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And I'm beginning to see a little light after pressing so hard at the end of what has been a long tunnel.
You know, Linda, how often has it been in our career I made a decision, for example, in 2016?
What did I say?
I said, I'm going to say every day, 50 million Americans in poverty, 50 million Americans on food stamps.
That's what, 14 million more Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty, and the lowest labor participation rate since the 70s.
And I talk about the worst recovery since the 40s.
We doubled the national debt and the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
Now, I said it every day.
Why do you say, why do you like to hear yourself think or speak, Hannity?
I like to hear myself think.
I do.
And the reason is that very simple.
By the end of the campaign, I achieved my goal.
I actually heard people using my words every day because it was, to me, the most powerful argument.
We have been banging hard that I've known for some time that this informant infiltrated this network that Vladimir Putin had set up in America in 2009.
He was there for an hour, a year and a half before they ever approved the Uranium One deal.
He has a first-hand account.
He has emails.
He has documents and he has tapes.
I've known about this for some time.
And I've been saying there's no logical, commonsensical, rational reason why anybody would ever give 20% of America's uranium to a bad actor, Putin, and a hostile regime, Russia.
And now finally, we've got congressional investigations.
I think eventually it will lead to a special prosecutor.
I think the whole what I call boomerang effect, everything that Democrats have been accusing Donald Trump of, they are now guilty.
It's just taken the last week to get to this point.
And that is, how is it possible?
Hillary Clinton and her campaign and everybody involved, they all lied for a year because they all knew that they had helped fund Fusion GPS.
And they all knew that they were involved in this to the tune 9, 10, some estimates as high as $12 million.
That's real money.
And for everyone involved, the DNC paid.
Hillary Clinton paid.
And we learned this weekend Obama paid.
And they all funneled the money through the same law firm that literally did the work of paying GPS, Fusion GPS, which paid for the phony, salacious dossier that was filled with Russian lies, Russian propaganda, Russian misinformation, all designed to impact an election.
And guess what?
All of that salacious, uncorroborated material was used in the campaign.
The very thing they're saying Trump did.
You know, I can't get over where we are today.
I cannot get over that Mueller.
I can't get over the fact that he and Rosenstein, who was the local, whatever, locally involved as the local attorney involved in the Uranium One deal.
But the FBI knew about the evidence of bribery, extortion, money laundering, kickbacks, and racketeering in 2009.
And they had evidence in 2009.
And Rosenstein knew, and who appointed Mueller.
And Mueller knew.
How does he get to investigate anything with Russia when, frankly, he ought to be answering questions about what he knew and when he knew it.
And the same goes for Rosenstein.
And the same goes for Eric Holder.
And the same goes for Hillary Clinton.
And I'd like to see the presidential daily briefings, or at least let Congress see it and find out whether or not this was discussed in the president's daily briefings in terms of what Vladimir Putin, a network of spies within America that was committing all these crimes that the FBI knew about, had an informant involved in, and yet they still allowed 20% of uranium, which is illogical on the face of it, to go to Vladimir Putin in Russia.
Do you see where this is all going?
All of this here is beyond anything that you could even write in a novel.
All right, now, before I go a step further today, I want to take a minute, and I'm not going to take any longer than that.
So the first month's ratings on cable with my new time slot are in.
And Linda, you read it.
I read it.
Ethan read it.
Jason read it.
Sweet Baby James read it.
Sunshine over there read it.
Everybody read it.
You got McLaughlin blood in you.
I'm just seeing it now.
I can see it.
Just guessing.
I have that effect.
I know, I know.
She's getting tougher.
That's scary.
We don't need more.
We don't need two of you.
That's a little much for me to tell you.
Let there be light.
Yes, agreed.
Light would be good.
But everybody predicted we'd fail.
Everybody predicted we'd get our asses kicked.
Everybody predicted, oh, gosh, just forget it.
Hannity.
Well, we're number one by far.
Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of viewers ahead in every demo and cable.
But I'm going to tell you what the difference is.
And this is important.
Before you say another word, just know that your team is very proud of you.
We know you're working.
We're working hard.
We're working very hard.
It's exhausting.
It's exhausting.
And we're very, very proud.
Congratulations.
Well, I appreciate it.
Very kind.
I'm going to tell you something.
We now live in an age where, and actually a good friend of mine told me this today, the flow of honest, truthful, you know, fidelity to the truth is missing.
There's dishonesty everywhere in the media.
All these channels you're watching, which is CNN and, you know, conspiracy TV over wherever they are over NBC.
They, all they care about is bitter partisan politics.
That's not what, that not, that is not what motivates me.
You know, I would rather not have to dig so deep and so hard to get the truth out about fusion GPS, real propaganda, bought and paid for by Hillary, the DNC, and Obama.
Now we know for a fact, it's a fact, and spread lies throughout the entire country in the lead up to an election.
Because if we're not fighting hard, if it wasn't for Sarah Carter, John Solomon, and I'll take a little credit and me recognizing Peter Schweitzer, who originally broke the story, we'd never be knowing that there was an FBI informant.
And before the Uranium One deal, everybody, all these important people knew about bribery, extortion, kickbacks, money laundering, and racketeering.
We knew ahead of time.
And things are so bitterly partisan.
You cannot, these people don't care.
They don't care about truth anymore.
I can face the truth in life about myself, and that means all my imperfections.
I can report the truth because the truth and fidelity to the truth matters to me.
You know, some things are beyond petty partisan politics.
You now have so-called news networks that are just designed to, and 24-7 to destroy the president.
And the American people are being lied to on a minute-by-minute basis at this point with totally contrived and deceptive and dishonest, false narratives that these people push every day.
Now, I'm going to tell you something.
I would rather be talking about how do we get every man and woman in this country that wants a job, a job, every person on food stamps, off of food stamps, and back in a good career trajectory job, everybody in poverty to have a better life for themselves and their kids.
And that fundamentally is about the economy.
I want to see every opportunity, every American like me that started out as a dishwasher, and then, you know, all my jobs, I won't repeat them, you know, to have the same chances that I have had in life.
And it's important that we help government is now hurting people.
You know, after eight years of Obama, when you got 13 more million Americans on food stamps and 8 million more in poverty and the lowest labor participation rate and you're stealing from our kids and we double the debt, that's a problem.
I want to fix those problems.
I want to come up with solutions.
There are answers to all of these things.
And, you know, but we've got to, but obviously, if it's not for this voice, one here, and there are others, this isn't about me as much as there's just too few of us that tell you the truth every day.
There's too few of us that are committed to making the country a better place.
You know, even though Obama's a failure, they never would report the failure because that would mean that their decision for president was wrong.
So why admit they were wrong?
And it's just that Jimmy Carter said it, the effort to tear down this president is unlike anything I have ever seen.
And I'm going to tell you something.
If the truth goes against, you know, a Republican, I'm the first, I am more critical of this program of Republicans than I am Democrats if you actually listen.
I really am.
And the only thing what I like about Trump is everything he's saying now, he said in campaign.
Everything he's been able to do on his own that keeps a campaign promise, he's done.
You know, okay, stop tweeting.
I got it.
Nobody's perfect.
You know, but he feels that's the only way he can communicate directly with the American people.
I'll look at truth.
And if Donald Trump's wrong, we'll call him out.
You know, when the whole DACA thing came up out and I went on Twitter, it had an impact.
And then, oh, okay, that was taken off the table in pretty short order because a lot of us say, whoa, ho, ho, that's not what you were talking about.
I just want honesty, truthfulness, and a better country.
And I reject falsehoods.
And the fact is, is every day and night now, we are being lied to at a spectacular level.
And there's a reason we're under fire.
Look, I'm telling you right now, this is unprecedented fire.
I'm working under conditions every day.
There are people actively paying to take me out of the business.
They are.
I've had more investigations into my private life that have gone back literally 30 years of my life into my 20s with the hopes of tearing me down and silencing this conservative voice.
We've had numerous boycotts attempted.
We've had, you know, intimidation tactics that I won't even begin to go into here.
You know, Americans on this whole Russia issue, all we should want to know is the truth.
And what we found out is that the Russian phony, salacious dossier, this is now the truth.
It's not in dispute, was paid for by Hillary's campaign, the DNC, and Barack Obama.
That's the truth.
Now, you're not going to hear that from any of these other propaganda channels.
You know, fair investigations.
Okay, if Manafort ended up doing something, I like Paul Manafort.
I worked hand in hand with him.
We talked often when he was the campaign manager.
My hope is he's innocent of the financial dealings from 2006 to 2014 and the law that's only been used six times since 1966.
You know, the standard of, you know, is so different before a grand jury.
You can't, you can't glean anything from this.
We're not about propaganda.
We're about truth.
We're about the Constitution.
We're about the rule of law.
And more importantly, to be honest, I really want to see this country get moving again.
So when I talk about ratings, yeah, okay, it's nice because you make that happen.
And I would be negligent if I don't say thank you.
I appreciate it.
I think this work is important.
And I'd like to continue doing it because I don't see other people doing it.
And every night at nine, we're going to fight hard for you and bring you news and information that you're obviously not getting anywhere else like we do on this radio show every day.
I do thank you.
Without you, this doesn't happen.
And right now, frankly, we're like a voice in the wilderness.
We'll continue.
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Great piece in the Daily Caller today, a headline is Manafort indictment shows Mueller is a fraud.
Now, at the end of this break, at the end, in our next segment, we are going to investigate the investigators.
Who is Mueller?
Who is this guy, Weissman?
We have a full report.
We're going to really blow it out of the water tonight.
When you discover how aggressively, I would argue, wrong they have been and how they play with people's lives.
It is stunning.
And the whole thing goes into, you know, how the probe has nothing to do with Russian interference, as we've been discussing, and how, you know, Mueller, a friend of Comey, how he got into the position and Rod Rosenstein.
And now we know about what they knew in 2009 about Uranium One and how Comey, you know, exonerated Hillary without even knowing any evidence.
