Sean Hannity Show - Best of Sean Hannity: Thankful To All - 11.23

Nov. 24, 2017 - Sean Hannity Show

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Best of Sean Hannity: Thankful To All - 11.23

As Sean celebrates Thanksgiving, there is a lot of reflection in this "Best of Sean Hannity" segment. Laura Ingraham, John Rich and Jay Sekulow stop by to discuss the Trump Administration's successes and failures since January. The Sean Hannity Show is live weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	I want to focus on North Korea.
	I want to focus on Iran.
	I want to focus on other things.
	I don't want to focus on fixing somebody's back or their knee or something.
	Uh let the states do that.
	The states should do that.
	So the block grant concept is is a very good concept.
	And if you have good management, good governors, good politicians in the state, it'll be phenomenal.
	If you don't, it's like everything else.
	So we are I could almost say we are just about there in terms of the vote.
	So I expect to be getting healthcare approved.
	I'm disappointed.
	I thought that when I ran, you know, I've been here like you for seven years, repeal and replace, repeal.
	seven years I was a civilian.
	I wasn't even thinking about doing this.
	I was doing my nice buildings all over, and I was leading a very nice life, believe me.
	And then I decided to do the and so for two years I've been saying we're going to repeal and replace.
	That's what's going to happen.
	We will repeal and replace.
	But I thought that when I got to the Oval Office, I would have a bill sitting on my desk.
	Repeal and replace a beautiful health care bill.
	And it didn't happen.
	But remember, it didn't happen because of a lot of Republicans.
	It didn't ha it it, you know, that happened.
	That horrible thing happened because of a few people.
	Really a few people.
	And the problem we have is we have 52 senators, and they have to get rid of the just absolutely crazy voting where you need 60.
	It's called the filibuster rule.
	It's a disaster.
	Okay.
	It's a disaster for the Republicans.
	They have to get rid of it.
	If they don't get rid of it, it's just a death sentence.
	And we should go back to a majority and we'll get the votes one after another.
	Quick final question.
	In the tax package, is it possible rather than wrap it all into one great big bill that gives everyone an excuse to not vote for it, saying, Oh, I'm for 99 of the hundred things.
	Right.
	Will it possibly be done a la carte where each piece of it and force these guys to say yes or no to each element of the tax plan?
	We could do that.
	For instance, it would be easier, believe it or not.
	You know, the Democrats want to raise taxes because they want programs that many people don't want.
	They want a big increase in taxes, and we want a big cut in taxes.
	So for business, We could do it much easier if we were separate.
	But I don't like that because I think it looks unfair to people in the country.
	You know, the business now, even though it's going to create jobs, they're not looking at it that way.
	So I want to do it this way.
	Could we do it that way?
	Absolutely.
	Some people prefer doing it that way.
	I think you would agree.
	If we can get it, doing it the way we're doing it is better because I want to give the middle income people in this country.
	And this is not a tax for the rich.
	Now, everybody's going to benefit, but this is what we're focused on more than anything, and even more so, we're actually adding things in as we speak, because you know the plan's being adjusted, etc.
	But this is for the middle class.
	So the answer is yes.
	It would be easier if I cut it down into the middle income people or the working people as I call them, because they are they're working people.
	If I do that, and business would be easier, but I'd like to do it as one.
	All right, so maybe we'll actually get some progress.
	Hour two, Sean Hannity show, toll free our telephone numbers 800 941.
	Sean, you want to be a part of the program, so it is a rare in studio appearance.
	Um my Fox News colleague of 10 years now will debut the Ingram angle uh immediately following Hannity on Fox, debuting October the 30th, because she needed a few weeks to get her acting.
	Oh, you know something?
	I am the use I take.
	She needed a few weeks to go on business.
	You have such a fancy studio.
	I have a very down-home studio.
	Like you have a you got like 15 screens.
	What is this?
	NORAD?
	Look at this.
	One, two, three, four, five, six.
	You got fifteen in the other room.
	You got um aga you got the ode to to Hannity all over the place.
	This is amazing.
	What is the conservative solutions caucus?
	I guess I got you have your head, you have your head on J uh George Washington's body, superimposed.
	What is that?
	You're not.
	Why are you lying?
	You are you were at Valley Forge.
	That's a good movie.
	Why are you lying?
	Anyway, so that's the forgotten man sitting on the bench.
	And there's Donald Trump helping the forgotten man.
	And uh I try and remember what this election was about because uh for a big part of my life I was the forgotten man had 200 in my bank account.
	It came from the forgotten man and woman.
	That's what we came from.
	That's why we're hungry.
	You know, I'm glad you wrote this book.
	It's called Billionaire at the Barricades, the populist revolution from Reagan to Trump.
	I was real who was it that wrote this?
	Oh, like we go from William F. Buckley to the likes of Hannity and Ingram and talk radio.
	Is that what this is?
	Is this the movement?
	I'm thinking I happen to revere Buckley.
	I mean, he's a brilliant, brilliant man.
	Oh, yeah.
	And God and man.
	Um, you know.
	But, you know, are they going to talk about his irreverence?
	I remember a few debates with Gore Vidal, if he ever said the things he said then.
	That was the Buckley we really liked, taking on Vidal.
	Yeah, well, the the party has been in this family feud mode uh for well since about 2007 when they tried to push the Bush amnesty down everyone's throats.
	They tried to put Harriet Myers, the ultimate act of cronyism on the Supreme Court.
	And that was talk radio that basically stopped both things.
	They the immigration amnesty that was being pushed back then by John McCain and a lot of Democrats, and George W. Bush and the Myers nomination.
	Thank goodness we defeated both, because now we have Sam Molito on the Supreme Court, and uh we have Donald Trump.
	So I think the the Reagan Revolution brought everyone together because Reagan came in, Sean, at a time when we had to defeat the Soviet Union, when Jimmy Carter had taken our country uh down a ravine.
	Uh we had the Iranian hostage crisis.
	And Reagan came along after almost winning the nomination 76, and with a conservative populist zeal, he revolutionized politics in the country.
	You and I wouldn't be doing what we're doing without Reagan.
	So he he is the reason we're we have a meeting.
	He's without Reagan, there would have been no Fox News.
	Here's my question, though.
	I look at Trump's agenda, and I don't care if it's his economic plan, seven brackets of three, repatriation, energy independence, uh corporate taxes, lowering the rates across the board for the most part.
	We can get it to the details later.
	Uh immigration, secure the borders, be identifying evil in our time, something Obama wouldn't do.
	What part of his agenda is not conservative?
	Because uh I mean we throw around these terms, populist nationalist.
	Yep.
	But I look at Trump's agenda as conservative.
	I've always been a Reagan conservative.
	I've not changed.
	Yeah, well, Reagan used the Make America Great Again.
	That was his that was one of his first commercials, as everyone remembers.
	And his point from 76 on, really from 64 on was without a strong, vibrant American economy, we're no good to the rest of the world.
	Because if America sees that the system at home is rigged against them and is not really working for the every man, it's just working for a very small veneer of elites, then they're not gonna they're not gonna have any desire to do anything in any other countries, any foreign country.
	So Reagan understood that.
	He he when he went to blue collar America and said you don't have to vote Democrat anymore, there's a new way forward.
	Trump actually did a similar thing.
	There are different people.
	Obviously, Trump's not a politician.
	He doesn't speak with the uh the the same, you know, poetic uh They hate that.
	You know, the with the same poetry of Reagan, but remember the same Democrats who despise Reagan in the same old style Republican party that hated Reagan in 76, called him uh a a force of disruption.
	No, they actually called him Republicans were the one that called him an amiable dunce.
	Yeah, and he was uh Ronnie Reagan, he was gonna blow us all up, he was going to get us into World War III.
	What are they saying about Trump Corker yesterday?
	He was gonna get us into World War III.
	It's exactly what they said about Reagan, because Reagan didn't want to do the detente anymore.
	He wanted peace through strength.
	Right.
	He thought we could bring the Soviet Union down by a stronger U.S. economy and a bigger military, and he was laughed at for that.
	You know what's amazing?
	I watched this corker thing go back and forth, and I don't think I Corker doesn't get it.
	No, the Senate doesn't get it.
	Do you realize they've been there?
	They're now in their tenth month since Trump has been president.
	What have they accomplished?
	They didn't need they've maybe approved a third of the president's VA thing.
	All right, the VA thing was a big deal, and and no doubt Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, give credit where credit is due.
	Um if it wasn't for the president stepping out today with Rand Paul and using his statutory authority on the issues involving health care, right?
	We wouldn't get anything done.
	Every pro everything the president could do himself, he's done.
	Exactly.
	And yeah, we hear we heard yesterday and today on some of the other cable channels, we heard, well, the president just doesn't want to pass legislation.
	The president just wants to to bully people into to appeal to his thirty per 30 percent talk radio audience.
	And I said to that, how many pieces of legislation has ar have arrived at his door on his desk that he hasn't signed?
	He even signed the Russian sanctions bill, which frankly was a stupid bill.
	He signed it reluctantly, but he wanted to play along and play nice with the establishment there, and he did that.
	But I'm telling you, the the establishment Republicans, the McConnells, the Corkers, the McCain's, the Lindsey Graham's of the world.
	We can work with them on certain issues, but on some issues it's just a break in the family, and that's not coming back.
	That's not coming back.
	So they're not Reagan conservatives.
	So another one.
	I would argue no.
	I would argue no globalists.
	The one that is the bigger Reagan conservative would be Trump.
	I think tr Donald Trump, and it's so it's so odd to think about it.
	But a guy who comes from Manhattan who grew up as a son of privilege, has a closer connection to the heartbeat of the American working class than any of these Republicans on Capitol.
	And I mean any of them.
	If he was which is stunning.
	That's a stunning thing.
	If his plan was implemented, those people in those pictures, and I'm not in them, thank you very much.
	But John McNaughton is a great.
	No, I actually have the original.
	That's a that's a copy.
	I bought the original.
	That guy's sitting on the bench, and you've got one side liberals, the other side conservative presidents, and Obama stomping on the Constitution.
	But if we would implement those economic plans, Reagan created 20 million new jobs, doubled revenues to the government.
