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All right, couple of breaking news stories.
Four dead, four wounded in a Waffle House incident that we are following very closely.
And uh anyway, that's that shooting suspect in that case is in custody.
Uh just sad that we have another breaking news story that is particularly sad, too, is Toronto police say that one person in custody after uh multiple pedestrians were hit by a van in North Toronto.
They say the person arrested, uh the driver of the uh of the vehicle in the incident in that case, uh multiple pedestrians struck.
Extent of the injuries are expected to be pretty severe, so we'll continue to wait, watch, monitor uh all of that.
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If you want to be a part of the program, a lot of news to get to today.
Yeah, I know I'm in.
Let me just say one thing before we get started.
I'll deal with this later in the program uh as we unfold here today, but uh just some very, very simple things.
It is should not be a surprise to anybody that for a year on this program on radio, on TV, we have been right on most of the issues involving the deep state.
Last week was a vindication on so many of those issues, with congressional criminal referrals being sent to the Department of Justice.
Uh numbers of them, including Comey and McCabe, and people like Hillary Clinton and Strzok and Paige and Loretta Lynch and so many others.
And then an IG criminal referral as it relates to Andrew McKay.
This is the deputy FBI director.
And then we now have an investigation that is ongoing into I told Comey this was gonna happen into James Comey and what James Comey was involved in leaking information.
And I think the president makes a phenomenal point as it relates to James Comey.
And that is, well, this investigation doesn't exist, but for the illegal leaking to get the special counsel, which we all know that James Comey was involved in.
And by the way, I'm not even talking about the the surveillance, the unmasking, the leaking of raw intelligence, the weaponizing of the powerful tools of intelligence by certain upper echelon corrupt people within the FBI, the DOJ,
and the intelligence agencies that we have exposed, or the FISA abuses that we have exposed, or the dossier issues that we have exposed, that judges are being lied to, and information omitted to get warrants on Americans uh in the weeks leading up to uh an election,
a Trump campaign associate bought and paid for by Hillary, not told to a Pfizer judge, all in an effort to obtain a Pfizer warrant to spy on that campaign through that one individual, and the fact that none of that information was verified or corroborated, lies that were told to the president elect Donald Trump.
You have deep state actors like Strck and Paige and McCabe talking about insurance policies.
We've exposed all of that.
And then on top of that, exoneration letters written before there is even an interview or investigation of Hillary and 17 other Key people and the very specific crimes that Hillary Clinton has committed.
18 USC 793, which incidentally now James Comey is facing himself, and the fact that Hillary, you know, of course, obstructed justice by the leading emails that were subpoenaed, acid washing and bleach bidding the hard drive, and then, of course, you know, having an aid beat the crap out of BlackBerries and iPhones.
So we have been at the forefront of being right all the same while the corrupt destroy Trump media has been advancing a narrative that we have no evidence of, and there will be no evidence of, which is Trump Russia collusion, and that they have hysterically and breathlessly gone so off course.
Now it's, you know, now it's about Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougall and uh about the universal access Hollywood tape.
I mean, what does that have to do with Trump Russia collusion?
So it really isn't a surprise that we that are involved, that we have been the loudest voice, the biggest defender of a president that was duly elected by you, the people, that very powerful deep state actors tried to do everything within their power,
even clearly breaking laws to prevent from happening, and then after he gets elected, all the efforts that they have been engaged in to delegitimize in the very hope of removing this guy from office.
And yeah, we are proudly, you know, look at it, in spite of all of that, the president has made unbelievable inroads into approving our economy and making the world a better and safer place, and keeping the promises that he made to the American people that you wanted him to keep.
So pretty unbelievable on so many different levels.
So the fact that uh I am attacked and being held to standards that nobody else in the news business, no anchor, no reporter, that nobody that I know of, no contributor, nobody is ever been held to is not surprising.
And uh the the the absolute sick and ugly and twisted lying that has uh gone on as it relates to me, it's not unexpected, and it's been purposely mischaracterized uh as an effort to destroy me too.
Because if I'm a powerful defender of the president, of course, well, if my voice is gone, let's get rid of him.
Then we'll go after Rush, then we'll get Mark, then we'll get everybody else that defends the president.
So I just uh I'll have more to say later.
Everything is up on my website, Hannity.com, uh, as I have responded, and all I'm going to respond to, to be perfectly frank.
But um, I I get it.
I understand it.
And I understand where they're all coming from, and uh we're not going to stop doing what we do.
This is, you know, America does need alternative voices here.
And the fact that nobody on the left ever stands up for any conservative that's under fire, they're betraying their own principles that they they spout off all the time that they're the big champions of freedom of speech.
It's just not true.
Just like their policies, they claim to have a monopoly of compassion uh and play gender politics all the time, but a monopoly of compassion on African Americans, Hispanic Americans.
Uh, well, okay, we've had right now the lowest unemployment ever in the African American and Hispanic American community.
You know, it's conservatives that have been the most outspoken against countries that abuse women and kill gays and lesbians and persecute Christians and Jews.
It should have been a bigger issue in 2016, but the media doesn't do any vetting.
You know, it's like like a lot of times in my career when nobody else would vet Obama and talk about Frank Marshall Davis or talk about Acorn or talk about Olinsky or talk about Reverend Wright in the Church of GD America or talk about heirs and talk about Dorn and our good friend Newt Gingrich is calling me up saying your career is over if you keep if you keep doing this, you're not going to survive.
And I said, Well, then I'm not Going to survive.
And I stayed on it.
And he wasn't the only one that told me to stop.
But I knew it was right.
So I kept going.
And the fact that, yeah, we were one of the few people out here that believed Donald Trump could win the presidency.
Everybody in the media, go back and watch that election night coverage.
It was a funeral on every single network.
When he announced, they laughed, they mocked, they ridiculed, they impugned, they did everything they could do.
You know, they couldn't contain themselves in laughter.
And then one by one, he beat 16 other well-known Republican challengers.
And then he took on the entire Clinton machine and then defeated her too, in spite of what we now know was unprecedented access that they had actually made into the Trump campaign files, which should scare every civil libertarian in this country.
But they avoid these big issues.
They avoid that a Pfizer judge was lied to in an initial application, that that Pfizer judge was handed unverified, uncorroborated information.
That they never told the judge, they withheld telling the judge that the opposition party candidate paid for all of these lies.
You know, they failed to tell them there was a foreign national, Christopher Steele, that was using Russian and Russian government sources to build that dossier.
And they never did it for an entire year as they had three subsequent renewal applications, and the bulk of information was that Clinton bought and paid for Russian propaganda document put together by a foreign national.
I thought foreign nationals weren't supposed to impact our elections.
And you know, Barack Obama, everybody warned the Russians were going to do this.
Everybody was warned.
Devin Nunes, 2014, writing in the Washington Times.
They did nothing.
And two weeks before the election, Obama's lecturing Trump.
Ha, no serious person thinks anyone can impact our elections.
Ha ha ha.
Stop whining.
Because they all thought Hillary was going to win.
Come he admitted last week he thought Hillary was going to win.
And he wanted to legitimize her victory by bringing up Anthony Wiener's laptop just a couple of weeks before the election.
And I don't believe that's a true statement either.
As I also know that there were that there were people in New York that knew that information existed on that laptop.
And that once that was known that that was going to be exposed at that point, it was finally released.
You know, look at all the people with criminal referrals in the last week or so.
It's amazing.
I told I said at the beginning of this year, this is the year of the boomerang.
I didn't know I'd be this right, to be perfectly blunt.
And there's so much more coming.
And that this is the tip of the iceberg.
This is only the beginning of the exposure of these deep state actors.
And what it really came down to and comes down to is they have contempt for the American people, and they thought they knew better.
And they did everything in their power to ensure that somebody that should have been indicted got to continue in the race and aid and a bet and assist that individual, Hillary, and her campaign in keeping A in the race and helping her to win.
And with all of those extraordinary obstacles, the American people made a decision that a lot of these people didn't like.
They don't like Donald Trump's style.
They don't like his politics.
They don't like he's a disruptor.
They don't like he's an iconoclast.
They don't like that he tweets.
They don't like that he speaks his mind.
They don't like his agenda.
There's nothing about the man that he they like.
He's never going to conform to whatever standards they believe that he ought to have, or the way they believe a president needs to conduct themselves.
But I think the American people now, if you watch these polls, the harder they push back against him, the more popular they he becomes because it's ricocheting back on them because people can see the absolute hatred and intensity and dishonesty in what is supposedly the news media in this country today.
Rod Rosentine is Rosenstein has now taken a pause.
We're going to explain that when we get back.
We have so much news to get to, including a lot about these deep state actors.
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All right, so I have a copy of the Wall Street Journal here in front of me.
The hidden bombshell in the McCabe report.
How did no how did anybody not get a hold of this or figure this out?
And the news reports all focused on Andrew McCabe, second in command, leaking information to the Wall Street Journal or authorizing subordinates to do so, and then lying to investigators about it.
Now it's big news, provided the account is borne out by a subsequent criminal indictment, which it was, et cetera, and successful prosecution.
