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So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
I dream that one day on the roads of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today that one day vicious racist with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification.
One day right back in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
Have a dream today.
Be exalted.
And every hill and mountain shall be made low.
The rough places will be made plain.
And the crooked places will be made straight.
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed.
And all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope.
This is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning, my country tears at thee.
Sweet land of liberty of thee, I sing, land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride from every mountainside.
Let freedom ring.
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the crevatial slopes of California.
But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside.
Let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual.
Free at last, free at last.
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.
Probably the greatest speech, God-inspired speech ever given by any man, at least that I've ever heard.
Wow.
So I'm listening to that speech today, and I'm like, I got to play this today.
And it's nearly, well, I guess in it's going to be the 50th year since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
I was just thinking, can you imagine?
I guarantee you, just one person like him, the impact he would have had had he lived to make this a more perfect union.
Just amazing.
What he was able to accomplish.
And, you know, I've told this story before.
I'm going to tell it really briefly here.
Later on in the program, we'll have Dr. Alvita King is going to be on, Pastor Darrell Scott, Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson.
We'll talk about it.
And we have other news we're going to get to today.
But I'm listening to that speech, and then I went to Atlanta.
Atlanta was the greatest education I ever had in terms of the civil rights movement in this country and the bravery.
And I was actually watching David Letterman as a new show on Netflix.
David Letterman is so weird.
He's so bizarre.
But he is a very good interviewer when he wants to be, and he's not being hostile.
And he had Barack Obama on.
And Obama's taking shots at Fox.
And, you know, he loves Barack Obama.
All right, that's fine.
We don't agree politically.
That wasn't the point of it.
And then at another point in the program, he had actually taken the time to go to the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
And that's where he interviewed John Lewis.
I think that's where Congressman John Lewis, if you don't know, actually had gotten hit in the head with a brick on that bridge.
And this is when the dogs were put on people.
And, you know, these times were horrible.
And fire hoses were turned on our fellow Americans.
It was awful.
God, awful.
And anyway, so they went back there, and there was something actually pretty touching about it.
And I thought back to the experience that I had.
The first day that I showed up in Atlanta, the mayor of Atlanta at the time, he's since passed away, was a guy by the name of Maynard Jackson.
And I got to meet Maynard Jackson and guys like Andy Young and Reverend Joseph Lowry.
And just I met Congressman John Lewis.
Cynthia McKinney was a congresswoman at the time.
And I met a bunch of people that really changed history.
And if you think of the environment in which they nonviolently would cross that bridge and sell them to Montgomery and everything in between, and they did it, and they changed the world.
Now, I just could only imagine we certainly have a long way to go, but you hear that speech, it just is mind-numbingly amazing.
It's almost like you hear, that's like a choir of angels speaking.
And I've given a lot of speeches in my life.
I've heard a lot of speeches in my life.
Nothing touches it.
It's so good.
Anyway, we'll get back into that later in the program today, and we'll talk at length about it.
But the people that were involved in that movement, you know, they were all good people.
He was a godly man.
No, he wasn't perfect.
Everyone's going to, well, he wasn't perfect, Hannity.
Okay.
And you are?
Whoever you are?
You're going to tell me you're perfect?
Nobody is.
There's so much news today.
I don't even know where to begin.
You know, I will tell you this.
We now know the Mueller investigation has to end with the revelation that Andrew Weissman.
Andrew Weissman's the guy that got defeated 9-0 in the U.S. Supreme Court.
And as a result of his bad investigation and his obstruction case against Anderson Accounting and the Enron case, you know, losing tens of thousands of people lost their jobs because of him.
And then he put four Merrill executives in jail only to have that overturned by the fifth U.S. Circuit Court.
You know, and Weissman, now we find out, was meeting with the AP talking about Paul Manafort.
And then he was hired by Robert Mueller, along with all the other Obama, Clinton, and DNC donors.
And why would Robert Mueller hire somebody with that track record?
And we now know that Weissman had a prejudice.
He had pre, you know, concluded on the issue of Paul Manafort.
He was the chief investigator into Manafort.
And he was literally just weeks before telling the press about Paul Manafort.
And the AP went with the story.
Well, that's called a conflict of interest, prejudging a case.
This whole thing just stinks to high heaven.
Lindsey Graham is under fire for his comments calling Mexico a hellhole.
We'll get to that later.
DACA, let me tell you about DACA.
And I know that everybody thinks, oh, we had that open hearing last week.
You thought they were going to get DACA doesn't isn't going to happen.
And even Paul Ryan said that it's off the table in the budget talks.
Now they're all going to talk all week about, oh, what if the government shuts down?
Let me be the first to tell you: if the government shuts down, it's not a big deal at all in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Because everybody, the military keeps working.
Everybody keeps working.
And only non-essential employees are furloughed.
And every time we've ever had a government shutdown, guess what?
They get their money back.
So it's a free vacation for them.
But government, it doesn't shut down.
It's just a myth and a fear that they put into people's hearts.
Anyway, any chance of DACA?
The Democrats, if you really pay attention to that, they don't want DACA.
Well, they do.
They want to not do DACA, not do the wall, not do chain migration, not do a merit-based system.
All they want is to be able to use it as a political weapon in 2018.
It's obvious now.
Now, the speaker has said that DACA will not be on the table in budget talks after Donald Trump refused to accept a deal that would have included it.
Now, we have to keep these separate because that's just not good government.
It's looping all this stuff together.
I think that people are attaching them in their minds as far as leverage is concerned, but they won't be technically attached as far as legislation is concerned.
So we'll wait and watch.
But you're going to hear all about the looming shutdown all weekend, all week long.
Now, one thing that came out as an aftermath: do you know that Donald Trump apparently paid for a medical mission trip to save a couple of hundred people's eyesight?
And Dr. Ram Paul came out with that over the weekend.
It's interesting for a guy that doesn't like the people of Haiti that he would pay all that money.
We also had an indictment over the weekend or on Friday of one person in the Uranium One case.
I'll explain all of that to you.
We have Fusion GPS retracting their claim that the FBI had a mole in the Trump camp.
I'll explain that.
This poor guy that was responsible for what happened in Hawaii, we'll talk about that and how dangerous that is.
This poor guy said made an innocent mistake.
He's, oh, he's going for retraining and he's been taken off his position.
He probably needs the retraining, but I'm glad he didn't.
I'm glad he didn't get fired.
Am I the only one that cares about the poor guy?
Everyone wants this poor guy fired.
I'm like, okay, he made a mistake.
It was, I love the guy that took a video that was on the golf course saying, well, the missile's on its way, but I'm still playing.
I just parred the last hole, and I'm going to go.
I hit a great drive on this hole.
And I'm going to die playing golf.
We have more in the Clinton-Haiti scandal.
We'll get to that.
Democrats are going to skip the State of the Union speech.
Oh, and Maxine Waters wants to impeach Trump for name-calling.
Yeah, that's a high crime and misdemeanor.
Reclaiming my time.
And reclaiming the facts.
By the way, we are not looping that.
That's her saying it every time.
So I just thought I heard we had an earthquake in the studio because Linda sneezed.
What?
I heard it through the glass.
Is that how you sneeze?
Is that a good, is that a good, Ethan?
That's pretty good.
It's pretty good.
Pretty good information.
I've heard it.
This glass is thick.
It's bulletproof.
Soundproof.
It's not sneeze proof.
And I'm like, I'm like, wow.
James O'Keefe is going to stop by today.
He's got a new video out.
It's the lead story on drudge right now.
Pervy Twitter sorting through sex messages and pictures.
So let me get this straight.
So Twitter, and he's got the undercover video, and we'll show you it tonight on TV, but we'll play it on radio, where literally he's talking to one of the chief engineers that hundreds of people that work for Twitter are going through people's private personal information.
You know, I guess they have this feature on Twitter where you direct message people, right?
And so the direct message you think is private.
And yeah, the problem is that you think that you're having a conversation with someone.
A lot of people don't like to use their emails when they're talking to someone on Twitter because maybe they're just meeting them or maybe it's someone of a higher stature or what have you.
So it gets bad, you know, people knowing people the way they're sending private pictures.
The thing is, is that now they're weaponizing their platforms.
So they're basically saying to people, Yeah, we're going to use your private messages and we're going to use your pictures and we're going to use them against you and we're going to sell them to advertisements.
Well, that's right.
And they're going to sell them, I guess, give them to your wife or your ex-wife if you're doing it.
Yeah, in the clip, he's talking about the thing.
He's threatening the guy.
He's like, I'm going to use this against you.
Your wife is going to find out.
She's going to divorce you.
You're going to get to.
Why would Twitter allow that?
There has to be an expectation of privacy if it says private direct message.
I think whatever you send in something called a direct message means it's direct between you and that person.