	It was up to that time, the longest period of peacetime economic growth in history.
	It can be duplicated.
	It can be, but why would they resist.
	Because if Trump is successful, think of what that does to their brand of Republicanism, which has been really uh riding on the coattails of Reagan without a lot of accomplishments.
	They they are at their heart, their very heart, they're not working class conservatives.
	They're not most of them aren't from the people that we're from.
	I'm sorry, they're not.
	They're most of them are they're a different which is okay because you can be privileged and actually get it.
	But they are when push comes to shove, keeping wages low for corporate America by streaming people into the country, and they're for these global trade deals that have deindustrialized the Middle West.
	That's why all these states turned out for Trump.
	They've they've seen their livelihood uh destroyed, their families oftentimes broken up.
	They got all these people addicted to opioids.
	We have we had a hopelessness in America, Sean, that was so uh uh it was so transparent, and I felt it the night of October, I mean, excuse me, November 6th in Leesburg, Virginia, two days before the election, it was a Sunday night and it was cold.
	It was maybe I don't know, 45 degrees.
	At midnight, there were 12,000 people waiting for Donald Trape to make it Donald Trump to make his final trip on the campaign.
	I was there.
	Right, stay right there.
	I want to know you were sort of in the forefront of of leading the effort against Eric Cantor, and you were successful, and Dave Pratt took his place.
	Yeah, and then we saw Roy Moore in Alabama, and just this weekend, Steve Bannon says, Oh, this is just a goal.
	All right, we'll take a break.
	Laura Ingram is with us.
	Her brand new book out.
	We put it up on Hannity.com.
	It's called Billionaire at the Barricades, The Populous Revolution from Reagan to Trump.
	By the way, I'm going to be in Philadelphia area on Thursday night, and then we'll put that up on all that.
	All the tour stops are on Laura Ingram.com.
	But Philly, I want to see a big Philly turnout on Thursday night.
	More with Laura Ingram on the other side.
	She will be one of our many guests tonight on Hannity.
	Steve Bannon is stopping by in studio tonight and much more.
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	And as we continue, Laura Ingram is in studio with us today.
	800 941 Sean is on number.
	We've got an investigation coming up into the very latest in the Debbie Wasserman Schultz scandal.
	Um so you wrote Billionaire at the Barricades.
	We saw what happened to Roy Moore in Alabama.
	You were in the forefront of going up against Eric Canner, and as as a result, I think we got a far better congressman in David Bratt.
	And Steve Bannon is basically saying this is just the beginning because if the Senate's not going to do their job and they're not going to get things accomplished and they're going to stop the agenda, then let's replace them.
	I agree with them.
	I think he's totally right.
	And I'm going to be with Bannon with Kelly Ward in Phoenix next week.
	And I'm supporting Kelly Ward.
	Yeah, so we're doing a huge event for her.
	So it's Bannon and I and some other friends, I guess you've got to be.
	By the way, she's going to beat Jeff Flake.
	Oh, Jeff Flake is one of the most unpopular, untethered to reality senators.
	He's a globalist, open borders, complete open markets.
	Doesn't matter if China's getting stronger.
	And he is a constant thorn in the side of this administration.
	He did not understand what the election was all about.
	And the people have had enough.
	I mean, just like uh just like on your show, Sean, my listeners in Phoenix go crazy.
	They're like, how did we get this guy?
	They always campaign as one thing, and then they governor something totally different.
	Same with McCain.
	The absolute I think Corker would have lost in Tennessee.
	Absolutely.
	That's why he was getting out.
	Corker was on his way out.
	He, you know, barely won by the skin of his teeth last time around.
	He was scared last time around, and he managed to win, but this time, forget about it.
	The populist wins are blowing.
	Who do you like so far early in Tennessee?
	Well, Marcia Blackburn's running.
	I like Marcia, but I want to see what the real field is.
	Because I'm not sure she's nationalist enough for me, frankly.
	I mean, she's she's been there for a while.
	I like her a lot.
	Uh, but we'll see.
	I'm waiting to see.
	She's actually come up with her own version of the penny plan that actually goes further than the version I've advocated all these years.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, I'm happy to leave.
	No, I'm not making a dis I'm not making decisions until the time.
	No, no, no, no.
	We have plenty of time on that one.
	Um, and I guess they're even going after Orrin Hatch now in Utah.
	It's uh Orin Hatch, God bless him.
	He's a nice man.
	He could not be a nicer person.
	Lamar Alexander, Thad Corcoran, Cochrane.
	I mean, these people are like uh they should be on the set of cocoon.
	I mean, this is his we've got to go.
	I mean, this is not.
	Is that pool real?
	I want to find that pool.
	This is I mean, we do not roll with the pods.
	Oh my god, we just it's time to say goodbye.
	They're in their late 70s.
	Do they have no interests other than shuffling over to the Capitol every now and then to go to these black tie dinners raising money?
	I mean, uh seventy-seven years old, seventy-nine years old, eighty-two years old.
	I mean, they've just got a uh it just it's not a lifetime job security act running for the Senate.
	I'm tired of all of them.
	All right, so I'm looking at your book.
	I've been reading it this weekend.
	Thanks for getting me an early copy.
	It's just out today in bookstores everywhere.
	It's on Hannity.com.
	Also, you're gonna be doing a bunch of book events speeches, I guess, along with the book signings in Philly, Amyrtle Beach and DC.
	You're headed to Oklahoma City, Scottsdale, Arizona, West Oh, yeah.
	Oh, you had to put West Palm Beach.
	Well, I had to go down there for sure.
	I have to hang out at the breakers.
	I had to go check out your property down there.
	I don't have any property down in West Palm Beach.
	You're the landed gentry.
	You went from the construction site to being a landed gentleman.
	I don't have I don't have property in West Palm Beach.
	Okay, sorry, it's the one county in Palm Beach County where you don't have private.
	No, I'm on the other coast.
	I don't have any property in the panhandle.
	Naples.
	That's why I do have Wakando in Naples.
	All right, 800 nine four one Shomel.
	I always struggled with like, okay, so what's my story?
	And it suddenly dawned on me that I was the beneficiary of these radical changes in you know women's rights and opportunities that uh began in the 60s and continue, and that I could have and maybe should have tried harder to tell that story.
	But I quickly add, as you point out, I never thought there would be that receptive an audience.
	And I think that what's happened since this election may have cracked that open.
	I hope it has.
	I hope you know, I'm seeing tens of thousands of people on my book tour, and I've now shaken, you know, about seven, eight thousand hands and booked signings and spoken to you know, ten thousand more, and I've got much uh still to do.
	There seems now to be a willingness by more and more women and girls to claim uh their rights in a very explicit way, not an apologetic way, not like, oh, you know, excuse me, let me express my opinion.
	But no, I have an opinion.
	I want to tell you what that opinion is.
	I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia.
	I was twelve years old and my publicist, he um basically uh talked me into doing things that I didn't really want to do.
	I was hadn't had sex before, and he kind of convinced me that this was the right thing to do, and kind of told me, like, don't tell your parents.
	He seduced me, and he started at eleven years old to twelve.
	We have to make people realize that children need to be safe on these sets, and they're not safe.
	Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.
	Do you have any advice for a young girl moving to Hollywood?
	Um, Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party and force you here of your own free will.
	Has someone coerced you into being here?
	Do you count Harvey Weinstein as a coercer?
	I'm not afraid of anyone in show business.
	I turned down intercourse with Harvey Weinstein on no less than three occasions out of five.
	So the Harvey Weinstein scandal continues here, and uh it's getting worse by the day.
	Now, here's the most fascinating aspect of all of this is how come you never hear all these people in Hollywood that supported the Clintons over the years.
	Well, I interviewed Juanita Broderick, and she accused Bill Clinton of rape.
	I interviewed uh Kathleen Williams said she was groped and grabbed and fondled and touched and kissed against her will.
	I interviewed Paula Jones, who says that then Governor Clinton dropped his pants and said, kiss it.
	How come the media never plays this?
	And why did they were they so supportive of Bill Clinton?
	Let's hit it.
	You described a scene where he was biting on your lip, and then when it was all over, he was leaving.
	Up said, You better put some ice on that.
	Yeah.
	And casually put on his sunglasses and walked out the door.
	It was a terrible ordeal for me, and I no woman should be subjected to it.
	It was an assault.
	He assaulted you.
	Yes.
	He and you he touched, grabbed, fondled, and kissed you against your will.
	Yes.
	And it's an allegation that is not made by one woman.
	It's made by multiple.
	Many of us.
	I said, Well, I may need to be going or something.
	And they say, you know, he pulled down his, he said down, pulled, pulled down his pants, his whole everything.
	And he was exposed.
	And I said, I'm not that kind of girl.
	And I need to be getting back to my to my desk.
	So beyond despicable, beyond hypocritical.
	Ainsley Earhart, the co-host of Fox and Friends on the Fox News Channel each weekday morning, six to nine is with us.
	She's got a brand new book out.
	Uh, This is number two in a series.
	It's called Through Your Eyes, My Child's Gift to Me.
	You know, it's fast.
	I'm gonna ask this question through this prism.
	When you have a daughter, and I have a young daughter, and I I saw your daughter on TV with your dad is in your Mr. Earhart, sir.
	I know I'm I know with the South.
	It's sir, yes, sir, no, sir, yes, ma'am, no man.
	Am I doing all right?
	Like, we put his mic on.
	Uh yeah, you gotta get you gotta Dad, you gotta get closer to the mic.
	Yeah, sorry about it.
	There you go.
	You gotta talk a little louder.
	No, no, no.
	I'm I'm glad to call it.
	But it makes a difference.
	I mean, you literally make such a big difference in life.
	Um, what are your thoughts?
	You've been covering the Weinstein thing.
	You know, when you play all those sound bites of the girls who are accusing Bill Clinton of this, it sounds exactly like the stories about Weinstein, and I don't think any of us have ever thought about it because that happened so long ago until you've brought it up, Sean.
	You know, could you imagine it if the shoe were on the other foot if this were President Trump?
	Oh, the mainstream media would be playing it over and over and over.
	Yeah, they're not really cutting thing.
	Not for you know, a big portion of the newscast.