The bigger news here is that the Wall Street Journal reported and picked up in all of this, and we all missed it, was that the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, viewed as you know, Robert Muller's chief protector in this Russia Gate phony collusion story,
is quote, taking a pause now from his role as the deputy A.G. to argue some, you know, New Mexico drug sentencing case before the Supreme Court.
Now, his previously unannounced hiatus, which will last for an undetermined period of time, would apparently leave the Russiagate investigation into the hands of the solicitor general, Noel Francisco, who was described by Politico as quote, a little known Trump appointee who has an axe to grind against the FBI and James Comey.
Okay, but does he have the power that Rosenstein would otherwise have?
I have to believe he is if he's filling that position.
That's pretty interesting.
Anyway, he says, despite the managerial responsibility over thousands of Justice Department employees, special counsel Robert Muller among them, he considers himself a practicing attorney first.
It sounds like an exit strategy to me.
As I read this article, that's what it sounds like.
And the Solicitor General office will oversees the government Supreme Court doctor docket, the Justice Department's top officials, occasionally a polled rank to take the lectern for themselves.
And so this is all voluntary on Rosenstein's part.
It will be the first appearance for Mr. Rosenstein, a longtime federal prosecutor.
Um, and the solicitor general, Noel Francisco, you know, to give him a criminal case to argue.
He's now obliged with a case that stems from a 2012 bust in New Mexico.
But anyway, Rosenstein makes no uh complaint regarding the assignment.
I don't think it would be appropriate for me to be too picky.
He's approaching the case as if it were a landmark, studying binders and breeze and precedence, undertaking two moot court sessions before Justice Department attorneys and preparing on nights and weekends.
Well, it doesn't sound like Rod Rosenstein is gonna have too much time left over to keep an eye on Mueller or this you know whole Russia Gate thing, which is nothing anyway, which needs to come to a speedy conclusion.
Which, by the way, apparently is former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's goal in all of this.
All right, we have a lot of news to get to today.
I mean a lot.
This is only the tip of the iceberg.
An incredible interview by Devin Nunes uh on Maria Baratoromo's show, and uh so much more we're gonna get to.
We have uh interesting politics.
We have some good news on the economy and elsewhere we're share and much much more.
I've seen a white van with um with uh red coloring on it, and all I saw was that he smashed into someone over there.
Then I saw someone over there, then I seen him go ahead.
I thought he had a heart attack or something, so I was trying to chase it down in a way almost trying to catch up to see what happened.
All I've seen is this guy is just crumbling and he's going 780 clicks.
He's just hitting people one by one, going down.
Oh man, it was like the nightmare, man.
I seen I was that young I got to young an empress, and I seen a lady with her leg and oh man, it's a cruise of scene.
This is really bad out there.
I saw cops everywhere.
I saw tow truck drivers, I saw ambulances.
And I walked up the street.
I saw body bags.
So far, I've seen three body bags myself.
I've seen people's shoes on the ground, which I've been mentioning over and over.
And uh I see people everywhere see ambulances in Toronto and this is starting to happen.
So it's a why did you want to specifically mention those shoes?
Because a loved one will recognize those shoes.
Right?
Your loved one would recognize your shoes.
It's a small thing, but your shoes are no longer attached to your person.
They're next to your your corpse because you've been murdered.
You know, because a van drove over your body until your body was dead.
All right, that was uh we have following two very difficult stories today.
There were four killed, four injured, and uh Waffle House in Tennessee.
I l I love Waffle House.
Anyone that's ever been on the road with me knows that if there's a Waffle House, we're going to eat there.
Uh and uh a terrible, terrible tragedy there.
That what you just heard was an eye witness to a van that struck numerous pedestrians uh in uh in Toronto, and uh apparently we now say multiple pedestrians are hit, and uh initially they reported eight to ten.
Anthony Fury is with the Toronto Sun, he's a columnist and an editor.
Uh first of all, our thoughts and prayers are with these families.
Uh it's it sounds like a terrible tragedy.
What's the latest?
Hey, Sean, always great to chat with you, but under these circumstances in the city I love uh really horrible news, of course.
The latest five people are killed in this incident.
Five people have been pronounced dead, another seven are in hospital.
And news that just broke uh really a couple minutes ago, because I know you're gonna ask me, you know, what do we know about this guy, what he was getting up to?
Well, we've just had it confirmed that the chief of the defense staff for the whole country about to step into a full briefing on the incident, and a strategic advisory alert has gone out to military commanders across the country on this vehicular ramming that was a rental van that the individual drove up onto the sidewalk, plowed down about eight to ten people, until he was stopped by police.
Now, do we know anything was a case that somebody did this on purpose?
Do you believe it was sort of like an act of terror, or do you believe maybe a drunken driver, somebody on drugs?
Do we know?
Yeah, well, the fact that the chief of defense staff has been briefed on it, and the fact that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a statement pretty much as soon as it happened, uh uh that he had been briefed on it, suggests that there was something greater going on here.
The fact that the Prime Minister would have been briefed uh so quickly on the matter by probably federal law enforcement, suggest there was a reason uh for it to go up the ladder that quickly.
That's usually not the protocol here.
Plus we got eyewitness reports on the ground.
Uh, there are some video out there that shows the man emerging from his vehicle confronting police.
It looks like he's holding a gun, but eyewitness uh says that he was actually in fact holding a cell phone, pointing it out at it as if he had a gun.
And we have audio uh with us of him saying, I have a gun, I have a gun.
And that's when uh he was brought down by the police officer, not shot, but uh one one really brave police officer managed to take him down.
He is now in custody.
So the police officer tr the the police officer didn't have a gun but still charged at a guy that likely had a gun.
Yeah, pardon me.
The police officer did have a gun, he was holding it out.
The suspect was holding out what we believe was a cell phone as if it was a gun.
And then as the police officer got closer, I guess he realized no, he doesn't have a gun, it's just a cell phone.
So the police officer uh felt uh that he was you know able to charge the guy.
Those are the split second decisions that these guys have to make, and it's such a hard job.
Uh Anthony uh from the Toronto Sun Columnist Editor, our thoughts and prayers are with uh your city today.
Thank you for being with us.
I wish under better circumstances, of course.
Uh wow, just tragedy.
Unbelievable.
World is nuts, absolutely nuts.
Uh Here's an incredible statistic.
You know, even with all of Russia Gate collapsing around this country and all the narrative and now the fake news media in a full-fledged panic over everything, as well as the Democratic Party.
Uh, you can see this in Perez now, the Democratic, the DNC chair, he is in a full-fledged panic.
You know, oh, we've seen a mountain of evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
And all this is is a lawsuit so he could dupe people.
It's like a scheme into help us fund our lawsuit.
We did our homework.
We found the truth that no.
Okay, what is it?
He can't state it.
Uh, what's his name?
Uh Adam Schiff can't the biggest liar in Congress, he can't state it.
And all the evidence points in the opposite direction.
That if there's any collusion as it relates to Russia, well, that's the Clinton bought and paid for foreign national Christopher Steele dossier with Russian lies to influence the American people.
That's that's the scandal.
Now we have other news on this as well.
But first of all, you know, 14 states now have set records for low unemployment.
Fourteen of them.
Even with all of this going on, the fake news media will never report this today.
I guarantee it.
Anyway, in March, eight states saw record lows Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
Good for Wisconsin.
California also set a new record this month.
And we're going to follow this California primary more closely.
What is the guy's name that is came in second behind um the lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom, who thinks he's going to be president one day?
Anyway, it's a Republican that's doing really well in the state of California.
How could it not do well now that it's a sanctuary state?
I mean, they're very clear lines of distinction.
All of the regulations that existed in the rest of the country that were removed by Donald Trump, a lot of them still are in play in California.
Why does that state need a 13 and a half percent state income tax when states like Florida and Texas and so many others get by with zero state income tax?
How is that possible?
You know, how do they get to get government money when they're aiding and abetting in law breaking by identifying themselves as a sanctuary state?
Anyway, what's that?
No, I don't think that's it.
Well, it continues to have the highest poverty rate in the nation.
California, with all this money, they have the highest poverty rate in the country.
Their unemployment rate is 4.1%.
And um, you know, what's interesting about this is, you know, look at Colorado's just 2.6% among the lowest in the nation.
I mean, we have some of the best job creation we've ever had in this country.
Now we're headed towards four million new jobs since Trump's elected.
Uh three, this is very good news because I really have a deep respect for Mike Pompeo.
Looks like he will be the next Secretary of State.
I know Rand Paul's against him.
I often agree with Rand, but I don't on this one.
But now three Senate Democrats announced they're going to vote for Pompeo, and which is really good.
Democrat Joe Donnelly, Indiana.
Why Joe Donnelly?
He wants to keep his job.
Uh um, John, what are you talking about?
The guy who bumped the other guy into second place who's running against the news name is John Cox as a Republican.
Yeah.
And, you know, I've met with Director Pompeo.
He's he's just done an incredible job.
He was the one negotiating with Kim Jong-un behind the scenes to de-nuclearize the Korean peninsula.