So maybe people need to ask Jack, you know, what the heck is going on?
Well, well, yeah, what is it?
Who's Jack, by the way?
Jack Dorsey is the guy who runs Twitter.
You ever talk to that guy?
Oh, yeah, all the time.
We're close friends.
I direct message him regularly.
Seriously?
No.
You've never talked to him.
Hell no.
Like, we have people do all sorts of stuff to our Twitter account.
Have you ever talked to him when that happens?
No, I've spoken to his legal counsel.
You are a lawyer.
Exactly.
Do that sneeze again.
Go ahead.
One more time.
What is that?
Why don't you sneeze like a normal person?
It's just my way of making sure you're awake on this Monday.
All right.
James O'Keefe will join us.
We'll talk about what's going on at Twitter.
It's pretty unbelievable.
We have Greg Jarrett, Sidney Powell, also Dr. King's niece, Alvita King, and much more.
Straight ahead.
All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
Happy Monday.
Glad you are with us.
You know, one of the things I want to do is we like to give you news and information you're not going to get elsewhere, which is pretty much the rest of the media.
And it's interesting, James O'Keefe has this new undercover video out.
You know, that is something in the past that like 60 Minutes and Mike Wallace did for years.
And I think what happened in most cases is it became financially, it wasn't viable for news organizations.
Well, they get sued all the time.
So I think it's, but it's always been a legitimate means for journalists to actually get information.
And James O'Keefe does it, and they bubble and fizz like Alka-Seltzer and they give off their energy and they have a fit and they want to delegitimize.
Well, if you watch the video of these Twitter guys, I don't care if you're a liberal or a conservative, it doesn't matter.
Republican, Democrat, Libertarian.
I would think everybody would be upset knowing that you have an expectation of privacy and they're not giving it to you as a matter of according to the engineers and the people that they're getting in this undercover sting as a matter of how they operate.
But the media, I'm sure, will ignore it because it's just James O'Keefe, just like the media ignored, you know, how many issues involving legality involving the Clintons.
And I'm going to tell you something.
There is, who is it?
Congressman Jim Jordan.
Now, we've been following issues that nobody else in the media will follow.
These stories are bigger than Watergate.
Watergate was about a break-in, political operation, and then the subsequent cover-up.
And look at the admiration they have for Woodward and Bernstein.
And I've interviewed both over the years.
I mean, Bernstein is so liberal right now.
He's literally just jumped into conspiracy TV land for himself, but that's neither here nor there.
Doesn't take away the work that they did, the digging that they did.
They have a movie out.
I'm sure it's horrible, but about Watergate and I guess the Washington Post.
I was watching the movie.
I had a link somebody sent me to the new Churchill movie.
I didn't like the parts of it.
I didn't like the way they were portraying Churchill in some ways.
Now, I didn't finish it, but they definitely captured him in some of the great ways that he had deserved.
But when they start out, he's like drinking, smoking cigars, impatient.
Yeah, okay, we know he smoked cigars.
We know he liked to drink.
We know he was impatient.
But he was also the guy that during the bombing of Britain, every single solitary day, went out and walked among the people of Great Britain, and he was the only answer at a time where literally, you know, all of Europe was hanging in the balance because of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler.
An amazing historic figure.
He understood evil in his time.
That's why I don't understand how people in this day and age don't understand.
Lara Logan was on our TV show Thursday.
She did a great piece on 60 Minutes last night.
And that entire piece was about the 16-year war in Afghanistan.
I am telling you, most people, what?
Afghanistan?
Why?
How come?
And they don't understand.
Half the country never wanted to say radical Islam.
So it's really dangerous when you can't even identify who your real enemies are.
But the media is corrupt.
Look, it's not even an issue to be debated anymore.
The biggest story in there, you know, you can break down, all right, Hillary, her email server, the whole thing is full of law-breaking felonies committed.
You can't have confidential, top-secret, special access program information in a mom-and-pop shop bathroom closet.
And we now know that foreign intelligence agencies were able to hack into it, and then they got it all.
You can't do that.
You can't destroy such evidence.
And then you can't obstruct justice by acid-washing the hard drives and bleach-bitting the hard drives and then busting up the Blackberries.
All right, you've heard me say that before.
But that's only one scandal.
Now, over the weekend, in case you're interested, or I guess it was on Friday, whenever the day was, we got the feds announcing an indictment into this bribery scheme connected to Hillary Clinton's Uranium One deal.
And we broke just the week before, not last week, the week before that, that in fact, there is an ongoing Justice Department investigation into Uranium One that has been going on for months.
I would think this is probably the tip of the iceberg.
You're not going to hear about it on any other cable channel because they spend every minute of every day hating Donald Trump and trying to delegitimize Donald Trump and get Donald Trump out of office and basically undo the will of the people with a duly elected president.
Anyway, so they announced the Department of Justice an 11-count indictment against this guy, Mark Lambert, in connection to Russian bribery scheme involving the Uranium One sale.
He's the former co-president of that Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad, the DOJ said in a statement.
All right, pretty interesting.
By the way, this just came over my phone.
I bet you this is Velma at the Wynn Hotel.
It just came through because we gave her the spa day.
Is today her spa day?
We got to get an update if it is.
I mean, I get every charge on my credit card.
It comes right over my phone instantly.
Did she send that via direct message?
No, it comes through my credit card.
I thought it was a joke.
Oh, I got it.
I'm a little slow.
No, she just texts me directly.
So that's something to watch.
Now, here's the thing: then you've got Uranium One.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Then you've got the email server scandal.
That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Then you've got, you got Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Then you've got Peter Strzzok and James Comey exonerating months before they do the investigation.
There's huge corruption there.
Then you've got Mueller and his band of Trump Obama DNC money.
And then, of course, Andrew Weissman controversy.
We've got so much, the media doesn't touch it.
Now, on the dossier issue, Congressman Jim Jordan, who's been pretty amazing on his committee asking questions that I think need to be asked, he's come out with a list of 18 questions.
And he's right.
And we'll get into this at the top of the hour with Sidney Powell and Greg Jarrett.
You know, for example, did the FBI pay Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier?
Well, I think all indications at this point are either McCabe or Comey did.
And I like answers to that question.
Then his second question is, was the dossier the basis for the FISA warrant to spy on Americans, or more importantly, an opposition candidate and a president-elect and his team?
And why won't the FBI show Congress the FISA application?
And if I'm the FISA judge and I was lied to with a Hillary Clinton bought and paid for dossier and the DNC bought and paid for Hillary-controlled dossier, and you lie to me and you use that, I'm told that this was one of the few requests.
Remember, at first it was denied.
And what put it over the top was the dossier.
That's what I am told.
So we'll be investigating that in the days to come.
And question three, when did the FBI complete, get the complete dossier?
Who gave it to them?
Was it Christopher Steele?
Was it Fusion GPS?
Was it the Clinton campaign, the DNC, or Senator John McCain Staffer?
And question four, did the FBA validate, FBI validate and corroborate the dossier?
By the way, on that, I am told by a really good source.
What?
Oh, Velma Say, I'll get to Vom in a second.
Did the FBI validate and corroborate the dossier?
That's a great question.
I'm hearing a Clinton supporter did.
Did Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, or Bruce Orr work on the FISA application?
Well, considering they're all Clinton haters, I mean, Trump haters, it would be nice to know if they did.
And why and how often did the Department of Justice lawyer Bruce Orr meet with Christopher Steele during the 2016 campaign?
We know they met before and after the election.
And why did DOJ lawyer Bruce Orr meet with Glenn Simpson after the election?
Did they need to get their story straight?
As Jim Jordan points out, after their candidate Hillary lost, was this now time for the insurance policy?
Were they part of that deal?
Did they want to double down on their plan, how to go after the newly elected president, delegitimize him, get him out of office?
And when and how, question eight, did the FBI learn that Bruce Orr's wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS?
And what specifically was she doing in terms of working on the dossier?
And why, question nine, did the FBI release text messages between Strzok and Page?
Because normally an ongoing investigation is reason not to make that information public.
I'm glad they did because it's helping us ask the right questions now.
And question 10, why did the FBI release only 375, but what was 10,000 messages between them?
You know, were they the best or the worst or part of a broader strategy to focus attention away from something else?
And when can the American people see the 9,600 other texts between them?
And why did Lisa Page leave the special counsel, Robert Mueller's probe, after two weeks or two weeks before Peter Strzzok?
I'd like to know the answer to that question.
So Jim Jordan's asking great questions.
And why did the intelligence community, question 12, wait two months after the election to brief the president on the dossier, January 6, 2017?
Why was the former FBI director, why was Comey selected to do it?
Question 13, was the briefing done to legitimize the dossier?
Who leaked the fact that the briefing was about the dossier?
