The latest information coming out of the FBI Dossier investigation suggests that President Obama may have known more than he let on in 2016. Sean sits down with Sara Carter and others to dig into this breaking story. The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| I was urging my former colleagues and and frankly speaking, the people on the Hill. | |
| It was more actually aimed aimed at telling the Hill people get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration. | |
| This is not uh anything uh political has has been alleged. | |
| The allegation is that somehow uh Obama administration officials uh utilized intelligence for political purposes. | |
| That's absolutely false. | |
| If the FBI, for instance, had a FISA court order of some sort for a surveillance, would that be information you would know or not know? | |
| Yes. | |
| You would be told this if there was a FISA court order on something like this. | |
| Um something like this, absolutely. | |
| And at this point, you can't confirm or deny whether that exists. | |
| I can deny it. | |
| There is no FISA court order. | |
| Not to my knowledge. | |
| Of anything at Trump Tower. | |
| No. | |
| You say there was a wiretap. | |
| That there was a wiretap of Russian agents, and that those Russian agents were communicating with Trump staff. | |
| That's why they were picked up. | |
| That's what the intelligence community. | |
| That's what the intelligence community has told us. | |
| Uh that's what's been reported very widely. | |
| Those are the facts. | |
| Uh, there is still no evidence that the president was wiretapped by his predecessor. | |
| Mr. Clapper and Miss Yates, uh, did either of you ever request the on masking of Mr. Trump, his associates, or any member of Congress. | |
| Um Yes, and in uh one case I did. | |
| At no time did I ever submit a request for personal or political purposes, or to voyeuristically look at raw intelligence, nor am I aware of any instance of Such abuse by anyone else. | |
| I was speaking to him and briefing him about some salacious and unverified material. | |
| Those were all lies that you heard. | |
| We now all know differently, and this is getting bigger by the minute. | |
| Glad you are with us. | |
| It looks like we are going to be averting the ever so feared government shutdown and of course be spending more money, which is what they always do in Congress. | |
| We have new, well, the page and uh struck emails, text messages. | |
| Well, we've got new ones, and this time they implicate, bring it right up to the top. | |
| Remember early on, I said, what did Obama know? | |
| When did Obama know it? | |
| What did Hillary know? | |
| When did Hillary know it? | |
| Well, we're at that point now where a lot of people have a lot of splaining to do on a lot of different things. | |
| And then we gave you on Monday, we told you about the Senate committee and the judiciary. | |
| This is Grassley's committee. | |
| And in fact, uh that memo that they put out Monday, well, much of it just before I went on television last night was redacted. | |
| I'm going to go through all of the details, and they will take your breath away in terms of how shocking all of this really is here. | |
| Um, and I'm going to go into and explain all of this. | |
| Let me start with the new Struck Page text messages and how they now suggest that Obama had input into Hillary's exoneration letter. | |
| Now, this remember, these are the Lovebirds. | |
| Peter Strzok, this is the guy, the FBI guy involved in just about everything. | |
| And he was the one that was involved with Comey and writing the exoneration before the investigation. | |
| He's the one that interviewed General Flynn. | |
| He remember, he and Paige writing how loathsome they found President Trump, uh, F. Trump and so on and so forth. | |
| So they have a built-in bias, and they're texting each other like morning, noon, and night. | |
| I don't even know when these two ever found time to sleep, they're texting so often. | |
| So we have new text released this morning of the FBI Love Birds, Strzok and Page, showing that President Obama, in fact, did know a lot about this and was closely monitoring the FBI's investigation and into Hillary Clinton's email server. | |
| Now don't forget, we're gonna get a lot more about this in March when the Inspector General's report comes out. | |
| And it ought to be interesting if the inspector general follows the rule of law here, and we're told in information that one of the real reasons Andrew McCabe got out as early as he did is because of information that will be coming out about him in the inspector general's report. | |
| Anyway, one of the texts between the Lovebirds uh begs the question: did Obama have any direct input into the Clinton exoneration letter that was edited by Strzok before James Comey used it to announce that Hillary Clinton was in the clear. | |
| Remember, the exoneration letter began in early May. | |
| They hadn't interviewed and didn't interview Hillary Clinton until the July 4th weekend. | |
| And I don't know anybody within the FBI ranks that I'm friends with or anybody involved in law enforcement in any way that ever wrote an exoneration before an investigation, and there were 17 other key witnesses that hadn't been interviewed up to and including that point. | |
| And anyway, so over the Fourth of July weekend, well, they interview Hillary Clinton, and the next day they're exonerating her, or at least James Comey is on July 5th, because they had already begun the process of writing the exoneration back in May, and that's when they took out the terms gross negligence, which is the legal standard, which me would have meant she committed felonies, and they played word games and took put the word extreme carelessness in there. | |
| Also, there was evidence that they had believed, Comey had believed that foreign intelligence agencies had been able to hack into that mom and pop shop bathroom closet and get that top secret special access program classified information that originally we were told wasn't on the email server. | |
| Turns out it was. | |
| Anyway, one of the text messages between Strck and Page, you know, does talk at length about Obama's input into this. | |
| A September the second, twenty sixteen text between Strck and Page mentions preparing talking points for the then FBI director, James Comey, so Comey can give it to the president at the time, which is President Obama, who, according to Lisa Page, quote, wanted to know everything that we're doing. | |
| So is it likely that Obama's interest in Strzok and Page's work, you know, suddenly began that September? | |
| Or is it probably more likely that the president had been closely monitoring the FBI's Hillary email investigation for months beforehand? | |
| My gut tells me it's the latter. | |
| Remember, if James Comey and Strzok had done their job, we have irrefutable, overwhelming, incontrovertible evidence that Hillary committed felonies, that Hillary Clinton, as it relates to the Espionage Act, and that is, you know, you cannot mishandle classified top secret special access program information. | |
| It's illegal, it's a felony, it's a crime. | |
| 18 USC 793. | |
| You cannot just destroy such information, which in fact they did. | |
| That's where acid washing and bleach bit comes in and destroying with hammers, BlackBerries, and iPhones. | |
| And then, of course, that speak raises questions about obstruction of justice on top of everything else. | |
| So is it likely that Obama had known and wanted to know a lot more about this beforehand? | |
| The answer is definitely yes. | |
| Now, if um in April of 2016, this is a month now before Strzok edited the FBI secret exoneration memo before the investigation. | |
| Remember that began in May, but in April of 2016, President Obama actually appeared on Fox News Sunday and pronounced Hillary Clinton innocent of all charges. | |
| Said I continue to believe that Hillary has not jeopardized America's national security. | |
| There's a carelessness in terms of managing emails, and that she has owned and she recognizes that, but I also think it's important to keep it in perspective. | |
| One thing I'll say about the Clintons is they're very consistent. | |
| Remember, Sandy Berger, post-9-11, goes into the National Archives and start starts stuffing documents down his pants and in his socks, and everyone goes out with the talking point that he's just sloppy. | |
| Just think maybe this is a case of sloppiness. | |
| I'm sure it was a careless, sloppy moment. | |
| And he admits this and he was sloppy about it. | |
| He admits being sloppy. | |
| No, it wasn't being sloppy. | |
| He was covering for the Clintons and stealing documents. | |
| He knew damn well he didn't have act shouldn't have access to and shouldn't have taken out of that building. | |
| But Obama's proclamation was interpreted by many as a signal that he wanted the FBI to let Hillary Clinton off the hook, which is exactly what Comey and Strutt did. | |
| It's exactly what the FBI did. | |
| If they would have charged her under 18 USC 793 mishandling, destroying classified top secret special access programming information and obstructing justice by using acid wash, bleach bit, and busting up devices, she would not have been the candidate. | |
| And it would have thrown the Democratic Party into a state of chaos leading into a November presidential election. | |
| And Obama used the word carelessness, kind of like the word sloppy in the case of Sandy Berger or burglar, which was the exact term, by the way, that Peter Strzok would invoke weeks later in the now infamous Hillary exoneration memo, changing the description of misconduct, gross negligence to extreme carelessness. | |
| And thanks to Lisa Page, the newly released text, we know that Obama was following both her work and the work of her boyfriend very closely. | |
| So is it a coincidence that Strzok's critical edit to Hillary's exoneration letter used the exact same word that Obama had used to clear Hillary on Fox News Sunday just weeks before? | |
| In other words, did Strzok, you know, merely just take the hint or the new phrase became well just extreme carelessness. | |
| And we've got information today that a report in the Washington Post is now suggesting what we've been reporting now for a couple of days. | |
| And that is that longtime Hillary operative Cody Scherer was corroborated, was a corroborating source for the explosive golden showers allegation, you know, the hookers urinating in the bed and the writs in Moscow, which the Russian prostitutes apparently urinating on a bed of Donald Trump's hotel room. | |
| Weekly Standard points out multiple media outlets are confirming the existence of a second anti-Trump dossier authored by Cody Sharer, longtime associate of the notorious Sid Vicious Blumenthal, who as a who has a very checkered history at the center of Clinton's scandals going back decades, and his work was reportedly passed on to the British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. | |
| So not only do we have all this information, I'll go to the Senate memo that came out yesterday that was redacted just before we went on TV last night that I'm going to get into in detail in a minute. | |
| Mr. Steele gathered much of his information from Russian government sources inside of Russia. | |
| In other words, the dossier information came from Russian government sources inside of Russia. | |
| And it was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and her being in control of the DNC, funnel through a law firm to pay Fusion GPS to pay Christopher Steele. | |
| None of it was verified, none of it. | |