Um anyway, and then Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
Joe Manchin, it's the poor guy tried to stand up and clap for Trump, and he was excoriated by the Democrats.
He never vo he rarely votes against his party.
But now he's up in a tough re-election race.
And I'm sorry, Joe, but you've had multiple opportunities to stand up and be an independent Democrat that you have not done it.
So he's in a tough race, but he's going to support Pompeo, just frankly, because it's an election year.
And I would say in the same same goes for Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota.
And I think that's the only reason that they're doing it.
Because it's an election year for all of them.
Interesting development as it relates to North Korea and Kim Jong-un.
Trump told Kim Jong-un that nuclear disarmament must come before sanctions relief.
Yeah, that's the that's actually the real priority.
You want to join the world community, dismantle all of these nuclear sites, missile sites, and then guess what?
Then sanctions relief happens.
That's when it'll occur.
Anyway, so we got that.
All right, on other notes, there was an amazing interview by our friend Maria Barataromo.
She works at our sister network, the Fox Business Network, and she had Devin Nunes on this weekend, and it was absolutely phenomenal when Devin Nunes actually says there's no official intelligence, none, that was used to launch the FBI's investigation uh into the Trump Russia probe.
When you add that to Trump's tweet this weekend, I think it makes sense.
Now, without the illegal leak by James Comey, and there's now an investigation into that, without that illegal leak, there is to the his professor friend, which he did for the purpose of securing a special counsel, that was illegal what he did.
And again, it's like Hillary violation 18 USC 793.
You can't disclose or mishandling or classified information.
Now you add that to what Devin Nunes says here, there was zero intelligence that was used to launch the Trump Russia FBI probe.
We'd never heard this before.
I can tell you what we do know.
We do know that longtime associates of Hillary Clinton, uh, including Sidney Blumenthal and another person named, I think Corey Scheer, uh, were actively giving information to the State Department that was somehow making its way to the FBI.
This is from this is from two people within the State Department who have now publicly come out and said uh this in, I think, in major news uh publications.
So we know this, uh, we know this was uh at least from at least two witnesses uh who have publicly said this.
And so what we're trying to do is we're trying to piece all that together.
We now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation.
We know that Sidney Blumenthal and others were pushing information into the State Department.
So we're trying to piece all of that together, and that's why we continued to look at the State Department.
Uh then he went on to say the DNC should sue themselves over colluding with Russia.
Now, why did Devin Nunes say that?
Because the DNC, remember, it took a year to get the information.
Remember, fusion GPS, they never verified foreign national Christopher Steele's dossier.
But we found out after a year that Hillary's campaign and the DNC used the same law firm to funnel the money that ended up going to Fusion GPS.
They hire Christopher Steele, Christopher Steele uses Russian and Russian government sources, and here we go again.
It's pretty unbelievable.
Listen to what Devin Nunes says that they should sue themselves.
This must be a joke.
I mean, we we know who colluded with Russians.
They don't want to admit that they colluded with Russians, but they hired Fusion G they hired a law firm that hired Fusion GPS that hired a British spy that went and colluded with Russians.
So I don't understand why they just didn't open up a lawsuit against themselves.
They should name themselves and sue themselves so that they can get to the bottom of what do they have on their servers?
Uh why didn't they give those servers to the FBI?
Uh this is this is nothing more, nothing less than a continuation of of fundraising off of this scandal.
This is made to play to the far left in this country, so that the far left will continue to write checks because they don't believe that President Trump won the election fair and square.
Because the media, most of the media in this country has continued this narrative that there was collusion, there was obstruction, that Trump was somehow involved with Putin and Putin helped to steal this election.
We've now looked at all this.
None of that is true.
Uh, but the Democrats need a way to keep their base motivated to turn out in November, and they need a way to continue to raise money.
And they're raising millions and millions and millions of dollars to target Republicans over this Russia fiasco.
It's incredible.
But yet there's the only the only place where there's a Russia fiasco is is with them.
Is with them.
The year of the boomerang.
Who's been telling you about all this?
No evidence of Trump Russia collusion.
That's Devin Nunes.
That's a committee spent 14 months Investigating this and interviewing people.
And it goes on and on.
You know, and then we find out no official intelligence was used to start the FBI probe.
None whatsoever.
And then the DNC comes up with this phony lawsuit.
You can't even make this stuff up.
It's it's so out there.
It is it is beyond any comprehension I've seen.
This is the biggest abuse of power scandal by far in the history of the country.
It doesn't get any bigger than this, and your news media has been missing in action.
Your news media has been unwilling to do the basic fundamental job of researching and getting to you simple fundamental truths.
All they have done is become an extension of all things liberal, all things democratic party, and all things destroy Trump.
Hence the destroy Trump media.
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As Joe McMaster said a while ago, the Russian misconduct, that we have not imposed sufficient costs on Russia for what they tried to do to the election.
That is true.
What he didn't say was why.
We know why.
This government didn't impose sufficient costs because they were conspiring with the government of Russia.
And and we have to deter this conduct.
We can't allow it to happen again, George.
We also have heard from...
That's why we're doing this.
I'm curious of who you chose to include in the lawsuit and who you didn't.
You have Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone.
You don't have Michael Flynn.
He's somebody that's been charged.
I'm curious, why is Michael Flynn not included?
No Steve Bannon, no Corey Lundowski, no Kellyanne Conway, three other people who served as sort of campaign chairs or managers, but you do have Manafort.
What was the decision making to go of who got in and who didn't?
Well, we brought a case against the people that we feel there's sufficient evidence to move forward in a civil case that doesn't preclude us from moving to amend the case as we discover more evidence.
But you don't think there's enough evidence when Michael Flynn, huh?
Well, well, again, uh, we want to make sure I'm I'm a big believer in making sure that I have confidence in every aspect of my case.
And in the Watergate case that was brought by Larry O'Brien, former chair of the DNC, that complaint was amended over time.
I am confident that we will file an amended complaint over time.
Did Hillary Clinton uh push you to do this?
Was this an was this something is she supportive?
Tom you'll have to ask uh Secretary.
You don't know if she's supportive of this move or not.
I have I have not consulted Hillary Clinton to ask her permission to file the complaint.
The the buck stops with Tom Perez, and I've we filed this complaint because uh our democracy is at risk.
This was an assault on our democracy, and we have to protect that.
Uh, I spoke with a legal expert on my show on Friday who said he believes under federal law that your claims, if it does come to trial, will be have to be decided by a judge, not a jury, that you won't get a jury trial because of the statute that you're using.
Are you concerned?
This must be a joke.
I mean, we we know who colluded with Russians.
They don't want to admit that they colluded with Russians, but they hired Fusion G they hired a law firm that hired Fusion GPS that hired a British spy that went and colluded with Russians.
So I don't understand why they just didn't open up a lawsuit against themselves.
They should name themselves and sue themselves so that they can get to the bottom of what do they have on their servers.
Uh why didn't they give those servers to the FBI?
Uh this is this is nothing more, nothing less than a continuation of of fundraising Off of this scandal.
This is made to play to the far left in this country, so that the far left will continue to write checks because they don't believe that President Trump won the election fair and square.
Because the media, most of the media in this country has continued this narrative that there was collusion, there was obstruction, that Trump was somehow involved with Putin and Putin helped to steal this election.
We've now looked at all this.
None of that is true.
All right, that was Devin Nunes on with Maria Barratoromo on her weekend program, uh, hour two Sean Hannity show, right down on toll-free telephone number, you want to be a part of the program.
Before that, the DNC's uh the head of the DNC and the Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, this ridiculous lawsuit, which is really designed to raise money.
This is about basically snookering people into, oh, help us fund this big lawsuit that we have with Trump Russia collusion.
Nothing but a distraction in every way, shape, matter, or form, because they want to keep their own lying narrative alive.
The most fascinating thing came from Devin Nunes this weekend as he unloaded on Comey, the FBI and these endless investigations into Donald Trump and how no official intelligence was actually used to start the FBI probe into Trump campaign, so-called Russia collusion.
No intelligence, zero intelligence.
And then it gets to the whole issue of the dossier, which we have been talking about.
One other side note is I think the president has tapped into something that is really important, and that is the appointment of the special counsel began with the illegal leak of intelligence by James Comey, who now faces an investigation and referral as it relates to 18 USC 793.
And then of course, what is Andrew McCabe gonna do?
Is he gonna cut a deal?
Anyway, joining us now is Sarah Carter, investigative reporter, Fox News contributor.
David Schoen is a civil liberties attorney, and welcome both of you to the uh program.
Let me start with the legal question.
Is Donald Trump right, David Schoen, that the fact that it was an illegal leak that started this special counsel, and if in fact there was no intelligence behind any of this investigation, is does that mean that the appointment of the special counsel was illegal?
Uh I think it means a lot of things.
Look, there's a bit of discretion in appointing a special counsel.
I think it means a lot of things.
Um if we can if if one can really show that uh the uh ab initio, this investigation was illegal, was presented to the court, uh was uh omitted relevant facts, uh gave a skewed view of Melbourne.