And then the New York Times, question 14, reported that George Papadopoulos was the catalyst for launching the Russia investigation.
I don't believe that's true at all, as we pointed out in depth last week.
And why did Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson meet with the Russian lawyer, the one that met with Don Jr. before and after a meeting with Donald Trump Jr.?
Oh, just an accident, he says, really?
Question 16.
Why was the FBI counsel Jim Baker reassigned two weeks ago?
Was he the source of the first story on the dossier by David Korn?
Or was it someone else at the FBI?
And the last two questions, why did the FBI stonewall Congress for months before agreeing only at the last minute to hand over the Trump-Russian probe documents?
And did Rod Rosenstein beg Paul Ryan not to do it?
And why would Senator Schumer, leader of the Democratic Party, warn President Trump, when you mess with the Intel community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you?
Well, with all due respect, weaponizing the intelligence community is not part of their job.
All right, Velma.
Velma, did you just go into the Wynn Hotel?
Sean, I am here.
Guess what?
These people know who I am.
Of course they do.
And they love you.
They love you.
And they just, they just so excited.
Oh, so they knew that I'm, this was my.
People are so, Sean, Sean, I'm the only black person here.
Oh.
And these people are so good to me.
Well, why wouldn't they be good to you?
You're a nice person.
You shouldn't be like royalty.
I think it's because for you, though.
I'm not the one.
You're getting a spa day.
I don't go for spa days.
I don't want anybody touching me.
Honey, you know what?
I love it.
And I put on, you know, my sister was talking about wearing a jogging suit.
No, I got on makeup.
I got on.
Wait, wait.
So you go for a spa day, and in light of your going for a spa, you put on makeup?
Well, nigga, honey, I'm going to go in a roll pretty quick.
And you know what?
I got to check my phone because you're supposed to turn your phone.
All right, now, what does your spa day include that I got you for Christmas?
You got your people set me up.
What am I, I'm the one that, a massage, okay.
I know you're paying for it, but it's a massage.
That's what I'm getting at one o'clock.
Okay.
At two o'clock, I'm getting a facial.
Okay.
Three o'clock.
At three o'clock, I'm getting my feet done.
A petty.
Go ahead.
Four o'clock, I'm getting my nails done.
So you're getting Manny Petty.
You're going to be there for four freaking hours?
Oh, I love it, honey.
And you like that.
Oh, son, this is a treat.
Don't you know every woman would love this?
And I'm in the Wynn Hotel where it's beautiful.
It's gorgeous.
Oh, honey, I am so excited.
I'm so happy that I made you happy.
So you like my experience?
You always make me happy.
Did we include it?
Well, what?
Oh, I done told everybody at church.
I done bragged.
I am so happy, honey.
And my husband and my kids, they happy for me.
What did your husband and kids say?
Happy for me.
Huh?
What did your husband and kids say?
Your husband hates me, but go ahead.
No, he doesn't.
No, he doesn't.
They are all just, we pray that I have a wonderful day.
And I can tell you right now, I would go have a wonderful day, whether they prayed or not.
But it's just, I'm just so happy.
I'm in such a good mood.
I just, oh, God, I'm just so happy.
Thank you, Sean.
Is this like the best gift you've ever gotten?
Sean, it's just, you know what?
I can relax, honey.
I can sit up, and they asked me whether I wanted a man or a woman.
What'd you say?
I told them, long as I didn't have to expose too much, I'd rather a man.
Whoa.
Well, Sean, as long as he's good looking and don't have a husband's not listening.
You're so dead when you get home.
Listen, you may think this is weird.
I don't like anybody touching me.
Strangers.
That's what you said.
No, I don't mind.
You know, something like this is so relaxing.
I don't mind.
It's going to be really nice.
I'm so happy, Sean.
Well, if you like it that much, I'll give you one every year for Christmas.
That'll be my Christmas gift to you.
If you like it that much, I'm all in.
By the way, when I take my daughter for like a manny and petty, she hates it because I'd like to get three people working on her at once.
Because it takes forever.
I can't take it.
I love that.
They put your feet in this little pool, and then after the pool, they're rubbing your feet.
Sean, and my whole life.
Well, I didn't bring my basis too, so I won't be getting in the pool.
Oh, yeah.
I just may take a picture by the pool.
Oh, no, no, no.
I mean, they put your oh, you're going to go to the pool at the wind, too?
I think they have a young bar out there.
Sean, they got you doing all kinds of stuff.
You can take a picture of the paper.
I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what.
Linda, do you like champagne?
Champagne?
Yeah, do you like it?
Well, you know, I don't drink.
Oh, that's too bad.
It would have made that experience a lot better.
That's too bad.
I was going to order you a bottle of like Dom Perion or something.
What is that?
It's a very expensive champagne.
No, Sean.
No, okay.
Listen, I got to go because I'm way behind.
You have the best day ever.
I'm so happy.
Merry Christmas to you.
We love you.
You gave it to me.
And you know what?
I told people, I don't care whether you love Sean or not.
I love him.
And I tell you what, God sent me an angel when he sent me you into me and my children's likes.
I love my nephews.
They're great kids.
I love you dearly, and I thank you.
Well, the next thing is we got to get those kids in the college.
I'm thinking ahead.
All right.
Thank you, Velma.
Have a great day.
She's at the Wynn Hotel at our spa day.
FBI Director Comey was drafting an exoneration letter before the investigation was complete.
We know Loretta Lynch, one day before the Benghazi report came out, five days before Secretary Clinton was scheduled to be interviewed by the FBI, met with former President Bill Clinton on a tarmac in Phoenix.
We know after that meeting, when she was corresponding with public relations people at the Justice Department, she was using the name Elizabeth Carlisle.
You know, as I've said before, it seems to me if you're just talking golf and grandkids, you can probably use your real name.
We know that Mr. Comey publicized the investigation, and we know he made the final decision on whether to prosecute or not.
And then when he gets fired, he leaks a government document through a friend to the New York Times.
And what was his goal?
To create momentum for a special counsel.
And of course, it can't just be any special counsel.
It's got to be Bob Moller, his best friend, his predecessor, his mentor.
The same Bob Mueller who was involved, we've now learned in this whole investigation with the informant regarding Russian businesses wanting to do business in the uranium business here in the United States regarding the uranium one deal.
So I guess my main question is what's it going to take, if all that, not to mention the dossier information, what's it going to take to actually get a special counsel?
It would take a factual basis that meets the standards of the appointment of a special counsel.
And is that analysis going on right now?
Well, it's in the manual of the Department of Justice about what's required.
We've only had two.
The first one was the Waco, Janet Reno, Senator Danforth, who took over that investigation, his special counsel, and Mr. Mueller.
Each of those is a pretty special, factual situation.
Let me ask it this way.
And we will use the proper standards, and that's what I only think I can tell you, Mr. Jordan.
Well, I appreciate that.
You can have your idea, but sometimes we have to study what the facts are and to evaluate whether it meets a standard.
Well said, let me ask ours if in fact special counsel.
Mr. Mueller immediately concluded that Mr. Strzok could no longer participate in the investigation and he was removed from the team the same day.
Did Mr. Mueller take appropriate action in this case?
Yes, he did.
Thank you.
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, you said that you would only fire Special Counsel Mueller for good cause and that you had not seen any yet.
Several months have passed since then.
Have you seen good cause to fire special counsel Mueller?
No.
Thank you.
If you were ordered today to fire Mr. Mueller, what would you do?
I've explained previously I would follow the regulation.
If there were a good cause, I would act.
If there were no good cause, I would not.
And you've seen no good cause so far.
Correct.
Which is pretty unbelievable.
We'll address that tonight on the Hannity program on Fox 800-941 Sean.
You want to be a part of the program.
That last cut, Gerald Nadler, questioning Rod Rosenstein, and he's got his own conflicts of interest.
Prior to that, it was Congressman Jim Jordan talking to the Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
And Jim Jordan just today has launched the 18 top questions to be answered about Russia, the FBI, and the Department of Justice and corruption.
Question one, did the FBI pay Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier?
Was the dossier, number two, the basis for securing the FISA warrant to spy on Americans?
And why won't the FBI show Congress the FISA application?
Three, when did the FBI complete get the complete dossier?
Who gave it to him?
Dossier authors Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, Senator John McCain staffer, or Clinton campaign or the DNC?
Did the FBI validate and corroborate the dossier?
Did Strzzok and Page and Bruce Orr work on the FISA application?
Why and how did the Department of Justice lawyer Bruce Orr meet with dossier author Christopher Steele during the 2016 campaign?
Question seven, why did DOJ lawyer Bruce Orr meet with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson after the election?
Was it to get their story straight after the candidate Hillary Clinton lost or doubled down on the plan, I guess we would say the insurance policy they were going to use after President-elect Donald Trump won?