| Even Fusion GPS said we didn't verify it. | |
| And that's where the information came from from the get-go. | |
| And then you've got that same information then being used. | |
| We now had discovered last night since it became unredacted. | |
| This dossier became the bulk of the effort to get the Pfizer warrant against Donald Trump in an election year, an opposition party candidate. | |
| And then it even gets worse because we have Clinton sycophantic friends feeding Christopher Steele other information or corroborating information on top of the Russian lies, the Russian government sources that was already used for the phony dossier. | |
| And then they don't tell the Pfizer court judge any of this. | |
| They don't say that Clinton bought and paid for it, but yet it's the bulk of the argument, just the opposite. | |
| You know, three months later, James Comey goes to Trump Tower to tell Donald Trump, oh, by the way, uh it's uh it's salacious, but it's not verified. | |
| Okay, but back in October when he's getting the first FISA approval at a FISA court, he's telling the Pfizer court that it is credible, and they never mentioned that Hillary paid for it. | |
| Well, that's a pretty significant omission, if you ask me. | |
| And it seems to have been done on purpose. | |
| See why this is the biggest scandal that the media's ever missed? | |
| We do have collusion. | |
| We do have Russian lies to influence the American people. | |
| And on top of it, it was paid for by Hillary. | |
| And then the compliant media feeding this lie for over a year, not even asking one critical question ever. | |
| That's why we call it Deep State Gate. | |
| Because it's deeper and deeper by the minute. | |
| You get a little sidebar into the mindset of people like Struck and Page when you look at some of their text here. | |
| Uh remember, they both served in prominent roles in the Russia collusion investigation, and they revealed their anti-Romanian bias while discussing the hacker known as Goosefer, Goosefer, sleazy Romanian struck wrote. | |
| They all are Paige responded. | |
| Funny to watch and think of, redacted. | |
| No wonder he's as brusque as he is, and those Romanians aren't even the gypsies struck shot back. | |
| Seriously, I kind of hate them, I'm sure redacted fine, but they have the crookedness of the Russians with the entitledness of the Italians. | |
| Oh, these are really wonderful people at the higher end of this uh this tip of the spear here. | |
| Um and they say, I mean, look, it that's just a small issue in terms of what these people really represent. | |
| What we are looking at here is really fundamental, and it is it is also profound. | |
| If we have Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate, protected, shielded, and given a pass for obvious crimes that would put the rest of us in jail because she is chosen over, in this case, Donald Trump. | |
| We don't have equal justice under the law. | |
| If she is buying what the Grassley memo shows to be Russian government sources inside of Russia, Russian lies to manipulate and propagandize the American people, we've we've got a big problem. | |
| And I thought the media actually was supposed to care about Russian influence or an MI6 agent influencing. | |
| And then when it's used and they don't tell a Pfizer court judge that she paid for it, and this becomes the bulk of the argument by Comey and others To get a warrant to spy on an opposition candidate in the lead up to an election and then undermine a president elect. | |
| We've got even bigger problems. | |
| I'll explain when we get back. | |
| A lot more to get to. | |
| Okay, and so Buceva met with Trump uh in in uh New York at some point after the 2013 Miss Universe. | |
| Uh yes. | |
| Pageant. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| And she got uh compromising materials on trout after their uh short relations. | |
| Okay. | |
| And who and what's the nature of the compromise? | |
| Well, there were pictures of naked Trump. | |
| Okay. | |
| And so Putin was made aware uh of the availability of the compromising material. | |
| Yes, of course, uh Buzawa shared those materials with uh Sopchak and Subshak shares those materials with uh Putin because she's uh Goddaughter of Putin and Putin decided to press on Trump. | |
| Um the materials that you can provide to the committee or to the FBI, uh, would they corroborate this allegation? | |
| Sure, of course. | |
| Uh when they were in Ukraine, we got their conversation by the phone where they're discussed those uh compromising materials we are ready to provide it to FBI. | |
| So you you have recordings of both Sovchek and Buseva, uh, where they're discussing the compromising material on uh Mr. Trump. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| This is like the greatest bit ever. | |
| It's an audio tape prank phone call made by two Russian comedians, and there's a whole series of emails. | |
| If I if there wasn't so much news today, I would tell you about it. | |
| But uh they're pranking Adam Schiff. | |
| Mr. I want to host a show on MSNBC, the Democrats top house uh Russia gate investigators. | |
| He's soliciting dirt from Russians about President Trump from Russian sources. | |
| Uh isn't that the exact claim the Democrats made that Donald Trump Jr. might have been seeking some op research when he met with a Russian lawyer who supposedly was ready to supply dirt on Hillary Clinton, and it turned out to be a nothing meeting where everybody wanted out of the meeting. | |
| And when news of Trump Jr. meeting and uh you know first surface last year, what what happened in the destroy Trump media and Democrats? | |
| That's smoking gun proof. | |
| Trump Jr. was was colluding with the Russians. | |
| And the Russian lawyer had no dirt to offer. | |
| And Trump Jr. never pursued the matter further ever. | |
| But Adam Schift, on the other hand, was you know, not only is he on tape, and I was a lot more to that tape, he's salivating, and what are the compromising uh position? | |
| Oh, pictures. | |
| Pictures naked pictures of photos of a naked Donald Trump. | |
| And he'd have his staff follow up with the caller, which happened. | |
| Which not only pro Shift this tape proves in in spades that he's guilty of the very thing Democrats merely accused Donald Trump Jr. of doing. | |
| But of course, ultimately there wasn't follow-up in his case. | |
| So you got a bunch of Russian radio hosts pranking the top Democrat on the House Intel committee saying they had compromising images of Donald Trump and his girlfriend. | |
| Now the Daily Mail posted this audio yesterday in this prank that was pulled last year by these two guys against Adam Schiff, and the Atlantic reported the prank last month, but the mall story went a step further with the audio of the joke, and the caller identified himself as the speaker of Ukraine's parliament, uh, which was actually you know the two people that in this particular case saying these making these claims against Donald Trump having an affair with a Russian model and a Russian singer. | |
| He has compromising materials on Trump after their short relations. | |
| Okay, what's the nature of the material? | |
| Well, there are pictures of a naked Trump. | |
| It just you can't make any of this up. | |
| I mean, there's got to be some humor in all of this. | |
| Um not only does Strzok and Page despise Trump and and hate him as revealed by the text messages, and of course their insurance policy That they had been talking at length about, but uh these new texts today by uh Peter Strzok and his mistress Lisa Page, they're gushing. | |
| They're literally gushing. | |
| As I over disgraced FBI director, James Comey, as he explained to Congress how he deep six the Bureau's Hillary email probe from the OSA. | |
| God, he's so good, Strzok writes Page. | |
| I know she responds. | |
| Brilliant public speaker, a brilliant uh uh distillation disallation of facts, she responds. | |
| Uh Page complained in another text that Congress is utterly worthless, less than worthless, replied Peter Strzok. | |
| He's the counterintelligence Russian agent assigned to this investigation. | |
| Utterly contemptible. | |
| These two think that they are the hottest couple in the history of mankind. | |
| It's almost they're almost hotter than Joe and Mika. | |
| Anyway, but then it goes on from there. | |
| There's no question, but that both Strzok and Page were stridently opposed to Trump's candidacy. | |
| We know that they called him an idiot, lonesome, a menace, a disaster, F him. | |
| We know that took place. | |
| And um, then there's uh also in one text four days before the election, Page told Strzok that the American presidential election and thus the state of the world is actually hanging in the balance. | |
| They frequently texted each other news stories about Russian meddling, election meddling, denigrating Trump associate Roger Stone in one profanity-laced message, Strzok cursed out the cheating, quote, Russians, uh, expletive Russians. | |
| But the text, which encompass a two-year period beginning around the start of the Clinton email server investigation in 2015, cover far more ground than Trump. | |
| Strck was distressed, for instance, at the former president Bill Clinton had an impromptu meeting with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in Phoenix in the final stages of the campaign in the investigation. | |
| Lynch subsequently announced that she would accept the FBI's recommendations. | |
| She's just basically was getting in line. | |
| She didn't have to accept any recommendations. | |
| And uh all the airport tarmac articles are finally busting out. | |
| It took a little bit, not a big deal, just astoundingly a bad optic and doesn't help what the D is trying to do. | |
| He texted director meaning that would be Strzok. | |
| Um, I don't know what's bigger news here. | |
| So we got the House Intel Committee report on Friday, and we learned a lot. | |
| I can't rehash it all now. | |
| Then we got the Senate report yesterday, and then late last night, just as I'm going on air, well, we get the redacted memorandum from the Senate, and it's explosive. | |
| Let me just go over some of this with you. | |
| Um it goes on to say on the face of the dossier, it appears that Mr. Steele gathered much of his information from Russian government sources inside of Russia. | |
| Uh, and then according to this particular law firm that I've been telling you about, the Steele dossier-related efforts were funded through Fusion GPS by that law firm on behalf of the Democratic National Committee in the Clinton campaign. | |
| Now, this is an establishment of fact. | |
| So Clinton paid for this phony Russia salacious dossier that became the foundation for a Pfizer warrant. | |
| And the interesting thing that we also learn here is that some of her BFFs, including Sid Blumenthal, apparently, were also responsible for feeding Christopher Steele more phony information. | |
| Remember, the bulk well, I'll go through this. | |
| Anyway, so it goes on to say the FBI since provided the committee access classified documents. | |
| Mr. Steele, whether the FBI relied on his dossier work. | |
| As explained in great greater detail below, when information in those classified documents is evaluated in the light of sworn statements by Steele in a British litigation case he's involved in. | |
| It appears that either Steele lied to the FBI or he lied to the British court or that the classified documents reviewed by the committee contain materially false statements. | |
| Now it gets interesting. | |
| The briefing addressed the Russia investigation, the FBI's relationship with Mr. Steele, the FBI's reliance on the Steele dossier, and two applications they filed for a surveillance warrant under FISA. | |
