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Sarah Carter and John Solomon have busted open the Uranium One story in a major way.
Remember, I told you at the beginning of the year, this is the year of the boomerang?
Isn't it all coming true?
Is it everything that we've told you for the last year as we've been unpeeling one layer of the onion after another, after another, after another?
I said it's now going to be more downhill.
That the Trump-Russia collusion story was a bunch of crap and lies fed to you by compliant media, an abusively biased media in this country, and there never was any evidence, and that Robert Mueller and his band of big Obama-Clinton donors, you know, there was no objectivity from the beginning.
And then we now, we've been able to break down and figure out, okay, well, we know that Hillary Clinton got a pass.
First, she committed multiple crimes.
I'll go through them in a minute.
You want to know what her crimes are?
The Espionage Act.
It is illegal.
The Espionage Act 18 U.S.C. 793.
It's gross negligence in mishandling classified documents.
Well, Hillary in the mom-and-pop bathroom closet had her email server.
And guess what?
That's mishandling classified documents.
It never should have been there.
And if any of us did this, we would have been charged.
And then, of course, intentionally mishandling classified documents.
That's another act, 18 U.S.C. 793.
That's E. Gross negligence is F. Knowingly removing classified documents with intent.
We know that happened.
She did this all intentionally.
That's 18 U.S.C. 1924.
Our friend Greg Jarrett has broken all of this down.
We're going to go through this tonight on TV also.
You can even charge her with theft of government documents, 18 USC 641, when she tries to erase them.
Then, of course, concealing, removing, destroying government documents.
Well, she did that too when she deleted her emails and then acid-washed and bleach-bit the hard drive and then busted up the devices with a hammer.
That's 18 U.S.C. 2071B.
And that would also constitute an obstruction of justice charge, 18 U.S.C. 1505 and 1515B.
And on top of it, you could probably charge her with making materially false statements to Congress.
You know, all of which, any of which you, if you took deleted, if you deleted emails that were subpoenaed, good luck to you.
If you destroyed the hard drives, good luck to any of you out there.
So she got away with it because the fix was in.
And the fix was in because of people like Comey and Peter Strzok and writing an exoneration before an investigation and then having their backup plan.
But what we've learned this week is so far worse than what we ever thought could have happened.
Because then on top of it, then we've got, oh, let's see.
Hillary has a bought and paid for Russian government, according to the Grassley Graham memo, a dossier built on Russian government, Russian lies, salacious details about Donald Trump.
Now, why did she pay $12 million for that through her campaign, funneled through a law firm, the DNC that Donna Brazil said she controlled the money?
Why is she paying for salacious lies about Donald Trump in a Ritzen Moscow with hookers urinating on his bed?
What was the point of that?
What was the point of Fusion GPS in testimony, Glenn Simpson, testifying that, oh, yeah, he tried to coordinate disseminating this false information to the compliant news media in this country?
Well, what was the point originally?
The point originally was simple.
She wanted to build a dossier of lies on Donald Trump.
So it didn't matter if it was true or not because she wanted to lie and manipulate and propagandize the American people in the hopes that she would win the election.
There's no ethics involved in this political game that they have.
And just like I can predict to you, every election season, every four years, every two years for that matter, you know, this whole litany of lies that are told about conservatives and Republicans, that they're racist and they're sexist and they're homophobic and they're xenophobic and they're Islamophobic, you know, and that they hate women.
It's all a bunch of lies.
So this is just taking the lying to another level and paying for it and using Russia as the source.
There is a Russia collusion story.
And the year of the boomerang, as I've been telling you, is now unfolding before your very eyes.
And so far it's not working.
So anyway, so then you have the fix-in with Peter Strzok and company.
McCabe looks like Loretta Lynch knew.
Lisa Page knew.
Then they have their insurance policy.
But the worst part of the story is what we learned in the Grassley-Graham memorandum, and it's that simple, is that when the FBI, because they got refused by the FISA court the first time, which is hard to do.
FISA almost is like a rubber stamp.
But their first attempt at a FISA warrant failed.
I guess that was in July.
And then they come back in October, just before the election.
And remember, Carter Page is just a pretext in all of this.
You know, the idea is you want to get real people to surveil with the Trump campaign.
They didn't need to surveil Carter Page.
It wasn't even a part of the campaign.
The idea was to get to what the Trump campaign was doing.
And then what did they do?
Then they go back to a FISA court.
Then the House Intel memo that came out, you know, it actually quotes the deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe saying, no, dossier, there wouldn't even have been an attempt to get a FISA warrant.
And then we learn in the Grassley-Graham memo, as it relates that to get this FISA warrant, the bulk of information was that Hillary Clinton bought and paid for dossier with Russian government lies.
See where the Russian conspiracy is?
See where the truth now lies?
We actually have evidence for the things that we report, unlike the rest of the media.
So then they're using, it was the bulk of evidence from the phony Clinton bought and paid for Russian dossier.
And then they mislead the judge a couple of different ways.
Yeah, they did footnote, apparently, that it may be political in nature, but the FBI knew damn well where it came from.
We know they knew at the time that it was Hillary Clinton bought and paid for.
It's not even an issue in dispute.
It's now as a matter of fact that they knew.
So they don't tell the FISA court judge any of this, and they get their FISA warrant.
Then they also deceptively, they know that Michael Lizikoff got a leak from Christopher Steele, and he writes an article for Yahoo News, and then they put that and attach that as part of the FISA warrant, as though it's an independent story with independent corroboration, but the source is the exact same source as the dossier.
And then if you think it can't get any worse than that, then we find out that we've got Clinton cronies feeding Christopher Dossier.
People like, you know, Sid Vicious Blueman, I'm sorry, feeding Christopher Steele phony information.
So you've got Clinton associates and Clinton lovers feeding Steele lies for the dossier and corroborating stories that on the surface you would know are not true.
Does anybody not true that the reputation of Donald Trump for many years is a germ phobe?
He was.
And so the idea that Donald Trump's going to go to Russia, hire hookers to urinate in his bed never made any sense.
And where really it ought to take your breath away is just how corrupt your news media is.
They're not news people anymore.
You know, one of the reasons I guess there's so much hate for people like me, because we make them look bad every day.
They've been wrong for an entire year.
There's no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.
The biggest corruption story in their lifetime was missed by them.
I mean, there was so much time spent by the news media yesterday.
You know what that was spent on?
Well, apparently when they first reported on Fox News that, in fact, that Strzok and Page were preparing a memorandum because Barack Obama wanted to know every detail, and they assumed that that was every detail about the Clinton email investigation.
There's some ambiguity, I'm not going to lie.
It was just attacking Fox, but they've never covered the story themselves.
And there's new emails, I'm sorry, new text messages out today with these two.
How do you have time to text 50,000 texts?
I don't have time to text anybody 50,000 times.
You know, if I'm having a longer text conversation with one of my friends, I'm like, call me, call me.
It's too much work texting.
You got to sit there, type it out, misspell, go back.
Then you go back and read it before you send it, and you see the stupid program put in a word because you started spelling a word and then it puts in another word and then you have to fix it again.
It's a pain in the ass.
I can't say it's a pain.
I hate typing.
Anyway, so I'd rather talk as I am a talker more than I am a writer.
So all of this is happening in our country.
Now, what makes this as bad as it is?
Well, what makes it as bad as it is is you have certain people that protected Hillary.
I just went through all the crimes that she committed.
They protected her for a reason, that she would stay in the presidential race.
And the idea was, is that we can't let Donald Trump win, and we can't put this 2016 race into such a tailspin that it would guarantee pretty much that Donald Trump would win.
And their assumption always was that Hillary's going to beat Donald Trump.
They never thought, remember when he first announced, there was just nothing but laughter at the idea that he was going to run.
And then it gets even more sinister because they keep this spying going on, this illegal surveillance going on.
Again, they never told the FISA court the truth that Hillary had bought and paid for the dossier.
Now we know that dossier represented the bulk of evidence presented to the FISA judge.
Now, if I'm the FISA court judge and there was an email, I'm sorry, a letter sent out by Devin Nunes that I think at some point is going to bear some fruit.
I think that's all going to come out.
Now we've got on top of it, we've got John Solomon and Sarah Carter, now the Uranium One informant.
This guy was, he has like 30 years experience working undercover.
And for six years, he worked inside of Putin's network inside of America, where he documented bribery, extortion, money laundering, racketeering, etc. kickbacks.
He's telling the FBI all of this in real time.
Robert Mueller, it's amazing how these names keep popping up again and again and again.
He's the FBI director at the time.
So Putin has, you know, his network inside of America wants to get a foothold into the uranium network.
We have a spy working on our behalf telling them all these activities are happening and documenting it for the government.
And then, you know, he's there 18 months or about 18 months before Scythia signs off on the Uranium One deal that gives the bad actor, Putin and the hostile regime, Russia, 20% of our uranium using bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering to get there.
And then, of course, we find out, well, the uranium is not going to leave.
Well, we know it went to Canada.
We know it went to Europe.
And we know we have pretty good suspicions it went to Asia.
And they let this deal go through, which the sad part is, is we don't even have enough uranium as a country.
And nobody in the news media touches it.
You flip the script and make it Donald Trump doing all these things, you'd have a very different reaction in the news media.
But they're compliant, the willing accomplices of all things left-wing.
All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity Show, the Daily Caller has a piece out today that it appears the actual source for the most salacious allegation in that Trump dossier, that, you know, the Russian hookers peeing on the bed, that one at the Ritz-Carlton, is a longtime Hillary Clinton hitman, Cody Shearer.
