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All right, Glad you're with us.
Happy Friday.
Let us begin with our thoughts and prayers for the people of Texas.
We love Texas.
It's one of the great states in this country.
And you have uh what will be a category three hurricane that is gonna it looks like pretty much smash right into Corpus Christi, Texas, almost a direct hit.
It's estimated land time is is literally the second I go on the air of TV at 10 Eastern, and we'll be live, and Joe Bastardi will be here.
He'll be on the radio today and he'll be on TV tonight.
All our people on the ground from Fox, all our news people.
You know, one of the things I do have great admiration and courage for news people and reporters, and not not the lying lighters over at fake news CNN, and you know, but there are really great great reporters that put themselves in harm's way in war zones and they throw themselves in the middle.
I remember one time Geraldo Rivera and it was one other reporter, I don't remember who it was maybe it was Katrina.
No, I don't think it was Katrina.
It was one just a big hurricane, and Geraldo's like nearly getting blown away.
And it's it's dangerous duty.
You have debris flying, you know, stop signs flying in the air, you know, over your head, and it's it's uh, you know, they do it to bring people the news and give you the pictures and get you the real life understanding of what's happening.
It's amazing.
Could you imagine we didn't have meteorology?
Now I know my friend Joe Bastardi, I give him a hard time for being so into his science, but he loves it so much.
You could tell you about every storm, every place, every time, the amount of damage, how many died, how many survived.
But remember, they didn't have warnings of these things.
You know, if you have a tornado now in Oklahoma, you're not gonna get a whole lot of warning, but you get some warning, enough time to get into your shelter at your house because you're in that tornado alley area.
What was it?
More Oklahoma got smashed.
I'll never forget.
I was down there not long after it happened, flew over the area that got ravaged, and you can see it's like a line.
It's like, all right, we'll take out this street and these houses, but not these, this house, not that house, this house.
And it goes, you could see just literally the entire path of the thing.
And now we also get early warning on all these these hurricanes.
And now what they're saying, it's probably gonna, it's gonna battle in and hit the shore as a category three hurricane.
So real danger.
I hope the people on the ground listen, there are there are people that no matter what, they're not gonna leave.
They just refuse.
They're just like, I'm not gonna leave.
I can I'm gonna tough it out.
I admire their individualism.
They have a right to make their decision.
The government should not have to force people out of their homes.
But I just do remind you of the story, and it's a little bit of a funny story.
So the police come and tell this guy, you gotta get out of here.
The big one's coming.
The levees are gonna break.
It's gonna the whole thing is gonna be flooded.
And the and the homeowner goes, uh, God's gonna save me.
And he goes, uh they say, all right, well, we gotta let you go.
Anyway, the first part of the levees break, the storm's coming in, and next thing you know, the police come up in a boat, like, let's go.
This is it.
The last once that other levee breaks, you're done.
You're out of your house is gonna be totally submerged.
And he goes, No, God's gonna save me.
Anyway, few minutes later, cops get out of there, they get to safety, and then all of a sudden the other levee breaks, boom.
This guy has to quickly poke a hole in his roof at the top of a three-story house.
And he goes to the tippy top of his roof, and he's hanging on, and it's literally up to his neck in water, and he's hanging on to the chimney with all his might.
And then a helicopter comes.
It's the police again.
Hurry up, just grab the ladder.
Come on, we'll come down and get you, and let's get out of here.
God's gonna save me.
Well, he got washed away.
He didn't take the helicopter, and he died.
And then he gets to heaven, and he's at the Pearlie Gates.
Well, you guys stop with the what is he doing thing?
And he gets to the Pearlie Gates.
And he goes, To God, he gets to meet God.
God, I thought you would save me.
What are you talking about?
I said a car.
I sent a boat.
I even sent a helicopter.
And you didn't take my help.
You never heard that before, did you?
You've never heard it before.
No, because I just said to Ethan goes, this is a joke.
I'm like, No, it's not.
That's a very sad story.
The man just died.
And everybody started laughing.
I was like, oh my God, this is terrible.
Well, I mean, look, there are some people that think that, oh, they can't go to whatever religious belief that they can't go to a doctor or a hospital or get a blood transfusion.
I don't like to bash anybody's religion.
I think everybody has the right to be who they are and do what they want to do in life.
Anyway, so the point is there are people that also have gifts in life.
And those people with gifts in life can help other people.
Amazing.
Gifts in life, and other people can help other people.
Pretty amazing.
I don't know.
Like Linda's helps on the show.
Ethan doesn't help too much.
How did Ethan get the back row?
You let him have the back row of our new studio.
Why don't you?
Don't you like seeing my pretty face every day?
No, not really.
I'm like, I'm at eyeball level with you.
I need to put you down a little further.
I can see Jason, though.
I have a better view of Jason.
He doesn't get to hide like he did in the old studio.
All right, so I want to tell you this other.
We're gonna get to Joe Bastardi in just a minute.
We have other news we're gonna get to today.
I want to tell you something maybe new and that you don't know that the mainstream media won't cover, but there is now it's beginning to percolate and bubble up, and it is something that we have been looking at, investigating, questioning, raising questions about, because if you remember, we have this long montage of intelligence officials and even Diane Feinstein, no evidence of Russia Trump collusion, no evidence.
There's a lot of smoke we kept hearing, but there's no evidence of Russia Trump collusion.
Do you realize with all the the thousands of media hours, all the barrels of ink that have been used, all of the articles online, there's no evidence of Trump Russia election collusion.
We've interviewed Julian Assange more than anybody else in the media.
Five times.
And every time he said it wasn't Russia.
It wasn't a state.
So in other words, let me be clear.
Russia did not give you the Podesta documents or anything from the DNC.
That's correct.
Now, maybe you don't like Julian Assange.
I found him to be incredibly forthcoming, smart, and frankly, in a lot of ways, brilliant.
I mean, if you get to the deep knowledge that these guys have, but I found them to be totally honest.
WikiLeaks has never been wrong in 11 years.
The other thing that WikiLeaks has not done either, which they could do is reveal the names of people that they know, operatives in countries that would be killed upon the release of those documents.
So there is a lot of integrity there, and one day that story is gonna be told in full, but I digress.
Let me get back to this.
So the nation is a left-wing magazine, and they're online now, and then you have Bloomberg, which is sort of mainstream left-leaning, but they consider themselves to be liberal.
And the Washington Times, they report more objective, honest, fair, better reporters.
And they've all written stories now, one shape, matter, or form.
And the bottom line of the piece that they're writing is what if the Russia narrative was false?
What if it wasn't Russia from the beginning?
Now, let me take you back.
In 2003, a group of former intelligence professionals formed a group to protest the way intelligence was bent to accuse Iraq of producing weapons of mass destruction.
Then they went on to say the New York Times columnist at the time, Nicholas Christoph wrote a piece that was sympathetic to this group, quoting those members of that group because he didn't want the war with Saddam Hussein.
To me, the overwhelming evidence was the dead children and women in the streets in Northern Iraq and the Kurds, where we know he used weapons of mass destruction.
I never believed that he destroyed them, and I believe in the long lead up, probably a lot of it got sent over to Syria.
I can't prove that, just my own theory.
And we're all allowed to have thoughts and theories in life.
That's what I believe.
But he did use chemical weapons against his own people, so that's what convinced me.
Anyway, the group then was called the Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
VIP S for short, VIPS for short.
They've been investigating what is conventional wisdom that the DNC committee files were the result of a Russian hack.
And what they found instead is evidence to the contrary.
Now we're going to introduce you to two of the people involved in studying this.
They combined have hundreds of years of intelligence experience.
And unlike the current and former intelligence officials that are anonymously quoted in every newspaper by every news organization, these guys actually come out and put their name and their reputation and their credibility on the line.
Now, what they have found are not only doubts, they are almost completely convinced, if not 100 percent, that it wasn't Russia when you talk to them.
But anyway, you got the nation and you got Bloomberg and others, you know, pointing out their findings that a lot of that.
It's likely that these DNC files were taken from the inside of the DNC rather than by hackers or Russians or otherwise.
Now, I don't know who did it and I'm not going to venture a guess on who did it.
We've been looking at this and looking at this and investigating this.
In other words, the question that needs to be asked, if it wasn't Russia, then who was it?
Was it disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters that saw the evidence?
Remember, on the eve of the DNC convention, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is fired.
The six other people are fired.
Then you raise the question about Debbie Wasserman Schultz and being abusive to that police officer.
Then she's paying this IT guy and his family, one guy that worked at McDonald's and got fired, one guy that worked at a car dealership, no seeming IT experience, and they're getting paid a fortune, a couple of million dollars over a number of years, and then she wouldn't fire the guy, and then we find government computers and hard drives smashed into little pieces after he tries to flee to Pakistan, according to reports, with after he advanced 300,000 dollars there.
Anyway, the assessment of the intelligence community, which serves as the basis for the accusations that Russia hacked the election was, you know, they had confidence, high confidence that Russia military intelligence that they used Goosefer 2.0 and the DC Leaks.com to release U.S. victim data obtained in cyber operations publicly and in exclusives to media outlets related to WikiLeaks.
That's what they claimed.
Well, this group of former intelligence officials with hundreds of years of experience, they surmised that after WikiLeaks Julian Assange announced on June the twelfth his intention to publish the Hillary Clinton-related emails.
The DNC rushed, the DNC did.
Rushed to fabricate evidence that it had been hacked by Russia to defuse any potential WikiLeaks disclosure.
That's what they're concluding.
To this end, the theory goes on.0 online persona, that persona, to release mostly harmless DNC data, and Goosefer was later loosely linked to Russia because of the Russia metadata that were in his files and his use and a Russian-based virtual private network.