| And then on March 17, 2017, the chairman and ranking member were provided copies of the two relevant FISA applications, which requested authority to conduct surveillance on Carter Page so they could get to the Trump campaign. | |
| Now here's this part. | |
| These Pfizer warrants, both these two that they looked at, relied heavily on Mr. Steele's dossier claims, and both applications were granted by the foreign intelligence surveillance court in December of 2017. | |
| The ranking member, subcommittee chairman, Lindsey Graham were allowed to review all four FISA applications. | |
| And it turns out they relied on the dossier to seek surveillance as well as numerous other FBI documents related to Steele. | |
| The bulk of the information came from the dossier. | |
| Remember, we were talking about when the Nunes memo came out. | |
| Well, maybe it's only 5%. | |
| How do we get inside the mind of a judge? | |
| They're saying the bulk of information they used was Hillary's bought and paid for dossier. | |
| And similarly, June 2017, Comey testified before the Senate Select Committee that he briefed President-elect Trump on the dossier in January of 2017. | |
| This is before he became president. | |
| And Comey described it as salacious and unverified. | |
| Well, three months later, they were using it before a Pfizer court. | |
| They're just not telling the FISA judge that Hillary bought and paid for this thing. | |
| When asked in March why the FBI relied on the dossier in the FISA applications, and in light of the highly political motives surrounding its creation, Comey stated that the FBI included the dossier allegations in the FISA application because Mr. Steele himself was considered reliable due to his past work with the Bureau, but they never verified it, and he was calling it himself unverified. | |
| Then you don't go to a FISA judge and not tell them that Hillary paid for it, but he hasn't confirmed anything. | |
| Well, we've had some good luck with this guy in the past, so we just we just ran with it. | |
| That's basically what he's saying here. | |
| Indeed, the documents we have reviewed show that the FBI took important investigative steps, largely based on Steele's information and relying heavily on his credibility. | |
| Okay, which we know if they say in the beginning, he's a liar on top of everything else. | |
| Now here's the important line. | |
| The bulk of the application to get the warrant, the bulk of the application consists of allegations against Page that were disclosed to the FBI by Mr. Steele and also outlined in the Steele dossier. | |
| And they never verified it. | |
| Nor did they ever tell the court who paid for it. | |
| Now the application appears to contain no additional information corroborating the dossier allegations, although it does cite the news article. | |
| This is the Michael Isaachoff article. | |
| There's another piece of information I saw in Julian Assange's tweet today that in fact uh it looked like Michael Lizakoff was working with the DNC. | |
| Big shocker there. | |
| Uh the FBI discussed the reliability of the unverified information provided by Steele and the footnotes. | |
| First, the FBI noted a vaguely limited extent of political origins. | |
| Look at this. | |
| They tried to downplay, they knew who paid for it. | |
| They knew at this point Hillary paid for it. | |
| The DNC paid for it. | |
| The FBI noted to a vaguely limited extent the political origins of the dossier. | |
| In footnote eight, the FBI stated the dossier information was compiled pursuant to the direction of the law firm who had hired an identified U.S. person, now known as Glenn Simpson Fusion GPS. | |
| The application failed to disclose that the identities of Mr. Simpson's ultimate clients were the Clinton campaign and the DNC. | |
| They withheld the most important bit of information from the FISA judge. | |
| The FISA judge would have said, wait a minute, Hillary's paying for this? | |
| And you want me to give you uh a Pfizer, approve a Pfizer warrant to go after her opponent, and she's paying for this crap, and you guys haven't verified it? | |
| Never would have happened. | |
| Even McCabe said without the dossier, it wouldn't have happened. | |
| Everybody's saying that, oh, well, Nunes' memo is wrong. | |
| This just bolsters Nunes' memo. | |
| And the FBI stated to the Pfizer court that based on Steele's previous reporting history with the FBI, where he had given reliable information, they believed he was credible. | |
| So the FBI appears they've relied on uncorroborated information, unverified information, funded and obtained by Clinton's presidential campaign in the DNC to conduct surveillance of an associate of an opposing presidential candidate. | |
| And it did so based on Steele. | |
| Well, we like the guy and he did good work in the past. | |
| That was it. | |
| Then there's other evidence suggesting Steele's materially misled the FBI about key aspects of his dossier efforts. | |
| And then it goes on from there. | |
| I spent a lot of time on this last night. | |
| We'll have more with Sarah Carter. | |
| And I think Greg Jarrett are going to be joining us at the top of the hour. | |
| Do you understand what has happened here? | |
| We had we had literally the highest ranking people in the FBI rig a criminal investigation into Hillary. | |
| They rigged it. | |
| So she could continue. | |
| And then Hillary is paying Russian government sources. | |
| And then she's even having her best friends feed information to the guy that's doing this dossier. | |
| And then the dossier is spread like wildfire because later on it talks about how they feed it to the media. | |
| And then the media disseminates it as if it's gospel truth. | |
| And then the worst part is the FBI covers up the fact that she paid for it and covers up the fact that it's not verified before a Pfizer judge. | |
| Do you realize that's an effort to steal a presidential election? | |
| Do you understand after the election it's an effort to undermine the president that just won a duly elected president? | |
| Do you now understand what I said what I mean when I say this is water this makes Watergate look like stealing a Snickers bar from a grocery store? | |
| 800 941 Sean is our number. | |
| All right, glad you're with us, hour two, 800 941 Sean, toll-free telephone number. | |
| We've got many stories we're covering. | |
| Senate has now reached the two-year deal to avert a government shutdown, which I never really care about. | |
| We'll get the details of all of that coming out of there as soon as possible. | |
| We have now 500 new pages of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page text messages, some of them pretty explosive, not the least of which is Obama is now uh involved in all of this. | |
| He wanted to know everything, wanted updates, and Strzok and Page were preparing updates to give to Comey to give to Obama. | |
| And then we've got the new version of Senator Grassley's committee's memo, the unredacted one that I broke on the air last night, literally minutes before going on at at nine Eastern on Hannity on Fox. | |
| Uh and what else has been going on today is remember if you go back to the Uranium One scandal, you know, many of us have been predicting this is going to be the bigger scandal of all of them if this is not big enough. | |
| And we had an informant within the FBI for some six years, and this is when Vladimir Putin had built a network inside the United States and Robert Muller was the FBI director at the time, and he knew about bribery and extortion and money laundering and kickbacks and racketeering. | |
| Well, and he was being warned by the informant and informed every step of the way. | |
| Then it raises questions. | |
| Well, you know, 18 months later, why when we knew all of this was happening and that we don't have enough uranium as a country as it is, and then we've got this uranium one deal, and we're gonna give 20% of our uranium to the bad actor, Vladimir Putin from the hostile nation of Russia. | |
| Why nobody stops Cyphyas, the nine individual cabinet level uh different cabinets that sign off on this deal, including Hillary Clinton's, and then the money that got kicked back to her, and uh there's so much information that will be coming out. | |
| Sarah Carter is with us, investigative reporter, Fox News Channel, Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett is with us, and apparently this informant now for many hours has been before Senator Grassley's committee. | |
| Is that true? | |
| Yes, so uh today was was a very important day because the informant actually spoke to both sides of the House to both the Democrats and the Republicans, And this is vitally important information that he's delivering. | |
| We don't know all the details as of yet of what happened inside the meeting, but we will have those when we go on the air tonight. | |
| But you also have spent a lot of time with this informant, correct? | |
| Correct. | |
| I've I've known this informant for now going on almost uh a year, I think now, and he has vital information that he's going to be providing Congress, information that he collected over a six-year period regarding his work with the FBI and their counterintelligence team. | |
| Remember, this wasn't just about criminal actions and criminal networks. | |
| This was about actual information that he was providing them on Russia with regards to not only the United States, but with regards to Iran and Russia's dealings overseas in the uranium industry. | |
| And my understanding is he has just very small. | |
| And what I understand is he also has all the corroborating evidence and notes and emails and even tapes to back up everything he's saying. | |
| Yes, uh, William Campbell saved everything. | |
| In fact, uh he was meticulous in his work with the FBI. | |
| He had thousands of pages of briefings, thousands of documents, um, which I would consider a treasure trove of documents for the United States to include also recordings that he had um when he was undercover with the Russians. | |
| So this is an extensive amount of information. | |
| Congress is going to be sifting through all of it. | |
| I know they already have started that process, and this is the reason why he was there today speaking to members of Congress. | |
| And all of this information is coming out. | |
| It never made sense, did it, Sarah, that we would give twenty percent of America's uranium to a foreign entity, especially a country like Russia and uh actor like Putin, and we need to import uranium because we don't have enough of it. | |
| The question is, did this informant who penetrated this network the I mean our government knew that Vladimir Putin wanted a foothold in this uranium market, and then he got it. | |
| And from my understanding, in spite of promises to the contrary, that a lot of the uranium made its way outside of the country to Canada and to Europe and and maybe even Asia. | |
| That's correct. | |
| And he has described his frustration during that time period with the FBI, and he was informing them of of information far beyond what resulted in the uh incarceration and the trials of Buddy Mirkar and the Russians that were involved, the American counterparts that were involved in the money laundering conspiracy. | |
| He actually supplied the U.S. with troves of information on Russia's dealings overseas, particularly when it came to Iran. | |
| And remember, Sean, that was something that we emphasized at the time. | |
