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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.
But 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 telling and that they've all doubled down on.
But anyway, we have Dave Bratton and Warren Davidson are going to 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, 228,000 jobs created.
That now brings the number to 2.2 million new jobs since you, the American people, elected Donald Trump.
We now 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.
When you break things down demographically, for example, you have historic unemployment in the Hispanic community.
It's now 4.7%, the lowest in history.
And an amazing accomplishment.
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 Mexico.
Don't go across the border somewhere.
Build your manufacturing centers and your factories here.
This is like night follows day what's going to happen here.
It's going to be very simple.
When you have multinationals with trillions of dollars and this tax cut bill goes into effect, they're now going to bring that money into America.
Now, do you think they're going to put it in a savings account and hope for some interest?
No.
They're going to now start spending.
They're now going to start investing.
They want, with the end of the regulations, which incentivizes business, it literally costs them a fortune.
And corporations now having nearly 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, 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.
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 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.
You know, 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 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 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 Gowden, you had a bunch of other people that did really good jobs too.
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 Menafort was indicted.
What about that, Hennity?
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, wait, 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'll give them the secret sauce.
If they had any brains, they'd actually follow the model.
The secret sauce is 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, 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 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 when he was the candidate, the big bombshell.
That had Joy Behar doing a reenactment of the I'll Have What She's Having seen, you know, in a movie.
It's ridiculous.
Breaking news.
Oh, my God.
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.
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 break.
This is CNN.
This is 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'd be really wrong.
Anyway, it arrived less than three weeks before WikiLeaks itself messaged Trump Jr. and began an exchange.
Now, that's, 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 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 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 du 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.
It came from someone who listed their name as Mike Erickson.
Congressional investigators were uncertain who the sender is.
CNN unable to make contact with the individual.
So what their big bombshell 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's stories was published, Julian Assange tweeted it was not clear what this has to do with WikiLeaks.
Many enthusiastic readers emailed around archives of our publication during the election.
Now we find out, just as I'm coming on the air here, it 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 are going to have to take apology lessons from Joy Behar and Brian Ross.
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.
I would 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 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 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 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 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 an 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 Mueller 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 that, and then you get Robert Mueller, Comey, his best buddy, you know, sets it up.
So we get a special prosecutor.
Turns out to be Mueller.
Mueller 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.
Straight ahead.
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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 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 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 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, Orr had Fusion GPS representatives meeting with Christopher Steele.
That's the DOJ.
I mean, 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 donors 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 Mueller'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 Javits 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 Weissman, 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 6 o'clock in the morning.
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 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, he's Christopher Steele and working with, you know, others as it relates to the dossier, this guy 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 Mueller and Eric Holder and all these people, when 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 get answers to why didn't Mueller 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 Strzzok.
We know his biases and his girlfriend's biases.
Okay, they're gone.
Who else is going to 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 Javits Center in New York?
Maybe he should go.
And what about Comey himself that leaked to the Columbia professor so it would go to the New York Times so he can get the special counsel?
What about that particular case?
Well, 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 going to get to Joe in a second.
We have yet another key member of Robert Mueller's Russia probe, appears to have deep ties to the Democratic Party.
His name is Aaron Zebli.
Zebley served as 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 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 Bastardi, Weatherbell.com.
We got a big storm heading up the east coast of the northeastern part of the country.
What's going on?
By the way, this is the selfish section of the Sean Hannity show because I want to know.
Anyway, go ahead.
It's almost like a Hallmark movie snowstorm in that there's not going to be a lot of drifting and wind and tidal flooding and all that.
It's a Ford 8 thumper that is going to be starting in D.C. 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 4 to 8 inches, locally 12, right up the I-95 corridor, inland as far back as, let's say, Winchester, Virginia, probably to Danbury, Connecticut, and then on up into New England and all the way to the coast, too.
Long Island is in this.
New Jersey is in this.
So great.
I got a business meeting tomorrow that I got to go to, and I got to go on the on-95.
