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	Happy Wednesday, and it's the Sean Hannity Show.
	We got a lot of news, and I know it's going to be a nutty day when you have Katie Hopkins, the gobby one.
	Actually, in New York City is going to pay us a visit.
	Let me tell you some of the things that we are following today.
	I think one of the more bizarre stories that the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, the guy that appointed Greg uh Robert Mueller as the special counsel, uh apparently was interviewed by the special counsel.
	So you have Mueller interviewing his boss.
	There's such a dramatic conflict of interest here.
	It's it's almost unimaginable to me, but it's happening.
	Uh we've got a lot more on the wiretapping uh issue that we're gonna get into.
	We've got media meltdowns over Trump, how wrong they were over Trump and wiretapping, their meltdown over the president and his comments and everything that he has been saying about North Korea and Rocket Man.
	It was funny.
	And it wasn't funny, it was also serious.
	And the left is in a collective melt.
	You know what?
	There's not if this president gave every American man, woman, and child five million dollars each, it would never be enough for anybody.
	They they are locked into their positions, they're not budging, they're not moving.
	They wake up in the morning hating Trump, they go to sleep at night hating Trump, they dream hating Trump.
	It's it's it's beyond derangement.
	It is now pathological on the part of many.
	Uh one other thing, Cheryl Atkinson wrote an amazing column for the Hill that the headline is it looks like Obama did spy on Trump just as he apparently did to me.
	And I'm gonna get into that story today.
	We're gonna have a weather update on Hurricane Maria as hurricane season continues.
	It just is one of the, you know, seemingly one right after another.
	Joe Bastardi's gonna be a uh fellow part, you know, co-host on the show before all said and done.
	All right.
	Also, Lindsey Graham is making a return appearance to the Sean Hannity show.
	How many years has it been since Lindsay Graham?
	He doesn't look, he doesn't like me.
	And he's been upset that I've attacked him.
	But I I am inclined on paper, after talking with all of my contacts in the Senate, all of my contacts in the House, all the Freedom Caucus guys that I was calling around all weekend talking to, anyone that would talk to me.
	The person that made the most compelling case for Graham Cassidy was Congressman Mark Meadows.
	And look, it's not gonna ever be the perfect bill.
	And and and I want you guys to stay with me here.
	Obamacare is a train wreck.
	And you know, I look, let's be honest.
	There are probably a lot of you, this doesn't impact me.
	You have your plan, your doctor, you have your special doctor, you pay your copay, you're used to your plan, and you like it.
	All right, I get it.
	It's like, well, I'm doing great under the I remember as callers would call in, well, under Obama, I've never done better in my life.
	I'm gonna I'm glad you're doing so well.
	But there are still 13 million more Americans on food stamps and eight million more in poverty, and I hate to tell anybody, but it's not always just about us and how we're doing.
	It's also about everybody else that has suffered, and millions have lost their doctors, millions have lost their plans.
	You have more counties in this country that have one option, and you've got an eight thousand dollar on average increase in premium since Obamacare has been implemented.
	And it's destroying people.
	They can't buy new cars.
	They can't do anything.
	Or they take the risk.
	Now here's what Graham Cassidy does do and what it doesn't do, for sure.
	And I still can't get a copy of written text.
	So I'm holding back my support until I can read the specifics because the devil is always in the details.
	And one question I really want answered is when California goes to single payer Hillary Bernie Obamacare and they go bankrupt because it's never going to work, they can't come running back to the federal government and say that, oh, we we want more money.
	That's not going to be the answer either.
	Now the whole concept of federalism, I like this isn't pure federalism, though.
	Because the federal government's giving the money to the states.
	It seems to me on the surface, though, that if you block grant the money to states, and you have all these Republican governors that want this, and the reason they want it is should be should be transparent, plain, and obvious.
	They know they can do a better job with the money for the people in their state than the federal government ever dreamed of doing.
	And that's simple math.
	Probably you're going to get an extra 50 cents on every dollar.
	It's going to be so efficient.
	And they're going to be so much more accountable to the people in their individual states.
	And I like the idea of the states being the breeding ground of innovative ideas, as we always talk about.
	And the worst way to spend any dollars through the federal government.
	So in my mind, it's a it's a really strong idea and concept.
	And I want you to have all signs of this, which is why, and I love I actually love Rand Paul.
	And since he's been on the program, I actually did a lot of research, and he's right.
	The president probably next week is going to use the administrative powers of deregulation, and he's going to allow states to create a competitive environment which is going to open the door to not only cooperatives like Josh Umber in Wichita, but also the health care savings accounts, the two big ideas that were never discussed the last time we were all debating health care.
	So uh all of this is good.
	Now it's going to get rid of the employer mandate, and it's gonna get rid of the individual mandate.
	Some of the taxes leave, most of them stay, otherwise, and in terms of those of you that are pro-life, well, that is gonna end up in a separate area of government and funding, and that means that it will be subject to the hide protection provisions as it relates to pro-life monies.
	So that's actually a good thing.
	So those are two things that we have going in our favor, and then I think that it's an opportunity to at least begin the process of undoing Obamacare.
	Now, I'm not supporting it fully.
	I'm I'm trying to give you the facts, is what I'm really trying to do.
	And that's why we had Randon yesterday.
	Here's where I think we stand, although you know something, uh everybody in the Senate, there's so backstabbing and duplicitous, it's so obnoxious, it drives me nuts.
	And uh in your daily life, most of most of the people that listen to this program, you don't you don't do business this way.
	I'm sure everybody in this audience, except if you're in school or you're younger, how many times have you done a deal where you shake somebody's hand?
	Like if I tell somebody on my staff, I tell my staff they're gonna get a summer bonus.
	Okay, I don't turn around and they'll say, No, never mind, and then they say, Well, you promised, and then I said, Well, I changed my mind, and well, we should have put it down on paper.
	My staff ever said to me, put it down on paper, I'd be like, Okay, take your paper and get out of here.
	Because your word is your bond.
	What you say you mean.
	What you mean, you say.
	Lauren's getting a kick out of this.
	Glad to see you're in a better mood today, because somebody's been in a very foul attacking mode to the host these days over issues that I have no idea about.
	You said you're taking on Linda's hate list.
	Hate is a bad, bad trait.
	It hurts the individual that's hating.
	You should love your neighbor as yourself.
	Love God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul, and your neighbor as yourself.
	Those two rules, and upon those two laws rest all the laws of all the prophets that have ever came before Jesus came.
	And Jesus is the one that uttered those words, so that means it's truthful and right and just and the good way to live your life.
	What?
	I just I just want to say that I I gave up my hate list because I have a contempt list because hate and contempt of the same thing.
	Because I'm saying lost some tables in the temple like Jesus.
	No, that was righteous indignation.
	Your contempt is well beyond righteousness.
	But I just want to cross tables in the temple like Well beyond righteous indignation, and for you to justify your continuation of your hatred list.
	I don't have hate.
	I have contempt.
	Contempt is the same thing.
	All right.
	You're not Jesus, and you're it's not the same righteous anger, and Jesus was right because it's supposed to be a place of very righteous right now.
	It's supposed to be a place of worship.
	I mean a nice light mica table.
	Okay.
	All right, your rights are over for the rest of the day to talk.
	Okay, because I'm making a point.
	So Mitch McConnell was reluctant.
	He didn't want to bring Graham Cassidy up.
	And my attitude is okay, so let's say it fails.
	Right now it appears.
	Now this is the duplicity.
	Let me, as I get back to my point.
	I'm getting word that people like Rob Portman and other people out there are saying behind the scenes, oh gosh, thank God you're opposing it.
	I don't want to have to take that stand.
	And Senator Moran, where is he from?
	Kansas.
	He's doing the same thing.
	And you know what?
	And then when people tell me that they hear these people say it, there's like 15, 16 senators that go behind closed doors, and I get word back exactly how much they hate Donald Trump and what they say how they want to stop his agenda.
	The only reason we're in this position is because you got a hundred House members that stabbed us in the back and never had any intention of repealing and replacing.
	And then you have six or seven senators, including Portman of Ohio and others that they vote for repeal in 2015 and then 2017 when it actually matters, they're not going to do it, just like the show votes in the House.
	So these are very frustrating and unique obstacles, but you still want to progress for the sake of the American people.
	So the answer is you either do nothing and wait till 2018 and maybe vote them out.
	Maybe prime it's just too much work.
	So you gotta get done what you can get done now.
	So McConnell didn't want to have a vote, but he's planning a vote for next week because the looming September 30th deadline to pass the bill with just 50 votes will create enough pressure to finally pass the repeal.
	It's not a full repeal.
	Look, Rand Paul's right.
	But the president will use his administrative powers, which will create the opportunity to pave the way for health care cooperatives and health savings accounts, and I I'll I'll brief you on that in the days to come.
	I just don't have enough time now.
	But it did get a pretty critical boost in this sense is that the Arizona governor, Doug Doosy.
	Now, Lindsay Graham's challenge is going to be to get two of these four people, assuming some other jerk in the Senate doesn't back away from their promise to to at least improve the healthcare system.
	But that would be McCain, his best buddy.
	That would be Murkowski of Alaska.
	I know Alaska has health challenges.
	We can help Alaska out.
	That's fine.
	Then you've got Collins of Maine and uh who's the last one?
	Rand.
	Then you got Rand Paul.
	And I thought listen, I think Rand might, there might be a compromise, and Rand has the power, hopefully, to make the bill better.
	I like Rand Paul.
	There's like few people that I really like in Washington.
	I really like Rand Paul.
	I like Ted Cruz.
	You know, I don't even know anybody else anymore.
	Because they never they don't want anything at this point to do with me.
	Because I'm too honest and too truthful for them to they just can't accept the fact that the Republican Party's lost all identity and they're so disorganized.
	And then I like the Freedom Caucus and Mark Meadows, I'll bring him on again this week, and Mark Meadows makes a strong case for it.
	One of the most bizarre happenings in all of this, the seven days business days left before the Senate's last chance to repeal Obamacare.
	But instead of putting the pedal to the metal, you know, and getting these Senate holdouts in line, the Washington Examiner, I was stunned when I saw this today, because they just had, let's say, a Memorial Day holiday, then they just had a 4th of July holiday, then they had most of the month of August off.
	Well, apparently that's not enough because the GOP is now only under a major time crunch to pass the legislation before midnight September 30th because McConnell's too stubborn on noncloud and won't go with a simple majority, which he should do, which historically we have done, and the Democrats are just so adamant there's not there's not one reasonable bone in their body.
