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The report on Russian active measures, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and there are some really revealing issues in here.
And we've been doing a deep dive into it most of the day.
We'll get to that throughout the program.
Sarah Carter will weigh in on that.
Michelle Malkin checks in today.
Believe it or not, there is a princess of Dubai that is missing, and it's suspected by some that her ruling father could be responsible in her being missing.
We've talked how many times about Sharia law and how women and gays and lesbians, Christians and Jews are persecuted.
How many times?
Why?
Why?
Where are the so-called human rights activists in this?
You know, it's it's the conservative Sean Hannity saying they are literally abusing women.
They are killing gays and lesbians in some of these countries as a matter of law.
You know, marital rape in some of these countries is not a crime.
Women are told how to dress.
They can't drive, they can't vote, they can't leave the country without permission.
They can't make they can't even leave the house without a male relative in some cases.
It and yet the Clinton Foundation took how many millions and millions and millions of dollars from some of these countries.
I know the world can't, I know the U.S. can't fix the world's problems.
I know it.
You know, but it's just, you know, Linda was actually very pivotal in bringing my attention to this, and she's, you know, everyone loves stories about princes and princesses.
Didn't they just have child number two, Will and what's her Kate?
It's number three.
It's number three.
I am so far behind in keeping up with the baby count of the royal family of the city.
Prince Louie.
Prince Louis is the name.
Prince Louie.
We can we need a Prince Liam.
He already is.
He is a prince.
He is, absolutely.
So we'll get to that in the course of the program.
I want to start with something that I know you're not going to hear from anybody else that is so pivotal, so important in terms of the where this country is, how much progress we have made.
I mean, did you see the images number one, Kim Jong-un crossing into South Korea, the DM through the DMZ, and literally shaking the hands of the South Korean president and saying you're not gonna have to worry anymore about missiles.
And there is the new Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.
Great guy, perfect pick for that job.
And now there are real negotiations going on.
Yeah, oh look, he called him little rocket man.
Oh no.
Oh no, a nuclear war is gonna start.
Or Reagan saying the evil empire.
Or George W. Bush, the access of evil, or Winston Churchill.
What is our victory?
Victory at any cost.
Blood toil tears and sweat.
And victory versus, you know, what is now it's like liberal liberal orthodoxy.
It is a mindset that if you don't bow and kiss the ring and try and blackmail and bribe Foreign leaders, despots, dictators, murderers, and you don't give them what they want, then there's no chance of peace.
When just the exact opposite is true.
In the case of North Korea, what was it?
It was a president that stood tall.
Yeah, our buttons are bigger, and also sending military presence right there, letting Kim Jong un know that it's coming.
And as a result, he reverses course.
And now we've got a chance for a peace that nobody saw coming.
And, you know, it may not happen, but we got a chance.
Well, you know, it this was history in the making.
Very few people in the media covered it.
Part of it was became possible because of the president's newfound strong relationship with China.
He's going to start a trade war.
What did we take?
I've told people he's a consummate nonstop negotiator.
When he says, okay, well, we're going to match your tariffs.
Nobody wants, I want who wants a trade war?
Nobody does.
But also, we want a better deal if we can get one.
Freer and fairer trade.
So now the president of China, not only did he help in the situation with North Korea, but he also gave up uh big concessions on intellectual property rights and tariffs that'll be removed, and it's only the beginning of the negotiations.
That's what the whole thing, one big exercise in negotiating.
You know, but you don't hear about these success stories or the new alliance in the Middle East that is amazing.
Some of them, or some of these countries, I know the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is promising major reforms and we'll wait, watch and see, and hopefully women will have the rights that he talked about when he came to the United States and went on his whirlwind tour.
We'll see.
Time will tell, and getting rid of the corruption and getting rid of the human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia.
But, you know, when the Israelis and the U.S. can align with the Saudis and the Egyptians or Jordanians, and hopefully in the end the Emirates, we have a shot of peace.
That's good for the world.
You know, here's the headline in the New York Times today that we never saw during the Obama years.
Fed officially Fed officials worry the economy is too good.
That is the headline in the New York Times.
I'll read it again.
Fed officials worry the economy is too good.
So the Democratic Party's official paper of record is now reporting that the Trump economy is so good it's too good.
I'm like, are you kidding me?
And the New York Times knows what too good means.
It means jobs.
It means prosperity.
The economic boom continues.
And President Trump would be a shoe-win if it continues for re-election in 2020.
I'm also warning everybody right now.
2018, Democrats want this to be a redo of 2016.
Democrats, this is whatever anybody else tells you.
It should always be about peace and prosperity.
That will play a big part in it because there's so much good news to share with voters come 2018.
Not necessarily the success of Republicans.
You know, they were brought along kicking and screaming along the way.
But the fact is, what they're really looking at here is this is going to be a referendum on the president.
Democrats will try to impeach him.
Democrats are now Nancy Pelosi's begging Democrats not to talk about it.
Please don't talk about it.
Don't tell people the truth.
We'll do it later, but we just don't talk about it.
Because it's not going to help our chances of getting back the House of Representatives.
At the end of the day, if you want the Trump agenda to continue, you're going to have to go out and understand if you vote for a Democrat, they want this man out of office.
