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	So much breaking news.
	It's hard to keep track of it all.
	I said that last night.
	Oh, that became a con.
	It's so complicated but yet so easy.
	As if that is a it's sort of like a paradox.
	There's a lot of information, but the information makes a lot of sense when you begin to piece it all together.
	You know what the amazing thing is, this is only a small, small sampling of what's coming.
	This is nothing.
	There's so much more to come.
	You know, look, let's start out today with this.
	Democrats like to argue Robert Mueller, Russia Gate, the investigation is making serious progress by pointing out that he's already indicted four people.
	Well, Michael Flynn pled out.
	Uh, there was an I guess it was Roger Stone said today, and I don't blame him.
	General Flynn plans to file a motion for the court to dismiss all charges.
	If I'm Michael Flynn's attorney, I would do that yesterday.
	But anyway, so you have Democrats arguing, well, look at what's happened.
	We've got four indicted people.
	We got Michael Flynn, we got Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and George Papadopoulos, who nobody knew.
	But since the Manafort and Gates indictments, you don't have any uh but they don't have anything to do with Russia.
	Nothing to do with collusion.
	And the number of Mueller's relevant indictments really stands at two people that are charged so far.
	And for minor things here, we're not talking about anything that is oh my god, this is you know, the smoking gun about Trump Russia collusion.
	The media has had egg on its face for a year because there's no evidence of any collusion.
	And they're they're now just fishing for anything that they can get on anybody to try and salvage the phony narrative that they've been pushing to the American people now for the last year.
	But with that said, if you take a look at what has happened to the anti-Trump Muller Comey team, let's see, Andrew McCabe was fired after the Inspector General implicated him in the Hillary email cover-up.
	I can't wait for this Inspector General's report to come out.
	You know, Nunes was on last night on TV.
	He's talking about a number of other memos that this is really what we've learned in this memo, how the Pfizer court was pretty much lied to and purposely misled uh to create this Pfizer warrant against an incoming president by an opposition party.
	Anyway, so you've got Andrew McCabe.
	He was fired.
	The inspector general implicated him in the Hillary email cover-up.
	Got Peter Strzok.
	He was thrown overboard by Mueller after his anti-Trump loathsome F him texts were discovered with his mistress girlfriend, Lisa Page, who was also tossed overboard by Mueller based on these anti-Trump text career also now in shambles.
	Both of them should be fired sooner than later.
	Bruce Orr's been demoted.
	He should be fired also.
	You know, from two top FBI phot uh posts after being tied to Fusion GPS.
	His ultimate destination probably is going to end in a firing.
	You got Christopher Ray's chief of staff, James Rabicki.
	He left the Bureau after being tied to Hillary Clinton's letter, the Hillary letter.
	And you got top FBI lawyer James Baker was reassigned after secretly communicating with the media about the Trump dossier.
	So if you're looking for a scoreboard here, you know, in perfect Super Bowl style, you've got Robert Muller, two Russia Gate indictments, and they're minor and frankly, I don't even think they are worthy of mentioning, to be honest.
	But as of now, we've got six top Justice Department FBI officials either fired, reassigned, demoted, or retired.
	And it's only the beginning of all of this.
	You know, there was a story out in the Hill today that the Inspector General report on Hillary Clinton's email server scandal is expected to sh set off shockwaves.
	Now you've got this guy, Horowitz now has been doing this.
	His name is Michael Horowitz, and the Hill reports today that he's going to be releasing this report very soon as it relates to the FBI's Hillary email cover-up, which is now being investigated by the Justice Department Inspector General.
	His name is General Michael Horowitz.
	And according to the report in the Hill, that is expected to set off shockwaves.
	Now, Horowitz, the Department of Justice Inspector General, is an increasingly critical player in all of this, especially with the controversy surrounding the FBI and the DOJ and President Trump and the Russia investigation.
	Anyway, for over a year now, he has been conducting a sprawling probe of the FBI's handling of the 2016 investigation into Hillary's use of the private email server.
	His full report, if it's truthful, could literally be a game changer in all of this.
	Now Horowitz's year-long investigation already reportedly contributed to the early resignation of deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, and his work has been felt apparently in other ways.
	Horowitz also was the guy that uncovered the series of text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that led special counsel Robert Muller to remove Strzok from his team and Page from his team.
	Now, those texts have fueled accusations among GOP lawmakers that Mueller's probe was tainted in partisanship.
	Well, we already knew that because he only hired Clinton, Obama, and DNC donors, and he didn't find one Trump supporter.
	And he hired people like Andrew Weissman, a guy that once withheld exculpatory evidence in a particular case, and then a guy that that was responsible in the Enron Anderson accounting case, that he was the guy that was responsible for tens of thousands of people losing their job.
	And then that case got overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court nine-to-zero.
	He put four Merrill executives in jail.
	That was overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
	You know, so you got Robert Mueller picking a bunch of losers, you know, from the get-go because those are people that are aggressive, and those are people that he wanted on his team because it Seems like Mueller from the get-go has had a big agenda himself.
	But I digress here for a second.
	So those who know Horowitz say that he's an independent voice.
	We'll see over time.
	Quote, he's really one of the smartest, fairest people I've ever had the pleasure to work with, said Bill Hamill, who served as an assistant inspector general for investigations at the Department of Education.
	He's a straight shooter and a fair guy.
	He's an honest broker.
	But Horowitz's reputation will be put to the test when he releases the findings on the Clinton email investigation, because no matter what he concludes, it's likely to create a political fire storm coming at a time when both Republicans and the White House are charging all of this political bias being rampant at the DOJ and the FBI.
	And the inspector general is examining whether then FBI director James Comey broke FBI procedures in his public disclosures about the Clinton case, including the letter that he sent to Congress a few weeks before the election.
	And before Trump fired Comey.
	Democrats were outspoken in their criticism for those decisions, saying that he violated procedure and cost Clinton the election.
	Lanny Davis has a brand new book saying as much uh out there today, but Horowitz is looking into the allegations.
	But here's some facts we know.
	18 USC 793.
	The mishandling of classified information.
	This is part of the espionage act.
	That's a crime.
	Destruction of top secret special access program and uh classified information.
	That's a crime.
	Hillary did those things.
	And why she would get a pass is beyond any understanding I have if we have equal justice under the law.
	And then when 33,000 emails were subpoenaed, you know, good luck to all of you listening to this program right now.
	If you decide to delete them, and then you decide to super delete them and acid wash or hard drive with bleach pit.
	And then to make triple short, take a hammer to your devices because some of those emails may have been transferred there.
	Because that's exactly what Hillary did, all of which are crimes.
	And I think on top of the acid wash and the hammer, you know, game that she's playing in the deleting game, that sounds like obstruction of justice to me.
	So to me, a lot's gonna be writing on what this Inspector General says.
	If he has any fidelity to the truth and to the law, it should be a no-brainer that in fact Hillary got special treatment by James Comey and Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page and everybody else, because they wanted to make a decision that she could continue running in that race, and if they would have charged her, it would have up-ended an American election at that time.
	Now, Steele is still dodging Trump dossier lawsuits in London and Florida, Fox News reporting that Christopher Steele, the guy who paid was paid by Hillary Clinton to compile this phony salacious uh Trump dossier that we now know from the second memo that was released by the Grassley Committee yesterday that, you know, we now know that in fact a lot of this money came from sources.
	Oh, let's see, the Russian government.
	The exact line in the memo said Mr. Steele gathered much of his information from Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	He can't make this stuff up, considering I thought this was such a horrible thing, which led to this whole investigation about Trump and Russia.
	Anyway, Christopher Steele was a no-show yesterday for a long requested deposition in London in connection with a multimillion dollar libel case brought against Bud Buzzfeed.
	And the news comes as the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have announced a criminal referral on Steele.
	Now Evan Frey Witzer is a Boston-based attorney that's representing a Russian tech tycoon in this uh multi-million dollar civil litigation described Monday in UK court action to the Fox News.
	My understanding is Mr. Steele's lawyers spent a good deal of their time arguing, arguing why they thought that Steele should not be required to sit for a deposition, and that ultimately the court took the entire matter under advisement.
	And meanwhile, records obtained by and reviewed by Fox News from related civil litigation in Florida reveal Steele maintains that even showing up for a deposition would implicate state secrets in London.
	And Frey Witzer stressed in the hearing that the British government has not asserted Steele's claim, And the attorney has said Steele is asserting that he can't speak about other things.
	We have pointed out that he's spoken to anyone who's willing to listen, every journalist and the FBI.
	And Steele's business partner, a guy by the name of Chris Burroughs declined Fox News' request for an interview in an email stating, I regret that for a number of reasons Christopher Steele is not available to speak on or off the record about this subject.
	I bet he's not.
	One other piece of information, according to MBC News, the FBI director Christopher Ray has acknowledged for the first time that the corruption that was uncovered by the Justice Department, that the Inspector General Michael Horowitz, again, we're expecting the IG report to come out sometime in March, is so serious that this is what prompted Ray to confront his top deputy, Andrew McCabe, with some of the findings, which then caused McCabe to resign.