	But I will tell you, if we don't begin to change this fast, and the Democrats ever get back in power, it's gonna be a single payer system because this party has moved so far to the radical left.
	This is not there's no blue dog Democrats anymore, very few of them.
	Anyway, now we find out that well, they're going away on vacation again.
	I'm like, you people have got to be kidding me.
	Who gets this much time off?
	All right, eight hundred nine four one Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
	We'll ask Graham the questions.
	I want to see the bill before I get on board with anything, but I'm inclined to support the principle of it, which I like.
	And you heard Rand Paul's arguments against yesterday, and you'll hear Lindsey Graham's arguments for today.
	And I just think the truth and reality of seven senators that never had an intention of keeping their promise, and the same with a hundred House members, Republicans.
	All right, as we roll along, 800.
	All right, let's go to Tim in Philadelphia because I'm laughing at his comment that's on my caller screen here.
	Hey, Tim, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Welcome to the show.
	Thank you so much for taking my call.
	It's an honor to finally be able to talk to you.
	Thank you.
	The honor is all mine.
	What's going on?
	I'm a big fan and a huge Trump supporter.
	Mm-hmm.
	And I've been thoroughly convinced that this latest push into health care is nothing more than a distraction.
	Um there it's an avoidance to get away from having to talk about immigration reform and getting on the record.
	Um and also getting on the record about tax reform.
	I believe that that Lindsey Graham has um the no votes in his back pocket to kill this at the at the very end and using this to get away to distract us.
	And I and I'm well, let me ask you this, because I I I don't have a ton of time in this segment, but I really want to explore this with you.
	Because I've actually looked I I don't think Lindsay's in the group of people that really wants Donald Trump to succeed.
	So let's let's assume for a minute you're right.
	And look, I I'm not making a final determination.
	I just like the idea of letting states control as much as they can and not the federal government, even though it's not pure federalism, as I explained earlier, but let me put that aside.
	Let's say you're right, and let's say Lindsey Graham has the no votes in his back pocket.
	What does he get out of it?
	What is what does he get to do?
	Because it's only the vote's going to take place next week.
	It's got a September thirtieth deadline, and then all the issues that you're right, they need to focus on.
	They're still going to be held accountable for what they do or don't do.
	Yeah, I I agree.
	But I think that when Trump pulled um uh the the debt the debt ceiling off the table, so they couldn't use that.
	I think they automatically came in the back door with this.
	This came out of nowhere.
	And and I think that they're just gonna continue to try and distract and dissuade and and just say, oh, we ran out of time.
	Well, but here's the pro here's the problem with your theory, because I've thought through this myself.
	I don't think I don't think it's paranoid or insane what you're saying.
	But the problem is September 30th is what, next week.
	When is it next Saturday?
	So that the time is this is it.
	It's make or break time.
	This vote will be scheduled next week, so it's gonna happen, and it's either gonna pass or fail, and we still got the 13 weeks following for them to stand up and pass their agenda or don't, right?
	Yeah, and I hope I'm wrong.
	I mean, I I agree with you.
	I I I support putting this back to the state, but I just you know, I just don't trust Lindsey Graham.
	I just believe me, he I'll even mention to him how much he hates me.
	All right, the other news of the day when we get back.
	All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
	Uh, we'll get calls in here.
	Um my phones are blowing up because I'm putting Graham on.
	I alright, everybody calm down a second here.
	This is gonna be voted on.
	I want you to know what's in it.
	I want you to be educated, and I want you to be informed, and I want you to make a I want you to make an informed decision.
	That's it.
	You know, I wish I could put this picture up on the website where the bill, you gotta remember this now comes after three failed GOP repeal attempts in the Senate.
	And you got Bernie Sanders, well, he wants Bernie care, Obamacare on steroids and and a single payer health care system.
	And there are different ways in which it impacts every different state.
	In other words, you know, in some states, Medicaid expansion Uh is eliminated, cost sharing subsidies are eliminated, tax credits are eliminated, individual employer mandate, they're eliminated.
	Um have changes to traditional Medicaid or taxes or essential health benefits and price restrictions on older Americans and health savings accounts.
	You know, uh as I know the White House, having spoken to my contacts there, the president is also gonna use administrative maneuvers, and I'll I'll talk more about this tomorrow.
	I don't want to get too off track here, and it's gonna begin to confuse everybody because it's confusing.
	Um I think there is a lot to get to in this.
	It seems like it comes down to four people.
	And I I think the question we we first have to ask yourselves, am I right in my analysis in this analysis?
	Am I right in saying that Republicans have put the Republicans have made it impossible to do the job that we all would prefer?
	And if you don't, and then you could say, well, Hannity, you know, we just need to hold out, and okay, that's great, but you hold out, and what's the holdout for?
	What are you waiting for?
	Why are you laughing in there?
	Something happened that's hilarious.
	What is it?
	Go ahead, tell me.
	I just love your callers.
	What did the caller say that upset?
	I think that Rich on line five is just I'll go to Rich.
	I'm not listening I'm why did I put Rand on yesterday?
	Why do I why am I putting Lindsay on today?
	Why am I putting Mark Meadows on tomorrow and some of the Freedom Caucus guys?
	Because I want you to make an informed decision.
	That's the biggest reason.
	And my inclination before seeing the bill is I like the principle of sending it back to the states.
	It's got to have some restrictions and caps in terms of they can't come back hat in hand and say, no, we need more.
	We adopted single payers.
	So all of you people that did a good job in your state, and you made every you turned over every nickel and made it work for the people of your state.
	Oh, now we want more of your money.
	That can happen.
	All right, Rich, go ahead.
	Thank you, Sean.
	Lindsay Graham, listen, if the Tea Party was smart and put up one guy instead of seven guys, the last time he ran, he would have lost because as it was against seven guys, he only had 49% of the vote.
	I don't trust him.
	I don't like him.
	He's been a Trump hater from day one.
	If he and John McCain spent any more time on CNN, they'd have their own show, like Hannity and Combs used to have.
	And this is a 1.42 trillion dollar boondock that he's trying to put forth.
	And I'm glad Rand Paul was on yesterday and this morning saying he's not going to vote for this.
	Well, I talked to Rand's guy, Sergio last night, and they're looking for ways to make it better, they said.
	So we'll see what happens.
	I mean, I look straight repeal, baby.
	Straight repeal put Trump in there for.
	Listen, I agree.
	Trump can't do everything on his own.
	Everything Trump can do on his own that was on his checklist, he's done.
	Everything.
	So here's your option and your choice.
	That you begin a process, at least you stop the bleeding of Obamacare that is for listen, you're probably not living this nightmare in South Carolina because South Carolinians are way too smart.
	But if you live I can't they're not too much, if you live in the United States, they voted Graham twice already.
	All right, you're killing me here.
	All right.
	So the question is, do you want to begin improving it for the people that have it the worst?
	Or do you want do you want to leave it in place and then if the Democrats get in power before you're able to put in the next generation of better Republicans, which could happen, then you're stuck with a single payer system and it's over.
	And that might be my thought is I'll take 50%.
	It's not a hundred percent.
	I'm not I'm not selling this to you because I haven't read the bill.
	I'm saying I like the principle.
	Does everyone hear me?
	I like the principle of letting the states determine through block grants.
	I don't want California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois coming back hat in hand, though, and saying, give me more money, because we blew it on a single payer system and we overspent.
	So you people in the red states, you need to subsidize all of us in these big states.
	Wrong.
	That can't happen.
	Because you know what I know that's exactly well, you want people to die?
	That's gonna be the next argument.
	And at some point, you gotta you gotta cut and run here.
	Reality check for everybody.
	I'm sorry that a hundred Republicans in the House are full of crap, and I'm sorry that seven senators that are Republicans, they're full of crap.
	But you gotta deal with the hand you dealt sometimes in life.
	Now we can rigidly Stand on our mountain and say we're not changing in principle.
	And I'm gonna tell you what that's gonna get you.
	Nothing.
	Zip.
	And so I'm trying to balance it here, and I'm I'm keeping an open mind.
	I'd urge you to as well.
	You know, there are smart people, conservatives that are gonna vote for this.
	Ted Cruz.
	The Freedom Caucus.
	Um and and again, I just I there's too many questions, and I'll ask Graham when he comes on.
	I can't if I don't talk to the guy, I can't find out what's in it.
	I want to get a quick uh update with Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell.com on what's happening with Hurricane Maria, po apparently as we speak.
	I'm looking at the Drudge Report pounding Puerto Rico.
	How bad.
	Well, it was uh it's the worst storm Puerto Rico um has ever had.
	And uh when you look at Harvey, Harvey was not the worst storm as far as the wind and the the intensity of the storm.
	It was the rain that uh did that in Texas, and uh when Irma went through the Keys, there have been stronger storms in the Keys, but this is now the benchmark storm for Puerto Rico.
	It bisected the island, came in on the uh southeast coast and is leaving on the northwest coast and came directly across, and I would say that it uh it's a catastrophe for the island.
	Uh I mean I c I cannot I cannot word it any differently.
	Uh it is weakened considerably.
	Uh it I don't think it's anything beyond a category two right now.
	It'll take a couple of days to rev back up again, but it'll be in that area to the east of the Bahamas uh probably by the weekend, uh trying to rev back up, and then we're gonna have to see uh how it interacts with Jose, which is uh the storm that's weakening off New England as to whether it ever directly impacts the United States or not down the road next week at this time.
	This is this has probably been the most back to back I can remember.
	Now we've had a lot of storms and hurricane seasons, but I I don't remember you being a co-host of this program before.
	Well, you didn't have me on in 2005.
	If I, you know, you didn't know me as well because back then it was as bad.
	And we we weren't on the air in 1886.
	I think our great great grandparents, you know, uh may have been, but eighteen eighty-six, that hurricane season.
	I I look at that map and I just I just can't even believe it.
	Seven hits on the United States.
	By the way, Joe, you know when you talk about eighteen eighty-six and the hurricane season, there's not one single solitary person in this audience that has a clue of what you're talking about.
	Not one person seeing that, Sean.
	I understand, Sean.
	Not but as you know, as you know it in history and the Constitution, everything else, it's very important to understand what happened before.
	I agree.
	That's why you're the best.
	I agree.
	No, no, no.
	I'm just if I can't give you a hard time, I can't give anybody a hard time.
	Um, where is it going after this?
	Last question.
	Well, it's it's going to go just to the east of the Turks and Caicos Islands that uh got just absolutely devastated by Irma.
