Sean Hannity Show - #CPAC2018 - 2.23

Feb. 23, 2018 - Sean Hannity Show

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#CPAC2018 - 2.23

Sean reacts to President Trump's remarks on CPAC 2018. Though the President did move off-script, it was very refreshing to see a clear vision on important issues like gun control and federal spending. Plus Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has a new show! The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	All right, glad you're with us on this Friday.
	A lot of news breaking out now.
	By the way, Rick Gates has pled guilty in in his case against the special counsel.
	I know people always want to read into what these guilty pleas are.
	I'm gonna tell you half of it.
	Half of it is you got a choice.
	You go for the the really easy, okay, not so bad, maybe facing a year in prison or 30 years in life.
	It's gonna go on six or seven years of your life.
	You're gonna pay a fortune, uh, even if you think you're innocent.
	It's not as cut and dry as everybody always thinks.
	But yeah, I know the media thinks this is the biggest deal ever, and that's probably all you'll uh hear about.
	Most people don't even know who Rick Gates is, which is fairly amazing.
	Uh we have some good news for the president today.
	We'll tell you about that.
	We have a lot of really big nuggets is the way I would explain developments as it relates to deep state gate, Obamagate, whatever term you prefer to use.
	Um we have a lot of new information as it relates to the Florida shooter and and this case and signs that were missed that we're gonna get to.
	The president announces today some the toughest sanctions ever against North Korea, gave a great speech at CPAC today.
	He seemed like he was just having I I don't think or remember where he's gone an hour and fifteen minutes like he did today.
	Well, we're actually gonna air part of it coming up later in the program.
	Let you hear it yourself in case you might have missed all of that.
	Um, you know, this will drive the media nuts.
	The media has tried everything they could possibly do um to bring this president down to really uh I the word is well, discredit, I don't know, sabotage, they don't want him to be successful.
	There's his success is bad for people on the left.
	If Donald Trump is successful in getting people back to work, making America more secure, if making America in energy independent, protecting our board.
	If he's successful, think about this from the standpoint.
	If you're a liberal and you want power more than anything else, why would you want the president to succeed?
	The president succeeds, the country succeeds.
	That means an entire generation now of people will realize that that his brand of conservatism works, and that's not good for those that prefer to be in power at all times.
	Is something intoxicating about power.
	And these guys want to be in power at all times, and and they think they deserve power, they think they know better.
	Anyway, 13 months now into the Trump presidency, you got a brand new Gallup poll showing the American people are feeling great again.
	Now, do you think of one of the biggest hallmarks of Ronald Reagan's presidency is America began to feel good about itself.
	Um that is that that is no small feat.
	You know, if you think when I said all during the election year in 2016, 13 million more Americans in on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, worst recovery since the 40s, lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, lowest home ownership rate, 51 years, doubling our debt, on and on and on.
	You think about that.
	It's it's it's demoralizing at points.
	If everything Obama wanted to bring to the country and thought his radical indoctrination of Acorn Olinsky, Frank Marshall Davis, Reverend Wright, Black Liberation Theology, Airs and Dor, it never works.
	It never has worked.
	And it's almost the same principle.
	After four years of Jimmy Carter, America was sick and tired of, you know, interest rates, double digit, inflation out of control.
	You know, the the debt, the dem the morale of the country was just beginning to sink.
	And people in this election, the forgotten men and forgotten women, now we've got two point seven million new jobs created.
	We've got the lowest unemployment level for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, since we've been keeping the data.
	I mean, we have virtually full employment in the country.
	Two million fewer people on food stamps dependent on government.
	And that's a good thing.
	So as a result, you have 45% of Americans now are satisfied with the position of the United States in the world.
	That's a 13-year high, a 13 percentage point increase from just a year ago, just after President Trump took office.
	And the public is also more likely than they were a year ago to think that the US rates favorably in the eyes of the rest of the world.
	And Americans are now more likely to be satisfied with the United States and their position in the world than at any point in the Obama presidency, according to Gallup.
	Now, for Democrats that are predicting dissatisfied Americans are going to retaliate against the GOP in the midterms, well, the results don't bode extraordinarily well.
	Twenty-nine percent think Trump is respected by other world leaders.
	A majority of Americans, 55%, believe the world rates the U.S. favorably.
	So, you know, the high satisfaction rate, I think, well, we'll see.
	You know, one thing that is going to be probably the biggest factor in this campaign.
	Do you want Nancy Pelosi as your speaker?
	Do you want Chuck Schumer running the Senate?
	And the one thing the Democrats have going against them is they stand for nothing.
	The only thing they stood for is what Obama gave us for eight years.
	And they were complicit in that American decline for that period.
	And if you want to go back to that, I know there's an ebb and float of political cycles, then we'll get the government that we deserve at that point.
	But I think it's, you know, it's too early to tell.
	Uh one other poll out today, the Rasmussen presidential tracking poll shows the 50% of likely U.S. voters approve of the president's job performance.
	That's the president's highest job approval rating since mid-June of last year, and Obama earned a 45% approval rating at this time in his presidency in the second year of his presidency.
	So obviously some things have changed there.
	And you know, one thing I think um might be happening, just an observation I have, is I think people now are kind of getting Donald Trump.
	They're getting the rhythm of Donald Trump.
	And as as the media feigns more shock, indignation, and outrage every day.
	I mean, they just try and outdo their outrage.
	He's nuts.
	No, no, no, he's super nuts.
	No, no, no.
	He's demented nuts.
	No, no, no, no.
	He's that no, I think what the American people see is somebody that rolls off up his sleeves and goes out to fight for what he believes in.
	And he fights hard, and he doesn't like losing, and he doesn't want America to lose.
	And so far, the things that he's been able to accomplish, especially as it goes with government regulation, and we are now, he has freed up America to now become energy independent.
	He did keep his promise.
	He did put a conservative on the Supreme Court.
	You know, you add that to all these businesses because of the less burdensome regulation and the and the better tax code.
	This is a better country.
	This is a better business environment.
	That's why people are getting hired.
	That's why companies are staying.
	That's why car companies, manufacturing is coming back.
	That's why big companies are pledging millions and billions to be spent inside this country.
	And that is that is good for all of us.
	And the idea that, well, we'll have the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, it's it's the dumbest thing ever because corporations don't pay taxes.
	You pay the corporate taxes.
	They just add the cost to the bottom line, and we end up paying anyway.
	We end up getting screwed.
	So at twenty-one percent, we're now the in the most competitive range, and especially the low repatriation of trillions potentially from overseas that have been parked that nobody would ever dare, you know, bring back to this country because of the tax policies, it's all good for us.
	And don't we want to see, you know, if you worried about money for schools so that we can put in retired um retired military concealed permit, retired police concealed permit, and protect our kids.
	Well, maybe this this wealth creation and job creation is gonna give school districts a little bit more money so that they can do the very thing that they need to do, which is protect our our students.
	You know, the the Washington, I went through a number of different places, and I got some information that nobody else in the media I think will tell you about.
	You have the Washington Post, Washington Times, Fox News, the crime prevention research center.
	You know, and I know the media doesn't like the president's idea of allowing qualified teachers, only those that would like to voluntarily car carry firearms with them.
	Only those that are trained want to do it.
	It's not anybody else with teachers, I think would probably rather teach and not have to worry about these things.
	That's why I prefer my plan, which is full complete security checklist and full evaluation of every school in the country and a threat assessment of every school, then you secure the perimeter, you secure the points of entry, you secure at least have one armed retired police military on every floor and available, if God forbid something happens.
	Then you have an ID system to let the kids in, and then you have nobody gets in that doesn't belong there.
	And on top of that, yeah, you have at least a front line of defense because most shootings were over in three minutes.
	Anyway, all these different groups, as I look through the information that they put out, there's a lot of good information.
	And it really doesn't matter what the media thinks, there are facts.
	You know, the media saying if a teacher tried to stop a school shooter with his own gun, it would only create chaos and probably end up killing even more children.
	I love how they just make these things up.
	Well, there's quite a track record, actually, of armed civilians, in other words, average men and women acting voluntarily, who made the decision to be trained and carry firearms, who have actually foiled mass shooters and save countless lives.
	Now it's happened in schools, it's happened in churches, it's happened in malls, it's happened in restaurants, dozens of times over the last few decades.
	And in no case I could find did any innocent bystander get shot by uh a good guy who was with a gun trying to stop a massacre.
	For example, the Washington Post, they had a story in 1997.
	Student eyewitnesses and shooting victims at Pearl High School at the rampage used phrases like unreal, like a horror movie, as they testified Wednesday about seeing Luke Woodham methodically point his deer rifle at them and pull the trigger at least six times.
	Assistant principal, Joel Myrick, heard the initial shot.
	He watched Woodham uh choosing his victims, and when Woodham appeared to be headed for a science wing where early classes were already underway, Myrick ran up, uh ran to his pickup truck truck, grabbed his 45 caliber pistol.