| At the time, there were a number of Republicans that were up in arms over this deal, not just because we were selling 20% of American uranium to the Russians, but because of Russia's involvement with Iran. | |
| There was enormous concern that Russia was aiding Iran with its nuclear reactors, that it was supplying them all kinds of equipment that they would need in order to reinforce the reactors that they had in Iran. | |
| Yeah, so this is really this is really the crux and the importance of this. | |
| It goes far beyond just the convictions that happened with the money laundering conspiracy because a lot of these Russian players that he was involved with were far more extensively involved in what was happening on a global scale with Vladimir Putin than what was reported in the DOJ's filings against them. | |
| Greg Jarrett, let's go back to where we were last night, and that is the unredacted, well, it's still redacted, but less redacted Senate memo coming from Grassley's committee. | |
| Um the bulk of information that was used in the FISA warrant, in fact did come from the bought and paid for Hillary Clinton DNC dossier that was unverified, and the FBI made uh gr uh went through great pains to to lend credibility to Christopher Steele in this case. | |
| But they didn't verify the this. | |
| They didn't tell the court that Hillary had bought and paid for this. | |
| They obscured that fact as they obscured other facts going before the FISA court, and then it ends up getting renewed three separate times, and one has to ask how is this even possible? | |
| It does seem like the definition, Sean of of government corruption, the Department of Justice and FBI concealing vital facts, and they deceived the court. | |
| They knew the dossier was phony, they knew it was politically motivated. | |
| They knew Steele was biased. | |
| He told the Department of Justice he was desperate to stop Trump. | |
| That was before the election. | |
| They knew he was untrustworthy. | |
| In fact, they knew he'd lied, and yet they used his work paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC. | |
| And they went in front of a judge and they signed under penalty of perjury a statement that vouched for the authenticity and honesty and credibility of it all. | |
| But when but in January before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, January of 2017, he James Comey was telling the president elect that it was unverified and salacious. | |
| What was he telling? | |
| What was he telling the Pfizer court the previous October? | |
| Yeah, that conversation happened on January 6th of uh 2017. | |
| And even after he told the president that it was unverified, uh he was still signing off on uh renewals for the FISA warranty. | |
| But he but he even did it months in advance. | |
| I mean, he did it before and after. | |
| Sure. | |
| I mean, look, they knew all of this before they filed their first FISA application. | |
| And then when it became even more apparent, even after they fired uh Steele, they continue to represent to the court that this was valid evidence when they knew it wasn't. | |
| That's a fraud on the court, it's lying to the court, it's abuse of power, a felony. | |
| If I'm the judge and I'm hearing Greg Jarrett on Sean Hannity's radio show right now, what is that judge thinking? | |
| Well, it should be multiple judges because they rotate every thirty days, so you likely had separate different judges over the span of the the different FISA applications, and I would think there's got to be one of them, if not all of them, who are aptic with rage that they had been snookered by unscrupulous FBI officials and Department of Justice lawyers. | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| Sarah Carter, we've been following this for such a long time when the Nunes memo came out, a lot was made. | |
| Well, it could have been five percent of the judges thinking well, this Senate memo tells us it was the bulk of the evidence that they used to secure the FISA warrant. | |
| And this is in the lead up of an election. | |
| Now, not only not only did we learn that if you go to the the front page of this whole memo that was put out in the Senate, not only did we learn that it was from the from their perspective that uh Christopher Steele, much of his information was r Russian government sources inside of Russia, but then we learned that Clinton sycophants were feeding Christopher Steele other information in part, and they never told the court that that this guy Steele hated Donald Trump and didn't want him elected. | |
| So they withhold held a lot from the court. | |
| They withheld a lot from the court and they were putting um they were using erroneous information. | |
| If friends of Hillary Clinton, as is stated in the you know, in the Grassley criminal referral, were feeding information to Christopher Steele that he was then feeding into the dossier. | |
| I I mean that's incredible, because now what they're doing is they're basing this dossier and and this FISA court application on basically what is believed to be lies. | |
| And now that we've seen that come out, I think they're gonna have a lot to answer to right now. | |
| I mean, there's no way to really fight this on the Democrat side uh right now, because facts are facts, and I've stated that before, Sean, these facts are starting to surface. | |
| Now we see with the new text messages that uh that uh struck and page were basically asked to put together talking points for President Obama, so he was well aware, and I want to go back to a point that Greg made that's uh focuses on that dossier and and that you made when when he was actually briefed when President Trump, | |
| then President elect Trump was actually briefed on the dossier and President Obama, That's when the FBI actually gave credence to the dossier. | |
| Because remember the dossier was being passed around in Washington by Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, and none of the uh mainstream media, in fact, nobody would report on it because they didn't believe it because it was so outlandish and outrageous. | |
| But as soon as they briefed the president on it, as soon as they briefed them, all of a sudden the dossier became a legitimate document. | |
| A document stay right there and put in buzzfeed. | |
| All right, stay right there. | |
| Greg, I want to ask you about Obama's involvement when we get back in this, that the fact that he also knew and and he's up to his eyeballs now. | |
| He's been pulled into this, which I always suspected, which is why I said, What did he know and when did he know it for a long time? | |
| Right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show 800 941 Sean, so the informant who is six years with the you know, with with the whole issue involving Uranium One speaking before Senator Grassley's committee. | |
| Well, more details tonight. | |
| We continue with Sarah Carter and Greg Jarrett. | |
| Uh, Greg, one of the big issues that I found out of the struck page emails, some five hundred pages worth of them today, I guess there's fifty thousand total, is the fact that uh they're they're racing to update President Obama and that Comey and Strzok and Paige are in involved because well uh he wanted to know everything about what was going on. | |
| And uh President Obama insisted he knew nothing. | |
| Uh I turn your attention to April 10th, 2016, an interview with Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday. | |
| The President says, quote, I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. | |
| I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. | |
| We have a strict line, we always maintain it. | |
| Well, these texts newly revealed the lie, the president's statement, uh, in which you, you know, you see struck uh saying and page saying, Yes, POTUS wants to know everything we are doing. | |
| It's unclear which of the two investigations uh she's talking about, the Clinton investigation or uh the Trump Russia investigation, but it certainly puts a lie to Obama's claims. | |
| Well, I think that's the big part. | |
| I mean, I I I really want to get to the bottom of all of this too, because at the end of the day is we had people involved in exonerating Hillary Clinton before they investigating her, allowing her to continue in a presidential election race. | |
| Then she's paying for a Russian dossier from the Russian government, we're told in the in the Grassley report in the Grassley memo, and fed to Christopher Steele. | |
| Christopher Steele's paying, buying, getting all this information and other information from Hillary's close friends and associates. | |
| That's the lie to the American people, but then it's used as the basis for this firewall uh Pfizer warrant, the bulk of information. | |
| Now, I I I I'm just looking at what crimes are we looking at here, Greg. | |
| Well, you're looking at so many crimes you need a calculator uh for this. | |
| Um you're talking about uh obstruction of justice uh in many cases. | |
| You're talking about perjury, you're talking about um, you know, lying to Congress outside of the parameters of perjury. | |
| Uh I mean, there's so much here, and and don't forget, Sean, as you've so often pointed out, I mean, there's a persuasive argument uh that Hillary Clinton, together with her husband, engaged in an elaborate but well disguised scheme to peddle influence on a global scale. | |
| Uranium one was just part of it, uh, which enriched themselves and their foundation, and they were using their foundation. | |
| It looks to me like uh you're in an average money laundering scheme, racketeering. | |
| Sarah, what are we gonna hear tonight? | |
| Do we have any idea about the uranium one and the informant? | |
| Well, I think we're gonna have more information on what he was able to provide to Congress, um, how Congress responded to that information and to the informant, uh his long extensive work with the FBI. | |
| We're gonna break that tonight on on Hannity, Sarah Carter and uh Greg Jarrell both be with us and so much more. | |
| Nine Easton, hope you'll join us straight ahead. | |
| You hear who the source or one of the sources of that information is, you're gonna think, oh my gosh, I've heard that name somewhere before. | |
| Where could it possibly have been? | |
| And uh foreign source? | |
| The domestic source. | |
| And I'm trying to think how Secretary Clinton defined him. | |
| I think she said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time. | |
| Tidney Blumenthal? | |
| That'd be really warm. | |
| Can you guarantee to the American people? | |
| Can you direct the Justice Department to say Hillary Clinton will be treated as the evidence sh goes she will not be in any way protected? | |
| I can guarantee that. | |
| And and I can guarantee that not because I give uh Attorney General Lynch a directive. | |
| That is institutionally how we have always operated. | |
| I do not talk to the Attorney General about pending investigations. | |
| I do not talk to FBI directors about uh pending investigations. | |
| The uh we have a strict line uh and always have maintained it. | |
| Just to button this up. | |
| I guarantee it. | |
| You I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case. | |
| And she will be full stop, period. | |
| And she will be treated no differently. | |
| Guaranteed full stop. | |
| Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law. | |
| What did the President know? | |
| And when did he know it? | |
| All right, all relevant questions back then during uh Watergate, part of an interview with Barack Obama on uh Fox News Sunday, but we do have new text messages with the Lovebirds, Peter Strzok and his mistress girlfriend uh Lisa Page, Obama wanted to know everything. | |