	And you know, now we're seeing that it was a lot of these stars are coming out of the woodwork.
	I think it's the tip of the iceberg.
	I had two women on last night, Tracy uh McCurry was on, an actress that has been in movies and on soap operas, and then we had Kaya Jones, who was with the Pussycat dolls, and it's in music, and it's in TV, and it's in the movie entertainment industry.
	And these young girls go with hopes and dreams, and this is how this is why my parents would never write, Dad.
	They never wanted me to major in theater, and they didn't want me to go to New York at an early age.
	Now, is that true, Mr. One Big Raising?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I remember they were modeling.
	Was she incorrigible growing up, or did she behave?
	She was trouble all the time.
	That is not true.
	You're getting me confused with your son.
	That's true.
	Oh, whoa, so she was an angel, and you're I don't know about an angel, but I was the middle child.
	She was a middle of the road, I put it that way.
	Put it middle of the road, middle child, is that right?
	Um, you know, you think of it, and I know this is a second in the series.
	By the way, the I the illustrations on these books that you do are phenomenal.
	Thank you.
	And your first book was Take Heart My Child, and that was your dreams for your child.
	I happen to see you guys on the show this morning.
	First, your a your daughter's an angel.
	That girl is adorable.
	Thank you.
	Um, and that's your granddaughter, sir.
	That's right.
	Okay.
	And so now through your eyes, my child's gift to me.
	And I started thinking about it as you got y'all were talking about it this morning.
	See, I'm getting southern, y'all.
	And um, and but this is what was interesting to me.
	Is when you watch kids and it's raining outside, they love the rain.
	You know, to us it's an aggravation.
	Right.
	You know, if with snow, it's an aggravation for a kid, it's heaven.
	I know.
	You know, and and they, for example, you buy them a beautiful gift or a toy, and all they care about is the plastic that they can pop.
	Right.
	You know, it's like, and we think it's the greatest gift we ever got though.
	I know.
	And I mean, so talk tell us about Well, that's really what the book is about, Sean.
	It's just it's it's uh watching your children and learning from them and being able to, as an adult, say, I can grow and learn learn the importance of life and what's really important, and that's through the eyes of a child.
	Because you're I'm sure your schedule is as busy as well.
	We live insane lives.
	I mean, we just go go go.
	It's go, go, go all the time.
	Yes.
	And does your child stop you?
	And do you go, wow?
	Your your child's name is uh Hayden Hayden.
	Does your child that you find yourself stopping and saying, I'm so stupid.
	I do find myself, I've always been a worker.
	Yeah, and like you, I say yes to everything that Fox ever asks me to do, and my schedule is packed.
	I have, I mean, it literally, minute to minute, it is packed.
	Having a baby has slowed me down in the fact that I'm not afraid to leave work and go attend to her or go to her classes and just put my work life on hold for an hour.
	Do you find you're getting better at saying no?
	Because I got better as I I'm now I just started my 23rd year at Fox, believe it or not, last year.
	Congratulations.
	What would we do without you?
	Thank goodness.
	Who would have thunk it?
	I'm the last man standing in Fox News.
	I can't believe I'm in a studio.
	Dad, can you believe this if you really think about it?
	We're from South Carolina.
	I watched you.
	I would I remember that was the last thing that we would do every night.
	We'd watch your show and then go to bed, and I'd get up and anchor the local news.
	And now I'm working with you and have been a correspondent for your show, and I'm on your radio show.
	You've been there 11 years now, right?
	Almost eleven.
	Almost eleven years.
	What did you think, Ms. When you read this book?
	Because I'm reading it, my kids are older now.
	My son's eighteen, my daughter's sixteen.
	And I'm I'm realizing that there were those moments.
	If I had I do have one regret that I wasn't home enough because I was working so hard.
	And but I I remember my kids would like they would stop and pick up a rock, and then I'd be like, come on, let's go, go, go, go, go.
	No, they then they pick up a flower, and I'm like, stop with the stupid flower.
	Then they'd pick up something else that was annoying me.
	And I remember at the time I was pretty good at realizing, all right, it's more important that they play with the rock than me to drag them along like they're a puppy dog and and understand that that's of interest to them.
	Well, Sean, I'll think that you know the simple things in life are probably the best things in life.
	And I that certainly holds true in raising children.
	And uh, as I said today on the TV station, you know, they give some God.
	So uh no matter how bad they are, how good they are, they're yours, it's your responsibility to care for them and love them and and cherish them.
	And uh, you know, the the little moments that we had with with all three of ours were probably moments that we were sitting together talking or at the beach somewhere, sitting around on the beach and just been in town with each other.
	That was far more important than getting a new car or a new house or whatever it might be, some new toy or whatever.
	Like you said, I I think they had more pleasure playing with boxes at the toys game in it and toy.
	You know, and I'm looking through the illustrations, and you have like a snowy day with an airplane, and the kids are ecstatic.
	You have a a scene in the park, a fall scene, and the illustrations are beautiful.
	Thanks.
	Then you have a little girl chasing birds in in the book and a story around that, then kids in a playground, which used to give me agita because I thought my kid was going to break his neck.
	Um, and then kids hanging out at a pond and just running around and playing and with the dog, and then you know, butterflies and flying kites and going on little boats.
	Um I don't know about your life.
	I don't get to do this anymore.
	I know.
	You know, I barely get to breathe.
	But it's uh it's we I think we rob our kids of their childhood a little.
	Well, you know, the book has it's really it's been interesting to see how all this is unfolded.
	The first book was about all the little little messages that dad would leave me next to my cereal bowl every morning.
	A scripture, a poem, and it was called Take Heart, because there's a scripture in the Bible that says in this in this world you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world.
	And I think about that.
	When we talk about ISIS, we talk about you know, all North Korea, take heart, I have overcome the world.
	And that's kind of the message our kids teach us.
	Whew, learn to breathe, learn to take a step back and truly smell the roses.
	You've been able to do that.
	This has helped you.
	It's helped me.
	I'm working on it.
	I'm perfect I'm not a perfectionist.
	I mean, I'm not I mean, I'm not uh I'm not perfect at this.
	I'm trying, but I'm learning.
	I'm really just learning to take a step back and watch my daughter and appreciate her seeing a dog for the first time.
	It's seeing rain for the first time.
	I remember from the first book, you did tell that story that Mr. Earhart, sir, uh you you would leave notes for all the kids, right?
	And Bible verses.
	Did you have any idea it would have the impact to inspire Ainsley to do a book like this?
	No, not really, Sean.
	It's just uh I was really surprised that Angely kept them all or wrote them down somewhere.
	And I still have a file for the house that I would uh kind of run out.
	I'm gonna have to go back and start repeating.
	Yeah.
	See, my family's just so shocked that I'm not in jail.
	I mean, they're really uh I was far more incorrigible in my life.
	I won't go there.
	No.
	Uh I guess you're saying it's your brother.
	Okay.
	No question.
	He turned out okay.
	How does it feel to and this is just a fact now that the president of the United States of America that you're his favorite show.
	There have been articles read it written that Fox and Friends is his favorite show.
	Well, one of them, I think yours is too.
	He I I think he's watched the show or two of it.
	Yeah.
	It's cool, right?
	It's great.
	Yes.
	You know, the mainstream media or the liberal press will want to write an article about, you know, we give soft interviews or we do that.
	That is not true.
	The vice president even told one of his folks that works for him, told me that my interview was tougher than the he gave three of us interviews at one point.
	One was Matt Lauer, one was me, and I can't remember who the other one was.
	And he said that mine was the tougher one out of all three of them, which I took great pride in, because I plan my questions the night before.
	I talk about it.
	Sometimes I'll call you and I'll say, Sean, can I run over the questions with you?
	Or I'll talk to people on my staff, and I'll come up with really hard hitting questions and things that I think our viewers are going to want to know.
	I don't want anyone to think it's a softball question, but I do want people to think we're fair.
	And I think we are fair.
	No, well, and you work very hard to get These interviews, as everybody does.
	Um, and I noticed that Brian was was there earlier today.
	Um, one of the things you should be proud of is by far you you double your competition.
	You beat them combined.
	And that's an amazing accomplishment, especially considering how tough morning TV is.
	We have great great.
	I just want to I I will tell you, this is the best illustrated book with an incredible message.
	I think it reminds even those of us that are adults that that we need to slow down a little bit and we can learn from our children that they're gifts from God and they have wonderful things to teach us and remind us about.
	Um you're gonna be out in Huntington tonight at Book Review, signing books uh in about an hour and fifteen minutes from right now.
	I'll be at Huntington 7 o'clock book review, Brooklyn tomorrow night at Brookmark Shop, which is on Third Avenue, and that's at 7 p.m.
	And then I'll be at RJ Julia Booksellers at 6 p.m. on Thursday in Connecticut.
	Then I go home, South Carolina to sign books in Myrtle Beach on Friday night, Saturday during the day in my hometown in Columbia, and then on Sunday, I'm in Greenville, my mom's hometown.
	So you can go on Ainsley Earhart Books.com to see the schedule or any of my social media.
	And if you want to buy a signal, it's on my website too, Hannity.com.
	Okay.
	And then I also have the signbooks.
	So tonight at Book Review and in Huntington, if you want to go to any of these other ones, it's on Ainsley Books.com or Hannity.com.com.
	I gotta get it right.
	But if you want to buy a signed copy of the book, um you can go on Ainsley Book.com.
	Well, congratulations.
	It's a great reminder for all of us.
	And some of the money goes to Folds of Honor.
	Uh, which is the uh uh military charity.
	That's right.
	All right, Mr. Earhart, sir, God bless you.
	Good to see you.
	You've got to be gotta be proud of this little girl.
	Very much so.
	Proud of all three of them.
	Uh just heard about all three.
	Which one do you like the best?
	Uh can't go there.
	All right.
	Quick break, we'll come back.
	We have an awesome Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for tonight.
	We are gonna blow wide open the real Russia conspiracy collusion story.
	It's all happening tonight on the Fox News channel, Hannity at nine.
	Now, Sarah Carter, John Solomon, uh, our good friend Greg Jarrett, Newt Gingrich, and Peter Schweitzer will all break this down for you in an understandable way, and I bet the rest of the media ignores it because they are corrupt.
