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Happy Tuesday.
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 gonna 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 firsthand 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, common sensical, 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 help fund Fusion GPS.
And they they all knew that they were involved in this to the tune 9, 10, some estimates as high as 12 million dollars.
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 uh the local attorney involved in the 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 on the face of it, to go to Vladimir Putin and 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.
Uh 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 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.
No, but I'm going to tell you what the difference is.
And this is important.
You know, before you say another word, just know that your team is very proud of you.
We know you're working hard.
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.
But 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, a fidelity to the truth is missing.
There's dishonesty everywhere in the media.
All these channels you're watching, which is CNN and conspiracy TV over wherever they are with MBC.
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 if it wasn't for Sarah Carter, John Solomon, and and I'll take a little credit, and me recognizing Peter Schweitzer, who wrote 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 on an 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 eight 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 we've 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 I what I like about Trump is everything he's saying now, he said it 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.
He's 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 Docker thing came up out, and I went on Twitter, it 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 the way it would never be.
This is 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 in I've had more investigations into my private life that have gone back literally 30 years in 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 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, it 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 it's nice because you make that happen, and I 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 I'm every night at nine, we're gonna 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.
The 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 are who is Muller?
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, 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 the Clinton support, including from then the Clinton Foundation operative Doug Banned, he wrote a personal check for 50 grand.
This also is the part I believe that was involving Terry McCaulov, the governor.
Anyway, then it thickens with the GPS uh 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 he goes, 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 Muller 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.
Muller'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 Muller 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 as an exclusive book today.
Was this all planned from December of last year?
We'll tell you about it.
The 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 2004.
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.
It 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, uh, I had a case, and my colleague Harvey Silverglade 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 a tactical that's very questionable.
I would argue then that's probably what makes him good at his job.
It makes him 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 doing.
Well, I think he is 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.
You were uh 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 that had anything, any reflection of collusion between the members of 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 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 have been.
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 uh conflicting information about an incident on the what is it, West Side Highway.
Yeah, it's the West Side 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 uh 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 by the New World Trade Center, so it's very scary.
The little time I lived in New York City.
I actually lived on Riverside Drive and uh 96th Street at the corner.
Yeah, I actually live on the Westside Highway now, so you live on the street.
You live in the street?
Is that where you live?
Right there on the corner.
Is that where you put the uh what do you call that thing?
The I was gonna say something that was gonna be bad.
No, what's the what's the name of that bed you sleep in?
The air mattress.
Air mattress, that thing.
The luxurious air mattress.
I was gonna say one of those blow-up things, but you know, that wouldn't have worked out too well.
So many places.
Can I just say something?
I mean, uh, did you buy a bed, by the way?
I did.
Do you have a mattress?
Why was that my house?
You have a mat do you have a mattress and a bed that you sleep on?
I do.
That's different than a uh uh air master.
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.
Uh Dershowitz's comments were amazing, by the way, and he's right.
Um 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, fifteen attorneys back then in early August uh Singman confirmed sixteen 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.
I mean, and they didn't and Gillibrand and Hillary for America and Hillary for America and Obama and oh eight in twenty twelve and Obama in twenty twelve and Hillary and Obama.
These are all the people that I I saw one of the people that work under Mueller, one gave money to Hillary and Jason Chaffetz and Senator George Allen back in two thousand and five.
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, you know, band that that Mueller has put together.
And if you look at, for example, who is the lead counsel in all of this, you know, I'm not liking what I'm 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 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 nineteen forty 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 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 Weisman.
Um 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, right Weissman, who's the lead attorney and prosecutor in this case, you know, directed the 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 his that decision was reversed years later by a unanimous Supreme Court because of the tactics.
You know, then you've got Weisman 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 one 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 resigned 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 Muller 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 Weisman, 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.
You know, and as they predicted on October 19th in the in the Hill.
It won't matter that Manafort knows the Trump campaign didn't collude with the Russians because Weisman 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 was 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 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.
Okay.
Well, Chesley 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, etc., 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.
Seventeen.
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 GP GDP growth.
Obama never had three percent 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 four percent GDP growth.
This is an amazing story, but we can't focus on that.