And when and how did the FBI learn that DOJ lawyer Bruce Orr's wife, Nelly Orr, worked for Fusion GPS?
And what role did she play in the dossier?
And why did the FBI release text messages between Strzok and Page?
Normally ongoing investigation is a reason not to do that.
And why did the FBI only release 375 of 10,000 text messages?
And it just goes on from there.
Joining us to weigh in on all of this, Greg Jarrett, Sidney Powell, Sidney wrote the book License to Lie, federal appellate attorney, former federal prosecutor.
And Greg Jarrett, Fox News Legal Analyst.
Greg, I think these 18 questions are phenomenal, and I have a few myself to add.
They're great questions, and they get down to the fundamentals of the case.
Why was a criminal investigation into Trump-Russian collusion launched when there wasn't a scintilla of evidence?
And why, given the overwhelming evidence against Hillary Clinton, was she exonerated?
And third, why isn't there a special counsel as Congressman Jordan laid out the facts to investigate Comey and Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and Loretta Lynch?
Jordan laid out the facts, and of course, Jeff Sessions hemmed in hard and say, well, we need facts.
He laid out the facts for Sessions.
But Sessions appears to be, you know, too dense to get it.
Well, we're going to see over time.
I mean, we have learned that the Department of Justice now has a number of months been looking into Uranium One.
And by the way, this doesn't even bring up the Uranium One question.
It doesn't bring up the email server question.
This is just basically on the dossier and the investigation, Trump Russia.
What's your take, Sidney Powell?
Is this abuse of power?
And did they leave too many breadcrumbs in their wake to cover up for potential crimes?
Yes, I think our creeps on a mission are going to be exposed, as I discussed in the article I wrote for Hannity.com.
Did the FBI pay Christopher Steele?
The answer is going to be yes.
Was the FISA warrant used to get the, I mean, was the Steele dossier used to get the FISA warrant?
The answer is going to be yes.
Did the FBI validate it?
No.
Did the FBI pay Christopher Steele?
I want to know that, too.
They did.
They did.
I'm sure they did.
For one thing, they paid Fusion GPS.
Fusion GPS, it turns out, was a contractor of the FBI and was apparently getting raw FISA information through the FBI.
Why would the FBI go basically shred the Constitution?
Or why, I should be clear, not rank-and-file FBI, but people at the highest levels of the FBI or Department of Justice.
Why would they ever do that, knowing that it's unconstitutional and a violation of the Fourth Amendment?
Well, the FISA court has issued an opinion that was disclosed in May that finds very serious Fourth Amendment violations.
And Admiral Mike Rogers, head of the NSA, self-reported these violations when he discovered them.
The court was all over the Obama administration.
We didn't know it at the time.
But according to the opinion, the FISA violations started in April 2015.
Wow.
What's your reaction to all this, Greg Jarrett?
And how do we actually get now?
Because I think we're getting to a very critical point in all of this, and that is that there's so much now evidence that so many different things were done wrong here.
Now, after a year of denials, we know the dossier bought and paid for by Hillary and the DNC controlled by Hillary.
And then that dossier was full of Russian lies and propaganda.
Now, she put the fix-in on a primary.
We have Comey and Strzok putting the fix-in on the email server investigation.
She tried to use the dossier to fix the general election and lie to the American people.
And then when that all didn't work out, they used it to get a Pfizer warrant against an opposition candidate in a presidential election year, and based on those lies that she paid for, and then spying on a president-elect.
I don't know if this gets any more any worse.
You know, it's like Alice through the looking glass.
It's all upside down and backwards.
Hillary Clinton should be facing innumerable charges, and so should those at the FBI and the Department of Justice who, for political bias and personal animus, cleared Clinton and tried to frame Donald Trump.
And, you know, there's plenty of evidence for a second special counsel.
There's no evidence for the arrangement.
But this is just on this issue.
I mean, do we now need, now that we know the fix was in on the email server, if we have equal justice under the law, I know people saying, why is Hannity talking about this?
Because the fix was in on a legal matter when we know felonies were committed, Sidney Powell.
That's why.
Exactly.
I don't think we need a special counsel, though.
The Department of Justice ought to be able to do all this itself.
I've got an election to disagree with you, but not with Rod Rosenstein as Deputy Attorney General and affecting Jeff Sessions as the AG.
Well, you heard Rod Rosenstein there say, I see nothing wrong with Robert Mueller.
I'm like, well, we had news breaking last week that Andrew Weissman was leaking to the AP about Paul Manafort, and then he was the lead investigator against Paul Manafort.
Isn't that called a conflict of interest?
Oh, yes, among other things, but that's why I said it ought to be done by the Department of Justice.
It won't be as long as people are in place.
It should be.
But these are not normal circumstances with normal people at the helm of the Justice Department.
That's the problem.
I mean, this is, well, you're saying that some of this can be done by the Department of Justice, but you're adamant that we need a special counsel, Greg.
Why?
Well, because I have no confidence in the people at the top of the Department of Justice, Sessions and Rod Rosenstein.
Look, Rod Rosenstein won't get rid of Mueller for a conflict of interest because Rosenstein himself has a conflict of interest.
Both men should be nowhere near any of these cases.
Jeff Sessions doesn't seem to comprehend that, probably because he recused himself, and I don't think he had to.
So when you've got the AG who's recused himself and the deputy AG who's biased, I mean, how can we have confidence in the integrity of this system?
We can't.
I don't think we can.
And why is the media just ignoring all of this, Sidney Powell?
Because it's so big and so bad they don't want to touch it.
Well, I mean, but this is bigger.
Isn't this entire narrative?
It destroys everything they've said for the last two years, probably.
But, I mean, isn't this based on everything we know about Watergate?
Isn't this a much bigger story?
Totally.
It is.
Watergate was, quite honestly, the cover-up of a burglary.
This is a cover-up of an effort to subvert democracy in electoral politics.
It's much bigger of an egregious conspiracy to alter the results of the election and then to try to take out President Trump.
It's absolutely outrageous.
I mean, there are criminal conspiracy violations, they're election law violations, their obstruction of justice violations.
There are probably 12 to 25 people that should be indicted.
All right, stay right there.
We'll take a break.
We'll come back.
I mean, subverting an election, a presidential election, trying to undermine a duly elected president.
Yeah, I would think that's a big deal for the media, but apparently it's not.
And as we continue with Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett, Sidney Powell, federal appellate attorney, former federal prosecutor, author of the best-selling book, License to Lie, Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, you did write this piece on Hannity.com about Michael Horowitz is really investigating the investigators, referring to this Inspector General report that we expect coming out when?
This month, next month?
Do we know?
He's already started producing documents.
He produced hundreds of thousands of pages Friday night to the Congressional Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, I think it was.
So they've got all of that information to go through now.
And then the report itself, it may be a couple of months before he officially reports and testifies in front of Congress.
So they have received 100,000-plus documents that they've got to now sort through.
Why do you have so much confidence?
I read your piece, and I have faith in you.
I mean, why do you have so much confidence in Michael Horowitz?
Well, he, for one thing, has been fought with the Obama administration from the time he first became Inspector General.
He was actually appointed by President Obama, but he's one of 47 Inspectors General who signed a letter to Congress complaining that the Obama administration was blocking his efforts to do his job.
He worked for the taxpayers, really.
He's sworn to oversee the department and make sure it complies with everything it's supposed to comply with.
And he's repeatedly reported that the Obama administration was keeping him from doing his job.
And Congress, Greg, mandated the position of IG for every major federal agency.
But I noticed in Sidney's article that Hillary's State Department was not subjected to this.
That's right, which is how she got away with a private email server in the basement of her home for the exclusive use of all of her documents, including 110 classified documents that were marked that way when they were sent and received.
She got away with it because I suspect people within the Obama administration, at the behest of Hillary Clinton, Chose not to appoint one so that she could get away with conduct that is illegal.
Exactly.
She wanted to be a good one.
It was part of her deal with Obama.
I think it was.
Wow.
All right, guys.
Thank you so much.
We really appreciate it.
And we'll have you both on regularly, as you know.
And I think we're now on the downhill side of this, and information is coming fast and furious.
We'll update everybody tonight at 9.
Thank you all for being with us.
We really appreciate it.
Quick break.
We'll come back.
800 941 Sean, Dr. Alvida King, is going to join us on this Martin Luther King Day.
And the pastor, Darrell Scott, and Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson also will check in with James O'Keefe, a blockbuster new video, undercover video release today where a Twitter top engineer, apparently, and hundreds of others at Twitter, at least according to that guy, are sorting through your private direct messages and going through pictures and texts that you think are private.
I mean, it may be the biggest anti-privacy policies we've ever heard of.
We're trying to get some background from Twitter on this.
So far, no response.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue.
