
We have to do that because we can't get 60 votes in the Senate.
We can't get past cloture.
So we're going to do it and use the reconciliation to get rid of this part.
Then we're going to use Tom Price, who has the ability to alter and restructure, if you will, the different parts of the bill the way they want it.
Yes, we're going to include health care savings accounts.
But then, you know, are we creating a new entitlement?
Rand says no.
The Freedom Caucus says no.
Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy say yes.
You know, and what's infuriating to me is this.
Because at the end of the day, I don't know what the bill's going to be.
I don't know what amendments are going to be offered.
This, to me, was the single dumbest way to roll out any type of signature legislation.
What they should have done, in my humble opinion, and what do I know?
I'm just a talk show host.
In my opinion, they should have brought everybody into a room, locked the door, take all their communications away from them so they can't leak while they're sitting there, and they should have worked through the bill that everybody would vote for.
You know, everybody's not going to get everything that they want.
I understand that.
Everybody understands that.
But the best bill possible and do it in the service of the American people.
Now they've got an intramural fight on their hands, a little bit of a civil war on their hands, and they've got competing TV and radio interviews on their hand.
And to me, it just makes them all look dumb.
It makes them look incompetent.
And I think they could have better served the president, who's busy juggling a million balls in the air at once, gulping water, trying to undo the mess he inherited, and they could have served the president better.
And, you know, the president's not responsible for writing legislation.
He laid down the principles that he wanted.
Now, one of the things that conservatives may not like is that Donald Trump wants to make sure that there are no Americans lying in the street.
And that would be the number one criticism of the left.
Well, what is the best way to handle that?
Now, I personally believe it's block-granting money to states, but it certainly can't be a long-term entitlement.
And you certainly have to minimize the people that are able to get it.
And it's just frustrating to me.
And maybe we end up at the right place, but it could have been handled a lot better.
And I have no idea what's going on behind the scenes.
Nobody will have any idea what this legislation is going to look like.
Maybe next week we will.
I don't know.
But it could have all been done behind closed doors.
It could have been done in the best interest of the American people.
We don't need to see this intramural fighting.
And it just, it's frustrating to me.
And I don't know.
I just, I don't run my businesses this way.
And I don't know anybody that does.
Anyway, I hope that makes sense to you.
Let's say hi to Aaron is in California.
Aaron, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thanks for having me on.
Yes, sir.
You know, listen, when you had Paul O'Reilly on yesterday, you came up with a great idea to kind of have like a town hall sit together in a forum on your show.
And what really frustrated me was Paul O'Ryan was so against it.
He's like, what does he have to hide?
You know, he wants to go back to that old cloak and dagger thing behind closed doors, you know, shuffling, and then coming back to the next one.
Well, to his credit, the House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was on TV last night.
He said he would participate, and I'm trying to put that forum together for next week, and I will be down in Washington on Monday and Tuesday of next week for that purpose, hopefully.
And I think that would be one of the most powerful ways to actually get something done.
So then they can't come to us and say, well, he said, she said kind of thing, and I'm not sure where they're coming from this way or that way.
You know, Sean, we really appreciate what you're doing for us.
Listen, I want everybody in this audience to know something here.
This is our chance to get this country right, to write this ship, to stop its precipitous decline.
I really don't care whether you have an R in front of your name, a D in front of your name, anybody that's willing to solve problems and serve the American people and fix this, I'm going to support.
And if they're screwing up, I'm going to call them out because that's what, you know, the whole idea of holding them accountable, me saying something as basic and simple as they should have worked it all out ahead of time is not that deep and profound.
It's simple, basic common sense.
And now everybody in the country is up in arms because they don't know what the hell's going on.
And this is an unforced error that they created for themselves.
Exactly.
And doing it in front of the American people, I think, is the best way to do it.
Well, now that they missed the opportunity to do it behind closed doors, then my answer is, all right, let's do it on national TV.
Do it on my show.
I'm available.
Well, Sean, you know, start a campaign for it.
All right, my friend.
Thank you.
Appreciate your call.
800-941-Sean, toll-free telephone number.
Want to be a part of the program.
All right, my buddy Verlin in Chicago.