Because people like Muller, who knew about Vladimir Putin's invasion, if you will, to try and quarter the market, and you're in 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 Weisman 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 a year to 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.
Um, as we're going to be joined, let's see, who do we have on tonight?
Oh, we've got uh we're gonna go over this Peter Schweitzer, Greg Jarrett.
We have Ed Klein who's gonna 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 and our opening monologue.
You don't want to miss it.
It's really important.
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 in 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.
The hacking on the DNC.
Right.
And on some of us, you know, that have 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 haven't 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't 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 uh Donald Trump or any member of his campaign colluded, conspired, or coordinated with the Russians or anyone else uh to infiltrate or impact our uh voter infrastructure.
Um not beyond uh 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 uh Uranium One, the Canadian company, you know, sold to Russia, something that uh required your approval as well.
Um and then later uh some of the players involved in that deal wind up paying former president uh 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 uh wielding the partisan uh X, but there's no basis for any of that.
The timing doesn't work.
It happened uh 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 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 uh 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.
Um yes, I I'm 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 Diane 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 of Vladimir Putin twenty percent of our uranium?
And Uranium One stories are baloney.
They've been debunked.
Nothing's been debunked.
Everything is now coming out for the 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 uh he joins us, also a Fox News contributor.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well, and I I share some of your amazement.
Although this is going pretty much as as we predicted it would.
He's trying to find somebody he can flip.
Uh there are rumors that he cut a deal with uh George Papadopoulos, who actually there are rumors may have uh been wearing a wire and sent back in to see if he could entrap somebody.
He clearly was trying to frighten Manafort into uh turning over uh and and the going states evidence, and apparently Manafort has not agreed to do that.
Yeah, and I just think that there's a lot here that that frankly Congress ought to look at.
I'm I'm still deeply bothered as an American that Mueller's people would would raid Manafort's home at five in the morning with he and his wife still in the pajamas.
And this is, you know, there are no allegations here that justify That kind of assault uh 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 I don't think you want to live in a country where the government has that kind of power to uh break into your home, uh you know, scare you uh half to death, and then say, All right, do what we want or you're going to prison.
And then uh this this all add to that it's a deals bed.
It's a ninety-three percent Hillary district.
That's where that's where Robert Mueller has to now, you know, look for indictments.
It doesn't seem like it's a 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 that's actually a problem we're gonna have to look into as a country because uh 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, uh, and therefore you have a hugely difficult time getting a fair jury trial.
Um I also think it's important to remember that that uh as you've been pointing out, you go through all of this you hire all of these attorneys, you have all of these FBI agents who spent 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 two thousand twelve and two thousand fourteen before Trump ever announced for president.
I mean, th there's there's zero relationship uh except of course what he's what would Muller is trying to do is scare Manafort into turning state's evidence, and and uh this was the case uh you'll remember with Scooter Libby, who was uh 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 and uh these 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, uh Uranium One, the Podesta brothers.
I mean, uh you know, if he wants to prove that he really is uh uh a reputable person and not just a liberal democratic hack, uh he has a simple way to do it.
Make make sure that he now broadens his net to go after Russian influence peddling starting in two thousand nine when we have pretty clear evidence that uh 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 I think you were willing more than m 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 you know, his background and his experience and some of the cases he's been involved in and the tactics that he's used.
You gotta stop and and watch and say, Wow, it's breathtaking what he did with Enron.
It's it's breathtaking what he's done with other other individuals, and his tactics seem totally inconsistent with the belief of of fair play with a prosecutor.
It seems like prosecutorial abuse every time.
Uh by Powell.
And and and uh it is a s very sobering book.
It's about several cases, including uh uh Senator Stevens in 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 taxpaid money.
Uh and they deliberately hid the note.
And he was ultimately reprimanded by the Supreme Court.
The same thing with Weissman.
The co the Supreme Court ruled nine-zero that they had misinformed the jury and destroyed Arthur Anderson.
I mean, eighty-nine eighty-nine or ninety thousand 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 that his law firm had donated ninety-nine percent of its money to Hillary.
I realized that um he was in fact uh manipulated into being by Comey through as Comey told us through his clever leak uh to the New York Times uh to get a special counsel.