	This is NBC News saying that Ray made it clear in a message sent to all Bureau employees on Monday night that Andrew McCabe's decision to step aside was the result of the forthcoming information to be detailed in an inspector general report according to a copy of the message obtained by MBC News.
	And Ray alluded to having seen aspects of the IG's report into the way the FBI handled the investigation in the Hillary's email server.
	And several sources familiar with McCabe's move said he made the decision as a result of meeting with Ray in which the inspector general's investigation was discussed.
	So we have a lot more to come there.
	And uh I'm gonna explain something in the next half hour.
	I'm gonna explain that if let's flip the script.
	You know, we have everybody in the media is attacking Sean Hannity.
	Sean Hannity actually ended up being right.
	Sean Hannity's been correct.
	The ones that have been wrong for an entire year are the very people that don't like Sean Hannity or any of us that are doing our job and getting information to you.
	All right, 800, 941 Sean is a number.
	You want to be a part of the program.
	New Kingrich is going to join us today.
	Also, we'll check in with uh Senator Ram Paul and uh we'll also who else do we have today?
	We have a lot of people.
	Bill, oh, we're gonna talk about finances today because everyone's wigged out about the stock market, which by the way is up 350 points today right now.
	You see, John McCain's his immigration proposal is why don't we study, we'll give DACA, and then we'll study uh in 2020 how to secure the border.
	Yeah, okay, that's gonna really work.
	Um the Washington Free Beacon had an interesting point about Chuck Schumer, and who has proved once again that he'd rather spend the 2018 congressional campaign demonizing Trump.
	They don't want a deal on DACA.
	Let me just set the record straight.
	They don't want anything done that's gonna further improve the economy or the country.
	Um and the White House briefing, look, we may have another shutdown by Friday.
	I'm like, good, shut it down.
	I'm all in favor of shutdowns.
	What happened the last time?
	Nothing.
	Absolutely zip.
	All the fear mongering about government shutdowns that they put out there.
	Essential services stay up and they stay running.
	You even get the mail.
	You get your Social Security check.
	Veterans get paid, veterans' hospitals stay open.
	Essentially, the military stays open.
	You know, and then the people that are furloughed end up getting paid anyway, so it's not a big deal for them anyway.
	It just shows we could probably use a lot less people that work in Washington, D.C. Anyway, Schumer said that uh during a human rights campaign gala address on Saturday that President Trump was probably the most dangerous and worst man to ever occupy the White House.
	Okay, he's only said that 400,000 times, as if anybody cares.
	Umbody really does.
	General Kelly, though, did make Schumer an offer I think that he can't refuse.
	And it's a really uh simple one.
	Anyway, he said that uh he just made Schumer an offer that Democrats can accept the president's DACA deal, or the only thing the dreamers are gonna get is a one-way bus ticket back home.
	Well, that's what it's gonna be.
	I mean, you know, for whatever reason, Chuck Schumer thinks he's in the majority and he's not.
	And the top White House advisor said that he doubts President Trump will consider extending the deadline that he set for Congress to codify protections for young illegal immigrants, even if lawmakers fail to come to an agreement.
	So DAC is going to expire in March.
	That of course created by former President Obama when he used this extra constitutional power that he didn't have, and he admitted dozens of time he didn't have, but he did it anyway.
	And uh so Obama established the program.
	It is and was and remains unconstitutional.
	It's not based on any law.
	And Kelly said after meeting with Mitch McConnell, so the extension, I'm not sure the president has the authority to extend it.
	Well, he actually doesn't.
	If you listen to Obama's original words.
	All right.
	What if everything in these memos was flipped?
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	All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
	800 941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program here.
	Um let's just slow down and look at what we have discovered between Friday and yesterday.
	And I want to start by playing a montage.
	You know, it's fascinating to me that no matter what the media is going they look, you got to start with this way.
	For a year.
	Let's get the anti, you know, no evidence of collusion memo first.
	No evidence, no evidence.
	Because for a year, the media is trying to convince you of something that's not true.
	For an entire year, they have advanced the narrative for political purposes.
	For an entire year, they have lied to you.
	They have breathlessly hyped conspiracy theories.
	For an entire year, they have been wrong, dead wrong.
	No evidence of Trump Russia collusion.
	And we know because all the top people involved, well, they've actually told us, oh, there's smoke, but there's no fire.
	But Mr. Clapper then went on to say that to his knowledge, there was no evidence of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians.
	We did not conclude any evidence in our report.
	And when I say our report, that is the NSA, FBI, and CIA with my office.
	The Director of National Intelligence had anything, any reflection of collusion between the members of the Trump campaign and the Russians.
	There was no evidence of that in our report.
	Was Mr. Clapper wrong when he said that?
	I think he's right about characterizing the report, which you you all have read.
	We did not include any evidence in our report.
	And I say our that's NSA FBI and CIA with my office, the director of National Intelligence, that had anything that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians.
	There was no evidence of that included in our report.
	Have you seen anything, either intelligence briefings, through intelligence briefings, anything to back up any of the accusations that you have made?
	They have the documentation that they did the hacking.
	The hacking on the DNC.
	Right.
	And on some of us, you know, that had to be.
	But the collusion, though.
	No, we have not.
	Do you have evidence that there was in fact collusion between Trump associates and Russia during the campaign?
	Not at this time.
	Have you seen anything that suggests any collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign?
	Well, there's an awful lot of smoke there, let's put it that way.
	People that might have said they were involved, to what extent they were involved, to what extent the president might have known about these people or whatever.
	There's nothing there from that standpoint that we have seen directly linking our president to any of that.
	Did evidence exist of collusion coordination conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian state actors at the time you learned of 2016 efforts?
	I don't know whether or not such collusion, that's your term, such collusion existed.
	I don't know.
	The big questions, of course, is is there any evidence of collusion you have seen yet?
	Is there?
	Diane Feinstein has said there's no evidence of collusion.
	So collusion between whom?
	Can you tell us that?
	I'm not prepared to say that there's proof you could take to a jury, but I can't say that there is enough that we ought to be investigating.
	At the time you separated from service in January of 2017, had you seen any evidence that uh Donald Trump or any member of his campaign colluded, conspired, or coordinated with the Russians or anyone else in Phil trade or impact our uh voter infrastructure.
	Um not beyond uh what has been out there open source and not beyond anything that I'm sure this committee has already seen and heard before directly from the intelligence community.
	So for an entire year plus, the media has been wrong.
	So here we have now an entire other narrative that they have ignored, and now we've got a lot of evidence to back up everything that we've been suggesting to you now for a while is true.
	If you go back to when Donald Trump had tweeted out, I've been wiretapped, maybe not the exact words that he should have used.
	They did wiretap.
	They did there was a Pfizer warrant that was issued on Trump Tower.
	We broke that about a year ago, and we've been unpeeling the layers of the onion.
	And then it culminated on Friday with what we discovered is you know, the main concerns about the legitimacy and the legality of the DOJ and the FBI and their interactions with the foreign intelligence surveillance court and what information did they use and were they honest with the court in obtaining a FISA warrant to spy on an opposition candidate in a presidential election year.
	And then it raises the whole issue of the dossier that was compiled by Christopher Steele and Christopher Steele, let's see, Fusion GPS, all right, they're hired by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, they're both funneling money over there.
	They're funneling the money through a law firm known as Perkins Coy, and you have Fusion GPS, you have their founder Glenn Simpson saying he never verified the dossier that uh the dossier is basically sixteen separate memos that were put together by Christopher Steele.
	Now, yesterday we've got the Senate report out of Grassley's committee, and what is one of the things we learned that Steele gathered much of his information from Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	We do have a Russia conspiracy right before our eyes.
	And then we go on to discover that when they applied for the first time for the Pfizer Warrant, it was denied.
	That was in the early summer.
	Then they came back for a Pfizer warrant.
	And this was in October of 2016, just before the election.
	Anyway, now we know that through the memo of of the Intel community, uh Intel um uh chairman, Debian Nunes.
	Now we find out that in this initial inquiry and in any of the renewals, they never disclosed that the DNC in the Clinton campaign and a political party and a political effort funded Christopher Steele's efforts.
	Now, granted they didn't pay him directly, but they paid Fusion GPS.
	They funneled that money through the law firm.
	Fusion GPS takes care of Christopher Steele.
	Okay, that means basically that Hillary paid for it.
	And the DNC that Donna Brazil says she was controlling the money of that they paid for it.
	And the initial FISA application noted that Steele worked for a named U.S. person, but not the Clinton campaign, and not Fusion GPS, and not Glenn Simpson, who was paid for who was paid by a U.S. law firm, Perkins Coy, so they were hiding the money.
	In other words, you know, three times removed so that the Pfizer judge doesn't put it together that in fact this is Hillary Clinton's op research.
	And that it's filled with let me go back to the Senate memo, that Steele's information mostly came was gathered from information from the Russian government sources he had inside of Russia.
	So that's what Hillary Clinton was paying for.