You're telling me I'm going to be snowed in or what?
Well, I don't know.
I would assume they're going to be plowing it, but it's going to be a rough haul.
I mean, you know, anytime it's snowing that hard, that's going to be a pain in the neck.
So I don't know where your business meeting is, but if.
It's in Connecticut.
What time does it start snowing?
Oh, it'll be snowing at your place probably by 6, 7 a.m. in the morning.
Oh, great.
Now I got to go early.
There goes my good night's sleep.
You know, why do you always bring me bad news?
Why?
Every time it's a tornado, it's a hurricane, it's a storm.
You know, 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, oh, your other home, your main home, is also in a direct path of a massive storm.
That's what you told me this year so far.
Yeah, well, it's all true.
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 a major wildfire this season 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, 2010, 2008.
Guess what?
All those Decembers 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 my Weatherbell subscribers, we knew in October that cold was going to invade the East this year, big time, unlike the past few years for December and right through the holiday season, probably through January.
Now, 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 going to 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, you know, the bright side of things.
You know, this is the third time this year you told me that both of my houses were going to 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 going to be driving in a storm.
You have brought me the worst news this year.
Merry Christmas to you, too.
Well, I don't mean to bring you bad news.
I did want to.
I'm just teasing.
All right.
But you're telling people to be safe and expect a storm.
By the way, we love Joe Bistardi.
And if you want the most accurate weather, you got to go to Weatherbell.com.
I go there every day.
My friend, thanks for the warning and the update.
We appreciate it.
You know I'm kidding with you.
My pleasure.
Take it easy.
Bye-bye.
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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 4% GDP growth, basically.
Now, Gary Cohn made that statement today with the tax plan.
We're going to easily see 4% 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' 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 there's got to be something more here.
It can't just be some text messages that show a pro-Clinton anti-Trump bias.
There's got to 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 Strzok 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 a FISA 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 Strzok involved in taking that to the court?
I'm not going to discuss in this setting anything to do with the FISA 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.
Deathman.
Two questions.
On back on DACA.
Desnap.
Have you changed your mind at all about being willing to accept some border wall funding or immigration crackdown funding within a Dream Act?
I don't know when you say, have you changed your mind?
We said to the president the night he agreed to the DACA legislation that we have a responsibility to protect our border, and we 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, including meeting the needs of protecting our border.
We're not going to turn this country into a reign of terror of domestic enforcement and have the DACA, the DREAMers, pay that price.
But I'm optimistic.
I always have been.
God is with us on this.
Our country is great.
We know their greatness springs from the vitality that newcomers bring to our country.
30%, at least, of the American people support the DREAMers.
And some members at the president's holiday event the other night.
He calls it a holiday event, by the way.
It wasn't a Christmas party.
It was a holiday event.
At that, Republican members were saying to me, this is 80% in my district.
People support the DREAMers.
And I've had some of their spouses say to me, we have to get the DREAM Act.
So this is, again, bipartisan support.
We can find our common ground.
All right, Nancy, but it's God wishes this for us.
God is with us in all of this.
Then, of course, earlier, it was a pretty epic showdown yesterday with Christopher Wray, the FBI director, and many of the people in the Freedom Caucus.
The one person you heard, that one voice that you heard was 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 sure you're pretty proud of our mutual friend, Jim Jordan.
I thought he and a few others 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 just always emphasizes telling the truth, keeping your promises to the American people.
You just see him highlight, keeping it very simple, highlighting the corruption one by one.
And then Meadows and Gates and Davidson.
And we got a bunch of great guys in the Freedom Caucus that have been leading the fight.
Yeah, well, let's talk specifically about all of this because this guy, Peter Strzok, is in the middle of everything.
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.
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-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 Mueller and Rosenstein and a whole bunch of other people, they knew because they had an FBI informant on the ground that recognized Vladimir Putin's 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 Uranium 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 Mueller, and it's Mueller's team of Trump-hating Clinton supporters.