	I had my pistol sights on him.
	I could see the whites of his knuckles, he said.
	He reached into the car, he opened the driver's side door, he ordered Woodham to lie on the ground.
	I put my foot on his back area and pointed my pistol right at him.
	He couldn't bring it into the school because it was a gun-free school zone.
	Washington Post tells a story, April 98, Andrew Wurst, 14, charged with fatally shooting John Gillette.
	48, a science teacher at James Parker Middle School, as Gillette was chaperoning a prom for eighth graders in his eighth grade class.
	Anyway, after Worst shot Gillette in the head, police said that the teenager entered the banquet hall where his dressed up schoolmates were all dancing.
	He shot and wounded two other students and another teacher, and police said he began to flee from the hall.
	And as the 250 kids and teachers ran for cover, the owner of the hall, guy by the name of James Strand, he grabbed a shotgun and he followed this guy out the door.
	He caught up with them, held them until authorities arrived.
	Was that bad?
	No, that would be a good thing.
	And there's another case in Colorado Springs, same thing.
	Another case in California, same thing.
	I can give you one example after another.
	The media will never give you these examples.
	That's why I asked the simple question.
	If you're ever, God forbid, in a in some type of public building, and God forbid a shooting breaks out, would you rather have trained, retired, concealed carry military police there or not?
	I'll take them being there.
	I'd rather increase my odds of surviving.
	It's a simple, simple proposition when you really think about it.
	If you were in any type of building that has an active shooter, would you rather know that there are trained professionals, retired military, retired police in the building with a concealed carry permit and a weapon?
	I think the answer for everybody is yeah, I think so.
	What about if somebody broke into your house?
	Would you be glad you had trained, took taking the time and trained to use a firearm or not?
	Here's another example.
	This is in Colorado, 2007.
	Former cop, volunteer security worker, Jeannie Aselm is her name, saved the day at New Life Church in Colorado Springs.
	Thousands of people were exiting from Mass that day as a shooter, Matthew Murphy opened fire.
	Anyway, she ran towards the line of fire, killing the shooter, saving countless lives.
	You ever notice the media doesn't ever talk about these instances?
	California, 2001, a student, Charles Andy Williams shot and killed two of his classmates, wounded 13 others before being subdued and held at gunpoint by an off-duty police officer who was bringing his daughter to school.
	I bet you didn't hear about that case either.
	Or in April of 2017, an Uber driver that had a concealed carry permit.
	He had to shoot and wound a gunman who had opened fire on a crowd and of people in Chicago's Logan Square.
	I never heard that case until I I looked it up today.
	Or an usher in Tennessee at a church used his personal firearm to subdue a mass gunman September of 2017 who had already killed one woman in the church's parking lot and injured six others inside.
	And you have a Fox News report.
	This is from Sutherland Springs, Texas, November 2017.
	Armed civilian using his assault rifle to stop Sunday, uh Sunday mass murderer of 26 church goers.
	Stephen Wildford been heralded as a hero.
	He's a former National Rifle Association instructor.
	Lives next door to the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Spring, Texas.
	He grabbed his AR-15 after hearing the gunfire, went over to investigate.
	He confronted the shooter, shot him in the leg in torso before the guy dropped his weapon and fled the scene in his SUV.
	Would you rather have that person there or not?
	Pretty simple, fundamental question.
	All right, a lot to get to today.
	Um as we bring this up.
	One New Jersey school district voted for armed security guards.
	That's interesting from New Jersey.
	An Ohio school is arming and training teachers to FOIO massacres.
	And in New York, Comrade de Blasio is ordering metal detectors for schools.
	He took them out, by the way, in 2015.
	All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
	All right, Olympics.
	By the way, did any of you like and watch much of the Olympics?
	I was proud of the women's hockey team.
	They won the gold and they beat Canada.
	That was pretty cool.
	I've seen virtually none of it.
	You've seen virtually you didn't watch the curling.
	No, I did want to see the U.S. uh women's hockey team finally beat Canada, but it was on at like what, 10 p.m. and ended at 2 a.m.
	Yeah, it was a shootout.
	It was a uh well, because I never sleep, of course I saw it, but uh I thought that was pretty cool.
	Anyone else uh side shooting?
	I didn't watch any of it, but I'm just surprised that everyone loves uh curling so much.
	I guess it's like the sport that everyone thinks they can do because it doesn't really require much athletic ability.
	Let me tell you something.
	If you watch the people that are doing that and they move it so quickly to clear the ice to get that little extra, it's it's an amazing.
	I don't know why.
	It's fascinating.
	My favorite is ski jumping, and I have no idea how these kids on those snowboards do the stuff that they do and don't die.
	How about the how about the moguls?
	That they go on those those moguls at high speed.
	That's yeah, it's it listen, it's nuts.
	Your knees I can't believe that everyone doesn't need a new knee after, you know, five years of banging their knees on those moguls.
	I never liked mobiles, uh, moguls when I was a big skier.
	But I'm watching what's the name?
	Sean, the kid um Sean White.
	Sean White, I was why I I mean, it's like he almost has a hang time that defies gravity.
	If you watch the way he does it.
	Yeah, but the thing is he gets better and better and better every single time.
	And the the number of twists and flips and whatever the hell they're doing up there.
	I how could you be a parent and watch your kid do this without going insane?
	I remember when my kids were young and I were on a playground, I'd go insane.
	You know, twitching all around.
	Because that, you know, they it they aren't fearless.
	They don't know any better.
	And they're at the top of the monkey bars and they're holding on for dear life, and then they drop down.
	Oh, you're just thinking the worst is gonna happen.
	Nothing usually does, but occasionally it does.
	And I could not live through my kids doing that type of twisting and turning and hanging in the air and just imagining what happens if they don't land right.
	I don't know how they do it.
	I mean, I guess that's why you know it's sort of like the old wide world of sports.
	Just different sports, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, the drama of human competition.
	Remember that you're dating yourself.
	You know, I'm totally dating myself.
	What why are you so quiet there, Miss Linda?
	Why are you Well, everybody was having such a nice little uh, you know, rendezvous here on the air?
	I don't know.
	But you don't you don't like sports anyway.
	You don't even know what a touchdown is.
	I I don't.
	I I don't understand any of it.
	The only sport I like is hockey, and I have been watching the hockey, and I have been watching the skiers.
	It's actually really fun because I watch it with Liam, and Liam just gets the biggest kick out of like the hockey teams, and we're screaming we're screaming and we're maybe he's a hockey player.
	Yeah, this morning this morning we saw a little bit of uh Germany and Canada and Canada got spanked.
	Oh, and uh that was it was amazing.
	And like the German like wait, well, what where's this hatred from Canada for you guys coming?
	Well, they got Trudeau, so you know Trudeau's having a lovely week as well, so it's just fun to bash Canada.
	Um we just had the Australian prime minister in town with the president, they did a joint presser together.
	Right, that has nothing to do with my story at all.
	See, this is glad on talk because you're interrupting me about Australia.
	I was talking.
	You asked me to talk, I'm telling you lovely.
	Why are you being so cranky?
	I reclaim my time.
	I want to reclaim it.
	Why are you so cranky too?
	Here, I'll pretend to be Maxine and you be minutian, and I can't even get it.
	Why don't you just stop being cranky?
	I'm reclaiming my time.
	I'm reclaiming my time.
	Maxine Waters doesn't have that thick New York accent.
	That's why mine is so much better.
	Okay.
	Well, what would you like to say?
	Go on.
	I just thought it was so it's it's exciting like when you see these big tough, like, you know, these manly men, you know, they're skating around, they're beating the crap out of each other, and then they win and they all start crying.
	And so Liam, Liam, this morning is like they're all crying, and Liam goes, Oh, he got an ouchie.
	He's crying.
	I said, No, he didn't get an Alchie, he got a gold medal, and he goes, Gold medal, Alchie Mommy.
	I said, No, no, it was just nostalgical.
	I was dying last year.
	You know what is amazing though?
	Um think of what was the the swimmers what name, the guy that won all the gold medals recently.
	What?
	Michael Phelps.
	Michael Phelps, or going back years, I'll date myself, Mark Spitz back in the day.
	And uh, you know, remember diving Greg Luganis, how good he was?
	And I don't care, Lindsay Vaughn, I know she didn't have a good year this year, and I know people are mad at her uh because she said, I'm not going to the White House if I win and all that nonsense.
	But you think about you spend all these years training, and unless it's a sport that somebody really cares about, and maybe you have one shot at it.
	One and that's even if you get to the finals, you get one shot at the gold, and then maybe you'll get the Wheaties box cover or some type of endorsement deal, but then after the Olympics, what do you do next?
	I know a lot of people start training again and prepare for the next four years, but you're literally talking about minutes in your life in most cases in most of these sports, and it's not a lot of time, and the amount of effort and energy and training and dedication that goes into it, it's phenomenal that they want to do all of that.