	You don't want to miss it.
	That's happening tonight, 9 Eastern, Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
	And I'll stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above.
	From the mountains, to the fairies, to the oceans, I give up.
	Oh, sing it now, sing it!
	God bless America, my home sweet home.
	Come on, God, sing it!
	God bless America, my home sweet home.
	God bless Las Vegas and God bless America today!
	A powerful moment from last night's Vegas Strong concert that we were a small part of, uh, headlined by Big and Rich.
	Then you had Ron White, the comedian there.
	You had Rascal Flats playing an incredible acoustic set.
	Uh and head I mean, Big and Rich were on their game last night.
	It was it was just phenomenal.
	So while they were playing that, remember this is one hour before, with a crowd of about 30,000 people, the shooting that happened here in Vegas.
	Remember, they sang that song in unison.
	I mean, for some parents that lost their kids, they know that an hour before their child died, this is the experience that child had.
	And that video went so viral.
	So during the singing of this last night, I actually stood in front of the stage and I stood up on like this chair, and I think I got the best video I've ever taken in my life, because I'm not the best video taker.
	And we posted it all on Hannity.com.
	I'm gonna air it on TV.
	Uh all of This will air on TV tonight in my usual slot.
	We're gonna have Vegas Strong, a night of healing, and all the highlights from last night are gonna be played tonight, and I think you're gonna really enjoy it.
	And I know the people in Vegas did, and I know from what I've heard, a ton of money was raised for the families, the victims, uh, for some of their medical costs and first responders, others that were injured.
	It was just an incredible, amazing night.
	And one of the more important reasons that happened is because Big and Rich came back in town and they they played for this crowd at the Orl Packed Orleans Arena last night.
	And John Rich joins us as well as Thomas Gunderson.
	You may remember that he was shot in the leg, and when President Trump came to the hospital, he wasn't able to stand, but he stood up for the president, and then he posted on Facebook.
	I'll always stand for my president.
	Then we find out that he really stood for Melania.
	He didn't stand for the president.
	He told me privately.
	Uh guys, welcome to the show.
	That was a great show last night, John.
	Unbelievable.
	And then I never knew you owned a bar in Vegas called the Redneck Riviera.
	Then you guys played an then you guys played another two hours.
	You kept me out till like three in the morning, and I have half a voice today, but I had the most fun I've had in a long time.
	I had beyond John, you kept me out till three o'clock in the morning.
	Come on.
	But you know, I watched you guys perform, and I uh there's such a passion in what you do.
	I saw I saw people crying last night when you're singing the eighth of November.
	We're gonna show that definitely it's gonna be on the show tonight.
	I actually filmed that too.
	That's gotta be an incredible experience for you night in and night out.
	Well, Sean, I mean, we are fire breathing Americans, you know, and when we take the stage, um we feel so blessed to be able to do that, you know, with our lives to make music and and you know, music is a it's a big unifier.
	You know, it doesn't matter.
	You saw this last night, doesn't matter your politics or where you're from or anything else, when you play those songs and everybody like the eighth of November, or you sing God Bless America or even crazy songs like Save Horserder Cowboy, you'll see all these people jumping in and and this energy like you saw last night, man.
	It it's just over the top, and I think that is uh it's really the comment that I would love America to focus on is seeing their fellow Americans standing there together with their iPhones in the air, those lights are shining up, and they're singing at the top of their lungs with every ounce of of patriotism and and passion that they have.
	That to me is really what America's all about, and it it's just an honor every time we step on the stage and are able to lead those songs.
	I was I I'd be honest, there was a s an energy last night in that arena that I I imagine was just a cut above.
	Uh you know, when I walked out in the crowd a couple of times and I met people, I actually met the guy that we hear on the audio tape when the dispatch when he says, All right, on the on the 32nd floor, gonna breach, gonna breach, gonna the first guy in I met last night.
	Uh a woman came up to me, and uh so many women came up to me and telling me the stories about how their husbands were heroes that nobody knows about.
	And you know, you're right, the shooter didn't care if they're Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative.
	He just wanted to kill Americans.
	He didn't care who he was killing.
	And, you know, that's evil in our time.
	And uh, you know, one of the victims is with us here, Thomas Gunderson.
	I mean, you you know, you're you gonna you're gonna be in rehab for how long, Thomas, for your leg?
	Uh probably a couple more months, maybe even a few more months.
	We'll see how it goes.
	Yeah, you look pretty good last night.
	And I think you're I think your girlfriend is way out of your league.
	I'm just saying, and even your mom and dad told me they thought so.
	Oh, she is.
	I got lucky.
	Nah.
	Uh you guys are a great couple.
	I was having fun with y'all last night.
	You know, yeah, it was a good time.
	And it's funny because this wasn't supposed to be political.
	It became political because that's what everybody, I guess, does.
	And the president walked in your room and you made a point to stand.
	And then you wrote why you stood.
	Tell us.
	Absolutely.
	Honestly, it has nothing to do with who our president is, but just that it in fact is the president, you know.
	It's uh it's respect for my country.
	It's the country that is giving me everything that I have, and uh feel that, you know, I owe everything back to this country, and uh, and I feel like everybody should feel that way.
	You know, there's a lot worse places to live.
	I I truly believe this is the the greatest place in the world and uh you know I've I've been given every opportunity because of where I live and I I will always stand for for my country, my anthem, my flag, and uh, you know, especially the president of the United States is literally the highest held position in our country.
	So you better believe no matter what kind of pain I'm in, um I'm standing up and shaking that man or woman's hand.
	It's a pretty inspiring moment, but then you told me privately you really just stood for Melania, don't lie.
	Oh, absolutely.
	I I could have been shot through both legs, I would have found a way to get for her.
	All right, that's the American spirit.
	You know, John Rich and I so last night John and and b and Big Kenny and I and and a bunch of other guys were sitting around in his bus before the show, and we're talking about communication.
	And I said, John, I I do radio three hours a day, and it's a warmth medium.
	You gotta connect heart to heart, soul to soul on radio.
	And people will figure out in ten seconds if you're a phony, because you can't fake it three hours a day, five days a week in radio.
	And same thing on TV, although you can make a lot of points without saying a lot of words.
	I could just roll my eyes and people know what I'm thinking.
	But I've always believed that the most powerful form of communication is music.
	And this is what you do so well, John.
	When when you what made you want to follow this crazy career that you're on?
	Well, you know, I grew up uh out in Texas.
	My dad is uh is a non-denominational uh Bible banging preacher, and he played guitar in church, and I watched my dad, you know, be able to get up and lead people and and sing to people and and impact people, and you know, if you got a great dad like that, every son wants to be like their dad.
	And so I picked up the guitar at an early age and really never thought I would have a shot at at making music for a living.
	I mean, it's never really entered my mind.
	I just did it because my dad did it and and it was it was you know, it's like you said, it's a s it's a soulful experience to be able to pick up an instrument and sing something to somebody.
	But man, you know, I I'll I'll echo the sentiments of the gentleman on the phone, which we had a chance to meet last night.
	We live in a place, you know, we woke up this morning and our eyes opened and we are living in America, and we live in the only place in the world that literally has no limits to what we're allowed to go for and achieve.
	And we can dream as big as we want and work as hard as we want to to go after those dreams.
	And that's what I did with music.
	You know, if if you think about our constitution, Sean, it never promised you promises you happiness.
	I think that's a big misconception with a lot of people that you're promised happiness.
	No, you're not.
	You're not promised happiness.
	Oh, a declaration says the pursuit of happiness.
	You're a promised a pursuit of it.
	And the pursuit of happiness is is what gets me up every day and and charges me up.
	And when I'm able to grab that guitar and walk out on stage like we did here in Las Vegas for Vegas Strong and sing to those people and see them singing back, you saw it.
	That that is a connection that that nobody can ever break that, and only in America can you accomplish something like that.
	It was just an amazing I I urge everybody um until I'm back on the air.
	You well, you're gonna see it tonight on Hannity.
	And and we have all the highlights.
	I made sure we put in God Bless America, the eighth of November, and I and I put in Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy, because that's you go.
	There you go, right, man.
	You gotta and we put that we put and then you guys went over to your bar and you played another two hours and the crowd was going nuts.
	I mean, it was just a fun, amazing night.
	And Thomas, how fun was that?
	You got to bring your parents there.
	And um I I had a blast last night just meeting everybody.
	Everybody was uh you they were back to celebrating freedom and fun.
	That's what I felt last night was.
	I'm not kidding.
	It's uh it's so fun to meet, you know, people like like John and Big Kenny, you know, it's it's uh we look up to them so much, you know, and at the end of the day, they are normal people just like us, but you know, there are idols, you know, in country music and being able to uh sit with them and just and talk to John for a little while and and hang out with him.
	It honestly meant the world to me and and to my girlfriend, you know, going through what we have lately and uh just uh amazing people, you know, so gracious and so kind to us.
	It was really cool.
	So one kind of cool moment last night is the president heard about the concert, John, and he's a big fan of yours, and he tweeted out that you all were playing last night with the words Vegas Strong.
	How cool was that for you?
	Man, what I mean, what else can you ask for?
	You know, I mean, when the president of the United States um recognizes what you're doing here in Las Vegas, uh I thought it was a a huge gesture from him.
	Pardon me, Sean, we stayed up like a huge gesture.
	I've been struggling for three hours.
	Tell me about it.
	Go ahead.
	No, but he he tweeted and he had hashtag Vegas Strong.
	And um, you know, what that hashtag Vegas Strong is, uh the uh police commissioner here in the city of Las Vegas set up a GoFundMe account under Vegas Strong, and I think it's up over like twelve million dollars.
	And uh there's a lot of people out here, you know, that that uh wound up in the hospital, they're trying to pay deductibles on their insurance.
	Some people don't have insurance.
	I mean, it's just a lot going on, and and for him to be able to tweet that and alert that many people to to what's going on and give them a chance to donate to that was really a huge thing, and we're very grateful he did it.
	You know, I went to the hospital.
	This is the day that I met Thomas and his uh and your parents are wonderful.
	I I I got a I got a kick out of your mom and dad.
