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You know, one of the funnier things that, you know, the president, President Trump wiped Dandruff off the jacket of the French president at the first state dinner.
And I'm saying you got to be kidding me.
You can't make it up.
And then the French president addressing a joint session of Congress today, although he's wrong on a number of things, which is fine.
I mean, what we we're supposed to in this country believe in robust and vigorous and passionate debate and the free and the open exchange of ideas and opinions, and and you know what it's like in Snowflake land America today.
So many people are offended at everything.
You know, everybody's offended.
Everyone feigns being offended.
You know, I love the idea that you can actually turn off a radio dial or a TV dial.
Don't do it, by the way, ever.
Because we don't want you to do that.
But you can't make people watch.
You can't make people listen.
You can't.
And that's that's that's the the irony in all of this.
The left, the proponents of free speech, you know, the free speech movement.
They liberally are uh they're literally out there trying daily almost to silence speech.
Remember, I came back after the Christmas break.
Remember, Linda, one of the first Linda, one of the first things I said was I am so jealous of Howard Stern.
Remember I said that?
Because you've said that many times because he can say whatever he wants.
And the thing is is that, and I you know, I I actually hesitate to say this, and I don't think he liked that I was fighting Jimmy Kimmel because I think he's PFF with Jimmy Kimmel, which I'm fine with.
I don't I don't really give a flying rip anymore.
But um, but the thing is, I listened to these interviews, and I'm like, good for him.
He gets to they're the most honest, open discussion.
It's real.
That's the only way to put it.
It's real.
And if somebody doesn't like to listen to him, you know, you literally have to work hard to get him.
In other words, you have to have satellite radio, you have to have this, you have to it.
It's just so you have to work.
And people do.
And the point is it's refreshing.
But I'll tell you, the people that are clamped down on the most in America are conservatives.
And the irony of all ironies.
I mean, it was actually a good thing that Bill Maher stood up for Laura Ingram.
He's never stood up for me.
And and I, me, Rush, Mark, Laura, others, we were the ones standing up for him back in the politically incorrect days.
I mean, but it's it's some people just don't like voices and they want to fire them, especially in this day and age.
You know, you think of the last year on this program and on television, and what we have exposed, and I I say we, I mean we.
And I give credit to everybody that I'm staring at here on the radio show, sweet baby and Linda and Lauren and and Ethan and and our wonderful engineer with the best Mohawk Jason in the history of the world and Stanginator and all we have a team here.
We have a team on television, too many people to name there.
And then you have great reporters like Sarah and John Solomon, Sarah Carter.
And she broke huge news last night.
And Greg Jarrett has done phenomenal.
He's sharing with me his book.
Oh, it is going to be massive.
And it is going to be huge.
And anyway, so we what have we found?
We've identified specific crimes committed by Hillary.
Now we're identifying crimes that we see in potentially Andrew McCabe referred for a criminal referral.
All of these people we have done a deep dive into it appears have violated laws.
They're all up to their eyeballs in trouble.
Comey is in trouble because of leaking classified information.
I'm going to get to all that in a minute.
You know, we discovered that a fix was in, an investigation was rigged, an exonerate exoneration, you know, one draft after another before even investigating and interviewing the key people, including Hillary herself, 17 other people.
And I go through all this.
I can't believe it's happening in this country, but it is.
The media has been just chanting stormy, stormy, stormy or Russia, Russia, Russia.
Rod Rosenstein two Thursdays ago said to Donald Trump, no, you're not the subject of the investigation of Mueller or anything involved in the New York investigation.
Well, that's basically saying after all this time, a year of Mueller, there's no Trump-Russia collusion and they're not going to get to Trump-Russia collusion.
And then you think of, OK, well, nobody cared about a primary being rigged by Hillary and Bernie never had a shot.
I would care if I was a Democrat.
I would care if I'm a Bernie supporter.
And then, of course, then it leads into, you know, we did find information about Russian interference, but we were warned about it by Devin Nunes recently.
Two weeks before the election, Obama was laughing.
No serious person would ever believe that our elections could be tampered with in any way.
Stop whining Donald Trump.
And then we find out Russian lies and propaganda paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC finances that Donna Brazil says she's running, funneling money through a law firm, not identifying it as the proper expense that it is.
Then hiring Fusion GPS, they're saying there's no evidence of Trump Russia collusion now.
Gotta give it up.
We haven't found it.
And then hiring a foreign national Christopher Steele, I thought outsiders weren't supposed to influence our elections.
Everyone forgot Alan Dershowitz reminded me on TV the other night.
Uh yeah, the Obama administration was working hard, and State Department dollars were used to defeat Bibi Netanyahu.
John McLaughlin has spoken often about this as well.
And then, of course, the FISA judge being lied to, the FISA judge, you know, being presented so-called evidence, the bulk of information from the dossier was never verified, never corroborated, and it's presented to a judge in the original application, three subsequent judges, as if it's gospel truth, never being told that it was opposition party candidate paid for Russian uncorroborated information.
It's unbelievable.
And that's where we are.
And so the French president today rails against fake news.
I'm like, yeah, that's all we pretty much have gotten in this country.
And anybody that dares to tell the truth, you know, they come under massive fire, but there's not a lot of us.
That's the point.
Now everything we said was being proven true.
And it turns out not to be true.
You know, and then the irony of all ironies, if they're if ever a question of arrogance and elitism in the media, look at Jim Acosta of fake news CNN.
You know, Acosta says too many Americans can't see through President Trump's act because they don't have all of their faculties.
Well, that's the same arrogance that this, you know, these upper echelon elites that are now being exposed had thinking that the American people are stupid, and that they made a mistake, and that they know better, which is part of why they acted the way they did, protecting Hillary to begin with, facilitating the investigation into Trump both Before and after the election.
And then an attempt to delegitimize, you know, a sitting president and literally handcuff him from doing his job by occupying, you know, half his day or more every day involved in a false narrative that they have always known as false.
I mean, I can't believe, you know, he sits down, you know, with variety this week and lamenting the fact, what he said, large-scale intellectual void affecting the population.
He says, the problem is people around the country don't know it's an act, he said.
They're not in on the act.
And they take what he says very seriously.
And they take attacks from Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders, and what they do to us on a daily basis very seriously.
They don't have all their faculties in some cases.
This elevator might not hit all floors.
And my concern is that a journalist is gonna be hurt one of these days.
Wow.
Okay.
We don't want anybody ever getting hurt.
Uh nobody has said that, but you know, for the last two years, the fake news media has done their very best to demonize and delegitimize this president.
And uh it works both ways, Mr. Acosta.
And during this time, what we've had Madonna boasting to hundreds of thousands of people that she dreams of blowing up the White House, Kathy Griffin waving around Trump's severed head.
We've had plays in Central Park depicting Donald Trump getting stabbed to death, envelopes filled with mock anthrax sent to Trump family members.
Um we don't want this happening to anybody in this country.
You know, it's it's pretty amazing how people seem to act here and how short their memories are.
Maybe all the elevators aren't going up in Jim Acosta's head, if you want to use his analogy.
Why, because people disagree with him.
Um it's pretty stunning, it's pretty breathtakingly stunning to me, the level of arrogance in the media.
You know, like every other job.
I know I've given my list of jobs a thousand times.
I'll save you the boredom of it.
But every time, every job is about serving people.
You give in other words, on this show, we're a talk show.
As a talk show, sometimes we do straight interviews, straight news, just news of the day.
Other times we're doing opinion.
We're like a newspaper, news, editorial page.
Sometimes we even do sports and pop culture and all aspects.
So it's called opinion journalism, advocacy journalists.
It's all rolled into being a talk show host.
Americans know I don't hide the fact that my opinion is that I think Donald Trump's doing a great job.
And that I want this to continue.
I don't hide my opinions that I think the deep state has been up to bad news.
Now, I'll give you some examples of it.
You know, there's a new lawsuit seeking records on Comey's meetings with Obama.
This is going to be interesting.
The lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday seats records to determine the actual numbers of times and reasons the FBI director, Comey, then met with President Barack Obama.
Two organizations filed this request because the former FBI director claimed he rarely met with Obama.
He was independent, nonpartisan leader of the nation's top law enforcement agency.
Now he's in legal jeopardy today, as I pointed out.
And we have Comey tapping, you know, now into war.
Uh uh legally he's literally laurering up at this point, which we told everybody would happen.
No smart lawyer would have allowed him to write this book.
Nobody, and then go on this book tour.
You know, so now we it's been revealed that he hired a personal attorney.
He says nearly a year ago, guy's name is former special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
Well, he's the guy involved in the scooter Libby, what I refer to as a perjury trap.
On day one, Patrick Fitzgerald knew that the leaker in the Valerie Plain case, and she wasn't a covert agent, was Richard Armitage.
And that's what he was appointed to investigate.
And he knew who it was on day one, but he kept the investigation going.