	Now, when they applied to the Pfizer court, there was no mention that Steele was working on behalf of and paid for by the Clinton campaign or the DNC.
	And nor was it told the court that it was verified.
	And even in the we're told that the only thing they said, well, there might be a political component to some of this.
	The FBI knew at the time, and this is where the problem comes in.
	The FBI absolutely knew that Clinton was paying for that Russian dossier of Christopher Steele, and that his information came from the Russian government and Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	How ironic it is that everything everyone was bitching about for a year actually turned out to be true.
	Except it was Hillary Clinton that did it, and not Donald Trump.
	And then, of course, then they get more deceptive.
	They try to, Christopher Steele tips off Michael Lizakov with some of the information he has.
	He writes a Yahoo piece, and it's presented to the FISA court as a separate entity when meanwhile the source is the exact same source as the dossier.
	Oh, well, we have a corroborating article that says what everything in this is true because it came from the same person.
	That's dishonest before the FISA court.
	And then we've got Steele's numerous encounters with the media.
	We have Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson admitting that he was trying to coordinate with the Clinton campaign as to where to take the phony Russian information and disseminate it to the media.
	Now there's two things at work here.
	One, they're trying to do this to lie to the American people and manipulate the American people before an election.
	And then the second thing they're trying to do, then they're using it to get a Pfizer warrant against an opposition party candidate to spy on them in the lead up to an election and then undermine a duly elected president thereafter, which is why this is tied to in every way, Robert Mueller, because if all of this had not happened, we wouldn't be in the position we're in today, and an entire year wasted.
	You know, nobody told the FISA court judge, even though Bruce Orr stayed in touch with Christopher Steele, and Bruce Orr's wife, Nellie, is building this dossier in a way, Bruce Orr's wife is being paid for by Clinton just like Steele is.
	But who's paying her?
	Who's paying them?
	But this was a guy, Christopher Steele, that was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected, passionate about him not being president.
	Or his wife is employed by Fusion GPS.
	So Hillary's campaign in the DNC are paying Fusion GPS because she's cultivating the op research on Trump.
	And Orr then takes his wife information and gives it to the FBI.
	But if you look at the time, the FBI's counterintelligence division, the assistant director, literally said that the Steele dossier was in its infancy at the time of the initial FISA application.
	Well, if it was in its infancy, why was it ever presented to the court if it's not verified?
	Why would you use any information?
	And then months later, Comey even said to President-elect Trump in January of 2017 before he became president.
	It's unverified and it's salacious.
	That's all they said.
	But that's not what he was telling the court when he's signing off on part of this dossier is being used.
	And we know that because the former deputy director, McCabe testified before the House Intel Committee, that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from Pfizer without the Steele dossier.
	It's unbelievable what we're discovering.
	Then now go to the Senate.
	Then you've got and go to Sarah Carter's piece.
	Well, now we have a situation where Clinton associates, um, like Winters and uh Sid Vicious Blumenthal apparently are up to their eyeballs feeding information to Christopher Steele.
	So basically it's all fabricated, either through phony Russian sources or Clinton allies verifying, which means which is absolutely without any credibility.
	All the claims they can against Trump, and then the effort to get it out to the media.
	The FBI director telling Trump it's salacious and unverified.
	Well, that's an interesting point because four months earlier he was telling the FISA court signing off on that information being used.
	He has some questions he's Got to ask.
	And this whole Papadopoulos thing, you got a London professor with Papadopoulos drinking in a bar.
	Um, an unknown person in Moscow says that they might have had information on Hillary.
	Then the Australian diplomat hears about it, and then that the Australian diplomat tells the FBI, oh, that's a great source of information.
	You can't use single hearsay in a court of law.
	So it would be meaningless there.
	So we got a second memo out.
	We got the Nunez memo from Friday.
	Now we've got the Grassley memo from last night, and then we've got the dossier, and now we've got another bit of memo or dossier being created by Christopher Steele.
	And everyone believing all of it.
	Imagine if this was all Donald Trump.
	And Donald Trump was doing this to Hillary.
	Imagine Donald Trump rigged a primary election.
	Imagine Donald Trump had broken had committed felonies by putting his email server in a mom and clo mom and pop shop bathroom closet.
	Imagine Donald Trump took 33,000 subpoenaed emails that turn out to have top secret classified and special access program information and just deletes the subpoenaed emails.
	Imagine Donald Trump acid washes the hard drives with bleach pit.
	Imagine Donald Trump tells Hope Hicks to go out there, hope, go bust this uh Blackberry up with a hammer so nobody can get any information on it.
	I mean, it begins to now all fall together.
	We'll find out more on the IG report.
	Imagine Donald Trump is paying for, I'll say it again, to steal information from Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	Let's say that was Donald Trump paying for that.
	$12 million against Hillary Clinton.
	And let's say that that same dossier was then used to get a Pfizer warrant to spy on Hillary in the middle of a campaign.
	And let's say Donald Trump associates, I don't know, who can we think of?
	Any Donald Trump associates, well, they're actually feeding steel the information about Hillary.
	Salacious details about hookers in a bet and uh writz in Moscow and whatever other garbage they're reporting here.
	Because it goes on to say in this Grassly memo that reports that information obtained by the committee during witness interviews in the course of the investigation indicate that Steele provided dossier information to bleep, it's redacted to numerous media organizations prior to the end of, and in Steele's sworn testimony court filings in London, he admitted he gave off the record briefings to a number of journalists about the pre-election memoranda.
	So they're feeding all this garbage to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, New Yorker, and fake news, the shole network CNN.
	And they were briefed by the end of 2016.
	How convenient.
	Then of course, in British litigation, you know, he's either lying there or he was lying to the U.S. What if Donald Trump had done all this?
	Because every time I come under fire, I've got a laugh about this.
	We've got proof.
	We've got evidence, we've got information.
	They've got nothing.
	And they've had a year and a half to do it.
	All right, when we come back, we'll get New Kingrich's take.
	Biggest political scandal missed by your corrupt news media.
	They're too busy chasing the Russia Trump collusion rabbit.
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	You know, I just can't believe we're living in these times.
	I mean, being assailed as I have been in the last 72 hours by the very people that have gotten everything wrong for an entire year plus that there is no evidence of Trump Russia collusion.
	Yeah, it's it's interesting to me as a phenomenon that the media is just a bunch of sheep.
	They're overpaid, they live in a bubble, and they live in this little echo chamber, and they just regurgitate back to each other what they say, and they try to outdo themselves.
	If one person in the mainstream media goes, uh Trump is demented, the next one will say, No, you're wrong.
	He's really, really, really, really, really demented.
	That's what you meant to say.
	And it goes on from there.
	But we do have evidence now of collusion.
	We have two memos.
	The memo that came out in the Senate committee of Charles Grassley Yesterday, the Judiciary Committee there, where it literally says that Mike uh Christopher Steele gathered as much of his information or much of it from government from Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	Let me repeat.
	Steele gathered much of his information from Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	And by the way, Steele is not an American citizen.
	I thought that was something that would be uh shocking to some people, and something that we heard the last year that people didn't like.
	And in the House Intelligence Committee report, what did we find out?
	That neither in the initial application, or remember the first application to spy on the Trump campaign was denied.
	And then remember, it's in the Nunes memo, the House Intelligence Committee memo that the deputy director Andrew McCabe testified before the committee that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from FISA without the Steele dossier information.
	And then we find out that as part of the application process, neither the initial application on the second go around in October 2016, or any of the three renewals, they did never at any point reference the role that the DNC, the Clinton campaign, and the party in the campaign apparatus and funding Steele's efforts.
	Clinton campaign and the DNC that Hillary was controlling, according to Donna Brazil, funneled all of this money to this law firm Perkins Coy.
	Remember, fusion GPS.
	Okay, they're getting the money from Perkins Coy, not directly from the Clinton campaign, not directly from the DNC, but that's where the money's coming from.
	Then they hire Christopher Steele, and now we learn from the Senate memo that Christopher Steele is getting his information from Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	And then they not only use this to lie to the American people and manipulate the American people with phony Russian salacious information to win an election by lying about their opponent Donald Trump, then they take it a step further and they use that Hillary Clinton bought and paid for dossier to get a Pfizer warrant, and then not telling the FISA court that it was Hillary Clinton and the DNC that bought and paid for the thing.
	Imagine if this was Donald Trump.
	And then being even more deceptive, Christopher Steele leaks to Michael Lizakoff.
	He writes an article based on Christopher Steele's information, and that is handed in as as though it is some type of corroborating evidence when the source was identical.
	Well, that's fairly manipulative.
	And one has to wonder how a FISA court judge would feel if he found out that the little footnote that said, Oh, it might be a little politically tainted.
	You know, turns out to be it was the opposition party candidate, Hillary Clinton's campaign and the DNC paying for all of this, and the FBI knew it, and the DOJ knew it, and they never told the Pfizer court judge.
	Here to weigh in on all of this, and then the added information is now we discovered yesterday that in fact Clinton associates were feeding some of this false information to Christopher Steele also, like Sid Blumenthal and this guy Jonathan Winter.