	And I and the other thing I the only other question I have, when did Norway become the big medals winner?
	What happened to the U.S. this year?
	I was surprised.
	I mean, they're saying that the U.S. isn't so hot this year.
	Well, obviously.
	I mean, I think they have twice as many medals as we do.
	Well, it's always frozen in Norway.
	You would think that they would be good in the winter Olympics.
	Well, you got you're gonna make a comment.
	Like Katie Kirk.
	Did you hear the comment Katie Kirk made?
	No.
	That people skate to work.
	Oh God.
	Then they don't skate to work every day.
	Oh and she had to apologize because there was an outrage.
	Oh my god, people are so easily outraged.
	You're getting outraged over that.
	We got problems.
	Um I thought I read it somewhere, and it just came flying out of my mouth that people skate to work on these ponds, and apparently they don't skate to work every day.
	What do they think we don't have roads there or something?
	I mean, what what's the big deal?
	I have no idea.
	Why don't you like to skate to work?
	Yeah.
	I wouldn't mind at all.
	I love you know, look, uh, I tried to play hockey a few years back with uh some of my buddies.
	One of my closest friends, you know Keith, Keith still plays hockey.
	He plays with actively?
	Oh, yeah, he plays ice hockey.
	You know, it's the old man's league, but Boomer or Saiyan is in it.
	There's some really good teams and really good players.
	And he's been bugging.
	That's what I'll do with my free time.
	I'll go play female ice hockey at night.
	Listen, I I think if your son likes hockey, you should put him.
	I loved hockey.
	Oh, he's totally I already got him a little mini baby um hockey stick.
	I'll teach him how to hit a slap shot.
	Right now he's just beating up the dog, but other than that, he's doing great.
	Beating up the dog.
	Is that what your son's beating up the dog?
	It's really funny, too, because Winston thinks it's a toy, so then he eats the he eats the stick, and Liam's running around with the stick.
	So you mean he uses the hockey stick to beat the dog?
	He's not really beating the doggies too, but he doesn't understand what it is.
	I'm like, here we hit the mini baby puck, and then he sees the baby puck and he's like, here, Winston, and he chases with someone to take this out of context and put it on Sean Howard.
	Beats our dog with junkie stuff.
	Okay, for the record.
	Teaching your two-and-a-half-year-old son to beat a dog with a hot...
	No one loves animals more than me, and I have a ton of them, so it's all good.
	Listen, you love animals so much that you fed that cat so much that it was the fattest cat ever in the history of mankind.
	Could you do that?
	First of all, the cat.
	First of all, nothing.
	Could you take it?
	You still have pictures of that cat?
	No.
	You do you're lying.
	You're absolutely lying through your teeth.
	No, you do have pictures of the ridicule was too much.
	I couldn't take it anymore.
	Well, let's put a picture of the cat.
	No.
	Because I think you were killing the cat because you're overfeeding the cat.
	You're just not right in the head.
	You know that you're not right.
	I know it's not to overfeed the cat.
	To save the cat's life, it was so morbidly obese.
	This was like four cats in one cat that you had to send the cat to get like a personal trainer on a farm to save the cat's life, or the cat wasn't gonna make it.
	Are you done?
	Are you done?
	Are you having a good time today?
	At least you're carrying a couple of things.
	Yeah, I care.
	I Are you body shaming the cat?
	Yeah, you're body shaming.
	It's not nice.
	You but no, I'm body shaming the the person that overfed the cat.
	You're gonna need to issue an apology like Katie Kurick.
	Um owner shaming the owner that overfeed.
	Owner shaming the owner who overfed the fat shaming of the cat of the cat shape.
	Put the cat up on on the website and let people decide.
	Did you overfeed the cat?
	We'll make it our question of the day.
	Oh my god.
	I think you'd need to put that up.
	I'll consider it.
	So you do have pictures, which means you just lied to me when you said you did not have pictures.
	I will evaluate my photo library.
	You have pictures of the cat.
	It's in your phone right now.
	You could put it up in ten seconds, but you're now evaluating.
	I'm gonna evaluate.
	I'll get back to you.
	Let me get away.
	Uh okay.
	What time?
	I got TV then, I can't.
	Hey, all right, so the Olympics are winding down.
	President announced a new sanction package today against North Korea that's tougher than anything that's ever been implemented so far.
	Good for him.
	And he announced today a new package of sanctions aimed at cutting off all the smuggling routes that the regime is using to evade a UN embargo to fund its nuclear weapons program.
	And he said, I'm announcing that we are launching the largest ever set of new sanctions on the North Korean regime.
	He said that, by the way, according to his CPAC speech.
	John, I do want to say, because people have asked, North Korea, we imposed today the heaviest sanctions ever imposed on a country before.
	Thank you.
	And frankly, hopefully something positive can happen.
	We will see.
	But hopefully something positive can happen.
	But that just was announced, and I want to let you know.
	We have imposed the heaviest sanctions ever imposed.
	Why didn't he just give him billions of dollars like Obama and Clinton did?
	Where does the mindset from somebody come from?
	Oh, death to America.
	Death to Israel.
	Burn the American flag.
	Burn the Israeli flag.
	And let me let me bring in a few cargo planes with 150 billion dollars in American and foreign currency.
	And let's pay the mullahs, and we're saying, please can we bribe you into liking us?
	Five seconds after the money comes in.
	The next thing that happens is they're saying death to America again.
	It was the same thing Bill Clinton tried to bribe Kim Jong il, who's Kim Jong-un's father.
	And that didn't work with trillions of dollars and energy and others.
	It's insane.
	This is a form of insanity.
	All right, we have at the top of the next hour.
	We have Sarah Carter and we have Greg Jarrett.
	I want to set the scene for you, though.
	Paul Sperry has an amazing column out today in the New York Post, and he's talking about that the House Intelligence Committee chair, Devin Nunes, and how he's examining whether the vaunted Obama intelligence community assessment, claiming that Russia meddled in the presidential election was actually based on that bogus Hillary Clinton bought and paid for dossier.
	And Nunes discovered the findings that the Obama intelligence assessment, the OIA, uh mirror almost exactly the made-up crap that Hillary Clinton had her henchmen stick in that dossier.
	So from Sperry's column, he says, suspiciously Barack Obama's intelligence community assessment, the ICA matches the main allegations leveled by the Clinton paid for dossier on Trump, which wormed its way into the intelligence channels in addition to the FBI, Justice Department, and State Department during the 2016 campaign.
	Now, this is important.
	In fact, it looks like the dossier makes the exact same claim, and that is into the what the Obama televisions community is now echoing the dossier.
	Now remember, the dossier was never verified by anybody.
	Not by Fusion GPS, not by anybody in the FBI, DOJ, nobody.
	So they're basically mirroring the exact same thing, you know, that Putin personally ordered the cyber attacks on the Clinton campaign and leaked embarrassing emails to bolster Trump.
	Well, the person that quote leaked those emails is a guy we know who it is, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.
	And I think we're like the only people in American media that have actually taken the time to go to London to sit down and ask him.
	And he denies it vehemently that it was Russia or any state.
	But I'd like to know, you know, and he has the answer by the way of who did it.
	I'd like to find out eventually who did.
	Anyway, staff investigators now for Devin Nunes' intelligence committee are now going over every word of the ICA, including classified footnotes, to see if any of the analysis was pre-cooked based on the Clinton bought and paid for dossier.
	Now, James Clapper, Obama's director of national intelligence, he said in a recent CNN interview that the ICA was based on, quote, some of the substantive content of the dossier.
	Well, nobody verified any of it.
	There's still people now trying to verify it that are being paid to try and verify it.
	And Clapper also admitted that he broke with tradition.
	He didn't put the assessment to all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies for review.
	Instead, he says he limited input to a couple of dozen hand-picked analysts from three agencies, the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI, and that the report was drafted under the supervision of his office.
	And all three agencies agreed Putin hacked and lee Clinton's emails.
	Can you please give us the information that proves that?
	Because that's not what the person that leaked them says.
	And the Department defense intelligence agency, Homeland Security, State Department's Intelligence Bureau, other agencies with relevant expertise on Russia were all excluded.
	Unbelievable.
	We'll use it for a phony Pfizer warrant, and we'll all tell each other it's true, and we'll pat each other on the back.
	Hillary wins, and nobody would know the difference.
	Didn't work out that way.
	I actually have friends of mine questioning whether or not it's really true if Glinda's cat blew up to four times its Normal size because she overfed the cat.
	The answer is absolutely it's true.
	It's true in your mind.
	Breaking news now.
	No, I think I want to know why you won't put it online so that people can see that what I was talking about.
	You fed the cat to death.
	The cat.
	You don't know, it's not fine.
	You're gonna find it.
	You have it in your phone right now and you're not telling the truth.
	Well, you just said I fed it to death, so I guess that you know she's no longer almost to death.