Here, I think, is one of the most interesting parts of this daily caller piece.
It says, meanwhile, the FBI's email investigation was supervised by now FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who has significant connections to the Clintons through his wife, Jill McCabe.
And Hillary headlined a fundraiser for a group supporting Jill McCabe's campaign for Virginia State Senate, as the Wall Street Journal reported.
And the National Legal and Policy Center subsequently exposed Clinton's support, including from then the Clinton Foundation operative Doug Band.
He wrote a personal check for 50 grand.
This also is the part I believe that was involving Terry McAuliffe, the governor.
Anyway, then it thickens with the GPS, Fusion GPS dossier, which we now know who paid for it, Hillary, the DNC, and Obama.
And then he goes on to say in the Daily Caller, as long as this what did Hillary know and when did she know it question is of no interest to Mueller, his investigation has no credibility whatsoever.
They're right.
And therein lies the dilemma for Mueller.
And then they go on to say, and this is dead on accurate, a real probe of Hillary would mean a review of his own actions and those of his colleagues.
He's cornered.
I agree.
How can Mueller now investigate anything Russia when he himself knew Putin had a network in the country of spies that were using bribery, extortion, kickbacks, money laundering, and racketeering, and he did nothing.
And then they go on, Mueller's strategy is clear.
He has to recuse himself, Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, and others, from their complicity in Hillary's dealing with the Russians.
And then he says, Mueller is creating a diversion by going after Manafort, the lowest hanging fruit.
We'll have a lot more on this.
We'll have a lot more on Fusion GPS and news.
And we're going to investigate the investigators when we get back.
We have so much.
Ed Klein has an exclusive book today.
Was this all planned from December of last year?
We'll tell you about it.
That President Donald Trump was correct.
There is no evidence that Mr. Manafort or the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government.
Mr. Manafort represented pro-European Union campaigns for the Ukrainian.
And in that, he was seeking to further democracy and to help the Ukraine come closer to the United States and the EU.
Those activities ended in 2014, over two years before Mr. Manafort served in the Trump campaign.
Today, you see an indictment brought by an office of special counsel that is using a very novel theory to prosecute Mr. Manafort regarding a FARA filing.
The United States government has only used that offense six times since 1966 and only resulted in one conviction.
The second thing about this indictment that I myself find most ridiculous is a claim that maintaining offshore accounts to bring all your funds into the United States as a scheme to conceal from the United States government is ridiculous.
You said Bob Mueller's a zealot.
He is.
And you were emphatic about it.
He is.
I had experiences with him.
What kind of experience?
Well, I had a case, and my colleague Harvey Sybilglade and I went to see him in Washington, and we started to talk about prosecutorial and misconduct and misconduct by the FBI.
And he cut us off.
And he said, it's a non-starter to talk to me about FBI misconduct or prosecutorial misconduct.
It's a non-starter.
He doesn't want to hear about that.
He is in the business of protecting the FBI, protecting prosecutors at all costs.
I don't suggest he's unethical, but he's very zealous.
And he uses tactics.
That's very questionable.
I would argue then that's probably what makes him good at his job.
Is that wrong?
It makes him effective at his job.
But the job of a prosecutor is to do justice, not to get as many notches on his belt as possible.
And I think this tactic, you believe that's what he's.
Well, I think he's for.
Look, he is the special counsel.
He has an enormous budget.
He has a man with his target on his back, the president of the United States.
He's not going to be satisfied until he gets to the president or people very close to him.
That's the danger of a special prosecutor.
But Mr. Clapper then went on to say that to his knowledge, there was no evidence of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians.
We did not conclude any evidence in our report.
And when I say our report, that is the NSA, FBI, and CIA with my office.
The Director of National Intelligence had anything, any reflection of collusion between the members of the Trump campaign and the Russians.
There was no evidence of that in our report.
Was Mr. Clapper wrong when he said that?
I think he's right about characterizing the report, which you all have read.
We did not include any evidence in our report, and I say our, that's NSA, FBI, and CIA with my office, the Director of National Intelligence, that had anything, that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians.
There was no evidence of that included in our report.
Have you seen anything, either intelligence briefings, through intelligence briefings, anything to back up any of the accusations that you've made?
They have the documentation that they did the hacking.
The hacking.
On the DNC.
Right.
And on some of us, you know, that happened.
But the collusion, though.
No, we have not.
Do you have evidence that there was, in fact, collusion between Trump associates and Russia during the campaign?
Not at this time.
Have you seen anything that suggests any collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign?
By the way, we can keep this going forever.
No.
All right, we have conflicting information about an incident on the, what is it, Westside Highway?
Yeah, it's the Westside Highway, Sean.
It appears that there was a car ramming and a shooting.
There's five people that are injured, possibly two dead.
It's on the lower west side of Manhattan.
It's right at Chambers Street and West Street.
Comrade de Blasio is saying no threat to anybody at this moment.
The shooter is in custody, so there's no active threat, but that's a really active part of Manhattan.
That's a huge bike path down there.
It's owned by the New World Trade Center, so it's very scary.
For the little time I lived in New York City, I actually lived on Riverside Drive and 96th Street at the corner.
Yeah, I actually live on the West Side Highway now.
Oh, you live on the street?
Do you live in the street?
Is that where you live?
That's right there on the corner.
Is that where you put the, what do you call that thing?
I was going to say something that was going to be bad.
No, what's the name of that bed you sleep in?
The air mattress.
Air mattress.
That's air mattress.
I was going to say one of those blow-up things, but that wouldn't have worked out too well.
So many places.
Can I just say something?
I mean, did you buy a bed, by the way?
I did.
Do you have a mattress?
Why was that my house?
Do you have a mattress and a bed that you sleep?
I do.
That's different than an air mattress.
You keep those on reserve.
Okay, so you actually have a regular bed now.
I do.
After nine weeks, it's a miracle.
All right, I want to finish this story.
Dershowitz's comments were amazing, by the way, and he's right.
Let me go into who are these people that are investigating?
Because I spent a lot of time.
All right, so Mueller knew, and Rosenstein knew, and Eric Holder knew.
And, you know, well, we've looked at a who's who.
Who are these people that Mueller hired?
You know, we broke the story, by the way, back in July that, you know, confirmed that Mueller had, what, 15 attorneys back then in early August.
Singman confirmed 16 was added by early August.
This is the Mueller's team, and two of the attorneys were temporarily, you know, with temporary detail.
They've departed.
And of the names known, nine have contributed to Democrats.
And of those, five gave directly to Hillary Ronham Clinton.
And named Angelibrand and Hillary for America and Hillary for America and Obama in 08 and 2012 and Obama in 2012 and Hillary and Obama.
These are all the people that I saw one of the people that work under Mueller.
One gave money to Hillary and Jason Chaffetz and Senator George Allen back in 2005.
And then the rest, Hillary for America, Obama Victory Fund.
And it goes Obama Victory Fund, Obama for America.
Those are the people that donated to the band that Mueller has put together.
And if you look at, for example, who is the lead counsel in all of this, I'm not liking what I'm reading here in terms of who it is that he's hiring.
There was a story that came out in the Hill this week, I guess it was last week, that so much has been written about how all of Mueller's team to investigate allegations of Trump-Russia collusion.
And if you look at the prosecutorial overreach, as the Hill reported, you know, it's pretty daunting to everybody.
You know, we'll have a full report on Hannity tonight about all of this.
And, you know, they actually start in the Hill.
They say, think back to April 1940 in the world of wash and turmoil and hate and fear.
And the revered Attorney General Robert Jackson, H. Jackson, assembled the United States attorneys in remarks that are enshrined in the hearts of all good prosecutors.
He said that the citizen's safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.
Well, that's what a prosecutor should do.
Yet, look at the people that have been tapped by Robert Mueller.
He's got his longtime friend, his former counsel, Andrew Weissman.
Andrew Weissman has had his entire career, and I'm reading directly from Roll Call.
Time after time, the courts have reversed Weissman's most touted, quote, victories for his tactics.
Now, that's not a hero if you're in the prosecuting business.
That's not what the revered Attorney General in 1940, Robert H. Jackson, was saying.
You know, for example, Weissman, who's the lead attorney and prosecutor in this case, was the director of the Enron Task Force that destroyed the accounting firm of Arthur Anderson and wiped out 85,000 jobs worldwide.
And it turns out that that decision was reversed years later by a unanimous Supreme Court because of the tactics.
You know, then you've got Weissman creatively criminalized a business transaction between Merrill Lynch and Enron.
Four Merrill executives go to prison for as long as a year.
Weissman's team made sure they didn't even get bail pending appeal.
Anyway, even though the charges that Weissman concocted, like those against Anderson, were unprecedented.
Well, the charge against Manafort is a 1966 law that's been used six times and only once successfully.
And Weissman's prosecution devastated the lives and the families involved here, causing enormous defense costs, unimaginable stress and torturous prison time, as they point out in the Hill.
And guess what happened in that case?
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the mass of the case.
I mean, this is ridiculous.
Then Weissman just quietly resigns from the Enron task force as the, just as the judge in the Enron broadband prosecution began, excoriating Weissman's team, and the press began catching on to Weissman's modus operandi.
Now, Mueller knows this man's history.
Why would he tap Weissman to target Paul Manafort to use a 1966 law that's only been used six times successfully?
Why would he do that?
And anyway, and then it goes on.
You know, Manafort, a Trump associate, is just literally simply a small step in Weissman's quest to impugn the presidency of Obama.
I'm sorry, of President Trump.
I mean, look, I keep telling people, oh, no, everything's fine.
Everything's fine.
Not everything's fine.
When you hire only Democratic donors and you have people with a crappy track record of being reversed like Weissman, you've got to ask yourself, what is Mueller's goal here?
And I'm sorry, I don't believe, you know, I agree with what the Daily Caller said today, and I agree that he's cornered in the sense that a real probe of Hillary would mean a review of his own actions.