So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day on the Red Hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted.
Every hill and mountain shall be made low.
The rough places will be made plain.
And the crooked places will be made straight.
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope.
This is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning, my country tears of thee.
Sweet land of liberty of thee, I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the crevaceous slopes of California.
But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside.
Let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual.
Free at last.
You are free at last.
On this Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, wow.
One of the most captivating speakers of all time.
One of the most iconic, I mean, just amazing visionaries of his time.
This year will be 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
Joining us now is evangelist, Alvita King, Dr. Alvita King.
She's the Director of Civil Rights for the Unborn, for Priests for Life, and niece of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
And always great to have you back, Dr. King.
And Pastor Darrell Scott, the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, welcome all of you on this Dr. Martin Luther King Day.
Dr. King, this is your uncle.
You loved him.
How old were you when he was assassinated?
Hello, my friends, and thank you for having me back on your show.
Listen, I was 17 years old.
I got married the next year, and I had marched and gone to jail in Louisville, Kentucky with the Open Housing Movement, had been trained fully in the nonviolent training that's required for the civil rights movement of that era.
And I miss my uncle very much.
I heard many of his speeches and his sermons.
And I really embrace his sermons more even than his speeches.
Some of his speeches were even sermons, too, if you consider that.
Wow.
What was, I mean, in private, I mean, I mean, you see this powerful, I don't think anybody could command an audience like he could.
That charisma is full of the Holy Spirit.
His daughter, Bernice, preached in Atlanta today and in a similar vein.
And so very captivating, but full of the word of God.
And so it comes from God.
When you minister to the will and the word of God, it captivates people.
So our family has a gift of preaching.
Some people say that's because we're part Irish.
And if you kiss the Blarney Stone, then you become a good speaker.
I don't know about all of that, but I do know the Holy Ghost had a lot to do with what he had.
Now, Pastor Scott, I know you're an amazing preacher.
I don't think anybody can touch how great this man was.
No, he was an absolute cultural phenomenon.
He was indicative of the times that he lived in.
And plus, he's a Baptist preacher, man.
And Baptist preachers can just flat out go.
And, you know, he had.
Are you saying you should become a Baptist now?
Or what are you saying?
No, I'm just saying the Baptist preachers of those 60s, those 1960s Baptist preachers now.
You're standing up.
They'll fill your tank up of gas and give you a gas calf to get with later when you're on.
But I mean, all these years later, and you listen to that speech, and it just like gives you, you know, goosebumps your chi.
You know, my parents had that album.
They actually recorded that speech and had it in album form.
It was a white cover to March on Washington.
That's my brother's birthday, August 28th, the day it was in 1963.
But it was a tremendous speech.
It was a tremendous speech.
Once again, he was very, very captivating.
He had great content and great charisma.
There was an anointing upon that speech.
And it was one of the great monumental speeches given by a man of all time.
Dr. Peterson, Reverend Peterson, your thoughts.
You know, every time, first I want to say Happy New Year to you, Sean.
Happy New Year.
And Dr. Pastor Scott.
Every time I hear it, it sounds brand new.
I know, right?
That's such a good way to put it.
Yeah, and it's still full of life.
And you can tell, you know, you sense the love and the meaning in it.
And I really, really appreciate it.
Dr. King had a major impact on my life, especially growing up in Alabama, not far from Montgomery.
It really had a major impact on my life.
Were you a part of this?
If I remember correctly, you grew up during segregation, didn't you?
I did.
I grew up in Alabama on a plantation outside of Montgomery, near Tuskegee.
And I also grew up under the Jim Crow laws.
I remember that for colors only, signed, for whites only.
I even protested during the Civil Rights Movement.
We did some Sydney's in the area that I grew up.
And so that speech, as you were playing it just now, it just brought back a lot of memories.
It made me realize how far we really have come.
What do you mean you grew up on a plantation?
Explain working on a plantation.
Well, my grandfather, my grandparents, and their parents and their parents, my parents, they all grew up on this plantation.
And my great-grandfather, and after him, my grandfather ran the plantation down there in Alabama.
And the boys had to be taken out of school twice a year, once to plant the crop and another time to bring it in.
I remember we had a big white house on a hill, and whenever the owners of the plantation would come down to visit, we all had to go and clean it up and get it ready for them.
And so that speech brought back a lot of those memories.
Dr. King.
Can I jump in for a second?
Before you even go there, Sean, you lived in Atlanta for a while.
And you walked some of the same streets that Martin Luther King grew up on, probably went to the birth home.
And now President Trump has signed John Lewis's bill.
Now, there's something they actually did together.
Isn't that amazing?
And this is now a National Historic Park.
The same streets where he grew up.
So I'm listening to where Reverend Peterson is saying, how he grew up in his environment.
And you're familiar with where Martin Luther King grew up.
I just wanted to mention that, that it is now a national park.
Yes, Dr. King, I'd heard that that was turned into a national park.
We'll take a break.
We'll come back.
We'll continue with Dr. Alvida Evangelist Alvida King and Pastor Darrell Scott and Reverend Peterson on the other side of this break.
And as we continue with Dr. Alvida King and Pastor Darrell Scott and Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson on this Martin Luther King Day.
You know, I got to tell you, Dr. King, and I know you from my Atlanta days, but I got an education in Atlanta.
And even though I had disagreements with Joe Lowry and Reverend Lowry, and I had disagreements with Andy Young and Maynard Jackson, later Bill Campbell, I became best friends with Hosea Williams.
What a character.
What a great human being he was.
I love that man.
He was amazing.
And even Tom Howk, who I think, did he drive your uncle at some point?
He did sometimes.
And then he became a personality, Tom, became a personality himself, of course.
Oh, my gosh.
He's the most liberal guy in Atlanta, but a wonderful guy.
I still like him.
And I got to know and understand.
And in John Lewis and the history of what happened and the bravery that they faced.
They really did.
And John was a student back then.
He was snicked, the students bought it.
He was younger than my uncle, but he was one of the main leaders.
And he was beat mercilessly on the Edmund Pettis Bridge.
My dad was beat back then.
And Hosea, too, they were all out there marching in Selma.
So that's some of their history.
And that's what we need to remember about John Lewis, too.
He's just a civil rights.
No, he got hit in the head with a head with a brick.
Yes, he did.
Yes, he did.
Unbelievable.
One very interesting thing that was said in the speech by Dr. King, I thought was so powerful, is that black America one day would be judged by the context of character.
He talked about how one day black boys and black girls, I mean, black boys and girls, white boys and girls would join hands together in love.
And it's just so unfortunate that that has not been completed.
I believe had Dr. King still been alive, that today the races in America would be as one and not so divided in the way that Jackson and those guys have done over the years.
It's an unfortunate thing because Dr. Key, he wanted to change the laws so that the same laws that govern white Americans would govern black folks.
And I believe that we've done that.
But I think you're right.
I think, I mean, had his work continued, it would have, you know, been unbelievably amazing.
But isn't that why good people like him get killed?
I mean, they want to kill goodness.
Some people.
Evil people want to kill good people.
There's definitely a warfare between good and evil, that's for sure.
So once they kill a good man, things start to change as far as the love and the character.
Bernice Albertine King, the youngest child of Martin and Coretta, spoke at the service today.
Dr. Ben Carson was here.
John Lewis actually came in, and the pastor Warnock was, they were beginning to call President Trump a hypocrite and everything.
But by the time Bernie's preached, she says, you know, it really doesn't matter who's in the White House.
We've got to come together in unity.
We have to love.
It's going to be love and communication that breaks this thing.
And she says that we need to keep the nonviolent principles that my dad talked about, too.
That young lady, by the time she finished, you could feel the room.
And that's what I meant, though.
I meant when I said his sons, I meant his successors, not necessarily his sons.
As far as biologically, I meant his successors.
They dropped the ball and got distracted.
It didn't continue along his same vein, which led to this racial divide that they're trying to re-implement now.
All right.
Dr. King, tell us about the Facebook thing.
Now, this, thank you for the opportunity.
There is a wonderful movie coming out called Roll the Wade.
John Voigt is one of the big actors in it.
I'm going to do a cameo as the mother of Mildred Jefferson, and I'm an executive producer.
But the team was advertising the picture on Facebook, and Facebook took it down.
Even the paid advertisement, they have blocked the ads because the movie is so powerful.
The naysayers don't want that message out.
So Facebook took the ads down.
I mean, between that and a Twitter story today, apparently Twitter people going through people's personal private direct messages and getting a thrill out of looking at people's private text messages.
This is a huge scandal.
And later on, we'll have James O'Keefe who did the undercover video on it.
Dr. King, we always love having you.
God bless you and your family.
Pastor Scott, you are one of the people that's advancing it, as long as Reverend Pete, as well as Reverend Peterson.