And then you go back and you realize that when they look 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 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 a hundred and forty-five million dollars in money going into a Canadian foundation that was secret and not reported to the US 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 two thousand and nine about bribery and extortion and kickbacks and money laundering and 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 Muller knew and Holder knew and Rosenstein knew and and in the case of Hillary she had to know, I assume at some point, and um 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 twenty percent of our uranium?
What did we how do we benefit from that?
Well and I and I think uh what you what you realize is the people who benefited from that were the Clintons.
I mean that's but why why would why would Obama and Holder sign off on it?
I have I have no I well first of all I have I have let me say hey I have no idea.
Although they're all part of the same gang.
You know you you have to understand this this is uh this is a nest of corruption as as Alan Guelzo, the history professor at Gettysburg College has said this may be the m the Obama may have led the most corrupt administration in American history.
Uh so this is just one more piece of corruption.
W why would they notice it I want to ask you more about Mueller when we get back.
I want to ask you more about fusion GPS.
New Kingrich by the way his brand new book is out it's called Vengeance literally a novel rip from today's headlines that'll scare the living daylights out of you have been reading it.
It's uh pretty spectacular I'm sure it's going to be a movie one day.
And as we continue with former Speaker of the House, New Gingrich and uh 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?
I look I let me say first of all I think that Trey Gowdy who has been a prosecutor and who has a chairman of a committee that did an in depth investigation of what happened in Benghazi Gowdy said a couple days ago you 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 has its hand in so many different pockets that uh it is a matter of national interest to find out exactly who was paying for what.
They all thought they're being clever and I think this this is something Hoshan 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 kind of things and 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 uh 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 of over three percent GDP growth then you've got the lowest 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 i if in the last eight years.
So jobs are coming back and we don't even have the president's You know, tax reform plan done and economic stimulus done.
Well, that that proves that you are probably dealing in reality, and therefore you should not be allowed into any liberal group.
You know, I mean uh every liberal in the country is gonna say so well.
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.
So there you go.
Uh I mean they're gonna look at all this data and they're gonna shrug it off.
But I'll tell you what's gonna happen.
The country's not gonna shrug it off.
If the president gets his 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 uh new book.
Really appreciate you being here.
Ed Klein has an investigative uh report, all out war, the plot to destroy Trump.
That's coming up uh in the course of the program today.
Congressman Ron DeSantis wants to limit the limit the scope of Robert Muller.
That's coming up.
We have an incredible Hannity tonight, I'll tell you about that.
Nine Eastern, and we're gonna investigate the investigators, and we're gonna show you how the media is lying, morally bankrupt, corrupt, and you can't trust them.
That's tonight at night.
We'll continue.
All right, we got a situation in New York, by the way, 25 till 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.
Um 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.
Um I'm not gonna go with reports that I'm getting about what people are now saying about it until I have a 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 sh 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 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.
It's it's if I can describe this to you, West Side Highway.
You have two imagine an island, you have the West Side 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 uh 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 um anyway, the scene is a mess.
The driver's said to have driven down this bike path veering off the road, apparently on purpose.
Um, 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 Gillam, former FBI agent, Navy SEAL and author of the book Sheep No More, our friend Dan Bongino's back, former Secret Service agent, all here to discuss uh the terror attack.
Look, I can't corroborate, but there are reports that he might have said some things before the shooting, Jonathan Gillam.
Yeah, you know, Sean, uh that's always a telltale sign if he got out and uh is uh yelling anything in Arabic.
Um it's it's you know, when you combine that with the actual act itself, it it's normally an indicator that uh of the motivation.
I think what is puzzling to me is why uh this guy, after he got out in in win about the process of killing all these people, why he would have air thought guns and a BB gun or 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 uh motivation to kill by driving down uh that uh Westside Highway bike path, which I use all the time, um, was clear because of I uh 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 uh and just made a wrong.
It looks, I agree with you.
It looked deliberate.
I can't say definitively, but witnesses seem to be suggesting as much as well.
Uh yeah, I I kind of agree with you and uh Dan Bongino.
Um 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.