So I don't think if I wrote a novel, Dave Bratt, in any way anybody would believe that this is possible in the United States.
Yeah, well, thank God for people like you who keep those lists and go over that night by night by night.
And then what we need, 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 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 Kane, Tim Kaine, the Democrats, what are your views?
The press asks us every controversial question every morning to fight against our side.
But we need to get blog sites and conservative energy going again to fight back against this corruption.
And you're the leader of the church, you and Rush and Laura Ingram and just a bunch of the good hosts at night that do a great job.
And so I applaud you.
Keep it going because the best conservative body.
It takes every night a good 15 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, let's get your thoughts generally on the investigation about Mueller, about Hillary Clinton and her involvement, the fact that they literally, the fix was in in her particular case, and then the way they treated, of course, General Flynn.
Yeah, you know, you say investigation, people keep using that word.
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 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 information on a fake dossier that leads to a corrupt FISA warrant to tap a political campaign.
I mean, this is much bigger than Watergate was, if that's true.
And 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 Red Lynch was attorney.
Well, let's look at one point in particular.
Let's focus on this one.
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 paid good money to Russian operatives to produce the salacious lies about Donald Trump, all in an effort to spread Russian propaganda 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 met with Christopher Steele, and they all knew about this dossier.
They should have known it's false, but the FBI may have even been involved in funding some of this.
It's an open question at this point, but was it used 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 you asked yourself the bigger question, why doesn't it move forward?
And I mean, can you just comprehend the world that President Trump wouldn't have wanted?
So you're seeing what it's like to drain the swamp and try to clear out the deep state at the State Department, the FBI, the CIA, et cetera.
And there's just tremendous pushback.
And 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, you know, I mean, since the 60s.
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 an opposition candidate?
Yeah, well, and that's what we got to do.
I mean, if he won't answer the question, they all report to the president.
So either the president or Penn should come on down and just provide us the answer, right?
I mean, we need to have the few key questions that are as important to the continuation of this republic is this question.
The president himself ought to weigh in, 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 full effect.
And I think that is a huge way forward for our party.
Warren Davidson, do you think the president should do that?
Or does the president have the authority?
And where's Jeff Sessions?
Well, that's the real question.
I mean, I'm a huge Jeff Sessions fan, but I've just been stunned by some of the actions here.
And if you look at 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 SCIF.
Now, what I'm getting from friends that are involved in this directly, more directly, it's not my committee of jurisdiction, is that even in the SCIF where you would compartmentalize this information, they're not sharing the answers to this.
And so we should know what was the FBI's role.
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 sycophants 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 Strzzok.
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 Bratt.
Yeah, well, I think several of the chairmen were running investigations under Good Latin Judiciary in the House and then on the Senate side.
But 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 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 gets up to the highest, highest level.
It's kind of like the elites do some trades, and there's two standards of justice, one for the elites and one for the average person.
This populist movement from Bernie all the way through Trump has said the American people have caught on.
They know what's going on.
And so I had a big election against that corruption.
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 certainly are ready to roll.
You know, you're not getting a lot of enthusiasm from some of the base 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've only given approval and confirmed half of the president's nominees that he sent up there.
I mean, there's no sense of urgency in the Senate, and people are getting a little disgusted.
That's not happening.
This is in play Israel now.
We've got great news there happening.
All right, hang on.
Let's go to Congressman Davidson.
You're breaking up, Congressman 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, even our base.
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, we have a good hand when we come to spending.
And the House passed all the right bills back in September.
We worked hard through 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.
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 December, there's a CR.
Don't want to do anything to derail tax reform, but come December 22nd, we're going to be looking to 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.
If not, don't let anybody go home for Christmas.
Let them stay and work.
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 not criticizing you.
The Freedom Caucus stands apart from everybody else, trust me.
And you're the only group we can count there.
All right, we'll take a quick break here.
We'll come back.