	I think they're great people, and and a tribute to the man you've become, Thomas.
	Anyway, and I went there and everybody, it was the day after the president had been there.
	The hospital staff, the administrators, the doctors, the surgeons, all the people that saved all those lives.
	I mean, they were blown away that the president, you know, took the time and stayed there much longer than he had ever planned and wanted to meet everybody.
	So um anyway, listen, I want to thank you all.
	Uh, John, what you did and and you and Big Kenny to pull this all together was amazing.
	All the people from Beasley Radio, all the people from Cox, all the people from you know, Rascal Flats, Fox News, to pull this off in a week like you did was pretty amazing.
	And uh I just want to say thank you for what you've done for this great city to help them heal.
	It was it was a special night.
	It's all gonna air tonight on Hannity, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
	And uh John, hopefully I'll see you at the Rid Redneck Riviera tonight.
	Absolutely.
	I'll be down there again tonight, and uh just all you folks out there listening to Sean's show, uh, watch it tonight.
	And if you feel inclined to do so, you should make a donation towards that.
	Some of the greatest Americans that we have uh are in Vegas and are struggling with a lot of this.
	So, you know, all the support we can get is uh much appreciated.
	All right, guys.
	Good to talk to you both.
	We appreciate it.
	All right, 800 941.
	Sean, as we continue from Vegas, uh we're gonna t we're one week away from the release of Let There Be Light, the first movie I'm an executive producer of.
	That's now one of the great moments last night.
	It was one of my favorite songs by Big and Rich, the eighth of November.
	Let's just play some of this here now.
	On November eighth, nineteen sixty-five in War Zone D in Vietnam.
	And on November eighth, nineteen sixty-five.
	Thirty Americans were overrun by over twelve hundred VietCon.
	They killed all of our boys at me.
	Except for our buddy Niles and two others.
	They shut him up so bad that he came back to the States and he spent two years at Walter Reed Medical Center getting over his injuries.
	Well, would you like to know what he did?
	But he finally walked out of Walter Reed.
	I said, would you like to know what he did?
	When he walked out and walked to read.
	He walked out of that hospital and he signed up and did three more tours of Vietnam is what he did.
	And he's a hero.
	We dedicate this song to him, all of our veterans, all of our active duty, and the boys and girls overseas in Harmsley.
	This is called the 8th of November.
	I said 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	All right, we'll take a break.
	When we come back, well, we're one week away from the release of my movie, Let There Be Light.
	Dion Warwick did the music.
	She'll join us.
	Michael Francis, he's the pastor in the movie.
	Kevin Sorbo, stars in the movie.
	They're all coming up next as we continue from Vegas.
	All right, twenty-five now till the top of the hour, right down our toll free telephone number.
	It's eight hundred nine four one Sean.
	So we're in Vegas.
	Obviously, we had the big show last night and honoring the first responders, the families, the victims, and it was an amazing, amazing night.
	Um, we're staying in Vegas tonight because we have another incredible event that I'm gonna be a part of.
	So one week from today, we are going to open with my first movie that I'm the executive producer of, and it's called Let There Be Light.
	And so we decided to do something special here while we were in Vegas, and we invited a hundred and twenty-seven pastors, different denominations.
	This this is a it's faith-based, but it doesn't hit you over the head with religion.
	Hollywood is so formulaic.
	It's the same actors, it's the same formula, it's uh it's Batman, it's it's Superman, and so often the values of Christians and the values of conservatives are just outright dismissed by Hollywood.
	And we've seen a lot about Hollywood values in the last number of days.
	So we decided, and we got together with a lot of great people that we were gonna present to the city of Vegas an early showing of the movie, and that's gonna take place tonight.
	We have all the pastors, I think it's sold out, unfortunately, and right here in Vegas, and we're all gonna get together, and we're gonna show it to people.
	By the way, it's a free screening, and Kevin Sorbo, Sam Stor Sorbo, star in the movie.
	Kevin Sorbo's gonna join us in a minute.
	Um, as we started this project, step-by-step, incredible people um joined us in the process.
	And one of the more exciting moments is when Dion Warwick, who's just uh one of the most renowned singers, entertainers, and performers that I've known my whole life growing up, and all her music is she decided to do the soundtrack for our movie, which we're really excited about.
	And the pastor in the movie is a guy by the name of Michael Francis.
	Uh, and his real life story, I always knew.
	He grew up the son of a notorious underboss in New York under the Colombo Funk Crime Family.
	He had a hint out on him.
	He went to prison.
	And while in solitary, because he had to be in solitary, or else he probably would have been whacked.
	Um, he got a Bible from one of the guards at the prison, and it changed his life.
	And he became a real life pastor, and he plays a pastor in the movie.
	And I've been telling you little bits and pieces about the story, but it's very contemporary.
	You have Kevin Sorbo playing a glitterati paparazzi, uh, very popular LA, New York type of guy with the with a young model, abandon his family.
	He wrote a book, aborting God.
	The movie starts out with some of the evil that we all deal with every day in the world, and then beyond that evil, it's a personal story and a personal journey.
	So as he writes this book aborting God, he's debating a Christian, and the crowd is just eating him up and not liking the Christian message.
	And then we find out, well, why is he an atheist?
	Why did he abort God?
	And there's more twists and turns and emotional twists and turns in this movie than I think you could ever, you know, imagine.
	I'm very proud of it.
	Now, before we get to Dion Warwick and Michael Francis and Kevin Sorbo, I want to play you Dion Warwick's incredible work uh for this movie and the soundtrack of this movie, Let There Be Light.
	Remember, it opens October 27th, one week from today.
	and to get a list of theaters, all you have to do is go to Hannity.com.
	Let there be love tonight.
	Tonight.
	Let there be love tonight.
	Oh, let there be love.
	Let there be love.
	let there be light Let there be light, sing sister, for the ones with the wounded mind.
	Let there be light for the ones we left behind.
	Let there be light.
	Somebody say baby.
	So he may see we may see again.
	Let there be light tonight Let there be light tonight Let there be light Let there be light Let it shine on me Let there be light
	Oh, let it be, let it be Let there be light Let there be light Right now, right now, right now, right now Let there be light Let there be light Let there be light Let it shine on me Let there be light
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	The amazing Dion Warwick and the movie opens one week from today.
	List of theaters up on Hannity.com.
	Dion Warwick, renowned entertainer, performer of all time, joins us right now.
	Michael Francis is with us.
	He plays the pastor in the movie Let There Be Light.
	Kevin Sorbo is the main star in the movie, and he's the horrible person that makes a transformation.
	Um welcome all of you to the to the program.
	Dion Warwick, I've been a fan of yours since I was young.
	Your voice is amazing.
	You being in this project has added so much to it, and I can't tell you how beautiful that song is.
	That's amazing.
	Could you tell us about the song?
	Yeah, how are you, first of all?
	I'm good, except my voice is a little shot from screaming last night at this uh Vegas Strong concert.
	Uh-huh.
	I anyway.
	Well, the song uh very, very proud of, written by my son Damon Elliot.
	And his vision was to literally let people know that there is a a solution.
	And as it turns out, he he called me and says, Mommy, I need the voice.
	I said, okay.
	And I did.
	I did my part on on it.
	But he also recruited some incredible talent to participate as well.
	Uh, you're here, Gladys Knight, who is just over the moon as far as I'm concerned with what she gave to the project.
	Uh young lady me Maya, Billy Ray Cyrus.
	I mean, he just went all out to get people who had the same mindset with regards to what the film is about and his his vision as to what he thought the song represented.
	So I couldn't be prouder of being a part of this project, and more proud of the fact that my baby was the one who can't came up with the idea.
	Well, he has a beautiful heart, obviously.
	If he put that together, I mean the words in that song really touch people.
	Uh Kevin, let me go to you.
	I never thought I'd or dreamed I'd really be in the music business, and I remember watching your hit movie, God's Not Dead.
	And I remember interviewing you at the time, and I said, you know, if there's ever a project, maybe we can do one together.
	And you and Sam, your wife, and Dan Gordon came to my office one day.
	I don't think we talked more than 15, 20 minutes, and you told me the whole story of Let There Be Light, and I just fell in love with the story.
	And and f we've just been working on the project ever since.
	I mean it's an amaz uh the the end product, it's one of the things I'm most proud of in my entire career because I think this is a movie that needed to be made.
	It's contemporary, it touches people's hearts.
	It's everything that I think Hollywood doesn't do.
	It's it's about real issues, real life crisis and conflict that people have, and it also offers a good message for people that I think is often ignored out of Hollywood.
	So you know, I was only too honored to join with you to do it, and um from your end, you guys did a fabulous job.
	Well, thank you.
	It is interesting how things came together because you know my wife Sam came up with the idea, she started writing the script, she brought in Dan Gordon, who's a dear friend, and uh people may know Dan or may not know him, but he's one of the top writers in Hollywood.
	He wrote uh Hurricane with Denzel Washington, the road wider for Kevin Costner.
	But anyway, Sam got together, finished the script.
	I read the script.
	Three days later, you called me and said, Hey, I'm ready to do this.
	I'm gonna do something.
	You guys have anything.
	And my wife says that's my script.
	We flew up to New York.
	Dan Gordon did the pitching, and in that 20 minutes that Dan talked, you didn't interrupt them once.
	I thought we should have done the documentary on that, because I thought that was pretty amazing.
	You were spellbound by the script and the story that he had to tell.
	Listen, I've I've learned that there's some of the movie business, I don't like the business part of it, but what you guys have created, the artistic part of it.
	You know, I have now shown this to over 200 people.
	I've done my own focus groups, and you actually have up on your website, you know, some testimonials of some sh airings that we've had, focus groups with people, and it's unbelievable.
	Ninety-eight percent of people that see this movie cry.
	And you start out as a very conflicted individual that hates God, aborting God, and then we find out the reason why.
	And and you're living a life that really you shouldn't be living in.
	You left your family and you're drinking too much and you're doing drugs, and and we find out the reason you wrote aborting God.
	Um, and you had lost a son at nine years old.
	And the transformation is amazing.
	Part of that transformation comes when you m meet with Michael uh Francis, who has one of the most incredible life stories of anybody, because he is a real life pastor.