And apparently the Daily Caller is reporting that he was peddling dirt on Trump as early as August 2016, two months earlier than previously known, according to a U.S. government source telling the Daily Caller News Foundation and the House, Intel,
and Senate Judiciary Committees are investigating the so-called Shearer memo and how it made its way from the Clinton operative through the State Department into the hands of Christopher Steele, the British spy who wrote the infamous Russian dossier.
Now, the core allegation in the memo is that the Russian spy agency, the FSB, had video footage of Trump engaging with prostitutes.
The first memo in Steele's dossier dated June 20th, 2016, makes a similar allegation.
And Steele's sources claim that the FSB had recordings of Trump, et cetera, et cetera.
And you've got the revised Grassley Graham memo.
You know, Gowdy now has named Sid Vicious Blumenthal as Steele's Clinton source.
So you have Clinton cronies actually, you know, feeding phony information to Steele to put the dossier together.
And it's being fed to the compliant news media in this country.
I think the funniest, most underplayed story is Adam Schiff, who wants to be an NBC CNN contributor at some point.
He sends his staff to try and collect classified materials for the FBI after Russian pranksters told them that Putin has naked blackmail pictures of Trump, and you hear the phone calls, you see the emails.
In other words, he's doing the exact same thing that they accused Donald Trump Jr. of doing, which Donald Trump Jr. had not done.
All right, everybody's up in arms, and this is getting interesting to me, about the idea that Trump wants to have a military awards thing and a parade.
We're going to explain why I think it's a good idea.
I mean, the left is unhinged.
I mean, you know, Joe Biden, it's a Trump presidency.
He's a joke.
Chuck Todd, we can't take Trump seriously or literally.
Hillary, I get overwhelmed by Trump a dozen times a day.
You have CNN's Phil Mudd, but he warns the FBI is they're going to win against Trump.
Wow.
You got MSNBC Nicole Wallace.
Trump is a hamburger-eating Zamboni riding loon.
CNN.
Every immigrant in this country is a killer claiming Trump made that claim.
Chris Matthews, you know, Trump goes after Pelosi because she's an ethnic sort of person.
They've lost their minds.
All right, 25 till the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to join us, did you, did any of you in there, have you heard the reaction to Donald Trump wanting to have like put our military on parade and honor our military?
Did you hear any?
He's a trick.
That proves that he's a dictator.
Did you hear any of this insanity?
Yes, I hear a lot of it every day.
Look, I have a list in front of me.
James gives me every day.
I hate Trump PAC.
And that's what the pack is called.
So that takes up about, I don't know, what, 50,000 pages every day?
Look, all right, let me just run through the headlines and then I'll get back to the Biden.
He's a joke, Chuck Todd.
We can't take him seriously or literally anymore.
Hillary, I get overwhelmed.
Oh, she gets the vapors 12 times a day.
The vapors, the vapors.
Then you got this guy, just like Chuck Schumer, warning, they'll get you six ways in Sunday, the intelligence community.
Oh, this guy says he warns, well, the FBI's going to win.
What is the FBI going to win?
They're going to take out Trump.
And what does that mean?
What do they talk about?
And you got this Joe Scarborough wannabe, Nicole Wallace.
Remember, she, along with what's the other guy's name, Steve Schmidt, they ran the McCain campaign with Sarah Palin.
She didn't even vote for McCain.
And she's at the top of running the campaign.
She calls Trump a hamburger-eating Zamboni riding loon.
When I was a kid playing hockey, you know what I wanted to do?
Ride the Zamboni.
That's all I wanted to do.
Everyone wants to ride the Zamboni.
Listen, I know this is terrible, but we used to sneak out and hitch a ride and let the Zamboni pull us.
The guy used to get furious with us.
Will you wear?
No, just around the rink as they're redoing the ring.
We never wanted to wait for the ice to be done over.
Redone.
Redone.
So we'd, you know, like in the middle of a skating session, or we used to do what's called open hockey, or they had just puck shooting night and goalies would go in there.
We'd go to do that.
I mean, so we'd do all that stuff.
What was your position?
I was a center.
Okay.
I wanted to score goals.
That's all I wanted to do.
I'm shocked to hear that.
One day, so I'm playing in this league.
My father, look, he was tired.
He worked nights on weekends.
He worked seven days a week.
And anyway, he takes me to hockey early one Saturday morning.
I scored five goals in the game.
And he's sitting up there.
I knew I could see him.
It was at Port Washington, a place called Twin Rinks.
And so I come in, you know, my chest all puffed up after the game.
And I'm like, what'd you think?
And he goes, about what?
He was reading the newspaper.
He wasn't watching the game.
Meanwhile, I'm like the crazy parents.
I can't watch tennis because I'm flinching.
I hate it.
I can't watch it anymore.
CNN, they got somebody melting.
Every immigrant in this country, Trump believes, is a killer.
How do they say these?
Chris Matthews, this is my favorite.
Mr. Thrill Up is like, Trump goes after Pelosi because she's an ethnic sort of person.
What the hell is he talking about?
Let's see.
Oh, Biden again.
Trump is doing everything Putin ever wanted.
Jake Tapper, Trump continues eroding basic lines of human decency.
No, I'd actually say that's the news media that does that.
Guittieras says John Kelly has a lack of love and a lack of empathy.
And you got Lawrence O'Donnell trashing Kelly as the worst chief of staff ever, full of hatred like Trump.
It's unbelievable.
What is this WikiLeaks story?
I didn't get a chance to go through this today because I've been so busy on the Uranium One story and on, obviously, the dossier issue.
There's a story, I think, AIM, Accuracy of Media, so I'm pretty sure what the group is, that WikiLeaks revealed all the journalists who schmoozed with the Clinton campaign.
Did that come out today?
And remember, WikiLeaks has never been wrong.
I think they're going on 12 straight years now.
Yeah, it's a piece.
It's like 38 New York-based media members.
They attended this drinks and dinner party in April 2015 with Joel Bennison.
Yeah, but didn't we know about that?
Yeah, but now it's like they had the goals of the dinner.
So there was like, I guess, like a bullet point.
So it's like, what's your goal?
What are we doing here?
And it's like, we're going to give reporters this.
We're going to tell them how to frame the message.
Make sure they don't do any bad reporting on Hillary.
You know, just more back-in-the-pocket stuff.
You act like it, but I mean, you think about the media missing the biggest story in their lives and careers, and then they hate us.
And they just absolutely despise us.
And the few of us that have been all over this.
I'm like, I'm waiting for the next hit piece.
You know what's funny, though?
Because you, basically, all of you and the people at TV are now, I will tell, I'll send you a text, tweet out this or tweet out that occasionally.
But for the most part, after all the hacking, I don't do any social media anymore.
And I used to be so good at fighting on social media.
I used to love it.
And I realized it was becoming too much of a full-time job.
There's just too many people to fight.
I can't fight everybody at once.
So I just decided to focus on, you know, whoever I feel like going after, I'm just going to do it on radio and TV.
What else do we have?
You know, in spite of all of what I just said, Trump's approval rating tops Obama's approval rating at this time.
Now, Scott Rasmussen, he called the 2016 election more accurately than any other pollster out there, now has Trump at 48%.
And anyway, that number is higher than what Barack Obama's was on this day in his first term.
Well, as we all know, the Anointed One was so popular, most beloved and adored politician, you know, whoever lived.
He had a 98% approval rating with the media.
You know, the media never vetted him.
The media never talked about eight years of the worst economic record, the dumbest deal ever done with the Iranians.
They didn't care.
That's why, you know, they think in their bubble they knew better than the American people.
That's why they were all in a state of shock on election night.
Now, since the president's been in office, tax revenue, I'm sorry, since they passed the tax cut, tax revenues has gone up $18 billion, which kind of pisses me off because this new budget deal, this two-year deal, and I know we need more money for the military, and I know we've got North Korea, and I know we've got Iran, and I know we've got, you know, we've got a serious rebuilding in terms of modernization of our military that's needed, and that's very costly,
and the $80 billion is definitely warranted, but you get rid of sequester as part of the deal, and now we're blowing away all budget restraints at all.
Yeah, but see, the bigger problem here is that we're talking about domestic spending.
We had eight years of domestic spending under President.
Through the roof.
We do not need any more domestic spending.
And whoever is advising President Trump that he needs to counter defense spending with domestic spending.
No, no, no.
The problem is nobody went in and fought for Trump's budget.
That's the problem.
I don't even understand.
This is a Republican Congress.
This is Mitch McConnell sitting down with Schumer.
McConnell, Ryan, sellouts.
How do you feel?
I'm very upset about it.
We don't need a trillion-dollar deficit, and it could have been done better.
And the Freedom Caucus is spot on on this.
The Freedom Caucus are the people I trust in Congress now.
That's it.
There is some other good economic news, though, citing the Trump tax cut.
CVS boosted their employee wages by 22%.
I think that's awesome.
Maybe it's not the career job that you want in your life, but maybe if you're retired and you work at CVS, or maybe if you don't have any job at all and you still want to work, or maybe you're starting out and you need a job.
I mean, that's a pretty significant amount of money.
By the way, a professor at a federally funded elite university wishes Trump were dead.
When is the Secret Service going to go find this guy?
Northeastern University in Boston under fire.
He was recorded during a public lecture saying he wouldn't mind seeing Trump dead.
So nice of these professors to speak so lovingly and kindly about their president.
I cannot imagine what would happen to those professors if they had said this in the eight years that President Obama was in office.
Well, I can.
It would have been complete mayhem.
Listen.
As it just is.
Just a Hillary dossier, and we have Sarah Carter and John Solomon at the top of the hour.
I mean, the FBI informant now blowing wide open this ridiculous uranium deal.
