Sean Hannity Show - Morning Minute: Indict A Ham Sandwich - 10.31
Aired: 2017-10-31
Duration: 05:02


=== Manafort's Talk to FBI (04:03) ===

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[00:01:05]  One of the things you've got to understand about grand juries, especially in areas where Donald Trump, I think, got 4% of the vote.
[00:01:12]  But putting all that aside, you've got to remember the defense never gets to talk to the grand jury.
[00:01:17]  You've heard the statement you can indict a ham sandwich.
[00:01:20]  There's a lot of truth to that, actually.
[00:01:23]  And the reason that you have Mueller going after Manafort and this other guy's finances is pretty basic and simple.
[00:01:31]  What do you know about Trump?
[00:01:32]  You tell us about Trump, we're going to lessen your sentence.
[00:01:35]  But the grand jury, remember, their standard is far much lower than that of beyond a reasonable doubt.
[00:01:44]  And that is, you know, probable cause is not the standard that Paul Manafort is going to face.
[00:01:50]  He pled guilt innocent in the court proceeding today.
[00:01:54]  But you've got to understand.
[00:01:55]  So his lawyer spoke today for the first time, and he talked about what Paul Manafort was trying to do.
[00:02:00]  He said he was trying to seek to further democracy and help the UK come to the U.S. and the EU.
[00:02:10]  These activities ended in 2014, over two years before Manafort served ever in the Trump campaign.
[00:02:17]  And he writes, and he says that today, as you've seen in the indictment brought by the Office of Special Counsel, that is using a novel theory to prosecute Manafort regarding the foreign agent filing requirements of the U.S. government.
[00:02:32]  And he points out that has only been used as an offense and a charge six times since 1966.
[00:02:40]  Only one of those six resulted in any conviction.
[00:02:43]  He said the second thing about this indictment, which Manafort, now his lawyer, has finally spoken, which I find ridiculous, is maintaining offshore accounts to bring all your funds into the U.S. is a scheme to conceal them from the U.S. government.
[00:02:58]  Now, that indicates that they feel that they've paid all necessary taxes and did nothing illegal.
[00:03:03]  And offshore accounts do not is not, by its very nature, illegal.
[00:03:10]  Now, what's fascinating about this George Papadopoulos, you know, he admitted he lied to the FBI.
[00:03:16]  What did I tell you all the time?
[00:03:18]  I said, I love the FBI.
[00:03:20]  And my friends in the FBI have told me, God, do you ever talk to the FBI?
[00:03:23]  Don't talk to them.
[00:03:24]  And I said, well, I love the FBI.
[00:03:25]  I want to help the FBI.
[00:03:26]  He goes, it doesn't matter.
[00:03:28]  He goes, you'll be charged with lying to the FBI, which is a crime, if you say one thing.
[00:03:32]  And I said, so let me get this straight.
[00:03:34]  So for my own protection, I can't help an agency that I happen to love and respect most of its members.
[00:03:39]  And they go, yep, that's what my FBI friends tell me.
[00:03:42]  But the Papadopoulos, it's literally he wanted to create an anti-Clinton dossier.
[00:03:48]  And he got nowhere because nobody in the campaign paid attention to him.
[00:03:52]  Meanwhile, we have a real Russian paid-for Clinton, DNC, Obama paid-for dossier.
[00:03:59]  We've got the evidence.
[00:04:00]  They paid for the propaganda.

=== Russian Paid-for Dossier (00:59) ===

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