	Irma went through there as a category five, and then after that, it's going to be a slow crawl northward, well to the east of Florida.
	People in Florida to just put their mind on ease about this storm.
	Don't worry, between October 1st and 10th, if something shows up, I'll be back to let you know.
	So that's uh I don't think Florida has a problem from this.
	Uh once we get it to Carolinas.
	Yeah.
	Well, that now that there's where things start getting interesting because the the storm may be out at sea, but start trying to turn back to the northwest toward the Carolinas uh for the middle of next week.
	So uh I'm folks, I'm gonna tell you something.
	You know, I like to I like to swing and win all the time and be right, but I'm trying not to be wrong here.
	So we're gonna be probably have to just say we're gonna put in this position 400 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras by next uh Sunday and Monday and say during that time it may turn back to the northwest for a while.
	This is a very difficult pattern relative to the Atlantic.
	We see it in the Pacific, storms dancing around each other.
	It's called the Fujiwar effect, believe it or not.
	But in the Atlantic, it is a rare event, and so there's a lot of complexities going on, more so than normal.
	All right, Joe Bastardi.
	We do love your historical knowledge, and one of the things you've been able to teach us here on this program is that they there are patterns with weather based on the exact conditions, and you can go back and actually figure out what they were, and it gives you as much insight as possible, no perfection into terms of where what the track and the cone is gonna be like on each of these individual storms.
	So we do appreciate everything you're talking about.
	Thank you, Joe Bastardi.
	Weatherbell.com as you want to follow this.
	Um, you know, we're getting some new information.
	This is really scary.
	It was reported last night, the special prosecutor Robert Muller's pre-dawn knock uh no-knock raid on Manafort's home after he testified in the early morning, uh, he and his wife were reportedly taken out of bed and held at gunpoint.
	I agree.
	Held at gunpoint, and Mrs. Manafort was personally subjected to a weapon search.
	I know probably it's standard operating procedure, but it sounds like a little bit of overkill here in my mind.
	Anyway, they entered with their guns drawn, which I guess is standard operating procedure.
	We don't want law enforcement ever getting hurt.
	And uh, but it seems like at that point, I don't think he's a flight risk at that moment in particular.
	Um, this is the oddest circumstance.
	You got the deputy attorney general.
	Remember, he appointed the special counsel that Comey wanted because Comey leaked through his friend to the New York Times and got his best friend Robert Mueller to appoint the special counsel.
	But the person that made that decision, because Jeff Sessions, I don't know why he did it, recused himself.
	I wish he didn't do it.
	The deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein appoints Muller, and now Muller's team apparently was interviewed by Mueller.
	So Muller views Mueller is interviewing the guy that made the appointment of him.
	Can anybody say conflict of interest?
	You know, slight conflict of interest.
	This this sounds too bizarre to be even possible, but it's all true.
	And, you know, remember the timeline of this whole thing as it relates to what happened with the leaking part of you know, when it was announced, yes, the CNN has to admit that they leaked.
	Let's go to the mainstream media.
	Remember, I'll play this coming up later in the program.
	The mainstream media said over and over and over and over and over again, mocking Trump for wiretapping claims when Trump tweeted it on March 4th.
	The bottom line is and always has been, there is no evidence that Donald Trump was wiretapped by Barack Obama.
	It was and continues to be a lie.
	Our conspiracy theory president is at it again.
	And uh, whenever something like this happens, I wonder what are the president's sources of information?
	Where is he getting these ideas?
	And that has been denied by President Obama.
	Obviously, it's better sources than fake news.
	And now we know it as well by the FBI director.
	They are all saying it did not happen.
	So is the president calling all three of those individuals liars?
	I don't think they're taking seriously enough how devastating this is to the American system for one president to say, my predecessor wiretapped.
	We have been around.
	All right, enough of that.
	Now, this is what we were reporting on the at the time with Sarah Carter.
	If you listen to this.
	Now there was also a separate FISA.
	It was an overall FISA, and I don't have as much information on that.
	That FISA, though, was a general FISA that covered the whole Russian hacking investigation.
	What we don't know is who was connected to that FISA.
	What was that FISA looking at?
	And that is very highly classified.
	Nobody wants to talk about that particular FISA right now.
	There is a distinction between a FISA and then a wiretapping.
	But they did tap.
	I mean, they were looking.
	They did tap.
	They were looking.
	Cheryl Atkinson, she used to work at CBS News, and I think the, I believe now is with Sinclair, and she has her own show, and Cheryl Atkinson wrote a great piece today, and she went on to say looks like Obama did spy on Trump, as he apparently did to me.
	And she reminds us of what happened in her particular case, and she says we're missing the bigger story as it relates to Manafort and how they did wiretap him before during the campaign and and after the campaign.
	And she says it means the U.S. intelligence agencies, what I've been arguing here, secretly surveilled at least at least a half dozen Trump associates, at least those are the ones we know about.
	That would be Carter Page and Michael Flynn and whoever they pick up incidentally, those numbers could be in the how many hundreds, and Samantha Power unmasking and Susan Rice unmasking and you know did uh Rhodes unmasking Ben Rhodes and others.
	I mean, this is insane.
	And then you got James Clapper and Sally Yates acknowledging they too reviewed communications of political figures.
	So what I've been saying is this is weaponizing our intelligence agency, the very powerful tools.
	They can listen to anybody.
	They can surveil anybody.
	And if they're going to unmask Americans and they don't use minimization, we have no Fourth Amendment rights in this country anymore.
	And they did the same thing to Cheryl Atkinson.
	We'll get her on the program later this week.
	But, you know, the patterns here are really, really scary and dangerous if you believe in the Fourth Amendment and your constitutional rights.
	All right, we got a lot coming up in the course of the program, including, yes, Lindsay Graham, and we got Greg Jarrett coming up and much more.
	800 941 Sean is on number.
	Having the best conversations with people.
	A friend of mine, I just said, look, it's it's never what we want.
	I don't like it, but it certainly seems infinitely better than Obamacare.
	And I said, it looks like it's going to be 50% or nothing.
	So my friend writes back, I'll take nothing.
	So I wrote back.
	I said, okay, I love you for that.
	But what about the people, other people that are screwed?
	If it's better for them.
	Don't we have to think of them in this?
	They're stuck with Obamacare.
	It's a disaster.
	All right, Lindsay Graham next.
	I know you're excited.
	If they get Graham Cassidy to the floor, I will offer an amendment for straight repeal.
	And people once again will have a choice.
	And so people can direct their ire towards someone who doesn't vote for what I think is immortalizing Obamacare, keeping it forever and divvying it up among the states, or they can vote for a complete repeal that I'll put forward.
	And so then Republicans will just have to decide which they want.
	It's a 1.2 trillion dollar federal grant program, and that's just not repeal.
	I can't I I didn't promise people to keep a trillion dollar spending program and reshuffle the money among the states.
	This is not repeal.
	It's not even it's barely Obamacare light.
	It keeps Obamacare.
	It's not what we promised.
	We we repeal the penalties the end uh upon the individuals who don't purchase insurance upon employers, we repeal that penalty.
	We repeal the medical device tax and the over the counter tax.
	We save 134 billion dollars.
	We give power back to the states so that states can come up with a system that works for the state, giving power to the patient.
	We drive a stake in the heart of single payer health care plan.
	If somebody votes against our bill, they're voting for Obamacare.
	If you're voting for if you're voting for our bill, you're voting for power to the patient, power to the state.
	Do you'll be able to keep your health care plan?
	If you've got health insurance, you can keep it.
	If you like your health care plan, you will keep it.
	All right, you get the message there on the Obama side of this.
	We had Rand Paul on yesterday, and of course now Mitch McConnell is saying that uh he didn't want to bring Graham Cassidy to the floor unless he felt it could pass, and now McConnell has said that he will allow this vote to come up Graham Cassidy next week, and hoping that the looming September 30th deadline to pass it with just 50 votes because of reconciliation will create enough pressure to finally pass the bill.
	One of the uh authors of this bill, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who doesn't always like me, is on our newsmaker line.
	How are you?
	I hate you.
	How you doing, Chan?
	Well, what listen, you're not the only person.
	Mitch McConnell Mitch McConnell hates me more than you, so don't worry about it.
	How are you doing?
	Listen, I am actually inclined to support this bill for a lot of reasons, and I've spent a lot of time talking to a lot of people.
	Um I love the idea of giving the states the power and the authority.
	I mean, it's look, it it's not it's not exactly you know federalism if we're talking about government government money, but I get the intention.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	It's not what I would like to do, but it's the best last best chance to stop single payer health care, I think.
	So you're agreeing with me.
	It's not the best plan, but it is certainly at least gives states options, which I do like a lot, and it's certainly better than Obamacare.
	Here's uh Rand Paul was on yesterday.
	His biggest complaints are this it doesn't repeal Obamacare and the taxes stay.
	Is that true?
	Uh no, not completely.
	We repeal the ne uh the individual mandate and employer mandate, which are the heart and soul of Obamacare.
	And Planned Parenthood is defunded.
	Yeah, that's defunded.
	Uh the money goes through the SHIPS program, which gives it hide protection in terms of uh the pro-life community.
	Uh we repeal the medical device tax.
	We take the other taxes and we block Grenham.
	Under Obamacare, four states get forty percent of the money.
	You're at California, Massachusetts, and Maryland.
	They're very high cost Medicaid blue states.
	So uh Kentucky's governor's on board because he believes he can do a better job with the money uh than Obamacare does for Kentucky.
	Uh the president's on board because it truly is draining the swamp.
	It is a repeal and replace.
	And here's what I believe, Sean.
	If we get the money and power out of Washington back to the state, that's the end of the march towards single payer health care because states will not send it back to Washington.
	You see, I tend to agree with you on that front and I think the ultimate goal of many is a single payer system which would be an unmitigated disaster.
	Now it's interesting because I also talked to members of the House.
	I mean you for the most part and he just wants to see the details uh both Congressman Mark Meadows of the Freedom Caucus and Dave Bratt of the Freedom Caucus, actually one other Louis Gomer who I talked to, they're all they're they're tentative, you know, real close yeses.
	Yeah.
	Let me talk about what's going on inside the Senate.
	Is your buddy John McCain going to support it?
	Well here's where uh John is has been uh he voted about thirty times to repeal and replace Obamacare like the rest of us.
	He campaigned in twenty twelve that Obamacare was killing Arizona and it is uh he is for federalism and this is federalism versus socialism.
	Uh bipartisanship John likes bipartisanship.