You know, we care so much about Russia.
Here's the great irony in all of this.
You know, for a year, we've heard about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
And then it turns out that there was Russian government lies to propagandize and mislead the American people in an election year that was paid for by Hillary.
And then we've got, you know, going back in this particular Uranium One deal, Obama's president at the time.
We don't have enough uranium as a country, but we get nine departments to sign off in the Syphius deal to give 20% of America's uranium to the bad actor Putin and the hostile regime, Russia.
The irony of it is mind-numbing.
And the fact that it's rejected by everybody in the news media, I mean, there's also massive media bias of omission.
It's the stories they choose not to cover.
They're so freaking dishonest, a whole bunch of them.
They're just a bunch of agenda-driven hacks and liars.
You know, I would think that there's somebody, though, that wants to be unique, somebody that wants to get to the truth.
But if you ever have taken the time and you look at any social media, these guys, they really do live in a bubble.
And they really want to be liked so desperately.
I don't know why I'm missing that chip.
I have no, is this true or false, Linda?
I do not care if I'm liked by any of these people.
No, it's not.
I just despise them.
I think they're a bunch of hacks.
I'm going to go to the bathroom around you gets more upset than you do.
You guys get upset.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
And then, you know, James is like hit me.
Did you see what so-and-so said about you?
No, what did he say?
That's the military in him.
Oh.
Oh, and you guys are like apoplectic.
You know, well, you got to fight back.
And I'm like, well, I have too much work to do to fight back all the time.
I like fighting.
I do.
I mean, it's fun, actually.
I mean, these stupid liberal journalists, the lazy fat cats overpaid that just, you know, propagandize they're not even journalists anymore.
By the way, where are the calls for Adam Schiff to resign?
You know, he claimed for weeks before GOP leaders decided to release the FISA Steele memo that it would be the most reckless act ever committed by any government entity in American history.
A little bit of hyperbole on his part.
He insisted it would damage national security, compromise sources and methods, jeopardize the lives of American intelligence assets.
He was lying through his teeth, and he knew it.
They just didn't want this out.
Unbelievable.
These are unbelievable times we're living in.
All right, let me get to this other issue, which where I started.
So in acting, you've got the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award.
You've got the American Film Institute Awards, the Dorian Awards.
You've got the Razzies.
You got the National Society of Film Critics Awards.
You got the National Board of—you're supposed to be in that room talking to me, by the way.
You're not supposed to be in this room.
This is my room, my space.
This is my quiet place.
I'm kidding.
But anyway, then you got the AVN Awards, the National Board of Reviews, you got Daytime Emmy Awards, Critic Choice Awards, Directors Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Producer Guild Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Oscars, the Tony Awards, the Writers Award Guilds.
Did you just say on live radio that you wanted a safe space?
No, I'm joking.
Is that what you just said?
I did.
They bring in Coco?
I was trying some crayons.
All right, now the music industry has the Academy of Country Music Awards, the America Music Awards, the Billboard Latin Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards, the Country Music Awards, the CMA Awards, the iHeart Radio Music Awards, the Latin Grammys, MTV Video Music Awards, and the Grammys.
And then you got a whole other.
We don't have any award ceremonies for the military.
And Donald Trump...
That's what we should do.
Well, that's what Donald Trump was saying.
He's having a parade.
A parade is like an honoring of our military.
I mean, you got all these actors and actresses.
They got a thousand award ceremonies.
There's no award ceremonies.
Well, there actually are for hosts.
I mean, we do have the Marconi Awards.
Well, when you show up, yeah.
I showed up for both Marconi's.
I did.
I wasn't able to get to my induction into the Radio Hall of Fame because I had to work.
And then what else?
TV, I guess they have awards, but I've never been honored.
I've never been nominated.
But you got all these multi-car, you know, even the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, the People Choice Awards, the Teen Awards, the BET Awards.
Media's got, let's see, the Clio Awards, Conscience and Media Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, the Glad Media Awards, the Pulitzer Prizes, the White House Correspondence Dinner.
Why can't we have a parade and honor the military?
And then maybe we should have, you know, we should have the, you know, the people that fight, bleed, and die and make America great awards, like the Best Plumber Award and the Best Contractor Award and the Nicest Receptionist Award.
And you get to nominate people.
Not the best class.
I mean, I'm sick and tired of seeing these people.
Oh, and they're, oh, what is your gown?
Oh, is your gown?
Oh, Stella McCourtney.
Oh, I'm going to be a little bit of a son, Amazon, page 356.
Yeah, I'm wearing Levi's and a t-shirt.
That's what I wear.
I mean, it's pathetic.
And you would think he's a dictator.
See, this proves it.
He wants to have a military parade.
I'm like, okay, let's honor the military like you all honor yourselves at every moment in life.
I just, I can't stand those award ceremonies.
Why do they think that?
And they go and they sit in their little black tie and their designer dresses and their borrowed jewelry.
It's so stupid and so sanctimonious and so full of themselves.
I hate those people.
I have no respect for them.
That's why I've never been to a White House Correspondence Dinner.
Ethan wants to know if you have a hate list.
No, I don't mean hate in a real sense.
I mean contempt.
Do you have contempt?
No.
Righteous anger.
Righteous indignation is a better way to put it.
Because they've pat themselves on the back, and what do they do?
They entertain us.
Big deal.
And with all due respect, people are going to hate what I'm about to say.
There are some really great actors out there, but most of them suck.
They're all average.
Oh, well, autistes.
All right, as we roll along, by the way, we have another Justice Department official along with McCabe and Bruce Orr, and we got all these other.
We got another one apparently involved up to his eyeballs.
Tell you about that.
Sarah and John Solomon next.
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity show.
Write down our toll-free telephone number.
It's 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
I want to start before we get to this breaking news on the Uranium One scandal.
Now that the informant has now testified before three, well, one House, two House, and one Senate committee yesterday.
And everything we've been saying about Uranium One is now being vindicated.
Here you had a guy that was working for the FBI for many, many years.
He knew and understood that Vladimir Putin had a network of people in this country that absolutely wanted to break into the uranium market in America.
There was bribery, extortion, kickbacks, money laundering.
We knew about it long before Sipheus, the nine cabinet positions that signed off on this deal.
We knew about all these crimes.
We knew about Putin's motives.
Hillary Clinton does a radio interview.
She doesn't know what people are talking about regarding Uranium One.
And here's what she said in this interview.
I do know that this has been, this whole thing has been investigated repeatedly, and it's been debunked repeatedly.
Can I ask you just on the surface, because one of the things that people point to is that in their Uranium-1 story, it troubles them that the Clinton Foundation failed to disclose it was about over $2 million in donations from the chairman of Uranium One as the deal was being reviewed, considered.
Do you agree that that just looks bad?
Rita, that's not true.
The gentleman in question had sold his interest in Uranium One some years before.
It's just not true, Rita.
Now, I know that, you know, the right does a great job of throwing up these crazy allegations, but just look at the facts.
Go back and look at Shepard Smith's takedowns.
None of this is true.
Now, that doesn't mean they won't investigate it because they're trying to divert attention from their connections with Russia.
But I can assure you, it's been investigated.
It's been looked at by the press, by experts.
Everybody has come to the same conclusion.
There is no factual basis.
I had nothing to do with the decision.
Now, that is a fact.
I had nothing to do with it.
It was delegated to somebody else in the State Department, and nine people had to agree.
And they all agreed from all the different agencies in our government.
And then two Republican governors had to agree.
You know, John Huntsman in Utah and Rick Perry in Texas.
This is just a smokescreen.
So, you know, there's no facts to it, but, you know, I can't stop, you know, the Justice Department and the White House from trying to throw sand in the eyes of people.
All right, joining us now.
They both had Blockbuster revealing articles yesterday about this informant that now testified before three committees yesterday.
We have Sarah Carter, investigative reporter, Fox News contributor, John Solomon, investigative reporter with the Hill.
Thank you both for being with us.
Sarah, let's start with your report, and John, then we'll add yours.
Yeah, I think this is an incredibly important moment because for so long, everybody was waiting for this informant to come forward, for Congress to at least question him, to speak with him, and for congressional members.
And remember, they lifted the non-disclosure agreement the Justice Department did last year, and he was able then to transmit everything that he had been collecting over all those years as an informant with the FBI to Congress.
And now that he's actually spoken to congressional investigators and staff and answered a lot of their questions and gave a written statement to them, we're able to see how far and how long this informant had been working for the U.S. government, which is significant.
Because if anybody is going to try to stress that his character or that there was something about him that wasn't quite right, I mean, now you look at it and you see that he was paid $50,000 by the government.
He had worked with the United States government for many, many years.
Even prior to Uranium-1, he was giving information and working with the CIA at one point in time and then later handed off to the FBI.
And his testimony was really explosive, Sean.
He spoke about having information that the Russians were still dealing with Iran, that they were providing Iran assistance with their nuclear reactors.
That was information that he gave to the FBI.
And remember, at that point in time, the Russians were really vying to enter our energy market.
They were really taking over the global energy market.
This was a big deal for Vladimir Putin.
And they wanted to downplay their work with Iran.
They wanted to downplay their relationship with Iran with regards to the nuclear issue and the nuclear reactors.
And what we see is that he provided evidence, enough counterintelligence evidence that the United States was well aware that the Russians were double dealing and working with the Iranians, but still went ahead and approved the deal to sell the Canadian firm Uranium One to Russia, which controlled 20% of our uranium assets.
And we don't have enough uranium on our own, so the idea that we would allow any foreign entity, never mind a bad actor like Putin and a hostile regime, Russia, to get access to this is beyond any comprehension.