Verlin shocked me a little bit.
Verlin's come around a little bit over the years.
What's going on in the windy city, sir?
Oh, my God.
You know, Sean, I'm going to tell you like this.
For all the problems that this country may have had and the few that we have now, this is the greatest country on earth.
And I wouldn't want to stay anywhere else.
I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
This is the only country that you're free to say what you want to say and express yourself.
You're right.
But just some, but just sometimes, I hate that some people have that right.
I denounce everything Fira Khan said.
This guy is so past his time.
You know what I'm saying?
He does not speak for a fraction of black people.
I really want you to know that.
I just hope that he just go ahead and meet his maker and so they can be buddies.
I don't wish anybody.
Listen, I'm just not going to wish anybody dead.
It's not my nature.
And frankly, you need to not do that.
But I'm going to say this: there's a lot of bio.
There's a lot of bio.
Just because it's you.
Just because it's you, I'm going to say, I'm going to say I apologize to you.
I'm not going to apologize to him.
He's just, he's an idiot.
For him to wish death on America, though, Sean, for him to wish death on America, he deserves some tough talks.
You know, Barry Farber was one of the greatest, smartest talk show hosts ever in the history of this profession.
And Barry Farber said there's never been another country like the United States of America that has accumulated more power and abused it less and that has done more to improve the human condition.
As imperfect, by the way, as we are.
You know, for all the talk about our founders and our framers, et cetera, for all that talk, you know what?
They in their wisdom created the ability to right the wrongs, correct the injustices and the evils that they knew existed at our country's founding.
And they were proven right because we did it.
It took a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, and a lot of people, you know, taking on a lot of hits.
But by golly, a lot of brave Americans made this country a better place.
And for him to call it rotten of the go, get the hell out.
Get the mother wheel that you think is hovering above the earth to transport you to wherever you want to go.
800-941-Sean is our number.
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It was time for Celanto Mandre.
As the sun was setting, we looked up and saw a bright orange object in the sky.
I said, There it is.
And as it began, it was in the southeastern sky.
As it got darker and darker, this object began to dance for us.
And it was changing colors, red and green.
It's true.
On the night of September the 17th, 1985, I was carried up on that mountain in a vision with a few friends of mine.
As we reached the top of the mountain, a wheel or what you call an unidentified flying object appeared at the side of the mountain, and I was called from the wheel to come up into the wheel.
Three metal eggs appeared from the wheel, giving me the impression that it was going to land, but it never came over the mountain.
Being somewhat afraid, I called to the members of my party to come with me, but a voice from the wheel spoke saying, Not them, just you.
I was told to relax and a beam of light came from the wheel and I was carried up on this beam of light into the wheel.
I sat next to the pilot.
However, I could not see him.
I could only feel his presence.
As the wheel lifted off from the side of the mountain, moving at a terrific speed, I knew I was being transported to the mother wheel or the mother plane, which is a human-built planet, a half a mile by a half a mile, which the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us of for over 60 years.
Okay, Louis losing it.
He actually goes on to say on September 17th, 1985, I was carried up the wheel.
I carried up to the mountain in a vision with a few friends of mine.
We reached the top of the mountain.
A wheel, or what you call an unidentified flying object, appeared at the side of the mountain and called me to come up into the wheel.
Three metal legs appeared from the wheel, giving me the impression that it was going to land, but it never came over the mountain.
Being somewhat afraid, I called to the members of my party to come with me, but a voice from the wheel came saying, No, not them, just you.
I was told to relax, and a beam of light came from the wheel, and I was carried up, transported on this beam of the light into the wheel.
I sat next to the pilot.
However, I couldn't see him.
I could only feel his presence.
And as the wheel lifted off the side of the mountain, moving at a terrific speed, I knew I was being transported to the mother wheel, which is a human-built planet, a half a mile by a half a mile that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had taught us for nearly 60 years.
The pilot, knowing I was fearful, seeing the great mechanical object in the sky, maneuvered his craft in such a way that I could not see the mother wheel and then back quickly into it and docked into a tunnel.
I was escorted by the pilot to a door, admitted into a room.
But suffice to say, it was the center of the ceiling, was a speaker.