	I don't think I could even make up a novel this twisted and sick and and despicable.
	This still is the United States of America.
	And that Christopher Steele was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected, was passionate about him not being president.
	And then you got the deputy associate deputy attorney general Bruce Orr.
	Oh, his wife is building the dossier.
	I guess you can argue she's being paid by Clinton and the DNC.
	And that he's out there with Rosenstein and others.
	He's renewing the FISA.
	The FISA warrant every 90 days.
	You can't make this stuff up.
	Newt Gingrich is here to help us sort it out.
	Former Speaker of the House.
	How are you?
	I'm doing well.
	I think you've done a pretty good job.
	The fact is that all of this, by any normal standard, would just be unbelievable.
	What if it was Donald Trump?
	Just reverse the names.
	Donald Trump did all this.
	Well, that'd be open and shut.
	I mean, obviously at that point you'd have to say he has to leave the presidency, he has to resign, he has to go home.
	Uh, we probably ought to have John Kerry as the interim president uh to clean up the changed office.
	I mean, look, this is simply Unimaginable.
	Here you have the Clinton campaign paying a British former secret agent who hates Trump to write a fantasy that makes him feel good, taking that fantasy to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which without and and I I saw a very, very interesting uh analysis today, which points out that uh he apparently the FBI never tried to truly validate what he was saying.
	The FBI then takes this totally tainted fantasy, goes to a Pfizer court judge and says, uh, look, this is clearly proof that we need to have an ability to wiretap into the Trump team.
	The judge says, Well, I'm not quite sure.
	And they say, Well, here, we have some extra proof, and the extra proof is an article, which is an interview with the very same British agents.
	Uh I mean, this is the you can't make this up.
	We've spent an entire year of Go ahead.
	Yeah, I mean all weekend long, Mr. Speaker, I've been under fire.
	Oh, the memo didn't prove anything.
	The memo showed that they lied to a Pfizer court.
	The memo showed that they were purposely deceptive to a Pfizer court.
	The memo the and we knew we know they knew that this was Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for dossier.
	They never told the court.
	If this had happened to a liberal Democrat, every American civil liberties union lawyer in the country would be going crazy.
	The New York Times would be editorializing every day, the Washington Post would be editorializing every day.
	We'd be getting warnings about a police state.
	We'd be told, you know, if if the federal government can start eavesdropping on American citizens based on false information from a politically paid for document, all of us are at risk.
	It just tells you how deeply the country is divided that as long as the target is Donald J. Trump, anything goes.
	I mean, they just they just simply refuse to engage on whether or not uh this is a this is a question which I think virtually every liberal I can remember for at least 40 years has worried about this precise case.
	And now that we have the case, they can't worry about it because it involves the wrong guy.
	Let me ask you for a historical comparison, because I've been getting beat up over the fact that I said this makes Watergate look like stealing a Snickers bar from a drugstore.
	And what by that Watergate was a Watergate was a third-rate burglary.
	Okay, to get op research from an opponent's, I guess, headquarters, and then the cover-up that ensued.
	This to me is go ahead.
	No, no, I mean I mean, I'm going to say, having lived through that and having campaigned my very first campaign was during 1974.
	And so I was right in the middle of the whole Watergate problem.
	Uh and of course, I'd been Nixon's chairman for the Sixth District of Georgia in 1972.
	So, I mean, I was I sort of was living this stuff close up.
	There's no question that there were things that were done in Watergate that were totally wrong, and that the president and the attorney general and other key people did things that were wrong.
	But here you have two things that are very different.
	One, which is similar, is I have no doubt personally that President Obama knew what was going on, the attorney general knew what was going on, the fix was in, they were going to protect Hillary Clinton no matter what, and that the ch the head of the FBI was part of the same problem, which is why Comey is as guilty as all the other people.
	But there's a second thing going on here that was that was the opposite of Watergate.
	One of the characteristics of Watergate was that when they came down to it, civil servants actually obeyed the law and refused to do what the president told them to do.
	They said, No, that's illegal.
	I'm not going to do it.
	Well you have here is just the opposite.
	Here you have some of the some of the key players are career civil servants.
	They are the deep state.
	They're everything people talk about.
	And I think there's no question that you had senior People at the FBI, uh, and some people in the Justice Department who were colluding first to protect Hillary Clinton, and second to set up the destruction of Donald Trump.
	Uh, and it that's what makes this frightening.
	It's one thing to say, okay, we have some politician who's bad, we have six or eight people at the White House have done really bad things.
	Let's clean it up.
	And the truth is at the end of the water gate, everybody who was tainted was gone.
	This is much, much different.
	This is the core of the bureaucracy itself.
	And the core of the bureaucracy itself here decided that it was his job to protect Hillary Clinton, and it was this job to destroy Donald Trump.
	And that when you start thinking about the people they were going to destroy on the way through, there are innocent people being run over by the power of the government in a way that is, I think, very, very chilling.
	Doesn't it sound to you like laws were broken here?
	And it look, isn't it bad enough?
	Every election season okay, every election season there are lies, the politicians tell, but in this election season, Hillary Clinton is buying again.
	I'll go back to the Senate and Charles Grassley's committee release yesterday, but literally she paid for Mr. Steele gathering his information from Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	So that's what she wanted to influence the American people with.
	And then it was used as a as at least in part of a measure.
	They never told the Pfizer court judge that she bought and paid for this phony information while the Pfizer court judge is making a determination to spy on an American citizen, which you know we put great we put a great priority in people's right to privacy and our Fourth Amendment constitutional rights, sir.
	Well, look, there's there's an old rule called follow the money.
	So what I'd like to know is it's not just Hillary Clinton, who in the Clinton campaign authorized paying for it.
	Who actually contacted Steele to get it done?
	Well, who knew this was going on?
	And by the way, when the Pfizer warrants came due, did Barack Obama know?
	Isn't that a good question?
	Uh I I have no doubt.
	If you look at the Attorney General, Loretta Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton at a private airplane in a totally inappropriate meeting.
	You look at the notion that you look at some of the the text messages that Strzok is sending to his girlfriend, where he is saying, Well, Loretta Lynch can do all this because after all, she knows the fix is in.
	She knows Hillary's going to be exonerated.
	I mean, you read this stuff, if you put the dots together, there there is zero doubt in my mind as a historian that when this thing all comes out in the open, it's obstruction of justice.
	Obama will be involved, Obama will be involved, the attorney general will be involved, and senior people in the FBI will be involved, and all of them will in fact have been tainted by having broken the law.
	We'll take a break.
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	All right, this is just breaking from the Daily Mail.
	Russian pranksters spoof Adam Schiff by telling Democrat that Putin has naked blackmail pictures of Trump, and he gets his staff to try and uh collect classified materials for the FBI.
	And we actually have the email exchange that goes back and forth.
	Sergey, I understand Mr. Schiff had a productive call with Mr. Uh probably, and that he would like to make some materials available to MIFT Mr. Ship through your embassy.
	Please let us know how best to arrange pickup.
	We've got the phone call.
	Okay, and so Buzova met with Trump uh in in uh New York at some point after the 2013 Miss Universe.
	Uh yes.
	Absolutely.
	And she got uh compromising materials on Trout after their uh short relations.
	Okay, and and what's the nature of the compromise?
	Well, there were a picture of naked Trump.
	Okay.
	And so Putin was made aware uh of the the availability of the compromising material.
	Yes, of course, uh Buzawa shared those materials with uh Sopchak and Subshark shares those materials with uh Putin because she's uh Goddaughter of Putin and Putin decided to press on Trump.
	Um and uh and 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 now Mr. Speaker I gotta ask you so you you hear this oh wait a minute you mean they want information from a foreign entity about an opposition party candidate and I thought that was horrible.
	I think one of the most amazing things historians will study for decades is you had the Democrats remember this whole thing in a way starts on election night when the shock of knowing at eight PM that Hillary Clinton's gonna win and learning by 10 PM that Donald Trump has won.
	The shock is so enormous that nobody on the Clinton campaign has the guts you go say there, you know you lost.
	We're gonna see you tonight on Hannity we'll have a lot more that tape cracks me up.
	Today posted the greatest single same day drop in stock market history sixteen hundred points.
	The Dow plunged almost twelve hundred points or more than four and a half percent fall to finish below the twenty five thousand mark and erasing a lot of our retirement savings.
	US stock futures have been swinging wildly all morning.
	They are currently pointing to a major loss at the open one day after the worst point drop in Wall Street history.
	Doom and gloom and plunder of the market which by the way stabilized throughout the day today with ups and downs pretty much going on all throughout the day nothing that dramatic as we saw the previous two days.
	So I mentioned this on the radio show yesterday and I give a long explanation it wasn't good for the stock market and I my gut yesterday was this seemed like a natural correction because you you don't always go straight up in the in the stock market.
	If you look at the history of the stock market it goes up it goes down sometimes it gets artificially high and and other points people take their their winnings and their their money and their profits and they leave but then they come back.
	You know there are a lot of different factors to it.
	Anyway so as I was thinking about I was actually watching Shep Smith had somebody on his show when I decided to talk about it.
