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A lot of news today that we are going to get into.
We're doing a deep dive, and this will be for the rest of the week, both on radio and TV.
Oh, Robert Mueller's beyond reproach.
He is a man of the utmost integrity, and he's beyond reprod beyond reproach beyond reproach beyond reproach.
That's what you hear.
What we're discovering never made sense, did it, that he would hire his merry band of Democratic and Obama and Clinton donors the way he did.
Never made sense that he'd hire a guy like Andrew Weissman, who put tens of thousands of Anderson accounting people out of their jobs and literally sent them into bankruptcy and then ended up getting overturned 9-0 in the Supreme Court.
It didn't matter that Andrew Weissman, who the New York Times says is Mueller's pit bull, didn't matter that he ended up putting four Merrill executives in jail.
And those Merrill executives, that was overturned in the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court.
It didn't matter that he had withheld on numerous occasions exculpatory evidence.
And I'm thinking, well, who is this guy, Robert Mueller?
Well, it turns out he's not the man that people have been telling us that he is.
And we're going to explain all of this in an investigative report that we have with Sarah Carter and David Schoen today.
And all the information's been out there and available the whole time.
I'm kicking myself in the ass for not doing it earlier, to be honest, because now I know I hired Andrew Weissman because he's just like him.
His background is that much similar.
Just like I can't understand how is it that Rod Rosenstein gets to sign off on Mueller as the special counsel, and then on the other hand, Rod Rosenstein is signing off on one of the FISA applications and FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign as Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
And then he's appointing Mueller.
I mean, because in that case, he used Hillary's bought and paid for Russian dossier, which was the bulk of the application in all cases.
And he never questioned it.
Remember, not only is it unverified and uncorroborated, it's debunked.
It's a lie that Hillary paid for.
And they never told the court.
And he never did his due diligence.
How does he get to pick Mueller?
The whole thing is now beginning.
The deep state crumbling before your very eyes, if you can believe it or not.
I'm going to get back to this in a second.
One other thing we're getting to today: we have an update on Debbie Wasserman Schultz and that whole Imran and Wan issue.
And there are new developments today.
Luke Roziak, the investigative reporter that's doing the mainstream media's work again, he'll have a full report in the course of the program today.
It's amazing how the rest of the country is not doing it.
We also have finally, everything that I told you at the beginning of the year, everything we told you last year is now beginning to come to fruition.
Now, we're expecting a big, monumental report from the Inspector General.
And I'm pretty confident that that Inspector General report, if America would ever take the time to read it based on the evidence of what we have now, you're going to see that Hannity was right, and people like Hannity and Sarah Carter was right, and Greg Jarrett was right, and Jay Seculo was right, and Tom Fitton was right, and Sebastian Gorker was right, and Michelle Malkin was right, and Rush Limbaugh was right, and the great one Mark Levin was right,
and the rest of the corrupt news media in this country was wrong.
And then after that, now, finally, I saw and I tweeted out last night an article that came out as I was getting off a TV.
It literally broke like a why do people break things at 9:58 every night?
It happened on Friday and it happened last night.
I'm beginning to think they don't want Hannity to cover it.
That's what I'm thinking.
I'm just guessing.
Maybe that's a little bit, maybe my ego is a little out of control on that claim, but it did happen two nights in a row.
On Friday night, remember, McCabe didn't get fired till 9:59.39.
And I'm like, goodbye.
Here's Laura.
And I was waiting all night for it.
Well, last night, it's the same thing, except this article from the Politico, GOP close to issuing a subpoena for the Department of Justice records that are linked to the Clinton probe.
Oh, top House Republicans preparing to subpoena the Justice Department for records gathered by the Inspector General in his review of how the FBI handled its 2016 investigation of Hillary Clinton.
And according to two GOP sources familiar with the congressman's plans, they have now, they want to get their hands on 1.2 million documents that the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, has gathered in the investigation, which has already led to the ouster of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on the eve of his retirement.
So far, Republicans have complained the Department of Justice.
Remember, Rod Rosenstein doesn't want anything turned over.
There'd be no Nunes memo if Rod Rosenstein had his way.
We'd have no knowledge about how the Pfizer warrant that they never told the judges that, in fact, Hillary had paid for it if Rod Rosenstein had his way.
If Rod Rosenstein had his way, all would have been a big secret because he waited till the last minute, didn't want to hand him over to Devin Nunes, begging Paul Ryan to intervene, and it didn't happen, thank God.
So, what we're discovering is I have a lot of questions for Rod Rosenstein, the guy that appointed Mueller and a guy that literally used and was part of the reauthorization of the Pfizer warrant against Carter Page, Trump campaign associate, without any evidence, any verification of what had the materials and Hillary's bought and paid for Russian dossier.
Rod Rosenstein has a conflict of interest.
Why does Jeff Sessions have to recuse himself?
And Rod Rosenstein gets to appoint his buddy Robert Mueller.
Now, that's another big problem these people have.
Look, if it's the last act I do on this earth, I'm getting to the bottom of this.
I'm not going to stop.
I'm not.
I mean, unless I have a stroke on the air and can't talk or function, I'm going to keep going.
Why are you people laughing?
Does that make you, well, because you'd have a free day off?
Is that it?
No, no.
First, you're going down the conspiracy route that everyone, they're going to say that everyone's waiting for your show to be over.
And now you're saying you're going to have a stroke on air.
No, they're mostly playing about the show.
But it is a little odd two nights in a row.
I'm not saying it was done on purpose.
It's very odd.
But it is odd.
That's it.
No, it's really what it is more than odd.
It's annoying.
It's, you know, I'm waiting.
All my sources are telling me McCabe's getting fired tonight.
McCabe's getting fired tonight.
And I'm sitting there waiting, watching, thinking, hoping, praying the right thing gets done.
And finally, it happens.
So anyway, now the GOP is now stepping up.
And by the way, they should have asked for this crap a year ago because it takes about a year.
Rod Rosenstein, I have no doubt, is going to try and probably prevent that information from getting handed over.
But a lot of it, hopefully, will be laid out in the Inspector General's report if Horowitz does a halfway decent job.
And that we don't know.
Now, documents, by the way, the FBI, we're learning too, has documents as it relates to the lynch Clinton, Bill Clinton, tarmac trip, and are trying to cover that whole thing up because under James Comey, James Comey, I am convinced, is the dumbest human being on the planet.
James Comey doing this book on the eve of the Horowitz IG report.
He must be so arrogant and egotistical that he honestly thinks he's the most righteous man in the world.
I've never seen such self-righteousness in an individual.
Well, I have.
I can name a couple of TV people I know.
No, I'm not naming names.
It's not who you think.
No, there are people that think that they are it.
You know, people don't realize that what we do and what everybody else does, we're basically all doing something that serves other people.
Ours just happens to be public, which means we got, you know, if you do it publicly, you have a bullseye in your forehead, on your back, on your backside, and basically, you know, people wanting to destroy you every day.
That's the only difference.
But everybody performs a service, whatever you do for a living.
You're providing goods and services for other people.
Ours is obviously news and information that your fake news, phony news media, lying news media will never give you.
That's my job every day.
And that's the job of a few of us every day.
Anyway, so that was carefully planned, apparently.
That was orchestrated, and they tried to cover that whole thing up.
Tom Fitton over Judicial Watch is pointing out the FBI and the DOJ are in full cover-up mode and sitting on a lot of these scandal documents.
And, you know, the FBI is sitting on them.
They're in cover-up mode.
They're trying to protect McCabe and Comey.
And obviously, Robert Mueller has his feelings.
He loves his buddies, McCabe and Comey and Rosenstein.
He doesn't want all this coming out.
And anyway, Judicial Watch has been facing the same sort of stonewalling that, you know, the varying House committees, the judiciary with Bob Goodlatt and the House Intel Committee with Nunes.
And, you know, what Finton is saying is that they've sued the FBI for records about the Clinton email investigation, and it's all been slow walking all these records.
They've been doing it the whole time.
And they, because they know that every time that we see something, it's going to reveal something huge.
And I'm going to tell you something.
Rosenstein is at the, I am convinced now, is right there at the tip of the spear of all of this.
And I don't know why he even has a job.
Why hasn't he been recused?
We got to do, after we do this week on Robert Mueller, if I'm not arrested, If I don't disappear somewhere, if I'm not taken hostage someplace, now I'm just saying, by the way, I'm saying this all for fun.
By the way, that's what people now say to me.
Keep doing what you're doing.
By the way, I don't know.
They're coming after you.
I'm like, I'm not paranoid.
But people say that to me all the time.
Well, okay, so we're doing an investigation into Mueller.
Then we're going to do one into Rod Rosenstein.
Who are these people with their deep state powers?
How did they get these deep?
Why are they all connected?
Rosenstein, Mueller, Andrew McCabe, Comey, the whole bunch of them.
The whole thing's nauseating.
And, you know, I'll tell you the people that have been most helpful in these investigations, and everybody's going to be surprised.
The people that are most helpful are people within the FBI, people within the DOJ.