And through this speaker, I heard the voice of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad speaking to me as clearly as you are hearing my voice this morning.
We'll continue.
News Roundup next.
Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour.
I stand here representing the feminist majority, and this is what feminism looks like.
I'm Ellie Spiel, the president of the feminist majority, and I'm also on the board as the co-chair of the National Organization for Women.
And we are standing together.
Terry, I'm Terry O'Neill.
I'm the president of the National Organization for Women.
And we're both wearing red in case you haven't noticed it, because we are standing strong with the marchers on this is a day without women.
We have closed school districts.
We're celebrating International Women's Day as the only way we can.
We are resisting.
We are and we will be standing at three.
There's so many events going on nationwide.
At three o'clock, join the resistance at the Department of Labor for women workers because we will not tolerate these outrageous fight against raising the minimum wage.
$15 for women and include tip workers too.
Yes, the snowflakes continue to go insane.
A day without women.
Could you imagine a day without Madonna and Ashley Judd?
And to our detractors that insist that this march will never add up to anything, f you.
F you.
But this is the hallmark of revolution.
Yes, I'm angry.
Yes, I am outraged.
Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
I am a nasty woman.
I'm nasty.
Like my bloodstains on my bed sheets.
We don't actually choose if and when to have our periods.
Believe me, if we could, some of us would.
We don't like throwing away our favorite pairs of underpinch.
Tell me, why are tampons and pads still taxed when Viagra and Rogan are not?
Is your erection really more than protecting the sacred, messy part of my womanhood?
Is the bloodstain on my jeans more embarrassing than the thinning of your hair?
The snowflake superstorm continues, and we continue to chronicle it.
We've been so busy with other news this week.
We have to get back to the Day Without Women's marches that took place around the country.
Joining us now is Sherilyn Harley-LeBon, who is a lawyer and senior counsel with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, contributing fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, Texas.
D.C. McAllister with the Federalist and PJ Media.
And Julie Alvin, liberal analyst, executive director of Bustle.com.
Julie, those are your friends, I guess.
You supported the women's march this week, didn't you?
A day without women.
I did.
I did support the women's strike this week.
We have bustle.
Do we get to have a day without men?
Do I get to stay home?
Well, no, you know, traditionally striking is a form of protest, and I'm not sure what you would be protesting against.
I'm protesting that the women have a day without them, and that if they have a day without women, why not have a day without men?
Well, you know, I think the day without women was really more of an action day.
Women weren't sitting around totally women.
Well, I want to say they were turning.
But if you have a day without women, why can't we have a day without men?
Well, I think that the point of a strike and the point of a protest is to protest inequalities and working conditions and things that need to change.
Did you vote for Hillary Clinton?
I did vote for Hillary Clinton.
Did you know that Hillary Clinton's foundation paid men a lot more than women?
Did you know her campaign paid men a lot more than women?
Did you protest that?
I mean, I am certainly in favor of equal pay regardless of the situation.
Right, but I didn't hear it.
I'm not going to say that.
Have you ever publicly, but I certainly liked her better than that.
Do you ever criticize her for the inequality of pay that she needs to lead by example?
Do you have a problem with Hillary Clinton taking millions and millions and millions of dollars from countries like Saudi Arabia where women can't drive, travel abroad, women are told if they can go to school or work?
Men can just say three times, I divorce you, and they divorce them.
And that's what I thought that we were here to talk about the women's strike.
Well, I'm asking, does it matter that Hillary Clinton took money from those countries and never criticized their mistreatment of women?
As I said to you, Hillary Clinton is an imperfect candidate.
I don't believe that she's the perfect candidate, although I did support her wholeheartedly.
But Sean, by the way, I'm a conservative, and I speak out against the mistreatment of women under Sharia all the time.
I've never heard Hillary do it, and she gets millions from them.
D.C. McAllister.
I'm never talking about Hillary Clinton.
She is no longer in the news.
She's no longer running for president.
Because it's phony selective moral outrage at DC.
She just said that the reason why the women are doing this is because they have something to protest.
But they don't have anything to protest.
There is not inequality between men and women in this nation.
Do not bring out equal pay because we do have equal pay in this country.