	I'm bipartisan when I think it makes sense.
	Here's what I've concluded Sean that the Democratic Party is going left not to the middle on health care that Bernie Sanders on the day we introduced our bill uh introduced single payer health care in full blown fashion and every Democratic candidate Sean running for president is with Bernie.
	So to expect Chuck Schumer to produce a compromise that would fundamentally alter Obamacare is unrealistic because Obamacare is not good enough for the left.
	So there is no bipartisan path it this is our last best chance and replace Obama there's no two closer guys in the Senate than you and McCain if you can't get them nobody's ever going to get them.
	Well here's what I'm not expecting John to vote based on friendship.
	I'm expecting him to look at the bill the governor of Arizona's on board uh we now have a system where governors will have access to funds that would have been in the hands of a bureaucrat and they can design systems as flexible as we can make it it's not as flexible as like I would like because reconciliation but you can do health savings accounts you can do a lot of things and to to Senator Paul Bill Castie's a doctor also he believes that this is a fundamental change in how health care is delivered.
	And if my bill was everything Rand Paul said why is Obama so vehemently opposed to it.
	It seems to me and by the way you do have enemies that are talking behind your back.
	You do know that and I always tell you the truth.
	I'm told that uh Rob Portman is running around thanking people for opposing it so he doesn't have to and I'm told uh what is the name Senator is it Moran from Kansas is doing the same thing.
	Have you heard that?
	Uh no I I like them both.
	I think uh you know uh aren't you glad that I give you all the dirt that goes on in your own I yeah you're checking with them good source of information.
	And when they lie to you here's what I've said about you can tell them I said Sam Branbex.
	Okay Sam Branback's on board he's the governor.
	Kansas does well Ohio does a lot better than Obamacare because here's the deal what we're doing is giving money to states uh in parity not just 40 percent to 20 percent of the population have let me ask this I call states.
	So after California goes single payer with Jerry Brown if this bill passed is there going to be any cap that they can't come back hat in hand begging the federal government for more money than they get originally.
	Yeah the other states will object because it will come out of their height.
	Here's what I think if California goes to single payer health care it's going to prove one of two things that you're and I are right or they're right.
	Here's what I would think that if you reimpose the employer mandate people will move to neighboring states.
	You can under this bill it really is federalism.
	You can impose the employer mandate the individual mandate in your own state you just can't drag the rest of the federalism because it's competence.
	It's it's it's government it's federal money and going to the states.
	But I hear what you say I'm not I'm not I'm not being petty I mean we're putting the right no you're right the money in power that is uh here's the deal uh the money in power is no longer in the hands of a bureaucrat is in the hands of people you can vote for if you don't like Obamacare who do you complain to?
	If you don't like what I'm proposing you complain to your governor to your State House representative and so here's what I think.
	If California wants to go full blown Bernie care and their system of collapse and the people neighboring California will get a lot of people moving into their states.
	Let me ask this uh One of the reasons we're in this situation is because I argue that there's a hundred House Republicans, and the seven or six or seven senators, Republicans that voted against the same repeal bill that they voted for in 2015 really pisses people like me off.
	And I think the Republican Party has in many ways lost their identity.
	So here's my question.
	I mean, this is basically it.
	It seems like you're down to four votes, assuming you can get Portman and Moran and a few others.
	It seems like it's Murkowski, Collins, Rand, and McCain.
	Of those four, you need two.
	Who are you going to get?
	Rather than talking about whipping people on the phone, here's what I'll say.
	I can't think of a better idea.
	If I could, I would present it.
	Republicans were told for seven years by the Republican Party, if you give us power, we're going to repeal and replace Obamacare.
	Democrats are serious about their ideas.
	I want to make sure that every Republican and middle of the road person knows that we fought like Tigers.
	We did everything to repeal it that they did to pass it.
	So I think the power of this idea is going to take hold.
	I think Obamacare is collapsing, can never be fixed, and I'm hoping that what follows, if this bill fails, is complete disaster.
	President Trump is a hundred percent behind it.
	So I'm hoping that we get fifty votes, but I do know this.
	We're going to vote.
	Republicans are really good at talking about what we don't like on health care.
	I am now in the position of telling you what I am for.
	I am for money and power going back home out of Washington.
	All right, we've got to take a break.
	We'll come back.
	We'll have more with Lindsey Graham as we continue the Sean Hannity show.
	All right, as we continue with Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, why did the full repeal fail when Republicans voted for that in 2015?
	You know, I think probably was the thank it.
	Here's what I think happened is that everybody was worried about what replaces Obamacare if you repeal it.
	So I've answered both questions.
	I talked to President Trump last night, and he says this is really a beautiful concept.
	Uh you repeal it and you replace it with something the state-centric, more accountability, uh more voice for the consumer.
	So I've always believed that the replacement part is trip this up.
	The other ideas, Sean, were better than Obamacare, but they're not they were not fundamentally different.
	This is fundamentally different in terms of who delivers your health care and how it's delivered.
	It's a bureaucrat versus people in your own state.
	And that's what President Trump likes the most.
	And to my Republican colleagues, I'm the first to say that this is not a perfect bill.
	This is a block grant versus what I think will be over time socialism.
	Let's turn around.
	We can't go as far as we'd like in a new direction, but let's at least go in a new direction.
	Do you think Mitch McConnell should get rid of the supermajority and cloture?
	Uh no, I don't, but that's not the issue here.
	We don't need sixty votes.
	Yeah, but after September 30th, if this didn't pass, you wouldn't.
	Well, well, here's what I'm saying.
	Since World War II, they've had the majority in the House, the Senate, and the Presidency five times more than we have.
	You gotta think about what happens uh tomorrow.
	But rather than talk about that, can I just say thank you for giving me a chance to express my voice on what I think is the biggest decision the Republican Party will make?
	Well, I agree.
	This is all right, let me because I know you're in an airport and you're and I'm driving you nuts, but I don't but I'll be honest, I don't I don't really I don't really care.
	Um you're a public servant.
	So uh but here's the most important here's the most important question.
	Listen.
	Okay.
	You have a lot of pull with John McCain.
	You have a lot of pull, and and John McCain thinks that people like me should go straight to hell, as he said the first day back, which is really nice of him, and that's I consider a compliment, and he considers people like Cruz a wacko bird.
	But putting all that aside, he did make this promise.
	You've been best friends with the guy.
	You gotta you gotta be able to tell me you can get McCain and Murkowski or or Rand or somebody.
	Who are you?
	You need two.
	Who are the two gonna be?
	Sean, at the end of the day, we're gonna vote, and all I can tell you is that I believe I've got a better idea than Obamacare by a factor of ten.
	And I didn't come on the show to beat anybody up.
	I came on the show to tell you that we got a historic opportunity.
	No, I'm gonna pretend people who are listening.
	I I just want to make it I think here's what I think about Senator McCain.
	I think he believes in federalism.
	Uh I think he likes bipartisanship, but I just don't see a pathway for it.
	There's no way Schumer can do anything major because the Democratic Party is going to be a good thing.
	Well, you've talked to him.
	What has he said to you?
	What does he set up today?
	Well, he he he's looking at it, and let me tell you what he said.
	I like the concept of Graham Casty.
	Well, the Governor Ducey, and let me say Scott Walker's been a hero here, but Governor Ducey from Arizona came on board and that really helped a lot he believes this will work for Arizona.
	So we're gonna vote.
	Uh the role will be called and uh everybody will be held accountable.
	And I look forward to the debate.
	I am so excited finally as a Republican to have something that I'm for, not just against Obamacare.
	And let me tell you, they're scared to death.
	Do you think President Obama would come out against this bill if he didn't think it had a chance?
	Oh, listen, I agree with you.
	What is the Lisa Markovski?
	We had a really good talk with her.
	Alaska is a unique state.
	It's about fifty percent more for patient costs because there's so few people in such large territory.
	We're trying to be fair to Alaska and give them what they need because they're just so different.
	Right.
	I'm excited.
	I think I think that's a good question.
	You'd think it's gonna you think it's gonna pass.
	You think this is gonna pass?
	I really I really would the president behind it.
	I taught the President Trump like three times a day.
	Mike Pence has been on the phone.
	I hope next week we'll have a majority of Republican governors come out for this.
	Listen, I'm inclined to support it, Senator.
	I'm inclined to support it too.
	I hope you can.
	And let me all this imperfection.
	I hope you can.
	Last last question.
	The President is expected to act administratively on an issue of seventy-four, I believe, state uh law federal law that would allow states to then move into health care cooperatives.
	Is that part of your plan too?
	In the sense that you're factoring that in?
	He can do that apart from us.
	President Trump has really changed the regulatory environment.
	Uh here's what President Trump is not gonna do.
	If this fails and the choice is to throw nine hundred and eighty million dollars a month to prop up Obamacare without any real change, why would he throw good money after bad?
	And here's what people don't realize.
	Next month there'll be four point eight billion dollars of employer assessment sent out under Obamacare under the employer mandate.
	Obama put it off on his watch uh illegally, I think.
	So there are gonna be almost five billion dollars in new taxes hit the economy in October if we don't repeal and replace with our bill.
	All right, Senator, I'll let you jump on your plane.
	Uh well, if you can, we'd like to have you back maybe early next week before the vote.
	Yeah, I will, and we'll try to do your show and uh Will you please also send me a copy so I can read it?
	Yeah, I will, and you know, I will just let you go through it.
	And and again, Mark Meadows has been terrific.
	I think Mark gives the big picture that this is the last chance to do it.
	Well, he's the one that's convinced me more than anybody that it uh listen, I'm I'm always inclined to sending stuff back to states.
	I'm I am, it's natural for me.
	So I think this is probably the best compromise we're gonna get, and uh uh I actually applaud your efforts considering you hate my guts now, but we love having you on.
	Thank you for being with us.
	Uh ate your gut.
	Let's make a promo out of that.
	Take care.
	All right.
	Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, eight hundred nine four one Sean is our number.
	All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
	800 nine four one Sean, toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	I think probably one of the biggest lawyer interrogation beatdowns on public television was when Trey Gowdy took on James Comey.
	We're gonna play this here, and then we're gonna play Sarah Carter.
	Yeah, Trump was, in fact, a FISA warrant was issued.
	As a matter of fact, two of them were issued.
	And then we're gonna play Greg Jarrett, who's gonna join us on the other side of this, saying that Jeff Sessions need to res needs to resign, and we're gonna go through all the issues of why he's making that case and that claim.
