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We got a lot coming up today.
We got two Freedom Caucus members.
We're going to talk about all of the news that frankly we could be taking a big victory lap on if we wanted to, but we won't.
But the hearing yesterday was so epic and blockbuster.
Um, but you you would not have known about the things that were being said unless you were listening to programs like this or watching programs like mine on Fox because the mainstream media has been so obsessed with the phony story and the lies they've been told telling and that they've all doubled down on.
Uh but anyway, we have Dave Bratton and uh Warren Davidson are gonna check in in the course of the program.
Kellyanne Conway stops by today, and Christian Adams will have plenty of time for your calls also in the course of the day.
Why don't we start with a little good news for once, right?
All right, November.
Trump expectations, two hundred and twenty eight thousand jobs created.
That now brings the number to two point two million new jobs since you, the American people elected Donald Trump.
We now how have the best labor participation rate in a decade in this country.
Remember, we talked a lot about the lowest labor participation rate since the 70s.
Well, it's getting better and better every day.
We have a record low unemployment rate of 4.1%.
That is a 17-year low.
Uh when you break things down demographically, for example, you have historic uh unemployment uh in the Hispanic community.
It's now 4.7%, the lowest in history.
And um, an amazing accomplishment.
And and look at the I think one of the things that really matters the most here is the manufacturing job.
We have a record low unemployment in manufacturing.
Well, that's a direct result of the president saying to companies and telegraphing don't go to don't go to Mexico, don't go across the border somewhere, build your manufacturing centers and your factories here.
I mean there is this is like night follows day.
What's gonna happen here?
It's gonna be very simple.
When you have multinationals with trillions of dollars, and this this tax cut bill Goes into effect, they're now gonna bring that money into America.
Now, what do you do?
You think they're gonna put it in a savings account and hope for some interest?
No.
They're gonna now start spending.
They're now gonna start investing.
They they want with with the end of the regulations, which incentivizes business.
It literally costs them a fortune, and corporations now having nearly uh a 50% tax cut.
Remember, corporations don't pay taxes.
You pay taxes.
That's a tax cut at the end of the day for you.
So it's all good news here today.
It's um, you know, we have the fewest number of people on food stamps in seven years.
Another big indicator.
Think of all the statistics that I gave out last year.
Um, and that means what does it mean?
It means jobs and opportunities and hope for people and families that have been struggling after the disastrous economy of Obama, the only president never to reach 3% GDP growth in the history of our country.
That's a big deal.
The guy that doubled the debt.
We're still not getting a hold of the debt yet, but it will be a natural occurrence.
Reagan doubled revenues in eight years to the federal government just by following his strong uh tax plan and ending burdensome regulation in his day.
You know, we just got to get Congress to spend a little less.
Ending baseline budgeting would be the single best thing we could do, with maybe the exception of Homeland Security and national security purposes.
Um, you know, I I watch the fake news media, and I don't know whether to laugh or cry half the time because they're so dumb and they're so ignorant, and there's nobody worse than CNN fake news, except for MSNBC conspiratorial news.
And what really is spectacular to me is you've got people that don't read.
You've got people that don't do their job.
They think they can just, you know, go into makeup, get their hair done, show up on TV, maybe read a few headlines, and think that they know what the news is, and everything is seen through their prism of uh it's now becoming sort of genetic to them, their hatred of the president, which is bordering on irrational.
There's almost an emotional breakdown on some of these shows on a daily basis.
And of course, the attacks against us.
We we have turned out to be so right so often.
When I was watching these hearings yesterday, everything that we've been saying on radio, everything we've been saying on TV, every layer of the onion that we have peeled back in the last year was literally brought to the forefront for the whole country to see.
I thought Jim Jordan of the Freedom Caucus did probably one of the best jobs.
But then you had Trey Gowdon, you had a bunch of other people that did really good jobs too.
I don't want to I don't want to pick favorites here, but it's just amazing how to some of these people in the media, this is all new stuff because their fixation and focus has always been on the wrong thing.
And that was Trump Russian collusion.
Now they might point to, well, Paul Manafort was indicted.
What about that, Hannity?
And I'm like, nothing to do with Trump Russia collusion.
Nothing.
Zip.
Well, what about Lieutenant General Flynn?
No, that was lying to the FBI.
That was not Trump Russia collusion.
Well, when it's coming, though, it's definitely there.
No, that's not going to happen either.
And they just, for the life of them, you know, there's a lot of deep resentment for me.
And I'm going to I'll give them the secret sauce if they had any brains, they'd actually follow the model.
The secret sauces to actually read, do your research, find your own sources, talk to people, work the phones, and for every hour you're on the air, you should probably be working three hours off the air, preparing your shows and getting ready and being informed and bringing information to the table, along with your bias and your opinions, because every one of these people that think they're newscasters are not.
You know, I'll give you one example was happening over at CNN today.
I guess, you know, Friday afternoon, a big day for the destroy Trump media because they love hyperventilating every Friday over some phony Russia gate story that they've come up with.
And last Friday, of course, it was Brian Ross's Michael Flynn's guilty plea.
This had happened, uh, this had happened when he was the candidate, the big bombshell.
Well, that had Joy Behar doing a reenactment of the uh I'll have what she's having scene, you know, uh in in a movie.
It's ridiculous.
Breaking news.
Oh my God.
Oh, breaking news.
ABC News Brian Ross is reporting.
Michael Flynn promised full cooperation to the Mueller team and is prepared to testify that as a candidate Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians!
Well, hello.
Sorry, she had egg all over her face, and Ross was suspended and then further banned from ever covering Trump again.
Didn't work out the way they wanted.
And over at fake news CNN, you got Wolfie Blitzer over there dancing in the aisles because somebody gave CNN an email that was purported to be from WikiLeaks that was sent to Donald Trump Jr. before the campaign.
Now the problem with the story is we already knew that WikiLeaks had contacted Donald Jr., so it's not new news.
It's not, oh, big CNN breaking this is CNN.
And a big CNN.
Well, that news had broken, by the way, weeks ago, and then after the initial media hysteria died down, it faded into the woodwork because it proved absolutely nothing.
And the second problem with the story right off the top was there were so many caveats and disclaimers that it was clear earlier today that even CNN doesn't know that the email proves a thing.
You know, they report, oh, Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump organization received an email in September of 2016 offering a decryption key and website address for hacked WikiLeaks documents, according to an email provided to congressional investigators.
The September 4th, 2016 email was sent during the final stretch of the 2016 presidential race on the same day that Trump Jr. first tweeted about WikiLeaks and Clinton.
Well, the email came two months after the hacked emails of the DNC were made public one month before WikiLeaks began leaking the contents of Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta's hacked emails.
Remember, Julian Assange has not been wrong in 11 years, and he has said to me repeatedly on this show and when I went to the Ecuadorian embassy that it wasn't a state entity and it wasn't Russia.
Well, let's not ask the guy that would actually know.
That would be that'd be really wrong.
Anyway, it arrived less than uh three weeks before WikiLeaks itself messaged Trump Jr. and began an exchange.
Now, that's uh and by the way, the exchange of direct messages on Twitter, that was a reference to reports from weeks ago showing that somebody from WikiLeaks had reached out to Trump Jr.
But neither that story nor this one contained any evidence Trump Jr. took it any further by either responding or acting on the tip.
And you know, but it is interesting that we care so much about Russia collusion, there's nobody in the destroy Trump media that seems to care after a year of lies that we now know a fact.
And the fact is that Hillary Clinton bought and paid for that phony Russian dossier, you know, with the salacious material on Donald Trump that they used to influence all the American people in the lead up to an election and may have been used as a predicate and a foundation for a Pfizer warrant to spy on a candidate, an opposition candidate, and on a president-elect and his entire team.
Well, that'll get to be a big story.
They may even have to report that one at some point.
These geniuses.
I love all these people that that run campaigns fail, and then they become experts on campaigns and governance.
It's fascinating to me.
The biggest failures in the world seem to end up as the commentator de jour.
Anyway, there's a reference in the reports, as I've been saying here.
So all this means is, you know, the email was described to CNN by multiple sources, verified by Trump's attorney, came from someone who listed the name as Mike Erickson.
Congressional investigators were uncertain who the sender is.
CNN unable to make contact with the individual.
So what their big bombshow report today was they didn't know whether this email was a spoof or A setup or a hoax or God knows what.