There's a few brave souls that are risking everything because they know about all of the efforts to basically help Hillary Clinton, A, avoid going to jail, being charged with a felony, exonerating her, even though everybody knew within the FBI that she had committed crimes and Comey led the way.
They're more disgusted about all of this than I am, except they don't find themselves in a position where they can say it because they're not allowed, but some of them are doing it anyway.
They're telling the truth because they love their agencies and they don't want their reputations tarnished, nor do they want their life's work destroyed because of the actions of just a few people.
We know that there are 1.2 million pages of texts.
How many of those texts, those documents have you seen?
Yeah, there are more than texts.
There are other documents as well in the 1.2 million, but we've only seen a tiny percentage of that.
And that's regrettable because, quite frankly, while the work of the Inspector General is important and we're looking forward to seeing his report, his responsibilities and the Congress's responsibilities in conducting oversight over the nation's most important premier law enforcement organization is also important.
And we need to have those documents.
The Department and the Bureau have been slow, I would say now very slow, in getting them to us.
The last time I was on your program, I expressed confidence that we would have those documents forthcoming.
And here we are several weeks later, still don't have them.
So this is coming to a head.
Well, one of the things, he's going to have to provide the answers, but I really see he even seemed to, in his statement, implicate James Comey.
Did you catch that as well, that he knew about the leaks in the media?
Yeah, I mean, that's why this is becoming so difficult, right?
There's so many witnesses now who have testimony all over the map, which is why I think you continue to see this call for somehow DOJ and FBI are going to have to have somebody who can actually investigate them and put all of this out there, you know, because we're continuing to have problems in Congress just getting the information that we need.
The latest example of that, Sean, was the text messages that emerged on Friday night.
We did not have those text messages, and we had asked for those text messages back in October, November, and December.
So it's very difficult for Congress to get to the bottom of this.
I mean, every day we find out something new.
However, I think at this point, there's so many crimes that have to be investigated.
They need to get somebody over there who's going to run a thorough investigation and maybe work with the IG when that report comes out.
Congressman, let's be clear.
There are 1.2 million documents.
You've only seen 3,000 of them.
You've been stonewalled for five months.
We have seen some documents.
We've seen more than we saw from the Obama administration, Justice Department, but we need more documents and we need them now.
And we need them unredacted, by the way, Maria.
These latest revelations about Peter Strzzok and Lisa Page talking about a federal judge, a Judge Contreras, who was appointed to serve on the FISA court, and they're talking back and forth about how good that is and how Peter Strzok needs to be catching up with him and talking to him.
That was made available to us earlier in a redacted form.
It was only just recently that we had the opportunity to see that text unredacted.
That clearly does not draw any conclusion about what that judge and Peter Strzzok may have done or not done, but it's clearly material to what was going on in the FBI regarding how they were treating this course.
It seems to me that the timing is a little suspicious given all that the president had said about Andy McCabe.
If you're the Attorney General of the United States, you run the damn Justice Department, you know?
And you got to have the guts to look at the president every now and again and say no.
All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
We're monitoring what has happened again in Austin, Texas.
We'll get to that in a second.
Also, the latest on Deep State Gate.
But first, apparently, a late winter's snowstorm, like two feet apparently, are heading to the northeast, which means that the official weatherman of the Sean Hannity show, Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell.com, is on our newsmaker line.
How are you, sir?
How bad is this thing going to be?
Well, in the New York City.
By the way, and for all those people listening in Florida, the Carolinas, and California, and Texas, right?
Just suffer through a three-minute weather report because half the country is about to get bombarded with snow as you're out there in your shorts playing golf today.
Go ahead.
Well, you know, it's interesting is that a lot of these bad storms, you can see them coming from February in the way the pattern was setting up, you know, with the brutal cold in Europe.
And, you know, I've got the book out, The Climate Chronicles.
And when you hear the excuses being made, it's almost like all I say to people is just, oh, go read the book because it's predicting what they're going to say.
It's actually easier predicting the excuses they're making than it is to predict the weather.
But in this particular case with this storm, I think it's pretty much down pat that this storm is going to be very nasty in the Washington, D.C., Baltimore area, Philadelphia.
I think that is, as far as the big cities, those are the areas that are likely to get it worse, Sean, where you're looking at three, six, eight snow, eight inches of snow downtown, but a foot to two feet in the suburbs.
In New York City proper, out through Long Island, and the bulk of this storm around New York and Long Island comes tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow night.
I think it's a six to 12 inch storm, local amounts to 15, which is a big deal.
That may make it one of the biggest spring snowstorms on record around the New York City area in Long Island.
And the problem we've got here is tomorrow morning in the I-95 quarter, D.C. toward Philadelphia, it's going to be snowing one, two, three inches an hour.
And then that's going to try to spread up the New Jersey Turnpike right into New York City and Long Island for several hours.
So we've got a big mess there.
Because of the time of the year, folks, the snow is wet, so more power outages coming, more tidal flooding, beach erosion, the whole nine yards with this storm.
And it's all part of a pattern that we actually see a lot of this stuff back in the 1950s.
You know what?
What is the total we're talking about?
Where does it get hit the worst?
Well, I think as far as big cities go, there'll be a uniform 6 to 12 inches from D.C. to New York City.
But I think the suburbs around Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, those places, those suburbs, I think are going to get hit the most.
You folks that have had this snow around New York City, you know, and up into Boston and Providence, you know what goes on.
Downtown, it's snowing, but it doesn't stick as much.
You take that one storm.
We had three, four inches in New York City, 25 inches in Morristown, New Jersey.
So in March storms, there is a bigger gradient because of those temperatures.
So we're talking a lot of people live in the suburbs.
So what happens is, coming into work tomorrow morning, a lot of these places are going to get shut down.
So let's say, Joe, how much snow is going to fall in Central Park?
I say nine inches.
How much is Sean Hannity's house?
I'd say nine inches is a good forecast for those areas.
I say that.
Is there any other storms coming this week?
Because you said there might be two.
Yeah, well, there's another one that is going to cut through.
It looks to me like it's Chicago, but it looks like it's going to be.
I don't care about Chicago.
I don't live in Chicago.
I mean, I care about our listeners everywhere, Sean.
I do too, but I mean, I'm more interested about my house because I'm selfish.
I think your house is going to be okay this weekend, but the great one, Mark Levin, I don't think he's talking to me right now.
Is that right?
We were talking about you.
We were talking about you last night.
Now, Bistardi says it's going to be bad.
That's what he said to me.
Yeah, well, I upped him from 3 to 6 to 6 to 12.
Yeah.
Well, what is Mark going to do?
He's not going to get out and shovel for crying out loud.
If he does, I'll kill him.
Jeez.
No, but you know what?
I almost hate warning him because I'm afraid he's going to yell at me or something.
He's going to get another one this weekend, but I don't think you are in New York.
Okay?
Folks, this pattern, this cold pattern, going to last right past each year.
Nobody cares what happened in the 1950s or the 1950 pattern.
Nobody understands that.
I know you do, and your family does, but nobody says this is following a pattern in the 1950s.
But, Sean, Sean, it helps us out when we have to combat the nonsense.
And you know what?
Well, you did write the Climate Chronicles, Inconvenient Revelations You're Not Going to Hear from Al Gore, which is a great book, and we put it up on Hannity.com, and I give you credit for it.
But most people, all they want to know is, is it going to snow?
How bad is it going to be?
When is it going to happen?
And, you know, am I going to have to hire the plow guy?
That's what everybody cares about.
You're going to have to hire Mr. Plow or the Plow King, depending on which episode of The Simpsons you like with that.
Remember when Homer was plowing?
So I don't know if Homer's going to plow for you, but folks, you'll need the plow tomorrow.
And it's going to be a, I'll tell you what, for this time of the year, it's going to be a magnificent storm.
I mean, you just don't see it this late in the year that much.
All right.
We do appreciate you, and your book is phenomenal.
Joe Bistardi, Weatherbell.com.
Thank you, Joe.
We love you.
You know that.
We're just messing with you.
I'll talk to you tomorrow maybe.
Bye-bye.
All right, my friend.
By the way, Joe Bistardi works out harder than I do.
I mean, he's like a workout animal.
He did some serious bodybuilding in his life.
I mean, he's bulked up.
Doesn't mean my ninja isn't more effective, but it means, no, but he's got really, he's such a good guy, and he really has a passion for what he does.
All right, I left when we were talking about About the GOP now.
They're going to issue the subpoena for all of this.
And this is where we should be.
And I'm going to tell you something.
We're going to get into this with Sarah and David Schoen at the top of the next hour.
We're learning that Robert Mueller is not the guy that everybody said that he was.
I told you about Andrew Weissman.
He's Mueller's pit bull, but it seems Mueller is Mueller's pit bull and that picking Weissman and company and all of these other Democratic donors was not an accident.
But it appears that Robert Mueller's actions, a lot of people apparently think he has caused nothing but chaos and havoc wherever he's been and the time he spent in Boston as a criminal prosecutor raised a lot of questions about his role in one of the most controversial FBI cases involving the use of a confidential informant.