	Michael, welcome to the program.
	And you grew up the son of a notorious underboss in the Colombo Fi Crime family, and your own father at one point in your life signed off on a hit on you, and you found yourself in isolation in prison and and your life changed.
	Yeah, Sean, it's good to be back on again.
	I just want to mention really uh something real quick.
	Uh Dion Wolwick, she doesn't remember, I'm sure, but she played at my prom.
	My dad actually uh brought me to the Copacabana that night in 69.
	Uh we all had a great time.
	Yeah, yeah, it was way better.
	As long as they had a good time, that's all that matters.
	It was great.
	It was terrific.
	Well, yeah, Sean, I was uh I was very attracted to the script.
	Uh I'm really into apologetics.
	I love Kevin.
	And uh I'll be honest with you, I never acted before.
	They had to twist my arm to do it because I I've been myself in documentaries, but uh I said, listen, I'll do it as long as I don't ruin the film.
	I you know, I was playing myself, so it was uh it was pretty easy, and they're a great cast and great crew, and and I think it's a wonderful story.
	I think people are really gonna be touched by it, very entertaining, very well done.
	But you're also a pastor in real life now.
	How long have you been a pastor?
	Well, no, I'm not a pastor, Sean.
	I I go out, you know, throughout the world and share my testimony, so I I mean I'm not ordained or anything like that.
	Okay.
	Which I think uh, you know, it could be a benefit because uh, you know, I tell people I'm I'm just you, you know, we all have a story to tell.
	Mine might be a little bit more dramatic, but at the end of the day, you know, it's a story about Christ's mercy and grace in my life, and there's no doubt in my mind that uh he saved my life.
	He put a woman in my life that led me to Christ and over the past 20 years, had so many challenges and struggles, but he got me through all of it, and uh, you know, I'm just happy to tell the story uh whenever I can.
	You know, Kevin, one of the other reasons I wanted to be a part of the project besides the great story, and once we agreed to do the film, once I took on my executive producer role, I I'm a big believer you let people do their job.
	And you know, you told me where you're gonna be filming, you told me what the schedule you're gonna be on.
	We went over the script, we did everything that was supposed to do.
	And then when I started getting the first pictures and first cuts, I began to say, Yeah, this is something magical happening here.
	And I don't know if you've had the same experience, but everybody I've shown the film to, they all cry, and it touches people deeply.
	That doesn't happen enough when I go to the movies.
	I like to be moved and touched and mo and inspired and and so on and so forth.
	Well, this is a movie about redemption, it's a move about faith, it's a movie about hope.
	And you know, we've been doing quite a few screens and getting testimonials.
	We were just in Washington, DC last week at the Value Voters Summit there, and it was amazing the responses from people coming out.
	Sam was doing the testimonials on camera.
	I was uh talking to people, answering questions, and uh just just you know, answering anything they had to say, but there was a group of teenagers that walked out, and they're about 15, 16 years old, and one of the boys in that group, I over overheard him say that is the best movie I've ever seen.
	And to get that from a teenage kid, what all they want to do is go see visual effect movies that you don't care about character development, you don't care about what happens to people.
	You see thousands of people die in these smash them up movies.
	This is a movie that is real life and it's gonna touch people.
	It's gonna there's something for everybody in this movie.
	They'll be able to relate to it, they'll be able to take something from it.
	And I don't want to preach to the choir with this movie.
	You know, I want I want atheists to go, I want agnostics to go.
	I want people to get up there and look at this movie with an open mind and an open heart and come away with what they come away with.
	Because I know it's gonna touch them.
	I just got to tell you, it's uh it's been an honor to do this project with you.
	It opens one week from today.
	We have a special airing of it at Trinity Life Center.
	Then I'm going to be out and on the road this week, and I'm gonna be in Dallas for two church services with Dr. Robert Jeffers at his church, and I'm excited about that.
	Then we're gonna go see my buddy Errol Scott, who is in Cleveland.
	But anyway, let there be light movie.com and also Hannity.com for theaters.
	Uh Dion Warwick, I've always loved your work.
	God bless you.
	Thank you.
	And your your son did an amazing job.
	Michael, it's great to talk to you again.
	And Kevin, we'll have you on TV next week.
	We look forward to that too.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Well, thanks a lot, John.
	Thank you.
	All right, guys.
	Let there be light debuts one week from today.
	Special airing tonight at the Trinity Life Center.
	We'll take a quick break.
	We'll come back from Vegas.
	It's the Sean Hannity Show.
	All right, we're wrapping things up from uh Vegas.
	Now, for those of you in the Dallas area, looking forward to seeing you at Robert Jeffers Church.
	That's coming up uh this weekend.
	There are two services, one at nine o'clock, one at 1030.
	And then we're gonna go to Pastor Darrell Scott's church, which is in Cleveland at six o'clock on Sunday night.
	And one week from today, we launch Let There Be Light.
	So hopefully you can find a theater near you on Hannity.com.
	Tonight you will see the incredible tribute to first responders and victims in Vegas, the Vegas Strong event on Hannity, a special edition nine Eastern.
	Well, I think the uranium sale to Russia, and the way it was done, so underhanded, with tremendous amounts of money being passed.
	I actually think that's Watergate modern age.
	How could you not know that the Clinton team was paying for it?
	And didn't someone in the Clinton campaign know this?
	Mark Elias certainly did.
	Right.
	Uh I'm sure that there is a small group of folks that were aware of the nature of uh the decision to hire fusion back in the spring of 2016.
	But it was kept for reasons that I can understand to a very select group, given the sensitive nature of who they hired, uh a former MI6 agent Christopher Steele.
	Uh this was the Democrats coming up with an excuse for losing an election.
	It's an election that's very hard for a Democrat to lose because the Electoral College is set in such a way that it's very hard to lose that election for a Democrat.
	They lost it, they lost it very badly and very easily.
	I mean, you look at the votes, it was 306 to what?
	223 or something.
	They lost it by a lot.
	They didn't know what to say, so they made up the whole Russia hoax.
	Now it's turning out that the her hoax is turned around, and you look at what's happened with Russia, and you look at the uranium deal, and you look at the fake dossier, so that's all turned around.
	All right, so that was the president speaking out about what we've been telling people now forever.
	We had big breaking news last night on uh Hannity on the Fox News channel, and the the FBI informant that had infiltrated for some four years now has had his NDA lifted, meaning his non-disclosure agreement.
	Remember back in two thousand and nine that the FBI was able to have documents and emails and tapes, and of course, uh the o his own experience, having been an informant for four years in this whole issue of Vladimir Putin trying to corner the market or uranium in America, and now he's finally going to be able to talk.
	I assume first to congressional committees.
	There are two in the House, one in the Senate.
	Uh the counsel for this FBI informant is uh Victoria Tunsing, friend of this program.
	And of course, this man is at the center of this whole uranium one investigation.
	Uh thank you, Victoria, for being with us.
	Uh Jay Seculo from the American Center for Law and Justice, also Chief Counsel of the President is with us.
	And by the way, congrats, Jay Sekulow, because I see that the IRS uh end up the case that you took on.
	Uh in other words, the IRS has admitted now that the targeting of Tea Party groups didn't in fact happen.
	That's your case.
	And they signed a consent order, and Jeff Sessions, the attorney general today said there was no excuse for the conduct.
	Hundreds of organizations were affected by their actions, and that today's settlement makes clear that the abuse of power will not be tolerated.
	That's not from me.
	That is from the Department of Justice that was representing the IRS.
	So a great settlement to those Tea Party and conservative groups that were targeted.
	We're thrilled with the outcome of that.
	Well, I had three separate audits in just the last year.
	I wonder if this is related to it, because I'm a conservative and I always pay my taxes, and it's beyond aggravating and expensive when they do this to you, but I think that was done in a reaction to the 2010 P Party movement that was becoming effective, and once they get bogged down with lawsuits, they can't spend money or time on anything else.
	Well, and this one went on for three years, but as I said, great conclusion uh to the case and very glad that it's been rectified for our clients who all now have their tax exempt status, by the way, and a declaratory action that the government will not only not do that again, but what they did was inappropriate.
	So good start for that one's done.
	Do people get held accountable for that?
	Lois Lerner, for example?
	Well, it's the our case was not against Lois Lerner.
	Our case was against I mean Lois Lerner was a defendant in her official capacity.
	She, of course, then was fired, fired or quit or whatever they want to call it.
	She was gone.
	So this goes to more of the policy and practices of the Internal Revenue Service itself.
	So they can no longer do what rage is outrageous.
	And the good news is that's not happening again.
	All right, let me let me go to Victoria.
	You're representing this FBI informant, and I know there's only so much you're able to share with us because of attorney client privilege, but the lifting of this non disclosure agreement is massive because apparently he had what infiltrated for four years, right?
	As it relates to this whole network of people, including spies within the U.S. that were working for Vladimir Putin and Russia to get a hold of the American uranium market.
	He was talking to a lot of the Russians here in the United States that were involved in this uranium project to get the Iranium one deal authorized by Cissius.
	And uh so he heard all the conversations that went on and what they were talking about and how they were trying to influence the U.S. government.
	Um he is no longer bound, of course, by the NDA, thank you, FDI.
	But now comes some hard part because we're gonna have to prepare him for uh talking to uh it'll be the Senate Judiciary Committee first.
	Do we know when that's gonna happen?
	It Sean, it's going to happen after I get back from California in two weeks.
	Oh, okay.
	So you gotta you got a planned vacation, uh sounds like with uh Joe DeGenova, your partner and your your best friend, but um okay.
	So and staying at Jackie Autry's house, do you not read without um he needs these two weeks to really get things organized because until this occurred, he didn't know if he was going to be doing something, you know, with the uh with the government.
	So it's actually uh well he made the right decision choosing you as his lawyer.
	I've known you for many years, and I've known Joe for many years, and and not only are you married, but you have this law firm together, but you're two of the best lawyers in DC, Jay Sekulo being another one and an independent firm.
	Um so we do know this.
	We do know that the evidence from what I hear is overwhelming, that the evidence is incontrovertible, that the FBI, and that would mean the Justice Department knew all about Putin's intentions going back to two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten.