	Is the by the way, is the cat still around?
	I have no idea.
	Yes, I'm gonna do it.
	Do you check in with the new owner?
	She's with my father-in-law.
	How much weight has the cat lost?
	I don't know.
	I guess he feeds her.
	Does the cat look like it did when why don't you put the before and after pictures after it goes when after you send it to the size?
	Of course, but I didn't say she wasn't beautiful.
	I just said that you nearly killed her.
	No, I kill no animals.
	All right.
	Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, next.
	I think from the rule of law perspective, just tell the truth.
	If you're under oath, you've got to tell the truth.
	That's why we have the indictments now of General Flynn.
	I read through that indictment.
	The indictment is a little odd, to be honest, uh, because the general was conducting, uh, Mike Flynn was conducting foreign policy in preparation for the camp.
	But paragraph five of that nails him on failure to register.
	That had nothing to do with collusion.
	It had everything to do with Turkey, the government of Turkey, and so on and so forth.
	That goes back to the whole argument about the law being too broad with the special counsel and the parameters by which you or others work.
	Oh, that's that's correct.
	And Congress, when we had the law, we don't have it.
	Bill, let me just say this.
	We did not we don't have that law now.
	That law was allowed to expire.
	Under so good.
	And I think that's a good thing.
	When did you first learn of the so-called steel dossier and what Christopher Steele was doing?
	Well, it was a uh not a very well kept secret among press circles uh for several months before it came out.
	And it was in late summer of twenty sixteen when there were some individuals uh from the various uh U.S. uh news uh outlets who asked me about my familiarity with it.
	And I had heard just snippets about it.
	I did not know what was in there.
	Uh I did not see it until later in that year, I think it was in December.
	Uh, but uh I was uh unaware of uh the provenance of it as well as uh what was in it.
	And it did not play any role whatsoever in the intelligence community assessment that was done that was presented to then President Obama and then President Elect Trump.
	How was the steel dossier treated?
	It was How did you treat it?
	You said you looked at it in December.
	I assume it's been looked at by it was obviously looked at by the FBI.
	We've now learned they've tried to confirm some of it and have had some success.
	Some not yet.
	Uh, they don't say it's they don't they say it's unconfirmed, but that's about it.
	Well, there were uh things in that dossier that made me wonder whether or not they would they were in fact accurate and true.
	Uh and I do think it was up to the FBI to see whether or not they could verify any of it.
	I think Jim Comey has said that it was but contained salacious and unverified information.
	Just because it was unverified didn't mean it wasn't true.
	And if the Russians were involved in something like that, directed against individuals who are aspiring to the highest office in this land, there was an obligation on the part of the FBI to uh seek out the the truth on it.
	All right, that was Brennan, who we now know along with Clapper, uh got a letter from Devin Nunes, ten specific questions as it relates to the dossier.
	Now that all of this is making its way up the ladder in the Obama administration.
	One thing Devin Nunes is doing today, Paul Sperry had a great column that Nunes is investigating whether the Trump dossier was the basis for Obama's Russiagate at intelligence assessment.
	Which by the way, we need to know because Obama's intelligence community assessment matches the main allegations that were leveled in the Clinton paid dossier that nobody had verified, which wormed their way into the intelligence channels in addition to the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Department of State, all at the beginning of the campaign in 2016.
	In fact, the shady dossier makes exactly the same claim that Putin personally ordered the cyber attacks on the Clinton campaign and leaked embarrassing emails to bolster Trump.
	Now the person that put those emails out in the pup for public review is Julian Assange, a wiki leaks.
	He's told us multiple times on this show and on TV that it was not Russia.
	It was no state agency at all.
	So that would be contradictory to that.
	Do they have any evidence that it came from Putin?
	And staff investigators for Devin Nunes and the intelligence community are now going over every single word of the ICA, the intelligence community assessment, including classified footnotes to see if any of the analysis was precooked uh based on this phony bought and paid for dossier.
	And we also have Comey agreeing, by the way, to his first interview since his firing.
	His book is done.
	He's going to appear with George Stephanopoulos.
	Sure, why not go right directly to Clinton's uh number one fan in the media?
	Unbelievable.
	Joining us now, we have Sarah Carter, investigative reporter uh for the Fox News Channel, and Greg Jarrett, uh Fox News legal analyst.
	Welcome both of you to the program.
	Good to be.
	Well, that and uh now we have this investigation into whether or not this judge in Michael Flynn's case is looking for exculpatory evidence that could have been withheld, but we have a lot going on today.
	Sarah, we'll start with you.
	What do you make about this this piece by Paul Sperry and Nunes investigating whether the dossier was the basis for the Russian intelligence assessment?
	Well, I can certainly say with you know absolute certainty talking to sources uh in here in Washington that they are looking very closely at the assessment and that they're looking directly at Brennan.
	Uh remember John Brennan, he was the same uh this the same former uh chief of uh the CIA who said in a hearing to Trey Gaudi that he couldn't exactly recall when Trey Gowdy asked him directly whether or not there was an ambassador that had been unmasking Americans.
	He said it rings a vague bell that I can't really remember.
	And uh, you know, so here's the same man who has these denials, he's very good at being very careful with his words.
	And Paul Sperry is right on when he makes the accusation that still there has been no evidence to prove that it was the Russians that actually did the hacking, and they've never been able to prove that with definitive certainty, you know, showing the actual facts.
	So I think what's going to happen here is that the House Intelligence Committee is gonna look very carefully at this.
	Remember, they didn't just ask Clapper and Brennan, they also asked Comey the same ten questions, Sean.
	And this is gonna be vitally important because they're gonna have to answer these questions.
	If they don't, I believe they will be subpoenaed to to answer those questions before them.
	Because they know now that something went really wrong and that they were using this dossier as a means to investigate the president.
	Um and we know now there's a lot of connections with people very close to Hillary Clinton that were involved in this dossier, people like Sidney Blumenthal, others from the State Department that were feeding Christopher Steel information on what they term a second dossier.
	Uh, a lot of people believe that that same information was used in the original dossier that Christopher Steele had.
	So there is a mess in Washington right now, and I think everybody's trying to sort this out.
	This to me, Greg, is is pretty fascinating because you now have Devin Nunes of the House Intel Committee examining whether the vaunted Obama intelligence community assessment, claiming that Russia meddled in the presidential election.
	Now we're examining whether or not that was based on the Clinton bought and paid for phony Russian dossier that nobody had ever verified.
	And because he's looking at these Obama intelligence assessments and they mirror exactly what's in the dossier.
	So nobody checked it out.
	It's used for a Pfizer warrant, and it's used in in the intelligence community assessment.
	Right.
	The intelligence community assessment was largely put together by the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI.
	And I would emphasize the CIA then run by John Brennan.
	He appears to have played an instrumental role in instigating the Russian hoax and disseminating the fictitious dossier.
	Uh and in fact, uh the House Intelligence Committee who's been probing Brennan's actions.
	One of their senior aides, uh, and I'll quote here John Brennan did more than anyone to promulgate the dirty dossier.
	He politicized and weaponized what was false intelligence against Trump.
	So what did Brennan do?
	Well, when he learned of the dossier, he allegedly not just gave it to the FBI and Democrats on Capitol Hill, but certain members of the media were alerted.
	And according to his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Brennan Seemed to acknowledge that he was among the first individuals to have access to this dossier, and guess what?
	Soon thereafter the FBI was alerted and opened the Trump Russia investigation.
	That was never launched because Papadopoulos got drunk in a London pub and started mouthing.
	I mean, that was preposterous.
	The New York Times totally got used on that, uh, which just shows A, how gullible uh they are, and B, how biased they are uh to buy into that canard.
	No, it was the dossier, which was used to uh try to frame Trump, launching a false investigation, and then spying on Trump associates and continuing to spy after the President uh took office.
	It yeah, it's unbelievable.
	Well, go ahead, sir.
	Another uh very very important points that Greg brought up there, and remember, let's go back to when they first briefed, then President Obama, and then uh you know, pr uh President Trump as well on the dossier.
	When that happened, when they briefed President elect Trump and President Obama on this dossier, it was John Brennan who was there as well.
	And nobody took this dossier seriously in the media, but they were afraid of printing it.
	It was being shopped all around Washington, D.C. A lot of reporters remember this.
	Uh then you had Christopher Steele briefing reporters on the background beforehand.
	Nobody was really nobody published the dossier until they made it official, until they went and briefed both presidents on this.
	They briefed President Trump, President uh President elect Trump, then President Obama, and shortly afterwards, Sean, is when Buzzfeed published the entire dossier and everybody started to roll with it.
	They had to make this dossier somehow valid.
	They had to give it some kind of credence so they could spread this unverified and dossier.
	Sperry makes another point about this because you're uh again, I think it's very critical that Nunes is asking Brennan and Clapper what he knows uh in terms of the dossier, and those questions I think will be very revealing if if we get answers.