Kellyanne Conway joins us.
Also, Christian Adams checks in.
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Jerusalem is still the capital of Israel and must remain an undivided city, accessible to all.
As soon as I take office, I will begin the process of moving the United States ambassador to the city Israel has chosen as its capital.
I continue to say that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel.
And I have said that before, and I will say it again.
And Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.
We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.
Therefore, I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
While previous presidents have made this a major campaign promise, they failed to deliver.
Today, I am delivering.
I've judged this course of action to be in the best interests of the United States of America and the pursuit of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
This is a long overdue step to advance the peace process and to work towards a lasting agreement.
This is a historic day.
Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people for 3,000 years.
It's been the capital of Israel for nearly 70 years.
It was here that our temples stood, our kings ruled, our prophets preached.
Jerusalem has been the focus of our hopes, our dreams, our prayers for three millennia.
From every corner of the earth, our people yearn to return to Jerusalem, to touch its golden stones, to walk its hallowed streets.
So it's rare to be able to speak of new and genuine milestones in the glorious history of this city.
Yet today's pronouncement by President Trump is such an occasion.
We're profoundly grateful for the president for his courageous and just decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to prepare for the opening of the U.S. Embassy here.
This decision reflects the president's commitment to an ancient but enduring truth to fulfilling his promises and to advancing peace.
The president's decision is an important step towards peace.
For there is no peace that doesn't include Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel.
I call on all countries that seek peace to join the United States in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and to move their embassies here.
I share President Trump's commitment to advancing peace between Israel and all of our neighbors, including the Palestinians.
This has been our goal from Israel's first day, and we will continue to work with the President and his team to make that dream of peace come true.
I also want to make clear: there will be no change whatsoever to the status quo with the holy sites.
Israel will always ensure freedom of worship for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike.
President Trump, thank you for today's historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
The Jewish people and the Jewish state will be forever grateful.
The prime minister of Israel, the president of the United States, and probably the most underreported yet historic thing that the 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.
Joining us now with more to discuss this, our friend Kellyanne Conway is 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 5, 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 turned into reality, he took the six-month waiver.
President Bush followed suit.
They've all promised, but as is usually the custom around here, it took Donald Trump as president to deliver.
Just this past June, the Senate agreed with this by unanimous vote.
And you talk 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 voted for it because they also believed there'd never be a president to sign 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 James Comey, and they actually changed the wording from the legal definition of gross negligence to extreme carelessness.
But it goes deeper as it relates to Peter Strzok.
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 vicious partisan.
And, you know, you can go through the list of scandals.
Then we've got the Mueller team that's appointed, and you only have big Democratic donors, eight of the 16.
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 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 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 independence and transparency and impartiality, you cannot be so blatant as to, I think, powl around with and enjoy the Hillary Clinton, quote, victory party that wasn't, which is where Andrew Weissman was, blatantly giving money, and lots of money, by the way,
significant amounts of money to one candidate.
But now, Sean, what really strikes me 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 go back and try to discredit the newly Democratically elected president so that maybe he would never be seated in the first place.
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 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 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 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'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, Orr?
This guy Orr in the Department of Justice, he was on the main justice floor.
He's four doors down from the Deputy Attorney General, his boss.
And he's out there meeting with, allegedly meeting with the fusion GPS dossier makers who took money, millions, millions, from the Clinton campaign and the DNC to put together a dossier, which Jim Comey, by the way, under oath in March, referred to as salacious and unverified.
It had salacious and unverified details.
He changed his tune since maybe, but go back and look at his testimony in March.
You know, I look at all of this, Kellyanne, and 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 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 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 when you think of that one issue in particular, and then you've got to really take it the next step with Russian propaganda and lies, if everyone's so concerned about Russian propaganda, 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 of that.
Excellent questions.
Oh, excellent questions, Sean.
And ones that I say are go to the heart of all of this now.
And anybody, and I'm looking up at the TV 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 $6.7 million.