Then their theory goes on to say forensic findings by independent researchers that know how to do all this stuff that go by pseudonyms forensicator and Adam Carter.
Well, anyway, the they found the former found that 1,976 megabytes of Goosefer's files were copied by the DNC server in 87 seconds on July 5th, implying a transfer rate of 22.6 megabytes per second, or converted to a measure that we use 180 megabits per second.
You know, a speed that's not commonly available by internet providers.
And downloading these quickly would have been all but impossible.
And as the forensicator pointed out, the files could have been copied to a thumb drive, something only an insider could have done at about that speed.
Adam Carter was a pseudonym for another analyst.
Anyway, what they're finding here is they don't believe it.
And they're putting their names on it.
And the people that leak to the media never put their names on it.
Here's the question.
What if the people that put their name on it with hundreds of years of intelligence experience?
What if they now show that it was never Russia?
Nobody knows the truth.
We have no evidence right now.
What if they never?
What if we can prove it wasn't?
Dana Rohrbacher just met with Julian Assange.
He says he's got the evidence.
All right, so this group that is called the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Group, they've been investigating this conventional wisdom that the wiki leaks reveal came from Russia and Trump Russia collusion, et cetera, et cetera.
Well, they're saying that the forensic evidence is showing just the opposite, and they're telling exactly how it all happened.
And what they did is they, with all their hundred, two hundred, three hundred years of experience combined, I'm not sure Bill Binney, 34 years alone, he's going to join us later in the program today.
He's the former technical director for the World Geopolitical Military Analysis.
This other guy, Edward Loomis Jr., is a former technical director for the Office of Signals Processing.
You know what signals are.
As well as other ex-intelligence officials with equally impressive credentials and decades and decades and decades of experience.
And what their record is basically to hold the different intelligence agencies accountable.
And while the and the group ended up being right that we wouldn't find WMDs in Iraq.
Well, that doesn't mean they're right here, but it does fit in the narrative that Julian Assange has said on this program five times, TV and radio.
And yet there aren't any, it's now beginning to percolate.
And it begins to put in place, and maybe it's, you know, we'll begin to understand why people have been acting the way they have.
Why did Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
Why was she mean to the police officer?
Why did this guy who double billed get to keep his job?
Why did this guy have government computers and hard drives, according to reports, all busted up in his garage?
Is this in any way connected to Hillary Clinton's 33,000 deleted emails?
Acid washed and bleach pit and you know, broken blackberries, and she only wanted one device and broken up hammered iPhones, and the FBI gets, oh, let's see, they get blackberries with no SIM cards, which are useless.
Where does this end?
Was this about disgruntled DNC workers that saw for themselves what we already knew that the fix was in?
And to what degree could the DNC be involved in all of this?
All right, we're doing that.
We're also on a part and watch today.
We'll tell you more about that in a little bit.
And straight ahead as we continue, we're watching Hurricane Harvey.
And Joe Bastardi joins us next with an update.
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Now, as we start out today, at around 10 o'clock tonight, just as I'm coming on TV, this storm is literally about to hit the coast and it's coming in right at Corpus Christi, Texas, and then it's going to make its way literally hover around Corpus Christi dumping massive amounts of water.
It looks like it's landing at a category three.
And Joe Bastardi with Weatherbell.com is with us.
So about the time I'm going on the air tonight is D time, right?
Yeah.
That's when uh yeah, I mean, uh I don't I don't even know what to say about that.
It's coming ashore about that time.
And uh And is it gonna it looks like a cat three when it hits?
Uh yeah, at least the cat three.
These things what happens is the shape of the coastline, Sean, uh you see the way the Texas Coast uh folks that are looking at it um is shaped cyclonically like that.
It's good it's arcing.
What happens is the storm literally tightens up as it comes to the coastline.
You saw that with um uh Hugo back in nineteen eighty-nine where the storm as it's as it's coming to the coast, the center tightened up and got stronger and stronger.
So I think that this is uh, you know, it's a major hurricane now.
It may be a cat four at landfall, and uh it's just uh it's just a monster that's coming ashore.
So you really think it might be a cat for at landing tonight.
It c it could it could get on my scale, the power and impact scale, which which takes into account pressure, the barometric pressure in the storm is approaching category four levels right now, and the theory behind that is if the pressure's that low, the wind will show up someplace.
And uh yeah, you know, you can't you when you when you fly a recon in, you can't hit every single spot because it it goes through the eye wall in one place and out the eye wall in another place, and the hurricane is like a person, it has stronger points and weaker points.
So what happens is you may be missing the strongest winds.
Uh the the positive spin on this right now is that it's going east of Corpus Christi.
It will be making landfall up the coast in a relatively sparsely populated area.
Now, if you live there, I'm I'm not trying to uh you know put you down or anything like that, but you live where this hurricane's going ashore, it's not like if it was making a direct hit into the uh major naval center Corpus Christi, it's bad in Corpus Christi.
A wind got sixty, seventy miles an hour already.
But it's a little north.
So at seventy miles an hour now is bad.
Yeah, but uh and and they probably get gust to 80, 90 miles an hour in there, but that's quite a bit of different from a sustained wind of 120 with gust to 140, which is where this is at now.
And by the time it comes ashore, it may be 135 gust to 155, right?
Is uh you're going on the air.
So I mean, the the huge danger in all of this is obvious.
I mean, you got flying objects number one, number two, you're gonna have severe winds, you're gonna have broken glass, you're gonna have things flying all over the place.
I know that there has been an evacuation notice sent out to some, but we both know that not everybody's gonna get out.
You know, how dangerous are they being with their lives if they stay?
Well, uh, for instance, up in the Houston Galveston area, there is a chance they avoid their worst case scenario, which would be uh the storm's going to get back out of the water Sunday night and Monday and come back in.
But if it can get out over the water, then come back into the west of Galveston in Houston, it wouldn't be as bad as if it came in just to the east, uh, because it would get stronger and stronger out there, so they could avoid their worst case scenario.
But folks, listen, when you're talking about one to two feet of rain, and those of you who have lived through things like this, you know that it does it it doesn't take a wind more than thirty, forty miles an hour to drop the trees when they're that soaked.
So what starts happening is if you have all this flooding going on and your power's out, and it's two, three, four days, people can't get to you because the rivers are up and everything else.
So it's a very simple deduction.
You just get the heck out of the area and then you come back and hopefully things aren't aren't that bad.
But uh I I've watched this for years and years, and you know, when I was a younger kid, so you know, you couldn't get me out of uh, you know, when Bell was coming up the East Coast in 76, I'm out there wanting to go out and measure the winds out on the beach.
But as you get older and you're responsible for stuff like this, you've got to get the heck out of there.
And that's that's the advice that you have to uh give people, and you listen to what people are telling you.
Yeah.
All right, let's go through because this is a it's not unusual because you know the history of every hurricane that's ever hit this country and and the impact and the danger in the number of people that died, and if it wasn't such a serious day, I would test you and and I know you'd get the questions right, but all right, so what uh in and around the the Corpus Christi area, it's gonna hit around airtime for me tonight at ten.
We'll have full coverage for the full hour tonight.
Now, when that happens, and we'll have our reporters on the ground and people's in harm's way, and they'll show you everything you need to know.
All right, when it hits, then it's gonna go somewhat inland, about how far inland, and then it's gonna stop and make a turn right back, right?
Right.
Well, what happens is it's going to go fifty to seventy-five miles inland, and tomorrow evening will be west of Victoria, Texas.
Um if you've ever been in there.
Then it's going to drop back south again, and Sunday evening maybe west of Corpus Christi in a weakened state, and then Monday evening it's back out over the water to the east of Corpus Christi.
Now, here's where it really gets tricky.
I've been confident about this loop for three days.
The problem is that once you get back out over the water, does it continue moving east-northeastward along the coast and make its the final landfall to the east of Galveston, in which case it would really have a chance to rev up and become a powerful hurricane again, or can it go back into the west?
It doesn't have as much time out over the water, and it's still a very, very bad situation, but you would not have the kind of hammering winds and the uh what I describe as a pincer movement in Galveston that could lead to the bay literally coming into Galveston from behind.
Never mind the storm surge in front that you deal with in the first part.
So I'm very concerned about that option.
So uh uh once we get to Monday, we have another fight with this as to try to figure out how strong will it be and where will it go.
But the general terminology here, folks, the general story is you've got a large slow moving system over warm tropical waters.
It got trapped, and because it got trapped, it's a catastrophic event for the Texas coast from the coastal bend where the where we're hitting full force is a hurricane, to at the very least, a tremendous rain event, perhaps on the uh scale of Allison, and you folks around the Houston area, KTRH listeners, know what Allison did.
That is on the table here.
So we've got to uh we've got to acknowledge those things, and that's why we believe it's a catastrophic storm when it's all totaled up.
I will say this though, missing corpus but when I say missing Corpus Christi, I'm not it's it's like uh I'm not saying it's missing Corpus Christi.
I'm saying the worst of the storm will be up the coast a little ways from Corpus Christi.
Okay.
But doing that and going into that area, and by the way, the town of Indianola, Texas, the port of Indianola, Texas, you know, in the eighteen hundreds, was the biggest port there was until two major hurricanes hit it, and they decided, forget this, and that's how Galveston, Houston became the big port.
I don't know if people know Texas legends, but the this area is notorious for these very, very powerful hurricanes where this is going in.
So it's not like there's anything magic about this particular storm.
As a matter of fact, it's simply history repeating itself, except we're observing it in two thousand seventeen.
Wow.