And we thank you for joining us on this Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
We appreciate it.
When we come back, James O'Keefe, Project Veritas.
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It is creepy, big brother.
Like, screwy my other.
I mean, it's like a level, level like it, I don't want to say freaks me out, but it disturbs her.
We can actually read your DMs.
All your sex messages and your like pics are on my server.
No shit.
Yeah.
All your illegitimate wives and like all the girls you've been around with.
You're on my server now.
Oh, my God.
Send to your wife.
I'm still doing your divorce.
So, if I send someone a direct message, y'all are going to look at it now to analyze it.
It is creepy, big brother.
Like, screw my brother.
I mean, it's like a level, level like it.
I don't want to say freaks me out, but it disturbs her.
I've seen way more than I've ever wanted to see in my life.
A lot of DM messages?
DMs, tweets, yes.
Lots of dick.
There's teams dedicated to this.
I mean, we're talking a day for at least three or four hundred people.
Yes, they're paid us like we have information from people.
Like, if you go to Twitter for the first time, we have information about you.
Okay.
Because, like, we actually bought a company because of this, like, ad network.
When you visit, we serve ads for other companies on other people's sites.
Okay.
So, when you go and you see that ads, we get information that you're dispersing these ads at this moment at this location on these websites.
Okay.
So, we already have a lot of information about you.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
That's scary.
Yeah.
Like, I mean, what if that fell into the wrong hands?
How would you protect people from that?
You don't.
You don't?
Indeed, Twitter's privacy policy states: We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our services, even if you have not created an account, unquote.
It is creepy, big brother.
Like, screechy my brother.
I mean, it's like a level, level, like it, I don't want to say freaks me out, but it serves her.
All right, news roundup and information overload hour.
That, of course, James O'Keefe and his latest blockbuster undercover video.
We will air it, and James O'Keefe will join us tonight on Hannity on the Fox News channel.
He's here in studio.
Why are you wearing a tie to a radio studio?
What is up with that?
His brand new book is out today, American Pravda, My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News.
We've known each other for how many years now?
A long time.
Nine years.
And in all that time, you have been under fire.
Constantly.
And the questions come in, and it's pretty predictable.
He edits the tapes.
It's not real.
It's not this.
It's not that.
But you put the tapes up most of the time, if I'm not mistaken, all the time in total, right?
Yes, we put up more tape than anyone in the media does.
And their quip over the last few days has been: there's no evidence to suggest people don't say things.
We actually present audio and video evidence, unlike the mainstream media, to back up most of our quotes.
But you know, 60 Minutes for years used to do these undercover investigations all the time.
And if I'm not mistaken, I think 2020 used it.
There's been plenty of people in the media that have done this.
And the fact that you do it makes it different because it doesn't advance the political agenda of the left, correct?
Yeah, it bypasses them.
They're like a political cartel.
The mainstream media doesn't want any independent source to threaten them.
But Upton Sinclair, the Chicago Sun-Times, a whole chapter in this book about the Chicago Sun-Times, used to do very sophisticated, elaborate undercover work to expose graft and corruption.
And Mike Wallace in the 80s said, you know, I'm not doing it anymore.
And I think it had to do with liability and the laws of just getting sued.
And a lot of these big corporations don't take the risks that independent citizens do, so they feel threatened by people like me.
But the interesting thing is the one time I can only think of the one instance, it wasn't that long ago, where I guess the Washington Post identified you as you were doing one of your sting operations.
That was heaven for the media.
They thought they struck gold and they thought they had the main vein of a mind.
They thought they could take us down.
There have been a couple times in my career, Sean, where I was arrested, I was falsely accused, I was maligned.
But they need to understand how undercover work works.
You use an alias to gain someone's trust because we believe that a lot of these bad people are not going to tell the truth about what they're doing.
And if we just sort of relay to the people what they're saying, we're not telling the truth to our audience.
So we need to use deception only as a means to gain access to people so that we can tell the truth.
This is what muck rakers used to do.
They won Pulitzers for doing things.
In the 70s, they went undercover to expose voter fraud and Medicaid fraud, things that are unthinkable today, they used to do.
So it's a renaissance of sorts.
And let's go to this particular case.
Let's start at the beginning of the series and bring us through to where we are today.
Right.
Because as somebody that uses Twitter, now, interestingly, I let my entire staff use my Twitter account, and they have access to everything.
But I guess people are using the private areas of Twitter known as direct messaging as a means of sending salacious material to other people they're meeting online, which is weird, but if they want to do it, that's up to them.
But Twitter is taking it all.
Yes.
Walk us through the whole thing.
Well, first, today's video, we just broke this and it's going viral everywhere.
It's the top of Drudge.
It talks about how they're taking private, and I don't do this, but a lot of Americans send their girlfriends, send their significant others, these private photographs.
And these engineers at Twitter are talking about storing them on a database.
And they talk about all the pornographic images that they enjoy looking at of your private data.
Most people don't realize.
Naked pictures they're sending.
Naked pictures, private part pictures.
An engineer at Twitter says we have hundreds of people employed to do nothing but look at these pics.
400, right?
400 engineers at Twitter.
There's a few.
That's all they get paid to do.
That's what he says on the tape.
He's bragging about how he looks at pictures of women spread eagle.
And this is a sort of invasion of privacy.
And people don't realize that when you go on these web messaging sites, that they can actually take your messages and share them with the government.
He even says at one point in the tape, he says, We brag, you know, I can give them to your other ex-girlfriends and wives.
So, Sean, we've done three videos.
The first video, they take the president's private direct messages and they're willing to give them to DOJ.
The second video, they're shadow banning or muting what you report from other people's timelines.
And Twitter is the new town square.
This is where people spread information.
If they take away our rights to talk to each other, I don't know where people are going to go.
That would be like stealing somebody's private email or private texting and unreasonable search and seizure or handing it to the government.
Now we've got a much bigger problem.
This is, you know, yes, Fourth Amendment implications are staggering on this one.
And I know you guys at the Hannity programs have been instrumental because you're the first people to call up for comment.
Last time we did that a year ago with Bob Creamer, and they were fired.
They resigned.
They were all fired.
And the media was shamed into covering it.
So we are at the tip of the spear here.
Veritas, Hannity.
I mean, we're breaking these stories that are, this may be the greatest censorship story of our time.
The invasion of privacy is grotesque.
I've been tweeting at journalists all day, by the way.
Well, they're not going to run it because they are American Pravda.
I agree with that.
But the fact that they're doing this and there's not broader outrage, because, look, I'm a conservative and I believe in the Constitution.
And I believe, you know, whatever happened to the belief in the rights of privacy.
I mean, could you imagine, I don't know if this is applicable, but anything that a woman would choose to do if somebody is spying on them and spreading that information and so on and so on.
I think the left would be upset.
I think they are upset.
I've had journalists reach out to me privately, Sean, in the last few days saying this is a pretty big story.
I had the New York Times reporter email me.
I've had people privately email me.
I think they're afraid to DM me because the Twitter people are watching.
But I think that they're just, I think that, Sean, and this is what this book, American Provided, is about.
I think they're afraid of their power being threatened by independent people breaking stories.
They want to have control over the narrative.
I hate to tell them, James, that ship has sailed.
And in part, I mean, I spend a lot of time on my program talking about fake news.
I spend a lot of time discussing issues.
I saw Obama on David Letterman on Netflix, and he takes another shot at Fox News.
If you're looking at Fox, you're looking at an alternative reality.
And I'm like, yeah, we're busy not on Trump-Russian collusion, but on real crimes and real felonies that have really been covered up at a massive level that the media won't touch because they've got a political agenda.
You run into this every day.
Every day, it's not that these journalists are bad people.
I know, Sean, we've talked about this.
They're not even bad journalists.
I think they're part of a sort of industrial system of production that manufactures consent, falsifies reality.
They're like players following a soccer ball on the field from this story, this story.
Today, it's what the president allegedly said, although there's no audio and video that we know of, in the office.
And along you have this propaganda vortex that needs to be threatened by independent citizen journalists.
So all of this book talks about my career breaking these stories that force the media to cover it and what it takes.
Because, Sean, what it really takes is to be maligned and attacked and targeted.
And when you're effective, they're going to come after you and you have to learn to be hated.
It's part of success.
And most people aren't willing to do that.
You're describing my life.
So that's something we share and have in common.
But on the other side, there are all these other people that appreciate this work.
Yes.
And I think it is, for example, I don't know what's going to happen to Twitter now.
Now, I've already set up an account on Gab.
I don't use it yet.
But I think it's going to grow into the next Twitter.
We'll take a quick break.
We'll come back.
James O'Keefe is with us.
We put his video, a link to his video on Hannity.com.
He's got a brand new book out.