| But I don't talk to FBI directors about pending investigations, really? | |
| Well, that's a bit of a problem for him. | |
| Um Lanny Davis is with us. | |
| Lanny and I agree on very little. | |
| Lanny is just anything Clinton he loves. | |
| Um he's a good writer. | |
| He wrote a book once that I have quoted often on this program. | |
| It's Tell the Truth, Tell It All, Tell It Early, Tell It Yourself. | |
| And by the way, that's that's good advice for anybody, Republican or Democrat, and you know, it's often the slow bleed of things coming out that end up killing people in the end. | |
| Um, but he actually believes, like I do, that James Comey is corrupt, but he just sees it in a very different light than I do. | |
| Um, but it is interesting that we agree that that Comey is a bad actor in all of this, and that we agree, correct, Lanny? | |
| Well, uh, thank you first of all, Sean. | |
| Uh is one thing we both agree on. | |
| I do uh agree with uh President Trump on one thing that James Comey should have been fired. | |
| I don't use the word corrupt, I don't know the man's motives. | |
| I do think that he acts uh as if the rules don't apply to him. | |
| You're describing you're describing Hillary perfectly. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, I don't I don't agree with that, but but I do think he should have been fired by President Obama, not by President Trump. | |
| But in any case, uh I don't think that James Comey has good judgment, and and he did statistically, I believe in my book I prove that after his letter of October 28th, which turned out six days later, to then be couldn't find anything, uh, did cost Hillary Clinton the election. | |
| Let me let me go through some fundamental facts here about James Comey and why I think the premise that you're making in your book is wrong in this sense. | |
| And it all begins with the email server investigation, which we are now discovering today with this interim report by Senator Ron Johnson. | |
| Uh this is all going to be revisited, whether or not Hillary likes it or not. | |
| But here are the facts as we now know it. | |
| Uh if you look at 18 USC 793 and the Espionage Act, it is the mishandling of classified information as a crime. | |
| Um we have Hillary Clinton was subpoena, and by the way, the destruction of such information is a crime. | |
| James Comey even acknowledged, and it's now a fact that Hillary had top secret classified special access program information on the mom and pop server in a bathroom closet as she was trying to prevent congressional oversight by moving her email server there. | |
| Then when 33,000 emails were subpoenaed, they became deleted by Hillary Clinton, and in spite of her claim that they went over every single one, it was later discovered they did not go over every single one. | |
| And she said they were 33,000 emails about yoga, a wedding, and a funeral, and some of Those have have been recovered. | |
| Then, just to make super sure that it delete work, she used acid wash or bleach bit to get rid of the hard drive and clean out the hard drive so the email she deleted couldn't be found again. | |
| And then whatever emails remained on any devices, blackberries and hammers, uh, blackberries and iPhones, well, hammers were used to smash them up into itty bitty pieces, and I would argue bleach bit and breaking up devices would constitute obstruction of justice. | |
| So here's my question to you. | |
| Why do you support what would be obviously law breaking? | |
| Why why did Hillary think that the law didn't apply to her as it relates to taking care of this material? | |
| Why did she delete subpoenaed emails? | |
| Why did she then acid wash the hard drives? | |
| And why did she then order subordinates to break up the devices with hammers? | |
| How do you excuse that away? | |
| Since I'm not taking notes, it's hard for me to answer every one of your questions, but let me at least start with the issue of criminal behavior. | |
| And a and a fact that is not in dispute, and I don't think uh you will uh you may believe that uh it's it's wrong, but I can prove it to you. | |
| Not one of the thirty-three thousand emails that were reviewed by the FBI, and I'll deal with your second question regarding the ones that were deleted in a second. | |
| The thirty-three thousand emails that James Comey reviewed, not one was stamped classified. | |
| Well, I don't think it's ever been I don't think it's ever now we're gonna get into was it classified at the time? | |
| Was it later classified? | |
| No, no, no. | |
| I said stamped, labeled, not one. | |
| And the so that's a fact. | |
| And Comey actually said in his final press conference announcing male prosecution that they had found a quote, small number that were stamped classified, or that bore the presence of classified markings was strange explained. | |
| But it's never been established that we found all thirty-three thousand emails, so you're making an assumption that you don't know. | |
| Well, time out the other emails that you're referring to, uh, but let's just stick with this for a second, Sean. | |
| The thirty-three thousand reviewed by the FBI, not one was labeled in any fashion classified. | |
| But we never found all the emails is my understanding. | |
| All right. | |
| What the ones that were deleted and what you describe as acid washed were ones that were personal and not related to the How would we possibly know that? | |
| You wouldn't, and you have to trust that there's no trust the Clintons. | |
| Remember, ninety percent of little factoids that's not in dispute. | |
| Ninety percent of the thirty-few thousand emails that were reviewed by the FBI came from other senior diplomats, three hundred people sent her these emails that you say have been found to have continued. | |
| James Comey's original draft according to certain individuals. | |
| James Comey's original draft suggested that foreign intelligence agencies got a hold of that unsecure email server and were able to take the information off it, which did include classified top secret and special access programming information. | |
| So another fact, I don't know uh that allegation, I don't know, but the fact that we know announced by the FBI was that after one year of forensic intense investigation of the Clinton server, there was no evidence, no evidence that any hack had occurred, whereas under Colin Powell and his use of the AOL server, his during the run-up to the Iraq war around the State Department system, Colin Powell, that AOL server. | |
| Well, that's not true because we have James Comey's but you're saying something that's not true. | |
| Ja well, number one, we had we had independent corroboration in reporting that five foreign intelligence services got a hold of the information on that server in the mom and pop shop bathroom. | |
| And James Comey's original exoneration letter, the original, had in there not only gross negligence, which is the legal standard, but it also had in there that foreign entities had hacked into it. | |
| Let's talk about gross negligence for a second, but at least I I want to just have you check the record that there was no evidence after a year of a forensic investigation of any successful hack of the Clinton email server. | |
| There was evidence of attempted hacking, but the FBI investigators, forensic, not political, not pro-liber uh uh liberal democratic investigators who are forensic, did not find any evidence of a successful hack in contrast to the State Department, which everybody said she should have used the State Department server, which we know with certainty was hacked by the Russians and by the Chinese. | |
| Now you want to talk about the criminal standard that includes gross negligence, I be happy to Well, I think you missing the broader point here. | |
| Um I'm sure you in the course of your average day that you and you send people out that work for you to break up your uh your blackberries and devices, all of which are under subpoena. | |
| Remember that all the emails that we are talking about were subpoenaed emails. | |
| I think if I or anybody else did or acted in such a way, we would be charged with obstruction of justice. | |
| I think the bigger issue as you look into this, look, um, we now have an FBI, the upper echelon of the FBI and the DOJ under fire. | |
| And a lot of this is related to Hillary Clinton. | |
| And when you have people like Peter Strzok, and we have these new text messages out today, a guy that found Donald Trump loathsome, and uh and F. Trump and everything else in between, and he has an insurance policy with Andrew McCabe. | |
| When Peter Strzok is in fact the guy that likes Hillary is interviewing Hillary, but that's only over the Fourth of July weekend. | |
| But for months prior, James Comey and Peter Strzok are writing Hillary's exoneration letter. | |
| This is before we interview the main people in an investigation. | |
| Now, I'm sure you've been involved in many I'm sure you've been involved in many cases in your life. | |
| Give me one example where an exoneration letter is being drafted months before the actual investigation, because I spoke with an FBI friend of mine over the weekend, and he said you never know which way a case is gonna turn. | |
| Even the last wit witness that you're interviewing could change the whole dynamic of the whole investigation. | |
| So obviously the fix was in, and obviously it was rigged, kind of like the way Hillary rigged the primary against Bernie Sanders. | |
| Well, first of all, the notion that the FBI rigged things in favor of Hillary Clinton when the Comey letter cost you the uh election, the New York City FBI office was described as Trump land. | |
| Rudy Giuliani went on the air and predicted something was coming three days on October 25th. | |
| You're not answering my question. | |
| When did have you ever heard of the FBI? | |
| Lanny, have you ever heard of the FBI writing exoneration letters before they ever investigate or interview the main participants months in advance? | |
| Have you ever heard of that before? | |
| Let me that's a yes or no question. | |
| Have you ever heard of that? | |
| I I I the answer is no, you never had, and it was it because it was rigged. | |
| You know, when you interview me, uh I I do I want to get you in trouble with your audience. | |
| I do really appreciate the respect that you treat me. | |
| But sometimes when you ask me a question and answer your own question, you don't need me around. | |
| Well, I'm asking you, did did you ever hear of a case where where an exoneration is written before an investigation? | |
| So the answer is yes, but only in the very limited sense that I've been involved in criminal cases in which prosecutors conclusions. | |
| All right, I'll tell you what, I'll give you time to think about it. | |
| We'll have more with Lanny Davis, uh big friend of the Clintons, his new book, The Unmaking of Uh The President 2016, how FBI Director James Comey cost Hillary Clinton the presidency. | |
| Uh we'll get to your calls. | |
| We have a lot more ground to cover in our final hour, especially with this new information we got from Sarah Carter. | |
| All right, as we continue, we're joined by Clinton friend and associate, Lanny Davis, former special counsel to Bill Clinton. | |
| The unmaking of the president 2016 is is his new book. | |
| It's in bookstores everywhere. | |
| All right, so as I look at everything that we've been talking about, so this is what we have now learned. | |
| We learned that Hillary Clinton spent through her campaign funneled through a law firm hiring Fusion GPS, and according to Donna Brazil, she was in control of the DNC funding. | |