I think that people who have pled guilty uh have the opportunity now and should have the opportunity to reopen things and to see whether there was impeachment evidence withheld from them, but more importantly, whether there was exculpatory evidence withheld from them.
And yes, the special prosecutor uh the special counsel uh appointment may well have been inappropriate.
I don't know if the term illegal is uh right here, but the the whoever appointed.
Well, if you use if you use intelligence that you're not allowed to leak to a Columbia professor, I mean that statement is true, right?
Yes, those kinds of yeah, if that's what you're talking about, that that appears to be on the face of it something illegal um and completely inappropriate, and anyone implicated in the investigation is entitled to have that information, and uh people should be livid about it.
On these two issues, Sarah Carter, I think the idea that there was no intelligence at all behind the decision on on investigating Trump Russia collusion is stunning to me.
It is stunning.
And I think what's even more stunning is if you dig a little deeper, and remember we were the first to break the fact that Sidney Blumenthal was involved in this, and these are Hillary Clinton, very close confidants and advisors, Sidney Blumenthal over at State Department, um, as well as Cody Shear,
a former journalist who went on to work with uh President Bill Clinton and was an investigator and a close ally and aid of Hillary Clinton, that these two men were directly involved with this information, the information that was in the dossier.
They were connected to Christopher Steele.
How did this information end up in the State Department and those people at the State Department that were then spreading that information?
How did it end up in Brennan's hands?
See, these are all the questions that the congressional committees want to know.
They're investigating.
So we look at the electronic communication.
That's the very beginning, Sean, of this investigation.
He fights and fights and fights for this electronic communication, which is really not considered classified.
Finally, with the threat, you know, of contempt, they turn over the electronic communication to Devin Nunez to the chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
They take a look at it, and lo and behold, they realize, oh, wait, there's really no intelligence here, no direct intelligence that that would open this investigation, something that would be explosive, right?
Something that would either have a picture or have evidence from uh from people overseas that there was some kind of collusion between the president uh campaign, President Trump's campaign in Russia.
So now they've got to ask these questions.
Who are they talking to beyond this electronic communication?
How is the information moved?
Who was in charge of pushing that information?
We also see that Harry Reid, right, who was member being pushed by Brennan at the time to ask the FBI to open an investigation when Brennan came and tried to brief the gang of eight, the intelligence heads on Congress.
Um, he's now saying uh in a book that was recently published that he that he felt that he was being used by Brennan um to push for this investigation.
So believe me, believe me, they are going to be looking at the details of this because you know we've we've always hated using this, but as it unravels or as this onion got peeled back, more and more evidence became became apparent that there was a lack of evidence and information that the intelligence community had to open this investigation,
and it appears on its face to have been politically motivated in order to corner the president and eventually lead to Comey actually asking for a special counsel to investigate the president with the intention.
Remember, what about John Brennan colluding there was a spectator article out this this weekend that really great the headline grabbed my attention?
Confirmed John Brennan colluded with foreign spies to defeat Trump.
David, what'd you think of that article?
Well, I didn't guys haven't come to read the article, but um I must tell you that uh it's a real concern.
I I just I'm sorry, I I I wanted to get back to one point that you were making a second ago though, because there's another element to all of this that's very important.
Um don't expect uh people like Andrew Weissman and Robert Mueller, unfortunately, uh, to take a step back and question the legality of the investigation.
Because I have to tell you, I have a case with Andrew Weissman in which uh the source for the surveillance um uh search and seizure orders in the case, etc.
And their applications, the source was an unnamed source.
However, Mr. Weissman vouched for the credibility of it.
It turned out that Source was a mafia killer with a corrupt uh relationship with an FBI agent.
So the idea that in this case that uh facts were omitted and false facts were given to a court isn't gonna be, unfortunately, isn't gonna be a stock sign to this special counsel's office, I'm afraid.
You know, I think when the president I want to go back to the role that maybe Brennan and Clapper had in all of this, Sarah, and I was asking about the spectator article about John Brennan working with foreign entities.
Did you see any evidence of that?
Jim Jordan saying that Clapper leaked dossier briefing to CNN uh and the leaker Richmond had special FBI access.
What are your thoughts on that?
Well, I think they're they're onto what I have been hearing from the very beginning of this investigation in, you know, going all the way back more than a year.
Look, we we know for a fact now that they are honing in on Clapper, that when the president was briefed in January, remember at Trump Tower when he was briefed by Comey on this dossier, that it basically allowed there to be a foundation for all of these news agencies who, by the way, were given this dossier by Christopher Steele, who also lied to the FBI because he was trying to shop it around.
He was trying to shop the dossier around that he'd gotten the FBI to start the investigation on.
They didn't want to run it because it was so salacious and so bizarre that most news agencies were terrified of running it.
So they needed to have a news hook.
They needed to have a platform.
You have the briefing at Trump Tower.
Then later, shortly after that briefing, which Clapper, by the way, according to Comey, directed Comey to brief him in private, to brief President Trump, President elect Trump in private.
And then all of a sudden, it's leaked to CNN.
Right now, we know that the congressional committees are investigating Clapper for that leak.
And now what is what is Clapper?
Clapper is an analyst on CNN, a paid analyst.
We also know that Brennan was closely involved.
He was always working with Clapper on a variety of these issues.
And now there's reports that Brennan had traveled to Moscow, possibly during that time, and had met with people in Moscow that they're looking into.
This is very concerning because all of a sudden what they're trying to accuse President Trump of, which and his campaign, which is collusion with the Russians, appears to be more and more collusion amongst our intelligence community, collusion between the Hillary Clinton campaign and foreign nationals and foreign expies like Christopher Steele and Russians as well.
So it's kind of flipped on its face.
What they were trying to accuse the pre President Trump of it and his campaign appears to be exactly what they were doing.
That's why I called this at the beginning of the year, the year of the boomerang.
I didn't know how right I was.
I knew we were right, and it's now come into fruition, and obviously deep state actors that now find themselves in the and uh in the heart of all of this corruption are uh absolutely freaking out, as we can see.
You know, you can see panic now that is coming out of the deep state.
And what's your reaction to all of it, David?
I mean, obviously horrible things were done.
The weaponization of these powerful tools of intelligence and everything now is as we were talking about before the break, boomeranging back onto Hillary Clinton, her campaign, her associates, her you know, the people that uh work for her.
I'm gonna start this answer by not letting you get away with understating facts.
You said before the break that you've been right from the start that this is gonna boomerang.
That's a gross understatement.
Let me tell you something.
Uh uh, I've said this before and I say it again.
Without you digging on this issue, raising the issue first, now Sarah Carter's articles one after another, and without you continuing to press on this issue, we would be nowhere in uncovering the truth of this matter today, and we're far down the road now because of it.
Congress has picked up on the uh message that you've sent through fac facts that you've dug up and reported on.
It is vitally important to any civil libertarian uh to have all of this stuff exposed.
It's a very dangerous situation.
I want to say this you raised at the beginning of the show this um DNC lawsuit that's been filed.
Um I uh it looks on the face of it like a frivolous case.
Uh they call it innovative.
It clearly, as you said, is a fundraising technique.
Uh an article on Bloomberg today, which before it was hot off the press, a fundraising letter went out.
But um I'm gonna say this.
I think it may be a foolish move also.
By way of full disclosure, by the way, I have represented the National Democratic Party before when they were sued in a case and won that case at trial, and I was proud to represent them.
Completely unrelated case.
This is a sad day for the Democratic National Committee, I have to say.
But I think it's a foolish case, mainly for this reason.
I think it's gonna open up all kinds of opportunities for whoever is defending this case on behalf of whichever defendant to depose now fill in the blanks.
McCabe, Comey, Hillary Clinton, um, all of the DNC folks, etc.
You know, it's a little bit like you said after the OJ case.
After the OJK as OJ said is dedicated to finding the true killer.
And people joke, you know, he's gonna fill his house up with mirrors after that.
Um there's something to that in this case.
I think they're really opening a can of war.
If this gets passed a motion to dismiss, there's got to be full discoveries of every DNC figure and all of these folks in the intelligence community, etc.
What did they know?
When did they know it?
What did they leak?
When did they leak it, and to whom?
All right, I guess uh we're out of time, Sarah.
Sorry, but uh I think we're seeing both of you tonight on Hannity, so thank you both for being with us.
We appreciate it.
800 nine four one Sean Tollfrey telephone number, Jeff Lord at the top of the next hour.
Peter Schweitzer, best selling author of Clinton Cash, his brand new book is making waves.
Yeah, and the New York Times bestseller list yet again, that's straight ahead.
He's gone heavy personal at me in ways that I thought um were unprofessional.
That's fine.
That's his decision to do that.
I didn't know.
When you say personal, when he points out that your wife donated to Tim Kane, is that the you consider that personal?
Again, again, yes, I do, because he's bringing my wife into this.
What is her business?
What is it his business, what she does?
I don't control her political opinions, and she doesn't control mine.
I mean, I just really just think about that.
That's I don't know.
No, no no, no, you're trying to sell me uh because my wife is an individual thinker in her life.
I'm trying to nail down what was the personal attack.