	It never made sense that anybody would ever give twenty percent of America's uranium to a hostile actor or hostile state like Russia and Putin, but they did it anyway.
	And moreover, Sean, not just that, even if it were a pure wonderful country, why would you give up twenty percent of it to a to a foreign country?
	But the the FBI and and the Justice Department knew that these people were giving kickbacks and that this company was corrupt, and this was a company that was purchasing the twenty percent.
	And as I said last night on your show, the my client was told by the FBI that the president was being briefed, President Obama was being briefed on this conduct, and that that he was learning this information prior to the twenty October 2010 decision.
	So we they knew about bribery, they knew about kickbacks, they knew about extortion, they knew about racketeering, right?
	And all of these crimes in 2009, and they knew that the predicate of all of this was sabotage, espionage Of Vladimir Putin.
	So then it raises the a lot of different questions here.
	And Jay, maybe I'll bring you in on this from the extent that one has to ask if they knew this, why didn't they stop any activity and all activity of a foreign entity infiltrating our country and trying to get the foundational material of nuclear weapons?
	Well, I think it raises the question that everybody wants to know, and that is how much information did President Obama have about this.
	When did he know it?
	When did they tell him about the kickbacks, bribery, extortions, uh issues, and how in the world did they allow this to proceed?
	When they actually also got a uh plea on one of one of the individuals did plea uh guilty to money laundering charges too did for uh racketeering.
	So the idea is how in the world, as you said, Sean, the guess to me the fundamental question is we allow twenty percent of our uranium reserves go to a company controlled by the Russians, who, by the way, that company in and of itself was under a current investigation, and that went to Cyphyus and was approved.
	That does not add up.
	It just makes no sense that there were not multiple red flags in the way here that somebody would have said this is not an appropriate transaction to proceed.
	And how is the FBI conducting an investigation?
	And Eric Holder, who also served on this committee, did not raise it.
	But there's but there's real.
	And what the amazing thing, and I guess it's an issue of coincidence, maybe, but everybody that has now been uh involved in this issue of of Trump Russia collusion of which there is no evidence.
	As a matter of fact, I I would not be surprised if at some point in the very near future the president is completely and totally exonerated of any of these phony allegations that have been reported and false reporting and fake news for the last year.
	But we we've got to go back to a fundamental question here, and that is uh Victoria.
	You have Robert Muller.
	He was the head of the FBI.
	I would assume he knew.
	I got to assume that Eric Holder knew.
	I've got to assume that Rod Rosenstein was overseeing this entire investigation with your client.
	And I've got to assume, and we've been told that it made it into the presidential daily briefing of Barack Obama back in two thousand and nine.
	But yes, his administration still continue to push forward to give permission for Vladimir Putin to control 20% of our uranium.
	But let's not leave out this factor, Sean, and that is that we today we're so used to talking about it.
	We have neglected to talk about HRC, Hillary Rodham Clinton's involvement, and that she sat on Cypheus, and that Bill Clinton got five hundred thousand dollars for a speech in Russia paid for by bankers.
	But by the way, but Victoria, I don't mean to interrupt you.
	The bankers, this was Renaissance Bank.
	They had a financial interest in Uranium One.
	I was just getting there.
	I was like, sorry, sorry, sorry.
	I'm a talk show host.
	Yes.
	No, and the they were all former uh in Russian intelligence people, and they were they were promoting the sale of stock of this of uranium water, and they pay him five hundred grand.
	He meets with Putin while he's there, and then of course the Clinton Foundation gets tens of millions of dollars from the people involved in the sale to the head people with uranium one.
	Um that is an important factor.
	And he supported the uranium one deal while there, and he first tried to use his own wife State Department to get permission to m meet with people that represented their nuclear energy uh industry, and then he didn't get permission, so he just went straight to Vladimir.
	And then we've got all the money that was kicked back to the foundation, Jay.
	Yeah, so this is and and Victoria is done a great job of getting this uh NDA lifted.
	Uh and it includes, as you mentioned, includes the Clinton Foundation, Rostam 10X, Uranium One and individuals, and it's not limited to that, is it but but not limited to anything related to those people, so we could go further.
	But here's the question that I I'm pondering, and Victoria may have the answer to this.
	It's great that the House and the Senate are going to do the investigations of all this.
	The question is, what is the Department of Justice doing with this information?
	What is the FBI doing?
	And maybe we don't know yet, and maybe there's investigations going on.
	but House and Senate investigation for oversight, I think it's great, you'll get answers to questions, but I wonder what is the ultimate aspect, This where does this end?
	Where does it end?
	I'll tell you what, stay right there.
	Let's where does this end is where we'll pick it up when we get back.
	More with uh Victoria Tunsing.
	She is the counsel for the FBI informant That now, as of late last night, just as we were going on the air nine Eastern on Fox, they lifted the non-disclosure agreement, which means he can now tell everybody, starting with Congress, about his story, present his evidence that he has involving this deal.
	Jay Seculow, big win for him on this IRS case today.
	Big news for the ACLJ, where the IRS admitted they were targeting Tea Party groups.
	Uh and also he's the president's counsel.
	We'll get to all of this and a lot more.
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	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	All right, as we continue, Victoria Tunsing is the counsel for the FBI informant at the center of this uranium one investigation.
	Jay Seculow won a big case today as it relates to the IRS admitting they targeted Tea Party uh individuals in groups, uh, and also the uh lead count one of the lead counsels for the president.
	Um let's pick it up where we left off.
	Jay, you were asking Victoria a question.
	Yeah, and that is so we now know that the the House Committee on Oversight Government Reform and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence are going to be investigating the Senate Committee on Judiciary and said Victoria did a phenomenal job of getting this NDA lifted.
	The question is what is the FBI and Department of Justice do once they get information, let's say from the House and Senate, or is there already independent investigations?
	Because I everyone's asking me, I'm sure they're asking you, Sean, and probably asking Victoria as well.
	Where does this go?
	To a special counsel because it would look awful for Jeff Sessions to be over an investigation when he was there with Trump saying Rock or El.
	It would Rod Rosenstein is is precluded from doing it.
	He's conflicted out because he was a U.S. attorney over the case.
	Rod Rosenstein was U.S. attorney in Maryland, which was the office that did the case.
	That was overlooked, and then Robert Muller was the head of the FBI.
	So neither one none of those people can be involved in this case.
	Am I wrong, Victoria?
	You know, you're absolutely right.
	I mean, it's just the appearance of a conflict, but they in fact have a conflict because their conduct is it has to be examined in the course of the any uh uh investigation of this matter.
	Jay it's it's good and it's completely independent from uh the the you know you got the whole GPS fusion thing yesterday with the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign uh continuing the funding of all that.
	That's an issue that's gonna be evaluated.
	This uranium one transaction is not within the purview of the special counsel this special counsel, Robert Mueller.
	So this would if it goes to a special counsel, it would have to be a separate one set up just for this.
	And this would be again, if you look at the nature and scope of it, it it's it's it's you know it's a significant issue.
	But again, the House and Senate start it.
	The question is, and then as Victoria's saying, the special counsel may be the way they go on this.
	Victoria, last word.
	I I don't know what's in the purview of this investigation that Bob Miller's doing, it's so wide-ranging.
	I can't even figure out what the crime is.
	So but you're absolutely right.
	That it should it should not be going.
	It's my client, I'll be very clear there.
	All right, uh, guys, you've been amazing.
	I I'll be honest.
	I don't but for Peter Schweitzer two years ago, uh, but for the work of uh people like Sarah Carter and John Solomon and and pushing it on this show, knowing that there was a lot of unanswered questions here.
	I don't know if we'd be where we are today, and Victoria, you representing the FBI informant is the best possible news for him because uh he's gonna have great representation, and Jay, this matters on every level because of all the the the garbage that has been falsely um leveled against the president.
	So it's uh Sean DCA or NBC picked it up yet?
	No.
	No the same people that were talking about how horrible Russia is, horrible Vladimir Putin is.
	No, they they don't show any interest because it doesn't fit their agenda, which is the extension of the Democratic Party.
	Uh anyway, thank you all.
	We appreciate it.
	Uh we'll have a lot more on this coming up.
	Uh you're gonna hear about fusion GPS in the next segment.
	That's straight ahead.
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	Uh Um Christopher Steele dossier, which is a controversial document for lots of reasons.
	Um quoting from that though, a lot of it has been proven out.
	Do you believe anything about that dossier?
	Oh, I think it should be uh taken a look at.
	I think they should really read it, understand it, analyze it, and determine what's fact, what may not be fact.
	We already know that the part about uh the coverage that they have on him uh with sex actions uh is supposed to be true.
	My focus today is to explore how many claims within Steele's dossier are looking more and more likely as though they are accurate.
	The dossier definitely seems right on these points.
	A quid pro quote relationship seems to exist between the Trump campaign and Putin's Russia.
	There's a lot in the dossier that is yet to be proven, but increasingly, as we'll hear throughout the day, allegations are checking out.
	The famous dossier, which is getting a lot more credibility now than it did.
	Well, I think that's important, right?
	That the dossier, right, which looks uh sort of out there at first, is getting truer and true and truer as facts come out.
	The Clinton campaign apparently conducted opposition research, as every campaign does on their opponent.
	They got back apparently this very uh salacious and now infamous dossier, which they never used.
	In fact, didn't even reach the press until after the election was over.
	They never used it.
	What I have learned, I've heard about the dossier, it's about his involvement with women, it's about possibly prostitutes.
	We were able to corroborate in our intelligence community assessment, which from other sources in which we had very high compensation.
	So when the president just refers to the state dossier, that is false.
	Uh I I don't think that's that is the accurate characterization for the entirety of the dossier.
	Jared Kushner, anybody else who met with a Russian in the last year, he knows it all.
	It's all if he had a little excitement in some hotel room in Moscow X many years ago according to that dossier, he's got those pictures, he's looked at them a million times.
	That said, Wolf, we do want to hear from Christopher Steele.
	Uh, so far, a lot of what he has alleged in the dossier uh has been proven.
	Uh, we reported uh a number of weeks ago that the intelligence community had in fact confirmed some of the elephant elements in the dossier, including the particular meetings and conversations detailed in the dossier took place in the places and at the times as described there.