| But they spent around twelve million dollars for what turns out to be Russian government propaganda, salacious lies that was being used and spread into the news media to impact a general election that she's involved in against Donald Trump. | |
| Now, what's even worse than that is this unverified dossier that was put together by Christopher Steele, paid for by Hillary, that this dossier was then used to get a FISA warrant against a member of the Trump campaign in the lead up to an election, and then later to spy on an incoming president and administration. | |
| Are you Lanny Davis going to support the fact that that that was allowed to happen? | |
| I'm sure you believe in our constitution and I'm sure you believe in Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. | |
| Does that sound right to you in any way? | |
| Well, I am a person that you know only does facts. | |
| And I think that's a good thing. | |
| Mr. H. You gotta let me at least answer half a sentence of your question. | |
| All right, so but I mean yeah, I'm asking you yes or no. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| I I said my answer is I I don't know all the facts other than Mr. Steele's reputation as an MI6 agent, highly respected in the intelligence community in the United States throughout Europe, and and with a lot of credibility within the UK and a story written yesterday is how offended the UK intelligence community that is South America in 9-11 post-911 cooperation is so offended by the attacks on Mr. Steele. | |
| But I don't know the facts. | |
| You have a Justice Department right now under the control of the Republican administration or Barack Obama was correct. | |
| If they have to do their jobs, and Jeff Sessions is the attorney general. | |
| Why is he not following all your leads, Sean? | |
| I don't see anyone at Justice Department investigating all these high level of accusations, including the Well, we see that the different congressional committees are, but remember he recused himself, which I think was a very well bad decision on his part. | |
| He recused himself on the allegations of the Russian meddling, not on Mr. Steel being. | |
| But they're all the real they're all interrelated. | |
| He can invent Mr. Steel. | |
| Well, I think we're gonna see a second special counsel. | |
| That's what uh I think we're ultimately where we're headed. | |
| All right, Lanny Davis's brand new book, The Making of the President 2016. | |
| Lanny, best of luck on your book tour and uh tell all our friends, tell the Clintons when you see them, I said hello. | |
| I will. | |
| Thank you for the time, Sean. | |
| All right, you're very welcome. | |
| 800 nine four one Sean Tollfree telephone number. | |
| Urging my former colleagues and and frankly speaking, the people on the Hill. | |
| I it was more actually aimed aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration. | |
| This is not uh anything uh political has has been alleged. | |
| The allegation is that somehow uh Obama administration officials uh utilized intelligence for political purposes. | |
| That's absolutely false. | |
| If the FBI, for instance, d had a FISA court order of some sort for a surveillance, would that be information you would know or not know? | |
| Yes. | |
| You would be told this I would know that if there was a FISA court order on something like this. | |
| Um something like this, absolutely. | |
| And at this point, you can't confirm or deny whether that exists. | |
| I can deny it. | |
| There is no FISA court order. | |
| Not to my knowledge. | |
| Of anything at Trump Tower. | |
| No. | |
| You say there was a wiretap. | |
| That there was a wiretap of Russian agents, and that those Russian agents were communicating with Trump staff. | |
| That's why they were picked up. | |
| That's what the intelligence community. | |
| That's what the intelligence community has told us. | |
| Uh that's what's been reported very widely. | |
| Those are the facts. | |
| Uh, there is still no evidence that the president was wiretapped by his predecessor. | |
| Mr. Clapper and Miss Yates, uh, did either of you ever request the on masking of Mr. Trump, his associates, or any member of Congress? | |
| Um in uh one case I did. | |
| At no time did I ever submit a request for personal or political purposes or to voyeuristically look at raw intelligence, nor am I aware of any instance of such abuse by anyone else. | |
| I was speaking to him and briefing him about some salacious and unverified material. | |
| What did the president know? | |
| And when did he know it? | |
| Every one of those beeps you heard was a lie as it relates to Democrats denying statements on a Pfizer warrant used against an opposition party candidate, bought and paid for Russian propaganda from the Russian government we now know, uh, to spy on an opposition candidate. | |
| And this unredacted memo from the Senate committee is just mind-numbing to me. | |
| I mean, it literally says it appears Mr. Steele gathered much of his information from Russian government sources inside of Russia, and then they funneled it through the law firm, and then the Pfizer court was never told in any way, shape, matter, or form that in fact this whole thing was paid for by an opposition party candidate against another candidate. | |
| In other words, Hillary Clinton's campaign was paying for all of these lies. | |
| And fusion GPS and Michael Steele were disseminating it to their friends in the media in the case of Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson saying he was even coordinating with the Clinton campaign. | |
| And when you get to the nuts and and bolts of all of this, everything that we suspected, and then a lot more is now being proven true. | |
| That in fact that the bulk of the reason for the Pfizer warrant that was the original Pfizer warrant and the three renewal Pfizer warrants was the bulk of information was based on the dossier and the unwillingness of the people involved to tell the truth of the Pfizer court judge. | |
| And you're asking yourself, how could this happen in this day and age? | |
| It happened. | |
| It happened on a on a level and a magnitude that is beyond any comprehension by anybody that believes in the Fourth Amendment and believes in the rule of law. | |
| So you have a Hillary Clinton paid for warrant at the end of the day if you want to break it down and make it a little more simple. | |
| And then we've got new struck and page texts that are out today. | |
| Obama wanted to know everything. | |
| But he told us he doesn't talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. | |
| He now has questions to answer. | |
| Hillary has questions to answer. | |
| Everybody involved in this has questions to answer. | |
| You know, one person who has uh been a part of the NSA for 34 years, a whistleblower, Bill Binney is with us. | |
| He's the former technical director of the NSA World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group, and Robert David Steele, former military intelligence officer, former Central Intelligence Agency officer and founder, co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Center. | |
| These guys combined have decades of experience as it relates to the powerful tools and weaponry of intelligence. | |
| Bill Benny, as you hear this and watch this story unfold before your eyes, it's almost hard to believe we've spent a year, you know, chasing a rabbit around a track when nothing ever happened with Trump Russia collusion, but we do have collusion here, and that is Hillary Clinton hiring fusion GPS, | |
| hiring Christopher Steele and Christopher Steele going out and literally using Russian government sources inside of Russia to create a phony dossier against Donald Trump full of lies that is then disseminated to the media and used before a Pfizer court without telling the judge where it all originated from. | |
| I never thought it could happen here, but it happened. | |
| I mean, that's right. | |
| I mean, uh they basically sub they submitted for in a sworn affidavit to the Pfizer court to get a warrant, they submitted a fabrication and they knew it. | |
| So basically it's perjury. | |
| That's perjury. | |
| And uh that that's not they they that's not the only time they did it. | |
| They did it to us as whistleblowers. | |
| I mean, we tried to get a lawyer to represent us on a constitutional lawsuit against them, you know, because they uh they fabricated evidence against us, this was even worse than that. | |
| And and they just made it up. | |
| And well, is this what this guy on CNN is suggesting? | |
| That you know, the don't worry, the it we've been at this a lot longer than Donald Trump. | |
| We're gonna win, or Chuck Schumer saying, You mess with the Intel committee, they got six ways in Sunday to get you back. | |
| Is that is that how our intelligence system works or the upper echelon works if they don't like somebody politically to go out and use those tools to weaponize them and go after Americans? | |
| Including fabricating evidence and lying to courts, third uh Article 3 courts as well as the Pfizer court. | |
| It doesn't seem to matter to them. | |
| I mean, that's just so corrupt. | |
| What's your take on all of this, Robert David Steele? | |
| Well, first off, I think Chuck Schumer is absolutely right when he says they'll get you six ways from Sunday, and Chuck Schumer knows that because I think he's being blackmailed. | |
| Um second, the Steele dossier is actually made the whole Mueller investigation fruit of the poison tree. | |
| I've been following your coverage very, very carefully, and it's brilliant. | |
| The one thing you haven't done is interviewed a couple of lawyers on fruit of the poison tree. | |
| Mueller should close down his own investigation as untenable. | |
| Well, I I would argue without all of this having happened, there wouldn't be a Robert Mueller. | |
| There wouldn't have been an investigation. | |
| You know, but you know, James Comey, let's look at one aspect of the timeline. | |
| James Comey in January goes to then president-elect, and he's at Trump Tower and he hands the president a piece of paper and he says, Well, I need to tell you about this. | |
| It's not verified, but it's salacious, and and that's you know, part of the the Christopher Steele dossier that talks about Hookers and the and the writs in Moscow urinating on a bed, and Donald Trump laughs at it. | |
| Um, and he says, Okay, it didn't happen, it's not a big deal, but just a few months earlier he was vouching for that very same information uh as it as it was going before a Pfizer court to get a Pfizer warrant to spy on members of the Trump campaign. | |
| If I may, this is beyond politicization. | |
| This is a witch hunt combined with perjury, combined with lies. | |
| And I saw some of your excellent coverage, I think it was yesterday, that pointed out that the Clintons not only paid for the steel dossier, they actually fed stuff into it. | |
| Now I have friends in Russia, including very senior people. | |
| And basically, this is not about the Russians feeding information against Trump. | |
| This is about the Clintons paying an MI guy who's no relation, by the way, um, paying an MI6 guy to make this all up. | |
| It's lies. | |
| And you're absolutely right. | |
| The Mueller investigation would not exist without this pattern of lies. | |
| So Judge Felix Frankfurter is the first one to ever use the phrase fruit of the poison tree. | |
| I think the Mueller investigation is dead, and if Mueller has any integrity, he would close it down himself. | |
| Well, I agree, but I don't see that happening. | |
| Um there seems to be a a team that is politically oriented in one direction. | |