And that's the problem with the special counsel law to begin with.
He represented me since I was fired, he said, at a Washington reception.
Guess a bunch of liberals were invited.
I didn't get my invitation to this.
Anyway, so the college professor that he leaked the classified information to, you know, in this plot to get the special counsel hired in this particular page, Dan O Daniel Richman.
Comey gave the memo leaked co-conspiration.
He gave him a job in the FBI.
That's other news that people didn't know.
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Elections matter.
So the Supreme Court hearing arguments on Trump's terrorist uh travel ban, which has always been incorrectly described by people on the left.
MPR says the Trump administration's travel ban reached the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday at issue is the third version of the ban, which the president has complained is a watered down version.
The court allowed it to go into effect while the case was being litigated, but the lower courts have ruled against it.
Well, remember, they went judge shopping out at the Ninth Circuit in that original case.
Anyway, all three versions say it violates federal law or unconstitutional.
But if you read the tea leaves, well, you can kind of sense sometimes, and then sometimes you're wrong, but it seems like that this will go the president's way this time.
If I had to venture a guess on based on what I'm reading anyway, at the argument, those challenging the ban were being represented by a lawyer who has argued landmark cases in the Supreme Court, both for and against executive power in the context of national security.
It's unconstitutional, it's unnecessary, and most of all it's un-American, he maintained.
But before he could make that case, was going to have to deal with the government's first argument that foreign nationals outside the U.S. have no constitutional rights and no right to litigate in U.S. courts, and that the courts have no power to review the president's ban.
And the Supreme Court has said on many occasions that when it comes to a national security issue, the executive, well, he's the one that has information the court is not privy to.
And uh, in other words, uh, he'd have to come up with a as who said it, John Malcolm, vice president of the Institute for Constitutional Government at the Conservative Heritage Foundation, you know, literally said that the executive need only come up with a uh with a legitimate bona fide reason to keep certain people.
Remember, the ban was for only just people in a few countries, and actually Chad was recently lifted off the list that took place there.
Um, so we'll get to all that in the course of the program.
The other breaking news that we have, I'm gonna get into at the time.
We're we're literally looking into this now.
Comey now has appeared to lawyer up in a big, big way.
Uh, we've got some new information that I'm gonna share with you right after the top of the hour.
The Comey memo literally now has put it James Comey in l legal jeopardy.
Even Jeffrey Tubin on CNN is saying the same thing.
And a new lawsuit seeking records on Comey's meetings with Obama.
That is news that we're gonna dig deep into as well.
And uh when Jeffrey Tubin goes against Jim Comey, you know Jim Comey has a big problem.
And that's a really big problem.
And the fact that he hired Patrick Fitzgerald speaks volumes.
Uh so we'll get to all of this.
Sarah and David Schoen and Greg Jarrett all coming up.
And we'll have the latest news as Washington as we continue.
Our notes about a conversation with the president taken by then a private citizen are Are those classified?
They may or may not be.
And in fact, when the when the uh uh administration or Congress released those some versions of those memos, some of the portions were blacked out.
I think James Comey actually is in a pretty vulnerable position here.
Just because something is not marked classified, doesn't mean that after the fact it couldn't be retroactively designated classified.
I think Comey may really have a problem there.
I think Comey may even have a problem.
I mean, there's nobody more liberal on television and usually more wrong on the law than Jeffrey Tubin.
And then he also was asked another question.
In other words, when the president tweeted out, you know, James Comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a special counsel.
Um, therefore the special counsel was established based on in illegal act question mark.
Really, does anybody know what that means, Jeffrey?
What is the president implying here?
And Tubin goes on, well, what he's saying is that when James Comey took these those memos that recounted his conversations with the president and gave them to this professor Dan Richman at Columbia, and I am beginning to get rumblings that there may also have been to other people.
He wrote, that was an illegal leak, especially since he considered he knew Richmond was going to give it to the press.
Now, this is a big, huge, you know, when you think of the hysteria and breathlessness, Trump Russia collusion, and when you think of everything that we have been doing separate and apart, this whole team of people that we put together, I was talking about, and you know, unpeeling the layers of onions as I've been telling you about, and I won't go through it all.
And we're now at the point where all of these criminal referrals are taking place.
It's all happening.
The deep state is literally, we're one card away, and this thing is gonna come tumbling down.
I mean, it is it is a pretty remarkable turnaround.
Now, the media is not gonna focus on it.
It is a mere moment in time for them, but it is it shows that even they now are beginning the process of having to understand what's going on here.
And you see now James Comey lawyering lawyering up in a in a major way.
And he gave this, leaked this.
We know four of the seven were classified that he gave to this Columbia professor and and others.
Well, now I keep saying, what did I say to James Comey before the book tour?
What lawyer would let him write that book?
What lawyer would let him do all these interviews?
And when you have CNN saying, yeah, that's an illegal act.
Then the question is, is there equal application under the law?
The irony of all ironies here is that it's 18 USC 793.
You know, mishandling classified information.
Now we've told you the story about the sailor, Christian Saucier.
He was sentenced to a year in jail based on the same law.
A guy that was proud of his job.
He worked on a U.S. submarine.
He took six pictures just for himself, never posted them on social media, convicted, year in prison, went to jail away from his mother, who's been on his program, his wife, and his young, recently born daughter.
Okay.
Well, if applied to him and applied to many other people, why not, why not in Hillary's case?
And the irony is it was James Comey that worked so hard, even though the evidence was overwhelming, incontrovertible, that there was there was never been a stronger case against any one person than Hillary Clinton.
And by mishandling, destroying classified information by purposefully trying to avoid congressional oversight and putting it on that server, Platts River Networks, you know, in a mom and pop shop bathroom closet.
You know, yesterday's discussion was fascinating.
It's a possibility that maybe those deleted acid washed, you know, emails may still exist.
So that's gonna that this is now just the beginning.
These are the top people.
This is not rank and file FBI guys.
The people that I know today that are most angry are FBI intelligence people because they all know how strict the laws are.
They all are trained in how strict the laws are.
There was uh another shocker today, you know, and this was in the Hill.
Even fake news outlets like the New York Times and CNN are now so concerned about Robert Mueller's no-knock midnight raids on suspected Russia-Gate targets.
Oh, yeah, let me see.
They had business dealings in 2005 in the Ukraine.
Let's investigate that.
Can we get further away from Trump Russia collusion in 2016?
Well, anyway, now these news outlets, so-called news outlets, fake news outlets that have been wrong so often in the last year and a half and have been so agenda-driven in the last year and a half, and we've exposed their agenda.
Anyway, you know, one of these raids is conducted with guns drawn.
You know, now they're demanding to see what evidence Muller presented to the court to justify such abusive tactics.
You got a coalition of news organizations now asking a federal judge to make public the materials used by the special counsel, Robert Muller to obtain search warrants in his probe into Russia's role in the 2016 elections.
This is the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN Politico, the AP filing a joint motion on Tuesday asking the court to unseal affidavits, warrant seizure records filed by Mueller's team.
And the motion argues that the sealed materials could contain information of public interest and provide details about the direction of Muller's investigation and the basis for the FBI rates.
And some of the documents related to the warrants obtained by Mueller have remained under wraps now for several months, which is an unusually long period of time.
Well, okay.
I mean, if if this is the new standard, why wouldn't you?
Um, by the way, there's a whole series of new emails that have actually been released as it relates to Hillary Clinton.
Our friends at Judicial Watch put it out.
281 pages, newly uncovered emails, former Secretary of State Clinton at the State Department that she sent or received over that unsecure non-state.gov email system.
Emails dated 2010 through 2013 indeed contain classified information.
They detail collusion between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.
Ten of the emails contain classified information redacted, quote, in the interest of national defense or foreign policy, including confidential sources, concern Israel and the Middle East, and most of the emails include exchanges with former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The email show that Hillary Clinton conducted classified sensitive negotiations about the Israeli-Arab conflict on her unsecured non-government server.
You can't make it up.
Ten of the emails classified information in the interest of national defense foreign policy.
You know, all of this is in there.
Document labeled, quote, a plan was completely redacted as classified.
A November 2012 email chain discusses Mideast.
It includes Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan and Hillary Clinton.
Another email chain discusses Mideast includes Sullivan, Clinton's office manager, and Tony Blair.
Another email chain fully redacted, Mid-East Peace includes Blair Clinton, Obama's special envoy to the Middle East, Sullivan, Blair's chief of staff, and former Downing Street aide named Catherine Rimmer.
In April of 2011, an exchange between Blair, Clinton, Sullivan concerning Israel.
Blair's, this is all on this on this unprotected server.
All of it classified.
All of it a crime.
Every bit of it.
Saying, Hannity, you're getting into the why do we have these laws?
Why did Christian Saucier go to jail for a year for six pictures of a submarine, you know, probably 50 years old that he was proud of working in and he shared with nobody?