Um 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 uh back onto the bike path.
Sean, you know the area well, I know the area well.
We're both uh New Yorkers, I'm a former New Yorker.
Uh it's the uh the allegations as we know them now, or that it started up in the forties and ended up down in House and Chambers.
That's that's quite a distance.
That's it's not an accident.
So we let's just get out of the way.
This is deliberate at this point.
Motive, you know, we 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 fix 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 uh rental trucks or box trucks to mow down and cause as much damage as possible.
Well, let me let me just be in this case a rental car.
Let me just say that I know on Neil Cavuto's show, who is uh Rick Leventhal's an amazing reporter, apparently he's reporting that their witnesses told him, so this is second hand, 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, uh, shouted Allahu Akbar.
That's was just on literally moments ago.
Yeah, is that for me, Sean?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I yeah, I mean, this is real point.
I mean, it's pretty obvious at this point that this was one at deliberate attack, and uh and that the fact pattern fits one from terrorist attacks motivated in the past, you know, by Islamic radicals, and that certainly uh, you know, 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 I don't think what's your take, Patrick Poole, and I know you have sources apparently that you're talking to that have uh 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, um, and he's got a big sloffy beard.
Uh right before we went on air, I was speaking with two of my MYPD sources, both of them saying it's being tr treated as a terrorism related incident.
Uh we still have yet for MYPD to come out and officially say that.
Um but this looks like uh what what they've been dealing with in Europe uh and and now we've got it here, where uh back in August we had the incident in Barcelona, thirteen people run down in uh uh tourist area right in the heart of Barcelona.
Uh we've had two incidents in London.
We've had another incident in Stockholm, uh Berlin.
Um it's here, and and we're going to have to begin to deal with this problem realistically.
All right, what do you mean by look, uh I it's 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 a hundred percent of the time.
And these, you know, whoever's plotting, planning, scheming evil, they just gotta be successful once.
And and that makes this job.
Well, hang on, we're now getting some uh new news here.
It appears to be a deliberate act that's now being confirmed.
The AP is now saying six people dead, fifteen 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 was 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.
Uh go ahead, Patrick.
I didn't want to interrupt you.
Well, uh, Sean, for three years I've been writing at DJ Media about this known wolf terror problem where virtually every single one of these suspects was already on the radar of law enforcement.
And and the problem That nobody wants to talk about is how do we go about these people are known.
And you know, you you know, a couple years ago there 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 uh on them, and uh but but there's really no uh no effort on the part of any Western authorities, whether it's here in the US or over in Europe to really even acknowledge this known wolf problem.
Well, I mean, you gotta one of the things that I keep hearing from people, Dan Bonino, and you'd 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 uh 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.
Yeah, and I'm like, if you're gonna 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 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 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 uh, you know, this isn't one of uh it's it's not all Muslims, everybody knows that, but a limited number, albeit, if this was a Christian church, that you know, the NYPD and the FBI would be all over it.
So Patrick's right, and and I've always I used his article when I wrote a piece once about uh 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 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.
He he has a gun, but we believe it's a BB gun, and the report alahu Akbar.
I mean, Jonathan Gillam, I mean, we've seen this dance before, sadly.
Right, when you put all these different uh aspects of this attack together, I mean, you're looking at somebody who is exposing their motivation, and uh you have to remember let me let me interrupt Jonathan.
ABC's 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 the another police officer yelled that there was another suspect who had run into the park and they begin to chase after him.
Um the rest of the police officers that were there, knowing that there was an active shooter, um gathered everybody up and made us go across the street so we could wouldn't be involved or couldn't get hurt.
I don't I'm beginning to wonder if the report of a BB gun is accurate, Jonathan.
I didn't mean to run 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 witnesses uh and and uh 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 uh the police shot the other guy, and so they assume that person was shot.
So we don't but you know, that's the way that guy described it, it sounded like there were multiple shooters.
So um, but by the way, we're seeing this report on the news, it sounds like it was this one guy in the truck.
Regardless.
At least the incident has stopped.
And one thing I would I would say though, however, is uh even with that statement I just made.
We cannot be um uh uh we cannot just drop our awareness because uh the mayor and the governor and the commissioner show up at the scene and say everything safe.