All right.
So when it goes in the the again, a little bit north of Corpus Christi, and it's there and it hovers and makes its turn back to the coast.
How many hours are we talking about and how much total rain are we looking at and how much devastation do you see?
Well uh uh as far as the you know, the the metrics that I deal with highest winds and rain, th there will be three to four feet of rain in some areas near Matagorda Bay.
That's the three to four feet of rain.
Forty-eight inches of rain?
Yeah, that there'll be three to four feet in there.
Now, before we get go go crazy on this, let's remember Hurricane Florida in 1963 in Cuba.
It's the one Castro accused the U.S. of stopping the hurricane over his island.
This is the story.
So what happens is what happens there was a hundred inches of rain in four days at Santiago de Cuba.
That's not some little town.
I mean, it's a pretty big town in there.
So these things when they move slowly are capable of producing this type of tremendous rain.
That will be in a relatively non populated area.
I mean, if you live there, it's a problem, but it's not like that's happening in Houston.
I think Houston gets one to two feet of rain locally twenty-five to thirty inches in the Houston Galveston area, which is a huge problem in the first place.
But if you're looking for the bullseye of heaviest rain, it's liable to be near Matagorda Bay.
Corpus Christi, a foot to two feet of rain.
And a foot of rain may extend as far inland as almost San Antonio-Austin College Station.
Our list is WTAW College Station.
I mean, you're going to have a tremendous storm in there as far as rain amounts go.
And then just imagine all that water coming down the Brazos, the Trinity, San Diego.
Well then you got high t how many high tides are you gonna be dealing with considering the the slow moving nature of this and the and the return path of this.
Well that that that is exactly right.
So you're getting a piling up of water.
Uh you know, it it's interesting in that uh you know, I was talking to Linda a little bit earlier.
I said it's not dissimilar to Sandy.
Remember, Sandy kept piling water in, piling more in, and more and more water.
You don't usually see this in the Gulf Coastal areas, but again, you have this storm trap.
Now, what's interesting about the trapping situation, folks, is I see this all the time because i you know, I watched this out in the Atlantic and I can show you some tracks that are uh are s are crazier than this, right?
And they usually happen between twenty-five and thirty-five north.
That area around thirty north, and this just happens to be getting trapped because of all the cool air and the buckling of the jet stream all the way down to Texas.
It's almost as if an abnormally cool weather pattern is causing the worst of what is a summer situation.
Unbelievable.
And all right, so now let's go through the time frame.
Assuming it lands say it's predicted somewhere just around the time I come on TV tonight, but so let's go through all day tomorrow and where this is gonna be.
Let's go through where it's gonna be on Sunday, and let's go through your time frame when you expect it's in in Galveston, Houston, and what it does from there.
Well, Galveston and Houston.
Well, no, no, no, let's go let's start the time frame tonight.
And w what time if it lands?
Well go ahead.
Well okay.
Well, that okay, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna get this ashore to the north of Corpus Christi uh this evening.
So that's a yeah, or or later tonight.
And then tomorrow it's going to be just to the west of Victoria, uh, in the afternoon and evening, and then it's going to start drifting back south and southwest.
So and while it's doing it, it's weakening.
And so instead of the uh the monster hurricane force winds, by Sunday you're down to a thirty to forty mile an hour storm, but there's strong winds still out over the Gulf of Mexico.
So it's just a big broad area of relatively strong winds.
And then what happens is that will emerge back out over the Gulf of Mexico to the east of Corpus Christi on Monday.
When it does that, it will start a northeast path and probably uh come back into Texas someplace between Matagorda Bay and Galveston, it looks like, or Beaumont Port Arthur, that upper Texas coast, sometime later Tuesday or Wednesday, and there's still a chance, believe it or not, a week from today, this thing is trapped over eastern Texas.
Oh my gosh.
So you're talking about from Friday night, all day Saturday, all day Sunday, all day Monday, all day Tuesday at least.
Yeah, and bands of heavy precipitation, the way Houston and Galveston are getting is they're getting bands of heavy precipitation that rotate through and it may back off, come in.
The the f these areas further west where the storm eventually does move out Monday and Tuesday, they're getting a pretty consistent pounding over the weekend.
Uh you know, uh if you've if you've ever looked at tropical storm tracks, uh there was one that hit the North Carolina coast in 71, uh ginger.
She was on the charts for 31 days, and she rolled around in the Central Atlantic uh uh for six, seven days, over two thousand miles east of the coast and then came back.
So, folks, all I'm saying is this, you know, keep it in perspective.
I mean uh uh as far as it doesn't mean anything beyond the fact that hey, we have a major hurricane.
It's hitting the United States and it's getting trapped.
There's nothing magical about it.
It's just the circumstance we're in, and things like this happen in nature and in weather.
No, understood.
Um, but to the degree that people can prepare, you're saying people better buckle up.
This is not gonna be over in twenty four hours.
This is gonna hang out there and hang out there and hang out there and and then you have multiple high tides obviously coming in during the course of this, and the flooding is going to be severe.
Um this is pretty rough.
All right, uh really appreciate it.
Uh Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell.com, eight hundred nine four one Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, uh thank you so much for being with us.
All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show, eight hundred nine four one Sean.
All right, so what if it wasn't Russia?
Well, the people, the intelligence people, the veterans, intelligence professionals for sanity are gonna join us and tell us they don't think it was Russia.
Who was it then?
Also, we're on a potter pardon watch on this Friday for Joe R. Pyle.
We'll watch that and more straight ahead.
You elaborate more on what the uh DHS's uh connection with the DNC was or uh consultation with the DNC was after you became aware of the hacking and they became aware of the hacking uh as to what was offered them, what they accepted, was there any level of cooperation at all?
Um to my disappointment, not to my knowledge, sir.
Um and this is a question I asked repeatedly when I first learned of it.
You know, what are we doing?
Are we in there?
Are we helping them discover the vulnerabilities?
Because this was fresh off the OPM experience.
And there was a point at which DHS cybersecurity experts did get into OPM and actually help them discover the bad actors and patch some of the exfiltrations or at least minimize some of the damage.
And so I was anxious to know whether or not our folks were in there.
And the response I got was FBI had spoken to them.
Uh they don't want our help.
They have CrowdStrike, uh, the cybersecurity firm.
And that was the answer I got after I asked the question a number of times over the progression of time.
Now that was I assume totally different from the reaction you got from OPM.
Uh the OPM effort, we were actually in there on site helping them uh find the bad actors.
Do you know who it was at the DNC who made that decision or who is making it resistance?
No.
Do you know if the FBI continued to try to help, try to assist?
I have uh I've read in the New York Times about those efforts um sometime earlier this year.
Uh let me just be very clear.
At no point during my tenure at the DNC was I contacted by the FBI, DHS, or any government agency, or alerted or made aware that they believed that the Russians a an enemy state was intruding on our network.
At no point.
And I am a member of Congress who had the ability to sit down and be briefed in a classified setting.
Even Director Comey testified publicly that he wished that he had gone to the top of the organization.
We're one of the two national political parties.
It is astounding that when they had a member of Congress who was leading that organization, that no one felt it was any more important when we had a foreign enemy intruding on one of the two political parties networks to do anything more than lob a phone call in to our tech support through our main switchboard.
But how can both I mean Secretary Johnson says the DNC rebuffed the help that they offered?
You're saying that no one ever could you respectfully Secretary Johnson is is is utterly misinformed.
That is simply not accurate.
And much that has been has been written about the timeline of events by the New York Times, the Washington Post, that document through multiple sources, including me, uh, that uh that the FBI and other federal agencies did virtually nothing to make sure that when they were aware,
at the point that they were aware that there was or concerned that there was an intrusion on our network by the Russians, that they did virtually nothing to sound the alarm bells to make us aware of that.
And they left essentially the Russians on our network for more than for almost a year.
Uh our source is not the Russian government.
So, in other words, let me be clear.
Russia did not give you the pedestal documents or anything from the DNC.
That's correct.
All right, glad you're with us, Sean Hannity Show.
Hour two, eight hundred nine four one Sean Topre, telephone number at the bottom of the hour.
We're gonna check in again with Joe Bastardi.
Get the latest on Hurricane uh Harvey that is now pounding its way.
Looks like it'll land around ten Eastern tonight.
Uh our time just as we're coming on the air, a category three, Corpus Christi, and then again it's gonna stay there and stay there and circle back, and a lot of rain is gonna be drops, a lot of high winds, a lot of potential for damage and danger here.
So we're urging everybody in the area to be tremendously cautious, and then it'll make its way up the northeastern coast of Texas to Galveston in the Houston area.
So we'll have more on that in the bottom of the hour.
You know, it's very, very interesting.
Remember when the FBI wanted to look at the DNC server emails and wanted to get to the bottom of the hacking thing, and they no, no, no, no, no, no, don't touch our email server.
No, no, no, no, no.
And remember when Debbie Wasserman Schultz was battling back against the the police officer being extraordinarily rude, and then she kept on the payroll after other Democrats got rid of this IT guy who had his entire family, including guys that got fired from McDonald's and another guy that ran a car dealership or worked at a car dealership, seemingly no IT experience amongst them.
And then the IT guy has the $300,000 wired to Pakistan.
Then the IT guy tries to get out of the country with a with an ankle braceless, bracelet, then the IT guy has government computer hard drive smashed into little itsy bitsy pieces um in his garage.
And you begin to wonder what is going on here.
Deleted emails of Hillary, acid wash, bleach pit, uh smashed up uh devices, no SIM cards handed over to the FBI.
Now the nation, Bloomberg, the Washington Times, have now begun reporting what if it was never Trump Russia collusion.