You know, this there's so much happening.
And you think last week, all of these, all of these criminal referrals, the congressional uh criminal referrals, the IG criminal referral, McCabe.
Now you got James Comey criminal referrals.
This is all beginning to collapse all around us.
You know, nobody will talk about, you know, any of the president's success.
I don't expect the media to ever do that.
Why would they ever do that?
Um, but anyway, the explosive report from Sarah Carter is going to join us at the top of the hour.
You know, this revelation, serious misconduct, some of the highest levels in government.
Again, multiple sources saying that fired FBI deputy director, Andrew McCabe, he was number two with the FBI.
I grew up, I worshiped the FBI.
He was telling the story the other day.
I mean, my cousin Billy Kerwin and his sister Maureen Carverwit.
You know, my best gift I ever got was a police hat, a Billy Club, and um handcuffs and a badge that he gave me for one Christmas.
I still have the Billy Club today.
Anyway, and two of my cousins made it to the FBI was the greatest thing ever.
The highest achievement.
Remember, my grandparents, like many of yours, came here, no money, nothing.
And that to them was, you know, a dream job, a dream life, dream career.
And if you look at um, and by the way, and that's 99.9%.
I um you don't sweep with a broad brush.
We're talking about just a few at the top.
It's not the average rank and file guy.
But serious misconduct at the highest levels in our government.
Sarah reports, multiple sources saying that the fired FBI deputy director issued a stand-down order during the initial phases of the FBI's investigation in the Hillary's private email server.
Why?
To protect her?
James Comey writing the exoneration before the investigation, before the interview of Hillary and 17 other key witnesses.
Peter Strzok conducted the Hillary investigation, a Trump hater.
We expect more of those emails to come out today, by the way.
Anyway, according to Sarah Carter and a source is quote, McCabe was overseas when he became aware of the investigation, and he sent electronic communications voicing his displeasure with the agents.
One FBI official told Sarah Carter, quote, McCabe tried to steer people off the private email investigation, and that appears to be obstruction and should be investigated.
This is on the heels of the IG report.
We just put it up on our website again.
New Gingrich wrote a great column about this yesterday.
Read Rosenstein's letter as to why Comey, the FBI will never be repaired if Comey stayed.
A stinging indictment against Comey and his handling of the FBI.
This is his number two guy.
Emma Cabe said that his high-ranking Justice Department official expressed concerns about the FBI agents taking overt steps in the Clinton Foundation investigation during the presidential campaign, showing that the rank and file were doing their job.
That's what they do.
And it's clear that during the 2016 presidential election, the deep state clearly, these people we talk about at the higher highest levels were alive and well.
Think about it.
Hillary was prosecuted or indicted for what we know were crimes.
What would have happened in July of 2016?
And they thought the whole way that Trump never had a shot.
They want a new job, new administration, maybe a promotion of some kind.
DOJ will make the six months of missing texts, apparently between Strzok and Paige available.
That's interesting.
We expect that by tonight on Hannity.
We know that we're making some progress.
Bob Goodlatt, Trey Gowdy, they're making strides in their efforts to hold the deep state accountable because they made a deal with the DOJ.
They're now going to gain access to the documents surrounding the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton.
You know, I'm told now that May 7th, look for that day or somewhere around there that the IG is going to issue its report on this very topic after sifting through 1.2 million documents and interviews in the process.
Jeffrey Tubin saying what he did is illegal is a big deal.
You know, I tried to, I tried, we tried, Linda, how many times do we warn James Comey on this program?
You have the right to remain silent.
I tweeted it out.
Writing this book was, I don't care how much he got paid for it.
It was a dumb idea.
Doing these interviews, dumb idea.
Anyway, I've said I've said so many times.
This is the year of the boomerang.
You know, if you actually look, you know, at the former FBI director, and his answer for some of these actions, you know, I have been telling you, It is the biggest abuse of power, corruption, scandal in the history of the country.
We've been I've been telling you we're unpeeling layers of the onion.
Many of you said, where is it?
Where is it?
When is it?
It's it's literally happening right now before your eyes.
And it's gonna start happening more rapidly day by day.
And the thing is the media in this country has been missing in action, a terrible disservice to the American people.
I'm sure they got Hannity news to talk about as usual.
Hannity Hannity, Hannity, Hannity.
I you know ridiculous.
Because they don't like that they've been wrong and we've been right.
It's a big part of it.
And secondly, they just have such a you know, uh Nuke Gingrich was describing this to me today, and we'll interview him later.
He actually was saying, you know, the minute Trump got elected, there was like a collective psychosis that the traumatic event in everybody's life because they never saw it coming.
And they think they know better than with the American people.
There's such an arrogance there.
Look at Jim Acosta's comments.
Wow.
Talk about arrogance.
Couldn't believe those comments.
You know, that you know, people are stupid, unstable, basically.
Okay, if that's what you're gonna say.
It's sad for him to ridicule the people of this country.
Shows how out of touch he is.
All right, our deep dive into the deep state news information you're never gonna get from your corrupt, your abusively biased, destroy Trump media.
Uh, we're gonna have the very latest.
We'll check in with Sarah Carter, her blockbuster report.
We'll look at the legal issues involving Comey, what he's facing with David Schoen and Greg Jarrett and Newt Gingrich and more coming up straight ahead.
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity show right down on toll-free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program at 800, it's 941 Sean.
If you want to join us, and uh joining us now, criminal civil rights attorney David Schoen, also Sarah A. Carter.com, investigative reporter Sarah Carter, and our friend uh friend Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst.
Are you ready to unveil the title of your book, which is coming out in June, Mr. Jarrett?
Sir.
I am.
It's called The Russia Hoax.
The subtitle is the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump.
Um you can pre-order it.
It's up on Amazon uh as well as Barnes and Noble.
Just put it up on Hannity.com too.
The title is more true now than when you started writing it.
Now, Greg's office is literally what, two doors down from my office.
And and you know, when he's gonna be on the show at night, sometimes I I poke my head in because I'm nosy.
And uh, and you've been pounding away at this, and you've also been sharing with me a lot of what you discovered.
And you're you're literally writing the definitive book, but my question is when you started, you didn't know you were even as right as you are now, did you?
You're you're absolutely right.
I mean, I had written a column in October of last year called uh the Russia hoax and a follow-up column that talked about uh how the DOJ and FBI had cleared Clinton improperly and targeted Trump.
But you know, as I continue to write for the last four months, every day.
More and more evidence emerged that reinforced what you believed, uh, Sean, and and what I think.
And said it, look, there's been a whole group of us, Sarah, Sebastian, you, John, um, uh, you know, I'm gonna forget Tom Fitton, who am I forgetting here?
Oh, there's been a group of us, and it we we said it's layers of an onion, but now it's now it's all happening.
Everything we saw coming is happening.
You know, I'll go to Sarah and the Sarah.
You saw what was gonna happen with the deputy FBI director before anybody else, and we're saying it on the air.
People weren't picking it up in the news.
Now they're picking it up.
Yeah, it was it was incredible.
I mean, there was just so much evidence out there, and there and there were sources, and there were people that you know, this was moving forward.
The IG was gonna move forward, and he did with his investigation.
We saw the results of those investigations on McCabe and and the fact that he leaked information um and then subsequently lied about it numerous times under oath.
Um, there's still a lot more information that's gonna be coming out from the inspector general but it was kind of it was concerning because you're right Sean there were so many people on the outside other journalists and people who were not uh focused in on what was happening there and and what's been going on as far as this Russia alleged Russia Trump campaign investigation that they missed a lot of it.
Now some of the mainstream media did get certain things right you got to give credit you know the Washington Post um broke the story on the fact that the DNC in Hillary you know Clinton campaign was paying uh actually fusion GPS for the dossier that was a really big reveal and Congress has been investigating but this has been one fight after another I mean one big fight after another not just from Congress but from journalists investigating this.
Greg, who's done amazing work on this, and especially on the legal side, has really made it, I guess, easy for the American people to understand the possible violations that occurred when going after Trump.
But it has been exhausting.
It's been very difficult.
I know that we're not going to stop.
We're going to continue to seek the truth.
And that's something that I think the American public wants, and we want to ensure that our our other agencies our intelligence agencies are not being weaponized and used against a political opponent.
Let me ask you know it's funny because now we're watching the FBI director all three of us thought it was a terrible idea for James Comey to A write his book and all three of us said it was a bad idea for him to go on a book tour.
We all predicted bad things would happen out of this and now we see David Schon that he's lawyered up number one and we also see even of all people Jeffrey Tubin who's probably the worst so called legal analyst in America with a left wing slant on everything even he actually said the words that in fact it was an illegal leak and that he has real legal problems here.