	But in Sperry's piece, what he's pointing out, you know, is that James Clapper, the director of national intelligence under Obama, conceded in a recent CNN interview that the ICA was based on some of the substantive content of the dossier, and Clapper also admitted he broke with tradition and didn't put out the assessment to all seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies for review,
	and instead he limited it to just a couple of uh uh of hand picked analysts from three agencies the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI, interestingly, that the report was drafted under the supervision of his office, and and all three agencies, quote, agreed.
	But the defense but again, that that bypassed the normal procedures.
	Why would that be?
	Well, because uh, you know, they were pulling a fast one, Clapper and and Brennan.
	Uh, you know, when at the end of the day, you're gonna find out that Clapper, Brennan, and Comey, you know, knew this thing w was uh completely absurd.
	Rumors, innuendos, supposition, wild speculation.
	That's why reporters who who knew about it and read it laughed at it and wouldn't print it.
	Uh and so and and that frustrated Clapper and Comey and and Brennan.
	And so they tried to somehow legitimize it, and only when they were able to do that did BuzzFeed finally, you know, print.
	Finally print.
	And you said you've read it so many times that it makes you laugh every time you read it.
	Every time.
	It you never gets old.
	Right, stay right there.
	We've got to take a break.
	Uh more with Greg Jarrett, more with Sarah Carter, 800 941 Shawn, our number.
	And as we continue, Greg Jarrett is with us along with Sarah Carter as we continue our investigation into Deep State Gate, and it gets more interesting by the minute.
	So you got these additional charges, none of which surprise me as it related to Paul Manafort, uh and of course Rick Gates is cutting a deal.
	The biggest development that I see, though, is this whole issue of the judge in the case of General Flynn.
	Uh Greg, let's start with you.
	He's asking for any and all exculpatory evidence, and he will decide what is exculpatory.
	That's right.
	Uh the judge is uh Emmett Sullivan, uh very well known, and he was the judge in the Senator Ted Stevens case, the Alaska Senator prosecuted uh for corruption in the end it was all tossed out.
	Why?
	Because prosecutors cheated as they often do.
	Uh they cheated in a way that is really quite unconscionable.
	They knew uh that there was exculpatory evidence, evidence that would help Stevens, but they deliberately willfully withheld it.
	And so, you know, Sullivan, I I don't know him, but what I've read of him, he has now this ingrained uh skepticism toward prosecutors, and he has now demanded that these prosecutors, even though there's been a Flynn guilty plea entered, I'm demanding that you turn over any exculpatory evidence.
	And I'll tell you what's exculpatory.
	Uh it appears that there's some evidence that the FBI officials who actually interviewed Flynn, and and by the way, hey they they had no business interviewing him, he hadn't done anything wrong.
	All right, Sarah will give you the last let's give Sarah the last word.
	We're just running out of time.
	Okay, sorry.
	Well, uh no, absolutely.
	I mean, Greg brought up a very good point.
	I mean, I think with General Flynn's case, if you just go back to the very beginning and and you realize that Comey had made the announcement that both of the uh agents that originally interviewed Flynn had actually not believed he had lied.
	And they interviewed him anyways when they shouldn't have interviewed him, or they should have shared the transcripts with him.
	He was doing his job.
	Then you see the pressure of the special counsel putting pressure on them both financially and uh threatening apparently his family, threatening his son.
	And all of a sudden you see people cave in to the special counsel.
	Look, without Flynn, without Mueller being able to get guilty please, Flynn, Papadopoulos, he can't take the next step forward to go after the president.
	And he used a dossier.
	This dossier was used to open this investigation.
	It's an unverified and fallacious dossier that has no relevance, and and there's over a year we haven't seen any collusion between the president and uh Russia.
	And they opened the special counsel investigation, and there are a lot of questions here.
	And they've been strong arming people into guilty pleas, and we've seen that, and we're just gonna look and see where the next step is.
	I mean, uh you well, you played that that clip from the beginning.
	Should the president talk to the special counsel?
	I'm not a legal expert here, but I would be very concerned about some type of an entrapment.
	All right, guys, I gotta let you go.
	Great work as always.
	Uh we appreciate it.
	800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	Uh the president's speaking at Spee CPAC this morning.
	He went on an hour and fifteen minutes.
	We have the best of that speech coming up in our news roundup information overload portion of the program.
	We'll get to your calls coming up next as well.
	800 941 Sean and Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty.
	He's always a trip and a lot of fun uh as we continue this busy Friday.
	All right, 25 now till the top of the hour, 800 941 Sean, president at CPAC today.
	We're gonna play some of that speech at our news roundup information overload and your calls and Phil Robertson coming up next hour.
	But all right, it's been a busy week.
	Let's get to our busy phones, because many of you have been very, very patient.
	Mark is in the great state of Alabama.
	What's up, Mark?
	How are you?
	Where do you live in Alabama?
	I actually live in the South part.
	I used to actually know um small little town called Dosin.
	I know I know what Tolkien is.
	Of course I'm part.
	I lived in Alabama, yes, sir.
	Oh, okay.
	I didn't know that.
	The reason why I'm calling is the school I went to was actually in Northwest Florida, and they had a lot of the same security managers you're talking about.
	Um they kept one point entry.
	All the doors were locked other than the one point, and that was to the foyer right next to the office.
	And they had a hire uh uh off duty officer that was there at all times, the school was open.
	Look, I I can tell you from my experience uh uh when my kids were younger, they went to a particular school.
	I won't say what the school is.
	Why embarrass them?
	That was Hannity Kids.
	Um But you did not get into the school except through one door.
	And I look I didn't I'm not one of these parents that spends a lot of time at school unless somebody's getting in trouble or I have to go to the one of those stupid, boring, monotonous parent teacher meetings.
	But when I would go, I mean, I'd walk in, or the if the kids forgot a book or their lunch or something, I'd drop it off.
	Not very often.
	I walk in.
	First thing the guy would say is hi, Mr. Hannity, and then I'd have to give him my license.
	And it's that is the way every single entry point needs to be secure.
	Any other place the kids can get in needs to be secure as well.
	And you need to have enough people hired that you have enough security out.
	I I would say you need a retired concealed carry, military guy on every floor.
	You definitely have to take care of the perimeter outside the school, and you've got to take care of every building inside the school.
	Some of these schools have multiple buildings.
	You can't tell me that it's impossible to do this when we do it at football games, baseball games, concerts, and I'm not talking about Vegas, the outdoor concert, which was rather I'm talking about arenas and and so on.
	You we can do it.
	We secure our banks.
	You can't go into the bank and rob the bank blind.
	You're gonna get in trouble.
	You're gonna be facing somebody with a gun.
	And if we just take those precautionary measures, look, evil is evil.
	And I said this last night that the Sarnov brothers used uh a bomb that they made and produced with everyday materials that anybody can buy.
	You can buy a pressure cooker, you can buy the nails, and you can, you know, set up an explosive, sadly, fairly easily.
	And then the worst school shooting was Virginia Tech when they used handguns, and 32 people were killed in that shooting.
	And that's it's just not the answer.
	Securing the school and putting a priority on it, that we're not gonna let these kids feel fear, feel this fear.
	They ought to be able to go to school with confidence and know that somebody's not gonna get in the building and start shooting them up.
	And if the kids have IDs going in, and if they go through metal detectors going in, just like we all have to do when we fly in an airplane, uh, it's really not that big a deal.
	At the end of the day, is it yeah, you gotta get to the airport an hour early?
	Does it really make that big a difference?
	It doesn't.
	It's pretty quick.
	And you know, the confidence of knowing that the guy next to me doesn't have a gun that he's gonna pull out mid flight is reassuring to me.
	And I think most people, and I think the kids, it's it's just the reality, unfortunately, of the world we live in.
	There's evil.
	Uh Brendan, I'm sorry, Brenda is in Oregon.
	Brenda, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Good, and how are you doing?
	I'm great.
	It's Friday.
	We made it.
	I know.
	Okay, so what I wanted to say is uh when Obama was talking about uh um with Romney, how you know what he said about uh Russian trying to interfere and he debunked that and then Trump said something and 2008 debate right.
	Okay, so anyway, but when it it then right after the election happened, it was like uh Obama, he went ahead and sent like 35 diplomats back like ASAP.
	So is that because he was mad or what do you think the Russians maybe?
	I think I think Obama really I for whatever reason Obama believed in his mind and his heart that America is this you know horrible uh uh superpower and and that we have too much influence in the world, that influence is not good for the world, and it doesn't um it doesn't foster diversity and so on and so forth, and I think he's just got everything asked backwards.
	I mean, he is a classic appeaser, and his mindset is that you know, if we're nicer to you, then you're gonna be nicer to us, and and tell Vladimir, tell Vladimir I'll have more flexibility after the election.
	My last election.
	Yeah, um my election I have more flexibility.
	After my election, I'll have more flexibility.