That which you now have been told for almost a year.
As and why is Robert Muller's special counsel even in existence if in fact that is true.
There is a group of people, the veteran intelligence professionals for sanity, vips we call them.
They've been investigating this conventional wisdom that last year's leaks by WikiLeaks.
Remember I've interviewed Julian Assange five times of the DNC files, emails were the result of Russian hacks.
Russia, Russia, Russia.
What they found is just the opposite, evidence to the contrary.
And the people involved in this, without going forensic investigators, investigations of these documents just made a couple of weeks ago, uh, prior to the July 5th leak 2016 by the person or the entity known as Gusefer 2.0 show that they were fraudulent.
Now, before Gussifer posted them, they were adulterated by cutting and pasting them in a blank template that had Russia as its default language.
And Goosefer took responsibility on June 15th for an intrusion that the DNC reported on June 14th and professed to be a WikiLeaks source, claims essential to the official narrative implicating Russia in what was soon cast as an extensive hacking operation and has led to a year of Trump Russia, Trump Russia collusion.
Joining us now to discuss it.
Well, he is one of the participating members of the veteran intelligence professionals for sanity group, Bill Benny is with us.
He worked for the NSA.
He is the world geopolitical military analysis and reporting group.
Thirty-four years that he was with the NSA.
Kirk Weeby's back with us, former senior analyst for the NSA.
Bill Benny, I'm not sure I'm explaining this well.
You know this better than I do, but you did a hard investigation.
How many years combined experience do you do you think you had with all the guys that worked on this?
Oh, uh gee, hundreds, I would say.
Hundreds of years.
Kirk and I have about a hundred uh we have a little over eighty, I think, years uh together.
Okay.
Tell us what what you did and what you found.
Well, we uh we formed a group to try to find some evidence to uh actually look at to find out what really happened and be able to say something or infer things.
And the only thing we found was some of the data on the on a 5 July thing that uh the le uh uh a local download of the data based on the speed and everything.
Because at the at the time, you see the speed uh it was downloaded at about 23 megabytes per second.
Now that that's the speed of a download to a USB port uh to a thumb drive, for example, but also uh there were limited capacity lines that could handle that speed at the time.
Certainly it couldn't go transatlantic and overpass the western Europe and into eastern Europe.
That that was not possible at that time.
And still we're preparing a test to see how much data can be passed across here now, uh this time this year, just to see if we can test to see what the what the capacity is even now.
But back then certainly it w it wasn't possible by what existed.
Yeah.
All right.
So the narrative has been and the er every news network in the country has been advancing and it c that remember I've I've tried to get the evidence and we've had people like Clapper and Comey and all of these and Brennan and all these intelligence people that say there's no evidence, people in the Senate and Congress, and all that, they've all said there's no evidence, a lot of smoke, but we don't have the fire.
So you're saying that what are the odds that it wasn't Russia at all that it was what are the odds?
Well, I I figure it's probably one chance in a hundred that it was them, but but even so, you know, there's no smoke.
We couldn't even find any smoke.
Certainly we couldn't then find any evidence that would show it went beyond a land that had the capacity to handle that speech, which would have been locally in the DNC land or perhaps slightly off on us few lines inside the eastern United States, but certainly not transatlantic and not Trans Pacific.
Yeah.
Um all right, so who then likely did this because Julian Assange, and I've been saying this, he would be the one guy that knows a hundred percent, would he not?
Where the information came from?
Well, he I mean, you know, uh uh Craig Murray, Ambassador Craig Murray had said he met with uh the the one of the fellows who said he was the source for that information for WikiLeaks, and he met them in the uh American University.
Right at Washington.
Well, I've talked about that story for a long time.
Are we talking about disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters that felt that the election, the primary was rigged?
I I would think that's highly likely.
I mean, certainly the probability of that happening is pretty high, I would think.
You think it's probably but you're saying that the odds that it was Russia Trump collusion in terms of the WikiLeaks documents on the DNC are zero?
Uh very close.
I mean, it's just almost the same as the Chinese or the Israelis or the Germans or the British doing the same hack.
So what's the likelihood of them?
I would say it's all equal to any of them.
Right.
What um I I guess the next question then is how do we find the truth?
Now I do know that Dana Rohrbacher was the first Congressman to ever meet with Julian Assange.
I'd been to the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
I think you know that.
Yes, so have I. Oh, you've spoken to Julian Assange.
Yes, yeah.
What what insight can you give us?
Did you find him credible?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, uh by the way, so did I so did I. Any evidence at all that he's ever published that has ever been wrong?
I mean, no, it's uh it's a perfect track record.
Eleven years he's never been proven wrong.
Right.
That that's what I mean.
So and and you look at our national intelligence community, how many times have we witnessed them lying even to Congress?
All right, Bill Binney, stay right there, Kirk.
We're not ignoring you.
Uh we had you on yesterday, but we'll come back and we'll get back to this discussion.
So here's the big question.
What if it wasn't Russia Trump collusion at all?
What does that mean for the Mueller investigation, the special counsel?
What does it mean?
What does it say about media in this country?
And when are we going to get to the truth here?
We need the truth, because the American people deserve to know the truth.
And if you've been lied to for a year by the media, it is going to be one of the biggest scandals in the history of media.
This this is nothing compared to Dan Rather's National Guard report.
Let's put it that way.
All right, 800 941 Sean, toll-free telephone number.
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All right, as we continue with Kirk Weeby, former senior analyst for the NSA and and Bill Binny is with us, and the veteran intelligence professionals for sanity have this report.
It's now been picked up by the nation and by the Washington Times and by Bloomberg and by others, uh, that in fact it never was Russia.
What if it never was Trump Russia collusion in spite of all that you've heard now for all this long period of time?
Kirk, what is your take on what you've just heard from Bill and what you're reading here and your involvement?
Yeah, well, um, I also met Julian Assange at the embassy a couple of years back, and I found him just as credible as you and Bill did.
No reason to doubt him whatsoever.
Uh his integrity's on the line on this whole issue and many others.
This whole thing smells, it's over the top, Sean.
I smell a rat, I smell a cover up, I smell an attempt to frame the Russians, and we need to get to the bottom of it.
This is as serious as any other crisis facing the US government, and I am frankly dismayed at the government, and I include both the legislative side and the executive.
They're they're uh seem uh they're not willing to march briskly forward on this matter.
Now we can hope that Mueller's gonna investigate it.
I really do.
I pray that he does.
But I'm very worried about the low key approach to this whole thing.
Uh well, I am too.
Now, did you you did you ever meet with Julian Kirk?
Yes, I did.
Okay, so you did you guys go together?
No, Bill and I may uh we're on separate uh missions.
Okay.
Did you find them credible?
Absolutely.
So did I. Now he's been right, and I know some people don't like what he does, but I uh you know, he act into the government at sixteen and the DOD and NASA, and he's now forty-five.
So anyway, I I'm and I if the government doesn't protect with cybersecurity, I blame us at some point.
But the bottom line, does Mueller have an obligation now to go over there?
Yeah, he does.
He has an obligation to uh to leave no stone unturned.
This is a critical issue facing our government, Sean.
It's got to be pursued.
Uh okay.
I mean, I think so too.
And uh let me ask you this question.
At the end of the day, is this country gonna learn that disgruntled Bernie people were the ones responsible for the WikiLeaks leak?
Uh I believe that's uh that's uh highly likely.
Do you think the government knows now or intelligence knows the truth now?
Does Clapper know the truth now?
Uh I I believe the uh that NSA should be able to tell everybody what's going on here, and they're not speaking up.
Admiral Rogers ought to be in the front page of everything saying, here's what happened and here's the evidence.
And he's not doing that.
Why do you think they would allow this to go on like this?
Uh because I don't think the uh the shadow government, meaning the intelligence community and all the affiliated uh co contractors and anything, they were looking for money.
They're all afraid that Trump's gonna shake up the IC.
They're they're the intelligence community.
They're afraid of him and what he'll do to them and in terms of their budgets.
How soon do you think the average American will know?
Uh uh, you know, uh the FBI under the uh hopefully under sessions it'll change, right?
And the new administrator of the FBI hopefully they'll they'll they'll move things along faster.
But otherwise, uh Mueller will drag us out, I think as long as he can because he's a part of this shadow government.
And you think that the mu Mueller knows exactly what the truth is going into this?
I think he's got a good idea, if not all of the truth, he's probably knows most of it.
Well, all right, I gotta let you both go.
We're gonna continue to cover the story.
Imagine if it wasn't Russia from the get go.
Wow.
When the na the nation's a left wing magazine, Bloomberg's in the middle, Washington Times more conservative.
Anyway, 800-941-SHAWN is the number.
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And uh our thoughts and prayers go out to the people.
Well, first it's gonna be Corpus Christi.
The scary thing about this is it looks like it's gonna come in as a cat three, meaning Hurricane Harvey, and then it's gonna go inland, and then it's just gonna sort of turn around and go back the whole while dumping all of this rain, and then it becomes a huge flooding issue,
high wind issue, hurricane conditions, and then it's gonna make its way up sort of the the northeastern side of of Texas, you know, through Houston and surrounding areas, and I know there are some areas where they have been warning you to get out.
I know traffic is probably hard and difficult, and some of you are listening right now, and I I urge you to please listen to the governor, listen to the authorities, follow instructions.
Be good little children, but do it for the safety of your own safety.
This is not worth gambling with your life.
You can always replace a home.
You can never replace a human life.
And tragedies do happen when some people get stubborn.
Don't be stubborn.