That to me does nothing to uh make a secure feeling inside of me.
I in fact, I would rather the mayor, the commissioner, and the governor go to a command post far away from these incidents.
And I I've been there, I was the second guy from the FBI on scene when Bailey Shazad put a bomb in Times Square, and I sat there and watched uh 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 cautioned the people in New York City to just drop their guard and say, Oh, it must be safe, because you don't know that.
You know, and besides New York City is always a target, and I would also guard against using the term home grow or excuse me, um uh uh with uh lone wolf.
We need to start using the term homegrown operative, or just call it what it is once we figure it out uh an Islamic fundamentalist.
I mean, we we use that lone wolf thing, and it it gives people a sense that there's no coordination here, and that again leads people to where they think.
Well, the 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 a 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, though, let me hold you guys over.
We're gonna 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, fifteen people are injured.
The suspect has been shot.
He's now in custody and has been apprehended, apparently driving a rental truck.
What a one one eyewitness said a home depot truck, has nothing to do with home depot, just he rented the truck, uh, purposely going down a pedestrian uh walkway and bike path and then working his way in and out after killing these these innocent people and injuring all these people.
Eyewitnesses say 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 uh as we get it here in the Sean Hannity show.
We'll have more at the top of the hour.
And uh we'll have more obviously on Hannity tonight.
Nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
We'll have a lot more than on the uh tonight.
So stay with us for that.
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We'll have the latest on what is a developing situation in New York, six dead, nine injured now, or fifteen injured, as a vehicle apparently rented, plows into pedestrians near the World Trade Center, and what the A 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 that appears to be a terrorist attack confirmed in New York.
Seven dead and fifteen 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.
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 uh 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.
Um 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 the 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.
Uh also multiple reports now saying that he said and screamed a lahu Akbar at the time.
So the again, preliminary investigation.
It is reportable.
Nothing is a hundred percent, 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 forties in New York.
He exited and got back on at Houston Street, which is in New York City, hit multiple people, four fa 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, Alahu 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.
Uh we're gonna go to the Fox News channel now and some of their coverage.
David Lee Miller is on the scene for Fox.
By police.
We expect to learn a great deal more, Shepard.
Uh arriving on scene very soon, we are told we'll be uh the governor as well as uh uh the uh mayor for the city of New York.
But right now, authorities still trying to piece together what happened here, but it's you said at the start of your show, uh this does appear to be an act of terror.
Everything that the witnesses observed uh 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 uh uh this was a terroristic act.
There are now a number of uh published reports that say the gunman did shout a la 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 uh descent.
Um again, we expect to learn more in just the next few minutes.
Shepard.
David Lee, that that video is crucial for us.
If you could hold that phone up yet again, uh up to the And we'll be showing this video.
This was a video that was actually ca captured of the suspect apparently accused of ramming in this truck into people, killing seven now, and you can actually see a suspect running.
Um 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 pot pedestrians on this busy bike and walkway.
And we're gonna 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 uh correspondent for PJ Media, Jonathan Gillam, former FBI agent Navy SEAL, author of Sheep No More.
Also Buck Sexton just dumped jumped into our studio and he is the host of Buck uh Sexton with America Now, former CIA agent and NYP intelligence division specialist.
Patrick, let's start with you.
And uh do 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?
Uh that's what's uh apparently the case is that he saw the event occurring and he ended up um uh putting the bus in the path of the box truck that the suspect was driving, and uh uh 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 we'll continue to learn more, but uh boy, it's just uh and and butn't we know by now if it's a wouldn't we know by now 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 uh there are still some of these reports that um that some of the victims were shot.
Um, you know, there was uh reports of uh uh two people shot over by the high school.
So I I think they're still trying to piece it together.
And and and I see that they're about to have another report.
Fox News is reporting, they're 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.
Uh 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, uh, 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 Olahu 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, uh 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.
Uh 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, uh 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 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 uh from from my perspective as a guy who used to be one of the analysts who was trying to break these up before they happen.
Because everyone's gonna 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, uh whatever, of uh 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 when I was in the NYPD.