Sarah Carter reporting that, you know, when the president went out against Robert Mueller over the weekends, it never should have.
Why did the Mueller team have all these hardcore Democratic donors and Hillary supporters and zero Republicans?
Why did he not report?
Why does he have, does he not care about even the appearance of impropriety in any way?
Does he care about the appearance of fearness in any way?
Well, apparently he doesn't.
And obviously, he's got his own agenda in this.
And then his buddy, Rod Rosenstein, again, another guy that, you know, what did Rod Rosenstein know about Hillary's exoneration without investigation?
What did Rosenstein, why did he sign off on the use of Hillary's dossier and allow the FISA warrant extension when, in fact, it was paid for by Hillary Clinton and it had lies from Russia and Russian government sources?
You know, then he gets to appoint Mueller.
There's a massive conflict there.
But anyway, with all the, you know, McCabe's firing, it does raise questions.
Well, where's Mueller's investigation going?
And if you look at his past involvement in other cases, it gets very, very dicey, as you're going to find out at the top of the next hour.
You know, I think as David Schoen was quoted in Sarah's article, we all have a right, an obligation to demand fundamental fairness in the process and not the least bit fair and the investigation's lacking integrity.
And I think the fact that Mueller picks all these Democrats that donate to Obama and Hillary and the DNC is problematic.
You know, this whole thing seems to be at least, you know, in large part based on unverified, untruthful, circumstantial evidence from the get-go.
And it was tainted because of the appointments of Mueller himself.
You're going to tell me nobody in the Destroy Trump media would be upset if a special counsel only had Republican donors, Trump donors on it, no Hillary donors, no Obama donors.
You know, I can't believe that everybody's lauding, you know, Robert Mueller is a well-respected former FBI director, but they know nothing about Robert Mueller's past and his criticism from his years in Boston when he was a U.S. attorney in the U.S. attorney's office in Boston, an acting U.S. attorney, and he was there was Mueller's actions during that time that raised a lot of questions about his role in one of the most controversial cases where the FBI used a confidential informant.
It led to the convictions of four innocent men.
Did you hear that?
He used confidential informants, and that case led to the convictions of four innocent people who were sentenced to death for murders that it turns out they did not commit.
This is Robert Mueller's background.
Local law enforcement officials, the media, and some, you know, criticizing Mueller for what they believe is the Bureau's role in covering up the FBI's dealings with this mobster who was also a flipped informant by the name of Whitey Bulger.
If you haven't seen the Netflix on Whitey Bolger, you need to go and look at it.
It's actually fascinating.
He was a kingpin.
He was a mobster and a murderer and a confidential informant for the FBI.
And anyway, you know, supposedly he was going to be used to take down some mafia people in Boston.
Bulger's relationship with the FBI and his handler, that became toxic.
Guy by the name of John Connolly, it was later discovered Connolly went out of his way to protect Bulger and aided the crime boss against investigations conducted by the Boston PD and the Massachusetts State Police.
And apparently, the FBI informant would inform Bulger of wiretap surveillance conducted by law enforcement.
Well, that seems to be problematic.
You know, there was one article on Boston.com about the FBI's involvement with Bulger and a case that Kevin Cullen wrote about in 2011 in the Boston, in one of the Boston papers, and after Obama asked Congress to make an exception to allow Mueller to stay two extra years as the FBI director.
Anyway, I think this does raise a lot of questions.
And he said the story that Mueller, who was the first assistant U.S. attorney, then acting U.S. attorney in Boston, had written letters to the parole board and pardons board opposing clemency for four men framed by FBI lies, according to this guy in Boston.
Now, Mueller was also in the position in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI supposedly cart off criminal competitors, but he at the time was burying bodies in shallow graves in parts of Massachusetts.
In 2001, those four people who were convicted of this guy, Teddy Deegan's murder, were exonerated by the courts.
It just sounds like Andrew Weissman's record, doesn't it?
You know, tens of thousands of people lose their job, Anderson Accounting.
9-0 decision, Supreme Court wipes out the whole thing.
Four Merrill executives away for a year.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals wipes it out again.
And in all the cases involving Weissman, you have exculpatory evidence withheld.
Anyway, at the time, the Bureau buried the truth, apparently, from the case to protect, you know, one informant by the name of Vincent Fleming, who was the brother of Steve Fleming, who was a partner of Whitey Bulger.
Anyway, a former FBI agent from the Minneapolis Division, legal counsel, the FBI, wrote an op-ed last year in the Huffington Post: No, Robert Mueller and James Comey are not heroes, starting with when the truth about Bulger was finally uncovered through investigative reporting and persistent and honest judges and U.S. taxpayers having footed a $100 million court award to the four men that apparently were framed for the murders committed by the Bulger gang.
In other words, the gang that the FBI had thought they had him as a cooperating gangster.
Anyway, Mueller was never asked by Congress, what do you know about Whitey Bulger?
When did you know it?
That seems to have been a logical question that was missed.
So maybe this narrative that everybody.
He is beyond reproach.
He is beyond questioning.
He is, there's nobody better than Robert Mueller.
I've heard everybody say it.
Apparently, it's not true.
Well, we're investigating the investigators.
This is why we need a special counsel, a second special counsel, investigate the investigators.
And I look at this whole team, and it's just corrupt.
It stinks from the head down.
And if the president, God forbid, says, okay, there's no evidence occlusion, well, who's Trey Gowdy to tell him, well, start acting like an innocent person.
Well, if you're an innocent person, you want to scream from the rooftops that you're innocent.
You want to sit there, okay?
I am going to very, very calmly say that these charges against me are false.
I'll just, you keep doing your witch hunt and your investigation.
I will sit here calmly knowing that I'm innocent.
I will not state my opposition to being investigated for another 18 months.
Why should I care?
Because I'm innocent.
That's not the way innocent people act.
Innocent people say, hell no, I didn't do it, which is kind of what Donald Trump is doing.
Oh, he needs to be more presidential.
Okay, well, let's see the rest of you deal with it.
If 18 months of your life, you and your family are turned upside down and you know damn well you didn't do anything.
Oh, and by the way, we have evidence of real crimes, real collusion with Russia, a real cover-up, the fix being in for somebody that really committed crimes.
Oh, and by the way, the phony Russian information that your opposition party candidate paid for was used to spy on you because they didn't tell the judges four separate times the truth.
Welcome to the United States of America today and the deep state.
All right, as we roll along Sean Hannity show.
All right, a lot coming up.
We'll have a report of what's going on in Austin today.
A second, another bombing has taken place, this time out of FedEx, and a second bomb has been found.
We'll update you on that.
We'll investigate who is Robert Mueller.
And is the president right to think that, hey, there's something wrong with him appointing all Democrats to look into all of this?
The latest on Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Imran Awan, we'll get into that today.
And we'll actually have the person that found the Unibomber will explain the serial bombing that's going on in Austin.
I mean, that's why this is becoming so difficult, right?
There's so many witnesses now who have testimony all over the map, which is why I think you continue to see this call for somehow DOJ and FBI are going to have to have somebody who can actually investigate them and put all of this out there.
You know, because we're continuing to have problems in Congress just getting the information that we need.
The president's absolutely right.
This investigation never should have begun.
And the question is now, how does he deal with it?
And I think what he's doing is he's playing good cop, bad cop.
He has some of his lawyers cooperating with Mueller and some of his lawyers attacking Mueller because he wants to be ready to attack in the event there are any recommendations that are negative to the president.
Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
Never.
Question two on relatively related.
Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
No.
Has any classified information relating to President Trump or his associates been declassified and shared with the media?
Not to my knowledge.
All right, we know that's a lie just based on Andrew McCabe's statement that in fact, oh, he did it with the approval of the director.
So what did Comey know?
When did he know it?
And who's lying?
Is it McCabe or is it Comey who we know has been caught in lies, just like we know Brennan has been caught in lies?
Anyway, as I've been telling you, our two Sean Hannity show, let me stay organized here, 800-941-Sean is a tofrey telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program.
And one of the things we want to do, everyone keeps saying, well, Robert Mueller is a man of integrity.
He's a man of honor.
He's a Republican, in spite of the fact that he appoints the most radical big donors to the Democrats, to Obama, to Hillary Clinton, and, oh, interestingly enough, not to any Republican, not to Donald Trump.
And it's clear that this is a witch hunt.
This is a phishing expedition.
And with this wide mandate that was given by Rod Rosenstein, the same Rod Rosenstein that signed off on the FISA warrant in one of the renewal applications.
He signed off on, yes, an application that the bulk of information was from Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for dossier with phony Russian information, with Russian lies is what it is.
You know, I say it's uncorroborated and unverified.
A friend of mine last night said to me, no, it is corroborated.
It's debunked.
It's not true.
And that's the whole point of it.
And they knew it wasn't true.
And they knew she paid for it.
And they never did anything about it.
Anyway, joining us now, Sarah Carter is an investigative reporter.
She's been in the forefront of all this, Fox News contributor.
And David Schoen is with us, criminal and civil rights attorney.