Joe Bastardi is the official weatherman of the Sean Hannity Show, Weatherbell.com and uh good friend of the program and friend of mine.
All right, so what time about landfall tonight?
It's about the time I'm getting on the air, right?
First of all, the landfall is going to be northeast of Corpus Christi, maybe twenty, twenty-five miles, and that is crucial because if the landfall was a little south of Corpus and the center came over Corpus, that would be that would have the entire surge into that funnel shaped uh Corpus Christi Bay would come back into Corpus Christi.
Now that's a very bad storm in Corpus Christi.
There is absolutely no question about that situation.
However, uh the landfall a little bit further up the coast the way it is, uh will make for the kind of situation that uh Corpus will escape the worst.
And that area where it's going in is uh sparsely populated, by the way.
And there's a reason for that.
If you go back and look at the legends of Texas hurricanes, there's a town called Indianola.
And back in the uh eighteen hundreds, this was the biggest port on the Texas Gulf Coast.
It got hit two times in a row by major hurricanes, and then they relocated the town inland.
And uh if you notice the map area of that part of Texas in the coastal bend, it's not populated as much as you know, Houston, Galveston, Corpus.
So that is a little bit of a bright glimmer here in what is a uh catastrophic situation.
Well, how much rain uh now we also run the risk because it's hovering so long that you're gonna deal with multiple high tides, including around the time when it hits.
So my question is that coupled with the the amount of rain that we're talking about here and the high winds and everything else associated with this.
What what are you talking about the biggest dangers for people are besides the obvious when when you got a a Cat 3 hurricane hitting your shore?
Well, the most extreme option in what we've been forecasting so far, and I hope I'm I'm wrong on this, is that the storm comes back out over the water and then parallels the Texas coast, going inland just to the east of Galveston.
If it does that, then there we have a real problem because when you get up to Galveston and you look at the configuration of the city, the city gets hit from the southeast and they had to build that big seawall after the nineteen hundred hurricane.
But we've never seen a storm intensify and try to come by Galveston by uh moving northeastward.
Now, what would that do?
Well, you have all this immense rain going on and it goes into the Houston area too.
All that water comes into Galveston Bay.
Meanwhile, multiple surges of uh waters coming in from the Gulf into Galveston Bay, elevating Galveston Bay, and then after the storm goes by, the wind shifts and they get bayside flooding, which I really haven't seen.
Again, I I'm praying that this is not going to happen.
That our forecast, you know, I actually am rooting against what I'm um forecasting here in that the storm uh uh I'm sure it's going to make the loop, folks, get back over the Gulf.
But if it could come up west of Galveston, you know, into that area uh to the west of Houston, then it won't be as bad as what I've just described, because what I've just described is a very, very bad situation.
Yeah.
All right.
So last question, and and you've been awesome, by the way, and we we do appreciate you coming on and and telling our audience everything and and putting every thing in perspective for them.
Just for the people that are in harm's way, your advice to them now.
I would get uh you have to get out here.
Uh, this is the kind of situation where um, you know, if you're even if you're just looking at one to two feet of rain and twenty, thirty mile an hour winds, uh that that will take trees down because the ground gets saturated and everything else.
And you don't want to be caught in a situation where there's no uh no fresh water, you know, the power's out for six uh s five, six days.
You want to be out of that situation.
And so I tell people all the time, you know, with a storm like this, when you have potential like this, you you simply say, Well, look, if it doesn't turn out as bad, then we all have a laugh about it.
I know it's a pain in the neck because I've been in areas where you had to evacuate.
But if it does turn out as bad as what we're talking about, people can be isolated two, three, four days very easily in this, and I don't think that's worth the price.
It's a dangerous situation overall.
There are some glimmers, as I said, not going directly at Corpus Christie, a little bit east of Corpus Christi.
That's a key situation.
And the other situation that could be a a brighter hope is that it never gets uh gets way back out over the Gulf and it comes back in again in this area that's relatively sparsely populated.
Even if it does that, it is a very, very bad situation.
All right, we really appreciate it.
Uh Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell.com and uh Joe, we'll see on TV tonight.
Uh, just as the storm is really beginning to hit as we come on live at uh ten Eastern on the Fox News channel, and we're just asking the people to just take this seriously.
This is not a game.
This is real life, real danger, real threats to real people.
And no life is worth losing over a house or a piece of property or whatever.
And I and by the way, I'm as resistant as anyone.
The government tells you to get out.
Yeah, even if in the worst case scenario and they're just dead wrong, which Bistardi is rarely dead wrong, you know, what's the bigger downside of it?
There is there really is none.
Just being precau taking precautions and and putting safety first.
We hope you'll you'll all listen.
I see it's somebody's birthday out there today.
How are you, Velma?
Happy birthday.
Oh, I love that song.
Thank you.
What's going on, Velma?
Oh, nothing.
Same old famous.
The boys are back in school.
Everything's going good.
How's the so who's behaving better?
Marcel or Anthony, my nephews.
You know what?
Probably, you know, Anthony.
Anthony, probably.
But Anthony probably he's growing up.
He's yeah.
So uh so what well has anyone put my cell my cell is very bright and stuff, but my sales still kind of, you know, baby sh.
But but uh he's he's doing good.
Now you're not putting him in prison again like when they put water in the lawnmower thinking that they were helping dad and you put him in prison and I had to bail them out.
Put those kids in prison.
You put them in prison.
You put them in time out.
What else am I supposed to do?
They were trying to help their father.
They saw their father put gasoline in the lawnmower, and so they wanted to help dad out, and they didn't know it was gasoline.
You can't fault they were you can't fault them for being let me live that down, or you know, no, you're not gonna you you put them in prison just for trying to help their dad out.
And I don't understand.
They were being good kids and they were trying to help their father, and you put them in prison.
Yeah, by putting water in the lawnmower.
Yeah, but they did it because they were trying to help dad.
That's a good thing.
But you gotta let him you gotta kids rotten, don't you?
Rodin.
I have not spoiled my nephew's rotten.
Yes, you do, yes, you do.
That's not true.
Uh oh.
Okay, so you are you want me to stop it?
So wait a minute, well.
Well, so I shouldn't get him any more gifts.
That's it.
You're gonna say, you're gonna say Uncle Sean's not allowed to buy any more gifts.
Right, because Uncle Sean, anything they say, Uncle Sean.
Yes, yes.
Well, what do you want me to say?
No, no?
I mean yes, that's what you need to say sometimes.
Yeah, okay.
Well, I'm not say listen, I'm not saying no to my nephews if they asked me for an Xbox or they asked me for a bicycle or a little motorcycle.
You and you gave it to them, thank you.
How do how's the motorcycles working out?
I saw the video you sent me.
Oh, yeah, they're doing good.
They can ride that thing like a pro.
They go as fast as the thing will go too.
But you know what?
Those boys are very good and very careful that what they do, they go fast as well.
Listen, that was the only gift I had some questions about, and I made you because you were sitting up thinking I'm gonna see you.
Yeah, I thought you were gonna fault motorcycles are dangerous.
I wouldn't have gotten the motorcycle.
You wanted the motorcycle, but I wouldn't have gotten that, but you said you were gonna handle it.
Oh that kid, yes.
You are the one that told them yes.
And and put I said, no, no, no.
I talked to you and you had to take on the liability of uh I d I told you I'd do that.
I tell you And I told you to buy the s you make them wear the safety equipment and all the stuff they're supposed to wear?
Yes, yes, yes.
And they don't drive it when you're not around.
They don't they don't drive it when you're not around, right?
No, we have to watch it.
My husband or myself or you know, some of the things.
Well, by the way, that's not always gonna work out there.
Because when you're not around, they steal Your phone and they text me.
Yeah, I know it.
But that's I locked it, honey.
I got a number, and and I'm being more careful with them.
Uh my friend called me yesterday.
She said, I haven't heard you on the radio with uh I know it's been like nine months.
Uh it's been no, it's been less than that.
Okay, six months.
Remember, you're a busy man.
Oh, yeah.
I'm very well, you're a busy woman.
I am busy.
Does your husband like me anymore?
Because you told me the last time he hates me.
He doesn't like me.
No, it's my friends and my family don't hate you.
They not they care.
I don't say they're in love with you, but they like you because you're so good to me and the kids.
Well, but they they don't like my politics.
But that's okay.
We can we can be different.
We guess what people don't understand.
I'm not gonna dislike you because of your political appreciation, and you're not gonna dislike me because of my we went I wish we all appreciated.
Uh listen, you you know what?
You're you are far better, you're a much better person, Christian than I am.
You do all the praying and and I pray for you, and you guess what?
The Lord blesses you, and he's gonna continue to bless you.
Oh, you're sweet.
I need all the blessings I can get.
Well, doesn't like doesn't the Lord talk to you sometimes and say, Why are you hanging out with Hannity?
That he never said those words.
God, God knows that we love just because we don't agree with everything.
I know.
No, I bet you he agrees with me.
Because he put He did say the truth shall set you free, and I'm trying to tell the truth every day because the media's lying every day like hell.
Right.
Oh, my bad.
Oh, wait a minute.
Wait, is hell a bad is hell a bad word?
Because hell's a real place, right?
It is, it is.
I don't want to go to hell.
That's right.
Well, wait a minute, wait, wait, let me ask.
Where are you gonna be?
I'm gonna be in heaven, but I'm gonna I'm gonna save a spot for you.
You're gonna say what makes you think you're going before me.
What if I go before you?
You're not gonna go before me.
Oh no, you know what that's Wait a minute, wait a minute.
That means I'm gonna have to fly out for the funeral.
I'm gonna have to see all your relatives, your husband hates me.
You always keep your promises to me.