We have a wage gap, and that is based on women's individual choices, which they are free to make, and it creates inequity.
But it's not about not having equal pay.
Women have free access to health care as they want.
It's equal.
They have everything that they want legally compared to men.
This March, this protest, this strike was about one thing.
It was about statism, bigger government, and hatred of men.
And if you didn't hear the hatred of men and those women screeching, which gives me a headache every time you play it, Sean, I just wish you wouldn't go on with it because it just gives me a mild.
I'm telling you, what I heard was hatred of men.
Men don't understand women in their periods, and therefore we're going to protest what?
That men don't have periods?
It's ridiculous.
I'm sick of it.
Feminism has had its last days.
It's in its death rows, and that's what we're seeing.
A bunch of moaning death rows from feminism.
I'm not moaning about anything.
I'm moaning about the fact that the U.S. currently ranks 28th in the world as far as gender equality goes, according to the World Economic Forum.
Julia, let's say.
Hang on, hang on.
Let's bring Shara Lynn in.
We'll go one at a time.
Go ahead, Charlene.
I mean, I find it amazing that these women want to strike.
They're talking about, you know, we're striking for equality.
We're striking, you know, they're striking from child care.
You know what we really should be concerned about?
Those women in the Middle East who, those women who've been raped by ISIS, I mean, let's protest or let's not even protest.
Let's bring to the forefront women really suffering around the world, in the Middle East, in Africa.
Instead, pretty privileged white women, I must say, who decided to strike, take a day off, and those women who really need their children to be in school for various reasons and only had 48 hours' notice to find child care and find some other place to put their children.
And Alexander.
I mean, so the very women that they think they're supporting, they were hurting by doing this strike on Wednesday.
And they were hurting.
I don't think so.
Celebrating about it.
Yay, we closed school districts.
Let's celebrate this.
We're hurting kids.
It's Republicans.
Exactly.
What about them hurting kids?
They don't seem to mind it.
They're only hurting themselves.
I mean, what I would say is, you know, certainly I don't like any movement that is going to, it's not perfect.
It's certainly messy.
You know, change has always been messy.
Progress has always been messy.
I certainly don't relish the fact that there were kids who were put out of school the other day.
That said, some of the teachers that were striking, for example, the teachers that were striking in Philadelphia, where 76% of the public teachers are female, they haven't had a raise or a contract conversation in five years.
You know what, Julia?
That's what their union is supposed to be negotiating with them.
These lovely teachers' unions.
You don't take a day off work for that.
You worked it out with your union where you pay dues.
Hey, I want to ask DC.
I'm upset at the wrong people, Julia.
D.C., I'm not sure.
I brought up the issue of inequality in pay and the money that Hillary and other liberals get from Saudi Arabia.
You know, isn't that relevant?
Because I hear conservatives like you and me and Cheryl Lynn speaking out about the abuse of women in real life, and she's taking millions from them.
I find it appalling that we talk about inequality and oppression of women in the United States of America, where women are treated with dignity and respect across the board.
They have equality, and yet we do not reach out our hands and help women in other nations who are having their vagina scraped off in mutilation, who can't drive, who are being raped on a regular basis, children sold into slavery, little girls who have to join harems, and we're not saying anything.
And over here, we're having white, first world, white privilege and problems instead of reaching out to people who are really suffering.
I find it appalling of what feminism has become in this country.
Women should be ashamed of what they're doing.
I think that, you know, at Bussell, we encouraged our readers to spend the day volunteering for causes to help underprivileged women.
I myself, on the day, donated to various organizations that help women in the exact sort of situations that you're referring to.
And, you know, like I said, I think that you're.
Have you ever.
Have you ever.
Julie, I have a question.
Julie, have you ever spoken out against the treatment of women under Sharia?
Do you know any why would you vote for a presidential candidate that took millions of dollars from that country?
You say women's causes matter.
There's genital mutilation of these women.
Harems, as DC McAllister pointed out, women told how to dress, they can't drive.
Why would you vote for that?
Here's my question.
Why would you vote for a candidate that took millions from them and never spoke out against them?
I mean, it's interesting that you bring that up because I think that we should look at the way that Donald Trump's policies are affecting women around the world.