We'd look at these guys and they'd say crazy stuff about how you know 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 you know 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 then 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.
Or what we saw in Vegas, for example.
Uh ISIS has called for attacks on Halloween celebrations.
Uh get out before it's too late.
This is a pro-ISIS media group circulating an image today of a knife dripping with blood over the Eiffel Tower and calling on Lone jihadists to attack on Halloween and uh enjoy their gathering, reads the superimposed over the image, terrorize October 31.
Uh Jonathan Gillum.
Look, any time there's an attack, they always want to grab credit.
They grab credit and said that the guy in Vegas what had been radicalized, although we haven't heard a thing, which is the most unusual I guess story that that has come of of you know 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, I and I also want to give uh Buck uh some credit when he I saw him on Fox News a few minutes ago, and uh he came on and did not jump to a conclusion before uh even though things were starting to look uh like it was a terrorist attack, the facts weren't in.
Buck didn't jump to uh to conclusion of that.
They had another guest on that did a former detective.
And it's important that we even people who were skilled at this, um, that we don't jump to conclusions, um, so that we we don't um go down a road uh uh investigating or the civilians as well, uh especially on a night like this.
Well, listen, I've been Jonathan.
I 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 and and uh it it turned out real quickly that uh that was the case.
But here Sean, even regardless of that, um, and even if this had been a terrorist attack, here's the thing.
By the way, I I don't mean to say 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 on They didn't even say that on CNN.
They didn't even say it that he got out and yelled at the end.
That that that this is the same thing as overseas contingency operations.
Um by fake news CNN.
I mean, it is unbelievable to me that oh, he said God is great in Arabic.
Well, that's a Lahu 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 uh former U.S. military and 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, th th there are over sixty 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.
You 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 gonna 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 gonna be a social media indication that whoever this individual is was radicalized and telegraphed it.
Sean, uh, as we talked about uh in in uh 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, were seeing uh these reports that the truck was rented in Jersey City, uh, which is historically uh been a real hotbed, including the uh 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Um I I do suspect that uh this is going to we have to you know let the facts stay stay right there.
Patrick, I don't mean to interrupt you here, but the president by the way has now been brief.
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, fifteen injured, and the suspect was shot.
He's in custody.
There might be a story of a hero bus uh 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 gonna have the very latest on all of those, yelling Alahu Akbar at the time.
We'll have the latest coverage.
Any uh 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.
From one police plaza in Lower Man.
Well that Chef Smith, they've all gathered around a microphone.
Clearly, I believe the police department, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of Liberal Governor of New York is standing next to him.
Let's listen in.
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Afternoon, everybody.
Steve, we good?
Yes.
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 uh Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio.
Um 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 Sivance and uh 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 off 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 the response of our NYPD officer that was on post near the location who stopped the carnage moments after it began.
Also, work of 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 of minutes, but uh right now I'd like to introduce uh 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.
Um, our thoughts and prayers are uh 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 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, CMS.
We have the finest security on the globe.
and to see them in action today prove 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.
More police everywhere.
You'll see them in the airport.
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, Alahu 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.
Uh, 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, not a signal of anything else.
And there will 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, and 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 man 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, uh, we're 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, uh 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.
A 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 six of the people died, they were pronounced at the scene between House and Street and Chambers Street.
They were all males.
Two others were transported in uh 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 uh later as we do our our survey.
But that's the patient count and the um the deaths as we know it now.
All right, at this point, we're gonna take some questions.
Miles, hold on, hold on.
Miles.
Uh this is something that John Lower talks about all the time.
Uh terror attacks or these kind of things where it's referenced uh truck.
This is something that you guys do with a shield all the time when you talk in these truck uh companies.
Had you guys talked to Old Depot recently about uh this kind of individual about this.
Hey, John, you want to talk about the program a little bit?
Sure.
So as you know, through the SHILED program, we do a very wide uh outreach.
We have uh just under 20,000 members in the private sector.
After uh ISIS Romea magazine came out with the issue uh just about two years ago around this time of year, suggesting uh car attacks.
You you'll recall one of the targets they suggested was the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Uh we went and did extensive outreach to the uh truck rental business.