	It was Ashley Webster was on with Shep smart guy.
	And anyway so we've had all these gains since he entered office and it was just up up up up up up up and th those two days that we had were definitely adjustment days and an opportunity for people to take some of their profit money etc.
	Anyway so I went on the air in the program yesterday and I said you know in a lot of ways this is probably evidence that the economy is getting strong.
	Now just yesterday it happened to come out that the Atlanta Fed was predicting five point four percent GDP growth in the first quarter of this year.
	That's astronomical growth that's Reagan era style growth and I said a lot of that is because you know we're seeing the impact of the previous administration and their impact on the economy.
	I said yesterday and I went into all of this the Oka the Obama economy he's the only president in history that never hit three percent GDP growth in a single year.
	He doubled the national debt mate took on more debt than every other president before him combined.
	It was the worst recovery since the forties thirteen million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty you had the lowest labor participation rate since the seventies.
	And so my point yesterday was well the Obama economy was so weak all these years and I made the point that in those years as a result the Fed kept trying to artificially influence the economy with what is called cheap money.
	What is cheap money?
	Cheap money is when you get to borrow at ridiculously insanely low rates and that's what cheap money is you know when you can borrow at those low rates and it's in the hopes that people will start to jumpstart the economy and you know even uh Yellen when she was leaving last Friday it suggested oh it's uh that that point is coming to an end.
	So anyway the era of cheap money at some point does have to end.
	And in other words the economy has to have its natural flow.
	And the government has for all these years under Obama because his economy was so weak the Fed is artificially kept the price of money down and the price of borrowing down and now that that's coming to an end and the only reason it can come to an end is because of all the good economic news and the plans that have been put in place to have further economic growth because of President Trump.
	And so the the cratering of the stock market I make the case would probably represent the strength of the economy noting that Main Street is doing very well.
	These companies have a lot of confidence in in the economy they're investing more money.
	Corporate tax rates now are way down that means they'll be investing more repatriation's going to kick in and I think a a lot of it is uh is just a natural flow of it.
	Anyway some of you are very worried so um I first started investing when I was in Atlanta and I was the poorest person at the firm I was more of a charity case for them to take me on and uh I've met this guy Gene Hensler he worked at the local radio station I was at and ever since he has kind of been my money manager and and his right hand man Bill Lako is pretty much my guy that I go to and we have some differences on investments and so on and so forth.
	Um is my analysis anywhere near correct or I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
	No I think you're dead on Sean.
	You know I mean I listened to the opening segment there made me want to open up a window and jump out of it.
	I mean I you know I I think the reality of where we are in the stock market is we have not had a 10% correction in the stock market since uh three years ago.
	We normally have one every year.
	Normally you have a fifteen percent correction in the stock market every two years.
	We haven't had one since 2011, and normally you would have a 20% correction in the stock market every three years, and we haven't had one since 2009.
	Now, we did surpass 5% yesterday.
	You know, big whoops, you normally have that three times a year.
	The worst performance we had last year was about 2.8% down.
	So, you know, depending upon where you are in the stage of your life, you know, a decline is not a bad thing.
	It gives you an opportunity to buy.
	So I completely agree with what you're saying, and I absolutely believe that what you said about the Atlanta Fed and 5.4%, the reality is fourth quarter earnings for the S&P 500 look like they're going to come in up 15%.
	inflation below two percent and you got unemployment below four point one how much better can it get how many years of your life have you been doing this investment studying the market and and all of the all the financial management that you do twenty five years.
	All right twenty five years and the and you basically for twenty five years you watch me start with nothing right pretty much yes I do.
	Yes I did.
	And I am probably the biggest pain in your ass client that you have is that true next to Gene Hensler that's probably true.
	Okay the the owner of the c firm okay no but the reality is over the years I have made it known to you that I don't have the great appetite that others do for the stock market and the ups and downs.
	I would rather you know money's too hard to make to me and in a lot of ways I look at the stock market as gambling.
	Now you have certain rules that you tell people when it comes to investing in the stock market.
	For example if you're gonna need the money in in ten years what do you tell tell them?
	Don't put it in stocks.
	All right to tell everybody the simple rules that you use while investing because you're a pretty conservative guy.
	Yeah okay so look here bottom line is if you sit down and you're looking at your portfolio this is a good time to make sure your portfolio is is balanced the way you want it balanced that your financial plan is in order the way you want to have it in order.
	If you're a day trader this segment isn't for you but for most people who are working saving their 401ks you know and they're trying to decide what do I do well at the end of the day if you don't need money out of the portfolio in the next 10 years there's no other place to be but stocks or real estate.
	Now I view real estate as a growth investment as much as I do stocks.
	Now the difference is stocks are completely liquid.
	Sean as you know it's I can't sell one of those apartments tomorrow but I could get out of Coke today.
	So there's a little difference but back to the portfolio if you need money in the next 10 years from your portfolio you cannot put it in stocks.
	Why?
	Because of what just happened here.
	I mean Murphy's law is when you need The money, the market will be upside down.
	So time takes care of you as much as picking the right investments.
	And quite honestly, we only buy the quality stuff.
	You know, I was looking today, Sean, Chevron, right?
	I don't believe we're not gonna have gas.
	Do you believe we're not gonna have gas anytime soon?
	No, they're gonna have gas and and you always use the example of Johnson and Johnson and you know we're gonna need soap and I I have yeah, I got Procter and Gamble in here.
	So Procter Gamble's down eleven point six two percent and it's yielding three point four.
	What does that mean?
	That means today, if I went and bought a ten year treasury, it will pay me two point seven percent ish, right?
	So that's all I'm gonna get for ten years on that bond.
	Or I could buy Procter and Gamble that makes toothbrushes and toilet paper and all the different products that you and I both use, it's gonna pay me three point four percent while I wait for it to come back.
	And I got it on sale.
	You know, the stock market's the one place in America, Sean, where people want to pay full price or more.
	I mean when you go shopping for clothes, don't you go to the discount rack?
	I mean, the first place I go is the sale rack.
	I go to Kmart.
	By the way, I don't even go shopping.
	If I do go shopping, it's uh like Kmart, Walmart and Target, my favorite stores.
	Sure.
	Or Costco's my guess is you're you go to the sale rack first, you know what I mean?
	There's always something on sale.
	Hey, maybe I need that, maybe I don't.
	But the stock market people do the exact opposite.
	For whatever reason, they want to sell when it's down.
	Well, how many of your customers in the last two days have been panicked and you get these panic calls?
	Not as many as you would think.
	I mean, I think I talked to two or three clients, but that's nothing compared to oh eight or oh nine.
	Yeah.
	And I think most people realize we've not had a really good correction, and this is probably the start of it.
	And I don't know where it's gonna end, but listen, as far as I'm concerned, ten percent down's healthy, and it would actually bring some of the prices in line.
	What about interest rates?
	Do you agree with me that interest rates have been kept artificially low to help up the uh bad recovery of Obama?
	Oh, a hundred percent.
	One hundred percent.
	The interest rates were down, have been uh, you know, artificially kept down.
	The the Fed's gonna roll off four point four trillion dollars over the next several years in terms of of uh bonds and whatnot, and that's gonna cause an issue with interest rates.
	It's gonna cause them to go up.
	But what you have in in Europe across the across the pond there is they're still in a quantitative easing over there.
	So some of that capital, you know, money tends to flow wherever it's gonna be treated the best.
	Well, you know, the the changes that that that President Trump has made for capitalism has been good.
	Um, you know, it's not a good idea.
	But let's go over some of your basic rules that you have for investment for for people in all you know economic uh backgrounds.
	You know, some people are just starting out, some people have you know a little bit put away, some people have a lot put away.
	You know, let's go through the scenario for everybody.
	All right.
	So we we've we talked about the ten year rules.
	So if you need money in the next ten years, don't put it in stocks.
	If you don't, there's no other place to be.
	So if you're in a 401k plan, if you're working for somebody and you have a 401k plan and you're not gonna retire any time soon, then why would you own a bond fund paying one one and a half, two percent?
	Well, why would you do that?
	There's no reason to do that.
	You're losing money based on inflation.
	So you want to be long-term growth, but you have to be able to say, I don't care what happens to the stock market today.
	That's number one.
	Number two is I run into a lot of people who are starting out, they're saving or or they're not saving because they're spending too much.
	Well, look, if your employer is matching you dollar for dollar on the first five percent, you have to put five percent in your four one K, right?
	I don't know any other place, Sean, in America, where you can get a guaranteed hundred percent return on your money.
	So if if Coca-Cola or, you know, pick a company, our company matches like that, dollar for dollar on five percent.
	Well, why wouldn't you put at least five percent in?
	You just got double your money.
	So I that's really where I would start.
	Well, what about other investments?
	Like I always like to touch and feel, you know, uh an investment.
	You you know, one thing I will say about you, I remember when I first talked to you about Bitcoin, you're like, stay away from it.
	You don't know what's gonna happen.
	What do you think of these uh these cryptocurrency investments?