So that would mean he either wants to get out of the deal or he's totally going to ignore Fusion GPS and ignore this insane Uranium One deal, none of which is good for the country.
Anyway, so Weissman was intent on getting Manafort.
And as they predicted on October 19th in the Hill, it won't matter that Manafort knows the Trump campaign didn't collude with the Russians because Weissman, all he wants to do is pressure Manafort and Papadopoulos that nobody knew, a volunteer who was rejected repeatedly by top campaign officials that this idea of setting up his own, quote, Russian dossier never went anywhere.
But we have a real Russian dossier bought and paid for by Hillary and the DNC.
Double standard is nauseating.
But he wants to squeeze Manafort to say whatever satisfies Weissman's perspective.
You know, and they write perjury is only that which differs from Weissman's view of evidence, not truth.
That's why I keep saying nobody wants to talk to the one guy that knows a lot of truth here, Julian Assange.
Oh, Hannity, boy, we don't like him.
He's a bad actor.
He should be.
Okay.
Well, Chelsea Manning got a pardon from who?
From Barack Obama.
But the fact is, if this is the guy that knows and can prove definitively there was no Trump-Russia collusion on the release of the emails, et cetera, how about the whole country gets relief from this back and forth?
And how about the whole country gets to move forward?
We have an article out today.
We have the lowest number of people in the country on food stamps in seven years.
We have the best labor participation rate in seven years.
We have a million new jobs created.
Just because just by Trump acting alone, this has nothing to do with Congress yet.
Consumer confidence has now increased to its highest level in 17 years today.
17.
That is a remarkable win for the American people.
I mean, you've got home prices now at an all-time high.
That's people's biggest investment.
You got the economy beating all expectations, two-quarters of three-plus GDP growth.
Obama never had 3% GDP growth in a year of his presidency.
Wall Street has had a strong October, and many are projecting great holidays ahead.
And if it wasn't for the hurricanes, we might have had 4% GDP growth.
This is an amazing story, but we can't focus on that because people like Mueller, who knew about Vladimir Putin's invasion, if you will, to try and corner the market in your end, didn't do anything about the bribery, the extortion, the kickbacks, money laundering, racketeering.
Why?
Rosenstein didn't do anything.
And they're investigating this, and they're hiring only Clinton Obama donors, and they're hiring guys like Weissman with his horrific track record of prosecutorial abuse.
And by the way, there's a lot on Mueller, too, and his history of the same thing.
It's unbelievable the times we're living in.
Wait till you hear, I am going to lay this out tonight.
Nobody in the media will do this for you.
We also have a great show.
We also have great guests tonight.
I'm just saying, it's going to be really good.
As we're going to be joined, let's see, who do we have on tonight?
Oh, we've got, we're going to go over this, Peter Schweitzer, Greg Jarrett.
We have Ed Klein who's going to join us here.
He actually thinks this whole Trump thing, he said, was concocted in the White House of Obama to destroy Trump.
He said the plot to destroy Trump is his new book.
We'll hear what he has to say.
Sebastian Gore, oh, the great one, Mark Levin tonight.
Rare appearance.
We always love Mark on.
All right, so that's tonight at nine, our new time in our opening monologue.
You don't want to miss it.
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You might want to DVR this if you miss it.
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We did not include any evidence in our report.
And I say our, that's NSA, FBI, and CIA with my office, the Director of National Intelligence, that had anything, that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians.
There was no evidence of that included in our report.
Have you seen anything, either intelligence briefings, through intelligence briefings, anything to back up any of the accusations that you have made?
They have the documentation that they did the hacking on the DNC.
Right.
And on some of us, you know, that had to be.
The collusion, though.
No, we have not.
Do you have evidence that there was, in fact, collusion between Trump associates and Russia during the campaign?
Not at this time.
Have you seen anything that suggests any collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign?
Well, there's an awful lot of smoke there, let's put it that way.
People that might have said they were involved, to what extent they were involved, to what extent the president might have known about these people or whatever.
There's nothing there from that standpoint that we have seen directly linking our president to any of that.
Did evidence exist of collusion, coordination, conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian state actors at the time you learned of 2016 efforts?
I don't know whether or not such collusion, that's your term, such collusion existed.
I don't know.
The big questions, of course, is: is there any evidence of collusion you have seen yet?
Is there?
There is a lot of smoke.
We had no smoking gun at this point, but there is a lot of smoke.
Diane Feinstein has said there's no evidence of collusion.
So collusion between whom?
Can you tell us that?
I'm not prepared to say that there's proof you could take to a jury, but I can say that there is enough that we ought to be investigating.
At the time you separated from service in January of 2017, had you seen any evidence that Donald Trump or any member of his campaign colluded, conspired, or coordinated with the Russians or anyone else to infiltrate or impact our voter infrastructure?
Not beyond what has been out there open source and not beyond anything that I'm sure this committee has already seen and heard before directly from the intelligence community.
Would you agree, though, that there's an appearance of a conflict, though?
One example being Uranium One, the Canadian company sold to Russia something that required your approval as well.
And then later, some of the players involved in that deal wound up paying former president Bill Clinton, your husband, obviously, a half million dollar speaking fee.
Well, you know, I don't know if we have enough time in this interview to debunk all of the allegations that were made by people who are wielding the partisan X, but there's no basis for any of that.
The timing doesn't work.
It happened in terms of the support for the foundation before I was Secretary of State.
There were nine government agencies who had to sign off on that deal.
I was not personally involved because that wasn't something the Secretary of State did.
As you know, Sean Hannity on his program has been very critical of the Uranium One deal.
The president's saying, with regard to Russia, that's the real story in all of this.
What would you say to those critics?
I would say it's the same baloney.
They've been peddling for years, and there's been no credible evidence by anyone.
In fact, it's been debunked repeatedly and will continue to be debunked.
But here's what they're doing.
And really, I have to give them credit.
You know, Trump and his allies, including Fox News, are really experts at distraction and diversion.
So the closer the investigation about real Russian ties between Trump associates and real Russians, as we heard Jeff Sessions finally admit to in his testimony the other day, the more they want to just throw mud on the wall and I'm their favorite target, me and, you know, President Obama.
We're the ones that they always like to put into the crosshairs.
So yes, I'm not surprised, but I think the real story is how nervous they are about these continuing investigations.
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So there you hear it again.
No evidence of any Trump-Russia collusion.
And you're hearing it from Democrats.
You're hearing it from Comey and Clapper and Maxime Waters and Dianne Feinstein and Joe Manchin and John Brennan and Adam Schiff, Jay Johnson, all saying the same thing.
Hillary claiming there's no conflict of interest in the Uranium One deal.
Why would anyone give a hostile actor, Vladimir Putin, 20% of our uranium?
And Uranium One's stories are baloney.
They've been debunked.
Nothing's been debunked.
Everything is now coming out for far worse.
Joining us now, former Speaker of the House's new best-selling book, by the way, is just out.
It's called Vengeance.
And he joins us, also a Fox News contributor.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well, and I share some of your amazement.
Although, this is going pretty much as we predicted it would.
He's trying to find somebody he can flip.
There are rumors that he cut a deal with George Papadopoulos, who actually, there are rumors, may have been wearing a wire and sent back in to see if he could entrap somebody.
He clearly was trying to frighten Manafort into turning over and going state's evidence, and apparently Manafort has not agreed to do that.
And I just think there's a lot here that, frankly, Congress ought to look at.
I'm still deeply bothered as an American that Mueller's people would raid Manafort's home at five in the morning with he and his wife still in their pajamas.
This is, you know, there are no allegations here that justify that kind of assault on a home.
And I think it's all done to terrorize and to frighten so that people will decide to do whatever the FBI wants them to.
And I think that should worry people.
I don't think you want to live in a country where the government has that kind of power to break into your home, scare you half to death, and then say, all right, do what we want, or you're going to prison.
And this all add to that, it's a deals man.
It's a 93% Hillary district.
That's where Robert Mueller has to now, you know, look for indictments.
It doesn't seem like it's a fair deal for anybody.
I mean, that's why Ken Starr couldn't get an indictment and a conviction when he was looking into the Clintons years ago, because look at the grand jury.
Politically, they are on one side and only one side.
Yeah, that's actually a problem we're going to have to look into as a country because an awful lot of our most important cases take place in the District of Columbia, and the District of Columbia now is one of the most left-wing enclaves in the whole country.
And therefore, you have a hugely difficult time getting a fair jury trial.
I also think it's important to remember that, as you've been pointing out, you go through all of this, you hire all of these attorneys, you have all these FBI agents who spend all this money, supposedly because you're looking into Russian interference in the election, and you come up with some indictments that relate to activities in 2012 and 2014 before Trump ever announced for president.
I mean, there's zero relationship, except, of course, what Mueller's trying to do is scare Manafort into turning state's evidence.
And this was the case, as you'll remember, with Scooter Libby, who ultimately preferred to tell the truth and go to jail rather than allow the prosecutor to get him to testify against Vice President Cheney.
And the prosecutor had no interest in Libby except for the purpose of going after the vice president.
And these things are very dangerous.
We have no idea where this is going to go.
But I think the asset test for Mueller is simple.
Is he going to spend the same level of energy on Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, Uranium One, the Podesta Brothers?
I mean, you know, if he wants to prove that he really is a reputable person and not just a liberal Democratic hack, he has a simple way to do it.
Make sure that he now broadens his net to go after Russian influence peddling starting in 2009 when we have pretty clear evidence that they were doing everything they could to get access to our uranium supply.
I totally agree with all of this, but, you know, I think some people have the wrong view, Robert Mueller.
And I think you were willing more than, say, I was to give him the benefit of the doubt in the beginning.
And then I look at the people that he's hired, and you got top, you know, you got people, the majority of which are Democratic Clinton, Obama donors.
And then, for example, look at his choice.
Look at this guy, Andrew Weissman, who's the lead counsel in this particular case.
And look at his background and his experience and some of the cases he's been involved in and the tactics that he's used.