And one of the questions we're starting, and one of the questions we're starting tonight on Hannity and right here on this program is, who is Robert Mueller?
What is his past like?
Well, we've been doing a deep dive into all of this, and it culminated last night with Sarah Carter's investigative report about who Robert Mueller is and what about his Boston past.
When I read this, I was as stunned as I was when I learned about the background of Mueller's pitfall as described by the New York Times, Andrew Weissman.
And that's a guy that lost tens of thousands of jobs for Anderson accounting employees.
This is a guy overturned 9-0 in the U.S. Supreme Court.
That was a guy that put four Merrill executives in jail for a year, overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and on at least two separate occasions was excoriated by judges for withholding exculpatory evidence.
And we see a similar background in Robert Mueller as I read through your piece, Sarah Carter.
Yes, I mean, here are, and I think David Schoen explained this very well because he was very much tied into the Weissman case early on with DiVaccio, who was at that time being accused of being a bad apple inside the FBI and whose involvement with his informants led to murders of numerous people.
So now, you know, you come to Mueller and you see that he was also involved in a situation in Boston where you have, you know, Whitey Bulger, mob guy, you know, in Boston, huge case back then, whose FBI agents were also involved.
At that point in time, Moeller was not with the FBI, but he was overseeing.
He was the attorney general at the time in Boston, and he's overseeing all these cases.
And you have Whitey Bulger here involved with FBI agents.
It was probably comparable.
They said the two biggest cases ever involving corruption in the FBI, both Weissman and Mueller were connected to.
Well, explain the whole Boston case and how this whole thing got screwed up as it relates to Whitey Bulger.
I mean, it sounds like a total and utter fiasco.
And we have a case also, which I can't believe where evidence apparently is withheld again.
So, yeah, well, you have Moeller.
He was, at one point in time in Boston, he was the assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston.
Then he became the acting U.S. attorney in Boston.
That was from 1986 through 87.
And if you look at the case, you know, it was Moeller's actions during that time that raised questions about the role in one of the FBI's most controversial cases, and this was with Whitey Bulger.
And what happened was Moeller basically, there was, Whitey Bolger had been very much involved with a guy by the name, a special agent by the name of John Connolly.
He was his FBI handler.
And Connolly was toxic.
Connolly was basically passing information on to Bulger.
They were utilizing Bulger as this informant against all of these other bad guys in Boston.
But Bolger, in effect, was the worst of them all.
Bolger was continuing to basically kill people, run operations, do everything that he could.
It ended up, four people ended up being accused based on false information and put on death row, basically based on false information about somebody's death because of Bolger and because of Connolly.
And when Moeller, who was in charge of all of this, I mean, this was a huge mess at the time, Moeller basically denied over and over again, although information was being provided, he was writing letters to the parole board against these four men.
What happened was Whitey Bolger got a tip from Connolly at one point in time that he was going to be arrested and he skipped town.
And Bolger basically disappeared for 16 years.
He was on the run.
He was not arrested then until 2011.
And I believe Sean will be able to explain this case in more detail than what I've given, Sean.
But that was when Moeller had come back and he was now the director of the FBI.
And this was years later.
So basically, everything quieted down.
In Boston, a lot of journalists were up in arms about this because the fact that Bolger disappeared meant that no questions were being asked, no questions were being answered.
So for 16 years, this kind of hung over Boston.
And then 16 years later, he's arrested in California.
Bulger is.
And I caught this really interesting interview with Moeller 60 Minutes, did this really short interview with him.
They kind of caught him in a hallway somewhere during that time and said, how do you feel about this?
And he seemed kind of caught off guard and he was like, well, you know, this is somebody we've wanted for a long time and we're glad we have him back in custody.
But there were a lot of questions that went unanswered that Moeller never answered.
What did he know about the informant Bulger?
What did he know about the FBI agents who were handling him?
And he never answered those questions.
And it seems very similar to Weissman.
And remember, Weissman was reprimanded for withholding exculpatory evidence in a case that was very similar to this, where, you know, people were charged with things that they shouldn't have been charged with.
And then all of a sudden, you know, he gets reprimanded by a judge and then has his friends, his legal friends, his buddies there, the Attorney General, Zachary Carter, basically forced the judge to pull his name out of that reprimand so that he can continue being an attorney.
These guys are all very close, and they're very tight.
And, you know, Weissman and Mueller are great friends.
Comey, Moeller, and Weissman are friends.
And Rosenstein.
They're all in the same little group.
They're all in the same little boat.
And they protect each other on the way up.
And apparently, even now on the way down, as we can see, you know, with a lot of the stories that have been coming out on Comey.
And you know this whole story about who the real Robert Mueller is, David Schoen, and yet the media always portrays him as, oh, no, he's a go-to guy.
He's a real blah, blah, blah.
And it's just a talking point.
What I'm reading in terms of the research and some old articles from Boston.com and elsewhere, I am not particularly impressed.
I'm a little nervous that he seems very much like Andrew Weissman.
I mean, there's an incredible parallel, and you've hit it right on the button, and Sarah wrote the definitive piece on this, frankly.
And there's a lot more to it that I'm sure Sarah's going to find out and write about.
But I say that these two are numbers one and two on the parade or U.S. News and World report list of overseeing the single two most corrupt scandals in FBI history.
Both scandals involving murder and corruption.
Both scandals involving prosecutors who either knew or should have known.
And in the case of Andrew Weissman, of course, we have a lot more evidence.
We know that in the case of corrupt FBI agent Lynn DeVecchio, which I say is the single most corrupt incident in the history of the FBI, and I think everyone who knows the case would agree.
We know that Weissman learned that DeVecchio was using a mob underboss stone-cold killer as a top echelon informant.
And we also know from another Assistant U.S. Attorney that Weissman told the other prosecutors there was no reason to disclose this corrupt relationship, despite the fact that they were putting on contrary evidence in every case.
There are two men sitting in prison right now serving life sentences who were convicted through Weissman's prosecution using evidence with Lynn DeVecchio testifying.
And at the end of the case, the prosecutors came up and said, if you have any reason to believe this agent is lying in the conviction of Michael Sessa, for example, you should set him free.
They knew he was lying at the very time.
It's unbelievable.
But there are more parallels.
Mr. Mueller was FBI director when DeVecchio was indicted for murders, an FBI agent indicted for murders.
Hang on right there.
We've got to take a break.
Stay there.
Sarah Carter, David Schoen with us.
We continue.
We're going to do this all week.
We'll have more on Hannity tonight.
Our deep dive.
Who is Robert Mueller?
Well, apparently, he's not the person that everybody portrays him to be.
We'll give you the full rundown tonight, Hannity, and all the breaking news from today.
All right, as we continue our start of our deep dive into what is, who is Robert Mueller, we continue with Sarah Carter and our friend David Schoen is with us today.
Sarah, I don't even know what to say.
Give everybody a preview because we're running out of time today, the types of things that they're going to learn about Robert Mueller in the rest of the week.
Well, I think we're going to learn about a lot of questions that Congress had with regard to the FBI that they posed to Mueller when he was director of the FBI.
We're going to learn about his past and his connections in the Boston case, as well as his future after he retired and went to William Hale to work there as a partner.
I think those are some of the things that we're going to look at.
I mean, there was a lot of complaints from people from the Anthrax case to the Boston, to this Boston case way back in the 80s when Mueller was an attorney there.
There's a lot of things about Robert Mueller that the American people just don't know about, Sean, that they should.
And I think a lot of the talk about Mueller, you know, in recent time has been very superficial, very surfacey.
We've seen people on both sides, like, just let him do his job.
There's no reason to question him.
He's an honorable guy.
But if you look back at the past, he's not perfect.
And there's a lot of stories that raise questions as to how he's going to handle this special counsel.
And what would you tell people to look for, David Schoen?
Well, she's 100% right in everything she said, as usual.
Let me give you this question, Mr. Hannity.
This is what the Boston Globe said.
The Boston Globe said that they questioned Mr. Mueller about what happened in the White E. Bolger case, because it's never come out what he knew or should have known.
Well, we know what he should have known, and we believe what he knew.
And his answer to the newspaper, to the American people, was, well, the people should understand what happened back then happened a long time ago.
Would that satisfy you?
Does that satisfy you as the person chosen to be the special counsel?
No, that's not in the United States.
Nor does Andrew Weissman as the pit bull of Mueller satisfy me either.
But it does answer.
It does begin to at least answer the question, you know, that, oh, now we know why Andrew Weissman and his ilk were appointed because they seem to be two pit bulls.
And maybe the New York Times should call them both pitbulls, considering they love that adjective.
I think that's right.
You're going to see also an even more significant connection.
You're going to see that after Mueller presided over the Bolger matter in Boston, then becomes FBI director and approves the attorney's fees for Lynn DeVechio, the corrupt FBI agent in the New York case, to the tune of $400,000 to $500,000.
Ultimately, it was approved by Alberto Gonzalez.
But that's one of the things that Mr. Mueller is questioned about by Congress.
After a federal judge found that DeVecchio was not acting in his capacity as a federal agent, his fees were still approved.