And CNN said, well, it's not clear whether the email was a legitimate effort to provide the hacked documents to the Trump campaigns.
Why are you reporting it with such breathlessness and hysteria?
And after CNN stories was published, Julian Assange tweeted it was not clear what this has to do with WikiLeaks.
Many enthusiastic readers emailed around uh archives of our publication during the election.
Now we find out, just as I'm coming on the air here, shouldn't surprise anybody.
I thought it might take till tomorrow, like usual, but CNN's big Russia Gate bombshell.
Well, sorry, it went off like an exploding cigar, and it turns out that just hours after CNN went with it, the Washington Post blew it out of the water.
And it looks like Wolfie Blitzer and CNN fake news, they're gonna have to take apology lessons from Joy Behar and Brian Ross to be on a Friday.
This is CNN.
So hours after this, the Washington Post reports the email was actually sent on September 14th, the day after.
Oh, whoopsie Daisy, not before.
He didn't get a heads up.
The day after WikiLeaks published and released, oh, the same files online.
Whoopsie Daisy.
Now it suggest the sender may have simply been pointing to the Trump campaign to publicly available documents.
Yeah, this is CNN.
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So I wonder who might get fired by next week or taking off the Trump campaign from fake news CNN.
You get, you know, you almost have to fire the whole staff.
You have to get rid of everybody at the end because it just is what it is.
All right, I've got a couple of things that we're going to get into today, and I want to just set this up for you.
When you look at where we are now and how badly the media has botched everything in terms of reporting, and by the way, they never told you Obama's record.
They never vetted him back in the day.
They never told you after eight years how atrocious his record was.
You know, they anointed him from day one and and they helped elect him by never doing their job.
And they tried to spin his record even this year by not talking about it.
It's what they chose never to talk about, that the policies of Barack Obama failed and failed miserably.
Now we've got a situation where we have some, and I make the distinction, there's many great law enforcement people, the vast majority are.
Same in the FBI, same in the Secret Service, same in the in the intelligence community.
But we have others that are using the tools of intelligence that are misusing their positions at the FBI.
When James Comey and Peter Strzok were writing the exoneration for Hillary before the investigation was done, the fix was in.
That's now incontrovertible.
The timeline is what it is.
When you got a dossier that we now know was bought and paid for, and of course, then we have FBI guys meeting with Fusion GPS and meeting with Christopher Steele, that's a problem.
Because they should have figured out pretty early that that was all Russian paid for lies and that Hilly Hillary was paying for it.
But we all strongly suspect, at least in the hearings yesterday, that that dossier was used as the foundation to get a warrant to spy on and surveil a opposition candidate and a president-elect and those around him.
Just like we know that the Uranium One deal, you know, with Hillary signing off, Eric Holder signing off, and Robert Muller knowing all about Putin's foothold within this country, bribing and robbing and literally being involved in extortion and money laundering and all sorts of other crimes as a means of getting a hold of America's uranium, and they did nothing to stop it.
You get all of them then you get Robert Mueller, Comey, his best buddy.
You know, sets it up so we get a special prosecutor.
Turns out to be Muller.
Muller puts in every corrupt, unethical prosecutor he could possibly find.
Anybody that is pro Hillary and anti-Trump.
It's mind numbing that we're allowing this to continue.
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We have the House Intelligence Committee saying today that they now intend to subpoena the top assistant to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein.
That's the guy that secretly met with the Trump dossier author, Christopher Steele.
Christopher Steele is the guy that was hired by Fusion GPS.
By the way, he met with them too.
His name is Bruce Orr.
And the, and that was after the Clinton campaign had paid to create the phony Russian lied propaganda document.
What an irony.
Isn't it an irony?
What an incredible irony that here we are, and that everything that everybody in the media on the left in this country was so outraged about, they did.
Their silence now is deafening.
The committee has learned that Bruce Orr, the associate attorney general, not only spoke with the dossier writer Christopher Steele, but also met Christopher Steele after the election with Glenn Simpson.
Remember Glenn Simpson.
He was the guy, it was his company, Fusion GPS that hired Mr. Steele with Democratic Hillary Clinton campaign money, DNC money, but that's when she, according to Donna Brazil, Hillary was running the DNC.
Quote, pursuant to House Intelligence Committee's prior subpoenas and information requests, the Department of Justice should have provided the committee with information on contacts that DOJ office Bruce Orr had with Fusion GPS representatives and Christopher Steele.
And the said the committee chairman, Devin Nunes.
Now the committee will issue a subpoena as it relates to Bruce Orr for other information.
This is all getting very interesting.
Don't you think the whole thing is just you see the corruption and how deep it's uh how deep it runs?
It's so so sinister.
It's taken a long time to get where we were.
That's why this was such a good week this week.
Anyway, so pursuant to that, or had Fusion GPF's representatives in a meeting with Christopher Steele.
That's the DOJ.
I mean, that is that is the FBI.
This is the highest level.
Why couldn't they figure out?
Now one question that remains is did they pay?
Did Comey really want to pay?
You've heard reports up to $50,000.
One report yesterday, they might have paid up to $100,000.
That's yet to be confirmed, but it's a question that needs to be asked and answered, hopefully sooner rather than later.
And I think these committees might for the first time actually do their job and get to the bottom of some of this.
You know, here's another interesting tidbit in terms of Mueller's band of Trump hating Hillary loving uh donors to the to the DNC and to Obama and to Hillary.
There's not one Republican donor that we found, not one.
Now, I've been telling you the most aggressive prosecutor on Robert Muller's anti-Trump team, this guy by the name of Andrew Weissman, Wall Street Journal reports today, actually attended Hillary Clinton's election night party.
The one that was at the Jacob Javitz Center in New York.
Remember, Hillary was planning her fireworks that night and then had to cancel them because it looked tacky like she thought she was going to win.
That's how confident everybody was that she was going to win.
Now Weissman, if you go into his background and his record, he's the one that was involved in the Arthur, I'm sorry, in the Anderson accounting investigation as it relates to Enron.
And as a result of his great work, tens of thousands of people, a good company was put out of work, and tens of thousands of people lost their jobs.
And of course, then the same guy was involved with the Enron and Merrill Lynch case, and it turned out he sent innocent people to jail for almost a year.
In both those cases, he had major overturns on the obstruction of justice case.
The Supreme Court overturned the conviction 9-0.
And he was excoriated for some of the behavior he was involved in.
He had actually highlighted in yellow exculpatory evidence that was never turned over to the defense.
He made up laws that don't even exist.
I don't know anybody that has as big a failed record as Andrew Weisman.
Nor somebody that uses the aggressive tactics like this is the guy that was responsible for raiding Paul Manafort's home and shaking down his wife at six o'clock in the morning.
What did you what did you think his wife was going to do at that moment?
Now there's a time and a place for raids like that, but that's not it unless you want to make a big show of things.
Well, it gets even more interesting.
Weissman is one of several Democratic donors hired by Mueller.
And uh the special counsel's pit bull donated $6,600 to the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
This is not an objective, fair special counsel that has been put together.
And for all you idiots over at MSNBC that have sold your souls for jobs, you might want to consider for once looking at facts and information.
Maybe you'll come to the conclusion that what James Comey did was really wrong when he exonerated Hillary along with Peter Strzok, who's a Clinton lover and Trump hater, exonerated her and began drafting an exoneration letter before they even did the investigation.
Maybe you'll see something wrong with our justice system there.
Or the fact that you've got high-ranking people within the DOJ, you know, working with Michael Steele, I'm sorry, it's Christopher Steele and working with others as it relates to the dossier.
This guy that is that put the dossier together.
This fusion GPS guy, Glenn Simpson.
Maybe you'll see some problems there.
Maybe you'll see some real Russia collusion when Christopher Steele is getting Russia propaganda that he's paying for while he's getting paid by Hillary Clinton's campaign and Hillary Clinton's run DNC.
And maybe you'll see there's a problem that the American people were fed lies and propaganda about a candidate leading up to an election.
Sounds like a little bit of collusion to me.
And maybe some of you people at CNN fake news or conspiracy TV MSNBC, maybe you'll finally realize that, you know, when Robert Muller and Eric Holder and all these people, when they we know they had an FBI informant on the ground inside of the network that Vladimir Putin was building in America,
and that they knew crimes were being committed and bribery and extortion and kickbacks and money laundering and other racketeering crimes, all in an effort to get a hold of America's uranium, and yet we have a FBI source in there that's feeding the information back.