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 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 it 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 a worse candidate than we had imagined and thought because she had all these advantages, including this, 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 hi.
Stay right there.
It's a dream that this investigation will be over soon.
It ought to continue if it means adding this piece of it.
Well, there's so many things that need to be redone.
I mean, you can't have the fix, and that's called obstruction of justice.
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, is with us.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, next hour your calls, and Christian Adams checks in with us.
And as we continue, Kellyanne Conway with us.
She, of course, counseled to the president.
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 9th.
Now you've got people on Liberal Morning Joe and his band 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've 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 individuals, especially if I don't watch their shows.
But 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 in 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 mother of school-aged children because 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 women in the cabinet.
It just drives them crazy because 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.
Kassenier King, the way decisions are made, it's easy for them to spit into the wind.
Most of the criticism out there comes in print or on TV.
It comes from people who have never worked in the 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 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 am walking on sunshine at all times.
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 conduct that tells you that they were not 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 dispel any questions 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 activity and their tweeting or texting.
And that calls into question 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 a new name.
Bruce Orr, an assistant deputy attorney general, was removed from his job because apparently he didn't tell anybody that he'd been meeting with the fusion GPS dossier people.
Well, this is probably the most troubling because in the case of Deputy Attorney General Orr, what you have is somebody four doors down from the Attorney General who had conduct that calls into question whether or not perhaps people there knew that the Democratic National Committee was paying for the fake dossier,
that using the fake dossier to then launch an investigation was clearly wrong, and that's sort of that you back up and say, well, that means that everything that's been going on relative to, 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 your committee yesterday were talking about you would like to see the information the FBI presented to get the FISA surveillance because it looks like they might have used the dossier.
Which, when you think about it, if they used 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.
Let's remember that former director Comey 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.
Clearly, we're having a problem with 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, 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.
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 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 charge in all of this.
Then Peter Strzzok.
Then you got this guy, Bruce Orr, and, you know, 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.
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.
What's happening, Christian Adams?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, great to have you talking to me today.
A lot of meat on that bone that we're throwing out here today.
Why don't we start at the beginning 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 Michael Flynn.
And 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 Weissman in particular with Anderson Accounting and Enron and the Merrill Lynch executives and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns one ruling.
He got a 9-0 Supreme Court decision overturning the obstruction of justice guilt, guilty verdict he gets.
People spend a year in jail and they're proven innocent.
He holds back exculpatory information, makes up laws that don't exist.
You got this guy, Bruce Orr, and he's in full contact with Fusion GPS.
And you got to 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 knew that all these crimes were being committed long before CPIS ever signs off and Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder on the Iranium One deal.
You know that they're investigating now Trump for a year with Russian collusion 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 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 is just amazing.
I mean, you know, people wanted the swamp drain.
Well, this was filling the swamp back up.
One of them, Sean, is Sujit 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 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, 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 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, a very troubling sign pointing to trouble?
And then you've got this guy, Peter Strzzok, 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 Abedeen's interview and Cheryl Mills' interview.
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 the guy at the top that's actually changing the words from gross negligence to extreme carelessness to get away from the legal definition of what this is.
She wasn't, Hillary Clinton wasn't 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, 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, the show today, they would tell you that 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 from Mueller's prosecution.
But the fix was in on Hillary.
There's overwhelming evidence that James Comey, before conducting the investigation, ends up writing an exoneration of her.
And then they even changed the terminology away from the legal definition.
So she got a pass.
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, Weissman, who was responsible for this, did it to protect Hillary because he liked Hillary.
Strzok didn't do a good interview of Hillary because he liked Hillary.
He wanted her to win.
And these people wanted her to win because then they would move up the ladder at the DOJ.
It's all personal 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 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 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, you know, if you have these overzealous Democrats, 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.
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.
A longtime listener and viewer.
Love the show on TV and the radio.
Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year to you.
I want to call and talk about the hypocrisy of the left, how it's widely known that Abedeen and Mills lied to the FBI, and yet nothing gets done to them.