John, in your report, you talk about how the informant before these three committees made a lot of Clinton allegations to Congress.
Democrats, as usual, apparently are trying to dismiss it and discredit this poor guy, but he spent how many years as an informant for the FBI on this particular issue and how many years in the CIA?
Yeah, so almost 30 years across multiple U.S. intelligence agencies going back to the 1980s and six years undercover inside the Russian nuclear industry.
That's a long time to be undercover for anyone, let alone the FBI, which has a very intense job.
But here's what he said yesterday.
He said that while I was sitting there undercover informing on this bribery scheme that the Russians were conducting on U.S. soil, I was told by the visiting Russians who came from Moscow to Washington one time that they were hiring an American lobbying firm called APCO to do some lobbying and that it was important that they do this because APCO had connections directly to the Clintons and that some of the $3 million,
this is the Russians speaking now, telling the informant, some of the $3 million that was paid to that lobbying firm was to be used to provide pro bono donations of free work to the Clinton Foundation so that they would ingratiate themselves with the Clinton Foundation.
Now, that's a sensational allegation.
Now the question is, was there anything to back that up, right?
Well, here's what we've learned in our reporting.
One, starting in 2008, APCO was doing pro bono work.
They volunteered and made what are known as in-kind contributions to the Clinton Foundation.
And remarkably, in 2011, shortly after the Russians hired APCO, the amount of pro bono work they gave markedly increased.
That's according to APCO's own records.
Now, APCO will say that's a coincidence, nothing there.
But if you're trying to judge the credibility of this informant, he not only heard this and reported it in real time, but there is some substantiation, some pattern of evidence that suggests it could have happened.
And the real question now is, what did the FBI and Justice Department do with it then?
And what might they be doing with it now?
Are they investigating it?
Did they investigate it then?
Is there some improper situation going on here?
We don't know the answer to that yet.
All right.
So we know, Sarah, that Mueller was the FBI director at the time.
And we also have other information.
He had to know that Putin had this foothold because it was his informant that was undercover.
And the informant is reporting back to the FBI.
And I think one of the things we know for sure is that the informant was shocked that the FBI and our government did nothing to stop Putin and his efforts to literally get that foothold in the uranium market.
And one of the things I think was most shocking is when you reported that the confidence that was expressed to the informant that, in fact, the CFIA's approval was going to happen is because of Hillary's position as Secretary of State.
There was no way it wasn't going to go through.
Yes, and I mean, he was stunned.
He was so stunned by what was happening and the fact that they didn't even begin the prosecutions.
I mean, he had already handed over a significant amount of evidence on Transportation Logistics International.
And that was the American trucking company that was involved in all of the bribery kickbacks and schemes with the Russians.
And remember, they were moving a national security asset, uranium.
And so not only was he stunned that they weren't moving forward with the case, he was stunned that the information that he was providing, and you're right, Robert Mueller would have known about this.
You would think he would be apprised of this issue.
Andrew McCabe, they were actually reporting back to him at the Washington Field Office.
There were other people involved here, Rod Rosenstein and others.
So there's some of the same place.
How do these names keep coming up again and again and again?
It's like this little cabal of people that are involved in every single aspect, and Hillary never gets in trouble with all the shenanigans she's involved in.
Well, it is interesting that you keep hearing the same names, and you think of a type of inflation.
I mean, I don't think it's something that was planned.
I think that, you know, these people are in politics together.
They become friends.
They live and breathe politics.
They live and breathe Washington and these federal agencies.
So they know each other quite well.
I think what was most stunning to me was how patriotic and how much this informant really believed that this information needed to get out.
I mean, this is something that has lived inside of him for quite a long time.
And he's willing to fight this fight, despite the fact that he has been diagnosed with two separate times with cancer, and he's fighting that right now.
But he thinks this is the time to get the information.
And he still spent four hours before Congress yesterday.
Correct.
Correct.
Four hours, exhaustive hours, he said.
All right, I want to ask you both when we get back.
John Solomon and Sarah Carter with us about following the money part of this story, which then goes directly to the Clinton Foundation.
And like everything else, now we're still peeling back layers of another onion, another scandal.
And again, our so-called colleagues in the media are nowhere to be found.
As we continue, investigative reporters John Solomon and Sarah Carter is with us.
John, all right, so both of you breaking the fact the informant, the person working for the FBI, some six years, 30 years experience doing this kind of work.
He infiltrates Putin's network, and he's discovering all sorts of shenanigans and bribery and extortion and money laundering and kickbacks by Putin's, well, I guess, spies that are really in America trying to get a foothold into the uranium market.
You know, the question I have after the informant testifies before Congress is: all right, how far does Congress go in terms of following the money, John Solomon?
Because at the end of the day, a lot of the people that were involved in this deal were huge donors to the Clinton Foundation.
Yeah, and I think there's another issue, too, and that's called following the timeline.
I think when people look at the timeline that Doug Campbell laid out in his testimony yesterday, it prints a really troubling national security picture.
Let's just go through it for a second.
Fall of 2009, he absolutely ascertains for the FBI that the Russians are engaged in bribing and bribery and corruption on the U.S. soil, including compromising the very company that moves uranium around the United States.
That's a very sensitive thing when you think of the broken arrow scenario, right?
Someone could walk off of some of that iranium because they've been compromised.
So that's in 2009.
In the spring of 2010, he picks up the first evidence that Russia is assisting Iran's illicit nuclear program and may even have a mole inside the United Nations Inspection Agency that's giving Russia early copies of their intelligence reports on Iran.
In the fall of 2010, before Cythius rules on the uranium-war approval, he reports that the Clintons, that they may have hired AFCO, and there may be some untoward activity going on between the Russian lobbying firm and the Russian and the Clinton Global Initiative, which is a subsector of the Clinton Foundation.
Now, those are three things that he reports in real time, not disputed.
The FBI has it in the records.
It's not a doubt.
Now, let's look at what Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's administration did in 2010.
I'm sorry.
No, go ahead, finish.
Yeah, 2010.
They restore the nuclear agreement with Russia that had been suspended because Russia had invaded Georgia.
In 2010, they approved the Uranium-1 deal.
And in 2010 to 2013, they opened the door for more than $10 billion of new nuclear fuel contracts that make U.S. reactors, U.S. utilities, reliant on Russian uranium.
So a good question is: if you know that there are those three black check marks against Russia, right, corruption, possible influence peddling with the Clintons, and the assistance to Iran, did you let all these things go?
That's the national security question that Congress really has to get to.
And Sarah, it gets confusing for people because, you know, this is separate and apart from all the other stories that you guys have been breaking.
I know.
And the strange thing is they all somehow intertwine with the same cast of characters like you had mentioned earlier.
I think another really important part that a lot of people don't realize is during that time that the administration, the Obama administration, reauthorized and removed those sanctions from Russia, they also removed a loophole that a lot of people don't focus on.
And that allowed Russia to send, which they eventually did, you know, S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran.
Unbelievable.
Those got put into place in 2016, and Israel was up in arms over this.
And this is something that people don't think about.
Every little thing leads to something else, Sean, to something more and more dangerous.
And as far as the investigation, I certainly hope, and we have been told and we have reported on this, I know John has as well, that there is an investigation ongoing, it appears, into the Clinton Foundation.
And I'm sure that this will play a part of that.
And I certainly hope that the Department of Justice takes it upon themselves to really look at what happened here with Uranium One, because they're the only ones with the assets and the capabilities to look at where this money trail goes.
All right, John Solomon, Sarah Carter, thank you both for being with us.
We'll continue to follow these stories, and both of them will join us on Hannity tonight.
News you're not going to get from the Destroy Trump media.
Why would we ever give away 20% of our uranium?
Unbelievable.
All right, when we come back, the horrific budget-busting deal that is making its way through Congress, there's a lot I don't like about it, including there's no consideration of all the debt we're going to accumulate.
We'll get to that next with Dave Bratt and other Freedom Caucus members straight ahead.
I'm reminded of my own grandson.
He's Irish, English, whatever, whatever, and Italian-American.
He's the mix.
But he looks more like the other side of the family, Shall we say he's and when he had his fifth birthday, sixth birthday, he had a very close friend whose name is Antonio, who's from Guatemala.
And he has beautiful tan skin, beautiful brown eyes, and the rest.
And this was such a proud day for me because when my grandson blew out the candles on his cake, they said, Did you make a wish?
And he said, Yes, I made a wish.
He said, Well, what is your wish?
He said, I wish I had brown skin and brown eyes like Antonio.
So beautiful.
So beautiful.
The beauty is in the mix.
The face of the future for our country is all-American.
And that has many versions.
Coclong Sko.
None of my friends from my hometown know.
My parents raised me to be gritty, never to come home, complain, or take handouts.
I didn't want to have a victim mentality or be known for being undocumented.
But I realized that sharing my story would be therapeutic, raise awareness, and help other underprivileged people.
All right, that was Nancy Pelosi during her eight-hour so-called filibuster yesterday.
Glad you're with us.
24 now till the top of the hour.
I'll tell you one thing that is in grave danger of extinction, and that is being a conservative out in Hollywood.
Antonio Sabato is with us, Sabato Jr., and he's running for Congress.
And how are you?
By the way, you are like one of the most outspoken people in Hollywood, pro-Trump, now running for Congress.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
And every girl, when they heard you were coming in the office, it was like a whole contingency of people that were spying on you when you walked in.
How are you doing?
I'm doing great.
It's fantastic to be here in New York and be surrounded by you guys.
And pleasure, man.
Thank you.
You know, so you have a background.
You are a Calvin Klein model, right?
I was among other things.
I was in show business.
Still am, you know, for 30 years.