Your thoughts well I mean uh that seems to be uh exactly right I don't think we know the half of it yet I mean we're you because of you folks we're just starting to find out more about the relationship between Comey and Daniel Richmond the so-called special government employee that really triggers a lot of uh a lot of possibilities you know this is a it's can only be a temporary appointment so the question is how long was he in this role?
He's referred to in places as Comey's counselor, Comey's attorney even well he's to be employed by the agency and he can't have any interest in conflict with the agency that could be a crime um if the memos were leaked uh knowing that Richmond as they say now has security clearance and knowing that the purpose of any document being leaked that way was to take it to the media depending on whether the document had classified information or not could be a crime there's a lot of serious things still to learn and that's one of the many reasons why you have to keep digging
and another one is you don't want to see McCabe just be the fall guy and then they stop there.
They stop with Comey because there's something funny going on with conflicting stories between McCabe and Comey um and so on.
You've got a lot more digging to do and I know you're gonna do it.
You know uh Greg Jarrett you were very outspoken from a for a long time now that James Comey is in legal jeopardy.
And now here we are today and what are we seeing?
The very things that you said of all people that he chose to be his lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald is also you know how many other people might he have say shared that information with and wouldn't that be a illegal act each and every case every individual who is unauthorized received those stolen government documents and uh many of which may have contained classified information would be separate crimes.
I suspect, and I have it on pretty good information, that in addition to leaking those presidential memos to Daniel Richmond, he also leaked them to Patrick Fitzgerald.
And now it appears that he's retained both Fitzgerald and Richmond as his counselors, which would invoke the attorney-client privilege to protect Comey from any discussions.
that he may have had with those individuals it's a classic comey Machiavellian move.
But does that but it does it matter if he in other words you know I well I thought I knew a lot about attorney client privilege, which apparently I don't know.
Um but the question is would it matter if he's still leaking it to people that are unauthorized?
It just matters that Fitz Fitzgerald and Richmond couldn't be used as incriminating witnesses against Comey.
Um what about the act itself, if proven would be crimes.
And it was but it was also he said on the oh, let's use his own words that he said that he leaked it for the purpose of appointing a special counsel.
Yeah, I mean that just underscores the nefarious motivation that Comey had and and it his best friend uh ally and partner ended up being the special counsel.
It's an incestuous swamp, a cesspool of corruption.
Sarah's a real question whether legally uh Mr. Professor Richmond can serve or ever served as Comey's counsel.
The ever served question gives rise to the privates question, because under 18 USC 202, his appointment is to the agency, not to Comey.
Secondly, under Section 205, he can't in any matter he's been involved with represent a party against the government, which would be the case of his representing Comey's interests now.
There's some real problems there.
Yeah, Sarah.
I I I think another real problem too is how did he transmit that information to Richmond?
See, the the the documents themselves were property of the FBI.
I mean, he could say that they were his personal memoirs, but he actually classified some of those, and they were property of the FBI.
So did he email them on an unsecured server?
Did he walk them out and hand them to him?
I mean, there's a lot of questions of how those documents were actually given to Richmond and then Richmond's decision to leak the information from those documents to the New York Times.
So there's there's trouble all the way around for Comey here.
And that's the questions they're gonna ask.
Comey also uh he doesn't realize this, but in his own congressional testimony, he said he wrote the memos in such a way so they could be used at work.
Well, that defeats his claim that they were his personal property.
I'll tell you where the sequel to Greg's book may come.
Uh I don't know what's gonna happen in these tribunals.
I don't know whether what's gonna happen with the criminal referrals, whether they'll go any place, but Mr. Perez didn't do anybody any favors, especially Mr. Comey, Mr. McCabe by filing his lawsuit because they will be subject to discovery.
They'll be subject to being deposed under oath in those cases, and you should be able to ask them the defendant should be able to ask them any question they want in any way related to this case, or likely to lead to related information.
Where do we all see this going?
In other words, I mean, we've had in the for since last week we've got the IG criminal referral of Andrew McCabe.
Um you believe, sir, and have reported that there's probably criminal charges right around the corner for him.
Um now James Comey, even Jeffrey Tubin is saying that in fact that it was an illegal leak.
Um where we are all discussing that here.
You know, remember Christian Saucier, young man worked on a submarine, took six pictures of inside the submarine, went to jail for a year.
He was sentenced to a year in jail.
And so the question I have, I guess for all of you is you know, with the criminal referrals of Hillary, Comey, Struck, Page, we're expecting new struck page emails tonight uh at some point that we should have on Hannity.
Um and everybody in between and everybody involved here, where's this gonna go?
I'll let it uh you know, you guys talks amongst yourselves because I'm sure you all have a a theory.
Sarah, we'll start with you.
Oh, I well look, I there's there's an Instagram general investigation right now, um, and he's looking at uh the issues surrounding the FBI's handling of the probe into Hillary Clinton, her use of private email private with which she sent classified documentation.
So that is going to be the most fascinating part because remember, it was Comey who decided to drop that.
It was not left up to the DOJ.
He didn't follow proper procedure.
He was criticized by a number of people, uh, even colleagues in the FBI, people that were involved in this investigation.
There's issues with McCabe, as you know, I've reported recently, you know, that McCabe um, according to the sources that I spoke with, gave a stand down order on the Clinton email investigation.
That's going to be something The inspector general is looking at.
We've only seen a fraction of the text messages of between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
We have seen none of the text messages.
I heard that there's explosive ones coming today.
I haven't seen them yet.
I've been waiting.
You do you know about them?
Is that true?
I heard they are explosive, and uh I I know that they were preparing to get them today or even yesterday.
So there's a lot of concern too that the DOJ held these for some time.
There's gonna be a big misinformation out to the public.
Yeah, I've heard they've had them for over a week now or somewhere around that.
Isn't that true?
Absolutely.
And they didn't tell anybody.
No, they kept it to themselves.
Yeah, absolutely.
And and and of course, you know, Congress is fighting tooth and nail to get that public.
It's a classic cover-up by the Department of Justice and the FBI.
They've been trying to hide these documents for months, uh months under a congressional subpoena, and they haven't been responsive to it.
Uh, and it really wasn't until Devin Nunes uh confronted in an office, Rod Rosenstein and threatened to impeach him for failure to comply.
That suddenly and magically old Rod decided to cough up the evidence, and now it's coming out in drips and drafts.
Yeah, what do you think, David?
Where's it headed?
I wish they could sort of group it all under one umbrella.
I'm afraid things are going off a little too randomly in too many different directions with too much discretion from too many individual prosecutors and otherwise um it's got to coalesce somehow.
There's so much interrelationship.
Um I look, I wish some part of me wishes everyone would take their jacks and go home.
We could get on with the business of the country, not one after another more special counsel.
It may be special counsel for a broader um investigation now and prosecution possibly.
I don't know.
Um, but uh, I guess you you could say uh uh in the words of uh famous American soldier, they drew first blood.
So I want to talk about the importance of this too, because you know, this was a concerted effort.
I think Craig's title frankly nails it, you know, to undermine a duly elected president, and that effort still remains today.
That that has not gone away.
Well, all right, we'll take a break.
Unabashedly so.
Unabashedly so unbashedly so more with uh David Schoen, Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, and your calls coming up.
Newt Gingrich coming up.
All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity's show, Greg Jarrett, Sarah Carter, David Schoen with us.
Uh as we look at the slow walking.
Now there's an agreement between the DOJ finally and Bob Goodlett of the Judiciary Committee and Trey Gowdy of of the House Government Reform Oversight Committee on the release of documents.
Sarah, what is the latest in terms of when are we going to get?
There's 1.2 million of them.
When do we start seeing them?
Like the struck page memos.
Well, like the struck page memos, I'm hoping that we'll see a lot more of those uh coming up this evening.
And as far as the other documents are concerned, remember there's been a very big battle waged behind the scenes that the American people are not seeing in offices in Washington, D.C. at the DOJ and on Capitol Hill to ensure that these um documents are retrieved by Congress and that they're made available to the public.
I think what's important here, out of those 1.2 million, and I've said this before in your show, Sean, they believe that there's a roughly 46,000 plus documents that pertain to these investigations that are essential for Congress to conduct proper oversight, and they want those documents.
Now, it could be a lot more than that.
That may be a low ball estimate, but remember he asked for everything and he got everything.
And we only have a short time for it.
I hate to do this to you guys 15 seconds each, uh, Greg.
Well, the documents will reveal bias in the Clinton email probe and the FISA abuses, but I don't trust the Department of Justice and the FBI to be honest and forthcoming.
David.
We get the documents.
Uh there's absolutely no telling what they're going to show.
This is the undoing of virtually every criminal defendant these days, what they've put in writing and forgot about, uh, or never should have put in writing in the first place.
It'll make fill volumes.
Uh okay, I want to thank you all for being with us.
The amazing work has gotten us to this point, and we expect those struck page memos to be released any time and new information on Comey.
We'll have it all on Hannity tonight, nine Easter.