All right, guys, I want to thank you both.
We will continue to investigate who is the special counsel.
Who is Robert Mueller?
What is his background?
What is his past?
And how is it possible that the image painted by the media could be so far off from what reality is?
Don't worry, we'll continue to do their job.
We'll investigate that tonight.
All right, we've got to take a break.
We're going to update you on the case involving Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the Awan case with Luke Roziak.
And then we'll take a deep dive into this Austin bomber and all that's been going on.
We had another bomb set today and another bomb found.
All right, so we'll find out what's going on there and more of all of this tonight on Hannity, 9 Eastern on Fox.
Under my understanding, the Capitol Police is not able to confiscate members' equipment when the member is not under investigation.
It is their equipment and it's supposed to be returned.
Well, I think there's extenuating circumstances in this case, and I think that, you know, working through my counsel and, you know, the necessary personnel, if that in fact is the case and with the permission of through the investigation, and we'll return the equipment.
But until that's accomplished, I can't return to equipment.
I think you're violating the rules when you conduct your business that way.
And should expect that there would be consequences.
Well, he's not my staffer.
He no longer works for me, and when he was arrested, I terminated him.
I kept him on the payroll during the time that he was not arrested and not charged with anything.
And that was because, as I said, that I was concerned about the violation of his due process rights and also that there were racial and ethnic profiling concerns as well.
I have maintained that it was important and will continue to maintain that when someone's due process rights are potentially being violated, that I'm going to stand up and make sure that people's rights are protected in this country.
That's the oath that I swore to uphold when I swore to uphold the Constitution.
And when he was arrested and due process was established, then I terminated him.
Oh, finally, even though they knew that Imran Awan had double billed for a long period of time and had family members on the payroll that had no experience, seemingly, as it relates to anything technical, you know, one worked at a McDonald's, another worked at some used car place selling cars.
So there's no evidence they had anything involving IT in terms of their background and experience.
And that was Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
And of course, that was her attacking the police department because they happened to have a copy of what turned out to be, I believe it was her laptop.
And interestingly, so Imran Awan got to stay on.
He had access to congressional secrets, including top secret and classified information that we believe was probably sold overseas to somebody.
And then, of course, Imran Awan actually left out and made available Debbie Wasserman Schultz's laptop in a phone booth somewhere in Capitol Hill.
And this case has not been resolved since.
The only person in the news media that is brave enough and tough enough and diligent enough to stay on the story is from the Daily Caller.
Luke Roziak has another piece on the Awan case.
And it's sad that it's not getting as much attention.
But we've got to pay attention to this because soon after the House of Representatives found that Imran Awan and his family made unauthorized access to congressional data, well, Imran was literally racing to vacate his house that he was renting in February of 2017.
He's running it to a former Marine and angrily told his new tenant that he was homeless and refused any certified mail in Imran's home.
Anyway, what's going on, Luke Roziak?
We need an update.
Thanks for having me, Sean.
So these guys, Imran Juan and his family, the House Inspector General, found that before the election, they made unauthorized access to House data.
They were impersonating members of Congress.
They were funneling data off the network.
And that looks bad.
Obviously, they're Pakistani-born.
We all know cybersecurity, the risks they were facing.
They had access to so much information.
They were working for one in five House Democrats.
They could read all their emails, and that data was being funneled off the network.
It's unauthorized access.
They got the server logs showing it.
So that all looks bad enough.
Now, the reason you're not hearing about this in the media that much is because the members who are the victims aren't talking about it.
So most people think if the Democrats were to get hacked yet again, they'd be clamoring for justice.
And that's the issue here is the Democrats have been quiet as a mouse.
They refuse to address this.
Now, they don't deny it.
They kind of skirt the issue and they change the subject.
And it's really weird because why would they not be the ones who wanted justice more than anyone?
So it's been over a year now, and I've been delving into both aspects of these guys, every aspect they can into their history, on the House side, but also in their personal business.
And so these guys have been involved in more than a dozen lawsuits.
I've interviewed more than a dozen people who knew them very well personally.
And what every single one of them said is that these guys have an MO of essentially extortion.
That's what they allege, is that they use information against people to threaten them, bully them, silence them, and to manipulate the wheels of justice.
So when you have Democrats who are inexplicably refusing to call for justice for the people that, according to the IG, hacked them, you put two and two together.
A background of extortion, the access that they had, and the silence of members.
And it seems very, very likely that members of Congress are currently being blackmailed by these IT guys.
The only other explanation is that it's basically just as simple as a threat to the Russian narrative, that there was this actual hack at the same time as the DNC.
They caught the guys, and they weren't Russian.
They were Pakistani.
So that's the only other thing I can think of, is that it comes down to allowing themselves to be hacked because they prize this narrative more than they prize national security.
So it's one or the other.
Why do we not hear anything about this case but for you?
And is Debbie Wasserman Schultz in legal jeopardy?
I think she appears to have possibly allowed him to continue to access House data after he was banned by the police.
Remember that he had that laptop, which was her laptop, two months after he was banned.
Why would he have a laptop, a member of Congress's laptop, when he was not allowed to be on the House network?
What good is a laptop in this day and age that's not connected to the Internet?
If Wasserman Schultz let him do that, she really jeopardized her fellow members.
And I think that this is a case of obstruction of justice by the Awanson and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, right?
She knew.
He had to know.
Exactly.
I mean, the members were protecting these guys for many years.
As you mentioned, they had no IT training for the most part.
They were violating rules left and right.
They had every red flag in their background imaginable.
And these guys protected them and ushered them into the House.
Yeah.
All right.
Listen, keep us up to speed because I don't think this issue should just go dark.
I don't know where the police and the FBI are as it relates to this.
Do you know that there's an ongoing investigation?
There is an ongoing investigation, and I think that for the media that's ignored it, they're going to be pretty embarrassed when this finally does come home to Roost.
Their next court date is March 4th, and I think there is a lot of efforts at obstructing, but at the end of the day, I think it's going to be a tough sell for them to make this go away because you have the House Democratic caucus server stolen around the election, and that was Javier Bezera, now Attorney General of California.
His server was stolen.
Unbelievable.
After the IG identified it as evidence.
So what is going on here?
I mean, this is one of the most frightening things I've ever heard in my life where you've got a member of Congress's server physically stolen while there's a cybersecurity investigation going on.
And he doesn't even say a word about it.
All right.
Thank you so much, Luke Roziak.
We'll continue to follow it.
800-941-Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
Let's get back to our phones.
Jason is in Maryland.
Jason, hi, how are you?
Glad you called the Sean Hannity Show.
What's going on, sir?
I just wanted to call to kind of raise a point.
From what we know about McCabe, it would seem to me just kind of a logical progression would be they should really start to scour over emails and communications that have to do with his wife.
If he was able to abuse his power and if he's established a pattern, I would say most likely he used the resources of the FBI to look in basically to her opponents.
Listen, I'm going to tell you right now, why is it $700,000, number one, is a huge amount for any Senate race in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
It's an obscene amount of money.
Then you look at, well, who is that connected to?
Well, that's connected.
That money is coming directly from Clinton's best friend in the world, Terry McCullough.
Then you add the other Democratic money thrown into the race.
Now, she didn't win the race, but this amount of money is unheard of.
It's not ever that high.
And then you think of the power that McCabe had, in particular, McCabe, Comey, Strzok, Paige, and the rest of them.
And you've got those are the people that are looking into Hillary Clinton and the email server scandal.
Now, finally, as I have said earlier in the program today, finally, Republicans seem to be getting their act together.
And that political article that I tweeted out last night and mentioned earlier, you know, they're now going to issue a subpoena for records that will link to the Clinton probe.
There's over 1.2 million documents that the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, had gathered.
Now, what we're going to find out is what I've told you.
Crimes were committed by Hillary, and that is she put a server in an unauthorized location, and she mishandled classified information, destroyed classified information, tried to cover the whole thing up, and obstructed justice in the process.
But even more importantly, the top FBI individuals that took over this investigation, they covered for her.
They rigged the outcome for her so she could remain the candidate for the Democratic Party.
It's all now being exposed.
That is what is now coming.
That's the next step.
That's what these documents are going to prove.
The Inspector General report is pure TNT, according to somebody that has knowledge about it.
You know, McCabe didn't happen in a vacuum.
McCabe was not fired by Donald Trump either.
This all happened because of the FBI's own ethics and the laws of the land, and he lied under oath repeatedly, numerous times.
And I guarantee you that there's going to be a lot of other people to fall as well.
And arrogant as James Comey is, I mean, he's probably the dumbest human being in the country right now because he's coming out with a book.
He's bragging about his book.
And meanwhile, he's being criminally investigated, whether he knows it, wants to admit it or not.
And you would think somebody with his background would have figured all of that out by now, but he apparently has not.
All right, back to our phones.
Mike in Denver, Colorado on K-How.
What's up, Mike?
How are you?
I was on with your morning guy the other day.
Had a great time.
What an honor.
Thank you for everything you do.
And I don't say that as a greeting.