And if that's not this.
Go look at his Twitter feed over the last five years and you'll see how many times he's come out, how many times he's gone on his program to come after me.
That's something the first time I think I mentioned his name on air was when I was shocked that Fox didn't have anything punitive for him to do.
That's the only time I think I've even said his name other than mentioning something that was said on his show.
So my point is is that if you look at how Sean Hannity's treated me over the last three or four years publicly, then you will see um why I just don't sort of take his criticism that seriously.
The fact of the matter is because enough of that.
That was uh Chuck Todd on the Bernie and Sid Show in uh New York, and you know, he's all he gets to lecture me on ethics, and then when I point out that him, and by the way, this goes through everybody in the media, and if we're gonna have new standards, a new norm, if you will, in terms of disclosures, and they want to attack me, then I say the same standards will apply to everybody else.
Now, what really seemed to get under and I by the way, I don't have anything against Chuck Todd, but he's not an objective news person, and that's what I point out, that's what drives him crazy.
It's not personal, it's just the fact he's a liberal.
He's in liberal activist, even.
Again, well, if you ever watch a show, I mean, it's all things destroy Trump, destroy Trump, destroy Trump.
He's been wrong for an entire year plus, like everybody else over there on conspiracy theory TV, and I dare to point it out, and the things that we have been talking about have been proven right again and again and again, and we were more right and are more right than we even knew we were right, if any of that makes sense.
So I'm just saying that it it the standard needs to go across the board for everybody.
And if that means everybody's investments now are going to be up for review, uh all their loans are gonna be up for review, all their business dealings are gonna be up for review, then it's it'll apply to all of them because I can have a team start investigating them one by one, day by day, as they are trying to make a big deal over you know, thing uh over basic, simple, fundamental things that I have done over the years.
And full disclosure, especially with uh my buddy Bill Lako, uh 800 941 Sean, what really seemed to get under Chuck Todd's skin was the fact that Jeffrey Lord wrote the piece that exposed political connections in his family that he didn't reveal.
I think you really got to him.
I was listening to Bernie and Sid, and I'm like, uh oh.
Wow.
Jeff, are you there?
I yes I am, Sean.
Yes, I am.
I just was uh you were spot on, and the the name of the standard the new standard, by the way, I think uh John Noltley from uh Breitbart has got it.
We are gonna call it the Sean Hannity standard.
I like the Sean Hannity standard.
And everybody is gonna have to come up to them.
Listen, I I I find it.
Maybe we'll have a Supreme Court case, uh Hannity uh U.S. government v.
Hannity.
How's that?
Yeah, I like it.
I like it.
Uh listen, I I I I listened to the entire interview he gave to to Bernie and Sid.
And let me just uh throw out a couple quotes here.
Quote Anytime I've interviewed somebody that my wife has professionally worked for, I let people know, unquote.
And he also said he was talking to you that quote, I'm surprised Fox isn't making him, meaning you at a minimum disclose a conflict every time he talks about this, unquote.
And then when he was challenged a bit, he said, that person, meaning me, who wrote that did no research, referring to the article I wrote wrote on your report.
By the way, that is the last thing you could ever say about Jeffrey Lord.
You do exhaustive research.
And to the point here for Chuck, if he's listening, on February 12th of 2017, you had a meet the press show.
I watched it.
I've read the transcriptions, thoughtfully supplied supplied by NBC News.
You had a segment with Bernie Sanders, who was a client of your wife's firm, and you had a segment with uh former Virginia Senator Jim Webb, whom your wife served as a communications director in his 2006 Senate race and was advising him for a bit in his presidential race.
And I assure you, uh, and I'm gonna have this in a follow-up column with some excerpts.
He never once, never ever once asked uh or or told anybody that his wife worked professionally or her firm had had worked with Bernie Sanders, or that she had worked professionally for Jim Webb.
Not once.
And I you know, at a s at a certain point, I'm not accusing him of anything drastic here, but let's just say when he said that is not an attack against his family.
That is the the same standard he was holding me to that he was that he wasn't applying to himself.
I mean, that's just the point.
That is absolutely totally correct.
By the way, now I'm exposing everything.
By the way, Jeffrey Lord puts articles up on Hannity.com.
Jeffrey Lord and I have been to dinner together.
Jeffrey Lord and I have socialized together.
Once when or a couple of times when I was watching Jeff against nine other Democrats on CNN, I was texting him, you know, jokes and and uh points that I wanted him to use.
Full disclosure.
Absolutely.
You know, we actually have another another point that Lauren just so kindly reminded me, you know, Jeffrey was at our our Christmas party, and he and he and he brought cheese.
Did you bring cheese to the Christmas party?
Good cheese.
It was delicious cheese.
You did not.
No, no.
Oh no, there we go.
Life is ruined now.
You did not bring cheese to my Christmas party, did you?
I I have to confess, yes.
Well, Dan Bongino was there.
Uh let's see, Diamond and Silk were there.
By the way, that's right.
It was good cheese.
But I'd beg to differ.
The sign when you walked in said it was Linda's party.
It didn't say it was my party.
And full disclosure, I work for Sean Hannity.
Full disclosure.
But in the McLaughlin party.
News now.
Yeah, breaking news.
You know, um, I understand I I think this is what it's all rooted in, my personal opinion, and there's a serious side to this.
We've been right for over a year.
The rest of the media has been wrong.
The case we, you know, and and it includes you, and it includes Sarah, and it includes Greg Jarrett, and it includes John Solomon and Tim Fitton and Sebastian Gorka and and so many of us.
I I'm gonna miss names.
But the fact is that we have exposed, you know, everybody contributing the biggest abuse of power scandal, which exposed a deep state that wanted at a minimum to delegitimize a duly elected president.
Uh if they had their real way, he they'd get him out of office.
And there is a deep resentment that we have stood tall and independent and have been proven right, and they've been wrong.
That is absolutely right.
Make no mistake.
This is Sean, if if you had supported some other candidate for president, they wouldn't be coming after you.
You supported Donald Trump, you were right, and you've had the the audacity to have all these people on your show who have been digging and digging and digging in serious fashion into this business and uncovered the truth, and they don't like it.
And the chickens are coming home to roost.
I mean, Chuck Todd is not really the problem.
Chuck Todd is a symbol of the problem.
I mean, the Washington.
By the way, I don't even I don't even dislike Chuck Todd.
Honestly, I have no feelings about Chuck Todd.
And exactly.
But but if he's gonna apply standards, then he's got to live up to his standards.
That's the point.
That is exactly what none of these people do either.
You know, there's all these relationships we know between the media in DC and these congressional offices.
And you and you you brought this to my attention.
There was a story in the Daily Caller last year.
He'd he and his wife had hosted a dinner at their home for Jennifer Palmieri and her husband.
Uh she, the Clinton communications director.
I I I think I know the answer, but the next time you see Corey Lewendowski, ask if he's ever he and his wife have ever been entertained at uh um Chuck Todd's house for dinner.
I suspect I know the answer.
Yeah, I think by the way, I've never been invited to those parties.
Uh I'd never hidden the fact that I support President Trump.
Then this is the big difference between they actually they really believe on these news channels in particular, and the New York Times and the Washington Post in particular, they really believe that their objective.
You know, and the fact is it is it is nonstop rush tr uh Russia Trump collusion, stormy, stormy, stormy.
It is it's never ending.
They don't do news anymore.
They don't want to do news anymore.
They are agenda-driven, and it seems to all be the same agenda.
And uh, and and one of the things that we pride ourselves on is we're unique.
We stand, we vetted Obama.
Nobody vetted Obama, Jeff.
There was a few of us.
You were one of them.
Uh we talked about Obama's failed record.
They never talked about eight years of failure.
Uh we uh understood what the election was about forgotten men and women.
Uh we were right on that and we have been right for over a year that there are deep state actors that were involved in nefarious activities.
So now I guess the payback is well attack the messenger but the real target isn't Sean Hannity or Jeff Lord.
The real what they really want to do is they want this president out of office, period.
That's it.
That's it.
That's it exactly.
And you can tell I mean this upcoming White House Correspondents Center, which the president will not be attending again he'll be at a rally Maybe I should go.
No I don't think so.
Do well you know the the th the thing is they're going to be talking about standing up for the free press in the first amendment.
How many of them do you think are going to mention your name or Laura Ingram's name or for that matter they'll mention it in vain.
I mean they'll mention it in a joke but they're not going to mention it in any complimentary way or stand up it isn't gonna happen.
That in a in a serious context the they do not want alternative views.
Look, you know what this show is everyone keeps asking well what what do I do?
What am I Are you a journalist?
You say you're not a journalist.
Well not a journalist in the traditional sense.
I'm not an opinion journalist.
I'm an opinion journalist, advocacy journalist, and I'm a talk show host.
And let me tell you what a talk show host is sometimes we do straight news.
Sometimes we do straight interviews.
Sometimes we give opinion sometimes we have fun.
Sometimes we talk sports.
We're like a newspaper news, opinion, editorial uh we don't do cartoons, sports, lifestyle we talk about everything.