And still trying to work as an actor as well as running for Congress.
And you also did soap operas.
I did soap operas, movies, TV shows, Dancing with the Stars, and so many other shows.
How'd you do on Dancing with the Stars?
I did pretty good.
I lasted for two months.
Did you?
I was impressed because I thought I was going to go away really soon, but I lasted.
That's a hard show.
It is a hard show.
I mean, I've watched the training.
I mean, first of all, I don't like dancing.
I know a lot of people do.
I'm not a dancer.
Oh, yeah.
And I watch people, and you know who's going to lose like the first four weeks because they really suck.
And then you watch other people that maybe you didn't expect would be so talented.
I mean, some professional football players have been great.
Right, right.
They have the rhythm.
They can move their hips.
Yeah.
You got to move your hips over.
You got to hold your hips.
Yeah, that's what my golf teacher tells me.
You got to use those hips when you swing, Hannity.
That's right.
And I got a slap shot for a drive because I used to be a hockey player.
Love hockey.
And so you did.
All right.
And I got one question.
So when you're like doing a love scene in a soap opera, I know there's like they always say, oh, there's a thousand people around and it's not what you think it is.
I'm like, that's such crap.
I don't believe that for a second.
Well, soaps, even there's a lot more people because you have people in the booth watching the show than you have all these.
That's not what I'm talking about.
Yeah, there's a lot of people.
Antonio.
But I mean, if a person's really attractive and your scene is to make out with that person, you can't tell me that that's not, you know, you probably sometimes don't feel something for that person.
Oh, sure, sure.
I mean, you would have to ask them.
I've been fortunate enough that I keep those things separate, but I'm sure some people.
Is it all fake kissing and stuff when it goes on, or is it real?
Yeah, well, it's real.
You want to make it look real because people, you know, if you're kissing somebody, people are telling you, you didn't really kiss that girl.
That's the last thing you want to hear.
So I try to do my best, but obviously people get together on shows all the time because of it.
But you're doing, there's a, I guess, a new network called Pure Flix.
Yeah, Pure Flicks.
And you're doing a Christian soap opera called Hilton Head Island.
Yeah.
Now, how did that do versus the average soap operas that we watched over the years?
It's probably doing better because it's streaming online.
So a lot more people, like right now, you on a radio station here, saying.
Where can you get it?
Can you get it on Netflix?
You have to apply at pureflix.com and Netflix and watch the show and watch a lot of other movies and TV shows.
What's the difference between a Christian soap opera and one of the network soap operas?
Well, this one is spiritually related.
There's an outcome that's relation to God and the bigger power.
Because I did a film for the first time this year.
I don't know if you had anything.
Oh, Kevin Sorbo.
I did a movie with him.
Yeah, we did One Nation Under God.
It comes out this year.
So, yeah, exactly that.
It did so well.
We were like number two for a number of weeks.
We had no Hollywood backing.
We had no studio backing.
We had nothing.
And number one, we wanted to keep creative control, which we did.
And it did so incredibly well.
I forgot what we're in like the top.
No, I believe it.
Whatever.
People need good stuff, loving people.
It was a great story.
And they did a great job.
I mean, I was just the executive.
Congratulations.
That was a good film, yeah.
I might do another one down the line.
But call me up.
Listen, apparently you have a big fan base that's been coming in and out looking at you in the studio.
But I learned things that I never knew.
It's a whole different business for me.
Yeah, it's a whole different business.
Producing, executive product.
Producing, executive producing, and how long it takes, the lead time.
I mean, pre-production, post-production.
There's a lot of politics in it.
Right.
I mean, some theaters, I don't think, wanted to take it because my name was associated with it.
And I think because it was a Christian movie, you know, you have distributors that don't want to take it.
And it's kind of frustrating.
It is frustrating.
It's unfair, but we've got to fight for things like that.
And exactly, that's why I'm running for Congress because we've got to keep things plain field, on the plain field, because right now they've already taken away God away from our schools.
Kids cannot talk about God or even bring a Bible to school.
And sooner or later, I mean, they're taking away our Constitution, our 27 amendments.
I mean, this is crazy.
So what's it like in Hollywood for you as a conservative?
And I guess even more deadly for you is that you're a Trump supporter.
Right, right.
You know, it was funny to me.
In the last eight years, we've heard about, you know, if you talked bad about President Obama, you were called a racist.
Anything bad about the president.
Now, all you hear is about this man, the new president, is racist.
And it's just, it's wrong to feel that way and to bring that race card because right now we're Americans all living together in the greatest country in the world and we've got to help the American people.
We might have differences, but at the end of the day, we're all Americans.
So what is the agenda?
What are the important things that have inspired you to go get into the world of politics?
It really is a snake pit.
It's a snake pit.
But I think right now I'm a type of politician that I want to be is work for the people, not the other way around.
I mean, these politicians are walking away after retiring from being in politics a long time with millions of dollars.
And the American people always lose.
They're always the second or third.
For sure.
You know, it should be the other way around.
I am eager and excited to work and go to Washington.
I've been going to Washington.
I've been talking to the president.
I've been talking to a lot of people like Mayor Giuliani the other day or Cruz or Rubio, people that I really admire.
Those are people that have all been successful.
Ruth Giuliani, as mayor of where we're in New York City right now, transformed this city from a shh hole, to quote a phrase, into a city where tourism came back, safety came back.
Absolutely.
You know, we were at like 2,500 murders a year, and he brought it down, eventually got down as low as 300.
I was here.
I was living in New York when he came on board and cleaned it all up.
I remember Times Square.
Remember that when we were growing up?
I'm older than you, though.
Yeah, Hell's Kitchen was a mess by the way.
Times Square, it was all triple X porn films.
Yep.
Yeah, I remember that.
And drug dealers, literally every three feet that you'd walk.
And he came in violent like we've never seen.
And he said, no, you're all done.
Get out.
And think of all the crap he took just for trying to clean up the city.
Now they praise him years later.
It was like Reagan changed the entire country around, built our military, ends the Cold War, creates 21 million new jobs.
But at the time, he was hated.
He was hated.
And I think Trump, the same thing.
We've had one great year in terms of turning the economy around.
It's unbelievable.
This man is the unsinkable ship, I call him, because everybody around him is sinking, and he's the only one standing.
It's been a year, like you said, and he's been doing amazing fighting both parties.
And for the first time, we have a president who actually cares about the American people, and both parties are against him, and he's still standing there.
How well do you know him?
I know him well enough as a person to tell you that he's a good man.
He's a good man.
Listen, any president is not going to be perfect by any means.
No human being is perfect.
Maybe you are Antonio, but I'm not.
I'm far from it.
But I think at the end of the day, I believe that this man cares about our country.
How would you describe your politics?
Like, if people ask me politically, where are you?
I've always been.
I'm 30 years in radio, believe it or not, my 23rd year of Fox.
Congratulations.
I have not changed.
I am a Reagan conservative.
And I know people try to describe the president as a nationalist, populist.
He's not.
He's governing as a Reagan conservative.
The Heritage Foundation actually studied his first year and compared it to Reagan's.
And by a significant margin, he's governing more conservatively.
Absolutely.
I would be under the same category right there.
I mean, the Ronald Reagan Library is by my house.
I go there all the time.
Great, right?
I came here in 1985 when Ronald Reagan was here.
And he was always one of the greatest.
And I always looked up to him and everything that he did.
And so I want to follow up that.
I want to be able to help my community of Ventura County.
And please go to voteantonio.com because we need your donations to win this campaign.
And so far, what I see is people coming to me and asking for help and hugging me.
I mean, it's just beautiful, man.
I just take pride in the American people, and they want what's best for them.
I lived in Santa Barbara five years.
Did you?
That's my neighbor.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's the neighboring county.
I lived there when I had no money.
You know what it's like to live in Santa Barbara when you have no money?
That was probably tough.
It's really tough.
It was a big deal.
There's this place, Chubbies, I think is the name of it, a hamburger spot.
You ever go there?
I know it is.
Is it still there?
It's still there.
Oh, man.
That was like a treat for me.
That was my day out.
That was a big dinner out at that time of my life.
Why did you end up there?
You know, it's a long story, but I was a contractor, and I just took, I finally took time off after working my ass off for years, and I drove cross-country, and I landed there, and I said, I'm just going to stay.
Isn't that nuts?
That's a beautiful place, though.
And that's where I got started in radio at the university there.
Then they threw me out, rightly so.
And once they took my microphone away, I was like, all right, I got to do this.
Oh, okay.
So you found your calling.
Yeah, I did.
And I don't know why.
I mean, I've been addicted to being on air for the rest of my life.
Oh, you're good.
But it's such a nice, it's such a beautiful part of the country.
It is.
That 101 freeway, that drive is incredible.
I've actually done it from San Francisco straight on down.
Oh, you know, we had the fires and the mudslides that destroyed our community.
But the state of California is so beautiful, but the liberals and the laws that they're pushing for are just endangering our communities.
How do the people of California take a 13.5% income tax, state income tax?
Listen, it's not only that, but also the $26 billion we pay on immigration alone in the state of California and in sanctuary cities and AB 109 plus 2008.
Sanctuary State.
Yeah, it's a state.
I mean, it's crazy.
Do you think, though, that you're going to be able to transcend this mindset out there?
For example, you're going up against pretty much an unknown Congress.
What's her name?
Yeah, Miss Julia Browney.
I call her Miss Santa Monica, Julia Brownlee.
She doesn't even live in my county.
She's never been there.
She lives in Santa Monica.
Yeah.
No, I think right now we're going to fight asking the people are going to fight with me.
If we can't go to Sacramento, then I'll go to Washington.