I sincerely, sincerely appreciate it from the bottom of my heart and my family, thank you for what you're doing and what you're doing specifically on shedding a light on the government corruption.
You're welcome.
Your colleagues who work tirelessly, folks like Steve Hilden, are really exposing this deep, entrenched government across the board, locally and nationally, corruption.
It all stems a lot from the lobbying and the influence that that gives certain people.
And you've highlighted everything, and I could never even begin to say it as eloquently as you do, but keep repeating yourself, Mr. Hannity.
Thank you for all you do.
God bless you.
Listen, you're being very kind.
Look, I'm going to tell you something.
This is so much more complicated than I ever knew when we discovered a year ago on March 8th of last year that, in fact, the Trump Tower had in fact been surveilled and that a FISA warrant had been issued.
That goes back a year ago.
Everything that we have learned in this year now points to everything that I was saying yesterday and last night on TV about a very powerful, deep state, high echelon operators that thought they knew better than the American people, and the deeds they were involved in clearly were meant to prevent Donald Trump from getting elected, to help Hillary Clinton,
to allow her to continue in the race and by whatever means necessary destroy Trump and then hurt his incoming administration.
It's that profound.
It's that deep.
It's that sick.
It's that criminal.
It is that, you know, it's everything you think cannot happen in America.
Everything we learned about Hillary's crimes, everything we learned about the cover-up, everything we learned about her fixing a primary, trying to fix a general election with Russian lies that she paid for, you know, all leading to the supporters in the deep state allowing a FISA warrant that is phony with Russian lies to be used and presented before a FISA judge to get a warrant on an opposition party candidate.
That's it in a nutshell.
We'll continue.
All right, let's have time for one quick call here as we now check in.
Let's see.
Eric is in Vero Beach in Florida.
Eric, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Oh, thanks, Sean.
Thanks for taking my call.
And it's a perfect set.
What you just said is a perfect segue into my call.
I was calling about the 2018 midterms, and I actually believe that the Republicans are pretty much a shoe-in because I look at a guy like Trump, who was the only Republican.
If he decided he didn't want to run in 2016, then I guarantee you, we've got Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Schumer right now.
He's the only one we have that could have beat them.
And he's the only chance we have.
And if he goes to these, if he goes and rallies at these close house races and close Senate races where we have a chance to do pickups, I'm pretty sure we can prevail.
But what is there after he leaves, Sean?
I mean, we constantly hear that the Democrats have no bench.
What do we have?
Who's going to stand up to the press?
Who's going to stand up to the people that Trump stands up to?
That guy's a one-on-one billion guy.
I think the answer is obvious.
It's got to be, you know, we the people.
We got to do our part.
You know, at the end of the day, we all have, you know, Reagan warned that freedom is always just one generation away from being imperiled.
And with that, I think every generation has to at some point pick up the torch and put up with the crap and the baloney and the BS and put your personal life aside.
And if you do that, then, you know, odds are pretty good that we can preserve, protect, and defend.
Now, people don't know what freedom, liberty, and the Constitution is, and we're in deep trouble.
And there's way too many people that don't get it yet.
All right, when we come back, an update on the horrific bombings out of Texas, that's next.
Coming up next, our final news roundup, an information overload hour.
Well, you know, that's been the question all along is, is this terrorism?
Is this hate related?
And we're early on in the investigation today.
We've only gotten into the preliminary phases.
And as the day moves on, that is something that we're going to analyze.
We are clearly dealing with what we expect to be a serial bomber at this point based on the similarities between now what is the fourth device.
And again, as we look at this individual and the pattern and what we're looking at here, we will have to determine if we see a specific ideology behind this or something that will lead us along with our federal partners to make that decision.
The bombings in Austin are terrible.
Local, state, and federal are working hand in hand to get to the bottom of it.
This is obviously a very, very sick individual or maybe individuals.
These are sick people, and we will get to the bottom of it.
We will be very strong.
We have all sorts of federal agencies over there right now.
We're searching what's going on in Austin, a great place, a tremendous place, is absolutely disgraceful.
So we have a lot of power over there.
We're looking.
It's not easy to find, but these are sick people, and we have to find them as soon as possible.
We have to find them really immediately.
I will say working with Texas, working with the local governments has been great, but we have to produce, we have to find this very sick person or people.
All right, that's the president and law enforcement commenting on what is now a second bomb found at a Texas Federal Express facility.
And the second package bomb had been found in the facility where a bomb injured a worker earlier today.
Now, the first package exploded shortly after midnight last night.
And this is taking place at a facility in Schurz, Texas.
And it had been shipped from and sent to Austin, Texas.
And now everybody understands, I think, what's happening.
We have a serial bomber on the loose.
If you look at the timeline of all of this, the first explosion unfolded on March the 2nd.
It killed a 39-year-old man named Anthony Stephen House after a device exploded on the front porch of his Austin home.
Now, that blast was investigated initially as a suspicious death, later a homicide.
10 days later, similar incident reported 12 miles from this particular first place's home, House's home.
A 17-year-old identified as Draylon Mason was killed.
His mother injured after a package exploded inside of their home.
Hours after that second explosion, police reported yet a third blast, confirming that at least one elderly woman was injured.
And the night of March 18th, around 8.30, a fourth explosion, possibly triggered by a tripwire, had occurred.
And two men in their 20s suffered what in their case was non-life-threatening injuries because of the blast, including one who had nails in his legs.
When they put that type of shrapnel inside these bombs, that's for maximum damage and injury and death.
Now, if the explosion was the result of a bomb using a tripwire technology, that would be a different level of skill above that which they already were concerned about that the suspect possessed, according to the Austin police chief.
Anyway, joining us now is somebody that knows a little bit about these serial bombers.
Terry Turchy is with us, and he's a former deputy assistant director of counterterrorism in the division of the FBI.
And this is what I say when I mean the 99% of FBI guys are great.
Rank and file guys are great.
They do the, you know, very difficult job for us every day.
Not the top echelon, deep state actors I've been talking about to make a distinction.
Anyway, it was under his leadership.
He was the driving force behind the capture of the two most elusive and solitary domestic terrorists in history.
Now, between 94 and 98, Terry directed the Unibomb Federal Task Force, and they finally caught and convicted Theodore Kaczynski for an 18-year-long string of terrorist bombings.
And Robert Graysmith, an author who wrote about the case in 1997, a book, Unabomber, Desire to Kill, called Turchi, the heart and the spirit of the investigation.
And after Kaczynski pled guilty to the Unabomb crimes in 98, Turchy was promoted to inspector and was immediately tapped by then FBI Director Louis Free to direct the Southeast Bomb Task Force in the North Carolina hunt for the Olympic Park bomber, Eric Robert Rudolph.
I know a lot about that.
I was down there in 96, and I was there.
And, of course, Richard Jewell became a great case in point where the media rushed to judgment.
And it turned out that in that case, Richard Jewell was listening to my show the very day that the Atlanta Journal Constitution was referring to him as, well, he fits the profile of the sole bomber because he lives with his mother.
And I was saying, okay, he lives with his mother.
So what?
That doesn't make one a bomber.
In the end, it turned out he did not do it.
And the media had pretty much convicted him by that time and ruined this kid's life.
Anyway, joining us now is Terry Churchy is with us.
Well, first of all, I need to thank you.
Your resume is beyond impressive.
And obviously, we find ourselves in a situation you know well.
Well, Sean, first of all, let me also thank you.
And I have to tell you, and I really appreciate the way you got into that because I'm really kind of humbled to be here and talk to you on behalf of and along with all those hundreds of people that worked on both of those cases because you and I both know that it's always a team and nobody is any more important than anybody else.
So it was a great experience of my life.
And that's exactly what's going on today.
There's a lot of really dedicated people down in Austin dealing with this.
And it's almost the worst thing, Sean, you can get your hands on.
And that is an ongoing bombing.
In this instance, it's almost like a killer on the loose.
And you don't know where he's going to hit next.
And these people, or this individual that's doing this, was well aware that once he finished probably building all these bombs, he was ready to deliver them, and he was going to keep doing it until he got caught.
And I am afraid that they're going to be working with something that's constantly evolving and changing.
And in many ways, it's even more significant than what we had to deal with as far as danger than the Unobomber or even Eric Rudolph, because, you know, they got scared off every time they got seen or something happened, and then they would stop and come back later.
But this guy is not going to stop.
And we're going to keep doing this till he's caught.
So they have their hands full down there in Texas.
Well, and again, I know that I remember back in the Kaczynski case, wasn't it his own brother that said, you know, I got my brother that lives in the wild, in the woods, and he's a little weird, and he's said things over the years, and I'm beginning to think he may be a suspect.
You know, Sean, the Unabomb case is the perfect example of everything working right.
Law enforcement, the public, and the rule of law all coming together.
And what ended up happening is we had a strategy that went on for a couple of years as we were together as the Unobomb Task Force.
We played that strategy out.
By the time we were able to get the manifesto, which was a piece of luck on our part from the Unabomber, we had put enough together and discovered enough new facts about that case that we needed the missing piece.