You got to stop and watch and say, wow, it's breathtaking what he did with Enron.
It's breathtaking what he's done with other individuals.
And his tactics seem totally inconsistent with the belief of fair play with a prosecutor.
It seems like prosecutorial abuse every time.
Weissman is a key player in a book called License to Lie by Powell.
And it is a very sobering book.
It's about several cases, including Senator Stevens in Alaska, where literally the prosecutor had the note from Stevens in his own hand to his contractor saying, charge me personally for everything.
I do not want to use any taxpayer money.
And he deliberately hid the note.
And he was ultimately reprimanded by the Supreme Court.
The same thing with Weissman.
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that they had misinformed the jury and destroyed Arthur Anderson.
I mean, 89 or 90,000 people lost their jobs because of Weissman.
And this is the kind of person that Mueller has picked.
And that's why I changed my tune on Mueller when I began to realize who he was hiring.
I realized that his law firm had donated 99% of its money to Hillary.
I realized that he was, in fact, manipulated into being by Comey through, as Comey told us through his clever leak to the New York Times to get a special counsel.
And then you go back and you realize that when they looked seriously at the Uranium One deal and they were seriously looking at an FBI investigation, it's Mueller as head of the FBI and Rosenstein, who is the prosecutor, and they decide not to pursue it.
And you have to look back on that and say, okay, now these are the same people who are now going after Manafort, but they didn't think $145 million in money going into a Canadian foundation that was secret and not reported to the U.S. government, they didn't think that mattered.
I think it's insane.
And the fact that the same players are involved in this, I mean, they knew in 2009 about bribery and extortion and kickbacks and money laundering and racketeering.
And they knew that Vladimir Putin had agents in the United States for the very purpose of cornering part of our uranium market.
And Mueller knew and Holder knew and Rosenstein knew.
And in the case of Hillary, she had to know, I assume, at some point.
And Holder signs off on the deal, and Hillary signs off on the deal.
They did nothing in terms of prosecuting or stopping Putin because he was successful.
And so my big question is: what did America get out of this giving Vladimir Putin and Russia 20% of our uranium?
How do we benefit from that?
Well, I think what you realize is the people who benefited now were the Clintons.
I mean, that's the problem.
But why would Obama and Holder sign off on it?
I have no, well, first of all, let me say, I have no idea.
Although they're all part of the same gang.
You have to understand, this is a nest of corruption.
As Alan Guelzo, the history professor at Gettysburg College, has said, Obama may have led the most corrupt administration in American history.
So this was just one more piece of corruption.
Why would they notice it?
And I want to ask you more about Mueller when we get back.
I want to ask you more about Fusion GPS.
Newt Gingrich, by the way, his brand new book is out.
It's called Vengeance.
Literally, a novel ripped from today's headlines.
It'll scare the living daylights out of you.
I've been reading it.
It's pretty spectacular.
I'm sure it's going to be a movie one day.
As we continue with former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, and I want to ask you, and the author of the best-selling book, Vengeance, let me ask you about Fusion GPS.
Now, everything that Trump is being accused of, we're now learning Hillary Clinton funded the phony, salacious dossier full of Russian propaganda, misinformation, disinformation.
She funded it.
The DNC funded it.
And we learned this weekend Obama funded it, and they all ran the money through the same law firm.
The very thing that they said Trump was doing or Papadopoulos wanted to do, but never got done.
What's your reaction?
Look, let me say, first of all, I think that Trey Gowdy, who has been a prosecutor and who is a chairman of a committee that did an in-depth investigation of what happened in Benghazi, Gowdy said a couple days ago: you cannot claim the protection of a law firm and the idea of client confidentiality when you have this kind of activity underway.
To do that would mean that, in theory, a campaign could funnel all of its money through a law firm and never report anything.
So, again, here's a perfect example where the Congress should intervene and demand that the law firm make public all of its records.
Where did the money come from?
What was the money used for?
This is clearly a tainted conspiratorial institution.
This particular law firm has its hand in so many different pockets that it is a matter of national interest to find out exactly who was paying for what.
They all thought they were being clever.
I think this is something Hashan, I predict, is going to come up again and again.
These are very arrogant people who are overeducated and who believe the rest of us are stupid.
And they believed they could get away with these kinds of things.
In Hillary's case, she has believed it ever since she made money off of cattle futures when Bill was a freshman governor.
And she has always believed that it's her right to rip the rest of us off and that she has the arrogance to believe we're too stupid to know she's doing it.
And she has enough lawyers to protect her while she does it.
And I think this is just part of the same pattern.
And sadly, Obama turned out to be a perfect example of a corrupt Chicago politician who has presided over this kind of behavior while pretending to be above it all.
Last question.
I'm looking at the Drudge report today.
Great again.
It has a picture of the president.
Consumer confidence soaring.
Home prices all-time high.
Economy now, we have two-quarters of over 3% GDP growth.
Then you've got the lowest food stamp usage ever, the fewer number of people in poverty ever, and you've got more people participating in the labor force, and when I say ever in the last eight years, than we've had in the last eight years.
So jobs are coming back, and we don't even have the president's tax reform plan done and economic stimulus done.
Well, that proves that you are probably dealing in reality, and therefore you should not be allowed into any liberal group.
I mean, every liberal in the country is going to say so.
I'm so upset.
You know, by the way, I once tried to get into a country club, and liberals stopped me from getting in.
Say, there you go.
I mean, they're going to look at all this data and they're going to shrug it off, but I'll tell you what's going to happen: the country's not going to shrug it off.
If the president gets this tax cut through and if the economy keeps booming, Republicans will win in 18 and win in 20, and we will take the country back from the left despite all of their efforts.
And that is a must-do, or else all bets are off for the Republicans.
Exactly.
And they've got to pass the tax cuts.
All right, Mr. Speaker, congrats on the new book.
Really appreciate you being here.
Ed Klein has an investigative report all out war, the plot to destroy Trump.
That's coming up in the course of the program today.
Congressman Ron DeSantis wants to limit the scope of Robert Mueller.
That's coming up.
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That's tonight at 9.
We'll continue.
All right, we got a situation in New York, by the way, 25 to the top of the hour, where a truck plows into a well-highly trafficked bike area, what's known as the around the West Side Highway in New York City, and there's reports now up to sick dead.
Because the individual responsible has been caught, the mayor, Comrade de Blasio of New York, is actually saying, well, there's not an active threat at the moment, but we don't know if this was done on purpose.
I'm not going to go with reports that I'm getting about what people are now saying about it until I have a second to vet this out here, but it's not good.
Anyway, up to six people dead, many others injured.
We see pictures of bicycles basically all over the place that have been hit after this truck rammed into the bike path in Lower Manhattan.
There are, you know, then reports that he hopped out of the vehicle.
He had a BB gun in his hand, which prompted police nearby to then have to draw their guns fire.
We're told the perpetrator at this moment is alive.
He's been taken into custody, but is injured.
And the driver in the truck mowing down these bicyclists.
If I can describe this to you, Westside Highway, you have two, imagine an island.
You have the Westside Highway on one side, the FDR Drive on the other side, and all of those big buildings that you see in the skyline that is New York City, if you don't live in New York.
This is what is known as Lower Manhattan, sort of down more by the Wall Street area.
And anyway, before coming to a stop beneath what's known as the Tribeca Bridge, where literally this guy was gunned down by the police.
And they, anyway, the scene is a mess.
The driver is said to have driven down this bike path, veering off the road, apparently on purpose.
But we don't have all the facts yet, so we don't want to go with all this information until we can corroborate and confirm it all.
Patrick Poole is a national security correspondent for PJ Media.
Jonathan Gillum, former FBI agent, Navy SEAL, and author of the book Sheep No More.
Our friend Dan Bongino is back, former Secret Service agent, all here to discuss the terror attack.
Look, I can't corroborate, but there are reports that he might have said some things before the shooting, Jonathan Gillum.
Yeah, you know, Sean, that's always a telltale sign if he got out and is yelling anything in Arabic.
It's, you know, when you combine that with the actual act itself, it's normally an indicator of the motivation.
I think what is puzzling to me is why this guy, after he got out and went about the process of killing all these people, why he would have airsoft guns and a BB gun or paintball gun, whatever it is.
But, you know, maybe he didn't have access to real weapons.
I don't know.
But what we can say in this is that the individual's motivation to kill by driving down that West Side Highway bike path, which I use all the time, was clear because of, from what they're describing of how he may have gotten off of it and then gotten back on it, shows that he wasn't confused and just made a rule.
It looks, I agree with you.
It looked deliberate.
I can't say definitively, but witnesses seem to be suggesting as much as well.
Yeah, I kind of agree with you.
And Dan Bongino, I don't like when people rush to judgment.
We're trying to very quickly gather the facts here, but it certainly seems deliberate.
We're awaiting a press conference by the New York Police Department.
When that happens, we'll bring it to our audience here.
But it certainly doesn't seem good.
No, it doesn't.
I think the two most important takeaways Jonathan alluded to.
The first one is the re-entry back onto the bike path.
Sean, you know the area well.
I know the area well.
We're both New Yorkers.
I'm a former New Yorker.
The allegations, as we know them now, are that it started up in the 40s and ended up down in house and chambers.
That's quite a distance.
It's not an accident.
So let's just get out of the way.
This is deliberate at this point.
Motive, you know, we're up in the air, but it's certainly pointing in one direction.
We can all figure out.
Secondly, the takeaway I have is the rental car.
I mean, this obviously fits a fact pattern we've seen in the past in terrorist attacks overseas using vehicles.
They don't go out and buy the cars.
It doesn't make sense.
It creates a paper trail.
They need a big car to create big impact.
So they go and rent rental trucks or box trucks to mow down and cause as much damage as possible.
In this case, a rental car.
Let me just say that I know on Neil Cavuto's show, who is Rick Leventhal's an amazing reporter, apparently he's reporting that their witnesses told him.