	I don't know where they're gonna go long term.
	I if I'm a drug dealer or money launderer, I understand why I want to be in Bitcoin and some of that other stuff.
	But until you can take Bitcoin or even gold for that matter, to Kroger and buy milk with it, it's not a currency.
	So at the end of the day, whatever Bitcoin is, you gotta convert it to green dollars.
	And by the way, Sean, there's only one color in this country, right?
	It's not black, it's not white, it's not yellow, it's green.
	Dollar bill is green.
	That's all you can use to spend in this country.
	And I promise you, once the regulators decide they've had enough of Bitcoin, they'll do the same thing it they did to Napster.
	All right, stay right there.
	Bill Lako's with us.
	He's with Gene Hensler and associates uh down in Atlanta.
	Uh they basically have been my financial advisors for twenty five years.
	Uh I am not the biggest stock market investor, and um he and I have had some knockdown drag out fights because I don't have the risk.
	Uh I'm more risk averse than he would like.
	as we continue, Bill Lako is with Hensler and Associates, and I've known these financial guys.
	They've been my guys down in Atlanta now, uh, since I uh well acquired pretty much my first dollar in life, because I didn't have a whole bunch when you met me.
	Um I guess the most important thing is uh if for the people that that get worried when we have this these disruptions in the stock market.
	What is your advice to them?
	I think you know, uh the simplest thing is don't watch it.
	If you don't need this money anytime soon, ten years is our rule, but even five years, what do you care?
	You know, it most people are dollar cost averaging today because they're saving to their 401ks or they're putting their money in their Ross.
	Just keep doing whatever your plan was.
	The the people who end up really making huge mistakes are the ones that don't follow the plan that they put in place because they get scared.
	Well, uh I could just assure you, unless you think this country is going down the tubes, and when I say down the tubes, I mean we're gonna be speaking a different language.
	Then I don't I'm not really worried about McDonald's going out of business.
	I'm not worried about Disney going out of business.
	I'm not worried about Home Depot going out of business.
	Stock price may change, but if I've got a long enough time to wait, who cares?
	It'll come back and and be even better.
	You know, Sean, the the reason we have a ten-year rule is pretty simple.
	There's only been two ten-year periods of time.
	So there are eighty-three rolling ten-year periods of time since nineteen twenty-five.
	There's only been two ten-year periods of time where if you've thrown all your money in the stock market at the beginning of the time and took it out at the end, you would have lost money.
	Two.
	That's a ninety-eight percent probability you will not lose money in ten years.
	So that's good enough.
	By the way, if you want a hundred percent, all you gotta do is wait eleven years.
	Yeah.
	True.
	Time matters.
	You know what I mean?
	And I'm not sure.
	So how high will interest rates be in a year from now, two years from now?
	Because, you know, I would want to lock in my home mortgage now, right?
	Well, you you just said it.
	I mean, that was one thing I was going to talk about.
	I thought about through the break.
	Now is the time if you're gonna buy a house to buy it.
	Now's the time if you haven't refinanced at these historical lows to refinance, because I think you're gonna wake up a year from today and rates are gonna be a percent higher.
	I don't have a crystal ball.
	If I did, you know, you and I'd be in the Bahamas right now.
	But at the end of the day, rates were up last year.
	I don't see any reason my rates aren't going to continue to go up.
	I don't think we're gonna see huge increases.
	But what happens is you wake up three years later and realize, holy cow, I could have had a four percent mortgage, and now I get I can only get a six percent mortgage.
	And so that changes the dynamics of what it costs you to fund your housing.
	So I like people who lock in their you know, borrowing costs fixed.
	All right, Bill Lako, thank you.
	Hensler and Associates, uh, it's up on Hannity.com as is his weekly columns we uh add them.
	I think he offers great advice, and uh, as I said, I've worked with him now for years, and he's done a good job for me.
	All right, when we come back, news roundup and information overload hour here on the Sean Hannity Show.
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	I think maybe the FBI should do their job, but maybe be a little quieter during election season so they don't influence elections one way or the other.
	Yeah, I mean, look, I think there's clear there's there's clear evidence of collusion that the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign colluded with the Russians.
	Okay, you don't get to you don't get to hire lawyers and pretend like that didn't happen.
	The very it goes to what what what they accuse you of is what they actually were doing.
	But did the judge know that this dossier was specifically backed up by Clinton campaign money, that the DNC was involved, or did they just know did the judge just know generally that there was a political source uh to this document or political backing rather?
	Uh, you know, I I I I can't get into the the specifics until they're um declassified by the committee.
	Uh but I think that the FBI certainly gave important information about bias to the FISA court.
	Uh there are a lot of reasons why the names, the specific names of U.S. persons or U.S. organizations are not used.
	And we have testimony about this in the committee.
	The majority members know about this.
	Uh the same people that are complaining about the unmasking of names are complaining now that things weren't unmasked.
	All right, there you have it.
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	Uh so here's The situation as we now have it.
	We have the House Intelligence Committee and their memo is out.
	Charles Grassley's committee, the uh U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, their now they have a memo out.
	We got not only the original dossier full of lies and salacious materials bought and paid for now by Hillary Clinton.
	Now we have a second memorandumslash dossier, whatever you want to call it.
	This one coming from an influence by friends of the Clintons.
	Now, if it's not bad enough that we have bought and paid for, Hillary Clinton bought and paid for, DNC bought and paid for lies to influence and and mislead and propagandize the American people before election and to spy on an opposition candidate because those Russian lies were then used to go to a court and get a Pfizer warrant against an opposition candidate.
	Now, then it gets worse because then they're looking at all the activities of an incoming administration.
	And I don't think we'd be anywhere near Robert Mueller had all of this not happened.
	But you can't really put it any other way.
	When they applied for the Pfizer warrant, now remember the initial application, October 2016, because the one over the summer was denied.
	Well, then they come back for another opportunity.
	The first approval comes in October of 2016, just before the election.
	They never disclose the role of the DNC, the Clinton campaign, in terms of the funding of this phony salacious dossier, this Russian propaganda.
	And the initial Pfizer application noted that Steele was working for a U.S. person.
	It doesn't mention fusion GPS.
	It doesn't mention Glenn Simpson, who was paid for by a U.S. law firm and taking out any any counting that Hillary Clinton, that the real money came from the Clinton campaign in the DNC.
	And on top of all of that, we learned that none of this was verified.
	It was only in the infancy stages of being verified, according to the assistant director.
	The corroboration of Steele's dossier at this particular time was in its infancy stage.
	Now it's interesting that James Comey's signing off on all of this in October, and then in January, he goes and tells then President elect Trump, oh, we have this salacious dossier, but it's unverified.
	Well, if it's unverified in January, why was he arguing in October that it was valid enough to be used in part to get a FISA warrant?
	Now remember if you go to the Senate memorandum that was released yesterday, you know, what is one of the main findings that Steele gathered much of his information from the Russian government, Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	Well, that speaks volumes.
	And if you look, you know, particularly you got you got a lot of problems here with all of this.
	One of the things that we should be cherishing the mo the most is our Constitution and the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure.
	This has always been the danger as it relates to FISA.
	And now we're weaponizing the intelligence community to go after opposition party candidates based on one candidate's bought and paid for phony information.
	Senator Rampall of Kentucky joins us.
	He's probably been one of the more outspoken people talking about the potential for Pfizer abuse.
	Well, here we are.
	Well, and you know, the thing is, one of the great ironies here is that the only money that we know that has exchanged hands is from Hillary Clinton to a British spy to Russian agents.
	So really the only money that went from a presidential campaign to Russia that we know of actually went from the Hillary Clinton campaign to Russians, stopping, you know, midstream with a British spy.
	And isn't it amazing that these people can stand up with a straight face, Adam Schiff and these others, and pontificate about how there's a collusion problem between the Trump campaign, when in reality the only thing we know is that Hillary Clinton actually did pay Russians for dirt on uh the Trump campaign.
	So what do we do from here?
	I mean, you're reading these memos.
	You uh and I talked to somebody that read the Democratic memo, and there's nothing there.
	They're not they're not contradicting anything of what I'm saying in all of this.
	Right.
	Well, here's the sad thing, and this is the real truth that people need to know.
	Well, Nunes has done us a service.
	Chairman Nunes did us a service by releasing this memo.
	He also held that memo until the debate was over on Pfizer reform.
	A bunch of us who wanted to reform Pfizer and make it to where people like Strack and Lisa Page and Bruce Orr could not search this database without a warrant.
	Nun has blocked us on this.
	So he saves this memo till the debate is over.
	So the only chance for meaningful reform of Pfizer happened a week before the or even just a couple of days before Nunes released this memo.
	So right now the the idea that the Congress would reform the intelligence community and put more controls on them so they can't use political bias to search Americans, uh that doesn't exist because Nun has waited on this, and Nunes really was part of the opposition.
	He was opposed to the reform that we put forward.
	So that's the only thing that disappoints me is that uh, you know, some are saying, well, now it's all partisan politics, and it does appear to be a little bit because we're no longer able to do the reforms because the reforms were blocked by Nunes and others in the establishment.