He extended the global gag order, which is going to take billions of dollars of funding from women in underprivileged countries.
Many of those that gave them your talking about victims of female genital mutilation.
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that insist that this march will never add up to anything?
you.
F you.
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You know, I guess, Sherilyn, I look listen to what Julie's saying, and I'm saying it just doesn't wash with me.
Because you can vote for a candidate that takes money from countries that really, really abuse women, that kill gays and lesbians, that persecute Christians and Jews.
And you take money from, and then a candidate you're voting for takes millions and millions of dollars from that country and other countries.
And then you lecture us that women in America are abused, and she votes for that candidate.
To me, it just doesn't, it doesn't wash.
Well, and the other thing is, you know, it was interesting as we looked throughout the campaign, and then, of course, the exit polls after.
Apparently, some other, many other women thought the same way you did, Sean, because as we now know, Hillary Clinton really did not get the support of women that she thought she wasn't going to get, that she thought she was going to get.
She didn't get the support from white women.
She didn't get the support from millennials that everyone predicted and the pollsters predicted.
And I think part of the reason is the same reasons you've articulated, that they looked at her and they thought, this woman is supposed to stand for women.
This is what supposedly she said she did as Secretary of State.
Come to find out, thanks to WikiLeaks and lots of other good research done by conservative journalists, that her family foundation, in fact, was taking money from countries that only keep women down.
You know, also, some of the things she did while she was...
Well, let me give Julie a chance to respond.
Julie, why didn't you factor any of that in and you still voted for her?
Why?
First of all, I don't know why we're talking about Hillary Clinton.
This happens before.
We're talking about the women's strike.
Oh, my goodness.
And are you able to follow the bouncing ball?
Because D.C., am I making sense, or is it just she's not understanding me?
Well, I think you're just calling me.
Believe me.
I think, Julie, what they're trying to do is call it just the hypocrisy of the left.
People who voted for Hillary, people who continue to support Democratic causes, who oppose Trump just because of his policies that they interpret as hurting women.
It's just the continued hypocrisy and double standards that we see coming from people who vote Democrat no matter what.
I think that's what they're pointing to.
And that brings relevance to the women's strike because I saw a lot of hypocrisy in what was going on this week.
Well, you know, I don't know necessarily what that hypocrisy was.
Like I said, this wasn't just a day of fun or relaxation.
This was a day where women volunteered for causes supporting other women.
Women relieved other women.
Women supported causes that supported women internationally.
That is partially how I spent the day.
So what I'm saying is, like, I understand, you know, there are arguments against, you know, previous Democratic candidates and things that they've done, but that's not what the state was about.
And the state was not just about American women.
All right, let me ask a question.
D.C., you've actually been very articulate about how men are actually, and masculinity is under attack in this country.
Yeah, if anyone should be protesting about any kind of raw treatment going on currently, it should be men in family courts, on college camps, in family courts.
Women are favored every men.
There's an equity in family law when custody is brought.
Why don't we protest about that?
There's assumed guilt on college campuses with sexual assault cases.
Why aren't men protesting that?
I mean, when we have International Men's Day, are they going to protest the fact that 98% of men die in workplace accidents?
Women don't.
There's inequity as far as danger in the workplace.
Men should be protesting that.
Why aren't we hearing from them?
Because I think most of us are kind of working like a lot of women are working, the vast majority that didn't protest this week.
Thank you all, Sherilyn.
D.C., always great.
Julie, appreciate it.
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All right, joining us now is a friend of the program, Billy Halliwell, is with us, author of the brand new book, Faultline, How a Seismic Shift of Culture is Threatening Free Speech and Shaping the Next Generation.
And I had the great honor, distinction, and pleasure of writing the forward for this book because I talk about it all the time.
America's in a major, huge culture war, culture crisis.
And, you know, look at what happened in Hollywood at the Oscars.
And I talked about that in the forward.
I said, you know, mainstream media, which is fake news, corrupt, lazy, biased, abusively so.
Hollywood, you know, goes to the lowest common denominator, sex, violence, and cartoons.
That's basically their formula now out in Hollywood.