Well, the missing piece turned out to be the Unabomber's desire to have his manifesto published.
And when that came across, we had this great clinical psychologist, special agent.
Her name was Kathy Puckett.
And we had a great group of people who looked at each other as we were meeting in a conference.
We had a conference every morning for two years together to go over all the facts and the new facts in this case.
And we decided that this is the piece.
This is the passion that is expressed over years by someone.
And if we get this out there and publish it, somebody's going to recognize it.
And so it was published on September 19th.
Washington Post and the New York Times agreed to do that.
The Attorney General at the time, Jan Arino, the FBI director, Louis Free, agreed to do that.
And so it got out there.
And in that period of time, between September 19th and the middle of February, 55,000 people on the hotline.
And it was the David Kaczynski call that was significant.
He and his wife, Linda Patrick, were the missing piece of the Unabomb case.
And in less than three days after his call through his attorney, Anthony Bessegli, we had agents who essentially formed a significant relationship with them.
And we interviewed them.
We got set up in Montana.
We turned the entire, as we used to call it, the Unabomb ship in the direction of one person.
And on the morning of April 3rd, served that search warrant.
I remember it well.
I mean, because it had been such a long time coming.
I mean, an amazing job.
Listen, these guys don't leave a lot of clues.
Do you remember the case at the Olympic Park bombing?
I mean, the radio station that I worked for in Atlanta at the time was the official news station of the Olympics.
And we did our broadcast right from Olympic Park.
And I don't know if you remember the day that the AJC came out and said, oh, he lives with his mother.
He fits the profile of a lone bomber, meaning Richard Jewell.
It wasn't Richard Jewell.
I know.
And, you know, this is why, I got to tell you, Sean, this is why in Unibomb, and when we had kind of a new arrangement in the Southeast Pump Task Force, we stayed with the facts, and we operated on one principle.
You separate the facts, the fiction, and the theory.
And everything we did and all the investigative projects we did were designed around facts.
Now, profiling is great, and I'm a bit prejudiced on this, but profiling can be way overblown because it can actually cause you a lot of problems if you're not careful in how you use it.
If you close your mind, it does, right?
I mean, you have to have an open mind.
Exactly.
Well, let me ask you this.
At what point did you figure out in your head?
I don't think it's this guy.
Meaning Richard Jewell.
Well, that's an interesting story.
We were working in Unibomb at the time and getting ready for the trial, actually.
And we got a call from back east, and somebody was very close to that.
They said, we've got this lick.
We know who did this.
And so we will tell us.
Well, the security guard.
And I said, well, why?
And he explained it as you kind of explained it before we started talking.
And Kathy was actually with me at that point.
I looked at her.
She looked at me.
We got off the phone and we shook our heads like, that could be trouble.
And by gosh, it turned out to be trouble within about 24 hours.
And so those kind of things make me squeamish.
I like facts, and I like to be really careful.
Because any of these cases, Sean, it's very easy to go sideways and off the track.
And sometimes you can't get yourself back on the track.
You know, I just remember because I don't know why, but it taught me a lot that case from my perspective and my job.
I mean, I actually think I've gone in a very different direction than the news media in this country as it relates to Trump-Russia collusion.
And a lot of what I have been digging up with some friends of mine and what we've been reporting, and sadly, because I'm like the biggest law enforcement person you'd ever meet, and my family was in law enforcement, and I just feel that there are a few bad apples at the top of the FBI.
I'm not trying to drag you into this, but I just, it taught me to be, you know, to look at the counter narrative, to look in other places.
And it has served me well.
I mean, while everybody else was convicting George Zimmerman, I went down and interviewed him.
When everybody else, you know, was quoting on television, hands up, don't shoot.
I wasn't sure that ever happened because the guy that had said it was the guy that was also involved with the robbery with Michael Brown.
And the same thing, you know, in the case in Baltimore when Freddie Gray ran away.
I'm like, who runs away from a cop at 8:30 in the morning if it's not trouble?
So I just.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, go ahead.
That's exactly right, Sean.
And one of the most painful things going on today for former FBI agents, and let me tell you, for current ones and for FBI non-agent people, is that this whole narrative that's coming out about McCabe and Comey, I mean, there is no one that I know in the FBI that is thinking anything other than what the heck is going on at the top of the Bureau.
Comey and McCabe corrupted the FBI from the top.
And their departure, if anything, should have come a lot sooner.
And to hear congressmen and senators say some of the things they're saying makes me scratch my head and wonder what happened to the FBI that I left behind.
What I am trying to point out.
I don't feel this way.
Every FBI agent I know, everybody that works in the FBI, all the rank and file guys are shocked.
But we'll take a break.
We'll come back.
Terry Turchy is with us.
He's the former deputy assistant director, FBI Counterterrorism Division, and he headed up the Unibomb Task Force.
Now that we have one bombing going off again in Austin, we'll ask him when we come back, does this spread elsewhere?
His thoughts on that, what we have to be vigilant about.
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All right, as we continue, and Terry Turchy is with us, former deputy assistant director, FBI Counterterrorism Division, former head of the Unibomb Task Force.
And in large measure, it was his hard work that helped us find the Unibomber.
He also worked on the case down in the Olympic park bombing during the Olympics in 96.
I want to ask you, now that we, you know, we see this basically contained in and around the Austin area, are you worried that this spreads out elsewhere?
Well, I think you always have to worry about that, but I have to say, I was gratified today that if they can link these bombs at FedEx, that that's a big jump or a quantum leap in this case, and especially the one, the package that did not detonate.
If we can have a pristine bomb that didn't go off, that's like a big bonus.
Is there a fingerprint to somebody's bomb-making abilities?
I remember years ago, we did a big show on, I forgot the name of the book, but there's a book out on how to make bombs.
Oh, no, no, it's called the Anarchist Cookbook.
That's what it was called.
Sure.
There are solicitors that people can go to, but I have to tell you, everybody makes their bombs differently, and the people in the FBI lab, the ATF lab, can tell you, they can distinguish literally one Middle Eastern bomber from another.
And they're that good.
And they can tell if a bomb has been made by a person before.
The Unibomb case is another example of that.
The first three bombs or the first two bombs were kind of anonymous.
We didn't know really who was involved in that at all.
The third bomb, the FBI lab examiner put the first three together.
And in this case, if they can link these bombs by the, you're looking at everything.
You're looking at switches, wires, detonation, electrical charges, the main charges, all those kinds of things.
What about the tripwire?
Why does that define this differently?
I only have about 20 seconds.
The tripwire is different because it's so much more random and lethal.
Anybody, a mother could have been coming by with her baby carriage and set that package off because of the tripwire.
So it shows you the kind of person you're dealing with.
Yeah.
It's called evil in our time.
Terry Turchi, thanks for the good work.
I'm sure they're probably going to be calling you if they haven't already to help them out on this case.
I'm sure you could add a lot.
Thank you for all you've done, and thanks for all you do.
appreciate it 25 till the top of the hour the beginning of the end for the deep state I want to go back.
I want to play some audio for you because the comments of people like Lindsey Graham at one point, although he's, you know, you never know where he's going to end up on any issue, or Alan Dershowitz and things that he's been saying, or, you know, Eric Holder and all these other people.
I want to play some of this for you because it's really important that you understand what is going on and what is at stake here.
And the idea that deep state members are involved in a plot to fix the 2016 election by first allowing Hillary to keep going and then try and fix the election itself and then undermine an incoming president that you voted for is pretty, I don't think it gets any more corrupt than what we're seeing and discovering.
President Trump sharpening his attacks, really taking aim directly for the first time at special counsel Robert Mueller, calling him out by name.
Of course, all of that raised a lot of questions about whether the president was trying to undermine his credibility, move to have him fired.
Big players in this investigation covering this feel like attacking this personally, the way the president has acted over the weekend, is a step toward firing Mueller.
Do you think that the president is laying the groundwork to fire Mueller?
We've seen this series of tweets right now, the statement from the Trump lawyer suggesting the entire investigation should be shut down.
What would happen if the president made that move?
The FBI's outgoing deputy director, Andrew McCabe, four days from retiring, his pension now at stake.
So in other words, Jeff Sessions can fire him before he gets his pension.
Yes, yes.
And then after all the issues, starting in the nine days, he won't get his pension.
No, he will not.
If they're focusing on how they can prevent a 20-year veteran of the FBI to prevent him from collecting his pension, if they're talking about how they can...
McCabe, who was let go a little more than 24 hours before he was eligible to receive his pension, ousted less than two days before he was set to retire, his benefits stripped.
I think many people were surprised by the harshness of it and the timing, especially the loss of his pension.
Could anything be done about that?
The people who are going to pay the price here are McCabe's wife and children, and that seems horribly unfair.
It seems to me that the timing is a little suspicious given all that the president had said about Andy McCabe.
If you're the Attorney General of the United States, you run the damn Justice Department, you know?
And you've got to have the guts to look at the president every now and again and say no.
You have said in the past that if President Trump were to order the firing of Special Counsel Mueller, that would, quote, be the end of Trump's presidency.