That is all encompassing but part of the job is at times to do straight interviews.
The difference is Sean, is that you're up front about it all.
I'm up front about what I do.
These folks try to get people to believe that they're objective and they are not.
If they had just come out and said yep, we're liberals over here and that's what we do, uh you and I wouldn't be talking about this this minute.
But that's that's not what goes on here.
This is why Fox News this is why talk radio they they had to exist.
They were just begging to be created because this has been going on for decades.
You know me, Mr History Buff, good Lord I I went back and read Barry Goldwater's memoirs in nineteen sixty three he was talking about not wanting to give an interview to CBS News because of quote unquote liberal bias.
This has been around for a long time.
But it's never been this bad though.
That's why they don't like you.
All right as we continue with Jeff Lord 800 nine four one Sean is our toll free number.
Why do you think it's gotten this bad?
Because I think interestingly that Fox News and talks radio out of them as it were and they resist it.
They've lost their monopoly that and the internet they've lost their monopoly it's never going to be the same again where you've got three liberal networks and the Washington Post and the New York Times setting the agenda for everybody else.
It isn't going to happen anymore.
And they don't like it and they're mad about it and so specifically they're mad at the people who are part of that and you are most indubitably a star of that and they can't stand you for it.
Do you think they really with Trump you know it they're just going crazy.
Do you believe they really want people like me, Rosh Mark and others off the air.
Yes I do.
You bet I do.
I mean that's what media matters is all about that's what uh the these attempts you know they run your advertising I mean this is what this is all about is silencing people.
You know I happen to be the first time I was ever on CNN was back in two thousand nine.
By sheer accident I'd written some First Amendment columns supporting Lou Dobbs.
He invited me to a show and it turned out he quit that night from CNN and they did for it.
The drop dog drop Dobbs campaign he quit right then and there I was astonished but he was the first and then there have been others.
Wow in the whole effort to get I never knew that history I wrote did you get to go on the show did he quit did he quit on the show or did he quit before he went on the show.
He quit on the show.
He came with us in the green room then went in began a show and said I'll be doing the news but first I want to announce this will be my last night on CNN.
Thirty years of this and he quits right then and there live on the air.
He finished now I like Lou more I forget this story.
I I went in I went in for my segment and I said Lou, I don't know what to say.
He says, oh we'll think of something and in the course of it he said to me do I think this is still America anymore do I think that we still have a First Amendment I said I'd like to think so.
You know it's a little scary I have to say.
Well I think it's now I think what you're also looking at is a very well oiled well funded uh anti conservative machine that is out there.
And don't think that you know those liberal groups aren't funded by hard leftists that don't believe in freedom of speech and that they do, you know, they hire groups like Fusion, GPS, et cetera.
This will be my last broadcast here on CNN where I've worked for more thirty years, and where I have many friends and colleagues whom I admire deeply and respect greatly.
I'm the last of the original anchors here on CNN, and I'm proud to have had the privilege of helping to build the world's first news network.
I'm grateful for the many opportunities that CNN has given me over these many years.
Wow, you are right.
Listen, Jeff, I wish we had more time.
Thank you, sir, and uh we'll have you back soon.
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As it was described to me when it came in, it was raw intelligence, so a series of reports from a credible person with a reliable track record and a known experienced and source network in Russia.
And so it was something to be taken seriously.
Didn't mean that it was all true, but it was to be taken seriously.
This is gonna get interesting, especially now that in fact uh the president raises a really important and pivotal legal question.
Now that we know the whole investigation was based on illegal leaking, and as Devin Nunes said, no raw intelligence, no intelligence at all.
Now the question is was the entire endeavor illegal.
I mean, that's pretty profound.
And you can see the coming collision between McCabe and Comey with two very distinct definitions, if you will, of what happened or recollections of what happened in all of this.
Uh anyway, Peter Schweitzer is with us, Peter, a good friend of the program.
You may remember he started the whole Uranium One Deal by writing the book, The Best Seller Clinton Cash.
Now he has his new book out.
It's called Secret Empires How the American Political Class Hides Corruption enriches family and friends, and also now again another New York Times bestseller.
Congratulations.
Thanks, Sean.
It's uh great to be on with you.
Uh now let's start with uh something that you put out in in your book and you talk about uh McCabe lied to deny the FBI's stonewalling of Clinton cash.
So that was directly affected by this, correct?
That's exactly right.
Um go back to October of 2016, Sean.
There were a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal.
Um you remember the first one broke the story about Andrew McCabe's wife, who was running for the state Senate, uh had received uh money from a PAC controlled by um a very uh close uh Clinton associate, uh Terry McAuliffe, the governor of Virginia.
Uh that was broken by these two reporters from the Wall Street Journal.
At that point, Andrew McCabe went into damage control because these reporters then were getting tips that there was an active Clinton Foundation investigation, and they subsequently reported that that was uh an initially based on Clinton Cash, but it had gone well beyond that.
Um and at this point, Andrew McCabe was talking to the Wall Street Journal and trying to create the impression that the investigation uh had the full support um of the FBI leadership, that there was no obstruction taking place or anything.
Um we now know that he was leaking that and then lied to uh the inspector general's office and others about it.
But the purpose of the leak, and you find this all the time uh with McCabe and also with Comey.
They they rap, they justify uh the you know leaking in the line because they're somehow maintaining the integrity of the FBI.
It's not.
It's about maintaining their own political viability.
And the reason that Andrew McCabe in this particular case slide was he was trying to avoid the heat and the criticism from the obvious massive conflict of interest of his wife receiving more than half of her campaign donations from a close Clinton associate while they were supposed to be investigating the Clinton Foundation.
And as the agents reported to the journal and elsewhere, they were being stonewalled by FBI headquarters on the Clinton Foundation investigation.
But I want to go a little deeper into all of this, because what you're really saying here is that, You know, all of these legal woes awaiting Andrew McCabe began when he, as the former FBI director, lied by characterizing the Bureau's investigation of Hillary Clinton as executed in in in good faith.
Now we know felonies were committed.
We know that that what she did was a violation of 18 USC 793 mishandling and destruction of classified information.
But beyond that, when they were subpoenaed, she deleted acid wash, bleach bid and beat up devices.
Now, what was McCabe's role in this and what were other investigators' role in this?
Yeah, I mean their role in this was essentially doing the bidding for Hillary Clinton.
Um and and that's the problem.
They're they're you know, they can have whatever political views they want, but their role as a law enforcement officer is to be looking out for the country and protecting the laws.
And when you look through how the investigation was handled, and and Sean, you've highlighted this uh for for audiences numerous times.
The fact that she was not, you know, put under oath, the fact that it was a very casual interview, the fact that they had prepared documents in advance exonerating her uh from uh uh from these uh uh you know crimes that she uh uh you know, I think committed in these cases.
This is all evidence that they weren't really serious and committed to this investigation and taking it where it needed to go.
And again, when you look at James Comey, um, you know, his entire explanation, Sean, for his famous press conference in July.
You remember he came out and and said, you know, she was not uh uh she did not commit a crime.
His entire rationale again, he argues, is to protect the viability of the Department of Justice and FBI because as he writes in his memoir, you know, the attorney general, uh Loretta Lynch had had the meeting with Bill Clinton on the tarmac, and he didn't want that to become something that interfered with people's perceptions that that this investigation was handled in in in a deep way.
That's not why he did it.
He did it to protect Loretta Lynch.
Loretta Lynch had that meeting, she should have been the one to go out in the press conference and answer questions from the press about the investigation and the fact that she had that meeting, but Comey served the role of essentially protecting her.
And that's what you see with the actions of McCabe and Comey again and again and again.
And that is not what law enforcement officials are supposed to be doing.
Well, it goes when he did this infamous press conference.
Let's go back, the exoneration letter, you know, Trump hating Peter Strzok and Trump hating uh James Comey, frankly, but they were writing the exoneration in May of twenty sixteen.
They didn't interview Hillary, as you point out under oath until uh July, the July fourth weekend, and then exonerated her on that July fifth day, uh just a couple of days after, and they didn't interview seventeen other people until that point.
You don't write an exoneration before an investigation, and Comey's remarks on it were incredibly weak.
And more importantly, he seemed to be influenced by taking away very key language that would have met the legal threshold of crimes she committed, number one, and also that foreign entities had tapped into that server that she had unsecured in a mom and pop shop bathroom closet.
That that's exactly right.
And Sean, if you look at that press conference and go through it again, I would encourage people to compare that to any other press conference that the FBI has ever had related to a criminal matter.
And you're never going to find it.
That's how extraordinary that meeting was.
And it was the last link in this long chain uh of making special uh uh, you know, um uh things for the uh for for Hillary Clinton where where she didn't have to put up with um, you know, tough questioning that other people in a similar situation would have to.
Uh she didn't have to deal with a lot of the uh indignities that go with uh, you know, having to be questioned by the FBI that a leather a lot of other people have faced.
And you've never had an FBI director like Kim uh like uh Comey stand up at the end of July and give this sort of parsed legal explanation uh as to why he says there was not a criminal violation when there clearly was.