And, you know, if you have a conservative point of view, you're a persona non grada.
Anyway, Billy joins us now.
How are you, my friend?
I'm doing well.
How are you?
You worked really hard on this book, which I like a lot.
And more Americans than ever are now counting themselves among the nuns.
Why don't you explain that?
So basically, what we're seeing happen is we're having about 30 to 35 percent of young people saying, and these are people between ages 18 and 35, that they don't, they're not sure if they believe in God.
They're not connected to faith.
They are basically disconnected.
They're nuns.
And so that is concerning because by the way, nuns, as in N-O-N-E-S, not N-U-N-S.
Exactly, not Catholic nuns.
They are detached from faith.
And we have never seen a generation.
I mean, young people are usually a little bit, you know, more detached from faith.
They come into it as they get older.
But millennials are the largest, at this point in their lives when compared to other generations, the most disconnected.
And look, the problem goes far deeper than that.
Americans as a whole are having a hard time figuring out what truth is.
Majorities are saying, you know, truth is whatever you think it is.
Truth is inside of you.
So we're really losing this sort of baseline that we've always had of what truth is.
And I really believe Hollywood, universities, obviously, media have contributed to this, and we've got to do something about it.
You know, let me look at the word truth through a political prism.
The truth is Obama always was and governed as a rigid radical ideologue, an Alinsky disciple, an Acorn activist, community organizer, Frank Marshall Davis, Reverend Wright, Bill Lair's Bernardine Dorn, you know, belief system.
And not that he's a terrorist, but he hung out with them.
And, you know, the policies that he implemented, he never changed.
He never had a sister soldier moment like Clinton did, or the era of big government is over.
And so the media never reported the truth about who he was.
They never reported the truth about how his ideology failed so bad.
The truth is they colluded with Hillary Clinton.
The truth is John Solomon and Sarah Carter have now revealed there was no Russian collusion.
The truth is there was surveillance at Trump Tower.
There was a FISA warrant and another warrant granted.
Now, these are all truthful things.
And I sit here alone on the radio all day, and I'm telling everybody these things, and nobody seems in none of my media colleagues, fat, lazy, overpaid, and ideological as they are, you know, seem to have any interest in telling the people the truth.
Well, and this has been a problem for decades, right?
And the book shows this.
When you go into Faultline, you will see there is plenty of data.
And that's what's so fascinating, watching the media.
And I'm a trained journalist, right?
I mean, I went to school for journalism.
I work as a journalist.
Watching them react to Trump, watching them act as though this is the first time anybody has accused them of bias.
The American people do not trust the press.
Last year, Gallup found just 32% of the public having an iota of trust for the press.
This is extremely concerning, but it's not new.
And right now, they're kind of digging their heels in.
Instead of looking at themselves and saying, okay, we have this progressive privilege that we've lived in, right?
We love to talk about privilege in every other sense of the word, but when it comes to ideology, this has dominated Hollywood.
It's dominated media, and it's dominated universities, and it's having a real impact.
But on the media front, I've just been fascinated to watch it because, again, they're acting like this is new.
It's not new.
It's a huge problem.
And we're seeing the impact.
Look, I'm a millennial.
I'm on the upper end.
I'm 33, so I'm kind of edging out that generation.
But we look at my generation, and we have been profoundly impacted by this.
And we've got to turn that back.
We've got to do something to fix it.
You know, it's funny that we're talking all about this.
I'm an executive producer.
I'm probably going to lose my shirt, but I took a shot, and I'm the executive producer of a movie that's coming out at Thanksgiving.
And I just saw the final cut, and I'm very proud of the project.
And I'm not going to talk a lot about it until the time comes because people don't want to hear it.
But the movie starts out with a lot of video of evil in the world.
And then you have a debate.
You have a paparazzi, popular, glitterotty, you know, loved in social circles, a New York and L.A. guy who wrote a book, Aborting God, debating a Christian.
And the crowd is so on the atheist side and just mocking the Christian, which is very modern day.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I mean, look, I actually had a great conversation with the Sorbos about your film, so I'm excited.
And congrats on that.
It's going to be exciting.
But that's what we've come to now, that if you're a Christian and somebody of deep faith, you know, it's just open ridicule season on anybody of faith.