	Uh but first let me start with Trey Gowdy.
	I had uh not sent uh classified material nor received anything uh Mark classified.
	Secretary Clinton said she never sent or received any classified information over her private email.
	Was that true?
	Our investigation found that there was classified information sent so it was not true.
	That I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received.
	Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails either sent or received.
	Was that true?
	That's not true.
	There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.
	I never sent um classified uh material on my email, and I never received any uh that was marked classified.
	Secretary Clinton said I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email.
	There is no classified material.
	Was that true?
	there was classified material emailed.
	People across the government knew that I used one device.
	Maybe it was uh because I am not the most technically capable person and uh wanted to make it as easy as possible.
	Secretary Clinton said she used just one device.
	Was that true?
	She used multiple devices during the four years uh of her term as Secretary of State.
	But we turned over everything that was work-related.
	Every single thing.
	Personal stuff, we did not.
	I had no obligation to do so and did not.
	Secretary Clinton said all work-related emails were returned to the State Department.
	Was that true?
	No, we found work-related emails thousands that were not returned.
	All I can tell you is that when my attorneys conducted this exhaustive process, I did not participate.
	Secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive.
	Did her lawyers read the email content individually?
	No.
	Now there was also a separate FISA.
	It was an overall FISA.
	I don't have as much information on that.
	That FISA, though, was a general FISA that covered the whole Russian hacking investigation.
	What we don't know is who was connected to that FISA.
	What was that VISA looking at?
	And that is very highly classified.
	Nobody wants to talk about that particular VISA right now.
	There is a distinction between a FISA and then a wiretapping, but they did tap.
	I mean, they were looking.
	He has spent seven months as attorney general, and his tenure is notable for a series of failures to act where action is demanded.
	And he has done nothing about James Comey or Hillary Clinton or Susan Rice.
	He can appoint a special uh counsel to do it, a second special counsel.
	You can't count on Mueller to investigate Comey, for example.
	But he hasn't done it.
	And I argue that he has not just been unproductive and ineffectual.
	He has proven to be incompetent.
	And I hate to say that, I really do.
	Appoint an acting attorney general, which is anybody who's been confirmed in any branch, including the Justice Department.
	So there are plenty of people who could uh serve as acting attorney general until a permanent one is named.
	So there are plenty of options here, but Sessions needs to do the right thing and resign.
	All right.
	Joining us now is Fox News legal analyst uh Greg Jarrett is with us and uh regular, obviously on radio and television.
	And uh let's start with Trey Gowdy, and when he had James Comey on, and he's like it's true this, it's true this, it's true this, it's true this.
	And I'm like, he's he made the case and Comey solidified the case, slam dunk breaking violating laws.
	He totally did.
	Um, look, first Comey used his office and took he stole, essentially, government documents, and then he conferred them to his own benefit and leaked them to the media for the sole purpose of appointing a special prosecutor.
	That's a violation of the law.
	18 USC 641 and a couple of other statutes.
	So Comey violated the law.
	The other thing he did was that he perjured himself, apparently.
	Um a year ago, he was asked under oath before Congress, did you decide to prosecute Hillary Clinton before or after you interviewed her?
	And he said after.
	Really, James?
	Because it's now been revealed that he wrote a statement exonerating Clinton.
	Why did they before in May.
	And there was seventeen other people.
	So it was a charade.
	The whole investigation was predetermined.
	He determined in advance that he was going to exonerate Clinton.
	Now, you know, was it the fix was in?
	Did somebody tell him to do that to protect Clinton?
	Or did he do it on his own?
	But either way, it's obstruction of justice.
	And it's also well, lying to Congress.
	I thought that was a crime, too.
	And then it doesn't it put into context when you put the tarmac meeting with Loretta Lynch and him taking her talking point.
	It's a matter, not an investigation.
	Doesn't it it begins to to fit a narrative and the narrative is is the fix was in.
	You're absolutely right.
	So then but then g then bring it to what your article says.
	You think I've always liked Jeff Sessions.
	I'm not calling on him to resign it, but I do want him to step up.
	Um look, uh I think Jeff Sessions is a wonderful guy, a very fine U.S. senator.
	But it's easy to be a senator.
	You're one of a hundred.
	Being a uh an attorney general is a very difficult job.
	And in my judgment, he's incompetent.
	He's incompetent because he's failed to take action where action is demanded.
	He has done nothing about Comey and Clinton, Susan Rice, and Loretta Lynch.
	Is there any way that behind the scenes he's doing all of these things?
	No.
	We'd know it.
	We'd know it.
	Yeah, we we would absolutely know it.
	But he could reopen the investigation into the email server.
	He could inv he could investigate.
	No, because he, in his confirmation hearings, if you'll recall, he recused himself from anything related to Hillary Clinton.
	Not just the Russian meddling, uh, which he put into motion, you know, hours after he was sworn in, but he promised he would take no action against Hillary Clinton, which means he needs to appoint a second special counsel.
	Then why then why would he be able to appoint the special counsel?
	Because it was Rod Rosenstein that did it the first time.
	No, you don't want to use uh Rod Rosenstein and Robert Hill.
	He could do it even though he said he was recusing himself.
	He could just say, okay, I'm letting somebody else do it.
	Yes.
	Exactly.
	He could be second special counsel.
	You said he shouldn't resign before he takes action against Clinton Comey and Rice.
	Here's what you do.
	You appoint a special counsel second special counsel.
	And then you resign.
	And that's what he should do because he's not up for the job.
	I hate to say that because I really like the guy.
	Is it there's still time for him to get these things right, though.
	There is.
	I mean, he's the attorney general of the United States.
	He's the ch the top lawyer in the U.S. He can take action against Clinton, Comey, and Rice and Loretta Lynch.
	And he can he can undertake investigations except for for Clinton, in which he would have to appoint a special counsel because he recused himself.
	All right.
	Now there's a Washington examiner piece uh that came out today about Robert Mueller.
	And this to me is the most bizarre story in this whole fiasco, because it's become a fiasco.
	Right.
	And anyway, Mueller's office interviewed the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein.
	Now is it you even believe it?
	Well, I mean I mean Rosenstein appointed Mueller.
	So here is the underling interviewing his boss as a chief witness in an obstruction case against uh Donald Trump.
	So Rosenstein is both prosecutor and chief witness.
	You can't do that.
	I mean, for God's sakes, you you get disbarred for doing something like that as a lawyer.
	Trevor Burrus, Jr.
	But everything seems to be out of whack.
	I mean, Comey himself has legal issues, but he's not being investigated because he's best friends with Mueller.
	Right.
	Then you have Rosenstein or Rosenstein, I'm not sure how you say it.
	Um he is now involved in being interviewed by Mueller, but he appointed Mueller.
	Right.
	I mean, and then you got all the people that Mueller appointed, you got eight of them, democ Democratic donors to Clinton Obama, the Democratic Party, zero Republican donors.
	Right.
	And Mueller's firm, 99.8% Democrat Hillary Clinton donors.
	Is there any question, Sean, that Mueller is out to get Donald Trump.
	No, I I'm I'm convinced.
	Now, here's what bothers me.
	I have my sources in the White House, and I talked to them and they said, no, they he's going to be fair.
	And I'm like, what are you what are you thinking?
	I don't believe he's fair news.
	He's not.
	They're being snookered.
	And I've talked to them also.
	And they do.
	You told him that?
	Yeah, I have.
	What do they say when you say that?
	Well, they don't believe me.
	But I guarantee you.
	It's a bad bet.
	Muller has been a long time partner, ally of James Comey.
	He was angered when Comey was fired.
	He is out to get the man who fired him, which is Donald Trump.
	Trevor Burrus, Jr.
	Which is why he leaked the information, government information made on a government in a government car and a government computer that he sent via his friend to the New York Times.
	It's a crime.
	It is.
	You know, under the Privacy Act, it's a crime.
	It's also a crime to use your political public office for a political purpose.
	It's also a crime to steal government documents.
	That's what he did.
	And, you know, the statute is very clear.
	How come with all these crimes that all these people have committed, and it's overwhelming the evidence and fairly incontrovertible, and I'm looking at all of this and nobody investigates And Trump was right on March 4th when he talked about wiretapping.
	Right.
	And nobody seems to even care about that because then it goes back to surveillance, uh, unmasking, leaking intelligence.
	Those are all crimes.
	We've basically had with this president a leak a day.
	Right.
	No other president has has worked with that.
	Obama was like Gladys Kravitz, uh, you know, who was the nosy neighbor.
	Nobody's nobody under fifty knows who the hell you're talking about.
	Nobody knows who I'm talking about.
	The woman who was peeking behind the blinds and listening to conversations.
	That's Barack Obama and his administration and Susan Rice and Samantha Power and John Brennan and all the others who were listening in.
	They were spying on President Trump and they were listening to his conversation.
	I want to get back to this.
	Greg Jarrett, legal analyst and uh with the Fox News channel.
	You can get his columns on Fox News dot com.
	We'll take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll we'll continue on the other side, we'll pick it up right there.
	Katie Hopkins is in the next room, giddy and jumping for joy because for the first time she's in studio.
	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	All right, as we continue, Greg Jarrett, Fox News analyst is with us.
	Right.
	Let's get back to the discovery that in fact I was right, the president was right, you were right, Sarah Carter was right, John Solomon was right.
	A couple of my colleagues, Mark Levin was right, a few of us were right, and there were warrants for Trump Tower.
	FISA warrants.
	And we uh she still thinks Sarah Carter, that there might have been one criminal warrant.
	That FISA, though, was a general FISA that covered the whole Russian hacking investigation.
	What we don't know is who was connected to that FISA.
	What was that VISA looking at?
	And that is very highly classified.
	Nobody wants to talk about that particular visa right now.
	What we know so far does not indicate that Trump Tower, my lines, as he put it, were unless you were saying that he owns every single thing in Trump Tower.
	Yeah, that is what he's saying.
	President came out about this, right?
	We all remember those tweets on March 4th.
	Let me just read them again for anyone who's forgotten.
	Terrible.
	Just found out that Obama had my quote wires tapped in Trump Tower just before the victory.
	Nothing found.
	This is McCarthyism.
	He continued.
	How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process?
	This is Nixon Watergate, bad uh open parentheses or sick guy.
	He was derided for this.
	But Mark, is he somehow vindicated tonight?
	That we still haven't gotten to the bottom of.
	Right.
	My problem is that uh Pfizer uh warrants are all secret.
	It's a secret court with secret judges.
	There's nobody very hard to obtain, supposedly.