I think maybe the American people need to know need to know get answers to why didn't Muller act?
Why didn't Eric Holder act?
Why did they allow this to go through?
It never made sense that 20% of America's uranium would go to a hostile regime like Russia and a hostile actor like Vladimir Putin.
And you might want to follow the money from all those people in Canada that were involved in this uranium one deal, kicking back all this money to the Clintons, and look at the timeline that I have expressed and shown on TV many times.
Maybe that's something that CNN fake news can dig their teeth into and maybe get right.
Or fake news MSNBC can do.
You know, you've got, you know, Mueller now hiring eight of the 16 people he hired originally are all Democratic donors.
He hired no Republican donor.
I'm not even talking about Peter Strzok.
We know his biases and his girlfriend's biases.
Okay, they're gone.
Who else is gonna go next?
Was it maybe Should it maybe be Andrew Weissman, a big Hillary donor?
Andrew Weissman attending Hillary Clinton's election night party at the Jacob Javit Center in New York.
Maybe he should go.
And what about what about Comey himself?
That leaked to the Columbia professor, so it would go to the New York Times so we can get the special counsel.
What about that particular case?
Or Rod Rosenstein is up to his eyeballs in all of this.
You know, the fact that Peter Strzok is involved in the email, the dossier, Uranium One, the Mueller investigation that the fact that he's involved in the interview of Hillary Clinton and Cheryl Mills and Uma Abedeen, all of whom lied.
All of them.
They weren't charged with lying the way that the FBI went after General Flynn.
Why weren't they charged with lying?
Why is there a dual system of justice in the United States of America in this day and age?
Why is Bruce Orr meeting with somebody that put together Russian lies when they are supposed to be looking into Russian collusion and all of this stuff?
You know, why did he go to the party?
Now we got more information that I want to share with you today.
Yeah, we're gonna get to Joe in a second.
We have yet another key member member of Count uh Robert Muller's Russia probe, appears to have deep ties to the Democratic Party.
His name is Aaron Zebley.
Zebley served as uh Mueller's chief of staff at the FBI, senior counselor in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, also an assistant U.S. attorney in the National Security and Terrorism Unit in Alexandria, Virginia.
He's often referred to in the media as Mueller's right hand man.
Well, also in 2015, when he was a lawyer, he represented Justin Cooper, the IT staffer who personally set up Hillary Clinton's unsecure server in her Chappaqua home.
Now, you know, Cooper, it so happens, is also an aide who destroyed Clinton's old blackberries with a hammer.
Wow, what a background and what a what a what a distinction that is to have in life.
And documents that Fox News got a hold of and Senate investigators got a hold of grew frustrated with Zelby after repeatedly stonewalling when they were trying to set up a meeting with Cooper.
And Zelby, he calls the Homeland Security Committee to inform them Cooper had chosen to cancel the interview.
And it goes on from there.
You know, I've never seen such corruption in my life.
By the way, joining us now is Joe Bestardi, Weatherbell.com.
We got a big storm heading up the east east coast of uh the northeastern part of the country.
What's going on?
By the way, this is the this is the selfish section of the Sean Hannity show because I want to know.
Anyway, go ahead.
Well, uh uh uh it's almost like a Hallmark movie snowstorm, in that there's not gonna be a lot of you know drifting and wind and tidal flooding and all that.
It's a four-day thumper that is going to be starting in DC by midnight into Philadelphia 3 to 6 a.m., into New York around 6 a.m., probably Boston and Providence, 9 to noon, snow for 12 to 18 hours, give four to eight inches, locally 12, right up the I-95 quarter, inland as far back as let's say uh Winchester, Virginia, uh, probably uh to Danbury, Connecticut, and then on up into New England, and all the way to the coast, too.
Long Island is in in this, uh, New Jersey is in this.
So great.
I gotta I got a business meeting tomorrow that I gotta go to, and I gotta go on the the on 95.
You're telling me I'm gonna be snowed in or what?
Well, I don't know.
I would assume they're gonna be plowing it, but it's gonna be a rough haul.
I mean, uh, you know, any time it's snowing that hard, uh, that's gonna be a pain in the neck.
So I don't know where your business meeting is, but if it's in Connecticut, what time do I what time does it start snowing?
Oh, it'll be snowing at your place uh probably by six, seven a.m. in the morning.
Oh, great.
Now I gotta go early.
There goes my there goes my goodnight sleep.
You know, why do you always bring me bad news?
Why?
Every time I it's a tornado, it's a hurricane, it's a storm.
You know, oh Hannity, a cat five is headed right towards your vacation property in Naples, Florida.
It's a direct hit.
I hope you're okay.
And then the week after, you oh, your other home, uh, your main home is also in a direct path of uh a massive storm.
That's what you told me this year so far.
Yeah, well, that uh keep your prepared.
But by the way, you were right every time.
What's fascinating is the weather is giving us signals with what's happening for what's going to happen.
I'm going to give you an example.
You know, these wildfires in California is a horrible situation.
But back in the spring, we were predicting major wild a major wildfire this sea uh uh this uh season uh because of the fact that we had so much rain in California, you go back and look at it.
Because of the type of winter and spring we had, we were ready for that hurricane season.
The type of hurricane season we had this year, folks, is similar to 3350, 2005, 1995, 2008, 10, 2008.
Guess what?
All those December's turned cold in the eastern part of the United States.
So we got the hint, and I've been posting this on Twitter, and of course, for the what my Whatabell subscribers, we knew in October that cold was going to invade the East this year, big time, uh unlike the past uh few years for December and right through the holiday season, probably through January.
That doesn't mean you can't warm up and get to 50 for a couple of days before.
But from now on, we're gonna have to watch right into the new year for these threats of snowstorms every three or four days in the Midwest and the eastern part of the United States.
So it's getting started now and for a change, uh, you know, the bright side of this is the third time this year.
You told me that both of my houses were gonna get hit.
And now you're telling me that my one day off that I have a meeting that I have to go to that I'm gonna be driving in a store.
You have brought me the worst news this year.
Merry Christmas to you too.
Well I I don't mean to bring you bad news.
I did want to do that.
I'm just teasing all right.
Well, but you're telling people to be safe and expect a storm.
Well, by the way, we love Joe Bostardi, and if you want the most accurate weather, you gotta go to weatherbell.com.
I go there every day.
Uh my friend, thanks for the warning and the update.
We appreciate it.
We you know I'm kidding with you.
My pleasure.
T take it easy.
Bye-bye.
All right, eight hundred nine four one Sean.
This is interesting.
It was in the Washington Examiner, the president's top economic advisor said today that this fall's hurricanes made economic growth look slower than it really is, adding that we're at four percent GDP growth, basically.
Now, Gary Cohn made that statement today with the tax plan.
We're gonna easily see four percent growth next year.
We have that, that's massive.
Peter Strzok is selected to be on Mueller's team after all this history, put on Mueller's team, and then he's removed for some pro-Clinton text messages.
I mean, there are all kinds of people on Mueller's team who are pro-Clinton.
There's been all kinds of stories.
Politifact reported 96% of the top lawyers' uh contributions went to Clinton or Obama.
But Peter Strzok, the guy who ran the Clinton investigation, interviewed Mills Aberdeen, interviewed Secretary Clinton, changed gross negligence and crime to the term extreme carelessness, who ran the Russian investigation, who interviewed Mike Flynn, gets put on Mueller's team, and then he gets kicked off for a text message that's anti-Trump.
If he kicked everybody off Mueller's team who was anti-Trump, I don't think there'd be anybody left.
So here there's gotta be something more here.
It can't just be some text messages that show a pro-Clinton anti-Trump bias.
There's gotta be something more.
And I'm trying to figure out what it is.
But my hunch is it has something to do with the dossier.
Director did Peter Strutt helped produce and present the application to the FISA court to secure a warrant to spy on Americans associated with the Trump campaign.
Congressman, I'm not prepared to discuss anything about uh a Pfizer process in this.
We're not talking about what happened in the court, we're talking about what the FBI took to the court, the application.
Did Peter Strutch was he involved in taking that to the court?
Uh I'm not gonna discuss in this setting anything to do with the Pfizer court applications.