Now, if you want to know how corrupt the media is and you want to truly understand it more deeply and you want more citizen journalism, which I do, you're going to want to read his book, American Pravda.
It's on my site, Hannity.com.
It's on Amazon.com and in bookstores everywhere.
It's My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News.
James O'Keeffe, more with him on the other side as we continue the Sean Hannity show.
All right, we continue with James O'Keefe.
He has his new video out.
Drudge Report puts it up as its lead.
Pervy Twitter sorts through sex messages and pictures.
400 Twitter employees.
We are seeking comment as we speak from Twitter.
And James will join us on Hannity tonight.
We'll show you the undercover video that he did.
He's got a brand new book out, American Pravda, My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News.
It's on Amazon.com, BookstoresEverywhere, Hannity.com.
You know, you go into a lot of stories in the book, and I don't want to give the book away.
I mean, but this book, you talk about defining characteristics of journalists, so-called journalists.
You tell the story of Katie Couric in 2009, and she won the Esteemed Cronkite Award.
Explain that.
Yeah, well, there's a whole chapter about journalism and its demise and what it takes to do this type of work.
And journalism has become sort of flippant.
It's become, if you, if, I mean, most journalists, Sean, don't actually go out into the field and actually do reporting.
They just sort of read off teleprompters.
Well, Katie Couric won an award for asking Sarah Palin a question, a question.
The people on my team, we've gotten government organizations defunded, like Acorn, CEOs fired, like at NPR.
We've had states pass voter ID laws, and we've had attorneys general try to have me arrested, criminal grand jury subpoenas.
I have 12 civilians.
Do you have any legal issues ongoing still?
Yes, we have 12 civil actions.
We have a dozen attorneys.
We're fighting for the first, and we're the tip of the spear.
And that's what truth to power is.
But somewhere after Watergate, I've done a lot of research, journalists started to take themselves way too seriously.
And they have a sort of hero complex.
And gone are the days of the sort of muckety, muckraking, investigative shoe leather reporting.
And now it's all just about narrative.
And we don't let the facts lead us where we want to.
You just watch cable news any minute of any day.
It's obvious enough, but I think it's worth reading about and tracing it back.
And they think, well, results matter.
So whether it's taking down Stanley McChrystal, whether it's taking down Sarah Palin, these journalists claim to want scalps, but then you have independent journalists who get scalps and they don't want to acknowledge it.
So journalism has become very perverted.
How do you ignore Uranium One?
How do you ignore that Hillary committed multiple felonies, email server?
How do you ignore an FBI director and people in the FBI literally writing an exoneration before an investigation?
How do you ignore the use of the weaponry, the powerful weapons of intelligence, to surveil and unmask and leak the raw intelligence of American citizens, which is supposed to be protected?
You said a couple of things.
You said you're the tip of the spear.
You said in the last segment how hated you are, and that that's the criteria.
That's what it takes.
You care that much.
And I have known you since you first came out when you were dressed as a pimp.
Right.
And it was pretty groundbreaking at the time.
And you've kept going.
You are hated.
There's no doubt about it.
And I understand it.
I live that life in many ways as well.
But it's so important to you.
What drives you with this?
Why do you want to keep going with this?
Justice.
Ever since I was in college, I was motivated, my teammates are motivated by justice.
But it's, Sean, they come after you, and it makes you wonder, it makes you think to yourself, you know, why should I keep doing this if they keep maligning and attacking?
And I think that the media still has a degree of power, Sean.
I think we're not reached the tipping point yet where citizens have control over the narrative.
And I think to be effective is to be hated.
And to actually change the narrative, to be ignored is to be respected.
And I just think that people, the media has an unbelievable ability to shame and humiliate people.
And I think that's what deters Republicans and conservatives from actually doing anything because they're afraid of the humiliation they're going to face.
And I think we have to say, you know what?
That's a badge of honor.
That's a sign of respect.
I've been subpoena.
I've had criminal grand jury subpoenas.
I've had people shook.
I was on probation for three years.
I was falsely accused.
And one of my advisors said, James, that means you're doing something right.
One of the first things I ever told you after you were dressed as a pimp in that case, which everybody remembers, and you just listed off all the times you have been successful, I remember I told you, you better get a bunch of attorneys on your side.
And I remember telling you, dot every I and cross every T.
I don't think I was wrong.
I remember that.
If you have a few minutes, stay with us.
We'll continue.
A few more minutes.
James O'Keefe, he's got a new book out, American Pravda, My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News, 800-941 Sean is a toll-free telephone number.
You can get the book on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores everywhere.
And his big, well, breakthrough today, undercover operation about Twitter hiring some 400 people, according to this guy, that they got on tape sending and sorting through private sex messages and pictures.
All your sex messages and your like pics are on my server now.
No shit.
Yeah.
All your ultimate wives and like all the girls you've been around with.
You're on my server now.
Oh my god.
I saw you and you're divorced.
So if I send someone a direct message, y'all are gonna look at it to analyze it.
It is like freaky, big brother.
Like screaky big brother.
I mean it's like a level, level like it.
I don't want to say it freaks me out, but it disturbs her.
I've seen way more than I've ever wanted to see in my life.
DM messages?
DMs, tweets, yes.
Lots of data.
There's teams dedicated to this.
I mean, we're talking at least three or four hundred people.
Yes.
They're paid just looking.
So what happens is like when you like write stuff when you post pictures online, they never go away.
Like they're always like that.
Because like even after you send them, people are like analyzing them.
They're seeing what you're interested in.
They're seeing what you're talking about.
And they sell that data.
They sell who?
Like advertisers?
Advertisers.
Wait, you talking about just regular tweets or the DMs?
Or both?
Everything.
Anything you post online.
Wow.
So even what you think is private, direct message.
Yeah.
They're analyzing it and selling that.
Hey, what?
So if I send someone a direct message, y'all are going to look at it to analyze it?
A machine's going to look at it.
Monal Dorothy will look at it.
Why?
And they'll make a virtual profile about you.
This is not your run-of-the-mill big data.
This is personal and specific.
And that has a high premium to advertisers.
We actually charge advertisers for money.
We have to prove it to you.
And that's why it's looking like an email address or like a cookie or something that can track you.
That's more likely.
Mihai Florea is a Twitter software engineer who's been with the company for three years.
That's how we make most of our money.
Yeah, so you kind of like sign your privacy, right?
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
You're paying for the right to use our website with your data based.
And it's the same one.
We have information from people.
Like if you go to Twitter for the first time, we have information about you.
Okay.
Because we actually bought a company because of this, like Ed Network.
When you visit, we serve ads for other companies on other people's sites.
Okay.
So when you go and you see that ads, we get information that you're dispersing these ads at this moment at this location on these websites.
Okay.
So we already have a lot of information about you.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
That's scary.
Yeah.
Like.
I mean, what if that fell into the wrong hands?
How would you protect people from that?
You don't.
You don't?
There is no way.
Indeed, Twitter's privacy policy states: quote, we receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our services, even if you have not created an account, unquote.
It is freaky, big brother.
Like, screwy big brother.
I mean, it's like a level, level, like it, I don't want to say it freaks me out, but it disturbs me.
All right, that is video and audio in this case from Project Veritas, James O'Keefe, in his latest undercover video.
And there you have a chief engineer over at Twitter, you know, saying that there are hundreds of people that work for Twitter.
And what they do is they monitor your private direct messaging and pictures that you think are private, and they store it on a database.
I've got to think that there's a Justice Department or some type of legal action sitting in the wings here based on all of this.
James O'Keefe is in studio with us.
We'll show you that video with James tonight on Hannity at 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
He's got a brand new book out, American Pravda, My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores everywhere.
I keep watching this and hearing this, and I'm more shocked every time I look at it.
Yeah, it's Sean, it's maybe the greatest censorship stories of our time, invasion of privacy stories of our time.
I wanted to say one more thing, Sean.
A year ago, when you broke those stories on Democracy Partners, you were the tip of the spear.
And one of the things I want to tell your audience is what happened was I went to a lot of major media organizations with that evidence.
This is so damning.
This Twitter stuff is so damning.
And they wouldn't break the stories.
You want to know why?
And these were videos of Hillary Clinton operatives fomenting violence at rallies.
They were all fired because they said, we're afraid to air these stories inside the Hillary campaign because if we do, Hillary might take away our broadcasting licenses.
Did they really say that?
They inferred it.
And eventually they told me after the election the truth.
At the time, they insinuated it.
And the irony is, I'm a little rinky-dink nonprofit group with a ragtag team of committed, brave citizens.
And we're breaking it.
And by the way, they're in the other room.
I got a couple of people.
That's a really nice way to talk about people that work for these people.
We are ragtag.
We're up and coming.
George Stephanopoulos said upstarts.