	Well, I've talked to people on this program, guys like Bill Benny and and some people that have served the country, you know, like for example, in the NSA for thirty-four years, he's a whistleblower, and and he makes the claim that every single phone call of every single American and every text and every meet email is captured and is stored against our will.
	Did you know that?
	I don't know it for certain.
	I do know that if you talk to anyone overseas, in all likelihood you're in the database.
	So this would include thousands of American journalists who talk to their correspondents in the Middle East.
	It would include thousands and thousands of American businessmen and women.
	It includes the president, it includes almost every representative that's ever had a phone call.
	Now, what we don't know is there's also another database that was based on an executive order from a long time ago.
	And uh that order may well have another database.
	So there may be databases that even most members of a Congress are not aware of.
	We are aware of one they call the 702 database, and we think millions of Americans are in there.
	And what I've said repeatedly is Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have showed how incredibly bigoted and biased they are against President Trump.
	They should not be allowed to search this database, not to be able to use their political bias to search this database.
	So I sent a letter to the FBI director last week and I've asked him, can Peter Strzok and Lisa Page still search this database?
	Bruce Orr from uh the Justice Department, whose wife worked for GPS and they concealed that fact when they were getting the FISA warrant.
	He shouldn't all these people should not work in government any longer, is my opinion.
	But if they're still there, they should be absolutely prevented from any access to classified data that they could use for political reasons.
	Oh, I agree wholeheartedly.
	All right, so here we are, and I'm not sure, you know, everything that you said, but it seems that the Pfizer court was misled on in a number of main uh and conspicuous ways because the FBI knew at the time, and again, I'm not talking about rank and file FBI special agents.
	They do a great job for us, and I'm not talking about rank and file intelligence community members.
	I'm talking about the higher echelon, the deep state that were high up that had power and authority that the average person uh in the FBI would never have.
	But the fact is that they knew a lot of things and in this FISA application, you know, to spy on Carter Page and and get into the Trump campaign and then an incoming president.
	Uh they didn't tell the FISA court judge that fundamentally this money came from Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
	And then they included in it, apparently, according to the the memo out of the House Intelligence Community, uh an article by Michael Izakoff and Michael Izakoff got his information from the same source.
	And so what they're doing is they're they're acting like this is presenting before a Pfizer judge things that seem to be independent.
	The substantiation, the proof that the dossier was okay was was really valid came from a journalist who got his information from the same British spy who wrote the dossier.
	So they're using as proof that it has validity the same guy who wrote it, just talking to the media.
	The other great irony here is Christopher Steele, a British spy is being paid by the Clinton campaign and the FBI simultaneously.
	They're both paying him.
	Meanwhile, Christopher Steele is being paid to go around and leak to liberal media outlets stuff on this to trash Trump and to uh get the dossier out there.
	So he's being paid by the FBI and being paid by basically a firm uh a media firm that is wanting to get Dirt uh on Trump out to different media outlets.
	And so I don't know, it's it's really pretty galling.
	And I think without the text messages between Strck and Lisa Page, his mistress, we would have never known.
	I mean, so this is amazing thing that we know this much about how much bias was going on, McCabe's involvement in this.
	And then really the idea that someone at the high level of the Department of Justice who's involved with the investigations wife works for the firm that is hired by Hillary Clinton, it just boggles the mind of connection.
	Well you got McCabe's wife is getting seven hundred grand from the Clintons for her Senate run, and then you got on the other side, you got Bruce Orr's wife working on the phony dossier basically being paid for by the Clintons.
	It's unbelievable.
	It's hard to believe this much bias was out there.
	Well, now but it goes even a step further.
	Now in the second what if you look at the Senate memo that they put out in the Senate memo, we're learning a lot of other things.
	And this gets back to my point, though, that there needs to be an incredibly high bar for the FBI to announce investigations during the presidential election.
	So I think the Democrats actually have a valid point that when he makes a big announcement that we're not going to indict Hillary Clinton and then damning her by saying all this stuff, really people knew this and they could have made a decision, but by the FBI getting involved with press conferences, it elevated it to another level.
	And so the Democrats have a point that the FBI might have tainted the election and cost Hillary the election.
	And then though we come back, and now the shoes on the other foot, and then, you know, weeks before the election, somehow they decide to investigate Trump.
	Really, these are so politicized that the FBI needs to be doing their job.
	If it's involves politics, it needs to be very quiet dur quiet during election season.
	Otherwise they're going to influence the election.
	Agreed.
	And now in the second memo, we have Hillary Clinton's uh buddies, we find out, like Sidney Blumenthal and others, they're actually feeding dossier information to Christopher Steele.
	So you got Clinton friends feeding false information to Christopher Steele for the dossier.
	He's you know, according to the the Senate memo, uh, we know that Steele gathered much of his information quote from Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	All right, so Hillary Clinton's paying for all of that.
	Then it's used to influence the American people.
	She's bought Russian lies, and then it's being used to get a FISA warrant to spy on a presidential candidate.
	I don't see any Robert Mueller uh in our future if none of this had ever happened, Senator Rampall, do you?
	Yeah, I in f in some ways I feel like we've been punked.
	I think we've been punked by the Russian government, and they're sitting around drinking vodka right now, laughing to high heaven how they got involved with our election, feeding fake stuff about Trump.
	It becomes a fake investigation, this big huge investigation, all based on them just having uh uh a good old time feeding information, and uh we're all consumed.
	I think they're laughing as our entire country is consumed with this.
	Meanwhile, no one's paying any attention to the great stuff that's going on in our country, the tax cut that three million workers have gotten a bonus and getting increased wages, three million people in the country, it's gonna grow.
	It'll probably be five or ten million by the time we're done.
	We have so many other issues we haven't gotten to as it relates to privacy in this country.
	I mean, look at all of why would Samantha Power unmask three hundred people in the final year while she's only the UN ambassador.
	You know, what about Brennan and Clapper and their role in this, you know, the unprecedented amount of surveillance, unmasking, not minimizing, leaking raw intelligence.
	Uh I think just based on the law, the fact that General Flynn was surveilled, uh, was unmasked and surveilled and leaked intelligence illegally, to me, uh he should never have pled guilty in any way to any crime.
	Because it seems to me that that information was obtained illegally.
	Well, I've asked about the investigation into the leak of General Flynn's conversation because that's a felony.
	And the question I've been asking over and over again, I have not gotten a good response to is have they brought people in who had access to General Flynn's conversation, and if they asked them to take a lie detector test on whether or not they reveal this information.
	When you join the FBI, the Department of Justice, you acknowledge in your contractual relationship that you will be asked lie detector test to make sure you're not leaking things to foreign enemies or leaking things illegally.
	And this is a big deal.
	If our private conversations can be leaked to the media, we the intelligence community has the ability to soak up everybody's conversations.
	I don't know if they're doing it, but they have the ability to do it.
	And then the other problem with this is if the FBI can bring you in and not tell you they have your conversations and then try to get you to make a miss statement or a statement that contradicts your private conversation.
	Can you imagine what kind of world we would live in if everybody's being brought forward, if private citizens can be brought forward or government officials and be asked uh whether or not their you know comments or their interview is consistent with a private conversation?
	That's a that's a terrible rotten world of invasion that uh I think we shouldn't want as Americans.
	All right, we appreciate you being with us, Senator Rampall 800-941 Sean, or toll free telephone number, if you want to be a part of the program.
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	Read the memo.
	Uh what do you think?
	Uh might the FBI be in trouble?
	No, I think this is an absolute disgrace.
	I think this is a dark day in American history.
	This is an embarrassment.
	The the Republican Party and its and the enablers of the Republican Party, basically with President Hannity over at Fox News, hyped this thing into the sky.
	The first rule of politics is always underpromise, overdeliver.
	They turned this into something where they had people believing that today you would see Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Jim Comey, Susan Rice marched off in handcuffs, and instead you've got people laughing at at Devin Nunez like he's Tommy Wizot.
	This is an absurdity.
	This thing is is the weakest sauce I could have imagined.
	For those of us of a certain age, we remember the big nothing burger of Geraldo and Al Capone safe.
	And so this memo is like Al Capone safe and Geraldo, it's a big nothing.
	I think that would go beyond what Jeffrey just said, and I think I mean it's it's pretty much a dud.
	I mean, I th uh Sean Hannity on Fox News has been sort of uh f flogging this idea that this document was going to be bigger than water date.
	Matter of fact, he said uh this is uh more water gate than than uh parking ticket, right?
	And I think the opposite is true.
	The president's take, though, to borrow a phrase is fake spin.
	The memo deals only with a sliver of the investigation, and it in no way vindicates the president.
	In fact, even as it questions FBI methods, the memo details contacts between Trump campaign advisors and Russians.
	That's it.
	That's all they've got.
	When you read the four pages of the memo, do you see a problem here as alleged?
	No, of course not.
	It's it's my reaction was the same as everybody else's.
	Where's the beef?
	I mean, where's this great scandal?
	There's absolutely nothing whatsoever there.