So if something happened to me, I want you in those children's life.
You want all right, I'll tell you what.
No, no, no.
Okay, I'll make a deal with you.
I'll make that promise and commitment that I will be in your children's life.
And I'll and if they don't and if they don't go to college, Uncle Sean's gonna kick their ass.
Because that's what Uncle Sean does.
And I gotta do my read.
All right.
Uh I love you.
Love you too.
Do your read.
All right, can we stop?
I know we got new toys, new studio, everything's convenient.
Do you mind?
Thank you.
This is not okay.
Okay, no, it's not.
It's not hearing that voice is not okay.
You're right.
Hey, I suffer from an insomnia, but I'm doing better than ever.
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We say hi to Well, we'll go to Phoenix, Arizona, where the president was on Tuesday of this week.
It's been a very busy week.
And saying hi to Brandon, 550, KFYI.
What's up, Brandon?
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Uh, thanks, Sean.
Great to talk to you.
Hey, I just uh bought a Liberty Safe this week.
Oh, they're the best.
Well, which one did you get?
I got the Fat Boy Junior.
Oh, I got the senior.
But let me tell you one thing.
It is the greatest safe.
Now let me ask you, wasn't the service amazing?
Aren't they the nicest people you ever deal with?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
They were they were they helped me out in everything that I needed.
So my my phone ID comes up and they say, Hannity, did you lose your key and your co your combination again?
We'll send it right over.
Because I've lost it like three times.
Uh that's why I like the fingerprint now opening safes.
They're the best.
No, I just got the regular the regular uh the key there or the the touchpad entry, and it's it's that's I have one with the touchpad, and it's it's uh I have the really big big one.
By the way, they couldn't steal that.
That's where I keep my guns that I'm not using, and then I got the fingerprint safe guns.
They're awesome.
Yeah, absolutely.
Hey, Sean, um I went to the rally uh on Tuesday with Trump with my 12-year-old son, and I gotta say he was really nervous when uh you know I had him watching all the YouTube videos on of uh Antiphone and all the protests and stuff going on, so he was really nervous when we got there.
But I gotta tell you the uh the Phoenix Police Department were amazing.
Amazing when we got there, we're just like Boston.
Boston the weekend before was amazing.
You know, Charlottesville left a lot to be desired.
Virginia, McCullough, a lot to be desired.
Yeah, absolutely.
And they have there's two Democrats here, Stanton and Gutierrez that are both trying to start investigations on the on the Phoenix Police, and it's just absolutely ridiculous.
I'm telling you, they were they put us at completies and uh they were they were awesome, very professional.
Yeah, by the way, there was a Fox Business Channel camera woman That got hit with one of the rubber bullets.
And from and she was reporting on air.
I think she was on with Trish Regan and I watched her and and she just kept doing her job and she was fine.
You know, they're not gonna kill you, but they're gonna work effectively to keep you away from the trouble.
And the same with tear gas.
If you're gonna go at the police and if you're gonna go after law-abiding citizens that have a right to go to a rally, well that and you want to foment trouble.
And this was only a very small group of people.
And if you want to confront the police, that's what happens.
Yeah, absolutely.
We didn't even see many of the protesters until the rally was over.
I mean, their presence wasn't even really that strong.
Contrary to what the news was reporting, they didn't even really get rambunctious until the rally was over.
And then they tried to stop us from walking out of the convention center, and that's when everything started up.
And the police, they it was pitch perfect response, just like Boston.
And you know what?
Uh, those are very difficult situations for the cops because they're provoking them, they're in their grill, they're in their face, and uh, I can't say enough good about how they handled all of it.
So listen, all my best to you friends, and I'm glad your son had that experience.
It really to start engaging in the political process at that young age is extraordinarily um, I think informative for them, and they're gonna learn a lot of lessons.
So Brandon, thank you, appreciate it.
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This is not okay, I thought.
It was incredibly uncomfortable.
He was literally breathing down my neck.
My skin crawled.
Back up, you creep.
Get away from me.
My nurse came back to the room, found me with my bloody swollen lip, and we left immediately and came home.
He uh I w was getting ready and went to the door, and there I there I sat on the bed, just devastated, and he goes to the door, casually puts on his sunglasses, and says, You better get some ice on that.
She held on to my hand, and she said, Do you understand everything that you do?
I mean, cold chills went up my spine.
That's the first time I became afraid of that woman.
This is not okay, I thought.
It was incredibly uncomfortable.
He was literally breathing down my neck.
My skin crawled.
Back up, you creep.
Get away from me.
She didn't even stand up for the women that knew what her husband did, and she knew what her husband did to those women.
She there's no way that she did not know that.
This is not okay, I thought.
It was incredibly uncomfortable.
He was literally breathing down my neck.
My skin crawled.
Back up, you creep.
Get away from me.
We will destroy you, is what they said to me.
Who said?
My brother said it on behalf of Billy when he was campaigning for him in 1992.
This is not okay, I thought.
It was incredibly uncomfortable.
He was literally breathing down my neck.
My skin crawled.
Back up, you creep.
Get away from me.
So you're in any danger.
I used to.
You used to think that you were physical.
Yeah, I was.
I was very scared.
I was horribly, horribly threatened.
And and people don't know that story.
This is not okay, I thought.
It was incredibly uncomfortable.
He was literally breathing down my neck.
My skin crawled.
Back up, you creep.
Get away from me.
Did you see what happened to Jennifer Flowers?
Did you see what was happening to Paula Jones?
My allegation.
Yes.
No, not afraid.
I just I just knew what would happen.
This is not okay, I thought.
It was incredibly uncomfortable.
He was literally breathing down my neck.
My skin crawled.
Back up, you creep.
Get away from me.
If I ever had to meet her in person, it would be very hard for me not to walk up and smack her.
I know that sounds mean.
I mean, she put me through a lot at twelve years old.
I mean, I had to go look through this window and and ID these guys.
I just want to know, you got a daughter and grandbaby.
What happens if that daughter of yours, if that would have been her and they pulled you in at that time to do that?
What would you do?
And you would have def you would have defended I mean you would have protected her.
Where you don't know me, so I'm piece of scrap to you.
You know, who cares about me as long as you can win your first case as an attorney.
And that was her first case ever.
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
All right, there it is, Hillary Clinton and all of the things she's saying.
He that is not okay.
He was invading my space.
He made my skin crawl.
Uh literally, literally, back up you creep, I'm thinking.
Like, wow.
Anyway, here to debate.
Well, there is some hypocrisy, as you just heard from Paula Jones and Kathleen Willie and Juanita Broderick.
And of course, then there's the little affair thing with Monica Lewinsky that we know about, you know, the intern of the White House.
DC McAllister, Federalist, PJ Media, Emily Shire, journalist, who appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times.
In other words, fake news outlets.
Welcome both of you to the program.
So Emily, let me ask you a question.
Um, do you think she should have ever publicly said about her husband that what he's doing with these women is creepy?
And not only did she not say ever anything against those the attacks of these against these women and the relationships with these women, but then she also took money from a lot of countries that abuse women, and I'll get to that in a second, like Saudi Arabia and Kwait and UAE and all these other countries, and she never criticized them either.
Is there is those things creepy the way they treat women in those countries?
So I think actually the point about what role she played in when women accused her husband of sexual assault was one that actually a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters brought to.
I didn't ask you what Bernie Sap Sanders did.
I'm asking what you think.
Was it creepy what her husband did?
Let's start with Monaco, which we know happened.
Was that creepy?
That by Monica Lewinsky's account was consensual.
Do I take the allegations against...
So it's not creepy that the president of the United States had an intern perform oral sex on him.
It doesn't cover it.
I think creepy doesn't cover it.
When someone alleges sexual assault, it is far more serious than creepy.
Okay, so did you believe I've interviewed Juanita Paula and Kathleen Willie and others.
Do you believe them?
I certainly take their account seriously, yes.
I wasn't there in the moment.
And I'm not Hillary Clinton once said that women have a right to be believed.
You know, and yes, and I think there's a tremendous hypocrisy.
Yeah.
Uh, and I think a lot of women have called that out.
I think that is a problem that's a good idea.
No, you do I don't want to hear about a lot of women.
I want to know what you think, Emily.
Stop with a lot of women in a Bernie Sanders report.
I want to know what you think.
When she takes money, for example, from Saudi Arabia, women can't drive, women told how to dress, women can't travel or even leave the house without an adult relative, gays and lesbians are murdered and killed for who they are, Christians and Jews are persecuted.
Now, then you've got uh Algeria where they punish gays and and lesbians the same way, and Brunei Oman and Cutter and United Arab Emirates, marital rape in some of these countries is acceptable.
And she took money from them and never criticized them.
Is that is is is was that appropriate of her?
Does she have a mantle on this women's rights issue when she takes money from countries that abuse women she never criticized them in terms of the city?
No, she hasn't their foreign policy, but I think we all the time work with governments who we don't agree with their treatment of women or how they attribute.
Okay, I didn't I'm not talking about working with women.
She took money for the she took money for the Clinton Foundation, and I dare you to go find the research when she's ever criticized these countries for their human rights abuses, which is what I'm describing.
I wouldn't take a penny from Saudi Arabia, would you?
Would you, Emily?
As a country.
I'm not asking as a country or as Bernie, would you take a penny from a country that forces women out of dress and they can't drive a car and they kill gays and lesbians.
I wouldn't take a penny.
No, I personally wouldn't.
Okay, well, your friend Hillary did.
D.C. McAllister.
Guess what?
Our government gives money for these kinds of countries.
So I don't really know why you're holding the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton to a standard.