I was raised a Christian.
You know, I was raised a Catholic.
Now I have problems with the Catholic Church.
I've tried to go to other churches, and they seem to only want to talk about tithing, which drives me nuts.
And, you know, so I find myself as, you know, somebody that just reads the Bible on my own.
And, you know, I'm frustrated that I don't see the churches in decline as well culturally.
Look at the current Pope.
It drives me nuts.
Well, listen, I mean, look at this.
How do you escape it?
You almost can't escape it.
And this is sort of the point that I make in the book.
You have a generation that's completely attached to smartphones, tablets.
We are inundated with disgusting content.
You look at primetime TV.
When it comes to sex, you can't even escape that issue.
As a parent, I've got young kids.
I think, how am I going to turn the TV on at night with these kids?
It's almost every issue.
And you talk about Hollywood, the perception that they put out there of Christians, even the way, and I talk about this in Faultline, the way that reviewers treat Christian movies.
You've got 86% of an audience loving a movie, a Christian film that comes out, and you have 0 to 10% of professional reviewers giving it good marks.
There is a huge disconnect.
And again, because we can't escape it and because the problem's getting worse and we're so inundated with all of this, and then we send our kids after 18 years of being in the media and in Hollywood and consuming that content, we send them to colleges where it's then reinforced.
It's really tough to compete with that as people who want to raise their kids the right way.
And look, you're sending them to church on Sundays.
Great.
You're teaching them well in the home.
That's wonderful.
But again, you put that time up against the time they're spending in those three areas, and it's almost impossible to compete with it.
I think you're, you know, it's kind of sad.
And by the way, I'm not the only person that thinks like this.
And I've got some people inside the other room.
I mean, I really do believe the Judeo-Christian ethic that built this country.
I really believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
And yet I find myself, I listen to the politics that come out of the Catholic Church and their own sins that are just unforgivable almost.
I mean, even Jesus said for crying out loud, don't offend a child.
And it went on, and it was bureaucratic, and it was mainstreamed, and it disgusts me.
Well, listen, I mean, this is, and this has been an ongoing problem, obviously.
Like you said, the churches are being co-opted, and you're seeing a lot of progressive Christianity emerge.
You're seeing a lot of confusion about theology.
The basics that you just brought up, people aren't even hearing that.
I have had students, because I teach at a college, who don't know what a nativity is.
I mean, it's insane.
You bring up these words, like, they don't know.
How do you not?
How do you debate the nativity scene if you don't know what a nativity is?
We were actually debating nativity scenes on Courthouse Yards, and they did not know what a nativity scene is.
So this is pervasive.
Now, the plus side here is that people like you exist, people like me, others who are out there talking about this.
We really have got to get Christians to engage.
I think too many of us have sort of, and conservatives too, we pulled back.
And in pulling back, we're not present anymore in some of these areas.
Oh, I'm not pulling back.
I'm going full steam ahead.
And you know what?
While my colleagues in the media lie to everybody every day and they produce their fake news, I've never been more popular in my career because I do tell truth and I do hold Republicans accountable because they're weak and they suck too.
Well, look, and that's what has to happen.
And I think Christians need to stop.
So many of us have sort of said, oh, we're going to create our own little pockets over here.
We're going to separate.
Look, it doesn't matter whether you're making Christian movies for a Christian audience or whether you're trying to do what Devon Franklin is doing in Hollywood, which is making movies like Heaven is for Real.
We have got to have a presence.
And I think by doing that, we can try to counteract some of this.
But it's not.
Well, I can tell you that I can't take the formula out of Hollywood anymore.
It's time for a new Hollywood.
And that is, you know what?
I'm tired of sex, violence, and cartoons.
I've had it.
But anyway, the book is phenomenal.
I'm really proud of you.
I mean, you've done a great job with this, and you really deserve a lot of credit.
And the book is on Amazon.
It's on our website, Hannity.com.
It's called Faultline: How a Seismic Shift in Culture is Threatening Free Speech and Shaping the Next Generation.
And Billy, I hope everyone reads it.
It's a good book.
Thank you.
Thanks for having me.
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