Are you backing off your stance from last month where you said we will not leave here in December without a DACA fix?
No.
I stand by that statement.
We will not leave here without a DACA fix.
Two questions on back on DACAM.
Are you have you changed your mind at all about being willing to accept some border wall funding um or immigration crackdown funding on within a green act tax?
I don't know when you say have you changed your mind.
We said to the president the night he agreed uh to the DACA um legislation uh that we underst we have a responsibility to protect our border, and we thought I think there are many things we can do working together to do that.
And members have been working in a bipartisan way to address that.
So we're not backing off anything, and uh including uh meeting the needs of protecting our border.
We're not going to uh turn this country into rain of terror of domestic enforcement uh uh and have the DACA, the dreamers pay that price.
But the I I I'm optimistic.
I uh always have been.
Uh God is with us on this.
Our country is great.
We know that greatness springs from the vitality that newcomers bring to our country.
Eighty percent at least of the American people support the dreamers.
And uh some members at the president's holiday uh event the other night.
He calls it a holiday event, by the way.
Wasn't Christmas Biden, it was a holiday event.
Uh at that what there's Republican members were saying to me, this is eighty percent in my district.
People support the dreamers.
And I've had some of their spouses say to me, we have to we have to get the dream act.
So this is again bipartisan support.
We can find our common ground.
All right, Nancy Blood.
It's God wishes this for us.
That we're God is with us in the in all of this.
Then of course, earlier it was uh a pretty epic showdown yesterday with Christopher Ray, the FBI director, and many of the uh people in the Freedom Caucus, the one person you heard, that one voice that you heard was uh Jim Jordan, a frequent voice on this program.
Joining us now are Freedom Caucus members, Dave Brad of Virginia and Warren Davidson of Ohio.
First of all, Dave, I'm I'm sure you're pretty proud of uh our mutual friend Jim Jordan.
I thought he and a few others on on yesterday before the FBI director did an amazing job in laying out the case of just how bad things have gotten.
Yeah, no, thanks for having us on, Sean.
Yeah, Jim's just an absolute American icon.
He's just a truth teller.
He he just always emphasizes uh telling the truth, keeping your promises to the American movement.
You just see him highlight keeping it very simple, highlighting the corruption one by one, and then Meadows and Gates and Davidson and and uh we got a bunch of great guys in the Freedom Cox that have been uh leading the fight.
Yeah.
Well, let's talk specifically about all of this, because this guy Peter Strzok is in the middle of everything.
Uh first we know that he and Comey literally they got Hillary off the hook because they didn't do an investigation and they just wrote an exoneration letter.
Uh of course he's the one that changed the language from gross negligence.
Then you got of course, he's up to his eyeballs in that Clinton bought and paid paid for phony Russian dossier that was meant to influence the American people.
Then of course we've got the uranium one deal and you know, people like Muller and Rosenstein and a whole bunch of other people, they they knew because they had an FBI informant on the ground that recognized Vladir uh Vladimir Putin's uh intentions of getting a foothold in the uranium industry in this country, and there was bribery and extortion and kickbacks and money laundering, and they did nothing, and then they allowed the Iranium One deal to go through.
And meanwhile, we don't have enough uranium as a country ourselves, and then it's comey, and then it's Muller and it's Muller's team of you know, Trump hating Clinton supporters.
So I don't think if I wrote a novel, uh Dave Bratt, in any way anybody would believe that this is possible in the United States.
Yeah, well, thank God for uh people like you who keep those lists and go over that night by night by night.
And then what we need, and we just had a blue wave in Virginia, right?
I mean, the Democrats are enthused, they're drip drip drip, they own the media.
And so all the Republicans and grassroots and populists and Trump uh fighters out there need to get on board your train and need to write your newspapers.
You need to tell your Republican committee to grow a spine, you need to call your congressman and say where are you at on this?
And you also need to hold the Democrats'feet to the fire.
Our press never asks, you know, my senators, Mark Warner and Kaine, Tim Kaine, the Democrats, What are your views?
The press asks us every controversial question every morning to uh fight against our side.
Well, our uh we need to get blog sites and conservative energy going again uh to fight back against this corruption.
And you're the leader of the charge, uh you and Rush and Laura Ingram and uh all the you know, just a bunch of the good hosts at night that do a great job.
And uh so I applaud you.
Keep it going because the the best of the city is a very important thing.
I gotta be honest, it it it takes every night a good fifteen minutes to put it all together in a way that's understandable because there's so much information and so much evidence about this.
Warren Davidson of Ohio, uh let's get your thoughts generally on the investigation about Mueller, uh about Hillary Clinton and her involvement, the fact that they they literally the fix was in in her particular case, and then the way they treated, of course, General Flynn.
Yeah, uh you know, you say investigation, people keep using that word, uh, it reminds me of Princess Bride.
I don't think they know what it means.
It looks a lot more like an Inquisition.
I hope we're surprised, but more and more it looks like you've got a conspiracy uh of sorts to try to trump up a whole reason to have an investigation.
And so if Jim Jordan's thesis is right, and Matt Gates did a great job of unearthing that, that the whole premise goes back to wrongfully obtained uh information on a on a fake dossier that leads to uh a corrupt FISA and uh uh uh warrant to to tap uh a political campaign.
I mean, this is much bigger than Watergate was, uh, if that's true.
And what's what's really disturbing is the Justice Department is not complying with congressional requests for information.
They're not responding to subpoenas, and so you know, you have the same structural problem with the Justice Department in that sense that we had when Little Edward Lynch was uh was attorney.
Well, let's look at one point in particular.
Let's focus on this one, and and Dave Brad, I'll ask you first.
So it took a long time, but we finally found out that it was Fusion GPS.
Now, people say, well, Fusion GPS was hired as an research firm for a Republican.
Yeah, okay, but that was long before Fusion GPS ever hired Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent from Great Britain.
But anyway, so Hillary Clinton, we now know bought and paid for this dossier.
We know that Christopher Steele uh paid good money to Russian operatives to produce the salacious lies about Donald Trump all in an effort to spread Russian propaganda uh and influence the American people.
And the scarier part of this is the likelihood, now that we know that Bruce Orr in particular met with Fusion GPS and and and met with uh uh Christopher Steele uh and they all knew about this dossier.
They should have known it's false, but the FBI may have even been involved in in funding some of this.
It's an open question at this point, but was it used as a as a weapon and as evidence to go before a FISA court or any other court to get a warrant to spy on candidate Trump and other officials or President elect Trump and other officials, it would appear that may be very likely Dave Bratt.
Yeah, well, I think it does.
Warren just got done laying it out and you laid it out, and then and then you asked yourself the bigger question, why doesn't it move forward?
And I mean, can you just comprehend the world if President Trump wouldn't have won?
So you're seeing what it's like uh to drain the swamp and try to clear out the deep state at the State Department, the FBI, the CIA, etc.
And there's just tremendous pushback.
And and that that's the real challenge that faces us right now.
You're making the case, Warren's making the case, Jordan just aired it all out, and now you have to affect those institutions.
And that's the hard part because they have just floors and floors and floors of democratic operatives hired over decades.
And yeah, I mean, since the sixties.
And so that's the real challenge in front of us.
And President Trump, of course, has been leading that fight, and he's trying to drain the swamp, but it is incredible the fight he's in, and he needs our full support.
Why couldn't we get an answer yesterday?
Say it again, Sean.
Why couldn't we get an answer if the fake phony hit Hillary Clinton bought and paid for dossier was used to get a warrant on a opposition candidate?
Yeah, well, and that's that's what we got to do.
I I mean, if if he won't answer the question, they all report to the president.
So either uh either the president or Penn should come on down and just provide us the answer.
Right?
I mean, we we need to have uh on on a the few key questions that are as important to the continuation of this republic is this question.
The president himself ought to weigh in and or the vice president ought to weigh in and go in front of the media and just throw this thing and use the bully pulpit to its pull it back.
And I I think that is a huge way forward for our own.
Warren Davidson, do you uh do you think the president should do that, or does the president have the authority?
And where's Jeff Sessions?
Well, that's that's the real question.
I mean, I I'm a huge Jeff Sessions fan, but I've just been stunned by some of the actions here.
And if you look at the the some of the things in a FISA warrant are classified, but the evidence presented to the court isn't.
So there's no real good reason, even in a classified setting, they should be able to go and say, Well, I can't answer that here, but I'd be happy to meet you in the skiff.