So this is secondhand, but they're telling him that they heard this guy that pulled out this gun, which apparently was a BB gun after he ran down the bike path, shouted Allahu Akbar.
That was just on literally moments ago.
Is that for me, Sean?
Yeah.
I mean, this is, I mean, it's pretty obvious at this point that this was one deliberate attack, and the fact pattern fits one from terrorist attacks motivated in the past, you know, by Islamic radicals.
And that certainly points us in that direction at this point.
I mean, I think that's obvious to any reasonable observer, you know, at this point.
I don't think it's gross speculation to say that, though.
No, I don't think.
What's your take, Patrick Poole?
And I know you have sources apparently that you're talking to that have seen this or are talking to people that have seen this.
Well, Sean, in fact, I was just looking at the video of the suspect, and he's got a big sloughy beard.
Right before we went on air, I was speaking with two of my MYPD sources, both of them saying it's being treated as a terrorism-related incident.
We still have yet for NYPD to come out and officially say that.
But this looks like what they've been dealing with in Europe, and now we've got it here.
Where back in August, we had the incident in Barcelona, 13 people run down in a tourist area right in the heart of Barcelona.
We've had two incidents in London.
We've had another incident in Stockholm, Berlin.
It's here, and we're going to have to begin to deal with this problem realistically.
All right.
What do you mean by?
Look, it's almost the impossible task.
And I say this as somebody that loves law enforcement, and they have the most difficult job.
They've got to be perfect 100% of the time.
And these, you know, whoever's plotting, planning, scheming evil, they just got to be successful once.
And that makes this job.
Well, hang on.
We're now getting some new news here.
It appears to be a deliberate act.
That's now being confirmed.
The AP is now saying six people dead, 15 injured after this guy plowed his vehicle into this pedestrian area, bike path, walkway area near the World Trade Center.
This is in downtown Lower Manhattan, but sort of near the Wall Street area, not far from where 9-11 happened.
If you look at the scene, you can see these bikes are all over the place.
Obviously, this guy did this on purpose because he went in and then went out.
So it looks like we have somebody that has some agenda that tried to do something here today.
And Rick Leventhal is a great reporter.
I wouldn't doubt him for a second.
Go ahead, Patrick.
I didn't want to interrupt you.
Well, Sean, for three years, I've been writing at PJ Media about this known wolf terror problem, where virtually every single one of these suspects was already on the radar of law enforcement.
And the problem that nobody wants to talk about is how do we go about these people are known.
And, you know, a couple years ago, everything was lone wolf.
You know, we have no idea when it's going to strike.
But now these people consistently across nearly universally are already known to law enforcement.
How can law enforcement begin to go and begin to say, you know, these guys are radicalizing and we need to keep our focus on them?
But there's really no effort on the part of any Western authorities, whether it's here in the U.S. or over in Europe, to really even acknowledge this known wolf problem.
Well, I mean, you got it.
One of the things that I keep hearing from people, Dan Bongino, and you know better than I do, is that, you know, the one thing that scares me the most is after all these incidents, we always see that they have, with the exception of the Vegas guy, because we still don't know what happened in Vegas, which is, it's like this guy was a ghost, an enigma here.
But short of that, we always find, oh, on social media, oh, he was radicalized, oh, he telegraphed, oh, he was telling everybody.
And I'm like, if you're going to telegraph that you're pro-ISIS, al-Qaeda, radical Islam, or any other extreme point of view, why aren't we getting involved earlier and finding out what these people are really up to?
Not only are we not getting involved, Sean, we're uninvolving ourselves.
You know, it's great to have Patrick on the phone.
I've actually referenced some of his PJ articles on known wolves.
They're really amazing pieces I can't recommend enough that walks through how we've known about these people, but various fears of, you know, phantom Islamophobia and other things like that.
I mean, Sean, up in New York, the NYPD was practically pulled out of surveilling suspect mosques.
I mean, if there was, God forbid, a Christian church out there that was engaging in some of the activities at a very limited number, no one's, you know, this isn't one of, it's not all Muslims.
Everybody knows that, but a limited number, albeit, if this was a Christian church, you know, the NYPD and the FBI would be all over it.
So Patrick's right.
And I've always, I used his article when I wrote a piece once about this, we have to transfer more to an arsonist approach and not a fireman approach.
In other words, we have to stop putting out these fires after the attacks happen.
You nailed the problem here.
We have to get involved and become arsonists in advance and start starting fires and not being worried about putting them out afterwards.
And that can only happen through surveillance.
And we're just not doing a very good job at it.
It's a rental truck.
It's you run people over.
It has a gun, but we believe it's a BB gun.
And the report, Allahu Akbar.
I mean, Jonathan Gillum, I mean, we've seen this dance before, sadly.
Right.
When you put all these different aspects of this attack together, I mean, you're looking at somebody who is exposing their motivation.
And you have to remember.
All right, let me interrupt, Jonathan.
ABC is now confirming an active terror attack was in play.
Let me play this witness cut that we just got a hold of from ABC.
I saw a man laying on the ground who appeared to have been shot.
And right next to him, there was another man who was being arrested.
He wasn't putting up a fight.
He was on his knees, had his hands on his head.
And right next to him was the white pickup truck.
It had Home Depot logos on it.
The front was entirely smashed in, and it had smoke coming out of it.
At that time is when another police officer yelled that there was another suspect who had run into the park, and they began to chase after him.
The rest of the police officers that were there, knowing that there was an active shooter, gathered everybody up and made us go across the street so we wouldn't be involved or couldn't get hurt.
I'm beginning to wonder if the report of a BB gun is accurate, Jonathan.
I didn't mean to interrupt you here, but we now have an active terror attack, although the perpetrator has been apprehended after being shot by New York Police Department, driving a Home Depot truck, a rental truck, came out with a gun after purposefully driving along a pedestrian area where a lot of people walk and bike.
Right.
You know, here's the thing, Sean, about those witness and Dan Bongino will tell you this for a fact.
You have to be very careful what witnesses say sometimes because that could have been somebody who was ran over and the police shot the other guy and so they assume that person was shot.
So we don't, you know, that's the way that guy described it, it sounded like there were multiple shooters.
So by the way, we're seeing this report on the news.
It sounds like it was just one guy in the truck.
Regardless, at least the incident has stopped.
And one thing I would say, though, however, is even with that statement I just made, we cannot be drop our awareness because the mayor and the governor and the commissioner show up at the scene and say everything's safe.
That, to me, does nothing to make a secure feeling inside of me.
In fact, I would rather the mayor, the commissioner, and the governor go to a command post far away from these incidents.
And I've been there.
I was the second guy from the FBI on scene when Faisal Shahzad put a bomb in Times Square.
And I sat there and watched my special agent in charge, the mayor, and the police commissioner, have a press conference two blocks from an active bomb.
So this is kind of ridiculous when they do this stuff.
But so I caution the people in New York City to just drop their guard and say, oh, it must be safe, because you don't know that.
And besides, New York City is always a target.
And I would also guard against using the term home or excuse me, lone wolf.
We need to start using the term homegrown operative or just call it what it is once we figure it out, an Islamic fundamentalist.
I mean, we use that lone wolf thing, and it gives people a sense that there's no coordination here.
And that, again, leads people to where they think it's.
Well, the other thing we've got to watch out for is remember 9-11.
It was Tower 1, it was Tower 2, it was the Pentagon, and it was the field in Pennsylvania.
You know, oftentimes these things come in waves.
It's just not one attack.
It's multiple attacks.
And I'm not trying to create paranoia among people.
I'm just saying this is the reality of the world we're now living in where evil exists.
All right, let me hold you guys over.
We're going to have the very, here's what we do know.
We have six dead in New York City.
We're told ABC News reporting now an active terror attack has taken place in New York.
Six people are dead.
15 people are injured.
The suspect has been shot.
He's now in custody and has been apprehended, apparently driving a rental truck.
One eyewitness said a Home Depot truck has nothing to do with Home Depot.
Just he rented the truck, purposely going down a pedestrian walkway and bike path and then working his way in and out after killing these innocent people and injuring all these people.
Eyewitnesses say he then got out with a gun.
One report it was a BB gun.
We haven't confirmed it.
We're just trying to give you as much information as we have.
We'll give you more as we get it here in the Sean Hannity show.
We'll have more at the top of the hour and we'll have more obviously on Hannity tonight.
9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
We'll have a lot more then tonight.
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We'll have the latest on what is a developing situation in New York.
Six dead, nine injured now, or 15 injured, as a vehicle apparently rented, plows into pedestrians near the World Trade Center and what ABC is now calling a terrorist attack, and we'll have the latest when we get back.
If you're just joining us, we have a terror attack, what appears to be a terrorist attack, confirmed in New York.
Seven dead and 15 injured.
And a witness said that a man drove his pickup truck, or what was we now believe to be a rental truck, down the bike lane of what is known as the West Side Highway in New York.
It's a well-trafficked bike-walking lane that people use down and around where the former trade center used to be.
And it looked like a purposeful attack on the individual.
Seven now confirmed dead.
It was up from six before we took our last break, crashed into a school bus at Chambers and West Street, and adding that the vehicle could not move anymore.
The suspect got out.
Now, there is now a new video of this suspect accused of ramming into the people of him running.
And it was caught on a cell phone, I think, by some kid that just had gotten out of school.
The New York City mayor is now saying that, in fact, that this individual, the suspect, is shot and is in custody.
There's multiple reports that he actually got out of the truck and began shooting.
We haven't confirmed, but the first report was it was a BB gun shooting.
And but he, again, he has been apprehended.
It was a Home Depot truck, according to two other reports, but it was a purposeful attack against pedestrians in a heavily trafficked walking area and bike area.
Also, multiple reports now saying that he said and screamed Allahu Akbar at the time.
So the, again, preliminary investigation.
It is reportable.
Nothing is 100%, but we suspect we've now putting, really getting down deep into what the story is.
It seems like he entered the bike lane much further north in the 40s in New York.
He exited and got back on at Houston Street, which is in New York City.