Newt Gingrich and more coming up straight ahead.
I want to thank the voters of Congressional District 8 for putting their trust in me.
And then I want to thank all of the supporters, all of the People that have worked so hard, so hard on this campaign.
Every night that I went into the Sun City headquarters, I saw people on the phones.
I saw people walking door to door.
And that's what you guys, you are the ones that helped me win.
I sure as heck never would have dreamt in a million years that I would be running for Congress and be a Congresswoman.
I mean, that's right.
Now I don't say running for Congress.
I won.
I think that was one of the best victory speeches I think I've ever heard.
A Republican win yesterday in Arizona, Debbie Lesco.
Wow, that that just you know, it's supposed to be the people's house.
That's why I love that story.
That's why I love that speech last night.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh we do have uh polls out today that I think are worthwhile as we head into the 2018 midterm elections, and McLaughlin and associates uh provided to Breitbart News shows support for the president and great suspicion of the investigator, the special counsel Robert Muller.
There are stories out today, one from Rom Rombo Deadfish Emmanuel.
He's warning Democrats, you better tamp down on the impeachment talk.
He said that to uh at an Axios event in Chicago, and he warned Democrats don't use the impeachment of Trump as a political tool.
And when asked if it was a good issue for the Democrats in 2018 in the midterms, he said, I live through the Clinton White House.
This is a serious legal and consequential non-political issue.
My view is that there's nothing there today that we know, and I'm angry what it's what he's done, but it's legal, a constitutional standard.
Now, what's even more interesting, there was another article out yesterday where Nancy Pelosi was stressing that the what's key for the Democrats is to focus on economic instability for so many people in the country.
Meanwhile, the economic numbers are never been better.
And uh, but there's an increasing concern among those on the left, the liberals are getting concerned that the media is focuses on stormy, stormy, stormy.
So they're concerned that is gonna hurt their chances in the midterms.
Fourteen states now in the country that are experiencing record, let me repeat, record low unemployment in this country.
On top of that, record low unemployment for African Americans, record low unemployment for Hispanic Americans.
As we begin to take the pulse as we head into 2018, joining us now is uh John McLaughlin, the pollster, founder of McLaughlin and Associates, Doug Schoen, polster, author, political analyst, Fox News contributor.
You know, uh it's very interesting as we watch this.
I actually think that that the 2018 election is going to evolve into a very simple question.
And it's going to be do you want these Democrats to basically bring us back to the Obama track record, and do you want them to overturn a duly elected president because that's what they're headed, John McLaughlin.
I think you're exactly right because uh ironically, Doug used to work for Bill Clinton, and the poll you're talking about we did in conjunction with Dick Morrison.
It was released today.
It's on Bright Bart Bright Bart.
It's also up on our website on McLaughlin Online.com.
The voters um they don't think Muller's found any real evidence of corruption.
What do you know?
Only 33% said yes, 51 said no.
And and by 10 points, they said Mueller's not uncovered any evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians to influence the election.
Only 33% said he has, 43% said he did not.
The rest don't know, so they haven't seen it.
And by a margin of plurality of 43 to 34, they say the investigation is overstepped its purpose.
And and uh, you know, they see it going beyond the bounds.
And finally, the real number is that the majority of Americans, and these are 1,000 likely voters across the country, released it today.
Uh uh by 52 to 32, they say the investigation being conducted by the special prosecutor, Robert Mueller has gone on for too long and it's cost too much.
So they're losing patience, they don't see any results.
If anything, the results is it shows that it's it's just aggravating partisan divisions in the country and uh uh and and not producing any real results.
And I go back ironically With Doug, he worked for Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton was impeached and he was able to withstand it.
Why?
Because the economy was getting better.
America was seen as stronger in the world.
He'd done things like work fair.
So the people are able to say, if you can do your job, we will we will support you and re-elect you.
And what all this to me, this investigation was all about is stopping Trump from being a successful president.
Because when his policies succeed, the Republicans will gain house seats, they will win gain Senate seats, and they'll be a stronger party for it.
Unbelievable.
Let me go to, look, I actually don't want, I shouldn't even put Doug Schoen on the program anymore'cause he's about to give Democrats good advice, is my guess, knowing Doug as well as I know him.
But you know, we do know impeachment is on the table for all these Democrats.
We also know that they're stormy obsessed when they should all be concerned about Mueller exceeding his mandate by a long shot here.
And when they talk about gun control and uh repealing the tax cuts and bringing back Obamacare, I don't think those are big sellers.
Uh Sean, uh as you well know, uh I have counseled the Democrats to ignore the issues of what you call stormy stormy stormy, and to ignore impeachment and to focus on the fact that it is the Congress and a Republican Congress that has only delivered one piece of legislation that arguably helps many red states and hurts a lot of blue states,
and that health care hasn't gotten done, and that there are a whole host of economically related issues that uh can uh be addressed by a divided Congress if the Democrats win the House.
Yeah, but 14 states have record low unemployment numbers.
I understand lowest, lowest unemployment numbers for Hispanic Americans, African Americans.
Uh three three and a half million jobs have been created.
Energy independence.
Uh look at the success abroad in Asia, China, the Korean peninsula.
I mean 40 Republicans not running, the swing in the special election from a 20-point Trump margin to a six-point Lesco margin is a bugger as well.
And given that the there's the non-deductibility of state and local taxes now in states like California, Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, there's enough seats there to win the House.
It was a monumental miscalculation by the Republicans, only exceeded by the monumental miscalculation by the Democrats to focus on impeachment and redistribution.
So I I think it's going to be a tough race, but uh the generic vote is still six or seven pro-Democrats, Trump's underwater.
I think this is going to be a real fight.
The best thing the Democrats could do is what Connor Lamb did in 86, uh Nancy Pelosi.
What do you think that the for the Republicans that do you agree that it's going to come down to a referendum on the Democrats' left-wing agenda and their their constant reprisal, no agenda really, except stormy, stormy Russia, Russia and impeach Trump and hate Trump.
Oh, I I hope it doesn't for the Democrats' sake, because if it does, they'll lose.
They're going to make it try to make it about the Republican failures in Congress, uh, Paul Ryan, and most of all Mitch McConnell.
I think the president will uh, if they're smart, largely not be an issue, and that they should talk about compromise on issues like immigration, where if they did uh the wall in exchange for DACA, it would be a win-win for both sides.
So I think the Democrats would be.
I don't think the Democrats would take that deal even.
I mean, the president's offered DACA a hundred different ways, and they want to keep it for an uh midterm campaign issue.
There's a story that was out in the hill, I think this was yesterday, and it's called the Great Exodus out of America's Blue Cities.
And John, as you as you do a deep dive into this thing, you know, what you're seeing is is that more Americans have decided that they don't want to live in these high-taxed, high property states.
More than a million people have moved out of New York City since 2010 looking for greener pastures.
You see the same mass exit as from California, New York, New Jersey, uh, Illinois, uh going to states that like Florida and Texas that have no state income tax.
And as a result, you know what?
Those states are all losing money and they keep going back to the only thing They know, which is raising fees and and raising taxes.
Right.
And and you're talking about a study that Art Laffer released and and Steve Moore wrote about with him and who helped uh Larry Cudlow with the president's tax cuts.
But what's really important about that is there's there is another side to that.
For uh, you know, just uh I'm a partisan like like Doug is, but I'm a Republican where I'm a supply side or pro-growth person.
I'm helping a candidate named Bob Stefanowski in Connecticut, who's who's the front runner for the Republicans in the primary because he's promising to phase out the income tax.
Could you imagine, you know, if you phased out the income tax in a state in the Northeast, people would move there.
So it's it's uh that's that we we need to provide that contrast, and that's how we need to win the elections is by saying, you know, they're wrong, and look at the results.
Look at the facts.
I mean, look at uh the the Trump economic record compared to the Obama economic record.
And the real thing is besides that poll that we released to you uh uh that we just discussed about Mueller and the investigation, there the Doug's got a point because uh in the Arizona eight race, Trump got an 190,000 votes there.
Yesterday the Republican uh won by six points, but only ninety-one thousand voters vote for voted for.
So there's a hundred thousand Trump voters in that district that did not come out in the special election.
That's going on all over the country.
If the Republicans in the House and the Senate want to win, they have to work with the president, not just to pass his policies and support him on important things and get the votes in the Senate in the House.
They also have to work on draining the swamp, because in this other poll that we we released today, thousand people, we ask is the Republican leadership helping drain the swamp or supporting the swamp that President Trump promised to drain.
And 46% said they're supporting the swamp.
Only 17% said helping to drain it.
And and that's including 39% of the Trump voters.
And when we asked them about, you know, on a scale of one to five, is it important to eliminate the influence of the DC centric professional bureaucrats, media and insider elites who who call this who are called the swamp from the way Washington works.
60% of the voters agreed with eliminating them.