Now, what I'm getting from from from friends that are involved in this uh directly, more directly, it's not my committee of jurisdiction, is that even in the SCIF uh where you would compartmentalize this information, uh they're not sharing this uh the answers to this.
There and so we should know what was the FBI's role.
And that And given that it's part of the Department of Justice, this is like I say, this is the ongoing theme.
It's time for justice to return to the Justice Department.
All right, take a break.
We'll come back.
We'll continue.
Dave Bratt, Congressman, Virginia, and Warren Davidson of Ohio.
And as we continue this Friday, Sean Hannity show, Freedom Caucus members, Dave Bratt, he is with the Commonwealth of Virginia, Warren Davidson of Ohio.
All right.
Going over this entire mess that has been created by Robert Mueller and this team of Hillary Clinton sycophans and Trump haters that he has around him.
And of course, Comey, who got this all started, had the fix-in for Hillary Clinton along with another Clinton lover, Peter Strzok.
What do we do to untangle the cord here?
Untangle the mess that's been created if we're going to be a country that has equal justice under the law.
Dave Bright.
Yeah, well, I think several of the chairmen we're running investigations uh under Goodland Judiciary in the House and then on the Senate side.
All these guys need to get coordinated on this deep state issue, and they need to hold these institutions to account in some way.
And and it it it it is incredibly complex, but I mean you've laid out the case, and it's clear, and it's been clear since the Clinton corruption, you know, going way back to Bill.
We've kind of had the goods, but then it's like justice disappears once it get up gets up to the highest, highest level.
It's kind of like the elites do some trades, and there's a two standards of justice, uh, one for the elites and one for the for the average person.
Well, this populist movement from Bernie all the way through Trump is that uh the American people are caught on.
They know what's going on.
And so I had a big election against that corruption.
Uh, but the people need to send more fighters up here, and they need to start leading the charge in the newspapers and explaining and building up a conservative movement again to fight back.
The left is really energized.
You saw that.
They are ready to rule.
Uh, you know, you're not getting a lot of enthusiasm from some of the base in in the party because they're disgusted with the lack of accomplishments, and I have less criticism, certainly of the House than the Senate.
You guys passed 300 bills.
You know, they passed only a couple this year in the Senate.
They have only they've only given approval and confirmed half of the president's nominees that he sent up there.
I mean, that it's it there's no sense of urgency in the Senate, and people are getting a little disgusted.
Well, that's not happening.
This is in play Israel now.
We've great mayor All right.
Hang on, let's go to Congressman Davidson.
You're breaking up, Congressman uh Bratt.
Congressman Davidson.
Yeah, you know, Sean, I really appreciate you calling that out because the House, I feel has just we're about as frustrated, maybe even more so, because we're in this vice where the public's losing confidence, uh even our base, and uh and and we are sitting here going, well, yeah, we actually passed that.
Well, yeah, we passed that.
And you look at where we're at.
We're doing uh we're we we have a good hand uh when we come to spending, and we the House passed all the right bills back in September.
We worked hard through uh j July to get that done, and it almost dropped due to a bad whip count.
People worked hard to get to yes, it wasn't everything we wanted.
Uh frankly, some disappointments, but it was there for the promise of being able to jam the Senate on spending.
And just as we're about to be able to do that in September, there's a CR.
And now just as we're about to do that in in uh December, there's a CR.
Don't want to do anything to derail tax reform, but come December 22nd.
We're gonna be looking to be finally with a good hand, play the cards, put the pressure on the Senate to say, let's fund our troops, let's run this country the way it's supposed to be.
If not, don't let anybody go home for Christmas.
Let them stay and work.
They've taken they've had enough vacation for the year, to be honest.
I wish I had your vacation schedule, but all right, thank you both.
I'm I'm not criticizing you.
The Freedom Caucus stands apart from everybody else, trust me.
And we're you're the only group we can count there.
I will take a great uh quick break here.
We'll come back.
Uh Kellyanne Conway joins us.
Also, Christian Adams checks in.
We'll get a lot of your calls in on this Friday.
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The Prime Minister of Israel, the President of the United States, and probably the most underreported yet historic thing that the uh President certainly has done one of the most historic things that he has done since he has taken office, a promise that he kept, which by the way was not kept by four previous presidents that all said they would do the same thing.
Uh joining us now with more to discuss this.
Our friend Kellyanne Conway is uh back.
Counselor to the president.
How are you?
I'm great, Sean.
How are you today?
I'm good.
You know, this is so important on so many different levels.
Number one, it's been promised by so many people, and the promise never ever gets fulfilled.
Now it got fulfilled.
And then you know, all these people that said they wanted it over the years, oh, we can't really do it.
And I'm like, yeah, you really can, and it's done.
Sean, it's pretty remarkable because not only have past presidents, both democratic and republican presidents promised to do this, vowed this to do this, in part, I think to carry favor and get votes.
But you have the United States Senate beginning in 1995 by a vote of 93 to 5, folks.
That's not a rounding error, not a close call.
93 to five.
Huge bipartisan support to do exactly this.
President Bill Clinton was in the Oval at the time, and he in 1999, when it was supposed to become uh turn into a reality, he took the six-month waiver, President Bush followed suit.
They've all promised, but as is usually the customer round here, it took Donald Trump as president to deliver.
Uh, just this past June, the Senate agreed with this by unanimous vote.
And you talked to some of these democratic and republican Senate offices, you talk to the members themselves.
And I think the one common thread is that they voted for it because they believe in it, but they've but they voted for it because they also believed there'd never be a president to side it into law.
Look what happened with repealing and replacing Obamacare.
You had the House and the Senate vote on it dozens of times, literally, you get a guy as president who's willing to make it the law and they can't get it through.
Very similar here.
Let me go to the other big story that we have been following, and this has been an unbelievable week in terms of discoveries that we've had.
And you know, we now know that the email server scandal that the fix was in, and the fix was in by James Comey and this guy Peter Strzok, who's a Hillary lover supporter and and James Comey, and they actually changed the wording from the legal definition of gross negligence to extreme carelessness.
Uh but it goes deeper as it relates to Peter Strck.
He was involved in the dossier issue.
He was involved in interviewing General Michael Flynn.
He was involved in interviewing Hillary.
She wasn't under oath, involved in interviewing Uma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.
Now we know he's a a vicious partisan.
Uh and you know, you can go through the list of scandals.
Then we got the the Mueller team that's appointed, and you only have big Democratic do donors, eight of the sixteen, and then you have someone like Andrew Weissman, who apparently was partying at Hillary Clinton's Christmas party this year, but on top of that donated money to Clinton and Obama and has one of the most atrocious track records that we've ever seen,
holding back exculpatory evidence in one case, overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court 9-0, overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, tens of thousands of people lost the their jobs because of his actions, and innocent people went to jail because of his actions.
You know, what do you think of this team that Mueller has put together?
Serious concerns are raised uh from the outset as he was adding lawyers because it was revealed that a number of them, as you correctly say, are Democratic donors.
Now, everybody has political judgments and beliefs.
But when you are meant to be independent and impartial, and that independence and impartiality and transparency is critical, critical to running investigations that reflect in independence and transparency and impartiality.
You cannot be so blatant as to I think pal around with and enjoy the Hillary Clinton quote victory party that wasn't, which is where Andrew Weissman is blatantly giving money and lots of money, by the way, significant amounts of money to one candidate.
But now, Sean, what really strikes me and was what I want your listeners to know is so much of this activity was occurring during the transition.
Why?
Because they didn't expect her to lose and him to win.
And there's a common thread here too about the rush that was on to change the election results and and change go back and try to discredit the newly democratically elected president so that maybe he would never be seated in the first place.
Uh the other thing is that when it comes to this investigation, we're not talking about the 35,000 FBI rank and file employees.
The President has made very clear that he respects the rank and file, but the I in the FBI in their motto stands for integrity and the you know fidelity, bravery, integrity.
And it's being called into question with respect to this investigation because there's just too many coincidences here.
I have to really credit a number of the members of Congress at that hearing yesterday with FBI director Ray.
They asked the right questions about the impartiality and the and the partisan inclinations and predilections and activities of some of these investigators.
And they did it.
Sometimes Republicans can be hearing impaired at these congressional hearings.
They were excellent.
They were they really asked the right questions.