	I can't tell the American people the truth of what I'm really gonna do.
	You know, think of the mindset.
	What rational human being would ever go along with an idiotic idea of dropping off, you know, 150 billion dollars in in American currency and other currencies and give it to the Iranian mullahs that are chanting death to America.
	There's a particular mindset there that I don't I can't relate to in any way because that's an appeasement mindset.
	There are certain of us that I think are far more rooted in reality.
	Neville Chamberlain had that appeasing mindset, and he believed that Great Britain could have peace in their time with the Nazis.
	Well, it didn't work out that way.
	And people in the beginning thought somebody like uh Winston Churchill was nuts.
	You know, they said about Reagan that he was a California cowboy that talked about the evil empire and that he'd start World War III.
	And he ended up bringing an end to the Cold War, and he didn't have to fire a shot.
	And he said the now infamous words, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
	And he did it.
	Clinton had an appeaser mindset too.
	Bill Clinton gave Kim Jong-un, Kim uh Kim Jong, I'm sorry, Kim Jong il, Kim Jong un's father, gave him, you know, three billion dollars in energy and and all sorts of subsidies.
	Well, that with the with a promise that they're never going to build the nuclear weapon.
	Well, how did that work out for the world?
	Not too good.
	So I really don't, for the life of me, understand the mindset of of so many people.
	But I do think that, yeah, I think that both Secretary Clinton at the time and Barack Obama were naive.
	Let's say hi to Anthony is in Annapolis in Maryland.
	What's up, uh Anthony?
	How are you, sir?
	Hey, uh, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
	The reason that I called is because I've kind of I've actually come up, I'm I'm a wounded warrior and a disabled combat vet from OEF and OIF.
	I've actually come up with a very unique solution to this whole gun issue that we're facing today.
	Um when I joined the army, the day that I showed up the basic training, they didn't just give me a rifle and go, here, go defend your country.
	They train me.
	Okay.
	Mm-hmm.
	My proposed my proposal is this.
	I think that if you're under the age of 25 and you want to purchase a firearm, you should have to go through a state certified or federally certified training program for for firearms.
	So you go and you sign up for a class, and let's say it's four Saturdays out of a month, you pay a fee to the state, you go take this class.
	That licensed certified weapons expert would then have a prolonged interaction with that prospective gun owner to determine whether or not they are competent with a firearm and whether they or not they are mentally.
	Well, let me tell you what I recently went through in in Florida, because I I want to get my carry permit in Florida, okay?
	And I I've been a pistol marksman since I'm 12 years old.
	I've been trained since I'm 11.
	And so to get a carry permit, you have to go and take a safety course.
	And I went and I took the safety course.
	And I was the only one in the class, and the guy starts asking me a few questions, and I gave him my background, my knowledge and of firearms, etc.
	And uh he went through every bit of the curriculum anyway.
	And I and he did the right thing, and then he brought me to the range.
	I hit the bullseye like six straight times, and he goes, Okay, I think you're set, and here's your certificate.
	Get out of here.
	Right, right.
	But, you know, I I don't have a problem with that.
	Anybody that asks me that doesn't have a gun what kind of gun they should get, my advice is just go go go get training, go to a range.
	These guys at these ranges are the most giving people you'll ever meet.
	They, you know, don't be embarrassed that you don't know.
	Um I don't know why there's a pride associated with with individuals that we don't want to ask other people sometimes for help.
	Uh I was at a range recently in Florida over Christmas, and I went down there and I was shooting, and there was a particular gun I had no familiarity with, and I went and I got the guy because my son's friend was actually firing it, and I said, Would you mind showing me, you know how to use this particular firearm?
	I didn't want to pick it up, I didn't want to touch it until I understood it.
	And that's just my training in working its way into me being on the range.
	The guy was great, came over, explained the entire weapon to me, went through it three times on his own, watched me do it once, then said, okay, you all set?
	Yes, sir, thank you.
	And that was it.
	Well, I I'm not ashamed to ask if I don't know something in particular.
	I don't know everything.
	But the people that I know that are that love firearms, they're more than happy to teach, they're more than happy to tell, they're more than happy to guide you and help you.
	And, you know, if you're a woman and you want a lighter gun and one that doesn't have a lot of kick, you know, they'll they'll help you find the weapon you're most comfortable with.
	I mean, some of these ranges down in in Florida are just amazing because you can actually rent a any weapon that they've got on the premises and they'll show you how to use it, and you know, it just it then it becomes like a fun experience.
	It's like you know, going bowling or going to a movie, you go shooting with your friends and you have a good time.
	It's a lot of fun.
	Um, although my kids don't seem to be too interested in it, which is fine with me too.
	I've taken him to the range, they're like, okay, Dad, can we go now?
	Uh I was very different when I was eleven years old.
	And every kid has their own area of interest.
	But you raise a good point.
	I had no problem sitting in that class, no problem with the curriculum.
	It frankly was a good reminder.
	There was nothing I didn't know, but it was a good reminder for me, a good refresher for me.
	And I was glad that that they do that down in Florida.
	It's not gonna it's not gonna challenge your ability or the time frame in which you can purchase a firearm.
	CNN went on.
	They said Donald Trump wants all teachers.
	Okay?
	Fake news, folks, fake news.
	Fake news.
	I don't want a person that's never handled a gun that wouldn't know what a gun looks like to be armed.
	But out of your teaching population, you have 10%, 20% of very gun adept people military people, law enforcement people, they teach.
	They teach.
	And and something I thought of this morning, you know what else?
	And I thought of it since I found and watched Peterson, the deputy who didn't go into the school because he didn't want to go into the school.
	Okay, he was tested under fire, and that wasn't a good result.
	But you know what I thought of as soon as I saw that?
	These teachers, and I've seen them at a lot of schools where they had problems.
	These teachers love their students, and the students love their teachers in many cases.
	These teachers love their students, and these teachers are talented with weaponry and with guns.
	And that's they they feel safe.
	And I'd rather have somebody that loves their students and wants to protect their students than somebody standing outside that doesn't know anybody and doesn't know the students, and frankly, for whatever reason, decided not to go in, even though we heard lots of shots being fired inside.
	All right, back to our phones we go.
	John, a liberal from Alabama.
	What's up, John the Liberal from Alabama?
	How are you?
	Hey, how you doing, Sean?
	I'm good.
	What's going on?
	Yeah, I was saying I listened to you regularly for the last couple of years, and you know this year because you're a big Trump supporter.
	I was saying, if you feel that he's so innocent, why your case is not being tried on the mainstream is just like you're just on your radio show and your TV show saying things, why it doesn't kids a hit and in the process of going to get it over with.
	I don't understand.
	I'm not understanding your question.
	Say it a little differently.
	I said you all every day you get on the radio, you say include and include.
	I'm saying, why is it so hard for you to convince the government, the FBI, Murray and all of them that why they're not listening to you?
	Well, you uh look, they have a they have an agenda.
	That's number one.
	Number two, beyond anybody's imagination, if you really pay close attention, you'll notice that they're not talking about Trump Russia collusion anymore.
	And even if you watch the Sunday shows, you know, things we've been talking about for months, like the dossier, that's now part of everyday Sunday programming.
	And as much as they have tried their hardest to avoid it all, they've not been successful.
	So, yeah, it takes a little while for the media to catch up with us.
	And uh, yeah, I was right about Obama, and yeah, I was I predicted what would happen in Baltimore and I predicted what would happen in Ferguson, and I predicted you know, a lot of different things.
	They all get wrong because they're kind of a bunch of sheep and a bunch of followers, but where, you know, truth and facts are now dragging them into the arena where they never wanted to go.
	And it's only gonna get more pronounced in the days to come.
	But they do their level best to avoid covering it, and they're angry that you know there hasn't been an indictment of Donald Trump, and they're still waiting for it.
	Anyway, thanks for the call.
	All right, news roundup information overload hour here on this Friday.
	By the way, Phil Robertson at the bottom of the hour is gonna check in with us.
	Uh he's always a lot of fun.
	Uh 800, 941 Shauna's a number.
	We'll get to some of your calls here in just a minute.
	So we were at CPAC the last couple of days.
	I love CPAC because these are kids, many of them, from colleges all around the country.
	And you see it's just, you know, we only see on television those kids that only seem to like love and worship at the altar of all things liberal leftist, statist Obama, etc.
	And you'd almost think when you see any scene on a college campus that there aren't young conservatives.
	I have no idea why.
	My parents were not overly political, but when I was young, I was drawn to conservative thought and talk radio, and and I would listen and I'd follow, and I was interested in the Cold War, and I followed every minute of Reagan's presidency.
	Anyway, so the president goes there today and he speaks to this crowd of young people.
	He just pretty much threw a lot of the speech by the side, did a lot of ad libbing, had a lot of fun, and was just being his fun combative self, and the crowd absolutely loved it.
	Here's part of it.
	Because you know, I kept trying to say why is this?