Only six percent said they weren't concerned.
The way that Trump got elected was besides standing on conservative principles, he fought on a populist agenda against Washington, against the DC establishment.
And the problem is our House and Senate.
We gotta be standing with that.
You know, everybody predicted this was going to be a a big blue wave.
They predicted it in Texas, it fizzled out.
They predicted it uh in the seat that took place last night in Arizona, Debbie Lesco, the winner in that particular special election, they were wrong there.
I'll uh look, we have been around the block, all three of us, for a long time.
And Doug Schoen, I think the bottom line is nobody really is gonna know until we get into October, November, which way this is likely headed, and I still think this ultimately becomes a referendum on whether you give power back to the Democrats with their horrible record and the Democrats that would undo these taxes and bring back Obamacare and probably try to impeach Donald Trump.
That's what the election is going to be a referendum on on do you want the Democrats to drag the country through impeachment or not?
I I want them to talk about a positive pro-growth agenda that uh uh preserves the social safety net and makes it clear that they will compromise where appropriate with the Republicans.
I'm a Connor Lamb Democrat.
I believe that's where the country is and needs to go, and that will lead to the presentation.
But even if they don't say it, if they get in a room and they say, okay, we're gonna do it, but don't tell anybody, it's still not gonna work.
Because the American people know they've said it enough up to this point.
Well, I think that uh there is enough reason to make it clear that they are going to say no to a left-wing agenda and no to Nancy Pelosi, that that is the ticket.
Who are the moderate democrats?
They don't exist in Scoop Jackson Democrats, don't exist it exists.
Joe Lieberman's John McLaughlin don't exist anymore.
Well, you know what?
They exist when they have to exist for their own survival.
You saw examples of this yesterday with M Mike Pompeo, okay?
So he's up to be Secretary of State.
The Democrats, the the left-wing Democrats don't want him because Pompeo may want Iran to stick to the deal and and revise that bad deal that uh uh that Obama did with him.
And guess what?
Three Democrats announced for the guy, uh McCaskill in Missouri, Donnelly in Indiana, Manchin in West Virginia.
What are those three Democrats have in common?
They're up for reelection this year in a state that Donald Trump won by ten points or more.
So if we want the Democrats to actually do what Doug wants them to do, we gotta make them vote.
Instead, you know, Senator Leader McConnell says he doesn't want them to vote on making tax cuts permanent because Democrats might vote for it.
Well, let's make them vote for it.
My biggest problem with this the Senate is Mitch McConnell.
I mean, I think we have gotten to the point where things are so divided, and Doug might agree with us.
You know what?
We we can't have it almost it's it's time for the simple majority in the Senate so that people in power can actually get things done.
Uh would you agree or disagree, Doug Schoen?
Uh I disagree because I believe in bipartisan consensus, I believe in conciliation, and I think the nuclear option is going to take us away from the way we have governed, should govern, and hopefully will govern.
All right, thank you both for being with us.
We appreciate it as always.
Doug Schoen and John McLaughlin, 800 941 Sean is on number.
Newt Gingrich at the top of the hour.
We'll talk about this, the latest on James Comey, the deep state, and much more as we continue an amazing Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
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A lot of news today, and James Comey and his new attorneys and how many people he leaked to, and James Comey, of course, even Jeffrey Tubin of CNN acknowledging he is in legal jeopardy uh based on his behavior.
Um our friend Newt Gingrich is with us.
By the way, he's got a brand new book out.
Remember, he wrote the book the about Donald Trump.
It became a massive huge best seller with incredible insights.
And I I actually would recommend people go back and read it because everybody expects that all of a sudden one day Donald Trump's gonna wake up and and start acting like George Herbert Walker Bush, and it's never gonna happen.
He is who he is.
He ran as a disruptor as a revolutionary in a sense, as an iconoclast, and he's gonna govern like one.
That's why things are actually getting done.
And the speaker's following it up with a new book called Trump's America, which is, by the way, on Amazon.com.
We put it up on Hannity.com.
Also his latest article on Comey and McCabe.
Mr. Speaker, welcome back.
Well, it's great to be back.
And I must say, I was very surprised.
I I finally went and did the old-fashioned original research of actually reading the original Rosenstein memo to uh President Trump about Comey and then reading the Inspector General report about Comey having about McCabe.
And uh I urge everybody to get the original fact, as I was just talking with you folks about posting the two original documents on your website, because when you read Rosenstein closes his his memo about Comey to the president and says, as as long as he's here, we will never fix the FBI.
Now, it is so definitive about uh Comey's failure that I think it's it was a tragedy that the president didn't just relax, be calm, and decide that he would um you know release the document, let the entire country read it, and then at that point have a real breakthrough because what happened was people focused on the president's action as though he was doing it out of a clear blue.
The minute you read Rosenstein's memo, you realize no responsible president had any choice except for fire coming.
So it's truly remarkable the gap between the case.
You know, we forget the small stuff.
You know, yesterday it's funny that you're doing the same thing on and uh on more on parallel paths here because you know, after all, you know, I I regurgitate every day the seriousness of the abuse of power and and how deep this runs and Pfizer abuse and and rigging an investigation and crimes that were committed and lying to Pfizer judges and purposely misrepresenting the truth to them, omitting very key information.
And then I I said, whatever happened to the 33,000 emails?
Do we have them?
Is there a chance they still exist?
Because I doubt there were 33,000 emails about yoga, a wedding, and a funeral and emails to a husband that does an email.
And it's interesting because there is a possibility that those emails still exist, but yet nobody has any urgency to find them, which I think would would take us a long way into understanding more about all of this.
And I think your point is well taken too.
When Rosenstein made the recommendation.
You know, remember in in remember that it also c is coming out now that apparently uh the Obama White House at one point in August of 2016 did actively interfere and urge McCabe uh to not pursue the Clinton uh investigation.
Um and so my my feeling about all of this is all of it keeps coming out, all of it keeps grinding away.
Uh we have more and more lawyers who are independent getting engaged, and it's really, really uh I think gonna keep going.
I believe both Comey and McCabe now have very serious legal problems involving uh criminal behavior, uh in in the sense that clearly in McCabe's case he broke the law and the inspector general is definitive about that.
Uh and in Comey's case, he publicly said in a testimony to the Congress that he leaked documents to a friend of his at a university for that guy to then give it to the New York Times.
That's illegal.
I mean, so it's not like, oh gee, that was bad judgment.
That is explicitly against the law.
For all those people out there, you know, that think that anybody takes joy, nobody should should take joy in the types of things and abuse of power we're talking about, uh, but the level at which it happened is scary because if we don't fix it, the country's never gonna get fixed.
And a lot of it I think is is discovered.
Even Jeffrey Tubin, the left winger that he is, almost always wrong, said that James Comey, when he took those memos that recounted those conversations, and again, we now know some of them had classified information and he leaked them, he acknowledges that as an illegal leak, and there probably are multiple ones, and it seems like that's why the two attorneys that he has now hired were hired because it would appear that they may have been the ones leaked to.
We know the Columbia one in particular.
Well, and remember, well, the first thing that a defense lawyer does is he tells you to shut up.
Yet here's Comey in the middle of a nationwide book tour, and every time he does an interview, he runs the risk of uh perjuring himself uh further contradicting his stories or releasing some other crime that we hadn't heard about.
I mean, there are a lot of different things going on here that I think people need to realize that this is and I think you put it right.
When you have the number one and the number two people at the Federal Bureau of Negotiation, the thousands and thousands of honest, decent agents out there trying to enforce the law, trying to do exactly what the FBI is designed for.
But the top two guys clearly uh were doing things that are genuinely dangerous.
Uh the the if that became the pattern, then we start drifting towards Venezuela uh or Cuba or one of those countries where it's so funny.
I've been saying the exact same thing, making the exact same comparison.
If if if in other words, if you can lie to a Pfizer judge in the weeks leading up to a campaign and purposely mislead them and purposefully omit information and never verify or corroborate that which became the bulk for a Pfizer warrant to spy on an American, a campaign associate of Trump in an election year and then renew it subsequent applications three times, we've got a problem.
And if Hillary, who we know committed multiple crimes has an al uh has an investigation fixed with an exoneration before investigation, we're in trouble.
Well, not none of that, like let's be really clear.
Um had she won, we would have learned none of this.
Nothing.
I mean, the corruption would have just gotten deeper, it would have gotten deeper, it would have gotten worse, the system would have gotten sicker.
I mean, we are very lucky to have dodged the potential for the top people in the Justice Department to all have been involved in the conspiracy to violate the law and to undermine the rule of law.
And I think that's part of what makes this so important.
And the reason that I wrote my my column and the reason that I'm so glad you're gonna post these documents on your web pages, uh I don't people don't need to believe me.
Read the inspector general's report, 39 pages, read uh Rod Rosenstein's report, which is about four pages, and it is devastating.