Are you worried or concerned at all that he's preparing to fire Mueller?
Let me be really clear about this.
What Mr. McCabe did has absolutely nothing to do with the Mueller investigation.
The dossier, I think, was mishandled by the FBI.
I think it was inappropriately used and presented to the FISA court.
That's a separate issue than the Mueller investigation of the Trump organization regarding Russia.
They're separate in time.
They're not connected in any way.
The only reason Mr. Mueller could ever be dismissed is for cause.
I see no cause when it comes to Mr. Mueller.
He needs to be able to do his job independent of any political influence.
I pledge to the American people as a Republican to make sure that Mr. Mueller can continue to do his job without any interference.
I think he's doing a good job.
And everything about McCabe and the FBI handling of the dossier has nothing to do with the Russian investigation regarding Mr. Mueller.
Are you worried that the president is preparing to order the firing of Mueller?
It sure looks that way from his tweets.
Well, as I said before, if he tried to do that, that would be the beginning and the end of his presidency because we're a rule of law nation.
Let's first get your take on the firing of the Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and the statement of the Attorney General.
Well, as you know, we've had the under investigation by our committee for a long time on FISA abuse and other matters.
So it doesn't surprise me that Mr. McCabe went.
However, our investigation still is ongoing.
Mr. McCabe still owes us answers no matter where he's working.
And eventually he's going to have to come forward and provide those answers.
And then you can't forget James Comey lying through his teeth and the president, oh, how dare he remind everybody that everything he says will play it for you contradicts what McCabe said.
Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
Never.
Question two on relatively related.
Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
No.
Has any classified information relating to President Trump or his associates been declassified and shared with the media?
Not to my knowledge.
All right, joining us now, Mark Meckler.
He is with the Convention of States, ConventionOstates.com, and we've been talking to him a lot.
We've been, obviously, he's been trying to get everybody to sign this petition on conventionofstates.com.
Everyone's asking, well, what do we do?
You know, if you've got a plot by deep state operators to help Hillary Clinton literally obstruct justice for Hillary Clinton, allow her to continue in a race, allow Hillary Clinton to pay for Russian lies, but you only look into Donald Trump,
allowing those lies then to be presented to a FISA court to get a FISA application approved so then you can spy on a Trump campaign associate and vis-a-vis through that associate the entire campaign because you want one candidate to win over another.
It does make the case that a Convention of States would be a pretty good answer because if you look at the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and all these practices, it ought to make you sick to your stomach because they are not following constitutional principles.
Mr. Meckler, welcome back, sir.
How is this all connected?
Well, you know, what we've got, Sean, and you've been doing an incredible job of exposing it, is the deep state is much deeper than any of us ever thought.
And it's not going to be rooted out by any one president.
I think we've seen conclusively it's not going to be rooted out by Congress that it's supposed to be providing the oversight.
And the way that all ties together is that, thank goodness, the founders anticipated this.
They gave us a way in Article 5 to go in and put a chokehold on the federal government to restrain it and to push it back in the constitutional box.
Well, I mean, and that is the bottom line.
They have certain limits on them.
We have checks and balances.
I think the greatest danger in all of this is if Hillary Clinton has one set of standards and she's not, we don't have equal application under the law for her, and we don't have equal application under the law because she's friends with these deep state operatives and they cover for her and rig her investigation,
allow her to continue, and yet we're able to then use bought and paid for what we now know to be lies to get FISA warrants to spy, by the way, not telling FISA judges the truth to spy on opposition campaign.
I don't think it gets any more unconstitutional or post-constitutional than that.
It doesn't.
And, you know, you've covered it, and I wish what you said was it, right?
But we also have McCabe apparently lying.
You have Stroke and Page lying and conspiring to bring down a president to support another presidential candidate.
We obviously have Mueller's all kinds of conflicts of interest in his involvement and potentially in Uranium One.
We've got a long-term deep state mess on our hands.
One of the most telling things I saw was Schumer when Trump first started attacking this whole process.
Schumer saying openly, look, you know, if you mess with the FBI and the CIA, if you mess with the intelligence apparatus, they have seven ways to Sunday to get even with you.
That's a pretty scary statement coming from a Democratically elected representative.
How is the effort going in terms of how many states now have come along with Convention of States?
And in other words, because this comes right out of Article 5 of the Constitution, where states have the power to call a Convention of States to propose amendments, and it takes 34 states to call the Convention, 38 to ratify any amendments.
Where are we now in that process?
Well, the people are rising up.
There are 3.2 million people involved now, many of them your listeners.
12 states have passed the resolution so far, so we're over a third of the way there.
I have a feeling this week, Sean, we're going to be at number 13, a fortuitous number because, of course, the original 13 colonies, Iowa is literally on the verge.
I'm expecting that vote this week.
That'll take us to 13 states, and there are a couple of more following close behind.
Yeah.
So all people have to do if they really want to help in this situation is do what we've been telling them to do, and that is just go to conventionostates.com and sign up, right?
Yeah, I mean, this is the real deal, Sean, because the bottom line is you've been exposing all these problems.
You've done such an incredible job.
And I hear over and over, well, okay, great.
It's bad.
We know that.
Sean's telling us that.
The exposure is there.
What do we do about it?
We're electing people.
That doesn't seem to be enough.
And the answer is it's not enough.
The founders intended that you and I, people like us, would step up and use Article 5 to restrain the deep state.
And so that's what they can do.
They can go to conventionofstates.com.
They can sign the petition.
They can get involved in their own state.
And we can restrain the federal government.
We don't need the permission of Congress or the courts or anybody.
All right.
Well, I urge our listeners to go there as they have been.
All right, Mark Meckler, thank you, my friend.
We appreciate it.
And keep us updated.
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Jeannie is in Clearwater, Florida.
Jeannie, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Listen, I love you.
Thank you and your staff for all the wonderful work you do.
Thank you.
And this, well, it's the truth, you know, and the truth will come out all the way around.
But with McCabe and all them, they don't understand the truth.
They're in such denial because they have such a massive agenda, which has nothing to do with the American people or the great of our country.
And he's not totally losing all his pension.
He may lose some of it, but my understanding is he will still get some of it.
In the real world where we live, we would lose all our pension and we would have been fired a long time ago because these people don't care whether they're under oath or not because they're void of integrity and they're void of decency and morals, which is what most American people live by.
Not all, but most.
Listen, we all try to.
I mean, that's the thing.
I mean, people are generally good.
That's my take.
Now, there are evil people.
They're all cold-blooded killers and rapists and radical jihadists and Nazis and vicious, bizarre people out there.
The vast majority of people are good.
They're overworked.
They're busy.
And they're basically all gulping water, you know, trying to take care of their lives, their kids, their responsibilities, make a living, get a house in a safe neighborhood, nice car.
And they just don't have the time.
Most people I know, they just, it's not realistic for them, you know, to go out there and understand that the deep state is doing all of this.
But now it's gotten so bad that people are paying attention like never before because there's a lot at stake here.
If these people can lie and manipulate and these people can go about their business of fixing elections and protecting the political class and not the average citizen, we've got trouble as a country.
Anyway, thank you, Jeannie.
We appreciate it.
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Nancy is next.
Nancy, how are you?
Glad you called.
Good.
Thank you, Sean.
I want to get your reaction to something I've been, quote-unquote, mulling over since the election.
Donald Trump told us right after he won that he was not going to pursue investigating Hillary and her illegal activities.
So had the Dems not tried to pursue false allegations against Trump, probably none of the illegalities, the sedacious dossier, et cetera, would have come to light.
What you're saying is 100% true.
And they're trying to blame Trump.
You're right.
You are 1,000% right.
And that's why I call it the year of the boomerang.
You know, there is no Trump-Russia collusion.
And that's why the team that Mueller put together, the reason why we're investigating Mueller now is because he does not seem to be the guy that everybody told us that he was.
It's unbelievable to me that every Mueller is a good guy.
His integrity is impeccable beyond question, beyond question.
You know, it's just like the liberals telling us that climate change is real.
All the science is in, and if you don't believe it, you're a climate change denier.
But they're the same people that were telling us the ice age is coming and that the earth was going to melt from all the heat.
And now they just put into one general term, which is climate change.
But there's not the science that they say that backs it up.
There are differing opinions.
And what we're looking at is a lot of politics behind that agenda.
Well, it's the same thing here.
You know, if the Democrats didn't have their agenda, you're right.
We wouldn't be where we are today.
Pretty fascinating.
And we wouldn't have known about what they did with the FISA application.
We wouldn't have known the fix was in for Hillary.
We learned an awful lot because of their stupidity and their desire to take down Trump.
And it's all backfired and boomerang back on them.
All right, Hannity, tonight, we're going to break through who is Robert Mueller on investigation as we check in with Sarah Carter, Sebastian Corker, Greg Jarrett, and also David Schoen.
Also, Newt Gingrich weighs in with us tonight.
We've got Geraldo Rivera is going to join us, Dan Bongino, Jessica Tarlov versus Jesse Waters.
That's all coming up tonight.
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