If I can't go to Washington, we'll go to the polling.
They're going to have to vote.
People have to know what they're voting for.
Like the gas tax, they passed this gas tax, and I talked to millions of people, man.
I talked to a lot of people.
How much is the gas tax out there per gallon?
Well, it's going to raise it 12 cents.
Unbelievable.
On top of the 13.5% percent, you can't go anywhere unless you drive a car.
California, no, you're going nowhere.
And they're using that because they're paying all this money, like I said, on immigration.
So that's not fair.
If you live in Ventura County out in California, Antonio Sabato, he's Jr. is running for Congress.
We'll give out your website in a second.
I got to remind everybody, are you a good sleeper?
I'm a lousy sleeper.
It depends.
Right now, running my campaign, I'm not sleeping a lot.
You're not sleeping a lot?
No.
You know, running four hours a day.
I don't get as much sleep as I want.
But as we continue in studio, he's running for Congress in Ventura County out in California, a beautiful part of the country.
Antonio Sabato Jr. is with us.
So what's the reaction, Ben?
I mean, this is a big change of career for you.
It's a big change.
I mean, you got to have, you know, I guess a tough personality there and be able to deal with the bad and the good.
But I think at the end of the day, you got to know that I have a strong family.
You've been married a long time, right?
How many kids?
No, I have three kids.
I'm divorced right now.
I have beautiful kids.
I'm close with my mother and my father and my kids and my sister.
How old are your kids?
My little one is six.
My little boy is six.
And my daughter is 15.
And my oldest is 23, my oldest boy.
I got a 19 and a 16-year-old.
Let me tell you, that's the worst ages.
That's just the worst.
My son's 19, and he's all of 19, and my daughter is 16.
As a challenger.
And she's all of 16.
And how do they feel about you running for office?
They feel good.
I mean, listen, they support me, and it's tough.
It's tough on the family, but I think we're strong and we're going to make it through.
And at the end of the day, we're doing it for the rest of the day.
You don't take any crap.
I mean, my only person is going to be a good person.
You can't take any crap.
You can't take any crap.
You give it back to them.
And the other thing you can't do is you can't read what people say about you because if you do, it paralyzes most people.
Yeah, I don't focus like I have friends of mine in entertainment business.
They like to argue on social media and all stuff.
I don't take notice of that.
I just push forward, you know?
Listen, we do need really good people out in D.C. We're supporting your candidacy.
You have a full endorsement.
Listen, we need strong fighters.
Join the Freedom Caucus if you go.
Promise me.
I promise you.
All right.
Antonio Sabato, Jr., running out in Ventura, California.
Your website is voteantonio.com or go to voteantonio.com is right there, and I appreciate you very much.
Thank you.
Antonio, great to see you in New York, and good luck out in that race.
Quick break.
Welcome back.
News Roundup, Information Overload Hour coming.
Well, as you know, we took an official position last night to say that we can't support this.
It is eye-popping and eyebrow raising, and yet we've got to figure a way to not only fund our military, but we've gotten to a point, Chris, where we hold our military men and women hostage.
So we've got to figure a way to correct that.
Look, I get the problems with sequestration when it comes to the military.
I've heard it from the men and women there who are trying to make the most of the dollars and cents that they get.
And of course, there is a lot.
Paul Ryan himself has said we spend more than whatever 10 of the next countries.
Why can't we do it for less?
Seems to be a different tune now.
But look what we saw on the tax bill.
I was shocked.
I lost money.
I didn't lose tax money because I'm in that top bracket, so you guys took care of me.
But I lost money on bets that you guys would allow that tax bill, given how it explodes the deficit.
What's happened to you guys on this?
Well, I can tell you on the deficit is interesting.
We got all these deficit hawks that were Democrats and everybody coming out when we were talking about giving the American taxpayer money back in their pocket.
But they were not anywhere to be found yesterday here on Capitol Hill.
All of a sudden, when it comes to spending that same dollar, which is not their money, it's the American people's money, they're very liberal with that.
And I can tell you that when we look at the kind of numbers that we're talking about right now, Chris, you know, we talk about a trillion-dollar deficit over a 10-year period and it would pay for itself over 15.
This is money that actually won't happen that way.
When we're looking at increasing it, we could give three different tax cuts the size of what we just came if we would just get our spending in line.
And so I think it's incumbent upon us.
We don't have a revenue problem, Chris.
We have a spending problem, and it's time that we get that under control.
I know that there is a real commitment to solving the DACA challenge in both political parties.
That's a commitment that I share.
To anyone who doubts my intention to solve this problem and bring up a DACA and immigration reform bill, do not.
We will bring a solution to the floor, one that the president will sign.
We must pass this budget agreement first, though, so that we can get onto that.
So please know that we are committed to getting this done.
All right, news roundup information overload, 800-941 Sean and Paul Ryan having a press conference earlier today talking about this budget deal agreement that has taken place, Schumer, McConnell, and apparently the House of Representatives.
Before that, we heard from Mark Meadows of the Freedom Caucus.
They're not supporting the current spending bill.
We do have a big spending problem.
Sequestration has become a problem, though, as it relates to military spending.
One of the good things that I think is happening out of this so-called budget deal is that we are getting an additional $80 billion for the military.
Apparently, it's very needed, especially in the more dangerous world we live in, and $85 billion in year two.
Joining us with their thoughts on all of this, we have Freedom Caucus representatives, Dave Brad of Virginia, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
Welcome both of you to the program.
And Congressman Bratt, what do you think about the deal overall?
It seems to be an extraordinary amount of money, and I don't see any cuts or, you know, baseline budgeting is back forever, it seems.
Yeah, no, I taught economics for 20 years.
I ran for the college kids and the next generation on this exact issue, and now we're running a trillion-dollar deficit as far as the eye can see.
What people may not know about the process, the House did its work.
We passed 12 appropriate bills, but then just like with Obamacare, once it gets to the Senate, everyone says they want us to compromise up in this city.
But every time we compromise, it was over there for five minutes.
The Senate added $300 billion, and it's going to be $400 billion by the time it's all done.
And then that just provides upper bound on the numbers.
And then you're going to see all sorts of liberal policy get shoved underneath those budget numbers in the months to come.
And we're raising the debt ceiling.
And tucked in a few hundred pages in, is probably the most important part.
We're getting up our ability to do reconciliation unilaterally.
That's how we got taxes done.
We were going to do welfare reform and some other great stuff using reconciliation.
We're unilaterally giving up our power to work on behalf of Republican policy, and the Democrats are winning.
And now we're going to promise a DACA fix.
And I hope we get President Trump's priorities straight there.
Well, any deal, I think the President's been very clear that he is insisting on the border wall fully funded, isn't he?
Yeah, at a minimum.
He wants to end.
Well, he also wants to enchant migration and the lottery system, too.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
If that's the deal to get it done, is that a good deal or no?
If you've got the Good Lat bill with all those components, I can back that.
But you saw what just happened to us on the budget.
Once you get negotiating and compromising up here with the Senate, look at the outcome on the budget.
It's a disaster.
Is there any Freedom Caucus members supporting it at all?
I don't know, maybe a couple, but not many.
Yeah.
What's your take, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania?
Well, I'll tell you, Sean, three of us, Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, and Scott Perry, went up to the Rules Committee this fall and offered an amendment to the appropriations process to spend for the military at the higher number because we all know that readiness has gone down 70 percent.
And I've worn the uniform for over 30 years.
Readiness has gone down 70 percent over the last 10 years.
We have twice the rate of aviation accidents.
The military has been hobbled by the Obama administration, and we want to spend and invest the required number so our boys and girls on the front line can defend our country.
But I will tell you, it did not include, and it never should have included, this is $117 billion higher than the president's request.
The president requested more domestic spending, but this is $117 billion higher than that.
It's literally 70% higher than any two-year non-defense increase ever requested by President Obama.
These are Republicans doing this, Sean.
I mean, sure, the liberal Democrats in the Senate are happy to do it, but this is essentially turning into a Democrat bill.
And now we're even hearing there's going to be Obamacare fixes in this thing.
Obamacare fixes?
Well, when do you get a chance to read it?
I thought we actually were going to read bills before we signed them.
Well, they're still working on it.
I know in the Senate, so we're waiting for the details.
Okay, and then are you going to have regular order?
Are you going to have time for every member to absorb what's in there?
Is there going to be time for debate?
Are you going to have time to adjust it and then maybe go to conference?
I'm dreaming, right?
The government's going to shut down.
We have the urgency of the ships.
But they always do this.
But they always push it right up to the end so nobody does read it, and they say, oh, we did it.
We got it done in time.
And meanwhile, there's nothing but crap in it.
Yeah, the fix is already in, Sean.
That's the problem.
The House sent a good bill over just a couple days ago, and the Freedom Caucus was all on board increase in military spending, hold the line on domestic so that we can get this $20 trillion debt in order so we don't have to watch the bond market go through the roof and the stock market fall through the floor.
And it comes, like Dave said, it went to the Senate for five minutes, and all of a sudden they had $300 or $400 billion in non-offset spending on it and then send it back and say, well, this is a good deal for America.
Obama didn't even try this stuff.
Yeah, so at this point, you're saying, basically, Congressman Brett, there's nothing that can be done that fixes in?
Well, I don't know.
It's not just the Freedom Caucus.
We're being thrown under the bus, as usual, even by some folks on our side who ran on fiscal responsibility.
So the news channels are full of it.
But we have 100 Republicans that are no on this thing.
We'll see if they can talk a few of them into switching.
But they're going to have to have 100 Democrats to fix it as well.
And then the folks that listen to your show know what's going on, right?