Devastating.
And so here you got people who are professionals, and it's not Donald Trump, not Newt Gingrich, not Sean Henry, but the very professionals in the Justice Department saying that Comey was so bad, the closing line by Rosenstein is Comey is so bad that that the FBI will never be fixed as long as he's still there.
I would challenge anybody to read that paragraph and tell me if you were the president of the United States, wouldn't you feel compelled at that point to replace him?
Let me uh yeah, of course you had to.
And the and and we s now know in retrospect.
I mean, look at how petty this book of his is.
Uh though he president wasn't as tall as I thought.
He's like a mobster.
Oh, he's orange and he has white under his eyes and his hands weren't as big as my hands, and And I'm thinking this this is pretty remarkable for a man that holds himself, you know, a higher loyalty, as he said, and and now even CNN lawyers are saying he broke the law.
Let me ask you about the upcoming elections.
Uh, there's been all these predictions of a big blue wave.
And we know historically midterms often go against the party in power in the White House.
It didn't happen last night with Debbie Lesco, the winner in Arizona.
Now, maybe maybe Jim Acosta, who thinks the American voters are too stupid to see through Donald Trump.
Uh maybe that's the thinking of some people, or when Nancy Pelosi and top Democrats we know have been openly talking about impeachment, people like Maxime Waters, and then she's saying when we win the House, uh we'll promote abortion and open borders, roll back the the Trump tax cut.
To me, that is the single worst agenda.
We just had eight years of that.
Will that be successful for them?
No, I I think the blue wave is going to turn into a blue trickle.
Uh I think last night was good, but I think that there are deeper things going on out there.
You know, when you have De Sindy Hoyer, the number two Democrat in the House say we will raise taxes, it reminded me of Watermond.
Uh, I'm very happy for Democrats to run on an open border, maximum illegal immigration.
Um, you know, uh raise taxes as high as you can, uh kill jobs and put people back on food stamps.
You know, if that's the Democratic Party, they want to laugh for the American people.
We're gonna have a very long and very hard night.
It's gonna be exactly like 2016.
Remember, at eight o'clock on election night twenty sixteen, every liberal of the country was happy.
Uh and by ten o'clock the American people had spoken, and every liberal is traumatized.
I have a hunch when we get around to the real election this fall, we're gonna have a very similar thing.
I would also point out we're gonna test these guys.
I mean, it is the newly elected moderate Democrat senator from Alabama gonna vote for Pompeo or not.
Uh, you know, we we get all these campaign promises, uh, and then somehow they cave as the liberals beat him up.
Or the more ironic thing is watching Claire McCaskill and and Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Manchin just for political expediency in an election year.
Oh, we'll support Pompeo, and we all know if it was next year after the election and they were still in office, they wouldn't.
That's right.
But they're just fine the system works.
And the American people, they communicate hard enough.
Uh folks begin to get the message.
And I think also it's that uh President Trump has a tremendous amount of latent support in places uh which have center races up this year, and uh he is having an impact.
I think frankly, he's also being helped by uh the visit uh this week by Macron, the president of France, I think it all very, very well.
Pretty hard for me to see how anybody who's in any way reasonable could spin it as anything except it was a great visit, very successful.
Uh here he has Chancellor Merkel here.
Um anybody who doubted that that Trump could in fact be an effective president of the international order, I think that's all over.
And I think uh by the way, I mean week for him.
The biggest unreported story.
Well, number one, he had the coalition with France and Great Britain as it results in Syria.
Nobody knew that was coming or saw that coming.
Then look at China has now capitulated on issues of tariffs, intellectual property rights, and other issues.
Everybody was saying just weeks ago that he was going to start a nuclear war with North Korea, and lo and behold, now we have little Rocket Man coming to the table and seriously we believe, talking about denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Time will tell, trust and verify.
We understand all of that.
But then his meetings with the Prime Minister of Japan and then all these leaders in Europe that he has met, and from all around the world, it is and a possibility of a peace with a a new dynamic alliance between Israel, the U.S., the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Saudis, the Emirates.
Nobody saw this coming.
Nobody.
That's right.
And I think you have to give him a lot of credit.
And then, frankly, when I look at negotiating with North Korea, which I'm glad he's doing, I'd much rather have talk with Kim Jong-un than have him have any risk of serious war on the peninsula.
But think about it for a second.
This is now going to be negotiated with John Bolton, Pompeo, and Mattis as the key players with the president.
All amazing people.
Yeah, you know, I don't I somehow don't think it's gonna be sloppy or that Kim Jong un is going to be able to pull the wall over the eyes.
These these are very I get a sense that either he wants a deal.
I mean, I think he actually does want to somehow break out of the isolation zone.
By the way, his country desperately needs it.
And you know what?
In the end, he gives up his his nukes.
He will have world help.
Could be a moment like the wall coming down in a sense that you know North and South Korea.
Who knows what can happen?
All right, as we continue, former Speaker of the House, New Kingrich is with us.
You know, I I was with you in the years when you were speaker.
I was MCing your event that night.
Everybody knows our history.
And I thought things were bad when you were speaker.
I've never seen a media so contemptuous of a White House or a president, so rooted in denial and conspiracy as they are now, and deep state actors, not rank and file intelligence CIA and FBI, but the upper echelon involved in such nefarious corruption and abuse of power in my lifetime.
I've never seen anything like it.
You live through some hard times.
How do you compare?
Well, I don't think I don't think they are comparable.
For two two the two different problems, but they reinforce each other.
On the one front, you have very senior people in the bureaucracy, and then very senior, who decided that the American people were wrong and they had to protect America for the choice of the American people.
And then these folks, you know, the the director of national intelligence, Clapper, apparently, and I'm genuinely surprised that I've known I've known Clapper for many years.
Uh, but he apparently was totally in the tank on this stuff.
I knew that Obama's CIA director was in the tank, but I mean he'd always been sort of a left-winger anyway.
You then find, of course, as we've been talking about that the Justice Department had problems, the head of the FBI, the number two guy at the FBI, the White House clearly was engaged.
I mean, all of these things are astonishing at that level.
Then you have in the news media a level of hostility which which I am convinced, and you've heard me say this before, I am convinced was in part created because at eight o'clock on election night, they all knew Hillary was going to win, and they were all about to pop to the the the corpse and celebrate.
And at 10 o'clock that night, they had the horrifying reality that not only did she lose, but Donald J. Trump was going to be president, and I think they suffered a psychotic event from which they have never recovered.
And by the way, just to add a little cherry on top, it meant Newton and Hannity were right.
Well, I know that the media.
Well, that makes it worse.
If they turn to watch Fox that night, it just goes.
But my point is, and I really mean this in a series of much away.
Yeah.
Well, the very shock has made it impossible for the elite media to cover Donald Trump, honestly.
I hate that you came up with better lines than me.
It it triggered a psychotic, uh collective psychotic meltdown.
Uh that's the that's the truest statement ever spoken.
Uh, Mr. Speaker, thank you.
Those those articles are up on Hannity.com, and uh we appreciate it.
We look forward to your new book, too.
Um I'm excited about this one.
800 941 Sean Toll Free telephone number.
We'll hit the phones when we get back.
You said things like, you know, jotted things down what you said, did the FBI did an excellent job, did a thorough job.
Don't know what else we could have done.
And according to the Russians, there's a great deal more that could have been done.
And when we find out about this uh this sensitive operations review committee, and as this article points out, if it's true, it says the that uh we don't know who the chairman and members are of this sensitive operations review committee, who the staff that's kept secret.
Uh the FBI never canvassed Boston Moss until four days after the April 15th attacks.
If the Russians tell you that someone has been radicalized, and you go check and and see the mosques that they went to, then you get the articles of can of incorporation as I have for the group that that created the Boston Mosque where these Sarnevs attended,
and you find out the name Alamudi, which you'll remember because while you're FBI director, this man who was so helpful to the Clinton administration with so many big things.
Uh he gets arrested at Dulles Airport by the FBI, and he's now doing over 20 years for supporting terrorism.
This is the guy that started the mosques Where your Sarnevs were attending, and you didn't even bother to go check about the mosque.
And then when you have the pictures, why did no one go to the mosque and say, who are these guys?
They attend, may attend here.
Why why was that not done since such a thorough job was done?
Uh your facts are not altogether uh well.
Point out specifically point out specifically.
Sir, if you're gonna call me a liar, you need to point out specifically where any facts are wrong.
Uh we went to the mosque.
Pri to Boston.
Prior to Boston, prior to Boston happening.
We were in that mosque talking to Imam several months beforehand as part of our outreach efforts.
Were you aware that those mosques were started by Alamudi?
I've answered the question, sir.
You didn't answer the question.
Were you aware they were started by Alamoti?
You were not.
Okay.
Thank you.
People have got to come to the realization Mueller is not an honest honorable man.