	Right.
	Except if you submit false information in support of your application for a warrant.
	So apparently they use the anti-Trump dossier, which was purely fabricated to support the warrant.
	This is the Michael Steele dossier, just to remind people that talked about hookers at the Ritz peeing on a bed.
	Right.
	I mean, it was totally absurd.
	And Coley wanted to pay that guy 50 grand.
	Comey wanted it, he liked it, he used it in support of the warrants.
	So they spied on the president with fabricated evidence in support of a warrant.
	See, this is the problem with FISA secret courts.
	There's nobody there to challenge it.
	There's nobody there afterwards to challenge it because nobody knows it's happening except the judges.
	And the judges were snookered.
	They were fooled by this fake evidence.
	And the president is right to be outraged.
	How come there's very few people in the media, even in the legal profession, that are willing to analyze this the way you are?
	Because they hate Donald Trump.
	The mainstream media hates Donald Trump.
	They're out to get him.
	They'll do anything to bring him down.
	And look, I I talk to lawyers all the time who communicate with me uh by phone and email, and they're outraged by this whole thing, but they're afraid to talk.
	So I talk and I write columns.
	And you have the same bullseye on your back as I do.
	I do.
	Welcome to the club.
	You and I both.
	Welcome to the club.
	Walking down the street, it's a little dangerous.
	Yeah, a little bit.
	All right, Greg Jarrett, great work.
	And uh you're gonna join us tonight on TV, Hannity on the Fox News Channel, 10 Eastern.
	By the way, moving to nine Eastern starting next week.
	We'll take a oh, we have a few surprises about that.
	Did I tell you about the surprises yet, Linda?
	We'll have a few little surprises.
	Take a quick break.
	We'll come back.
	We'll continue.
	This is the Sean Hannity Show.
	Well, good grief.
	She's joined us in studio, which is even worse.
	Having a little march on the spot.
	I told drill.
	Oh my gosh.
	Piers Morgan writes me today, goes, Congratulations.
	Oh, did he now?
	On moving the nine.
	Can we get rid of it?
	Can we play something like that Katie really loves here?
	Let's go.
	Hands up.
	Do not give me this raw uh oh you're younger.
	I want you to sing it in person.
	First time in studio.
	And it's a big thing.
	Kitty Hawkins is gonna sing Florida Georgia Line, baby.
	This is how we roll.
	Let's hit it.
	Mixed tape's got a little hanging.
	Ready?
	I'm ready.
	Stronger than you think.
	You want a stronger drink?
	Feel right.
	This is exactly like mail stuff.
	Listening to hell whilst what is where the party's at.
	This is how we roll.
	This is how we roll This is how we roll I haven't got any lyrics, so I'll just say one word.
	Light it up with your hands up.
	This is how we roll.
	This is how we roll.
	Did you ever get out of first grade?
	Bullets at the sky.
	Alright, this sounds like crap.
	Yes, it does.
	Yes.
	So you just purposely meant it.
	Alright, the one and only Kitty Hopkins is calling is in their studio today.
	She comes in with her British flag.
	Yes, it is.
	That music that you like as your introduction is horrific.
	What do you use in real life?
	What kind of music do you listen to in real life?
	What do you like?
	I like uh anything from the 80s.
	I like kind of the pet shop boys, anything that's got a vaguely.
	You're gonna tell me George Michael next, I assume.
	I like George Michael as well.
	Well, Elton John couldn't be more popular in light of Donald Trump saying Rocket Man.
	I know how gorgeous was.
	Wasn't that amazing?
	It was the best moment of my life.
	So he stands there and he goes, if this Rocket Man carries on like this, we're gonna destroy North Korea.
	And we all just went, yes, finally.
	Someone in the US speaks a bit of our language.
	I play the media.
	I'm only gonna play a snip.
	We got like three minutes of the media, and I played it earlier in the program today.
	These people losing their minds over Donald Trump calling this two-bit speaking normally.
	Speaking like a normal person.
	Speaking like a normal guess what?
	We had someone who spoke like a normal person and said the stuff that we say at home, he says in the UN.
	What's so wrong with that?
	We've got a human in the white house.
	Okay, so blow me down.
	Blow me down.
	You work at the Daily Mail.
	So you work at one of the better organizations.
	Although if you have when you attack me over there, you people are vicious.
	We are.
	We're mean.
	You are vicious.
	Let me tell you, you've got lovely teeth.
	It's one thing I noticed.
	I walk up here to studio, you look around, actually.
	You are so good at teeth.
	Mine look like an old thing.
	These are the best teeth.
	These are the best teeth money can buy.
	I see that.
	And you're also.
	You can't tell they're fake.
	You can't tell anything.
	No, they look a lot younger than you.
	That suggests they're fake.
	You're so mean.
	Why are you being so mean to me?
	Just telling you the truth about it.
	So here's a funny story.
	So I played ice hockey my whole life.
	Roll of hockey street hockey.
	That's all I played is hockey hockey hockey.
	And all of my friends lost teeth.
	All of them got stitches except me.
	So I figured, all right, dodge the bullet.
	Maybe I belong in TV.
	But as you walk up to your offices here in your studio, that's one of the things you notice as a Brit is this blinding white teeth.
	And also, gentlemen here.
	Well, maybe there's a hint there for you people in Great Britain.
	What's your name?
	You like to wear a tight pant.
	That's the other thing I do.
	You like my tight jeans?
	Is that what you're saying?
	No, just walking up behind gentlemen on the way here.
	It's a lot of high and tight pants.
	High and pants?
	Yes.
	What's pants?
	Pantalones.
	Pants.
	Yes.
	Alright, so listen.
	If you like white teeth, one of people in Britain is called dentist teeth.
	It's called dentistry.
	I know.
	It is a very my daughters have braces.
	I missed out, obviously.
	That's why my teeth look like this.
	I think your teeth look fine.
	I never noticed your teeth, never would notice your teeth.
	No, but I noticed yours.
	Okay, so I fell off a roof, two and a half stories, landed on my face.
	This part of my arm from here down was dangling like this.
	And were you alone?
	I bust.
	Well, I was alone.
	Two other guys makes you laugh.
	Me.
	Me nearly dying makes you laugh.
	I'm Sean Hannity.
	Hello.
	Nobody knew who Sean Hannity was when I was a contractor.
	Nobody cared.
	I don't think half the people care now.
	Yeah, but that's quite a good way to be, isn't it?
	Would you prefer to be known or not known?
	I don't like and I like anonymity better.
	And nobody believes it.
	Oh, no, I'm not sure.
	You guys in TV and radio, you peed all this m- I never went into this for money.
	I went into it because even when I work for free and for 19 grand a year in radio, number one, I never dreamed I'd be successful.
	Ever.
	And you're still not.
	I'm still not.
	Number two.
	Alright, you're such a wise ass.
	God, what happened to you?
	Did your mother drop you on the head?
	Number two, I did it because I always want my country I just love my country and want my country to do better.
	And it shows, and that's why people love you so much.
	And people on my Twitter are really nice about you.
	They love you very much.
	Alright, so Piers, I was gonna have him call and he just said, Oh, I can't.
	I'm a dinner.
	I'm like, Oh, he's so important.
	He can't possibly pull his pull himself away for 30 seconds.
	But he had time just to go, oh, well done for getting your newspaper.
	You know, it's funny because he was on CNN up against me, and I He lost.
	Yeah, he did.
	He lost.
	But you could say that.
	No, he did, but that's not the point.
	I mean It is the point.
	You beat Piers Morgan.
	Woo-hoo!
	And I beat him on my columns as well.
	They're better red than Pierce.
	You get more clicks than him?
	Yes, I tell him to find mine in the best red section, because his don't ever go there.
	Oh, ouch.
	But also I'm a believer in guns, so I win in America.
	And I said to him recently, I said, How stupid were you?
	As soon as you kept telling America to disarm, I'm like, thank you, Cha Ching.
	Cha-Chin.
	See you later.
	Yeah, no, I'm very pleased that you beat him.
	But no, he's not a bad man.
	No, no.
	He's not a bad man.
	No, I actually he's irreverent, iconoclastic, he's tough.
	I love his Twitter fighting.
	Oh I'm sick of Twitter.
	Oh well, he does a morning show, right?
	Yeah, right.
	Well, that's not is that an excuse for having 15 chins?
	I don't know.
	What what?
	You get a morning show, does that mean all women?
	Do the women have 15 shins?
	No, they don't.
	They still look very hot.
	Piers Morgan, oh, ate the sofa.
	That is not okay.
	It's not a why are you being so okay?
	So last time you didn't meet me in person, and you just said to me, Wow, you're a lot.
	You're a lot younger and strong.
	Still had taller in person.
	You called me chubby.
	Well, I just said that you were sweating from under your mamboobs or your moobs, and you tried to wrap them around me.
	No, I did a ninja move on you.
	A ninja pretty ninja.
	I now train martial arts five days a week.
	You're so hot.
	Do you know how hot you are?
	No, how hot am I?
	Wait a minute.
	I'll do let me do Howard's.
	No.
	No.
	How hot am I?
	Tell me.
	On a scale of one to ten, you're about a two.
	Two?
	But it's so hot.
	So be nice.
	You're so you're so being mean.
	You're so nice for my ego.
	This is really helpful.
	Is it helping you?
	Oh no, no, I'm gonna walk out again.
	I'm not by the way, you're you're much you're tinier than I ever dreamed.
	And like I can't believe all this irreverence and irreverence and hate comes out of somebody so tiny.
	It's really annoying.
	What's annoying?
	But everybody always says that because they have an impression of me.
	Or maybe even fact.
	And so when I'm in cars and people have heard me on my radio show.
	Um you don't have a radio show.
	Yeah, right.
	And uh yeah, anymore.
	Uh they say your voice is is different to how I imagined.
	And I say, Well, what's my voice like?
	And they say, Your voice is fat.
	So I don't know how your voice is.
	No, I'll tell you what everybody's doing.
	You're so mean.
	You're so mean.
	So I will tell you that needs to get out more.
	Or not.
	Is this your show or mine?
	Do I get to say anything about it?
	Mine.
	It's always mine when I'm on.
	You know that.
	So people do say you're a lot skinnier and younger and taller in person.
	So I'm like, what?
	I'm a fan old short guy on TV.
	What do you mean by that?
	That's like a horrible thing to say.
	I think it's because on well, like seeing you now, you look like this sort of bloke that you'd go for a beer with.
	You look like a sort of friendly guy, duh da da da.