And anybody who doesn't want to cover this part of the whole FBI investigation, DOJ saga, is being completely disingenuous.
They they've wasted over a year covering their part of it with very little to show.
They are duty bound to continue.
What about this guy or P this guy or in the Department of Justice?
He he was on the main justice floor.
He's four doors down from the Deputy Attorney General, his boss.
And and he's out there meeting with, allegedly meeting with the fusion GPS dossier makers who took money millions, millions from the Clinton campaign in the DNC to put together a dossier, which Jim Comey, by the way, under oath in March, referred to as salacious and unverified.
It has salacious and unverified details.
He changed his soon since maybe, but go back and look at his testimony in March.
You know, I I look at all of this, Kellyanne, and I I I really have been hitting this really hard.
And I watch and I watch, and yesterday was the first day that if Anybody had watched any other cable network in the last year, all of what happened and was unfolding yesterday would they probably would have been hearing it for the first time.
This has been a huge onion now that we have been literally, you know, taking a slice a day off of that has now brought us to the point where we know a lot of things.
We know that the email server scandal investigation, we know that the fix was in because they were exonerating Hillary and drafting that letter long before they had done the investigation.
We similarly now know Hillary paid for the dossier.
We we know that the FBI was very interested in the dossier and Bruce Orr actually met with Fusion GPS and met with Christopher Steele in that particular case.
And we know the dossier was bought and paid for by Hillary and the Democratic Committee, the DNC that she was running, according to Donna Brazil.
And you know, when you think of that one issue in particular, and then you gotta really take it the next step.
Were the r Russian propaganda and lies, if everyone's so concerned about Russian propaganda, were were was that the predicate for the warrants that were used to surveil now I would argue illegally a opposition candidate during an election or a president elect post-election, it appears that all the questions.
Oh, excellent questions, Sean, and one ones that I say are go to the heart of all of this now.
And anybody and looking up at the T V screens right now, people aren't covering this side of it by and large, a little bit here and there.
But the reason they're not covering it is that this does not support the conclusion they've already made.
They've had a conclusion in search of evidence for over a year.
They've wasted an entire year.
And there were news reports this week that so far the Mueller investigation has cost taxpayers six point seven million dollars.
That's fine, but we need to know that there are independent impartial folks working on this every step of the way.
Not just reassigned, quietly d demoted.
We need to know maybe they should be put under oath and asked, What did you do?
Why did you do it?
Did you ever meet with X, Y, and Z?
What would be the purpose?
What would be the purpose of meeting with the person who had put together a commission, the dossier who was paid millions of dollars by a partisan organization, the DNC, which by the way has no money.
They wasted all on a phony baloney dossier and took money from the Clinton campaign, which had so much money to burn, which proved yet again the fastest way to make a small fortune is to have a very large one and waste most of it with a terrible candidate.
This woman had every advantage.
It tells you she's even more she's even a worse candidate than we had imagined and thought because she had all these advantages, including this, and and couldn't get it done.
But people have a right to know in their government on the taxpayer dime, folks, who is actively working against your democratically elected president and vice president.
It's an important issue and it should not go away.
Those who say high stay right there.
It's a dream that it's a dream that this uh this investigation will be over soon.
It ought to continue if it means adding this piece of it.
Well, it there's so many things that need to be redone.
I mean, you can't have the fix it and that's called obstruction of justice.
Uh Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, is with us, 800 nine four one Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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Um, you know, no matter what happens, it just seems that there's a never ending obsession with going after this president, and it really started on November the ninth.
Um now you've got people on uh Liberal Morning Joe and his band of of anti-Trumpers over there every day.
You know, it's so personal and it's so vitriolic and there's so much hate behind it.
It's like they're bordering on having emotional breakdowns every morning on TV, which might actually make for interesting TV.
But you know, at any point does this begin to wear on you, you got so many people that's just attacking the president from every different angle?
In a word, no.
And they can keep trying, whoever the they is.
I'm not going to be specific to any uh individuals, especially if I don't watch their shows.
But uh look, just in the main, there are very few reporters who have really taken the time, Sean, to get to know this president and his decision making and the way that he accepts and really expects lots of different input and ideas and individuals.
He welcomes dissent, he welcomes disagreement, he knows he's the ultimate decision maker.
It's an absolute pleasure to work for him.
It's frankly an absolute pleasure to work for him as a woman and as a as a mother of school age children because uh we are we're all respected and included, and I think that's what really drives the Liberals crazy.
You have a new female Homeland Security, director of Homeland Security in the cabinet today, her deputy's female.
You've got a lot of top level f women in the cabinet.
just drives them crazy because it it just upends all their narratives about him.
Now, I will also tell you that because some people thought he wouldn't last very long, it's self-laughable.
They really have lazily not tried to get to know him, senior team, the way decisions are made.
It's easy for them to fit into the win.
Most of the criticism out there comes in print or on TV.
It comes from people who have never worked in a White House, let alone this White House.
Some folks are just jealous of him, frankly, and a lot of folks don't have access to him, including those who had access for a very long time, and it was their oxygen.
It was their gold, and now they don't have it.
And it's going to be a very long eight years for those who you know don't have access and don't understand him.
A lot of crybabies out there that think everything in life is about them and it's not.
I love that.
All right, Kellyanne Conway, as always, thank you for being with us.
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Congressman, so many people right now are worried that there might be a bias at the upper levels of the FBI.
Should we be worried about that?
We should, Steve.
There's there's conduct that tells you that they were not uh fully disclosing, fairly practicing in a way that would show you that the Clinton investigation wasn't tainted.
And the FBI director admitted as much when he said that on a de novo basis, what the inspector general is doing could lead to a reevaluation of the actual decision on indicting Hillary Clinton.
Do you think that would be a good idea?
Well, it's important that we get dispel any questions of of wrongdoing.
And in this case, we have a number of actions by FBI agents and high-ranking Department of Justice officials that clearly show something went wrong in their their activity and their tweeting or texting.
And uh and that calls into question uh the the this very controversial decision where we know that Hillary Clinton did leave illegally with documents she should not have left government with, denied the government copies of records, and yet somehow the decision was made that no crime was committed that could be prosecuted.
Right.
Congressman, we heard uh a new name.
Bruce Orr, an assistant deputy attorney general, was removed from his job uh because apparently he didn't tell anybody that he'd been meeting with the uh fusion GPS dossier people.
Well, this is the probably the most troubling because in the case of of uh uh deputy attorney general or what you have is somebody four doors down from the attorney general who had conduct that make that calls into question whether or not perhaps people there knew that the Democratic National Pit Committee was paying for the fake dossier,
that using the fake dossier to then launch an investigation was clearly wrong, and uh and and that's sort of that you back up and say, well, that means that everything that's been going on relative to uh, if you will, the Trump campaign could well be simply following the Democratic National Committee's intended route.
I know a number of Republicans on uh your committee yesterday were talking about you would like to see the information the FBI presented uh to get the FISA surveillance because it looks like they might have used the dossier, which when you think about it, if they use the dossier, which was Oppo research paid for by Hillary Clinton, that would be off the chart bad.
It clearly would be off the charts bad.
But let's remember that former director Comey uh didn't see a problem with reaching a conclusion not to prosecute before some of the witnesses were even deposed.
So there's a lot of bad there.
Uh clearly we're having a problem with uh the new director in that although he says he will consider providing, he certainly has not been forthcoming in sharing even what we call in camera the data that causes these conclusions to be reached.
And by the way, let's remember with a special prosecutor, there's an ongoing investigation.
Right.
An investigation that may have been started by nothing more than, as you say, op research paid for by Hillary Clinton.
Yes, op research paid for, bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton.
It's, you know, the mystery just gets bigger and bigger and bigger every single day.
Anyway, news roundup information overload hour.
You know, now we know the email server scandal, the fix was in.
We know that the phony Russian propaganda dossier was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Hillary Clinton run DNC.
We know Uranium One that there was extortion and bribery and and all sorts of other crimes, money laundering and things like that happening, and Mueller and so many other people knew it.
We know that Comey, best friends with Mueller and Rosenstein.
Well, we know he leaked the information, and in fact, Comey himself put the fix in on the email scandal.
Then you got Mueller and his merry band of corrupt, Trump-hating, Hillary-loving bandits in in charge in all of this.
Then Peter Strzok.