| I mean, any team that hires Andrew Weissman, who ended up losing tens of thousands of jobs when he was investigating the Enron scandal, Arthur uh Anderson accounting, rather, they lost tens of thousands of jobs as a result of the great work of Weinstein, who ended up getting overturned by the Supreme Court 9-0. | |
| In another case, four Merrill executives went to jail for a year, and that was overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. | |
| If you're hiring only Obama, DNC, and Hillary Clinton donors, it seems like you're trying to stack the deck against Donald Trump in that investigation. | |
| Bill Binney. | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| And by hiring Bueller, I mean they stacked it uh they pick somebody who will lie to any court to uh get whatever end they desire. | |
| I mean, he's been doing that with the Stellar Wing program, all the all the spying on U.S. citizens, he's been using it against other standards citizens inside the United States committing uh minor crimes. | |
| They've been using that since 2001, and he's admitted that. | |
| And uh so I mean he's so and he's also said to a friend of mine um uh that that he was quite comfortable with the parallel construction, which means when you use NSA data to uh uh to arrest somebody, and uh you can't take that data into court of law because it's not admissible, it was acquired without a warrant, so you do a parallel construction that is uh assemble the similar amount of information that proves the same thing and substitute that and never tell the court, lawyers or the defendant or anybody. | |
| So what that means is they're committing perjury and have been for quite a number of about 16 years. | |
| So if we followed the rule of law. | |
| If we followed the rule of law, people would go to jail, wouldn't they? | |
| Yeah, they certainly would. | |
| What about the revelation we have today? | |
| We have new text messages between Peter Strzok, who's up to his eyeballs in just about every single aspect of every single scandal. | |
| He interviewed, not only was he writing the exoneration with James Comey before the investigation, not only do we know his absolute hatred for President Trump, who he calls lonesome and F. Trump and and so on and so forth. | |
| Um, but then he was the guy at the last minute, the Fourth of July weekend. | |
| And remember, July 5th is when Comey came out and exonerated Hillary Clinton in the lead up to the 2016 election, but they started writing an exoneration of Hillary back in May. | |
| Um does that sound like any official investigation that either one of you or uh have been a part of or have ever seen in your professional careers that now span the course of decades. | |
| I've never heard of an exoneration before in investigation. | |
| Dave Robert David. | |
| No, let's just start up here. | |
| It's rigged. | |
| Sean, I agree. | |
| It's look, I've seen this before. | |
| I mean, this is a a preconceived conclusion, and it's it's as Donald Trump calls it, pay to play. | |
| What people need to understand is that we have judges and senior officials of the FBI and the Department of Justice that are bought and paid for by the deep state, and it just happened that the deep state was running things through the Obamas. | |
| Now they're trying to run things through and around Donald Trump. | |
| He's got to fight back. | |
| How does he fight back? | |
| Oh bottom line is we need a post-Google internet that allows the president to reach 200 million voters directly that cannot be censored, crowd stock. | |
| The Clintons with David Brock at his trolls are crowdstocking every pro-Trumper, and they are also digitally assassinating people. | |
| So we need to replace Google, Twitter, Facebook, and um YouTube with something that cannot be censored. | |
| Let me take a quick break. | |
| Good time for a break here. | |
| Bill Binney is with us. | |
| Uh and Robert David Steele will take a break 800-941 Sean if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| We'll get to a lot of your calls coming up in the next half hour. | |
| As we continue, Bill Benny is with us. | |
| He's the former technical director of the NSA World Geopolitical and Military Analysis and Reporting Group. | |
| Robert David Steele is a former military intelligence officer, former CIA agency officer and co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Center. | |
| Bill worked for the NSA for some, what, nearly 34 years, and we're now talking about how it's impossible that we can have Russian propaganda bought and paid for, then disseminated among the media that's supportive of Hillary Clinton, and even worse, used to get a FISA warrant against the opposition party candidate in an election year and an incoming president. | |
| Did you Bill? | |
| You have talked about corruption and the weaponization of the powerful tools of intelligence. | |
| Yes, under Richard Nixon. | |
| That's why they had the Church Committee investigating NSA, CIA, and FBI for the same exact things, except on a much smaller scale. | |
| So on a scale, if we were to look at Watergate as a huge abuse of power, um, how would you describe this? | |
| Well, it's orders of magnitude worse. | |
| It's you know a hundred times worse. | |
| I mean, uh in in uh Watergate, they could only spy on a few people. | |
| It was like a few thousand. | |
| Now we're looking at uh two hundred and eighty million of us at least. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| Well, what about specifically? | |
| Now they're trying to steal a presidential election. | |
| I mean, you almost have uh if you take it down to its brass tax, you have a Hillary Clinton bought and paid for warrant, Robert David Steele against Donald Trump. | |
| I Sean, I completely agree. | |
| And part of the problem here is not that illegal things are happening, but the Donald Trump is not able to reach the public. | |
| You and I know what's going on, but the public does not. | |
| That's why we need a truth channel. | |
| That's why we need to get not just Fox but a Trump channel out to everybody. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, Bill, I mean, uh look, there are alternative sources of information out there. | |
| We're one of them. | |
| And we try to get the information out to people every day, but you know what? | |
| It's taken a year since we first identified that the FISA warrant that in fact Trump Tower was being spied on. | |
| And I remember at the time the president put out a tweet says wiretapped, I was wiretapped. | |
| You know, the media mocked and ridiculed and made fun of him, and turned out he was right, we were right. | |
| Yeah, that's that's right. | |
| I mean, uh I think the word wiretap was uh not the right word. | |
| I mean, he was targeted in the book acquisition of everything by NSA, and the FBI did that. | |
| Yeah. | |
| All right, I want to thank you both for being with us. | |
| We'll continue to follow all of this. | |
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| I'm pretty troubled by what I read and the documents with respect to the role the State Department played in the fall of 2016 with including information that was used in a court proceeding. | |
| I am troubled by it. | |
| So weeks before the election, somebody in the Obama State Department was feeding information from a foreign source to Christopher Steele. | |
| When you hear who the source or one of the sources of that information is, you're gonna think, oh my gosh, I've heard that name somewhere before. | |
| Where could it possibly have been? | |
| And uh foreign source? | |
| The domestic source. | |
| And I'm trying to think how Secretary Clinton defined him. | |
| I think she said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time. | |
| Sydney Limithal. | |
| That'd be really warm. | |
| You're warm. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I was urging my former colleagues and and frankly speaking, the people on the Hill. | |
| I it was more actually aimed aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration. | |
| This is not uh anything uh political has has been alleged. | |
| The allegation is that somehow uh Obama administration officials uh utilized intelligence for political purposes. | |
| That's absolutely false. | |
| Okay, if the FBI, for instance, d had a FISA court order of some sort for a surveillance, would that be information you would know or not know? | |
| Yes. | |
| You would be told this. | |
| I would know that if there was a FISA court order on something like this. | |
| Um something like this, absolutely. | |
| And at this point, you can't confirm or deny whether that exists. | |
| I can deny it. | |
| There is no FISA court order. | |
| Not to my knowledge. | |
| Of anything at Trump Tower. | |
| No. | |
| You say there was a wiretap. | |
| That there was a wiretap of Russian agents, and that those Russian agents were communicating with Trump staff. | |
| That's why they were picked up. | |
| That's what the intelligence community. | |
| That's what the intelligence community has told us. | |
| Uh that's what's been reported very widely. | |
| Those are the facts. | |
| Uh, there is still no evidence that the president was wiretapped by his predecessor. | |
| Mr. Clapper and Miss Yates, uh, did either of you ever request the on masking of Mr. Trump, his associates, or any member of Congress. | |
| Um in uh one case I did. | |
| At no time did I ever submit a request for personal or political purposes or to voyeuristically look at raw intelligence, nor am I aware of any instance of such abuse by anyone else. | |
| I was speaking to him and briefing him about some salacious and unverified material. | |
| What did the president know? | |
| And when did he know it? | |
| What did the president, meaning Obama know, and when did he know it, as we now have new uh well, text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page suggesting Obama had input into this Hillary exoneration letter. | |
| And then he's saying, on the other hand, well, I don't want to talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. | |
| Okay, he wanted to know everything, and struck in page and comey are preparing a summary for him in September before the election. | |
| Pretty unbelievable. | |
| And Trey Gowdy, I mean, it it just when you think it can't get any worse. | |
| You know, this new Senate memo with the at least a lot of the redactions taken out and getting more context and texture. | |
| We got this last night just as we were going on TV, and it goes into so much greater detail. | |
| Now we understand people like Sid Vicious Blumenthal, you have Hillary's, you know, top surrogates and attack dogs feeding information to Christopher Steele, who hates Donald Trump, so he can put together the dossier with the rest of the information that he's getting from Russia. | |
| Again, much of the information from Russian government sources inside of Russia, and then they can use that number one, a lie to manipulate, propagandize the American people with certain things about Donald Trump that are not true, which is bad enough, and then it's used as a Pfizer warrant to spy on an opposition party candidate in the lead up to an election, and then a president elect, and they're caught red-handed, and still the media is asleep. | |
| They're still looking for Trump Russia collusion. | |
| You can't make any of this stuff up. | |
| All right, so many of you have been wanting to discuss this. | |
| Let's start with Kate, is in Houston, Texas, KTRH. | |
| Kate, hi, how are you? | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Welcome to the Sean Hannity show. | |
| Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call. | |