	And on TV, I guess you've got your suit on and you're purposeful and you're supporting Trump, and so you seem bigger and more stern.
	Maybe that's it.
	It's bigger.
	Like this, you seem quite friendly.
	Well, TV and radio are very different.
	I'd ask you for directions if I saw you on the street now.
	What does that mean asking for?
	Is that some kind of code that you want to like a British thing?
	Like there's people you wouldn't ask directions.
	So I passed the low bar standard.
	Low bar.
	And My bar's low.
	Like I used to work in Disneyland Paris and as a security guard.
	No way.
	Yeah, as my holiday job money.
	We used to pull pedophiles out the Peter Panmates.
	Right.
	So that's my bar.
	Did you did you have a flask that you'd take sips from all day?
	I had like a uniform and everything, and I could run around being dramatic.
	I was useless.
	I was the most useless.
	I could see you playing a Disney character.
	Yeah, me too.
	I would be able to do that.
	But the problem with that is you'd hit one of the kids.
	So why did you lose your radio show?
	Because after the Manchester bombing where, you know, um uh another jihadi lunatic took out our children, girls, girls, like dual today.
	Yeah, I came down and I tweeted, we need a final solution to That's right.
	Yeah.
	And that wording on that tweet was sufficient to get it.
	Were you in your just be honest, we don't care.
	Were you in your mind thinking about the final solution?
	No, I was thinking it's 7 30.
	You were saying we need an answer.
	My husband was going, You need to you're gonna have a busy day, you need to move because you know, I'm usually responding to that sort of thing.
	Did you correct it right away?
	As soon as you figured it out.
	About five minutes later.
	And they still fired you from the radio show.
	Yes, and the tweet wasn't related to my radio show, it wasn't on air or any of those things.
	It's not a good thing.
	It was just a tweet on your own account.
	I deleted and then amended an approach.
	But you know, this is a serious topic because there's people right now sitting in their underwear in New Mexico, right in New Mexico, and that's only one state.
	And seriously, they're paid mi there are groups paid millions of dollars to monitor shows like mine, and in the hopes that I say one thing.
	Yes.
	One thing.
	Yes.
	And and even if I made an honest mistake.
	You were on the show once, and one of these groups wrote something about us.
	Do you remember what one of those groups was writing about me and Katie and we crossed the line and we have to you were both fat?
	That we're talking about underwear or something stupid, just something irreverent and fun and just kind of lightening the program up a little bit.
	You don't remember?
	It will have been something.
	Maybe it's shaving my legs.
	I usually talk about it.
	I think if it's something like that, something stupid.
	Something stupid.
	And you know, something fun, something relatable, and I have a gun at my head every hour I'm on the air because they want to kill me.
	Politically speaking, they want me dead and they want me silenced.
	Exactly right.
	Just like you.
	And it's not individuals operating like that.
	It's a coordinated systematic effort through networks of linked individuals in different kinds of lobbying groups, and that's how it works.
	I would have been gutted if I got fired for my numbers.
	But given we were the most listened to radio show in my time slot, I guess I can take away that but it's a good idea.
	I couldn't syndicate my radio program in Great Britain.
	I bet it would do well.
	Of course it would do well.
	It would fly.
	Then they wouldn't, but they wouldn't put me on the air.
	Not a chance because uh because of uh you know, I have a passion for Trump, you have a passion for Trump.
	That's not a permissible.
	Do the people of Great Britain have a passion for Trump?
	Yes, there's loads of them, and that's why you know part of my radio show was this one last remaining space.
	I felt like I was holding open the cupboard doors in London and letting this little thing come through that went, we love Trump, and then I'd have gays for Trump because they don't have a voice, and then you'd have, you know, even the left.
	I'm a liberal lefty, I support Trump.
	And they had a voice for a moment in time, but now those doors are shut.
	By the way, we don't even know who's running your government anymore.
	Jeez.
	We don't know.
	We have no clue.
	All right, stay right there.
	We'll take a break.
	Katie Hopkins.
	You know, there's no point ever in having a topic when we bring her on the air because she's just gonna take over the program anyway.
	And poor Geraldo, you were just brutal to him.
	And as a friend of mine, you were brutal.
	Well he was like, ah wow, wow, I know the president, I'm still gonna think about it.
	Yeah, that's exactly what he was doing.
	He was doing that.
	I don't gonna care if you're friends with the president.
	I don't care if you go to the body.
	You mentioned your husband, how many years have you been married?
	Too long.
	Uh like eight years, which is an all time record for me, and beats my first marriage, which was less than a year.
	Yeah.
	I bet you're really easy to live with, too.
	I'm so I'm like a joy.
	Are you like this at home?
	Yeah, he wakes up in the morning and he goes, Oh, damn, and I'm like, What is it?
	He goes, Oh, I just realized I'm married to you.
	Like every day of his damn live, he's got that.
	We'll take a break.
	Katie Hopkins is with us.
	We'll get to your calls and we'll play some of these tapes I've been talking about.
	We'll get back to that.
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	Like, for example, Katie locks her front door, right?
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	We do.
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	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue continue.
	The gobby one, Katie Hopkins is blowing up the radio show.
	Again, why we invite her on, I have no idea.
	We'll continue.
	Ready to repeal and replace Obama's executive orders, and you've come to the right place.
	The Sean Hannity Show.
	All right, Sean Hannity Show.
	Uh we'll get to your calls next half hour.
	800 nine four one Sean.
	Katie Hopkins is in town.
	Um so I got a crazy busy night, but you and my team are going out to dinner, and I'm gonna stop by and hang out with you for as long as it's humanly possible.
	What you mean is that you're you're dipping out, but you're just gonna put a head in, just politely.
	Okay, I'm dipping out, and yes, I'm just stopping in and I'm gonna say hello.
	That's uh and uh you know I can't imagine you and Linda together drinking, which is gonna be a very bad scene.
	We don't have to imagine it anymore.
	We're gonna bring it live to you here in New York.
	Yeah, it's gonna be good.
	It's gonna be good.
	I'm really looking at it.
	I think we ought to put on an all points bulletin.
	And we were gonna Facebook live it.
	Here's the thing.
	If you guys are hanging out with Jason, you know where you're gonna end up at the end of the night, right?
	I don't want to go there.
	That's a bar for men, not for women.
	You know what?
	It would Katie Hopkins deserves to see Coyote Ugly.
	We're gonna put Katie Hopkins on the bar at Coyote Ugly.
	No, we're not.
	No, we're not.
	No, you don't have to put her on there.
	She probably would have to be able to do it.
	Well, that's where she'll end up and you know it.
	Yes, we do know.
	Hey, Jason, how would that go over at your favorite local tavern?
	Well, um they'd love to have her.
	Oh, they'd love to with that attitude.
	Oh, they'd love to have it.
	They might offer a job before the night's three.
	They'd love to see her go.
	I don't even think Ethan's allowed to go because he just got married.
	Have you ever been there, Ethan?
	Would you ever go?
	I would never go.
	You just get married.
	I did.
	How how long ago?
	April.
	You still like her.
	I I still love her.
	Why would you think it why would you think he doesn't like his own?
	Well, she's an honest question, isn't it?
	Do you have a look at her and think, oh, rats pick the wrong one?
	No, no, no.
	I I look at her and think, what the hell was she thinking?
	Right.
	Is she hotter than you?
	Way hotter.
	That is such a good game.
	You know, when two people are walking towards you and you go, who did better, he did, she did.
	And then you pick the person out of the partnership that did better.
	That's me.
	And you got a hotter wife.
	Way hotter.
	Who's hotter in your marriage, Katie?
	Um, uh me.
	I'm way hot at no.
	It's totally my husband, actually.
	So now they have this ridiculous standard.
	What is it?
	Fit and proper.
	It's fit and proper.
	What is fit and proper?
	Fit and proper means that you abide by the state's propaganda, which says that Palestine is fantastic, that Trump is wrong, uh, that Clinton is always right.
	Anyway, Katie Hopkins, we love you.
	We're uh glad you can come to New York.
	I will what do you call it?
	Pop in and out.
	What are you?
	Pop in and out.
	You'll put in show your face.
	Show my face.
	Show your bottom.
	Show you show my bottom.
	Yes.
	Show your boss, show your face.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	Katie Hopkins, great to see you in New York.
	We love you.
	Thank you so much.
	And uh, you guys have fun tonight, and I'll pop in, as you say.
	Thank you.
	All right.
	800 941 Sean.
	Your calls, comments, intuitive insight, observations are straight ahead.
	Bottom line is and always has been there is no evidence that Donald Trump was wiretapped by Barack Obama.
	It was and continues to be a lie.
	Our conspiracy theory president is at it again.
	And uh, whenever something like this happens, I wonder what are the president's sources of information.
	Where is he getting these ideas?
	And that has been denied by President Obama, by the former director of national intelligence, and now we know it as well by the FBI director.
	They are all saying it did not happen.
	So is the president calling all three of those individuals liars?
	I don't think they're taking seriously enough how devastating this is to the American system for one president to say, my predecessor liar tapped.
	We have been living in uh really through the Trump campaign and uh unto this hour, this alternative reality.
	The way that pr that Donald Trump seems to think about what a president can do feels very Nixonian, that he has a much more inflated view of a president's powers for him to believe that a president could even, in theory, because the election is on, go in and tap her opponent tap the opponent of his preferred candidate.
	Trump's mind is a little bit of a mystery to me.
	Now there was also a separate FISA.
	It was an overall FISA, and I don't have as much information on that.
	That FISA, though, was a general FISA that covered the whole Russian hacking investigation.
	What we don't know is who was connected to that FISA.
	What was that VISA looking at?
	And that is very highly classified.
	Nobody wants to talk about that particular VISA right now.
	There is a distinction between a FISA and then a wiretapping.
	But they did tap.
	I mean, they were looking.
	Hold on a second, Maggie, because I do think it sounds like the president was right.
	If Paul Manafort has a residence in Trump Tower, and Paul Manafort was being surveilled and wiretapped, Trump Tower was wiretapped.
	No, it was not.
	I'm sorry.
	I mean how do you know?
	Uh well, I don't know, but I know that what we know so far does not indicate that Trump Tower, my lines, as he put it, were unless you were saying that he owns every single thing in Trump Tower.
	Yeah, that is what he's saying.
	President came out about this, right?
	We all remember those tweets on March 4th.
	Let me just read them again for anyone who's forgotten.
	Terrible.
	Just found out that Obama had my quote wires tapped in Trump Tower just before the victory.