Then you got this guy, Bruce Orr, and you know, the Andrew Weissman.
I mean, this you can't even make a novel evolve like this.
It wouldn't be believable, but it is the situation we now find ourselves in.
Uh, Christian Adams is with us, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and editor of PJ Media has a terrific column out discussing and asking a lot of the important questions about not only the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, but his deputy Rod Rosenstein.
Uh what's happening, Christian Adams?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, great to have you uh talking to me today.
A lot of a lot of meat on that bone that we're throwing out here today.
Why don't we start at the beginning and and go through the investigation itself and the people that Mueller has hired and work our way back?
Right.
Realize, Sean, this is Eric Holder's big payoff.
He spent years institutionalizing radicalism and normalizing partisanship at the department in the hires.
And now you have all these department lawyers who are on the Mueller investigation, who are deputies to Rod Rosenstein.
You actually have Aaron Zelensky, who is on the Mueller investigation, who's prosecuting Mike Flynn.
Sean, he is a Huffington Post blogger.
I mean, to say things like that, it's like you've entered Wonderland.
That you have a blogger at the Huffington Post prosecuting uh uh Michael Flynn, and you you have this institutionalization of leftism behind the prosecution of the lawyers who work on this case.
Well, I mean, you just look at them and you look at their atrocious track records, and you look at the Andrew Weisman in particular with Anderson Accounting and Enron and the Merrill Lynch executives and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns one ruling.
You got a 9-0 Supreme Court uh decision overturning uh the the obstruction of justice uh guilt guilty verdict he gets.
People spend their, you know, a year in jail and they're proven innocent.
Uh he holds back exculpatory information, makes up laws that don't exist.
Um you got this guy Bruce Orr, and he's in full contact with Fusion GPS, and you gotta wonder at some point where does the conflict of interest come in here, because they knew about Putin's attempts to get a foothold in the uranium market.
They they knew that all these crimes were being committed long before Cypheus ever signs off and Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder on the Uranium One deal.
You know that they're investigating now Trump for a year with Russian collusion, and and they keep going way off what their original mandate is, and it makes me wonder if there's any equal justice under the law in this country, or is this a banana republic now?
Well, I've been warning about this this partisanship inside the department for years.
And you know, you hit the nail right on the head.
This is an investigation that is going to keep spiraling out of control unless somebody gets it under control.
And the only person who has the power to do that is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
But the problem is, Sean, and I can tell you today on your show, that in his office, there's about five swamp lawyers.
These are people Rosenstein brought with him from Baltimore, where he was the U.S. attorney, and they are partisans.
They are lefties, and they are running the show and giving orders to Mueller and his crowd.
And they are not Trump fans.
And how they got the jobs was just amazing.
I mean, you know, people wanted the swamp drain.
Well, this was filling the swamp back up.
One of them, Sean, is Suji Rahman.
He's one of the lawyers I write about.
He was actually a Soros fellow at Harvard Law School, and now he is a a number two or three deputy attorney general overseeing the Mueller investigation.
These are hardcore left-wing swamp radicals.
What do you make of?
I mean, Weissman in particular, I mean, uh if you look at everybody, of the 16 that he originally appointed, eight of them are big Democratic donors, over 50,000.
You know, you look at the track record.
Why would you pick somebody like Andrew Weissman, who we now know actually attended uh a Hillary Clinton election night party, according to the Wall Street Journal reporting today, and you know, his attendance at the party, isn't that a sign of a very troubling sign pointing to trouble?
And then you've got this guy, Peter Strzok, and and Peter Strzok is, you know, obviously in the tank for Hillary, and he's involved in just about every issue.
He's involved in Uma Abedin's interview and Cheryl Mills' interview.
We we all know that they lied in those interviews to the FBI, no charges against them.
He's involved in the General Flynn investigation.
He's there when Hillary Clinton and the email investigation.
He's he's the guy at the top that's actually changing the words from gross negligence to extreme carelessness to get away from the the legal definition of what this is.
Um Hillary Clinton wasn't uh put under oath when she was being interviewed by the FBI.
We know she lied repeatedly about many of these issues.
You know, the whole thing stinks to high heaven.
You know, what part of this are people not getting?
Yeah, he he his job was to defend Hillary from his perch at the DOJ.
That's what he cared about.
Look, Sean, folks need to understand.
I was at the Justice Department, an attorney there.
This is normalized.
These people don't think they're doing anything wrong, even today.
If you had one of them on their show, uh the show today, they would tell you that they they're allowed to go to Hillary's parties.
They're protected in their political beliefs, and they don't see anything wrong.
That's how deep the problem is.
They don't have a conscience about this sort of thing.
And that's why you see Hillary getting off scot-free and Michael Flynn pleading guilty to a flimsy charge uh from Mueller's prosecution.
But the but the fix was in on Hillary.
That there's no it's it's there's overwhelming evidence that James Comey, before conducting the investigation, uh, ends up writing an exoneration of her.
And then they even changed the terminology away from the legal definition.
So she got a pass.
She she the fix was in for her.
Is that true?
Right.
And the change of the terminology is critical.
Folks need to understand this.
Being extremely careless is not a felony, but being grossly negligent is.
And these Hillary hack lawyers, the DOJ, uh, Weisman, who was responsible for this, did it to protect Hillary because he likes Hillary.
Strck didn't do a good interview of Hillary because he likes Hillary.
He wanted her to win.
And these people wanted her to win because then they would move up the the ladder at the DOJ.
It's all personal uh power that they seek.
That's what's going on.
They're making 180,000 a year to give Hillary a pass so she can be the next president.
So why why would Mueller that everyone oh he's a man of great integrity, we were told.
Why is he playing along with this and putting these people in power?
Well, the most the most forgivable reason is he thought that these people would be more likely to get prosecutions, but you know, that cuts both ways, doesn't it?
Because uh, you know, if you have these overzealous Democrats, uh, you might get prosecutions, but you might also get tainted prosecutions.
And that's what seems to be happening now, is the whole investigation is tainted.
Unbelievable.
All right, we really appreciate you being with us.
Uh Christian Adams, always a pleasure to have you around.
Thank you.
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Mark is in Virginia.
Mark, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Happy Friday.
Yeah, thanks, Sean.
I appreciate it.
Uh, long time listener and you were uh lovely show um on TV and the radio.
Uh Merry Christmas, uh happy new to you.
I want to call and talk about the hypocrisy of the left, how it's widely known that um Abedin and uh Mills lied to the uh FBI and yet nothing gets done to them.
But General Flynn, who served our country for you know, God knows how many decades, you know, lost the FBI and he's found guilty.
I mean, hypocrisy is crazy, and it's not just in that subject, it's across the board, but that's one that is just shocking.
You know, I can't believe it's a lot of people who are in the world.
Well, we because it's the same guy, and now we know the answer.
It was the same guy that interviewed all of them.
Flynn, Hillary, Mills, Uma Abedeen.
And it's the guy we now know, along with his his girlfriend that is a Clinton lover and a Trump hater.
And the question is Absolutely.
How does somebody like that get in that position of power?
How's that not even an obstruction of justice in some ways?
You know, between him and Comey literally getting an exoneration for Hillary before they do the investigation.
I mean, imagine if this were a Democratic administration and they're investigating post-election Donald Trump.
Do you think Donald Trump would get that favorability?
I doubt it.
And I bet I bet everybody would scream bloody murder that Donald Trump needs to go to jail and be prosecuted and be held accountable and equal justice under the law.
But, of course, that's not happening.
Big things, I guess, you know, I could go on so many different things with you, but how is it that not just they get into power, but how are they able to stay in power?
How are they able to keep their positions in the private sector?
These people will be fired.
Because they're that's the swamp.
That's the sewer.
That's what we're talking about.
These are people, there are people at the highest levels of power that that get drunk on that power.
And they think they know better.
Let me tell you something.
They think we're stupid.
They think that the American people made a mistake.
And by golly, by hook or crook, they're gonna do everything they can possibly do to stop Donald Trump.
And that's what we've now seen since November 9th, and even before the election.
You know, be traps being set, deep state leaking, of course, corruption galore, exoneration of guilty people, and it's now being exposed.
And, you know, some people say, well, Hannity, when is it all going to come together?
The House of Cards is now rattling.
It's shaking.
It's gonna come tumbling down.
And it's gonna be sooner rather than later.