Hit multiple people, four fate at the point, now seven fatalities.
And the driver saw what was happening, cut off the truck, caused an accident.
The perpetrator got out, shouted, according to some eyewitnesses, Allahu Akbar, waved what appeared to be a gun.
Some said a BB gun.
Police that happened to be on duty at that place at that time shot him twice.
He's not dead.
He's in custody.
And also, too, the bomb squad in New York has been called in to check out a suspicious package that's within the truck.
And that's something we're following very, very closely.
We're going to go to the Fox News channel now and some of their coverage.
David Lee Miller is on the scene for Fox.
Arriving on scene very soon, we are told will be the governor as well as the mayor for the city of New York.
But right now, authorities still trying to piece together what happened here.
But as you said at the start of your show, this does appear to be an act of terror.
Everything that the witnesses observed is consistent with an act of terror.
None of the authorities going on record on camera here at this time saying that, but it certainly looks like this was a terroristic act.
There are now a number of published reports that say the gunman did shout Ala Akbar.
None of the witnesses that I talked to said they heard him say anything, but another report says he resembled someone of Middle Eastern descent.
Again, we expect to learn more in just the next few minutes.
Shepard, David Lee, that video is crucial for us.
If you could hold that phone up yet again, I will be showing this video.
This was a video that was actually captured of the suspect apparently accused of ramming this truck into people, killing seven now.
And you can actually see a suspect running.
We're getting some eyewitness accounts that there may be a real hero in this incident.
There's a bus driver that saw this unfolding and apparently actually purposely moved his bus in front of where this guy was driving to protect the pedestrians on this busy bike and walkway.
And we're going to know a lot more about that, you know, obviously in the minutes and hours to come.
We'll keep following it.
Patrick Poole, national security correspondent for PJ Media, Jonathan Gillum, former FBI agent, Navy Seal, author of Sheep No More.
Also, Buck Sexton just jumped into our studio, and he is the host of Buck Sexton with America Now, former CIA agent and NYP intelligence division specialist.
Patrick, let's start with you.
And are you hearing the same thing I'm hearing that this bus driver literally cut this guy off to save a lot of people's lives?
That's what's apparently the case: that he saw the event occurring and he ended up putting the bus in the path of the box truck that the suspect was driving.
And there was an accident, and that's what actually stopped the vehicle and prompted him to get out of the vehicle, at which point he was shot.
So, as you said, Sean, we'll continue to learn more, but boy, it's just and wouldn't we know by now if it wasn't if it was a BB gun or a real gun?
I mean, that's not something that should be that difficult to ascertain, right?
Well, you would think, but there are still some of these reports that some of the victims were shot.
You know, there were reports of two people shot over by the high school.
So, I think they're still trying to piece it together, and I see that they're about to have well.
I just got another report.
Fox News is reporting or saying it wasn't a real gun.
So, as we discuss this, again, these are all preliminary facts, but we're beginning to get the picture and put it together.
Buck Sexton, let's talk about your experience as a former NYPD Intelligence Division specialist and CIA agent, even though you don't look a day over 18, which I kid you about a lot.
But in all seriousness, your background and experience here, the FBI, this just got reported, is now treating it as a terror attack, which obviously it should be, and the multiple reports that witnesses heard of Lahu Akbar.
Well, what happened, Sean, in the early minutes after an incident like this is that you try to make sense of all the conflicting reports and you look at what is probable.
It was probable from the onset that this was a terrorist attack.
The moment that we established that it's a mass casualty incident, there were reports that this guy had weapons that he was using of any kind, fake or real, doesn't matter, after the vehicle incident itself.
So now it's being treated as terrorism, and we're looking at, okay, what does that mean?
It is very similar to what we have seen in these major mass casualty vehicle attacks in Europe.
The single biggest one in terms of death count was in Nice in southern France, but there have been many others.
There have been some in the United Kingdom and in Germany.
And this has now become a calling card of the major jihadist operations around the world: the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda.
In fact, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula early on, years before, popularized the idea back, I think, in 2010 in their online magazine, of using a pickup truck specifically and mounting it with, if you could, sharp objects or something.
But this is why we keep seeing them all over Western Europe and all here now as well.
We've had now multiple incidents around the world using the same tactics.
And from my perspective, as a guy who used to be one of the analysts who was trying to break these up before they happened, because everyone's going to be asking, how do you stop this?
The moment that guy's in the car in the vehicle, you're just hoping for either really good luck or a good Samaritan in this case, maybe to limit the casualties.
The thing that bothers me, though, Buck, is that we always hear afterwards, oh, there was a heavy media presence, Facebook, Twitter, whatever, of the individual telegraphs these things, and we don't catch them until afterwards.
The lone exception, of course, being the incident that happened in Vegas where this guy was a ghost and apparently never did a thing before.
Well, we would specifically deal with that.
I was in the NYPD.
We'd look at these guys and they'd say crazy stuff about how they hate America.
They want U.S. troops to die in Iraq.
But that's not an actionable offense from the perspective of law enforcement.
And so they can be on the radar.
And this often, this happens in Europe too.
They're on the radar.
We know this is a bad guy, but we can't necessarily take legal action against him, especially if we're talking about a U.S. citizen.
By the way, that's not confirmed here or not.
But, Sean, the vehicle attack component is so difficult because what usually trips these guys up is the complexity of trying to be a wannabe bin Laden.
They want a big explosion.
They want to take a building down.
They want to do something that requires a skill set that they may not have.
Anyone can drive a car.
Well, also, the NYPD bomb squad is now looking at the vehicle for fear that there might be something in there.
We are now also standing by for a press conference from the New York Police Department when that happens.
You know, all these days, with all the attacks on police officers, my one political comment just right now is: boy, you really need them on days like today.
Maybe we should actually give these guys the benefit of the doubt in the future.
Just a thought.
What we saw in Vegas, for example.
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Jonathan Gillum, look, anytime there's an attack, they always want to grab credit.
They grab credit and said that the guy in Vegas had been radicalized, although we haven't heard a thing, which is the most unusual, I guess, story that has come recently anyway, come out in the news.
But I mean, the fact that we didn't know anything about him, still don't know what exactly happened there is pretty mind-numbing to me.
Yeah, you know, and I also want to give Buck some credit when he I saw him on Fox News a few minutes ago, and he came on and did not jump to a conclusion before, even though things were starting to look like it was a terrorist attack, the facts weren't in.
Buck didn't jump to conclusion of that.
They had another guest on that did, a former detective.
And it's important that we, even people who are skilled at this, that we don't jump to conclusions so that we don't go down a road investigating or the civilians as well, especially on a night like this.
Well, listen, Jonathan, I knew at least 15 minutes before I brought it up that some eyewitnesses were apparently saying that this guy was screaming Allahu Akbar.
Right, right.
And it turned out real quickly that that was the case.
But here, Sean, even regardless of that, and even if this had been a terrorist attack, here's the thing.
By the way, I don't mean a witness says that the suspect was yelling, God is great in Arabic.
Well, why can't they just say Allahu Akbar?
Because everybody knows what that means.
That's what they're saying.
They didn't even say that on CNN.
They didn't even say it that he got out and yelled at it.
This is the same thing as overseas contingency operations by fake news CNN.
I mean, it is unbelievable to me that, oh, he said God is great in Arabic.
Well, that's Allahu Akbar CNN.
Somebody maybe want to change their Chiron over there.
Now, on Fox News, Source said to Rick Leventhal, suspect yelled, Allahu Akbar.
Sean, I was on at CNN after the Nice attack, and I think they had three former U.S. military and one guy who was also former FBI or something.
And we went through, and an academic, they love to have an academic in there.
We went through the whole panel, and each one of them, this is the night of the Nice attack.
Each one of them, one after another, found that the primary discussion, there are over 60 people killed at this point.
We know that, right?
This is in southern France.
The primary discussion should be on how the Europeans don't do a good enough job integrating their immigrant, their Muslim immigrant communities.
I will not be surprised at all to see some of the left-wing media after this incident, once we get more clarity on the facts, although we already have enough to know that it's terrorism.
You'll hear a narrative like that.
They will find some way to say that this is because of Trump, of the travel ban, of something.
As sure as night follows day.
Yeah, well, and you know, they're always looking for an excuse, but the fact is there are these lone wolves, and I'm not saying that we're going to find out in this particular case, Patrick Poole, but I'd bet dollars to donuts.
In fact, thank you.
I'd bet every dollar I have by the time we get to the bottom of this that there's going to be a social media indication that whoever this individual is was radicalized and telegraphed it.
Sean, as we talked about in the last hour, you know, this known wolf terrorism problem is something I've been writing about for three years.
Virtually every single one of these incidents are individuals who were already known to law enforcement.
We're seeing these reports that the truck was rented in Jersey City, which has historically been a real hotbed, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Yeah, I do suspect that this is going to, we have to, you know, let the facts stay right there.
Patrick, I don't mean to interrupt you here, but the president, by the way, has now been briefed.
We're also being told one suspect under arrest after what we believe the FBI is treating as a terror attack in New York City, seven dead, 15 injured, and the suspect was shot.
He's in custody.
There might be a story of a hero bus driver that actually prevented other people from getting injured here as this man literally purposely took his car or rented truck into a pedestrian walkway where a lot of bikes are and literally plowed into them.
So we're going to have the very latest on all of this, yelling Allahu Akbar at the time.
We'll have the latest coverage.
Any developments that come, we'll bring them to you as they happen.
And also the New York City Police Department press conference that is momentarily coming.
Oh, that's Chef Smith.
They've all gathered around a microphone.
Clearly, they believe the police department, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of Liberal Governor of New York, is standing next to him.
Let's listen in.
Good afternoon, everybody.
Steve, we good?
Yes, sir.
All right.
Just keep in mind, this incident occurred a little more than two hours ago.
So all the information that we're giving you right now is preliminary and subject to change.
After I speak, you're going to hear from Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio.