	So it directly contradicts the president who has repeated from the beginning uh that the dossier, like many parts of the Russian investigation, is a hoax.
	All right, 23 now till the top of the hour.
	So there you have all these Democrats, all of them going on and and the media pushing the Steele dossier.
	Rachel Maddow, Maxime Waters, and Andre Carson, Chris Matthews, Paul Bogala, Donnie Deutsch, you know, James Clapper, and it goes on from there.
	Nonstop.
	They just go with it.
	They wanted to believe every salacious detail that was paid for that that was made up by the Russians.
	Oh.
	I guess they're colluding to help get Hillary Clinton elected and impact the uh the election, and Hillary funded the whole entire thing.
	Thor Halverson is with us, and he's the CEO of the New York-based human rights foundation.
	And he's here to shed some light on Fusion GPS with whom he had a previous interaction with and and dealings with that were pretty much unspeakable.
	He says they are smear artists, he said, and what they've learned is if you want to kill an investigation, if you want to destroy a law enforcement investigation, go after the witnesses, go after the whistleblowers.
	Wow, shocking.
	Now he also testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in July of this year against Fusion GPS, which of course they're not going to testify before anybody, and they're fighting a congressional subpoena.
	Thor, sir, welcome to the program.
	Thanks for being with us.
	Thank you for having me on your program, Sean.
	All right, let's talk about what you know about Fusion GPS.
	Tell us how you got involved, what you know, and what people need to know.
	Sure.
	Well, how I get into this was uh was accidentally.
	I I was made aware of a massive uh co government contract fraud that was taking place in the dictatorship of Venezuela.
	In other words, um, someone gave me information about a theft a theft of three billion dollars that took place in the Chavez government in Venezuela.
	Okay.
	So I took the information.
	I thought it was outrageous.
	These uh a bunch of guys in their 20s were awarded power plant contracts to build these power plants in Venezuela.
	And they did they built faulty power plants and walked off with the money.
	So I figured I would write about this circumstance in the United States and alert the authorities and as much as the the stolen Venezuelan money was uh being laundered through American banks.
	Well to make a long story short the targets of my investigation, the people that I was blowing the whistle on ended up hiring Fusion GPS.
	They hired Fusion GPS to go after those of us who had um been talking about this investigation, talking about this company, pointing out their crimes and what Fusion GPS did for them in the case of four different people, they couldn't come up with anything tangible about us that was negative.
	So they just simply made it up and they created these dossiers pretty similar each each of these dossiers making the same allegations over and over again salacious allegations of outrageous conduct that range from extortion and rape to drug abuse and pedophilia and then they shopped these dossiers around to the media.
	So whereas we are trying to expose the crime they figured here's what we'll do to eliminate the whistleblowers here's what we'll do to go after them.
	Let's create dossiers and accuse them of all sorts of horrible things.
	I read Catherine Herridge's piece and Pam Brown's piece on FoxNews.com.
	And, you know, what's amazing about this is, you know, that you're saying that they have a track record of intimidation and smear tactics.
	But it's beyond that, because in your congressional testimony and your firsthand account here, you're saying that they labeled you a pedophile, an extortionist, a drug trafficker, because you criticize one of their clients.
	now how do you how do you know that they did all of this okay well it starts off with the fact that the the their clients were being investigated by the Wall Street Journal.
	As you know the Wall Street Journal is a serious outfit they they were they were doing an investigation they were writing a story the story was 4,000 words long.
	How do I know the story was that long because the reporter and I were in touch constantly we were sharing information I was telling him about what was going on.
	Before you know it the reporter was asked to visit Venezuela and meet with the the men who he was writing about when he gets to Venezuela into the conference room of of these guys who stole billions of dollars there's one of the partners of Fusion GPS sitting in the conference room he also happens to be formerly the bureau chief for Latin America for the Wall Street Journal.
	In other words the reporter walks into the room and there's his former boss who's now a partner at Fusion GPS saying to him all of these allegations are lies.
	These are good men just excellent businessmen.
	You know they earned these billions and billions of dollars and you're being played here's a dossier about uh the men who are feeding you information don't ask me how I know that they're the uh that they are the ones feeding you information but I do know that that here's the dossier that's the first time I heard the word fusion GPS when the Wall Street Journal says to me I can't believe my former boss is working for them by the way they gave me a file on you.
	That's the first time I learned and of course after that I started learning more and more about them.
	Did you get the file that they had made on you?
	No the reporter read it to me I know what it contains but he did not give me a copy.
	I think the Wall Street Journal has internal because I think based on what you're saying that you'd have a lawsuit here if people you just can't make up out of a whole cloth that somebody's a a pedophile an extortionist and a drug trafficker.
	I mean you're you're in the right neighborhood I I I can I can't really tell you what my what what I'm doing next but let's just say that uh subsequent to this the Wall Street Journal did nothing with this.
	In fact The reporter and the journal said we with this this is full of uh this stuff is hot air, we're not gonna pay any attention to it, we're gonna keep doing our story.
	But then they kept shopping it around.
	And Sean, they found an out of work journalist in Washington, DC, someone who'd been dismissed from job after job by the name of Ken Silverstein.
	They paid Ken Silverstein, and Ken Silverstein published it on a left wing website, one of these fringe websites.
	He published an article with these allegations in it.
	And then they paid, Fusion GPS paid one of these SEO companies, the ones that f focus on um where things rank on a Google search, and they pushed the story way, way up so that when you Google my name, it's the first or second thing that pops up.
	That's what Fusion GPS did.
	By the way, a lot of people don't know.
	You can do there's a whole there's a whole group of people you can pay to either bury stories on Google and Yahoo or put them up on top.
	And there's I guess a particular methods that they use, so what you're saying that is true.
	Um so what happens since this all happened to you?
	I mean, what what is your human rights group about, by the way?
	What do you I mean, do you work on issues involving we focus on dictatorships?
	We focus on the struggle against dictatorships, whether it's Cuba, North Korea, Russia, China, Venezuela, Angola.
	Our goal is to do is to enter that vacuum where the establishment organizations aren't really focused on.
	A lot of them sp spend most of their time focusing on democracies like the US.
	Stay right there.
	Well we'll have more with uh Thor Halverson is with us, and he is uh uh saying he's a victim of Fusion GPS.
	We'll get more of his story uh on the other side of all of this as we continue here on the Sean Hannity show.
	Quick break, right back.
	We'll continue.
	Welcome back as we continue.
	Thor Halverson is with us, and hey Thor, how are you?
	All right, so I want to get back to this.
	Everybody in the media is going with the same talking point.
	Well, a Republican, a GOP operative paid to begin the dossier on Trump.
	And the fact of the matter is that person got out long before Steele, who made up all of these allegations by paying Russians uh about Donald Trump and the more salacious details.
	So what they're saying isn't true.
	This was uh we now know that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats paid for the smear.
	Right.
	Her campaign paid for the whole smear.
	So you're saying that this whole group, is that why they're unwilling to talk to Congress?
	And and I know that there's now they're trying to get into their bank accounts to find exactly where the money came from uh that led to the dossier that was used by the media and used by Democrats to try and impact this election, even though all of the information and the propaganda and the misinformation came from Russia.
	Well, ask yourself, Sean, why are they why did they admit to paying for the dossier?
	They admitted to paying for the dossier because of the subpoena.
	They they want to get ahead of the subpoena and say, Judge, don't go forward and open the bank accounts of Fusion GPS because we don't need to know that anymore because now they fessed up and the DNC has claimed and the Hillary Clinton campaign that they paid for the dossier.
	The reason why is very simple, Sean.
	Those bank that bank information contains the information about payoffs to dozens of journalists inside and outside of the beltway by Fusion GPS.
	I am convinced that Fusion GPS is engaged in regular payola with journalists in order to ensure that some stories get coverage and some don't.
	In addition, what that banking information contains is information about the criminal entities, most of them from abroad that hire Fusion GPS to kill stories, to go after witnesses, to blow up um concepts when the criminal entity is suffering or potentially gonna get in trouble.
	This is what happened in the Venezuela case.
	Derwick Associates paid Fusion to end with the credibility of the witnesses and to obstruct justice.
	Fusion GPS doesn't make a lot of money from its American clients.
	It makes the bulk of its money from criminals abroad.
	This is like the most unbelievable story I think I've ever heard.
	It really is.
	Well, you know, but and listen, I'm just gonna say something, and this is on a personal level.
	I mean, you have no recourse.
	I'm a public figure.
	I'm on radio three hours a day, TV one hour a day.
	And when people lie about me, the standard is so high that I I actu I have to prove that what they're saying was actual malice.
	And to get there, it it it is such a high legal bar, it's nearly impossible.
	So if you're a public figure, they can pretty much say anything, and they do say anything they want.
	And I I've just finally just compartmentalized in my mind that okay, I've this is my chosen profession.
	I didn't think that this was going to be a part of it, but people telling lies about me on a regular basis is just part and parcel of what I I now have happening in my life.
	Well, this is and you know this better than anyone.
	Even though they're lies, it still hurts.
	It's still nasty when family members and whatnot um look at this stuff and saying what they're saying.
	Um, and yet they get away with it.
	They get away with it.
	You know, it was it was really, you know, despite the fact that Fusion GPS did this and hired this loser, Ken Silverstein, to write about it.
	The fact is that um it felt really good to know that there's a collection of us that are being the targets of fusion GPS.
	Because finally, what these accusations can be explained.
	Finally, you know, whether it's William Browder, myself, or in this case, President Trump, can say, look, there's a pattern here.
	It's the same company engaged in the same behavior again and again.
	These are former journalists who lost their way and decided we will do anything for money.
	They don't care about the truth.
	They care about making money, which is why they work for criminals.
	So I'm just assuming to engage in that.
	I'm assuming you're gonna do a lawsuit.
	Well, look, a lawsuit's gonna cost millions of dollars, and suing this person still.
	All right, I've got a break.
	Thor, come back and tell us more as you get more information on it, and uh we'll let people decide on their own.
	And I could tell you smear campaigns against conservatives are just part of our everyday business.
	It's unbelievable.
	It's like a it's and by the way, they're well funded, all those people.
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