Uh we visited over a hundred and forty-eight truck rental locations uh in this area, uh the obvious ones U-Haul Ryder, Home Depot, etc., and talked about suspicious indicators, ways to come forward uh after attacks uh on the German Christmas market after Nice.
Uh we repeated those uh visits two more times, either by making telephonic contact, email, or going back to the same places.
So the industry has had uh a high level of awareness um on this matter from the NYPD.
John, is there uh Commissioner?
Is there any indication that the suspect is a loan rule, perhaps radicalized here in America, or wired in the house?
And it's it's a way too early to to discuss that.
I mean, this just happened two hours ago, and that's of course part of our investigation.
You heard about some police activity up the C in here on 26 calls.
Uh it it 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, Cypolo Saipov is his name, 29 years old.
Tampa, Florida, we'll go back to the press conference, the MYPD, along with the mayor, the governor, and other first responders.
People in an area beyond the this incident is over.
It did uh end right by Stuyvesant High School, so we had to make sure that uh all the all the kids were taken care of and we held them in place for a while, but it and it was important that we do that.
But this incident uh uh is over.
David, hold on, hold on, David.
You had uh by the age of the suspect and then the victims, and then was there any earlier that maybe he had the man who resembled a bomb in the gas gas and fire?
He's uh he's a 29-year-old male, and I'm I'm not gonna talk about the truck right now.
Right there.
Yes, uh, can you confirm that the suspect said or anything that so is that the only indication that this may be an act of terrorism or do you what else isn't it need you to label?
Yeah, he did he did make a statement when he exited the vehicle, And if you just look at the MO of the attack, uh that that's consistent with uh what's been going on.
So that that along with the statement has uh enabled us to label this a terrorist event.
Yeah.
Uh no, not right now.
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 the child in the investigation?
It's uh being conducted jointly with the NYPD and the FBI.
Um Florida?
Yeah, I'm not gonna go into that.
Yep, John.
John, not right now, no.
Yes?
Is the average to secure the lesson I would have to consider future?
After the Times Square incident, I talked about this.
Any incident that happens in New York or uh happens in the country or happens around the world, we have to learn from that.
So, of course, we're gonna take a look at that.
Yeah, he's in the hospital.
I'm not gonna tell you what hospital, and I'm gonna let Chief Gomez talk about what we're doing for the Halloween parade tonight.
Carlos, all right.
In less than 90 minutes, that parade uh will kick off.
We we will proceed with the parade, and certainly we've added uh more resources, more police officers, heavy weapons teams, block of vehicles on the street leading to the uh on to the route, as well as uh more sand trucks.
And there's also uh heavy weapons teams being deployed throughout the city at key iconic locations.
Uh no terrorism uh why was that the initial and that's uh this is this is why we do investigations.
You know, initially uh 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.
Yep.
Too early in the investigation to know that, Rocco.
Did a preliminary video reveal anything that short a sustainable expensive uh I haven't looked at the video yet.
Uh, we're retrieving as much video as possible.
What we do know is he entered the bike path at Houston Street and uh exited the bike path at Chamber Street when he collided with the school bus.
And I I there are no intersections on the uh west side of the bike path between Houston and Chambers.
And uh hold on one second in the back there.
Dan, do you have that?
They're among among the injured that are serious but not life-threatening.
All right, they're among the injured that are serious but not life threatening.
Yes?
We're not gonna talk about where the home depot was rented from just yet.
And do we Bob, do we know how many people are on the bus?
Four total, two adults, two children.
There were two adults and two children on the school bus.
In the back?
Lisa where you came into the city.
Don't know, that's part of the investigation.
No, we don't have that yet.
We're getting into a little bit too much detail at this point.
We'll have to walk through that late later.
We'll give you another briefing as more information comes available.
But I'm gonna at this point ask you to wait until further information, have another briefing.
Look, I'll just come I'll just close this off here by saying, look, again, uh NYPD is investigating this with our federal partners, with our state partners.
Uh there's gonna 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 uh important additional measures are being taken for people's safety.
But the bottom line is we are going to go about our business in the city.
We're not gonna be deterred.
And we'll get you updates later on in the evening.