But the point is, is that why can't these major media companies do the work?
Because they're afraid.
They're afraid of the government.
And in these Twitter videos, they're saying they're going to share these DMs with the government, and they're just flippant about it.
So all these things are interrelated, Sean, and we have to do the work ourselves.
The people listening to this program are going to have to do the independent, of course, make sure you do it legally, but we have to do it ourselves.
You know, it's funny you say that.
And I'm always tagged as not a journalist.
And okay, I'm not an objective journalist, but there is something called an advocacy journalist or an opinion journalist.
And a lot of times, under the banner of being a talk show host, sometimes I do my own reporting.
For example, we've been reporting on Uranium One.
Everybody else in the media ignores it.
We've been reporting on the email server scandal.
We were reporting on the collusion of Peter Strzok and James Comey.
We've been doing reporting on who Robert Mueller put on his team to investigate Donald Trump.
We have, and that means I make my own phone calls to my sources, to people at the DOJ, to people in the FBI, to people in the intelligence community.
I talk to them all myself.
I don't think your average so-called journalist spends a lot of time making those phone calls.
And they're quick to criticize you.
Okay, what part of, and if I'm on the left, what part of what you broke today would they not want to know?
They think journalism is an identity when in reality, journalism is an activity.
Everyone's a journalist.
If you do journalism, congratulations.
If you catch someone on the street and you get a car accident on your phone, you're a journalist.
But, Sean, their ability to manipulate language.
I was detained at the border.
There's a whole chapter in this book, American Provider.
I was detained at the border 10 times because I exposed border insecurity.
I dressed up in Osama bin Laden mass.
I remember that.
You crossed the border.
And the sheriffs in Texas, the U.S. government's going to come after you big time.
And did they?
I mean, every time I crossed the border, they detain me.
They asked me who I'm voting for.
And because they said, what outlet do you work for?
I said, I work for my own.
They said, no.
What outlet do you work for?
They would never do that to an NBC News or CBS News reporter.
But they can get away with it because of the language they employ about people like me and you.
We are journalists.
Everyone's a journalist.
If you're doing journalism, you're a journalist.
And this is the debate.
It's really about the First Amendment and what protections we have as citizens.
But that's what this is all about.
And when you talk about American Pravda, there might be some young people in the audience that don't recognize or understand Pravda was the propaganda arm of the former Soviet Union.
It was a Soviet Pravda.
Difference between the Soviet Union's pravda and the American media is many people in this in this country, when they look at MSNBC, CNN, they don't know they're being lied to.
Alexander Soltzenitsyn has a whole chapter about this Gulag archipelago where they have these Potemkin villages.
By the way, people need to listen to Alexander Soljanitsyn and his really brutal takedown of the speech he gave at Harvard.
Yeah, he said the media has more powerful than the executive judicial branches of the U.S. government, but who is the media accountable to?
And I know that we have a First Amendment, but there's more than rights.
You have responsibilities in this country.
And what responsibility does the media have to tell the truth?
And by the way, Sean, I saw this post movie with Ben Bradley and Tom Hanks.
Half of me threw up in my mouth, but the other half of me thought, when I heard Ben Bradley say, Tom Hanks say, if we don't hold him accountable, who will?
My message to this government and to this media is if I don't, if James O'Keefe doesn't hold you guys accountable, who will?
Such a good point.
Look, I would argue, and I think we have some really good people that I work with every day, like Sarah Carter and John Solomon.
They're very good.
They're very, very good.
And they're actually breaking stories and they're pounding the pavement and they're knocking on doors and they're making phone calls and they're getting sources and they're breaking stories.
And we don't have a lot of that, but nobody else in the media is touching it.
Go through the list of successful stories you have had because there's been many.
And then when you look at the amount of criticism you've gotten, what are they so upset about?
That you discovered some truth?
That people speaking in a moment that they don't know that they're being taped and you do it legally.
What, they're upset?
They don't want to hear that.
They're not upset about the tactics.
Not in the abstract.
They're not.
They're upset about the results and the fruits of the labor.
We've taken down Acorn.
President Obama signed a bill to defund Acorn, and both houses of Congress were Democratically controlled.
The CEO of NPR was fired.
Six states changed their voter ID laws and passed voter legislation because we showed that we can get offered anyone's ballot, even dead people's ballots.
We've gotten Obamacare navigators fired.
We've gotten Medicaid workers fired.
We had hidden camera recordings inside CNN showing their producers saying the Russia story was a BS and a quote witch hunt.
We actually got President Trump to talk about our videos in the presidential debates with Hillary Clinton.
Bob Creamer and Scott Foval were both fired.
The Wisconsin Attorney General launched a criminal investigation.
We've gotten a New York Times reporter let go.
The New York Times changed their social media policy because we exposed bias.
And Sean, we're just getting started.
And I will tell you one thing.
They are going to try to put me in jail.
They're going to try to falsely accuse me and sue me out of existence.
But the more they come after us, the bigger our fan base becomes and the more irrelevant the media becomes because people are looking for anybody else.
Let's talk about the growth of Project Veritas.
I mean, now when you release a video, how viral do they go?
I mean, well, this Twitter series is this the biggest ever?
I think so.
I think by implication, I mean, the view count might not be as big as that Democracy Partners one, but I think this is like one of those moments in history when it's so polarized that people on the internet are like, why aren't you talking about this?
And everyone on these, like all your networks are on in the studio here, everyone just wants to ignore it.
But the more they ignore it, the more irrelevant they become.
Because if they're not going to talk about what people care about, well, what are people going to do?
They're going to listen to you, Sean.
That's what they and watch the TV show.
There's no doubt about it.
But there's certainly an industry that is designed.
There are people that tape every minute, every second of every day that I'm on the air and the hope that I say one thing wrong, and then they could take that comment.
Well, you're held to a higher standard, but that's our cross to bear.
I mean, we're held to a higher.
So you're telling me to say, you're basically saying, stop whining, Hannity.
Is that what you're telling me?
No, I think people need to be.
But I'm saying it's unfair.
I understand.
It's very unfair.
And the unfairness of it all is they don't believe in freedom of speech or expression.
They don't want other opinions out there.
And it is an industry that is extraordinarily well-funded to silence voices they disagree with.
By the way, if you don't like what James O'Keefe is doing at Project Veritas, you don't have to watch it.
There's an old chapter in this book, American Product, about the history of investigative journalism.
And they're supposed to afflict the comfortable, right?
They're supposed to comfort the afflicted.
What they're actually doing is comforting the powerful and afflicting the citizenry.
They are an extension of all things liberal, all things left-wing.
And they're a bunch of sheep, and they're lazy.
They're very lazy.
And they're overpaid.
Yeah, well, that's for sure.
Some of these people's budgets, salaries are twice my organizational budget.
Sean, we have some 50 people now.
We're a professional shop, and I've learned that people that want to do this work, it's hard work.
You have to be in love with being in the field and actually doing it, not just conceptually.
It's also dangerous.
Our guys are risking their, I don't want to say risking their lives, but risking their skins.
I mean, reputationally, it's the hardest thing about this work, Sean, is that if you get burned, you will be disgraced and humiliated, or at least thought of that way, by the Huffington Post.
And you have to endure that.
Do you really care what the Huffington Post says?
Because I don't think you do.
I am acknowledging the fact that most people do care.
It is a fact of reality.
And, you know, Churchill.
I don't have that switch.
Well, you're especially happy.
I think Churchill said you have the courage to continue.
You know, success is not final.
Failure is not fatal.
We just have to have the courage to not believe them and their characterizations about us.
And, Sean, we have a great team.
We have great lawyers.
I'll tell you this on your air.
You're the first to hear it.
The California Attorney General is now doing a full audit on me.
The New York Attorney General wants to take away our tax exempt status.
And I'm not afraid because the more they come after us, I'll make it public.
I'll let that be known that they are coming after journalists.
It's the same thing.
They want to shut you down.
That's all.
And by the way, that's a sad, sad condition.
An indictment.
Well, yeah.
All right, what's next for you?
What are you going to do?
I guess you're on a book tour now, right?
I'm on a book tour for like two weeks, and then I'm back breaking more stories.
This Twitter story is a big one, Sean.
I think your producers or your reporters, the calls you guys make are incredible because you get the comment.
You got Twitted a comment last week.
They said, we're not actually doing this.
And then they said, this guy's just one guy.
He doesn't stand for what we're doing.
Well, now there's nine.
James O'Keefe, I've said this from the beginning.
I've always admired your courage.
And I think that this is important work.
And I think that people get to decide for themselves and watch the videos and if it's relevant to them.
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Also, James O'Keefe exclusively, his latest undercover video.
This is beyond a violation of privacy when it relates to Twitter, and they're apparently sorting through all your private direct messages.
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