We had a bout of wage rate inflation this week, and wages are up because of Trump's tax cut proposal is so phenomenal.
We're hitting it out of the park.
We got GDP growth at 5% next quarter.
So that's got wages going up, and that's spooked the markets because that's going to push interest rates up.
And when interest rates go up, wait till you see the cost of paying off $21 trillion in debt when you get back to just normal interest rates of 4% or 5%.
And that's going to cause the bond market to have a hiccup.
And so we've got to get all of our policy going straight here.
And your audience understands this stuff.
But we've got to do a way better job of having this fight at the beginning of the year and making it clear to Americans that the size of the federal government is growing by 13% this year.
And hopefully their wages grow now, finally after the tax cut.
But they certainly haven't over the last 30 years.
They've been fighting.
Well, the debt and the deficit is going to explode.
I mean, it's a simple formula.
You know, the president's economic plan is solid.
I mean, the corporate tax cut's solid.
Repatriation's solid.
Energy independence is solid.
I think what the president wants to do, build the wall and end chain migration and end the lottery system.
That's all solid.
What I don't understand is how come, you know, why is there this fixation and addiction to spending so much money and no concern about future generations because they're going to have to pay back all this debt?
Well, not only that, Sean, we're going to be paying immediately.
This is 21% increase in spending over the next two years.
So while finally wages are going up and opportunity is going up, you're going to need to increase your wages and your opportunity by that much just to keep up with the federal government.
Well, I mean, that's the problem.
All right, let me switch gears here a little bit.
By the way, what's the point of having a Republican Congress?
I mean, it just, gee, thanks a lot, guys.
Let me ask you both this.
We have this situation now.
Robert Mueller is got a special counsel, but we're learning a lot of things that we've been breaking day after day and night after night.
And now we know for a fact that, you know, Hillary Clinton bought and paid for this phony Russian government dossier with salacious lies about Donald Trump.
It was first then disseminated to the American people in the hopes that that phony information she bought and paid for would help her win the election.
And then it was used to spy on an incoming administration and a president-elect.
And I'm watching this whole thing unfold.
This is connected, in my view, and I disagree with Paul Ryan's comments about it.
This is absolutely connected to the appointment of the special counsel Mueller.
Of course, it's connected, and they're all running scared here because they don't want it to look bad because the liberals are going to say you're picking on the FBI and you're disrespecting the Department of Justice.
All we're doing is pointing out the facts and where the facts lead.
Certainly, we love our law enforcement agencies, and certainly Republican.
Liberals have such a good history of standing up for law enforcement.
That argument just doesn't fly with me.
And nobody's picking on the FBI.
We're thankful for the FBI.
We're thankful for the Intel community.
We're thankful for all those people that are honest brokers.
But when you see that James Comey and others are putting forward a FISA warrant and they're using Hillary's bought and paid for dossier, and they're not telling the judge that it was paid for by Hillary Clinton, something's really wrong here.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
The majority of these people are hardworking people that have the right idea in mind.
They want to go catch criminals, but it only takes a couple rotten eggs to really mix things up.
And that's what we've got.
And unfortunately, they're at the top of these organizations.
Yeah.
Is there anything at this point that can happen?
Do you see the Attorney General stepping in?
Do we need a special counsel?
Does Robert Mueller need to close up shop at this point?
Well, we definitely need a special counsel, in my opinion, a special counsel, a second one, or a federal grand jury impaneled.
And I think I'm really hopeful that the Attorney General is going to step in once the IG report is made public.
Well, okay.
So the IG report is supposed to get into the Clinton email server scandal, but we already know she committed multiple felonies, and we know that the fix was in because James Comey and Peter Strzok all knew ahead of time that the fix was in.
That's why they kept writing the exoneration letter months before they did their investigation.
Yeah, with Jim Jordan and oversight, they're going to follow all these paths.
And the average person back home, what you see is, and Perry had it just right, it's unfortunate these things are linked, but the reason they're linked to the prior investigation with Mueller is because the head of the FBI, Comey, was fired, and five other folks at the FBI and Justice Department have been fired or lost their jobs.
And now there's another investigation at the State Department.
And so that connects, and these are all high-level political appointees, right?
And in those texts and emails you mentioned, the most damning evidence is they all, it's a political bet up here.
They said Hillary's going to win, so let's put all of our chips over there, right, so she doesn't get ticked off at us.
And so they made a gamble, they bet, and they lost.
That was the shocker part is when Trump won.
Do you see crimes committed as I do?
Oh, absolutely.
When you got people being fired and stepping down from the FBI, it's just a matter of time.
But we have to go through the steps like Scott Perry just said, and you have to establish the legal case.
And I think they're working on that.
All right, we've got to take a break.
We'll have more with Dave Bratt and Scott Perry of the Freedom Caucus.
We'll have some fun with Diamond and Silk at the bottom of this half hour.
All right, as we continue, Freedom Caucus members, Dave Bratt of Virginia, Scott Perry in Pennsylvania.
So what are we going to do in terms of following the law?
How do we get to the truth knowing that there was an attempt to disrupt and influence our electoral process in two ways?
One, you had James Comey and Peter Strzok and others putting the fix in for crimes we know that Hillary Clinton committed so she could stay in the race.
And then next, they're not telling a FISA court that it was Hillary that funded this phony Russian government dossier full of lies.
How do we know, Sean?
Dave is exactly right.
There needs to be due process here.
We can tell now that the Democrats and the establishment use what's tantamount to a secret police organization to exonerate Secretary Clinton of crimes that we know she committed, but we don't know how deep this rat hole goes.
So we need to have a thorough investigation and then due process through a special counsel.
And the reason you have to have the special counsel is because the FBI and the DOJ cannot prosecute and cannot investigate themselves.
And unfortunately, because of this fake Russia investigation, anything that the president would want to weigh in on this thing is going to be seen as self-serving.
So it really has to come from the Justice Department, a second special counsel that is independent of the swamp of Washington, D.C. Dave Bratt, final word.
Yeah, well, Sean, you've been hitting it on the head.
You've said over and over, and you got it just right.
There's two levels of justice: one for the elites in the swamp up here, and one that all the rest of us normal Americans have to live by.
And so that's the problem.
And Perry just put his finger on it.
The Fox has been guarding the hen house, and we got to break that up.
And luckily, we have President Trump at the top starting to break this stuff up.
And that's the best insurance that we'll finally be able to see some justice and rule of law.
Everyone emails us regularly.
Hillary, as you said and shown, has just issue after issue after issue.
And it's like, why isn't anybody ever prosecuted?
And the reason is because both sides at the highest level know where all their bodies are buried.
We got to get to the bottom of it.
It's unbelievable.
All right.
Thank you both for being with us, Congressman Bratt, Congressman Perry, 800-941 Sean.
We'll put a smile on your face.
Our friends Diamond and Silk coming up next.
And your phone call straight ahead.
Silk, girl, who goes into this week's bowl of stupid girl?
Well, Diamond, Diamond, Diamond.
This week's bowl of stupid goes to the Congressional Black Caucus.
Oh, yes, the Congressional Black Caucus, you all.
There they all go.
They're sitting down on the American people at the State of the Union address because now the president is bringing back jobs, low unemployment, great economic opportunity, and they have the nerves to sit down on it.
And here, the great Congressman Steve Scalise took a bullet, bounced back from all of this here.
And he was able to stand for the people he represents.
That's right.
And all of these folks right here, they were sitting on their assets.
That's right.
You know what it's time to do?
It's time to vote them out.
Why do you want people that is supposed to represent you representing illegal aliens and sitting down on you?
That's right.
When I see these here, leaders, these congressional black caucus leaders sitting down, they are sitting down on the American people that they are supposed to represent.
That's right.
And for that, we need to start sitting down on them and vote them out.
We heard about these leaks.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
We don't like that.
We're not talking about no leaky toilet.
We're talking about somebody leaking out classified information.
That's right.
Against the law.
It's against the law.
Now, we heard that the president's phone conversations got put out in a transcript.
That's what we heard.
So we started doing our little investigation in our minds.
So here's the deal.
Here's the deal.
If the transcript was detailed, then check intelligence.
If it was sketchy, then check the people around him.
That's right.
Even check the cook.
And here's the deal.
When they find out who it is, they don't need to pass gold.
No.
They don't need to collect $200.
They don't need to go across the board around the board.
They don't need to buy a house or a hotel.
They need to go straight to jail.
To jail.
And let the law take its course.
Clean, clean.
And instead of him throwing shade, what he should have been doing is shedding light on the fact that black unemployment up under this president is extremely low.
Black home ownership is high.
And see, what I don't understand about Jay-Z is that he, you know, he rap.
And in his rap music, he's calling women derogatory names.
That's right.
You know, and he's made money off of doing that.
And the mere fact that he says money doesn't mean anything.
See, this is what we're talking about with these liberals.
They're trying to use their influence and their power to try to sway people.
But you want to sway people to continue to be poor while they continue to be powerful so that we can be beneath them.
But it's not going to work.
And what's wrong with Jay-Z?
He just mad because his influence did not influence people to go out and vote for Crooked Hillary.
That's right.
That's what's wrong with him.
That's right.
What he needs to do is respect this office.
Respect it.
Respect this president because this president is truly making America great again.
And somebody can also tell Jay-Z to stop crying like a baby and a little trick because Trump is your president.
Jay-Z is out of touch.
So this is what happens when they get rich.
They don't even know what goes on in the hood.
That's right.
They rap about the hood.
They call everybody bees and holes in the hood.
But they don't really know what's going on in the hood.
People are ready to start thriving again in this country.
So people like Jay-Z and all of these rappers can go somewhere and sit down.