But General Flynn, who's served our country for, you know, God knows how many decades, you know, lies to the FBI and he's found guilty.
I mean, the 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 that.
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 girlfriend, that is a Clinton lover and a Trump hater.
And the question is, 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 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 get 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 be fired.
Because they're currently, 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 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 going to 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, 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 going to come tumbling down.
And it's going to be sooner rather than later.
It's not going to take much longer because we've been on this for so long.
So I just urge people to be patient because I know a lot more is coming.
Joe and Ella J. Joe, we have about a minute.
It's all yours.
Glad you called, sir.
Sean, you were great.
I read the article in the New York Times.
Boy, even it was great reading about you.
That whole Mueller investigation 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.
But you're just doing a super job.
And all I can say is, people down here in LAJ, 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 LOJ.
Have a great Christmas, my friend.
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What a week this has been.
Like every week, I mean, 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, just think about it.
There's always something every day.
You know, one of the things that is, 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 last year, I was in my 22nd year.
I've now started my 23rd year.
And the ratings from October are in.
And thanks to all of you, we're the number one show on cable news.
And but 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.
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 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.
If I was in Congress, I absolutely would have supported 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 buried 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 healthcare 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 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 3% GDP growth rate ever.
Anyway, and the energy independent policies of the president.
And, of course, after energy, you've got burdensome regulations that he all did on his own.
Anyway, the L.A. Times, late-tit 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 10-year high, which was a big factor back in the Obama years.
Home starts now are at a 15-year high or 30-year high, rather.
All types of home starts.
And that's good for the average consumer.
So that means they're going to be buying perhaps their first home or buying a newer home or build 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 want to be labeled as tax cutters for the rich.
All right, let's get to our busy telephones here.
We have Whalen is in Highlands in North Carolina.
Whalen, 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 just share a quick story.
My wife and I started a business last year, and we sell American-made products for the home.
And we had contemplated looking for a storefront in town here, but we didn't determine or decide to do that until after the election because the way things were looking.
We thought Hillary was going to win and really felt like that was not going to be the best decision.
And then after the election night, we decided to look for a storefront because we had, as a result of his messaging, the confidence to move ahead with that commitment.
And 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 for the next time.
Well, congratulations.
I mean, you know, 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.
It's very empowering.
So tell me more about what you're going to do, what your plans are.
Well, we are, you know, of course, trying to get the website going is always a problem, I guess, for everybody.
But, you know, we have some exciting things potentially on the horizon.
Don't want to give away too much, but hopefully working with selling some, you know, furniture packages for those new home buyers that you're talking about.
Things that are made here locally, promoting local artisans, that type of thing.
That's what we love to do, highlighting charities and that type of thing.
That's really what we want to do.
That's awesome.
I wish you all the best, all the success you could ever garner.
And, you know, one thing people I've always dealt with in this stupid business of radio and TV, I've always met people.
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 a team behind you.
And, you know, that's what makes great radio stations.
There's not three hours in any one 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 going to make some comments on the Mueller investigation and how, you know, looking back, especially with Peter Stroke.
And even if you say that these anti-Trump texts that were found out later were a thing, I'm sure that Mueller, being part of the FBI and so close with them, would have known about Peter Stroke helping to amend the Comey dispensation on what he was looking for in 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, that being a word that's used differently depending on who you support.
Yeah, that's all.
Listen, that is all true.
But there really is one rule of law, right?
There only is, there should be one standard for everybody.
And you can't have a bunch of partisans 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, you know, you can argue whether it was a good thing for Jeff Sessions to recuse himself.
I think politically it was.
But then calling for him to recuse himself over something that seems 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 corrupt, in my opinion.
It is definitely corrupt.
All right, my friend, thank you.
Have a great weekend.
And 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, Franken accuser, Leanne Tweeden, 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 going to deal with this on Monday's program.
All right, that's going to 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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