	Nothing found.
	This is McCarthyism.
	He continued.
	How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process?
	This is Nixon Watergate, bad uh open parentheses or sick guy.
	He was derided for this.
	But Mark, is he somehow vindicated tonight?
	You realize, and I said this to a reporter earlier today, begging me to do an interview with him.
	And I'm like, I turned on the New York Times Sunday cover.
	I'm not doing you.
	Actually, it's a nice person, person wants, but you need to get your opinions out.
	So many of your critics you say don't understand you.
	I said they're never gonna understand me.
	And I said, if I gave every one of them a million dollars, they would still hate me and still think I am evil.
	I said, so I'm not gonna convince them, and why am I gonna waste my time trying?
	I'm not.
	There's there's nothing I can do or say that's ever gonna make anyone in the media like me.
	Now there you hear the media was mocking the president when he tweeted out that in fact Trump Tower had been wiretapped.
	Well, it turns out he was right.
	And it turns out he's right almost so many times he's proven right.
	He was right about bin Laden.
	How early was he was talking about Bin Laden?
	Then we first reported with Sarah Carter on radio and TV on March the 8th.
	The president had tweeted that out March the fourth.
	The media beat him up day in and day out.
	That's when they started suggesting he's a liar, liar, liar, liar, and he's mentally unhinged.
	Well, now CNN, their anchors admit Trump was wiretapped.
	In other words, if they're wiretapping Paul Manafort in the conversations when he is the campaign chair, everything car Sarah Carter and John Solomon reported as true.
	So they finally admitted.
	But it doesn't matter.
	This president could do nothing right in their eyes.
	Nothing.
	They have they are locked into their positions, and their position is delegitimize uh and character caricature, painter caricature of the president.
	I'll give you another example.
	Let me play the CNN criticizing what I thought was an amazing speech at the United Nations.
	Look, this wasn't a speech, this was a sermon.
	And he wasn't a president, he was a preacher up there, given his dark world view uh about threats and conflict.
	This was a speech about conflict around the world, not a speech about cooperation, and that's a real shame.
	I do think um that there is a bit of a contradiction uh in in in in his presentation today, talking about sovereignty, uh talking about a renewal of spirit for all of these nations, Talking about uh nations needing to be patriotic.
	I imagine if you talk to uh folks in Venezuela, you talk to folks uh in North uh in North Korea, they imagine that they are being patriotic, right?
	Almost trying to teach himself at an eighth-grade level about you know basic sovereign multinational issues, but I agree completely.
	Uh that this was uh this was absolutely very stark, uh very absent of any of the normal universal values and mutual cooperation that we try to seek in these international bodies.
	Well, Wolf, I thought that was one of many examples of how intellectually confused, if not outright incoherent this speech was.
	If you just think about it, in one breath, he was urging the world to come together and collectively confront the threat of North Korea, and then in the next breath, he is chiding the world.
	So this is a guy who goes around thumbing his nose at international entities and uh international attempts to confront global challenges.
	This was a very uh somber uh dark speech, if you will, Wolf.
	And I'm remember thinking back to the first uh uh appearance that President Obama made here in 2009 as president, of course, a far different reception.
	Of course, he had a uh booming enthusiastic applause.
	It was remarkable to see a leader of any country, but the president of the United States standing in the well of the United Nations General Assembly, threatening to totally destroy, not retaliate, not hurt, not isolate, not prove a point, totally destroy a country.
	And I spoke a short time ago to a senior UN diplomat who described it to me this way, saying uh that he, diplomats around him were taking it back.
	He described it to me like a wind had gone through the room when the president uttered those words, we will totally destroy North Korea.
	He said it was an emotional reaction.
	It's those words about North Korea that particularly sparked a reaction in that room.
	Audible gasps, I'm told.
	Uh extremely unusual.
	Uh, an emotional reaction, as this diplomat said.
	Now, here's what they're not criticizing before I play this for you.
	They're not criticizing that Rocket Man.
	I love that nickname.
	It is so good.
	You know, Elton John's got to be loving this.
	Somebody told me that Elton John's Rocket Man song skyrocketing to the top of the charts again.
	And it's a great song.
	I have seen Elton John in concert twice.
	I saw him once at Rush Limbaugh's wedding, and that was amazing.
	And then um I happened to see him.
	Uh I got an invite last minute when I was covering the Super Bowl last year with the owners of the Patriots, Robert Kraft.
	He goes, Oh, why don't you come to our private party after I interviewed him on the TV show?
	So I'm like, can I bring my staff?
	And he's like, sure, bring everybody.
	So we all went, and there was another private concert.
	And he's just an amazing performer, as evidenced through the many decades that he has done this.
	And it's just it's timeless music is what it is.
	He really has captured and understands music better than anybody.
	Anyway, so CNN is now criticized.
	What can he do right in their view?
	Nothing.
	There they it is 24-7 Trump derangement syndrome.
	Hold on, we have a special dedication for you.
	And it's gonna be long time to touch the two.
	Hands up, everybody.
	Kim Jong-un.
	I mean, so it's timeless.
	Anyway, let me here's the media.
	He can do nothing right at the UN.
	Nobody's critical of the fact that he's firing missiles, Rocket Man over Japan.
	He's threatening Guam.
	He's threatening the free world.
	He's a lunatic.
	And of course, he's kept no agreement he's ever made.
	So the whole world's in jeopardy.
	Let's blame the guy that's telling them they better knock it off, or they will see the death and destruction before the rest of the world does.
	All right, let's get to our busy phones here.
	800 941 Sean Tollfree telephone number.
	All right, really close to my hometown where I grew up, Franklin Square, Long Island, New York, in Rockville Center, it's Susan.
	Susan, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Welcome to the program.
	Hi, Sean.
	What's going on?
	How are you?
	Um great.
	I wanted to tell you how excited I am that you're going back to 9 o'clock.
	I was upset when you went to 10, but I still watched.
	Thank you.
	But 9 o'clock is such a great, it's a great time slot.
	And then you can go up against, you know, what's her name with the dark glassy, you know.
	You know, it seems everybody I'm going up against at 9 o'clock wears the same glasses I'd so I bought myself a pair and maybe I'll wear it my first moments on the air.
	You know let me can I comment about this because thank you for your support and oh God I always supported you.
	You are unbelievable.
	You know what motivates me is and you know Franklin Square because Franklin Square and Rockville Center are are identical really and Limbrook, Malvern, all those towns closely closely they just they're just very much middle America World War II heroes fought all over I mean just amazing place for me to grow up and and tough but not too tough.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah really good salt of the earth people that make the country great.
	Everybody's trying to set this up as Hannity versus conspiracy theorist.
	Well no now you and I both know they're gonna be on her side and I am just giving you the unbridled ratings truth here.
	In August I'm at 10, she's at nine and literally she she barely beat me.
	And she was number one I was number two.
	So I'm starting out as the underdog here and but you were number one for a very long time after after well I'll be I'll be listening I I am number one in my time slot now.
	I'm but you know I'm not looking for the first day.
	I'm not looking for the first week or my I listen all my life I've gone up against giants.
	I went up against a 30 year veteran one of the most talented guys in radio and talk radio in the country Neil Bortz and I was the only guy that was able to compete with this guy over all those years.
	I went up in New York when I first went to afternoon drive against Bob Grant.
	Bob Grant as you know a legend in New York.
	Yeah.
	When I went on TV it was first against Larry King, Geraldo Rivera and Brian Williams all on the first night I went on the air and I can proudly say I've won every battle but I'm not say I'm not predicting anything except I'm gonna ask for your support and the support of this audience to make us number one and you know let's see where we stand uh a few months from now.
	You know what I'd love to see you do?
	Yeah.
	Those panels that you haven't done them in a while where you have an audience and you ask them questions and they're from all sides of the aisle they're very effective.
	You like those?
	I love them because when you have regular people in you know in that audience I like it too you're getting average Americans who are giving you their opinion and think about this Hillary Clinton is running around the wor the world now she's running around with this book she can't figure out what happened well you know what happens is no one likes you and you I mean it's it's so it's it's so ridiculous.
	I say let her stay out there because if she stays out there she's the face of the Democrat Party.
	I want what motivates me is I want this country to be stronger economically with more opportunity with the forgotten men and women having the same shot that we had you from Rockville Center me from Franklin Square.
	I want this country safe and secure and I want America to prosper and to be the best nation it can be.
	Nobody else nobody else in television talks ever about solutions to our problems.
	And you're absolutely right and for me it's it's I listen I'll I'll be in a political fight with everybody.
	I don't care but it's not all about politics either.
	When you when you win you gotta also govern.
	To me it's always been about the agenda it's always about the people that make this country great um I can tell you I am as motivated now than I've ever been in any time in my life because the stakes are that important.
	So uh I listen your support means everything to me.
	I trust me I handle these things a lot better than anybody knows and I'm ready for what I've signed up for here and I'm excited to be back and I only think I'll promise you is this Susan we're gonna A work our tail off every day to put the best show on and number two hey Susan we have a lot of surprises coming stay tuned okay.
	So wait just one more thing Susan a a lot of surprises coming stay tuned.
	You're ready for my my last Comment?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I'm a photographer.
	And the other day when Linda was saying that your face up on Drudge was a great shot.
	Yeah.
	She was absolutely right.
	I would love to photograph you, but it was a great shot.
	So you're a photographer.
	I am.
	All right.
	I couldn't look at Drudge most of the day that day.
	I looked at the news stories.
	I didn't want to look at a picture of myself.
	I it's weird.
	Well, that's because it's yourself.
	Everybody else looked at it.
	All right.
	You're very nice.
	Listen, Susan, if I didn't tell you.
	A lot of surprises.
	Okay.
	Stay tuned.
	Yeah.
	I'm waiting.
	Never, never give your secrets away.
	Never.
	Ever.
	All right, gotta take a quick break.
	We'll come back.
	We'll continue.
	It's the Sean Hannity show.
	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
	Don't forget, Hannity moves to 9 p.m. next week, but we're on a 10 tonight on the Fox News Channel.
	You don't want to miss it.
	The battle over Obamacare, the history of North Korean aggression, the insane media freakout over the president's speech, and much more.
	We have Michelle Malkin tonight.
	Joe Concha's gonna talk about the media freakout.
	Then we got Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett.
	How is it possible that Rod Rosenstein actually was interviewed by Muller, Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, and Judge Janine tonight, 10 Eastern on Hannity.
	See you back here tomorrow.
	See you tonight at 10.

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