I tell you what, if money don't mean nothing, give your money away.
Give your money away to the people that need it.
Go down there with Skid Bro in California and give them people all your money so that they can have a place.
And then you tell me how that's working out for you.
Or do your performance for free.
That's right.
All right.
That, of course, the well, good friends of the program.
We have Diamond and Silk are just going off on Jay-Z, and we welcome them back to the program to make us laugh today.
And they're always fun.
And boy, how much heat do you guys get for all these rants that you go through?
We probably take a lot of heat for it, but we don't care because at the end of the day, we really want to help our president make this country great again.
That's right.
But you are doing that, aren't you?
Well, absolutely.
We are doing that.
Yes, absolutely.
But do you get a lot of criticism?
Because I know a lot of people love you.
I know people that see you on my TV show or watch you guys on or listen to you on radio, they love what you do.
Absolutely.
But you know what, Sean?
Hey, the more they hate, the more we will continue to educate so we can make this place great.
That's right.
All right.
So let's talk about how did you first meet Donald Trump?
Oh, my God.
He came to North Carolina in December of 2015.
We were there.
We met him backstage.
And then he invited us on his stage that night.
And that's when we became famous because everybody now knew who Diamond and Silk were.
That's right.
Well, and then now what do you now?
I know you're still out there supporting the president.
Your online president, how many people see the, you know, you guys do this, I guess, on YouTube and on social media.
How many people on average see you guys do your commentary?
Millions.
Oh, that's right.
Millions of people.
Well, why don't you guys, you know, get your, you know, get on the road, get a bus loaded up, and go do this for people to see it live.
Well, we are.
Go ahead, Silk.
I was about to say we're actually doing that, Sean.
And I just want to say, real quick, we love you so much, Sean Hannity.
We actually changed our chit-chat time to 8 o'clock so people can see you at 9 and even we can see you at 9.
I don't need the competition.
I have enough competition in this world.
I don't want to lose one viewer because you guys are chit-chatting during the 9 o'clock hour.
That's why we changed it to 8 so that we can all see you at 9.
But however, we're doing a chit-chat live tour right now.
If you want to see Diamond and Silk in action, go to diamondandsilk.com, get your chit-chat tour tickets, and come see where we're at.
We're in Jacksonville, Florida, Dallas, Texas.
We're going to be in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Charlotte, North Carolina.
So go get your tickets so you can see what Diamond and Silk is doing.
You know, it's pretty amazing.
Now, have you done any of your events yet, or are you just getting started?
We're just getting started with our events, and we're so happy because this is what we call the grassroots work.
So we're just getting started.
Yeah, when you have these different platforms censoring our voices, they're trying to say that we can't say this and we can't do that.
Guess what?
We're taking the message to the streets.
Well, I think, but I also think that it's working.
I mean, I think what you're doing is phenomenal, and obviously people are responding to it.
Although, I've got to admit, because I've had you on both radio and TV watching you two, and oftentimes you have this blue drink that you all are drinking.
What is the blue drink?
What is that thing?
Hanny, that's some silk, silky silk, and hopefully soon everybody will be able to take a sip of what Silk is sipping on.
Well, what is Silk sipping on?
I want to know what Silk is sipping on.
What is that thing?
I mean, it's a beautiful, you know, blue color like the ocean.
And I'm looking at this drink, and I used to be a bartender, and I cannot put my finger on what this thing is.
I love it.
I love it.
That's just how it is.
It's authentic, and it's from Silk, and hopefully everybody can get a chance to sip on it.
Are you going to be selling this or bottling this?
What's the name of that Frankl Real Housewife?
She came up with margarita, skinny margaritas, skinny girl margaritas or something.
Well, I mean, you know, we can try that.
That'll be fine.
I don't know.
Skinny girl, skinny margarita, big girl margarita, whatever margarita you want it to be.
No, no, forget it.
Is it a margarita?
I'm asking, what's in it?
Can you give us any clue?
Sean Hannity, do you know I can't do that?
Is it vodka-based?
Is it rum-based?
Is it gin-based?
It's silk-based.
It's silk-based.
Yeah.
How strong is it?
Is it like a cosmopolitan or martini or something?
It's really light.
It has to be light in order for me to be able to commentate and tell you all what's really going on and going down, especially with this FBI investigation and stuff.
What do you think about everything that's going on?
I mean, it's pretty unbelievable with Hillary Clinton, and they use this dossier from Russia that she paid for to get a Pfizer warrant against Trump campaign people.
So now we see who was colluding with Russia.
It was the DNC and Hillary Clinton.
That's who was colluding.
And another thing, Mueller shouldn't be asking to speak to our president.
He should be requesting to speak to the DNC, Hillary Clinton, the FBI, and the DOJ up under the Obama administration.
And it wouldn't surprise me if Obama thumbprint went over on all of this here that's going down.
We were very upset about it.
Well, you should be upset about it.
I've never seen anything like it.
Have you two been invited to the White House yet?
Because I think you guys need an invite.
Oh, absolutely.
We'll be at the White House for Black History Month on Tuesday.
So we'll be back.
Yes, we've been invited.
Oh, so you're going next Tuesday to the White House?
Oh, absolutely.
Yes.
And you're going to see the president, I assume, when you're there, right?
I know you guys get along great.
We see the president.
We may get a glass of him.
We may get to see him.
Yes, yes, yes.
But we're going to be right there.
Well, while you're there, you need to say we want to see the Oval Office.
You've got to ask him for a tour.
Oh, that's awful.
We would do that.
Okay.
But if you don't ask, he's not going to, you know, he may not be thinking you want to see it.
So you've got to say, hey, listen, can we see the Oval Office?
They'll let you see it and go in there and have a good time.
And I think you should bring the blue drink with you and just tell him there's no alcohol in it.
Because he doesn't drink alcohol.
That's right.
He doesn't drink alcohol.
See, I thought we were all friends.
And as, you know, you were at our company, our radio show Christmas party, and we had a great time.
We were so thankful that you guys could come.
And you opened up.
That was amazing.
And you didn't have your special drink with you.
And I thought that was the night that you were going to share the recipe with me.
No, I didn't.
But you had your special drink there at the party, and it was good.
Yeah, well, it technically wasn't my party.
You know that, right?
But you was there, and that's all that matters.
I was there, and I was there proudly.
Absolutely.
All right, so let's talk about the tour one more time.
So you're going on tour, Diamond and Silk, and where can people get tickets?
They can get tickets at diamondandsilk.com.
Click on Chit Chat Tour to reserve your tickets.
We're going to be in Jacksonville, Florida on February the 19th.
Dallas, Texas on March the 8th.
And then Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Charlotte, North Carolina.
Get your tickets at diamondandsilk.com.
DiamondandSilk.com.
And so you're going to be in Dallas.
You're going to be in Jacksonville.
And you're going to be, what's the last stop?
Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Now, how many seats are in each venue?
Do you know?
I don't know how many.
Yeah, I don't know exactly how many seats, but we want all of the seats.
We want to see their faces or everybody's face in the place.
Oh, my gosh.
Now, are you going to do it standing up?
Are you guys going to have like a couch and chairs and are you going to do it sitting down?
But we also going to be able to go into the audience and ask them questions.
It's going to be fun.
It's going to be fun, fun, fun.
And then we're going to talk about the state of our country and we're going to talk about our president's agenda.
And we've got to change this narrative because, you know, the left-wing media want to lie and feed us a narrative, and we're not biting that.
So it's just talking to people doing the grassroots work, getting prepared for 2018 and these 2020 elections as well.
Well, listen, I wish you all the best.
And we really appreciate you guys, everything that you do.
It's been an honor of mine to get to know you both.
Thanks for coming to our party over Christmas.
We appreciate it.
And we'll see you on TV soon.
But Dallas and Jacksonville and Pittsburgh, diamondandsilk.com, get tickets and people can go see you and they're going to have a great time.
Yes.
Thank you so much.
We love you, Sean.
Love you guys, too.
All right.
We appreciate it.
All right.
Dan is in Florida.
Dan, how are you?
You're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hey, Sean, how are you doing today?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Well, I got a question or a concern here.
I'm an active 23-year veteran of law enforcement here in Florida.
And, you know, when you're sworn in, you're swore to uphold the law, the Constitution, we're held to a higher ethics.
And, you know, you have to have an integrity to you.
That's what holds us above others that are not in law enforcement.
My concern is I don't foresee, I would love to see these individuals, McCabe and all of them, go to jail for the stuff they've done.
I don't think that's going to happen.
But if we mess up here in law enforcement at the city or state level and we commit a crime similar to what they're doing, not only would we, A, go to jail, but they would pull our pension.
And there's been no mention.
You hear these guys retiring like McCabe and some of them retiring early.
I'm just wondering if it comes to the point where they charge these individuals or they do find them guilty.
Are they going to pull their pensions on them?
No.
Are the taxpayers going to pay?
Listen, I don't know where this is all going to end up, but I'll tell you this.
If we do have equal justice under the law, if we apply the law equally, if we really just do the right thing, all of what you're talking about and then so much more would happen.
Now, I don't wish bad things on people in their life.
I really don't.
But if you're trying, what should cut through all of this is an attempt to influence at a very high level, not rank and file, guys, at a very high level, the highest level within the DOJ, within the Intel community, within the FBI.
This is such an abuse of power, and it was all designed to influence a presidential election.
And that is what makes this so sinister.
That's what's so dangerous.
And then they tried to undermine and duly elected president on top of it.
There's got to be a punishment for all of this.
And if there's justice, there will be.
If not, I can't imagine what that means for the future of the country.
I really don't.
Anyway, thanks for a good call, Dan.
We appreciate it.
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