Thanks, everyone.
Thank you very much.
All right, that was the New York City press conference, and that consisted of the New York police uh commissioner uh 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.
Uh we now have confirmed that eight people are dead, fifteen 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, uh 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.
Uh we did get a few things confirmed in this press conference.
If you're just joining us now, we know that eight people now confirm dead, fifteen 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 will 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 chyron, 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 in 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 in this press conference that in fact this guy there we're 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 as this madman terrorist made his way down this bike path and walking pedestrian area purposely trying to kill people.
That there's one re 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 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 sh 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, um, 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 I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here.
Um, 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 uh um joining us now, we have Patrick Poole, PJ Media, senior national security correspondent Jonathan Gillam uh remains with us, former FBI agent, Navy SEAL, author of Sheep No More.
Uh, what did you take out of the press conference, Jonathan Gillam?
Well, I don't want to be as silly here, but uh listening to Cuomo and De Blasio speak uh gives me no sense of security being a resident in New York City at all.
Um I think one thing that we can take away from this press conference is that these attacks happen and that the NYPD is uh absolutely essential, and this mayor should pay more attention uh to that fact and take care of these police officers, and so should the civilians that live in this city um and respect uh our NYPD officers.
And um again, law enforcement's job and people Sean people have to realize this, especially as they 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, um and they are able to start the attack.
That means law enforcement didn't know uh about these people.
So by the way, Jonathan, I 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 uh 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 um 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, um, the book that I wrote.
And people need to think, if I was an attacker, where would I, where would I attack?
How would I attack?
When would I attack?
People were saying that just uh 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.
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 Sixth Avenue every year.
Now that's right pretty close, maybe four blocks uh in uh 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 event.
Uh 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.
Um it is big, and it's something that happens every year.
People come from all over the country.
Um it's got the the feel of like a burning man type of of a an event where people come there and you know, they they're very risque and drunk, and uh it it people just drop their guard at this uh at this event, and they need just need to realize that there's people that don't like it, and there's people that don't like the city, and there's people that don't like Americans.
Well, it's just it they don't like anybody that it's converted die for these radicals.
That's just a fact.
Uh let me bring back Patrick Poole, and I want to remind people of what I said earlier.
Um 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 uh said, quote, enjoy the gathering reads the tax superimposed over the image, uh terrorized 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, uh, I'm sorry, not Jonathan, then I'm Patrick, yeah.
Uh Sean, uh two months ago, there was a picture that came out of uh ISIS supporter taking a picture of the ISIS flag real close to the site of this attack.
Um and we see this kind of I mean, this is a very prominent area.
We see uh New York City pop up in um the Arabian Peninsulas and Spire Magazine, uh ISIS Rumias magazine.
Um the the thing that I'm taking away from from what we know so far is um last November, right after Thanksgiving, we had a car ramming attack just a few miles from me at my alma mater at Ohio State.
Um ISIS as fired attack, a Somali refugee.
Fortunately, no one was injured.
Uh 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.
Uh as well as any news uh uh about the incident.
Um, you know, I told people about the ISIS terror attack at Ohio State.
Well, stay stay right there.
I'm I'm literally looking at an image on Fox News, and you one, two, three, what looks like four or five, six bicycles just decimated.
I mean, this is um 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 it's scary, but go ahead.
Yeah, so how quickly is this going to disappear?
Fortunately, uh, 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.
Uh so hopefully the media will keep uh keep on this story because uh um we've seen this going on in Europe uh for more than a year, going back to the niche attack in uh July twin um 2015.
And uh 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 I'm like Jonathan.
The press conference did not inspire a lot of confidence with all the political correct buzzwords.
Um 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 is all last minute.
You guys uh are always uh great friends of the program.
Patrick uh Poole, who's uh great friend of the show, Jonathan Gillam, of course we all know well.
Thank you both for being with us with a 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, you know, little literally took a branded truck from Home Depot and plowed it into pedestrians in a walkway in a bike path.
Uh, there's uh the FBI treating this as a terror attack.
The president is been kept up to date.
Alahu Akbar was screamed at the time.
We'll have the latest tonight at nine.
See you then on Fox News.
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