And the reason that that press conference took place, it was for political reasons, it was to protect the attorney general.
The role of the FBI there should be the chips fall where they may.
Here's what we found.
Here is where we believe there were violations of law or not violations of the law.
Now the attorney general or a U.S. attorney stands up and explains it.
It's not the role of the FBI director to do that.
And he put himself in that situation because he decided that he would about to protect Loretta Lynch.
What about the information he gave to Stephanopoulos about Loretta Lynch?
Information that is not known to this day as to why he stepped in.
Yes, that's that's exactly right.
And and all we can infer here is what he has written and what has been stated, and that is you know, his belief that that that meeting with Bill Clinton created concerns about the integrity of the investigation.
Well, you know, no duh, of course it did.
The question is now as an FBI director, do you basically cover the rear end of the attorney general, or do you say, look, you need to answer to this and explain this to the public?
And we still have never gotten an explanation from Liter Loretta Lynch about those meetings uh in any manner where um she had answer questions to it.
And that's because I want to know what James Comey is withholding that would force an FBI director to usurp the power of a sitting attorney general beyond which we already knew what the meeting on the tarmac because it sounds ominous for an FBI director to step in, but nobody knows what it is yet.
It sounds like it is going to come out.
I I think that's right, Sean.
And for uh for an FBI director who is has talked in great detail about all kinds of meetings that he had, you know, the the contacts that he had with President Trump, and yet he's holding this back.
It makes you wonder either A that it's very ominous, or B, and I just lay this possibility out there, Sean, that that that maybe there is a matter that the Department of Justice is still looking into as it relates to that.
I'm just speculating.
But it's clear to me that somebody who's been very happy to chat about all kinds of other interactions and issues does not want to go there on this subject.
Yeah, unbelievable.
Uh all right, so where does this all end?
Because there's so many differing scandals that we have in place here.
I mean, you got a masking, you've got uh the the the dossier issue, then you've got the lying to the judge and withholding information ish issue.
Well, I think where it has to end, Sean, and and look, I'm somebody who's been critical of uh independent counsel in the past uh because you get this sort of runaway train effect that I think we're seeing right now with Bob Mueller.
But I'm not sure you can't address these cluster of issues in any other way.
And here's why, Sean.
When you look at the unmasking, when you look at the Clinton Foundation, when you look at the Clinton email, when you look at the internal stuff of the FBI, in so many cases, Sean, you have overlap involving the same people.
You have concurrent events.
I I don't think you can just separate them as individual slices of bread and say we're gonna look at each slice.
I think you have to look at the whole loaf.
So I've come to the conclusion that there needs to be an independent counsel, and in this particular case, it's really about the integrity of our judicial system, or specifically the FBI and our criminal investigation.
There's a lot of concerns about this, people have doubts about it.
An independent counsel could lead to a lot of clarity, it could lead to justice, and it could also give some people peace of mind that these matters are being intended to, because otherwise we have no confidence down the road that we're not going to see these kinds of matters politicized as they were in the Hillary Clinton case, and as I think you can see that they are in the Mueller case.
I've got to take a break.
More with Peter Schweitzer and his best-selling new book.
If you haven't gotten a hold of it, you need to read this.
There is a lot of information in there.
It's called Secret Empires, how the American Political Class Hides Corruption and enriches family and friends.
As we continue, Peter Sweitzer is with us, his new best-selling book, Secret Secret Empires, how the American Political Class Hides Corruption enriches family and friends.
You know, one of the things that amazes me is that all of this is about connections.
You know, uh, you know, for example, you know, a lot of people have been doing this deep dive into my personal finances, and yeah, okay, we got a loan and we did an investment, and it was in the Obama years.
Uh you know, uh, which is pretty funny to me.
But you know, all of this is transparent.
The reason people could look deeply and find it is because it's all out there.
Right.
There's nothing that's not public.
And uh I didn't asset wash my hard drive.
And I didn't uh I didn't delete emails, nor did I do any of those things.
Uh but You're describing real connections and not millions but billions of dollars based on political connections.
Well, that's right, Sean.
I mean, one of the things you find in in Secret Empires is that uh a lot of politicians on both sides of the aisle, they're not as straightforward as you about these deals.
Um, you know, deals are done in the names of adult children or spouses or best friends.
And the other distinction that I think I I I draw all the time as it relates to uh, you know, the private business sector and government is there is a difference uh between a uh investor, a private businessman, Donald Trump before he was president of the United States, and people that are in public office, because as as a private businessman, we can question whether, you know, a businessman makes the right ethical decision.
But if he's not bright breaking the law, um it shouldn't really, I think, be much of a concern to us.
We can talk about the ethics of it.
The difference with government is people in government positions of power, vice president Joe Biden, for example, or you're a senator or a congressman, uh, you have the ability to hurt or help people in a major way.
You've got government power on your side.
You say though that one of the w the worst two were Biden and Kerry and their families.
Well, that's exactly right.
And and in this particular case, uh a lot of indirect um actions take place that that are deceptive.
And you know, just briefly, Joe Biden, December 2013 is vice president, flies to Beijing, China for a meeting with the Chinese officials, and his son Hunter Biden is on the plane with him.
They go there, Joe Biden has meetings on on very sensitive issues, he gets criticized, Sean, for being soft on the Chinese.
They return to Washington on Air Force Two, and ten days later, what happens?
Hunter Biden, his son, gets a billion dollar, that's with a B, billion dollar private equity deal from the Chinese government.
Joe Biden's name's not anywhere on it.
But the problem is Hunter Biden has no background in private equity.
He has no background in China.
And it was ten days it was ten days after he was on Air Force Two with his father in China.
That's exactly right.
And and and this is this is the problem.
This is where corruption is going.
The old corruption of, you know, remember Congressman Jefferson who had the ninety thousand dollars cash in his freezer, they they called him cold hard cash Jefferson.
That that's old school corruption.
Now it's indirect.
You you get it to your adult kids.
I got a roll.
The book is a bestseller, Secret Empires, How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends by Peter Schweitzer.
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Uh let's say hi to Kevin is in acting.
He's out in California.
Kevin, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
I am blessed, uh, son.
So let me begin by saying, let not your heart be troubled.
My heart's not troubled.
I don't get troubled, you know.
I don't say that for no reason because even a small you know, the the Bible says even the faith of a mustard seed, you know, you can move a mountain.
Now, I'm not saying I have that kind of faith, but I do think worry is the antithesis of faith.
I do get that.
And that's what it means, not let not your heart be troubled.
I'll tell you what the Bible also says that one of the creats of the spirit is patience, so hang in there.
And one thing the enemy doesn't have another one of those creats of the spirit is self-control.
The enemy will overload, eventually overplay his hand, and everybody will see it.
But Sean, I wanted to tell you frequently I'll go into a restaurant, coffee shop, but I'll see a military guy, but especially a police officer.
You know, I'll walk up to that police officer, I'll buy his meal, I'll shake his hand, I'll congratulate him, tell him he's a hero.
Then I'll tell him he's crazy.
Sean, I'm gonna apply this to you in a second, tongue in cheek.
I think you've got to be an idiot.
You know, the Ferguson effect, the you know, and you know, don't shoot me, you know.
These guys are out there as police officers, they're being that, you know, they're they're just being that hero in the face of all of that opposition.
Well, Sean, I'll say that to a school teacher.
School teacher, a professor, they got a conservative uh, you know, viewpoint, they're trying to bring that up in the classroom.
I'll shake their hand, I'll tell them thank you for being there.
I'll hold my kids in your class, and you're an idiot.
Well, Sean, the positions you're taking, the voice you're speaking, the hero that's within you is awesome.
But I gotta tell you, Sean, you're an idiot because look what's gonna happen.
Sean, I say that tongue in cheek, of course.
But look what's happening.
Let me let me tell you what my take is on all of this.
And you know, I'm really at peace with it because I I think I'm I'm hearing the nature and the the sentiment behind your call here.
But I will say this, but for Sarah Carter, but for Greg Jarrett, but for uh Tom Fitton, uh, but for Sebastian Gorka, John Solomon, David Schoen, and a few others, uh, Jay Seculow has been amazing.
And there is no doubt that what has happened in terms of what we have now exposed, it wouldn't have been exposed.
And there while the media was chasing a rabbit around the track, uh Trump Russia collusion, we were actually doing the real work.
And what we've discovered is that there was surveillance unmasking, illegal leaking of intelligence.
What we found is that at the highest levels, not rank and file, FBI, DOJ, that nefarious activities were taking place, uh, i.e.
Andrew McCabe.
What we found is Hillary violated specific laws and we identified all of them.
We found that specific people were involved in exonerating her without investigating her.
We found a deep hatred among deep state actors, and it's only just the beginning towards this president, and they did everything they could do to assist her in winning.
Then it took a year, but we finally found out she paid for the dossier through her campaign and and money through the DNC of which she was controlling, and then we found out that that dossier was never verified or corroborated and used as the bulk of information to get a FISA warrant against an American, a Trump campaign associate in the lead up to an election, and they lied to a FISA judge and they withheld pertinent information to a judge.