	This memo with regards to the Miller probe is a dud.
	And let me just repeat that, having having read it and covered the story for a while.
	As to the Muller probe, this memo is a dud.
	But it is nothing, a nothing burger.
	And less interesting about this memo is what what is in it?
	It's pretty much a nothing burger.
	Quote dishonest, misleading, partisan nothing burger.
	What you when you look at this memo, what you see is this really is the C team.
	I mean, America, I think, is tight entitled at this point to expect high quality artisanal obstruction of justice.
	And it is getting this kind of mass-produced junk.
	Bill, uh I asked your staff to print it out because I thought maybe something was wrong with my internet.
	This is all both.
	Is this the memo itself?
	Bill, don't read this.
	Get a people magazine, get style, get instead get Ebony and go into the bathroom.
	This is a way for the for the president, Dana, to discredit uh the Mueller investigators, and thereby, without directly poking his finger in Bob Mueller's eye, discredit uh the special counsel.
	We may well have not seen such dark days for American democracy and its institutions since the days of Joe McCarthy.
	The reviews are in.
	And Congressman Nunez's memo was a dud.
	Let's start with Sean Hannity.
	Uh, not to be undeterred uh by the sort of dud factor of the memo.
	You know what?
	The only thing better uh than one whack memo?
	More whack memos.
	All right, there you have it.
	All the hacks that say that they are journalists, that they are above the fray, the the ever so elite.
	Um, I don't know what else you can do.
	There, there is no desire Or at this point, even capability of them recognizing simple, basic fundamental truth when it's right in front of their face.
	Because when you look at the memo, what do we find out in the memo?
	That the memo raises massive concerns.
	And you remember, you have the underlying documents supporting all of this about the legitimacy and the legality of DOJ and FBI interactions with the FISA court.
	You know, let's put it this way many of them never cared that Hillary Clinton and her email server.
	If you, you know, if anybody, if Donald Trump set up a private server as Secretary of State in a mom and pop shop bathroom to circumvent congressional oversight, and then gets caught, and then the emails get subpoenaed,
	and he deleted 33,000 of them, and then he took the hard drives and he acid washes them with bleach pit, and then he took the devices and busts them up with a hammer, you know that every one of those voices you just heard would be going apoplectic.
	They'd be going insane.
	Can't wait for the IG report coming in in March, coming very shortly.
	And the IG's been looking all into this.
	And if there's any truth in the IG, then all of this is going to come out.
	And then if you had Hillary Clinton, if Donald Trump had rigged a primary, the way Donna Brazil said that Hillary rigged the primary, um, and but Donald Trump did at this time, I think you would see that the mainstream media would go apoplectic on that too.
	This is all in control incontrovertible truth and facts.
	And then if you had with all of the yelling and screaming about Russia, Russia, Russia for the last year without any evidence, evidence, evidence.
	If Donald Trump, and I'll go to the Senate memo that came out yesterday, that says that Christopher Steele gathered much of his information from Russian government sources inside of Russia.
	If it turned out that it was Donald Trump that paid 12 million dollars for this Russian information from the Russian government, Russian government sources inside of Russia, it would probably be a big Russian scandal.
	And they would be going apoplectic.
	But they are so hyper bitter bitter and partisan and so uh locked into their hatred of Donald Trump.
	And then if it was discovered that it was Donald Trump that paid for this dossier, now, and Donald Trump had already rigged the primary, so Donald Trump now is paying for Russian government lies that are full of salacious details, and he spends 12 million dollars, except he's spending it on Hillary, and it talks about things like hookers in a bed and urinating in a bed and things that are not true, things that were never verified to be true.
	Um, I guarantee you that that would have been viewed by the mainstream media as the biggest scandal in American history.
	Because the sad thing is, and then if you take it another step, if Donald Trump's bought and paid for Russian government sourced lies, salacious lies, were then used in part to get a FISA warrant during an election to spy on Hillary Clinton,
	and those that brought it before the FISA court never told the FISA court that it was Donald Trump's campaign, the Republican Party funding the efforts through Fusion GPS funnel through a law firm, funneled to my uh Christopher Steele, I think they would be going beyond apoplectic.
	And when you look at the initial FISA application in October of 2016, the three renewals that came thereafter, but anyway, the original FISA application noted that Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but they didn't name Fusion GPS, they didn't name Glenn Simpson.
	He was paid for by the law firm that both Hillary's campaign and the DNC funnel the money through, Perkins Coy, representing the DNC, representing Hillary's campaign, even though The Department of Justice knew at the time that it was the Trump campaign paying for it.
	The RNC and Ryan's previous paying for this.
	Well, then the application didn't mention that Steele was ultimately working on behalf of Donald Trump.
	And then that was used to get a warrant to spy on an American citizen.
	Are you telling me that that wouldn't be viewed bigger than Watergate by your media?
	Now, even they know that that's the truth.
	And to, you know, add some insult to injury here, then they use Carter Page, you know, or use Michael Izakoff's column.
	Michael Izakoff's column came directly from Christopher Steele.
	And they tried to present it as two separate sources of information corroborating the same thing.
	And we didn't, you know what?
	It was the same information.
	That was done to mislead the court.
	You know, a footnote that says, oh, it might have some political underlining in it might be some politics involved in this in some way.
	Okay, that doesn't, that's lying and misrepresenting to a Pfizer court, too.
	And then it gets worse.
	Again, imagine if it's Donald Trump and Steele's numerous encounters with the media.
	Well, then we found out from Glenn Simpson he's coordinating with the Clinton campaign where they want to leak the specific information to.
	And then before and after Steele was terminated, because he was revealed as leaking to the press, and that supposedly violated one of the FBI's rules.
	Well, the FBI that didn't stop them from being in contact with Christopher Steele.
	Because the deputy attorney general, Bruce Orr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with Yates and later Rosenstein, although shortly after the election, the FBI began interviewing Orr, documenting his communications with Steele, and then it was discovered that Steele was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.
	And then during the same period of time, Moore's wife is pretty much being paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign.
	Because she's working for Fusion GPS, and she's working on the phony Russian dossier full of Russian lies and salacious details.
	And the FBI even knew at the time that the information they had that was going before the court was never verified.
	And to quote the assistant director, Bill Priestap, corroboration of the Steele dossier was in its infancy at the time of the initial Page FISA application.
	So you have an unverified Hillary Clinton bought and paid for propaganda, which we now know was full of Russian government sources inside of Russia, that she pays for all of this.
	One to manipulate the American people and lie to them about who Donald Trump was, and two, then to get a Pfizer warrant, and none of this information is given to the Pfizer court judge.
	And then we find out in a committee meeting, December of 17 that the deputy director McCabe testified that the committee that no surveillance warrant would have ever even been sought without the Steele dossier information that the FBI never verified.
	You can't make this stuff up.
	And that's that's what they're telling you is not a big deal.
	That's what they're trying to convince you is a big nothing burger.
	You know, that's what they're trying to convince you didn't doesn't matter.
	Well, it does matter.
	You know, it matters when James Comey tells a president-elect Donald Trump that the dossier is salacious and unverified in in January of 2017 before he becomes president.
	But yet, three months earlier, he was signing off on that same dossier before FISA court to get a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.
	And there's substantial evidence suggesting that Steele materially misled the FBI about key aspects of the dossier's efforts, which bears on his credibility.
	And in Steele's own court filings in a litigation case that he had in London, he admitted he gave off the record briefings to a small number of journalists about pre-election memorandum.
	This was in the summer and autumn of 2016, and another sworn filing in that case, Steele further stated that journalists from the New York Times, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, New Yorker, CNN were all briefed at the end of September 2016, and fusion at Fusion's instructions.
	And then we heard from Glenn Simpson that he was working with the Clinton campaign to coordinate which news outlets they wanted to get this lie and these this propaganda too.
	And it's pretty pretty amazing.
	So he either lied to one or the other.
	And that's how this election went down.
	Basically, Hillary Clinton's Russian lies.
	There is a Russian scandal.
	For a year we've heard all the dangers of Russia, the danger of outside entities influencing our election.
	It doesn't matter as long as the person that's doing the influencing is supporting Hillary Clinton.
	Then it seems to be okay.
	Mr. Steele conducted his work for Fusion GPS is pre-election memorandum.
	And it becomes a series of memos, which then become known as the dossier.
	And then apparently he's working on another memorandum, which we don't know becomes a dossier, some of which was never put forth.
	But anyway, Steele's memorandum states his company received this report from the U.S. State Department.
	And now we got a new twist in all of this, and that information literally was fed to Chris to Christopher Steele from Friends of the Clintons.
	That's where Sarah Carter's article comes in.
	You know, like Sid Vicious Blumenthal and others.
	So you have Hillary Clinton's friends feeding Christopher Steele the phony information as well as the phony information he's getting from Russian government sources, all to come up with a salacious dossier that Hillary can wave in her hand and her surrogates in the media can wave around and say, You can't elect Donald Trump.
	Look at what I paid for.
	And then it gets used to get a warrant.
	Unbelievable.
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