	But it's it's just there.
	So the great enthusiasm, you know, you're sitting back, you're watching television.
	Maybe I don't have to vote today, we just won the presidency.
	And then we get clobbered, and we can't let that happen.
	We get blobbered in 18, and we can't let that happen.
	Only because we are so happy.
	We passed so many things.
	Honestly, and I say I'll use the word my administration as opposed to me.
	My administration, I think, has had the most successful first year in the history of the presidency.
	I really believe that.
	I really believe it.
	We've ended the war in American energy.
	We were in war.
	And we've ended uh the war on beautiful, clean coal, one of our great natural resources, and very important for our defense, coal, very important for our defense, because we have it.
	We don't have to send it through pipes, we don't have to get it from foreign countries.
	We have more than anybody, and they wanted to end it.
	And our miners have been mistreated, and they're not being mistreated anymore.
	We're doing tremendous business.
	I was in Vietnam, and the prime minister and the president of Vietnam were there, and we have a massive deficit with them like we do with everybody else because these presidents have just let it go to hell.
	We have the worst trade deals you've ever seen.
	So we're changing it.
	So I said, we have too big a deficit with Vietnam.
	I'm not happy.
	He said, Well, but we're going to I said, buy coal.
	Buy coal.
	They use a lot of coal.
	Buy coal.
	And he said, you know, we have bought coal from West Virginia and other places, and it's the finest coal we've ever used.
	It's interesting.
	And West Virginia now is doing great.
	You look at what's happening in West Virginia, you look at what's happening in Pennsylvania, you look at what's happening in Ohio.
	And you look at what's happening in Wyoming.
	You look at what's happening all over.
	It's like it, it's like a different world.
	And remember this.
	Virtually, as soon as I got into office, we approved the Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipelines, which would never have been approved.
	And we announced our withdrawal from the totally disastrous job killing, wealth knocking out, you know, it knocked out our wealth or it would have.
	They basically wanted to take our wealth away.
	They didn't want us to use our wealth power.
	We knocked out the Paris Climate Accord.
	Would have been a disaster.
	We're doing record business.
	We're doing business, and you have to look at the fundamentals.
	Companies are pouring back into this country.
	They're pouring back.
	Not like, I mean, when did you hear about car companies coming back into Michigan and coming to Ohio and expanding?
	When did you hear you never heard that?
	You hear they're leaving.
	I've been talking about it for 20 years.
	I was a private sector guy, but for whatever reason, I always had these guys always covered me much more than anybody else.
	I always got a lot of these characters.
	They used to treat me so good too until I ran for office.
	I used to get the greatest publicity.
	friend of mine said, you know, you used to be the king of getting great publicity.
	What happened?
	I said, well, I have some views that they're opposed to for a lot of bad reasons.
	A lot of really bad reasons.
	But when you look at what's happening to our country, it's incredible.
	And the fundamentals are so strong.
	The stock market, I just see with all of the ups and downs since election day, is up 37% from election.
	37%.
	It did a little bit of a correction.
	In fact, I started to say, you know, I was in it for like 13, 14 months from election.
	I say, is this sucker ever going down a little bit?
	This is a little embarrassing.
	It was up a hundred, up 200, up 1,000, up 150, up 90, up 63.
	I said, good.
	That's better.
	Hey, we've got seven years to go, folks.
	You know, we got a long time to go.
	Somebody got on television recently and they said, actually, this is the first time I can remember.
	Trump made campaign promises.
	He may be the only person that actually fulfilled more promises that he made.
	I think that's true.
	I fulfilled more promises.
	But we have a very crooked media.
	We had a crooked candidate, too, by the way.
	But we have a very, very crooked medium.
	Somebody got on television recently and they said, actually, this is the first time I can remember Trump made campaign promises.
	He may be the only person that actually fulfilled more promises than he made.
	I think that's true.
	I fulfilled more promises.
	But we have a very crooked media.
	We had a must have strong borders.
	We celebrate our history and our heroes, and we believe young Americans should be taught to love their country and to respect its traditions.
	Don't worry, you're getting the wall.
	Don't worry, okay?
	I heard some.
	I had a couple of these characters in the back say, Oh, he really doesn't want the wall.
	He just used that for campaigning.
	I said, Are you can you believe it?
	You know, I say every time I hear that, the wall gets ten feet higher.
	You know that, right?
	Every time.
	Every single time.
	Okay.
	Now we're gonna have the wall, or they're not gonna have what they want.
	It's time to make our schools a much harder target for attackers.
	We don't want them in our schools.
	We don't we don't want them.
	When we declare our schools to be gun-free zones, it just puts our students in far more danger.
	Far more danger.
	Well trained, gun adept teachers and coaches and people that work in those buildings, people that were in the marines for 20 years and retired, people in the army, the navy, the Air Force, the Coast Guard, people that are adept, adept with weaponry and with guns.
	They teach.
	I mean, I don't want to have a hundred guards standing with rifles all over the school.
	You do a concealed carry permit.
	Thank you.
	And this would be a major deterrent, because these people are inherently cowards.
	If they thought, like if this guy thought that other people would be shooting bullets back at him, he wouldn't have gone to that school.
	He wouldn't have gone there.
	It's a gun-free zone.
	It says this is a gun-free zone.
	Please check your guns way far away.
	And what happens is they feel safe.
	There's nobody gonna come at them.
	This way, you may have, and remember, if you use this school as an example, this is a very big school with tremendous floor area and a lot of acreage.
	It's a big, big school, good school.
	A big, big school.
	You'd have to have 150 real guards.
	Look, you had one guard.
	He didn't turn out to be too good, I will tell you that.
	He turned out to be not good.
	He was not a credit to law enforcement, that I can tell you.
	That I can tell you.
	But as I've been talking about this idea, and I feel it's a great idea, but some people that are good people are opposed to it.
	They don't like the idea of teachers doing that.
	But I'm not talking about teachers.
	You know.
	CNN went on.
	They said Donald Trump wants all teachers.
	Okay?
	Fake news, folks.
	Fake news.
	Fake news.
	I don't want a person that's never handled a gun that wouldn't know what a gun looks like to be armed.
	But out of your teaching population, out of your teaching population, you have 10%, 20% of very gun adept people.
	Military people, law enforcement people, they teach.
	They teach.
	And and something I thought of this morning.
	You know what, Elsa?
	And I thought of it since I found and watched Peterson, the deputy who didn't go into the school because he didn't want to go into the school.
	Okay.
	He was tested under fire, and that wasn't a good result.
	But you know what I thought of as soon as I saw that?
	These teachers, and I've seen them at a lot of schools where they had problems.
	These teachers love their students.
	And the students love their teachers in many cases.
	These teachers love their students.
	And these teachers are talented with weaponry and with guns.
	And that's they they feel safe.
	And I'd rather have somebody that loves their students and wants to protect their students than somebody standing outside that doesn't know anybody and doesn't know the students, and frankly, for whatever reason, decided not to go in, even though he heard lots of shots being fired inside.
	And a teacher would have shot the hell out of him before he knew what happened.
	All right, so the president earlier today at uh CPAC, and I will tell you, it's one of the events that I really enjoy going to every year.
	I've been there now how many years we've done at least three years in a row.
	We did it many years ago.
	We went through a period where we didn't go, and it was just fun to get back there and see a lot of people and do the television program from there two nights in a row is so fun.
	All right, let's hit our busy telephones as I've been promising.
	All right, let's go to Kurt is in St. George out in Utah.
	Kurt, how are you?
	Happy Friday.
	Welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
	Thank you, Sean.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Yes, sir.
	What can I do for you?
	Hey, I just wanted to point out that with all this controversy and everything going on, and everybody bad enough in the NRA, um, I am a member of the NRA.
	And the number one thing that the NRA promotes is safety.
	Gun safety.
	And that's what they're leaving all that out.
	You know, yeah, we promote, you know, the second amendment.
	Of course we do.
	But gun safety is the number one thing.
	You know, I I gotta tell you something.
	I've had an a lifetime of experience dealing with people in the NRA and people at gun ranges and and people that are that are trained in the use of firearms.
	The NRA, yeah, they are they are noted for their gun safety at courses and self-defense courses, and the first thing they teach is gun safety.
	The thing about every time I've ever been to a gun range, every single time, the thing that stands out the most is that if there's ever anybody there that ever needs any help, maybe a novice, or maybe they want to try a a different weapon out or something.
	The level of assistance that people with with a lot of knowledge are willing to give to others is unprecedented.
	You know, there's and and every single person understands the safety issue.
	The safest people with guns are people that are trained in the use of them.
	And the NRA promotes this more than anybody.
	The USCCA, that's another group that promotes it.
	Gun safety, gun responsibility.
	And it it's never gonna get discussed in the media.
	People don't care about it.
	And I can only say that my experience with the NRA is one that they take great pride and pleasure in helping people understand the safety aspects of the firearm.