That's what we did.
So if you're asking me if I understand, and we've also defended the president.
We've defended the duly elected president when others are doing everything in their power to try and take him down.
So are there powerful forces uh at work against us that are trying to do the right thing and support a duly elected president?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So uh I'll give you the last word.
The ledger.
Look on the two sides of the ledger.
You have guys like Clarence, Clarence Falmers, Herman Kane, Michael Flynn of Lieutenant General, who speaks something, and because he's not on the right side of the ledger, the full I mean, there's a there's a general being pushed down, being forced because of the threat of listen, if you didn't lead a perfect life, everything comes out.
Sean, I just gotta tell you this.
Stay in there.
I know your heart's not troubled, my brother, and be that voice.
And you know, we're not gonna be able to do that.
You know what the sad thing is, if it and by the way, I need to add other people in this like Rush and and Mark Levin.
There's been a few of us.
Um, and you know, I gotta tell you something.
It's uh they don't like who we are.
And really their contempt is for the American people.
They don't like how the American people voted.
They don't like that they elected a disruptor.
They don't like that they are wrecked uh elected a an iconoclast.
Uh Bruce, thank you for a great call, by the way.
Bruce is in uh New Mexico next on the Sean Hannity show.
What's up?
Hey, Sean.
Uh two things.
One as uh an ex-fBI agent, this comey book and what he has done has proven exactly what uh so many of my fellow FBI agents were saying.
That Comey is a self-serving egotist, and uh it's embarrassing what he has done to the FBI.
It is embarrassing the the level of of crap that he has pushed down on the street agents, and it's absolutely abysmal.
And then as retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, I wanted to thank you for carrying the drum beat on Hillary Clinton and everything that went on with File Gate there.
If I had done one tenth of what she did and what was accomplished under her, and and the the way the files were moved from secret servers to non-classified servers, my children would still be visiting me in Leavenworth.
Thank you for carrying the drumbeat on that one.
Uh, listen, you know what, we all do it together.
I listen, I don't think I'm any more important than anybody.
Uh my work is more public, but at the end of the day, you know, I I I use my analogy.
We're all spokes in the wheel.
You know, if everybody didn't go out and vote for Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, okay, he wouldn't be president.
But the American people spoke, and since the day since before he was elected and the day he was elected, there's been nothing but an effort to delegitimize and take down this president.
And they do not want him in office.
And we now see how what what these deep state actors were capable of.
I'll be honest.
I I never thought it was this bad, ever.
And if we don't get it right now, I really think we lose the country.
I mean, I think it's that severe.
You know, and to tie it into the 2018 elections, one of the things you you're gonna have to factor in regardless, you know, there's going to be Republicans that are gonna have to get out and vote, even if you don't particularly love your representative or your senator, because we know what the Democrats want to do if they get back power in the House and the Senate.
They want to impeach them, and they'll make up a reason.
Uh Chad is in Midland, Texas next.
Hey, Chad, how are you?
Glad you called.
Sean, hi.
Happy Sunday to you.
Thank you for taking the call.
It's always a pleasure to speak with you.
Um I just, you know, uh all this news uh day in and day out of uh Coley and the leaks that he has, it's just that much more uh of an embarrassment that we're having in this country, and they're so uh prall that to still trump Russian collusion, licking with the Russians when they're longtime uh who they praised for so much, Jim Comey.
Well, he himself, uh how many leaks there have already been confirmed that he did.
You know, it's look I I I do think there's legitimacy to the president's comments.
The whole investigation was based on an illegal leak by James Comey.
And now we know the referral on Comey.
Last week was a massive week.
You gotta understand you had the criminal referral against Andrew McCabe.
You had the congressional criminal referrals against pretty much everybody.
I won't repeat all their names as too many.
And now we've got Comey is in criminal jeopardy because he leaked classified materials.
That is, again, a lot of it goes back to what Hillary did, 18 USC 793.
You cannot do what Comey did.
He knows it, but he did it for a political purpose.
And that's why I tried to warn him.
Nobody listened.
He said he never heard of me or listened to me or watched me before.
Not sure I really believe that.
And he went out on a book tour and he wrote a book anyway.
Well, now he finds himself in making contradictory statements, backtracking, and you see that, you know, basically all he did was wrap up his testimony with, you know, some colorful descriptions like he was like a mob boss.
He was orange, but his eyes were white.
He wasn't as tall as I thought.
His hands were just average size, not like my hands.
I mean, you know, petty, insignificant, clearly, I wish Hillary were elected.
Yeah, no kidding we know you wish Hillary was elected, because you tried to help her.
I only wanted to legitimize her.
He no, he only released that Anthony Wiener laptop because New York was about to expose them for having had that information for five weeks.
And I'm just telling you, they're not being honest.
All these people now find themselves in really significant, serious, deep legal trouble.
So are there all these deep state actors that are furious that we've been on peeling the zunion for a year and we've got to this point, and there's a raw nerve that's now opened, and that I am more than just a mere annoyance to them, but we've been right and we've been effective and we've told the truth, and they never wanted to be exposed to all this?
Absolutely true.
You know, did they did they want this to be clean?
In other words, their delegitimization of the president.
Did they want him out of office?
Did they want to concoct this this phony narrative of Trump Russia collusion?
I've never seen anything like this in my entire life, 30 years in radio, 23 years in at Fox, but it's happened.
It's the biggest abuse of power scandal ever.
And if we don't get this right, everything that you think is the United States of America, everything you think about the rule of law, everything you think about equal application of the law, everything you think about this being a constitutional republic goes out the window.
And we're basically Venezuela because deep state actors control everything.
Now, if we get it right and we put in place measures to protect against deep state actors, against the abuse of the powerful tools of intelligence, uh, against the politicizing of of departments like the State Department, the FBI, the Department of Justice.
Yeah, we can get back on the right track.
And the people that have suffered in all of this are the American people, because they, as a result of all of these shenanigans and frankly, law breaking, the president has not had a full day to just focus his attention on on running and governing the country.
And still he's accomplished a lot.
And they hate him for that.
And for Trump to for for them to succeed, this president has to fail.
That's what you need to know.
Anyway, I hope that makes sense.
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Scott is in Staten Island in New York, the all-new AM 710 WOR.
What's going on?
Hey, how are you doing, Sean?
Big fan of yours, bud.
Um, I got this question about um Mr. Sessions.
Um my take on Sessions is um once President Trump won, uh, or they knew that he was gonna win, because they knew he was gonna win.
Um, even though they had planned for her to win, you know, with all the um shall we say cheating.
Um I kind of think that they uh the deep state uh I I think he's part of it, that's my opinion.
And I think that um he was nudged on to go to be the first guy to um approach uh the president.
And um that's what I've never seen this in my life.
The day he is confirmed, the next day the guy recuses himself.
I I I mean, it it it it's single that one decision put us in this mess that the country now finds itself in.
Now, maybe in the end it's gonna be a good thing, because a lot of cleaning up gets to get done.
But it certainly isn't been great for the country or the president in any way.
Because he I mean he hasn't been he he hasn't done anything.
You know, he's been uh on immigration, okay, but he's not going, you know, he's not going after anybody.
Umself.
Um he's letting uh Mullah and and the other guy, Rosenstein, run roughshod over everybody, over everybody.
Yeah, Greg Jarrett says the real AG is Rosenstein.
Yeah, exactly.
And then he just said the other day that if Rosenstein gets fired, that he's gonna resign.
Yeah.
Now, now uh I mean and that's the other thing.
That's the other thing.
Uh the president just said uh when he was talking with the Japanese prime minister the other day, you know, they keep asking him these questions.
And that was terrible to ask him that question as he was talking with the prime minister at Mar-a-Lago.
So they asked him once again, are you gonna fire him?
And for the 19,000th time, he said, No, I am not gonna fire these two gentlemen.
Okay, we know that.
Um now with Sessions, okay, he he's not uh why would he resign if if if the president even you know did get rid of Rosenstein?
Why would he resign?
The greatest thing uh listen, I don't know the answer to that.
I don't know why a second special counsel hasn't been appointed.
We know that crimes have been committed.
We've gone over them again and again and again.
Uh I think that Jeff Sessions in his own way believes that that there's a process and that if we get to the point we need a special counsel.
The only problem with this is you know, how long does this go on and when do we get to the truth?
And when does all of this nonsense end?
I mean, uh at this point, it's like there's no end in sight for any of this.
Anyway, I wish I could talk to you all day, Scott.
I wish I had more time.
Uh Linda gave you the gold star caller of the day.
Why did you give I can because he had a thick New York accent?
That's why that's right, he's my favorite.
My favorite, first of all, all right.
Linda gets a gold star.
She's been working overtime this weekend, thank you.
You get paid extra for that.
You're welcome.
You get paid extra?
Yeah, I get a lollipop when I come to work.
Oh, yeah, lollipop.
They she feeds all of the children that work here.
I mean the adults, and they all eat candy all day long.
I'm I'm like, keep that crap away from me.
Well, you know what helps you sleep at night is a nice full tummy.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, okay.
I wouldn't know what that is.
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