I don't know why you thread a needle and defend the in defensible and say you're a champion of women's rights.
DC McAllister.
Well, I think hypocrisy is definitely self-evident.
I mean, you've made the point, you've shown it.
I mean, you can't really defend this.
She is hypocritical in her defense of these men and nations and and associating with them, even though they they are very abusive to women.
I mean, she hangs out with Anthony Wiener and she talks about um Trump being creepy.
What I find really offensive here though is not just her hypocrisy, but the fact that this woman stood on stage having the privilege of being the nominee for president.
She is a privileged woman.
She has a lot of advantages.
She has had a lot of success, a lot of wealth.
She stands up there vying to be the leader of our country, and she plays the victim card to manipulate us and compare herself, this privileged woman, to real victims.
And by doing that, she is a mockery.
She's making a mockery of real victim.
People like Juanita Broader, or even all many victims in this country who actually know what it's like to be in the presence of a creepy man who threatens them.
Trump was not threatening her.
She was not a victim.
She was in a privileged station, and she's playing on our sympathies to feel sorry for her.
How dare she?
I talk to real victims of rape.
I talk to real women.
I've experienced myself creepy guys in real life.
She has no right to stand there and play the victim in her state and in her position as privileged as she is.
She needs to shut her mouth and be honest about what she is and as just a political opportunist.
DC are the women who have come forth, the dozens with sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump also privileged.
Will you stand up as forthrightly for them?
Are we believing them?
Can I just jump in?
Which one?
Because all of the women that were written about in the New York Times, uh, I interviewed almost all of them, and they all said the New York Times lied, including Carrie Prejan, a former girlfriend.
Everyone, front page big story, New York Times, and they all debunked what the New York Times had reported.
Who are you specifically talking about?
You're talking about a specific report in the spring where you're absolutely right.
The New York Times did frame one of their main accounts in the wrong light.
What about all the women who came forward with cheerful accounts uh later on in the election cycle?
What about the woman who had been on the oppressed who said Donald Trump took off his clothes in front of her and was pressuring her if she wanted to get it?
All right, quick answer, DC, and then we gotta move on.
You're setting up a false equivalency.
I'm talking about Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton's the one claiming to be a victim.
She was the claiming as if she was somehow threatened by this man.
That's how she was putting.
When you put yourself as a victim, you're making someone else to be a predator.
And she was saying that Donald Trump is being a p predator toward her, that we she wants our sympathy toward her because she was a victim.
She's stay right there.
DC, we gotta take a break.
More with DC McAllister and uh Emily Shire, 800 941 Sean.
All right, as we continue, Hillary Clinton's new book out, and uh he's creepy, and we're talking about the double standard, DC McAllister, Emily Shire.
And you know, I just I I just find frustrating, DC, and and I like Emily.
Emily's been a longtime friend of the program, and it's very, very frustrating when the left is confronted with obvious examples of hypocrisy, like taking money from countries that abuse women, kills gays and lesbians and and literally persecute Christians and Jews.
You know what?
I don't I wouldn't care if I had two cents in my pocket or less.
I wouldn't take any money from those people.
Now it's different from what the country has to do.
You know, we teamed up with the former Soviet Union to deat defeat Nazi Germany Germany.
They weren't our friends, the former Soviet Union.
So I just you you have to, as a country, deal with people you don't want to like all that you don't like all the time.
But as an individual, Rudy Giuliani turned down ten million dollars from this guy that was anti-Semitic after 911.
And that was that was a principled stand.
And I'm saying if Hillary was really creeped out like she claims, Hillary wouldn't have taken the money.
And Hillary would have spoken out and said, It's creepy what my husband did.
And that's the that's the great hypocrisy of her comments.
Well, absolutely.
I mean, she's a political animal and she's a hypocrite, and I you have to look at the facts and admit that.
But one thing I think I can agree on with with Emily is that sexual assault accusations are very serious, and so are the sexual assault itself.
And one of the problems with what Hillary did was not only her hypocrisy, which Sean you pointed out brilliantly, but also the fact that she's playing a victim.
And in a world where women are sexually assaulted, we want those events, those situations to be taken seriously.
And often they're not because women do make false accusations, as we learned from the Duke lacrosse situation.
So we want credibility in this.
And here we have Hillary Clinton playing the victim and feeding into the narrative that women can't be trusted, that women play the victims all the time, make false false accusations.
She falls she stands for feminism in a way that just puts no credibility on women.
And this is a good idea.
There is some truth.
DC, this is something that not a lot of people recognize.
I know people that were falsely accused of sexual harassment.
I know that.
And as soon as the accusation is made, it's almost like it's believed instantaneously.
Absolutely.
It's very serious.
And so we can't make a game of this.
And that's exactly what Hillary Clinton's done.
She's not only made a mockery of the whole situation of the accusations, but also women who are actually have been sexually assaulted by putting herself on the same level as real victims.
This would be offensive to everyone, whether you're a liberal or or a conservative.
It doesn't matter.
Just what she did is is just disservice to women.
It is very much a disservice.
Emily?
Yeah, and I actually very much agree that although many women will connect with what Hillary Clinton is saying about her interaction with Trump.
And I don't I think it's important to know that she's not saying she was sexually harassed.
She is definitely saying she felt like a victim.
It won't resonate with many women.
With a large portion of women as well, because this is a certain kind of harassment that is a lower level than explicit sexual assault.
I think the reason this moment connected with a lot of people, and Hillary Clinton was deemed the winner of this debate was important.
No, that's that's no, you're wrong.
That's the night that Donald Trump became president.
Because it was just uh it was just after that that MBC Access Hollywood tape had come out.
I've looked at the tape many times.
Did you feel in any way DC McAllister that Donald Trump was invading Hillary's space in a creepy way?
I didn't see it.
Oh, absolutely not.
And you're supposed to be president.
You're wanting to be president of the United States and you're creeped out by the guy behind you.
Are you kidding me?
You're gonna be dealing with world figures on the stage.
You know, you know, I I can't even believe this that she would even compare or complain about this.
You know, standing on a debate stage in a privilege situation that was very safe and complaining.
This is not true.
She didn't feel threatened.
She loved being up there.
She's not a victim.
And this isn't the first time she's played victim.
She was a victim of the right-wing conspiracy.
She's gonna have to do poverty.
You know, she's a victim of everything.
I'm gonna have to leave it right there.
Thank you, Emily.
DC, it's been too long.
Thank you so much for being with us, 800 941 Sean, a toll-free telephone number.
Uh, RC Maxwell is going to be our guest.
I saw this video today.
I was so angry.
A young man gets cold cocked, hit from not even looking, hit from the side, had no chance to defend himself by one of these leftist agitators.
We're putting the the video on Hannity.com if you want to look at it in a break, uh, and then we'll introduce you to this young man when we come back, 800 941 Sean.
If you want to join us, quick break right back.
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It's Friday.
We made it.
And this is the time you just begin to like take a deep breath.
We've had a pretty stressful week here because we've had well, new studios.
Uh well, we'll just gonna be honest.
We have buried the Sean Hannity show studios in a place that nobody will ever find it.
You know, with all that's going on, and let's just say all the very kind and sweet and loving voicemails, notes, texts and tweets, and and even faxes that come in.
We've just decided that maybe we're not gonna be so public with where we are every day.
And so we we have these beautiful new underground bunker palatial studios.
And it's not we're not stealing Mark Levin's bunker.
Wait a minute.
Mark, I Had the bunker first.
Yeah, well, he was smart.
He got a bunker right out of the box.
We didn't know we were gonna need one right away.
So uh, but whenever you have a new studio, and but we got a quick before we do FGL.
I want to grade because I came in on Monday.
I knew anytime you get a new studio that we're gonna have little little glitches that need to be worked out.
We've had glitches all week.
Not that any of you out there in Radio Land would know.
And the one thing I was not gonna do is add to everybody's pressure because everybody's been moving and everybody built the studios, and they're really beautiful, and they did phenomenal job.
And it's normal to have technical glitches when you got all this equipment in here.
I mean, it's crazy.
So, uh, last time when Linda was out the week, I got graded, and so I'll grade myself this week.
We'll start with Sunshine today.
Uh, who upped her grade from an 80 to a 95 the last time?
What do I get this time?
You are a total honor roll student this week, Sean.
You get a 100.
Whoa, Ethion.
What do I got?
I would give you higher than 100 if I could.
You actually were exceptional.
Okay, and what did I do to our new neighbors today?
You were very nice and bought them all lunch.
I bought everybody lunch today.
All right, Jay Sion, what do I got?
I say I'd give you a 93.
Why a 93?
I didn't do one thing.
I you will look you individually, because you're running that board and you're the engineer.
I gave you I gave you the most slack.
Because because of the pizza, I'll give you a 98.
Well, what do I ever need to do to get a hundred?
We'll talk about that later.
Okay, just be happy with the grade.
Stop being such a snowflake.
Oh my god.
Oh wow.
So mean.
Uh Linda.
All right, we came to you last because I figured they would soften you up for the uh softening myself up for the blow.
Right?
I thought you did great.
Like that's not a number.
What's the grade?
Uh 10.
Wow.
You were very well behaved.
All right, I gotta give all of you hundred and tens, too.
Great week this week, and uh, and Clay, by the way, has been working hard this week.
Clay is uh a rock star, he's our favorite person here.
He's your favorite person here, not me.
It's Clay.
Clay's the rock.
I wouldn't have yelled.
I was not this week.
Of course not.
No, only frozen heart yells.
Yeah, I did say that today.
That was done in good what's going on.
That was all good fun, but I like it.
I think I'm gonna keep that new name.