Bill Sweeney from the Assistant Director in charge of the New York FBI office is standing up here with me too.
We have members of my executive staff.
We have Cy Vance and members of the state police.
First, I just want to say that today there was a loss of innocent life in Lower Manhattan.
The dead and injured were just going about their days, hitting on from work or from school or enjoying the afternoon sun on bicycles.
This is a tragedy of the greatest magnitude for many people, for many families here in New York City and beyond today.
I want to commend a response of our NYPD officer that was on post near the location who stopped the carnage moments after it began.
Also, the work of the first responders, including the fire department and EMS personnel, surely helped save additional lives.
As I said, I'll give more of a chronology in a couple minutes, but right now I'd like to introduce Mayor de Blasio.
Thank you, Commissioner.
It's a very painful day in our city.
Horrible tragedy on the West Side.
Let me be clear that based on the information we have at this moment, this was an act of terror and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians, aimed at people going about their lives who had no idea of what was about to hit them.
We, at this moment, based on the information we have, we know of eight innocent people who have lost their lives and over a dozen more injured.
We know that this action was intended to break our spirit, but we also know New Yorkers are strong, New Yorkers are resilient, and our spirit will never be moved by an act of violence, an act meant to intimidate us.
We have been tested before as a city very near the site of today's tragedy, and New Yorkers do not give in in the face of these kinds of actions.
We'll respond as we always do.
We will be undeterred.
And I want to thank everyone at the NYPD, all our first responders, for their extraordinary efforts in the midst of this tragedy, starting with the officer who stopped this tragedy from continuing, all of the first responders who came to the aid of those who were injured.
Investigation is underway to get all the facts and what we'll tell you today, of course, will be preliminary.
But we know we will get down to the bottom of what happened.
I want to ask all New Yorkers, all Americans, to keep the families of those lost in your thoughts and prayers.
They will need our support.
And I want to ask all New Yorkers to be vigilant.
We know it's Halloween night, and we know in the days ahead people will be uneasy.
We ask all New Yorkers to live by the idea.
If you see something, say something, tell an officer immediately if you see anything unusual, anything that worries you.
Be vigilant and know that there will be extensive additional employments of NYPD officers this evening and throughout the days ahead.
We will also keep you posted as this investigation continues and as the NYPD gains more information.
Governor Cuomo.
Thank you.
Thank you.
First, our thoughts and prayers are with those New Yorkers who we lost today.
It reminds us all how precious life is.
They left the House this morning.
They were enjoying the beautiful west side of Manhattan on a beautiful fall day, and they're not going to be returning home.
And that shock and that pain is going to be very real.
And our thoughts and our prayers are with all of them.
Our first responders did an extraordinary job.
The NYPD, the FDNY, the FBI, the New York State Police, EMS.
We have the finest security on the globe.
And to see them in action today proved that once again.
The new terrorist tactic, which they've called for publicly, are these lone wolves who commit an act of terror.
This is all very preliminary.
It's only been a couple of hours, but at this point, there's no evidence to suggest a wider plot or a wider scheme, but the actions of one individual who meant to cause pain and harm and probably death and the resulting terror.
And that was the purpose.
We will be vigilant.
More police everywhere.
You'll see them in the airports.
You'll see them in the tunnels.
It's not because there's any evidence of any ongoing threat or any additional threat.
It is just out of vigilance.
All right, that is the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
As the press conference continues after a terror attack earlier today to stations along the Sean Hannity Show Network, we are going to stay with this press conference.
We just heard from the mayor of New York, the police commissioner of New York.
We now have confirmed eight dead, 15 injured.
It's being treated as a terrorist attack.
The suspect is in custody after he took a rented truck and plowed it into a pedestrian area walkway bike run in New York City and lower Manhattan by the World Trade Center.
And according to multiple reports, said the words repeatedly, Elaho Akbar.
We'll go back to the press conference.
If you need to take a break along the Sean Hannity Show Network, feel free.
We contort ourselves to them, then they win and we lose.
We'll go about our business.
Again, there's no ongoing threat.
There's no evidence of that at this time.
So there's no reason to have any undue anxiety.
You will see more security forces, but that's only because it's an abundance of caution and not a signal of anything else.
And there'll be continued investigation and justice will be done.
But again, to those we lost, they are in our thoughts and our prayers.
To the first responders, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for the job you do.
You put your life on the line every day.
You do it better than anyone else.
And to New Yorkers, be New Yorkers and live your life and don't let them change us or deter us in any manner, shape, or form.
Thank you.
Thanks, Governor Cuomo.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
As I said, I'm going to go through the chronology here.
And I know when I'm done, I'm going to have a lot of questions, but we're not going to go too deep into it.
It's only two hours.
And after I get done with the chronology, Dan Nigro is going to talk about the injuries.
All right, so at 3.05 p.m., a male driving a rented Home Depot pickup truck entered the West Side Highway bicycle path at Houston Street, began driving southbound, striking a number of pedestrians and bicyclists along the route.
At Chambers Street, the truck collided with a school bus, injuring two adults and two children.
After the collision, the driver of the truck, a 29-year-old male, exited the vehicle brandishing two handguns.
A uniformed police officer assigned to the first precinct confronted the subject and shot him in the abdomen.
The subject was wounded and transported to a local hospital.
The paintball gun and a pellet gun were recovered at the scene.
The subject's identity is not being released at this time, pending further investigation.
At this point, there are eight fatalities reported in connection with this incident.
In addition, several people have been injured.
And Commissioner Nigro from our fire department will discuss that.
Dan?
Thank you, Jim.
As police commissioner said, six of the people died.
They were pronounced at the scene between Housing Street and Chambers Street.
They were all males.
Two others were transported in a traumatic arrest and were pronounced at the hospital.
We also transported 11 people, all with serious, but at this moment, not life-threatening injuries.
The injuries are what you may expect as a truck went at high speed down that bicycle path and struck bicyclists and pedestrians.
There may be more injuries as people self-evacuated, and we will determine that later as we do our survey.
But that's the patient count and the deaths as we know it now.
All right, at this point, we're going to take some questions.
Miles, hold on, hold on, Miles.
This is something that John Doer talks about all the time.
Terror attacks or these kind of things where it's differentiating trucks.
This is something that you guys do in the SHIELD all the time when you talk with these truck companies.
Had you guys talked to ODEPO recently about this kind of being visual about this?
Hey, John, you want to talk about the program a little bit?
Sure.
So as you know, through the SHIELD program, we do a very wide outreach.
We have just under 20,000 members in the private sector.
After ISIS Rumia magazine came out with the issue just about two years ago, around this time of year, suggesting car attacks, you'll recall one of the targets they suggested was the Thanksgiving Day parade.
We went and did extensive outreach to the truck rental business.
We visited over 148 truck rental locations in this area, the obvious ones, U-Haul, Ryder, Home Depot, et cetera, and talked about suspicious indicators, ways to come forward after attacks on the German Christmas market after Nice.
We repeated those visits two more times, either by making telephonic contact, email, or going back to the same places.
So the industry has had a high level of awareness on this matter from the NYPD.
John, is there a commissioner?
Is there any indication that the suspect is a lone wolf, perhaps radicalized in America?
And it's way too early to discuss that.
I mean, this just happened two hours ago, and that's, of course, part of our investigation.
You took out some police activity up there 16 here on June 26th.
Initially, we thought it might have been, but it turned out not to be.
Let me jump in here for a second.
ABC News is now identifying the suspect in this case, Saifolo Saipov, is his name, 29 years old.
Tampa, Florida.
We'll go back to the press conference, the NYPD, along with the mayor, the governor, and other first responders.
People in that area should be aware of beyond the city.
No, this incident is over.
It did end right by Stuyvesant High School, so we had to make sure that all the kids were taken care of, and we held them in place for a while.
And it was important that we do that.
But this incident is over.
David.
Hold on.
Hold on, David.
Commissioner, do you have, first of all, you tried the age of the suspect and then the victims, and then was there, did you go a bit earlier that maybe he'd have to demand to resemble a bomb that would raise a gas cancer and smiler?
He's a 29-year-old male, and I'm not going to talk about the truck right now.
Right there.
Can you confirm that the suspect said Ali Akbar or anything of that effect?
And if so, is that the only indication that this may be an act of terrorism?
Or what else is it needs you to label?
Yeah, he did make a statement when he exited the vehicle.
And if you just look at the MO of the attack, that's consistent with what's been going on.
So that, along with the statement, has enabled us to label this a terrorist event.
No, not right now.
Do you have his nationality?
And was there any intelligence leading up to this if there was something in the work?
Yeah, again, two hours old, and we'll update you as we go along.
Lenny?
Who's in charge of the investigation?
It's being conducted jointly with the NYPD and the FBI.
From Florida?
From Florida?
Yeah, I'm not going to go into that.
Yep, John.
John, not right now, no.
Yes.
After the Times Square incident, I talked about this.
Any incident that happens in New York or happens in the country or happens around the world, we have to learn from that.
So, of course, we're going to take a look at that.
Yeah, he's in the hospital.
I'm not going to tell you what hospital.
And I'm going to let Chief Gomez talk about what we're doing for the Halloween parade tonight.
Carlos?
All right.
In less than 90 minutes, that parade will kick off.
We will proceed with the parade.
And certainly we've added more resources, more police officers, heavy weapons teams, blocker vehicles on the street leading to the route, as well as more sand trucks.
There's also heavy weapons teams being deployed throughout the city at key iconic locations.
Well, this is why we do investigations.
Initially, I'm sure whoever put that out wasn't sure what the event was, and now, two hours into it, this is the determination that we made.
Yep, in the first row?
Yeah.
early in the investigation to know that.
Rocco?
I haven't looked at the video yet.
We're retrieving as much video as possible.
What we do know is he entered the bike path at Houston Street and exited the bike path at Chambers Street when he collided with the school bus.
And there are no intersections on the west side of the bike path between Houston and Chambers.
Hold on one second in the back there.