He is out to get his people that he doesn't like, and he will do anything to bring them down.
There is nobody in America that needs firing more than Mueller.
He needs not only to be fired, he needs to be investigated for his part in helping the Clinton Foundation make 145 million from the sale of uranium when nobody knew more than Mueller did about the investigation, about the Russian efforts to get our uranium.
He participated, he needs to be the target, not investigating.
And so nobody deserves to be fired more than he does.
But from a political standpoint, when you got people like Lindsey Graham and other Republicans say, oh no, if he fires Mueller, we're gonna have to impeach him, he can't do it politically.
So what needs to be done, we have to go we need to fire Rosenstein, he's gotta go, and we need the appointment of a second counsel to investigate Coley, his leaks, Mueller and Rosenstein, all of them need to be investigated.
It's gonna take a second counsel to do that.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour, 800 941 Sean, our toll-free telephone number, you know, throughout this entire ordeal, as we now hear from even rank and file FBI people and and intelligence people and CIA people that are upset over the leadership aspects of certain people, this upper echelon that was now coming to light, McCabe and and Comey, etc.
Well, that was Louis Gomert interviewing Robert Mueller and then commenting afterwards uh about Robert Mueller.
And the interesting thing is I keep asking one question why would a guy ever appoint Andrew Waisman as his so-called pit bull as the New York Times described him?
And a guy that was involved in tens of thousands of Americans losing their job, losing nine-zero in the Supreme Court, Merrill executives, four of them go to jail for a year.
That's overturned in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, being excoriated by a judge for withholding exculpatory evidence.
You have to ask some serious questions.
Why would somebody appoint anybody that had a track record like that?
Now, uh Congressman Louis Gomer to Texas joins us now.
That was a pretty testy exchange with Robert Mueller, and as I was listening, I'm I realized that even though he was the FBI director, many people wouldn't recognize his voice ever.
Well, yeah, you're right.
And uh man, that guy sure was he sure talks a lot, that guy that was questioned, but I guess that was me.
Uh but anyway, I tell you, uh Mueller does need to be investigated, and I am so grateful that you have uh done an e-publish of uh the book.
I started to just do an article on Mueller and all of the things people need to know about how dirty his background is.
And uh you know, for example, most people never knew what happened to Kurt Weldon.
He was a congressman from uh Pennsylvania.
He was blasting the FBI in 2005 and six, which was my first term here, and um he was saying the FBI should and could have done more to stop 9-11, and they didn't.
And I didn't I don't know whether the things he was saying was true or not, but he was blasting the FBI and Mueller, and lo and behold, a few weeks before his election, he had won election after election with very comfortable lead.
A few weeks before his election, he was uh uh his daughter's office was raided and somebody leaked from the FBI that they were gonna raid.
The press was all out there, and uh then they had signs, it was an organized protest.
He lost the election, and nothing ever happened.
But but it was the rumors the FBI let out had to come from them where he was dirty, he was taking bribes, all kinds of things.
And then as soon as he lost the election, nothing happened, and a year later uh they contacted the weldens and said, come get your stuff, we're not doing anything.
Obviously, there was one purpose to do an array that was leaked to the press in Mueller's FBI, and it was to shut up Kurt Weldon, and they were effective in doing that.
And there was nothing other than political manipulation.
So that's why I get so tired of ignorance in uh the House or Sendon among people that say, oh, Mueller is honorable, he'll do an upright job.
He has done a job all right on many Americans, and uh they have not been treated fairly.
And if he had done his job on the Sarnyevs after they were given two leads on the older Sarnia being radicalized, then uh those people at Boston would not have had to be killed.
But if you if people your listeners picked up on it, he said, we did go to those mosques in our part of our outreach program.
That's where they go sit on the floor, play Patty Cake and talk about how nice things are, but he made clear they never went and asked a single question about Sarnyev and and people died.
Let me ask you this question.
And this to me is the most fundamental.
Why do you appoint a guy like Andrew Weissman and then appoint only Democratic donors?
And how does anybody do that with any appearance of at least trying to be fair?
Um you say is is Robert Mueller by by making, as the New York Times says, Andrew Weissman the pit pull with his atrocious track record.
You know, is Robert Mueller basically saying that he wants somebody with that record to to be his main number one guy?
Doesn't it taint an investigation uh have only democratic donors like this and somebody with that track record like this appointed as your head guy?
You you bet it does.
And uh the thing is apparently Mueller had worked with Weisman before.
He uh had seen what a pit bull he could be.
And if you go back and you nobody has talked about this more accurately than you have, Sean, about the Russia Uranium One investigation.
But uh if that had not been squelched by Rosenstein and Mueller, then the sale of our uranium would not have happened.
That would it had to be uh approved by Cypheus.
Uh it's it involves it's the board that approves foreign investments in U.S. And uh they squelched that investigation.
Uh you talked about it.
We know that there were crimes committed, and they pushed those under the radar so the sale could go through.
If it had not gone through, you and I know they would never have gotten 145 million dollars into the Clinton Family Trust, and Bill would not have gotten half a million dollars to go do a speech for 20 minutes.
Uh so this is corruption at its worst.
And Mueller and Weisman and Rosenstein, they have worked together, and nobody needed the Russia investigation supplanted more than Rosenstein and Mueller.
And and for heaven's sake, it you know, he has got to go.
Now you and I talked about it.
We know uh Mueller, if he's fired, then all hell's gonna break loose.
It shouldn't, but it would.
And the president doesn't need that.
But Rosenstein's gotta go.
People are saying, well, Jeff Sessions ought to be fired.
That is what the left is hoping and praying for, because then some Republicans like Lindsay would turn against the president, and they would get Rosenstein in charge of the FBI with all his dragoons, all of the problems he's brought with him, he would be in charge.
It's the last thing we need.
So we've got to have Jeff Buck up.
We have got to have him understand who his friends are and who they aren't.
He's doing a fantastic job going after illegal immigration, but he's got people around him still that he can't trust, like Tosh Gehar that works for Rosenstein that tries to keep him in the dark on intelligence matters.
She needs to go.
He needs somebody else answering directly to him about intelligence matters.
But Rosenstein and Mueller, they are the people that need to be investigated, and Comey is right there with them.
What about the leaks though?
I mean, now that we know that James Comey, you know, which is, you know, again, big news today, leaks this information for the very purpose, which is illegal because of the security nature of what is in these letters.
And of course, it's privileged.
And the only person that gets to waive any of this is the president himself.
That didn't happen.
But the idea that that was all predicated on an illegal act uh for the very purpose of getting a special counsel appointed.
Um I would think logically on its face that it would it should be just rendered by the courts um some uh uh illegal and an abuse of power, but I don't see that happening like you do, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, exactly.
And uh, you know, the FISA courts that we would have been told for years they could be trusted.
That's where we need to have secret clandestine operations uh addressed that have to be addressed in court.
But I tell you what, having been a felony judge and a chief justice, I can tell you any judge in their situation after having fraud committed upon the court the way it was over the Carter Page warrant, and they to go back four times and have the warrant uh both signed and then re-upped for 90 more days three more times,
and Rosenstein was participating in that, knowing that it was a fraud for those judges not to put some of those lawyers in jail, including Rosenstein and Mueller over the fraud they committed on the FISA courts.
It it tells me the FISA courts cannot be trusted.
And I'm talking to other members here.
We need to get rid of the FISA courts.
Those judges can't be trusted.
Uh and and then you find out more about the judges involved.
Uh so it it's a scary situation right now.
Our uh our former government is hanging in the balance.
Uh uh, we have got to stand strong.
We have got to get Rosenstein, Mueller, and Comey completely exposed.
And as you, you know, we you found out, we found out, and I didn't know till after you did that that uh uh the guy to whom Comey leaked the information to get it at the New York Times.
Comey had him assigned as an FBI employee, unpaid employee, so he could have Rome of the uh DOJ building.
That's that's pretty staggering in and of itself.
We gotta take a break.
Uh the Louie Gomert, thank you for uh being with us.
We appreciate it.
800 nine four-one Sean is our Top Free uh telephone number one.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Uh we have I can't put together a better TV show than we have tonight, anticipating even more struck page uh text messages that have been going back and forth, apparently very revealing.
Again, the DOJ slow walking.
Why?
Why do we have what is it?
Always have to come to a crisis.
Now, we have Devin Nunes tonight.
We have Mark Meadows tonight, we have Michelle Malkin tonight, we have Tom Fitton, he got all these new 275 new Hillary emails that had never been released before.
Greg Jarrett, Sarah Carter, uh Joe DeGenova, Jesse Waters versus Jessica Tarlov, and much more.
That's all coming up, but you gotta set your DVR.
That's tonight.
Hannity, all this breaking news should happen between now and then.
And we'll bring it to you on the Fox News Channel.
As always, we thank you for being with us, and we will see it tonight at nine, and we'll be back here tomorrow.