| You're very welcome. | |
| I love you guys. | |
| So, hey, first couple of things. | |
| First of all, like my best friend Linda says, I'm gonna just say You have to say it right first of all. | |
| First of all. | |
| No, you did a good job, Kate. | |
| Don't let them stop you. | |
| I know. | |
| I've been in Texas too long. | |
| I really try, but it just doesn't come out. | |
| First of all, all right, there that's better, right? | |
| So I always want to say, congratulations, because you, you have been so ahead of this game. | |
| Like for a year and a half, you have nailed every one of these points before they've come out. | |
| You and your awesome team of investigators, your awesome team that's right back there behind that window, and I can go through every one, but you know which one of them. | |
| They have been ahead of the ball. | |
| You have been educating us and keeping us informed in a way that no one else has. | |
| And I have to say that. | |
| I have to give credit to everybody else that's involved in this. | |
| Number one, and they never get the credit they deserve, Miss First of Bull herself, Linda, and our entire team here on the radio show. | |
| Um I can't tell you the number of hours we work, you know, to get these things right, because if we ever get anything wrong, it will it will be used as a sledgehammer, you know, right across my forehead. | |
| Right. | |
| And what Sarah Carter has done and what Greg Jarrett has done and John Solomon has done and Tom Fitton has done and Victoria Tunsing has done, uh Sidney Powell has done, they're uh Jay Sekulo has done. | |
| It's you know, we've all been digging to get to the truth, and which is what I think journalism used to be about. | |
| You know, I love media say, well, Hannity doesn't say he's a traditional journalist. | |
| I don't say I'm I'm not, but part of my job as a talk show host is journalism is mainstream the job they won't do. | |
| And unfortunately, we live in a time and a place where you know these lazy, overpaid fat cat so-called journalists, they all they do is echo each other in their little echo chamber, and they don't have any creativity, no individual thoughts. | |
| They go with the it's a pack mentality out there. | |
| They all hate Donald Trump, and this was out there, they could have done a little digging themselves, but they don't even care to even recognize truth anymore. | |
| It's sad, actually. | |
| Well, it's outrageous. | |
| And you know, okay, so now I got a question for you and all your team in there. | |
| I've been married about 18 and a half years, and I can tell you just like this is the second of all. | |
| I have never texted as much my husband in like 20 years or like 18 after years texts weren't around. | |
| But I I haven't even done that. | |
| And that amount of time of having my phone ever texted my husband as much as these two weirdos. | |
| Uh have you? | |
| People that are in my orbit complain quite often that number one, they have to decipher my text messages, and number two, that they're not as forthcoming and timely as they would like. | |
| Um because I'm I'm busy working, I don't have time to be texting all day. | |
| Right. | |
| Well, I will say their texts are outrageous. | |
| The thing that I am truly outraged, I'm just gonna keep encouraging, please pound this drum. | |
| I have never been more outraged as an American modern times that this is happening. | |
| We have absolute I mean, that is evidence to me. | |
| You know what it you know what it all comes down to? | |
| I'm gonna tell you what it comes down to. | |
| The the few people in power, and this is why I'm always make the distinction. | |
| This is not rank and file intelligence officers or rank and file FBI agents and special agents, and it it's not rank and file DOJ people. | |
| The reason it's the upper echelon is because they think they knew better. | |
| They think they had to do it because they're smarter than we are, and that we're just, you know, for whatever reason we were gonna go for Donald Trump, and they felt so superior that they were gonna not let that happen. | |
| And they allowed Hillary to violate laws to stay in the race, and they put the fix in, and that was rigged, and they allowed all of this misinformation bought and paid for by Russia, and they never told the FISA court the truth because if they told the judge the truth, they never would have gotten the warrant. | |
| And the warrant was more important. | |
| Getting Trump was more important, preventing him from getting elected, and then undermining him after the election was more important than doing the right thing. | |
| That's what this all comes down to. | |
| The nuts and bolts of it is this. | |
| They hate Donald Trump, and they were doing everything within their deep state power to get Hillary Clinton to stay in the race and keep her in the race and to defeat Trump. | |
| And then once he won, they couldn't believe it, so they felt they had to undermine him. | |
| And the hope was that they were gonna get him out of office. | |
| That's what it was. | |
| That's that's it's that simple. | |
| It's sad. | |
| It's sad they've gotten as far as they've gotten. | |
| The the compliant media then ran with every one of their lies for an entire year. | |
| And this is our country that they are fundamentally by breaking the law, they're shredding our constitution in the process. | |
| And this is why the more people become aware of how corrupt this whole process has been and how bad it and how deep it runs, I think the better off we're going to be. | |
| But, you know, I have to watch out and everybody else has to watch out because six ways in Sunday, they're going to probably try and ruin our lives. | |
| And if that's the country that we live in, then we don't have a country. | |
| I, you know, one of the reasons, I will tell you this, this is something that I can say. | |
| One of the reasons we are where we are today is because within the ranks of the FBI and within the ranks of the Intel community, those that know truth have also been willing to work with us to find the truth. | |
| So, you know, it's sort of like the the you see the worst in mankind on 9-11. | |
| And then you see on the other side of it, you see the best of humanity, you know, holding hands and digging out and finding people that might be survivors and feeding the the first responders and all hands on deck. | |
| In the worst moments, you often see the best in people. | |
| We there are people that you'll never know that knew the truth and were willing to work with people that I know to get the truth out. | |
| And they are they'll they'll never be known for the heroes they are here. | |
| So, and you know, many times I have been obscure on this program saying there's a lot more that I know that I can't tell you. | |
| Well, that's that's been many times because we we had to button it up and get it right and and get our facts and in place and our ducks in a row. | |
| Um, and some of these people have stepped up, and you know, one text, one message can reveal a whole lot, as we see with Struck and Page. | |
| Kate, thank you. | |
| Your your words mean a lot to me, more than you know. | |
| Uh, let's say hi to Susanna, is in Pittsburgh, PA. | |
| Hey, Susanna, how are you? | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Hi, so thanks for taking my call. | |
| And I echo what she said. | |
| Thanks for giving us a voice. | |
| And we're giving our voice back to you. | |
| We, the American people want transparency, accountability, and every for all of those who are involved in this FISA game. | |
| And the only thing that's transparent right now, Sean, about the Democrats, the mainstream media, the corrupt Obama style agency officials is their playbook, which is they don't like the facts, they plan the attacks. | |
| And so they collude together with some pejorative narrative that will destroy the person. | |
| We elected this person. | |
| They're they're doing a pejorative narrative against our president calling him. | |
| First of all, they try to say he was in with the Russians. | |
| That's being uh uh disapproved, and then they're saying that he's a bully. | |
| He's attacking good people, making themselves out the victims, and they're not victims. | |
| Pardon me, the American people for being suspicious of these Obama leftovers and their key departments, but we remember IRS, Love Florida. | |
| Yeah, you're right. | |
| What did she think about? | |
| Listen, let me let me tell you what I know is happening right now. | |
| Because if you read it, I want you to know where it's coming from. | |
| There are attack pieces right now being written about yours truly, about Sarah Carter, about Greg Jarrett, about John Solomon, about basically all the people that have brought this story to the forefront of the consciousness of the American people. | |
| In other words, people that, in my opinion, that have worked so hard that deserve pull it's surprises because this story is beyond anything you'll probably ever see in your lifetime again. | |
| Now the media that went with the phony Russia Trump narrative and got it all wrong, now they're angry. | |
| And so rather than admit, hey, these guys did some really good work here and they got to the truth, and we believe in getting to the truth, just the opposite is happening. | |
| Now they've they're they're now turning their guns on anybody that has exposed this corruption because you gotta understand, you know, the Democratic Party and the news media basically are one. | |
| They are they're just an extension of each other that support the same liberal narrative, the same vision of Obama. | |
| That didn't matter how radical Obama was going to be and was in his past, they were never gonna vet it. | |
| It didn't matter how many how many economic statistics, you know, I could throw out after eight years of failure, they were never gonna tell anybody. | |
| It didn't matter that Hillary was the real colluder with Russia. | |
| They they don't want to tell that narrative and that story because they were pushing another story. | |
| I mean, there's a great irony in all of this as we get to the truth and closer to the truth. | |
| So, you know, when you read stuff, I don't care what you read about me. | |
| I'm I'm way past that. | |
| But for some others, it's gonna be painful for them because they're not used to being lied about the way I am. | |
| I just have a thicker skin in all of this. | |
| And um, but these but a lot of people did it for their country with purely altruistic motives, and finding the truth was their only goal, and they worked many late hours and dug very, very deep to get there. | |
| And so uh, and and here's the work hasn't ended. | |
| This is just the beginning. | |
| You know, just today we had the uranium one case. | |
| You have the informant now testifying before Grassley's committee. | |
| We have the whole Uranium One scandal sitting there, we haven't had time to touch it. | |
| And that's all gonna come out to light as well. | |
| Uh anyway, I hope that answers your question. | |
| This is this is one of these all hands on deck moments in my in our lives, in my opinion. | |
| All right, that's gonna wrap everything up for today. | |
| All right, so the informant in the uranium one case goes before the Senate committee today. | |
| We'll have all the latest on that, which may even be a bigger scandal than the whole scandal involving the Pfizer abuses. | |
| Uh, then we'll have the latest on the unredacted Senate report that we're gonna get into, and we have new struck and page memos. | |
| Now we're loaded up tonight. | |
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