Dan, do you have that?
There are among the injured that are serious but not life-threatening.
All right, there are among the injured that are serious but not life-threatening.
Yes?
Were they the only two children on the bus at the time?
At which Home Depot was the end of the day?
We're not going to talk about where the Home Depot was rented from just yet.
And Bob, do we know how many people are on the bus?
We're called two adults, two children.
There were two adults and two children on the school bus.
In the back don't know, that's part of the investigation.
Thank you.
No, we don't have that yet.
As we said, there's a lot of information to be gotten.
We wanted to give you a preliminary.
We're getting into a little bit detail at this point.
I'm going to have to walk through that link later.
We'll give you another briefing as more information comes available.
But I'm going to, at this point, ask you to wait until further information has another briefing.
Look, I'll just close this off here by saying, look, again, NYPD is investigating this with our federal partners, With our state partners.
There's going to be a very, very thorough investigation.
But the most important thing, as Governor Cuomo said, as Commissioner O'Neill said, people should go about their business knowing that NYPD is out in force with our partner agencies tonight and throughout the week.
Very important additional measures are being taken for people's safety.
But the bottom line is we are going to go about our business in this city.
We're not going to be deterred.
And we'll get you updates later on in the evening.
Thanks, everyone.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
All right, that was a New York City press conference, and that consisted of the New York Police Commissioner, James P. O'Neill, the mayor, Comrade Bill de Blasio, who did say this was an act of terror and then corrected himself, a cowardly act of terror, somewhat redundant because they all are.
We now have confirmed that eight people are dead, 15 people are injured.
Also, it included the governor and other first responders.
And the governor talked about these new terror tactics of these lone wills, lone wolves, rather.
No evidence to suggest a wider plot at this point.
Remember, we're all New Yorkers.
Go about being a New Yorker.
He thanked the first responders.
We did get a few things confirmed in this press conference.
If you're just joining us now, we know that eight people now confirmed dead, 15 injured.
The suspect is shot at a local hospital in custody.
And what appears to be a purposeful pedestrian attack using a rental truck to plow into both people walking and biking on the specific bike path.
This is in Lower Manhattan.
That is the area for those of you who have been to New York where the former trade center used to be.
Multiple reports that the individual was screaming Allahu Akbar.
The FBI is, in fact, treating this as a terror attack.
And we'll have all the latest developments.
The president has, in fact, been notified and is being kept up to speed.
One suspect under arrest after this incident.
No indication that other people were involved.
If you look at the CIA, the CNN fake news, Chiron, it says suspect was yelling God is great in Arabic.
That would be CNN fake news.
Allahu Akbar.
Those are the words that this man yelled.
So I'm not sure what's going on at fake news, CNN.
It's now confirmed by the mayor of New York, probably the most liberal mayor in the history of this city, as being a terror attack.
And every other person said, didn't say that he was yelling God is great in Arabic.
They said he was yelling Allahu Akbar.
So somebody at CNN may want to pay attention to what the facts are.
Rick Leventhal said, and they confirmed in this press conference that, in fact, this guy, we didn't get the information about a bus driver.
I'm being told by multiple sources.
I can't confirm it, but I just want to say multiple sources are reporting that as this madman terrorist made his way down this bike path and walking pedestrian area, purposely trying to kill people, that there's one of numerous reports that a bus driver literally saw what was happening, cut the guy off to stop him.
And that is the location where this guy got out of his car.
Now, Fox News does have a video that was captured by a cell phone of somebody that shows the suspect actually running through the streets.
He was going, according to some eyewitnesses, about 40 or 50 miles an hour.
And that this guy ran down.
He pulled the two guns out of his truck on the way out.
One was a paintball gun, it turns out.
One was a pellet gun.
And an NYPD officer that happened to be on the scene just happened to, you know, fall upon this and was able to shoot this guy in the chest and stop him there on the scene.
He's still alive.
He's still in a hospital.
We don't have any other more information of that, except that eight people are dead and 15 people are injured.
What appears to be, and I don't, I'm just too suspicious because we've seen too many incidences, 9-11, 2001 being an example, where these things happen in clusters, where you have a first attack, a second attack, a third attack.
I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here.
But what appears to be a lone wolf attack, which is part of the new tactic.
We've been seeing it all over Western Europe again and again and again.
So joining us now, we have Patrick Poole, PJ Media, Senior National Security Correspondent Jonathan Gillam, remains with us, former FBI agent, Navy SEAL, author of Sheep No More.
What did you take out of the press conference, Jonathan Gillam?
Well, I don't want to be as silly here, but listening to Cuomo and de Blasio speak gives me no sense of security being a resident in New York City at all.
I think one thing that we can take away from this press conference is that these attacks happen and that the NYPD is absolutely essential, and this mayor should pay more attention to that fact and take care of these police officers.
And so should the civilians that live in this city and respect our NYPD officers.
And again, law enforcement's job and people, Sean, people have to realize this, especially as they go out tonight.
Law enforcement's job, overall, the reality of it is to respond to attacks.
They don't often stop these types of attacks because once they're initiated and they are able to start the attack, that means law enforcement didn't know about these people.
By the way, Jonathan, I can actually see from the Fox News channel, it indeed was a Home Depot truck.
It looks like a pickup truck, though.
It doesn't look like one of the big trucks.
It looks like something that you may all lumber in.
And I know Home Depot has those truck rentals and as a means of people getting some of the bigger products that they sell home.
Go ahead.
And my source is telling me that it was rented in Jersey City.
I haven't confirmed that yet, but that's what my source is telling me.
But, you know, Sean, tonight, people are going to go out and they're going to go to this parade and they're going to get drunk and they're, you know, they're going to act silly and have fun.
They have to remember that the possibility, Buck Sexton was talking about the probability, the numbers.
I would say throw the numbers game out right now because the possibility is 100% that it can always happen here in New York City.
So you have to keep your head on a swivel and you have to look around, which is what we talk about in Sheep No More, the book that I wrote.
And people need to think, if I was an attacker, where would I attack?
How would I attack?
When would I attack?
People were saying that just as witnesses were saying today, when they see something that they're not used to seeing, they automatically think that, oh, this must be a stunt.
Or like at the concert in Vegas, this must be fireworks.
People need to start realizing one thing that's on their mind.
I want to go to this.
There is an annual, look, what do I know?
Because I never go to these stupid parades.
I hate these New York parades because I can never get to work.
But apparently there's an annual Greenwich Village parade up 6th Avenue every year.
Now, that's right pretty close, maybe four blocks in east, if you will, of where this all took place.
That's a little scary, Jonathan.
Yeah, and I've actually, when I was in the FBI, I ran the special events.
I was a special events coordinator.
So I was there on the scene for this.
We took it seriously that there could be a potential attack at this.
It is big, and it's something that happens every year.
People come from all over the country.
It's got the feel of like a burning man type of an event where people come there and they're very risque and drunk.
And People just drop their guard at this at this event, and they just need to realize that there's people that don't like it, and there's people that don't like this city, and there's people that don't like Americans.
Well, it's just they don't like anybody that it's convert or die for these radicals.
That's just a fact.
Let me bring back Patrick Poole, and I want to remind people of what I said earlier.
ISIS or a pro-ISIS media group had circulated an image today, earlier today before this all happened, of a knife dripping blood over the Eiffel Tower calling on these lone jihadists to attack on Halloween.
And said, quote, enjoy the gathering, reads the text superimposed over the image, terrorize October the 31st, added to the hashtag, you know, that they go on, and it says, no choice, blah, blah, blah, get out before it's too late.
And so, Jonathan, as I read that, I mean, but I don't know what to think because, I mean, these guys make threats almost every day.
Well, Sean, oh, I'm sorry, not Jonathan, not Patrick.
Yeah, Sean, two months ago, there was a picture that came out of an ISIS supporter taking a picture of the ISIS flag real close to the site of this attack.
Yeah, and we see this kind of, I mean, this is a very prominent area.
We see New York City pop up in Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire magazine, ISIS Rumias magazine.
Sean, the thing that I'm taking away from what we know so far is last November, right after Thanksgiving, we had a car raming attack just a few miles from me at my alma mater at Ohio State.
ISIS-inspired attack, a Somali refugee.
Fortunately, no one was injured.
There were some people who were severely injured.
The thing that was disturbing to me is within 24 hours, all the news trucks had disappeared, as well as any news about the incident.
You know, I tell people about the ISIS terror attack at Ohio State.
Stay right there.
I'm literally looking at an image on Fox News.
And one, two, three, what looks like four, five, six bicycles just decimated.
I mean, this is, I mean, you know, people were riding those bikes.
I don't see how those people survive based on the images I'm looking at.
They're just in smithereens.
It's scary, but go ahead.
Yeah, so how quickly is this going to disappear?
Fortunately, I mean, in terms of awareness, New York City is the largest media market in the country and one of the largest in the world.
So hopefully the media will keep on this story because we've seen this going on in Europe for more than a year, going back to the nice attack in July 2015.
And it's here now, and it's only going to get worse.
And we need to start having serious adult conversations.
The press conference, I'm like Jonathan, the press conference did not inspire a lot of confidence with all the political correct buzzwords.
We need to start getting serious about this problem, and it remains to be seen if we are.
All right, I want to thank you both.
I know this was all last minute.
You guys are always great friends of the program.
Patrick Poole, who's a great friend of the show.
Jonathan Gillum, of course, we all know well.
Thank you both for being with us.
We'll have full coverage of all of this tonight, Hannity 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
We should know a lot more by tonight.
Full coverage of the latest on this New York terrorist attack tonight at 9.
Hannity on Fox News.
All right, if you're just joining us, there's been a terror attack in New York City.
Eight dead, 15 injured, as a terrorist literally took a rental truck from Home Depot and plowed it into pedestrians in a walkway and a bike path.
There's the FBI treating this as a terror attack.
The president has been kept up to date.
Allahu Akbar was screamed at the time.
We'll have the latest tonight at 9.
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