	So I think you're dead on right.
	Uh all right, back to our phones.
	Lead is in the Bronx of New York.
	Lead, how are you?
	The all new 710 W O R. What's going on?
	Oh, hi, Sean.
	Great show.
	You're in the Bronx.
	I can hear the accent.
	What's going on?
	Yes.
	Um, I just wanted to uh make a point that I have a 10-year-old daughter that goes to Catholic school, and you know, I take it to school every morning, and when I drop her off, I feel very uh satisfied knowing that I have a good feeling that nothing is gonna happen to her for the simple reason is that as a parent in that school, we actually pay extra money for a security guard that is a retired police officer and carries a nine millimeter gun.
	And I feel very safe bringing my daughter to that school and leave her there all day.
	Listen, if we if we would universally do a complete threat security assessment on every school, put in the the number of retired are concealed carry military concealed carry police retired in these schools.
	W we have a line of defense.
	We we would have the ability to step in, they would have the ability to step in and save lives.
	The idea that that is even viewed as controversial to anybody, uh is mind numbing to me.
	And I I know the president said, Well, teachers, if they want to train I'm I'm not gonna put all the responsibility on the teachers.
	If they do, that's fine.
	I'm I don't have any problem with it.
	But trained, conceal carry, former military, former police, and and a full threat assessment.
	Everybody has an ID, metal detectors where needed, and yet you've got security in our schools.
	We could do it, we do it everywhere else we want to do it.
	Why couldn't we do it there?
	Uh joining us now, by the way, our buddy Phil Robertson, one of the huge rock and roll stars of Duck Dynasty, has a new show by the way himself on CR TV.
	It's called Into the Woods with Phil, and he has a contest going on right now, and he wants you to know about it.
	Uh what's the contest, Mr. Robertson?
	How are you, sir?
	Well, the contest is whoever wins it will get some of Miss Kay's cooking, and I will give them a ride through the woods and do a little duck hunting as we go.
	Wait a minute.
	You never took me duck hunting, not once.
	Now I did get to go to uh Miss Kay's kitchen, and but except we were outside, we were grilling steaks, and uh I had a great time when I was down there in West Monroe, Louisiana, sir.
	Well, you you gotta remember uh when they whoever wins this thing and they're able to come down here, I was talking to that uh Rick and Bubba show over in Alabama.
	Oh, my buddy Rick and Bubba, I love those guys.
	I told him, I said, boys, always remember whoever wins this thing and comes down in here, if they're not converted to Jesus yet, they will be before they leave.
	All right.
	Now that brings us to the old story.
	So I'm down there interviewing you, and and basically your home is a trailer.
	And yet you build this, you know, majestic kitchen, you know, building for your wife that you don't even live in.
	And I'm like, and then you're you're the chair you sit in, the actual chair that Phil Robertson sits in, looks like it's a hundred years old.
	And I'm thinking always remember this, whether it's my household or your sanity, the money always the money always gravitates toward the women's purses.
	You know, you understand what I'm telling you.
	Yeah.
	Good luck.
	Uh in this day and age, you're you're you're on your own when you get in trouble next time.
	Uh Miss Kay's gonna Miss K's gonna be Miss K's gonna be a little annoyed, but uh I I by the size of her kitchen and besides the the size of that building.
	Now I just want to know this.
	So I you never asked me to go duck hunting.
	Why don't you invite me on the trip?
	I want to go.
	How do I win?
	You are invited to go, and and you'll win by me just saying, Hennedy, come on down here, let's go duck hunting, load up, get out of New York for a while, watching it.
	I know I need to get out of there and relax, my man.
	I I will give you this.
	I commend you for standing for the truth when you're dealing with all these people.
	What I'm here to do, I'm glad you call me in, because if I'm able to talk to you, that means uh desperation is setting in.
	So I just want to remind you what you do every night.
	Jesus in John chapter eight said that the devil is the source, source, and cause of all murder, and he is also Jesus said, John eight, read that when you get off the phone.
	He is the source and the father of lies.
	So Sean, what you're doing, maybe even not realize it altogether.
	You go so far as to say it's just this is how come people this is just evil what Hillary Clinton did and all the stuff with the with the her computers and all this and steel and the dossier.
	You gotta remember you're dealing with human beings who are controlled by the father, Sean, of lies.
	You really see I believe that's why it's so hard to wade through it because you're thinking how could people lie this well?
	They they are getting their instructions from the evil one according to John chapter eight, which is a daunting task you have undertaken because you're really dealing with the power of the evil one, whether it be the shooters in the schools or the people that you're dealing with that just lies come forth from them like it's G Jesus said telling lies is he speaks his native language the evil one does.
	I just wanted to give you that information enough you know something I want to ask you something because I think at at heart you are and I've had the the honor of getting to know you and your family and I really I love your family.
	You have a wonderful family and um but I I do see good and evil and I I actually wrote a book once called Deliver Us from evil.
	You betcha.
	And what's so amazing to me is is that you know in the last century Phil over a hundred million human souls were destroyed in the name of of communism, fascism, Nazism caused the whole thing.
	Well you see man's inhumanity to man look at the cry look at what happened in the school shooting this kid you know there's evil no normal good hearted human being with a soul could ever go in there and coldly kill innocent children.
	Or people that's correct listen listen listen to this John the apostle this is the message you heard from the beginning he's talking about Jesus we should love one another because that's the answer and the solution to these gun deaths and all this other stuff.
	Yeah but everybody says love love love.
	I don't think anybody has a clue what love is well they don't and that because they don't have God but the bottom line is he said do not be like Cain he goes all the way back to creation Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel.
	They're not before I'm on the earth, Sean listen, don't be like Cain you remember he murdered his brother who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother now listen and why did he murder him because his own actions were evil and his brothers were righteous.
	That's all he needed let me ask you this I think that you know and it's it's a very interesting story for people that don't know.
	So I'm doing this interview down on West Monroe, Louisiana with Phil Robertson who joins us now.
	He's now on CRTV and he's got a contest if you want to go duck hunting with him we'll tell you about that in a minute.
	And so you're literally Hannity you want to get them ratings up come on out in the swamp now I've watched your show enough to know that there are alligators in that swamp and you wanted to dunk my head where uh where amongst the alligators swimming but your whole person my whole person well if you build a pool I'll do it in a pool but I'm not doing it in a swamp with alligators.
	Remember the Lord will protect you my man.
	So you say you have actually baptized people in that swamp.
	You're telling me thousands.
	Are you serious?
	Thousands of people?
	Thousands.
	If you saw the throne that we've walked down into the river during a thunderstorm.
	I feel like a wimp.
	And we walk out there in the river.
	If you had seen the throng that have, by faith, obeyed the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, died of sin, their old person is being buried, and the new one comes forth.
	All right, I have a question then.
	Why do people that are saved—because I believe in Jesus like you do, and I believe in Jesus I believe that he's the Son of God and our personal Lord and Savior and he suffered died and was murdered and and beaten and humiliated for our sins I believe all that.
	But I my question is then why does everyone keep sinning?
	And I'm I'll start with myself.
	Probably because uh knowing your history they probably sprinkled a little water on you before you sin.
	Once you got old once you got older Well you wait a minute are you saying you don't sin this to this state you don't say hey oh We all make mistakes.
	That's why Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, constant mediating for us to keep us cleansed of any future sin.
	He's covered the whole thing.
	Past ones removed at the cross.
	Future sins, he's there to not hold them against us.
	But you're a changed person.
	You don't sin like you used to.
	Oh, not nearly as much.
	All right.
	Well, all right, so Phil, I'm sorry, we're just out of time.
	Listen, so if people want to go hunting with you and win a special hunting trip and enjoy Miss Kay's food and cooking, uh, which you can't beat, you can just go travel accommodations two days, one night, West Monroe, Louisiana, home cooked meal with uh Miss Kay, a tour of the Duck Commander facility, and gets to go hunting with you.
	How do you do that?
	Well, that's a good question.
	I've never turned on the internet, never clicked on to anything.
	I don't have a cell phone.
	Wait a minute.
	I got you on the internet, and I said, I'm what?
	They get me on the internet, they film what I have to say, but they'll have to go to CRTV to find out all the All you gotta do.
	I got it right here.
	CRTV.com slash Phil and use the promo code Phil and and uh you get to watch a show as well.
	All right, thank you so much.
	Phil Robertson, we love you, the best of the family, and uh I will uh I'll go in the pool, buy a pool for me.
	Hey, I got it lined up.
	Come duck hunting with me, we'll do the whole deal.
	All right, my friend, God bless you.
	We appreciate it.
	800 941 Sean Tollfree telephone number.
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	If you missed this out, this speech went on an hour and fifteen minutes.
	We'll show you some of the highlights of that speech.
	We'll get full complete reaction among our many guests, Judge Jenny Piro, and much, much more.
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	Hope you have a lot of fun this weekend.

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