It's not gonna take much longer because we've been on this for so long.
So I'm just urge people to be patient because I know a lot more is coming.
Uh Joe and LJ, Joe, we have about a minute.
It's all yours.
Glad you called, sir.
Sean, you were great.
I w I read the article in the New York Times.
Uh boy, even uh, it was great reading about you.
That whole Mueller investigation ought to ought to be shut down.
But I'll tell you, Sean, I think Trump's the best president in history, and you're the best talk show host in history.
And I followed your program every night.
Like I say, I read the article in the New York Times.
I thought it was very interesting.
Uh, but but you're just doing a super job, and all I can say is we people down here in LJ, we all love you.
Keep up the great work for the taxpayers.
Go Donald Trump and go Sean Hannity.
Well, I appreciate it.
Thank you so much, Joe and LJ.
Have a great Christmas, my friend.
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What a week this has been.
Like every week.
I mean, I I don't think I've ever seen, I call it like a quickening.
Art Bell years ago wrote a book, The Quickening, and everything is you know, fast, fast, fast.
All the news is there's never a slow news day anymore.
It doesn't exist.
I mean, I see just think about it.
There's always something every day.
You know, one of the things that is uh I'll give you a remarkable anecdote on how interested people now are in the news.
So last year was the biggest election year in terms of viewership that we had ever seen at the Fox News channel.
And yes, last year I was in my 22nd year.
I've now started my 23rd year.
And the ratings from October are are number are in, and and thanks to all of you, we're the number one show on cable news.
And but it's that that's not my point.
My big point here is we had higher numbers this October.
We're kicking out one of the highest months ever.
And our numbers were up in all demos this October over last October.
I mean, that shows the engagement that people have.
And I think this is what the GOP really needs to understand.
They people in this country, they want the agenda accomplished.
They want promises kept, they want a good, strong fight, and they want things to get better.
And then of course, watching the Democrats do what they always do.
Anytime a Republican gets elected, they do what they always do, and that's, you know, they sit on their hands and they have a fit and they do nothing and they try to obstruct.
And sadly, Republicans have gotten weaker than they've ever been and so afraid of criticisms that they they unfortunately don't want to even begin the tough intellectual arguments for, say, things like health care cooperatives or health savings accounts.
They don't really want to talk about, you know, profound deep things that could change the economy forever.
I if I was in Congress, I would absolutely would have supported this this tax plan that the president put forward, but the president also wanted a lowering of top marginal rates.
You know, the fact that they bury the state tax repeal six years down the road.
Well, you better die in that six year because it might be the one year that exists where you don't get double taxed.
And to me, these are basic, these are fundamental things.
We did get, of course, the the health care mandate repeal in this bill.
We'll see what finally comes out of conference.
We did get the corporate tax cuts lowered significantly, nearly in half.
We did get the repatriation opportunity for multinationals to bring in trillions.
You know, you look at the numbers economically today, they're they're pretty phenomenal.
And you got the total unemployment report, you know, defies media expectations again.
And you know, you remember during the Obama years, you know, almost every media report on the monthly unemployment numbers started off with a sentence like, in an unexpected development.
The economy added dramatically fewer jobs than were previously forecast, defying the predictions of economists who've been insisting that the recovery has been underway for months and months and months.
Well, he ended up being the only president in American history that never had a single year of his presidency at three percent GDP growth rate ever.
Anyway, and and the energy independence policies of the president and of course, after energy, you've got you know, burdensome regulations that he all did on his own.
Anyway, the LA Times late at U.S. economy is now on a solid footing.
Employers added a robust 228,000 new jobs last month.
The nation's unemployment rate holding steady, 4.1% at a 17 year low.
Job growth in November exceeded forecast from many analysts who are looking for just an increase of 195,000.
So all good news, consumer confidence at a 17 year high, food stamp participation, seven year low, labor participation at a at a 10 year high, which was a big factor back in the Obama years.
Uh home starts now are at a at a 15 year high or 30-year high rather, all types of home starts, and and that's good for the average consumer, so that means they're gonna be buying their perhaps their first home or buying a newer home or build you know a bigger home, whatever they want.
So all those things begin to work.
But they did forget one major thing, and that was across the board tax cuts that I would argue would have added a lot more growth to the economy because they didn't they didn't want to be labeled as tax cutters for the rich.
All right, let's get to our busy uh telephones here.
We have Wayland is in Highlands in North Carolina.
Wayland, hey, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you so much for taking my call and for everything that you do.
Well, thank you.
I was wanting to uh just share a a quick story.
Um my wife and I started uh business last year.
And we sell an American products for the home.
Um we had contemplated looking for a storefront in in town here, but we didn't determine or decide to do that until after the election because the whippings were working.
Uh we thought Hillary was going to win and really felt like that was not gonna be the best decision.
And then after the election night, um we decided to look for a storefront and because we had as a result of his messaging the confidence to move ahead with that commitment.
And uh I just wish that people would allow him to do his job because even with all of the things working against him, we see improvement in the economy that you can't deny, and it's just really phenomenal.
And I just wanted to take a moment to share my story and thank Trump.
Well, congratulations.
I mean, you know, it's doesn't it feel good when you get in control of your life and your destiny?
Doesn't it feel good when you get opportunity?
It does.
It does.
Very empowering.
Um, so tell me more about what you're gonna do, what your plans are.
Well, um we are you know, of course trying to get the website going is as always a problem, I guess it's for everybody.
But um, you know, we have some exciting things potentially on the horizon.
Um don't want to give away too much, but hopefully working with selling some you know furniture packages for those new homebos that you're talking about.
Uh things that are made here locally, uh, promoting local artisans, that type of thing.
That's that's what we love to do.
Um, highlighting charities and that type of thing.
It's um that's really what we what we want to do.
That's awesome.
I wish you all the best, all the success you could ever garner.
And um, you know, one thing people uh I've always dealt with in in this stupid business of radio and TV.
I've always met people that they think they've always got to put someone else down to build themselves up, or other people have to fail for them to succeed.
It's never ever been that way.
A rising tide does lift all boats.
And sure, it's good to be competitive, but it's also good to have uh a team behind you, and you know, that's what makes great radio stations.
It's not three hours in any one and in 20 in any one 24 hour day.
There's 24.
And you need good programming for all 24.
All right, back to our busy telephones as we check in with Zach in Marion, Kentucky.
Zach, how are you?
I'm very good, Sean.
It's good to be on the show.
How are you doing today?
I'm good, sir.
How are you?
I'm very good.
I was just gonna make some comments on the Mueller investigation and how, you know, looking back, especially with uh Peter Stroke, and um, even if you say that these anti-Trump texts that uh were found out later were a thing, uh I'm I'm sure that Mueller, being part of the FBI and so close with them, would have known about uh Peter Stroke helping to amend the comey uh dispensation on what he was looking for in the the Clinton investigation.
And it just seems interesting that you know, all of a sudden, when a Republican gets in office, so many people are so focused on justice, uh, that being a word that's used differently depending on who you support.
Yeah, that's all listen, that that is all true, and but there really is one rule of law, right?
There only is there should be one standard for everybody, and and you can't have a bunch of partisans that are that are known that have known biases involved in every case and applying the law based on what one's politics are.
You can't put the fix in for Hillary Clinton before you actually do the investigation.
That would be pretty corrupt, right?
I agree with that.
And the same thing with uh, you know, it you can argue whether it was uh a good thing for Jeff Sessions to accuse himself.
I think politically it was, but then calling for him to recuse himself uh over something that seems uh a little bit more minor considering the bias that we're seeing right now, and then you know, responding with complete silence when we're faced with how many different biases we're seeing coming out of this investigation is is corrupt, in my opinion.
It is definitely corrupt.
All right, my friend, thank you.
Have a great weekend.
And uh, well, where's time?
Oh, before we go, I forgot to say one last thing in here.
Did you hear Mika?
You know, of Liberal Joe.
Well, she actually said and raises this question.
Well, first Frank and accuser, Leanne Tweedon, play that's the one we have the picture of.
Playboy model who goes on Hannity voted for Trump.
Really?
Oh, okay.
The picture doesn't speak volumes to Mika.
We're gonna deal with this on Monday's program.
All right, that's gonna really do it for us today.
We're out of time.
Thanks so much for being with us.
Hope you have a great weekend.
We'll see you back here on Monday.
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