I'm gonna be frozen out.
Wow, it's it in that particular instance.
It was like, hello.
No, I'm keeping it.
I like it.
Wake up, wake up.
All right, let's put our party hats on.
It's Friday, Florida Georgia line Friday concert series.
It is as all of them tough weeks.
And our prayers go out too.
And this music goes out to all our friends in the Houston Galvits and Chris uh Corpus Christi area.
We're praying for everybody this weekend.
Hang in there, and if you gotta get out, get out, listen.
And we we pray there's not much damage and nobody gets hurt.
All right, let's hit it.
Hammer and a nail.
Stacking them bales.
I'm milk tired by the five o'clock hour boot.
I'm ready to raise meal.
Jess is getting pretty.
I'm gasing of the city.
I'm gonna figure the six.
I hope she's gonna wear the jeans with the tears at her mom and never six.
The moon comes up and the sun goes down.
We find a little spot on the edge of ten.
Twist our simple little bass in a rail.
Dancing the dust turn a reel.
Tillation my ears are feeling all right.
Saturday night.
That's how we do it round here.
Yeah, that's how we do it round here.
The flat bill slip back.
Yeah, you can find us where the party's at.
This is how we move.
We hang the man, singing down everything on the radio.
We light it up with our hands up.
This is how we roll.
This is how we do.
We burn down the nice bullets at the moon, baby.
This is how we roll.
Yeah, baby, this is how we roll.
We rollin' in the town.
With nothing else to do, we take another lap around.
Yeah, holl at you, boy.
If you need a wrath, if you roll with me, yeah, you know we rollin' high phone in 37 beetles with no standing hot seedo.
How fresh my baby is in the shotgun Sito.
He kisses off for me, though.
Automatic lap of free though.
His life I live in might not be for you, but it's for me, though.
Blitz this is how we rule.
We hang around singing down everything on the rainy We light it up with our hands up.
This is how we roll.
This is how we do in the world terms of Leonis turn and look at G, baby.
This is how we roll When the sun had left, and the winds are came, and the sky fall to only bring the rain.
I sat in darkness.
All broken hearted.
I couldn't find a day.
I didn't feel alone.
I never meant for Christ.
Started losing hope somehow, baby.
You broke to and saved me for an angel.
Tell me you never leave.
Cause you're the first thing.
I know I can't believe me.
Your holy.
Holy.
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High loving you.
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I'm loving you.
You mean the brightest days from the darkest nights.
You're the river bank where I was baptized.
Cleanse from the demon that we're killing my freedom.
Let me lay it down.
Give me two.
If you sing in vain.
Hallelujah.
We'll be touching.
We'll be touching ever.
You're an angel.
Still me, you never leave.
Cause you're the first thing.
I know I can't believe.
Holy.
Hoy.
Alright, little FGL on a Friday, putting a smile on your face.
Uh tonight on Hannity.
It's it's 10 Eastern when this thing hits.
And we'll have full live complete coverage of everything that's going on.
As Joe Bastardi's been telling us all day, this is not gonna be good.
And it's and literally the storm is gonna hover, and you're gonna get all of this uh rain that's gonna drop down on everybody here.
So I thought some prayers are with the the great people, Corpus Christie.
We love Texas on this program.
We love everybody in Texas, they're great people, and um I know that the federal government is is ready because I've actually talked to people.
So imagine my surprise.
I I found alone on you know, I do a lot of internet searching, a lot of reading, and I'm up late, and I just that's the way I live my life.
I'm nocturnal.
Anyway, there was uh uh there was a really unbelievable attack against an innocent man.
And I remember I I I found the video and I sent it to Linda and I said, Linda, you I will you will you please find this young man because he was interviewing on a local TV station.
His name is RC Maxwell, he's from Los Angeles, and they did a news report on CBSLA about this attack, and what you can see is it occurred during a rally at Main Beach and Laguna Beach.
It was all captured on two different two different angles on a cell phone.
Laguna Police say this guy, Richard Lousey from Ohio.
Anyway, so very politely, very kindly, very nicely, RC Maxwell is just talking about his opinions with some of the people that are there protesting.
Couldn't be nicer.
And then out of the left side, he's not even looking at this guy.
He the guy comes up and sucker punches him.
And I said, Linda, I want to talk.
I then I saw the interview with This young man and I said, This is ridiculous.
And then the guy on Twitter's like, oh, I hope they arrest me.
He got arrested.
Anyway, RC Maxwell was with us.
Then when Linda found her, she goes, Well, you know what his handle on Twitter is.
And I'm like, No, I don't know what his handle on Twitter is.
He's then she tells me it's at Black Hannity.
And I'm like, seriously?
I so it became I was couldn't believe it.
First of all, RC, welcome to the program.
I'm so sorry what happened to you.
And I wish I was there with you.
Because if I was there with you, it would have been a very different conclusion.
You are not allowed to go up and sucker punch the way this guy did you.
But I did see during the interview, you didn't even have a mark on you.
And the guy like wound up and threw it.
Yeah, no, he definitely blindsided me with all of his might.
Uh, but the good thing was uh, you know, he's a left sider.
So uh, you know, he didn't have much behind the punch, and uh I was able to go to work the next day.
Well, I'm sorry that happened to you, but I it to me the reason it just impacted me so much is just watching the tape.
You were just being nice.
Tell us what was going on.
Yeah, you know, um I would I I like to find commonality at these kinds of events with the other side.
Uh, you know, that's why I come dressed nicely.
I I don't wear battle gear and masks on my face, and and I don't come with armed with pepper spray.
Uh, I came armed with just uh Milo Yanopoulos is dangerous.
Right.
And uh I was talking to the other side literally about why, you know, I have certain stances on um illegal immigration.
Uh and and I I was telling them that I was from Inglewood.
Um, so you know, I was trying to, you know, humanize, you know, the anti-aleg illegal immigration side, but they did not want to listen.
You know, Antifa circled me pretty quickly there, uh, and uh, you know, we were definitely outnumbered.
You know, how and there were a lot of people there after you got sucker punch.
What happened after that?
Because I didn't see that part of the video.
That I from that point it got cut off.
Yeah, immediately after the sucker punch, you know, I kind of got out of the situation because you can't really tell how many I couldn't really you know tell who hit me, how many there were.
Um, and then it was kind of just that guy screaming, um, you know, and everyone was like, you know, kind of uh joking about it, like heck yeah, heck yeah.
Uh and then I I tried to alert some of the officers, but you know, they had a tough job in Laguna.
You know, they they were out in riot gear and they couldn't really break rank uh to kind of uh take a look at the situation.
But they saw did they see you got hit?
They uh they did see that I got hit.
You know, they they did uh, you know, let me know I can go down to a station uh a few blocks away and and file a report.
Uh, didn't do it at the moment because I had my own camera crew there that I was concerned for as well.
Um do you are you uh are you a reporter or what do you do?
No, I I run a political action committee, American Voice.
You know, it was founded by C. L. Bryant, someone I think.
Oh my god, he's one of my he's like my one of my favorite people in the world.
I didn't know you were friends with C L. He's such an awesome role model for you.
That's great.
He's a role model for me.
He tells me every time I talk to him, I'm praying for you, Hannity.
You need a bed.
I'm praying.
I'm like, I I I'll take it.
Thank you.
Yeah, and you know what, that's kind of why I I go by the moniker, Black Hannity, because you know, you're pretty bold out there, and you have put yourself uh under the target uh by some of the the radicalism for a long time.
So, you know, I kind of do the same, and I did the same going to talk to the other side in Laguna, uh, and they didn't want to listen.
So the reason I had the camera crew was you know, really just to record my interactions with the other side.
Uh is there a lot more video that you could share with us that we could obviously we've got weather going on all night tonight, uh, but I'm I'd love to have you on TV next week, and I know we've talked about it on Monday.
How about this?
Uh are you busy?
We'll fly out to New York.
I'll take care of your bill, I'll put you on an airplane, you come visit us, I'll get you a hotel in New York.
You can bring your girlfriend or whoever you want to bring.
That would be fantastic.
I'll bring Laura Loomer.
She's in New York.
Okay, that's that's great.
All right, I'll tell you what, stay on hold.
Are you okay in terms of do you need any any help with lawyers or anything I could do to help you?
No, look, you know, I I'm okay.
You know, I I have a guy in Manhattan Beach who who's reached out just in case I need him.
Um I'm fine on that regard.
So uh, you know, if if anyone wants to help me out in any way, they can just give to the political action committee, because the worst thing that this can do for the left side is give me the ability uh to control funds to elect candidates that are just as bold as I am.
All right, so stay right there.
Linda's gonna make the arrangements.
We'll get you into New York and maybe you can feed all the tape to our our TV team and we'll show it to people on Monday or Tuesday.
Maybe uh depending on how the storm it's gonna hang over the the Galvits, then move up to Houston by I think Monday.
So we'll get you on either Monday or Tuesday.
I look forward to meeting you.
And thanks so much, R. C. Thank you for being with us, and I'm so sorry that happened to you.
What I meant was I would have had your back.
Not that I'm of course.
I I don't let I don't let friends of mine get sucker punched.
Uh I defend my friends.
Okay, so God bless you.
I'm glad you're okay.
It's unbelievable the atmosphere out there.
All right, Hannity, tonight, 10 Eastern Fox News.
Uh, of course, we'll be covering the hurricane.
Uh, just as we are coming on the air, we expect that this is literally going to be touching ground.
So uh we'll have the best coverage, we have the best reporters, and our thoughts and prayers again go out to the people of Texas.
And of course, this country will be ready.
Whatever help and assistance you need, that's who we are.