That's what this election more than anything else is about.
This is their chance to redo 2016.
And they want another shot, another vote.
And the American people, it will be a referendum.
Back to the New York Times.
So it actually says that the Fed better put a stop to the growing economy before it's too late.
Now you think I'm making this up.
I'm not.
The Federal Reserve officials are beginning to worry about a possibility that seems remote to workers who still Feel left behind.
The danger of the economies running too hot, destabilizing of the financial markets and setting off a rapid escalation in wages and prices that could force the central bank to slam the brakes on growth.
Officials at the Fed have in the last few weeks escalated a public and private debate over how close the economy is to overheating, a condition when abnormally low unemployment can trigger spikes in inflation and destabilized financial markets.
Remember, the Fed all through the Obama years.
Why do you think interest rates were so low?
Because they they were doing everything they could possibly do to help the Obama economy, and we still added 8 million more Americans to poverty.
We still doubled the debt.
We still put 13 million more Americans on food stamps.
Anyway, not for nothing, but the Fed increased interest rates five times since Donald Trump now has become president.
If they'd kept the same 0% interest rates that they had for Obama's entire term, while the Trump economy would now be growing at 4% GDP.
That's just a fact.
And you got the New York Times saying the group of Fed officials worried about overheating point to several economic data points.
Unemployment rate, 4.1%, near the lowest level recorded in a half a century.
And it's below what Fed officials judge to be the sustainable long-term unemployment rate.
Forecasters expect the recent injection of fiscal stimulus and the tax cuts and increased federal spending to drive the rate down even further.
Oh, that's a bad thing.
That's a bad thing.
Because we're also projecting record amounts of money coming into the Fed, into the federal government.
Here are the statistics.
Fourteen states now have the lowest unemployment numbers ever recorded.
Fourteen of them.
Black Americans, the lowest unemployment numbers ever.
For women in America, the lowest unemployment numbers ever.
Over three million jobs created.
You look at every now we're on a path to energy independence.
Now the tax cuts are beginning to have an impact on the economy.
That means then, of course, we're incentivizing businesses to repatriate their money at a low tax rate and come here and build their factories here.
And I've I've given you the list of all the companies that are pledging literally to spend billions and billions of dollars.
Here's another story that's out today.
No wonder the New York Times is worried that the Trump economy is too good.
It says big news in today's economic data that came out had to do with wages and salaries, both of which rose at the fastest pace in nearly 10 years.
Okay, the forgotten men and women just got the biggest raise they've ever gotten in 10 years.
Specifically, wages and salaries rose 0.9%, up from 0.6% the previous quarter.
Total compensation, which includes wages and benefits rose 2.7% in the last year, up uh up from a year ago at 2.4%.
While private sector wages and salaries advanced 2.9% in the last year.
That's up from 2.6%.
These robust gains are the strongest since 2008.
That's the year before Barack Obama took office and led the country into the economic ditch and was never able to recover.
And then there's Nancy Pelosi.
You know, with the economy booming, President Trump's approval rating now hitting all-time highs.
Pelosi is begging Democrats in the House stop talking about impeachment.
That's what she said.
She said, I don't think we should be talking about impeachment.
I've been very clear from the start.
There is a process at work that will either yield or not information that will be that will decide the issue for us.
Then she added the 2018 election is not go what's going on in the White House and the rest of that.
It's about addressing the needs of the American people.
What is she talking about?
Taking away your second amendment rights.
She's talking about rescinding the tax cuts and putting Obamacare back in place of full bore, like it worked the first time.
It's unbelievably insane.
And that's what they want to do, and that's where they want to take us.
I don't know.
You know, the reason I start with this, I've got this big report on Russian measures from the House Permanent Select Committee, and I will read You the line that matters, the committee found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated or conspired with the Russian government.
Then talks about some poor judgment from both campaigns, but they found nothing.
Why is Robert Mueller still doing this witch hunt?
It's unbelievable.
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So the biggest takeaway is the committee, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, conspired with the Russian government.
They did find poor judgment, ill-considered actions by both the Trump and Clinton campaigns, and they go into it.
But that's not the biggest discovery in all of this by any measure.
On page, I believe it was 107, page 107.
This is a this is amazing.
I'm going to read it to you.
Continued leaks of classified information have damaged national security and potentially endangered lives.
Finding number 44, former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, now a national, now a CNN national security analyst, provided inconsistent testimony to the committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN, where he now works, when initially asked about the leaks related to the ICA in July of 2017.
The former, you know, director of national intelligence, Clapper flatly denied discussing the dossier that was compiled by Christopher Steele or any other intelligence related to Russian hacking of the 2016 election with journalists.
It goes on, Clapper subsequently acknowledged discussing the dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper.
And then he admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic.
Clapper's discussion with Tapper took place in early of January 2017, around the time that leaders briefed President Obama and President Trump, President elect Trump at the time on the Christopher Steele information, a two-page summary of which was enclosed in the highly classified version of the ICA.
And then on January 10th, 2017, CNN published an article by Tapper and others which claim the classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President Elect Trump, including allegations about about Mr. Trump that were, well, if you look at the addendum to this to the report, etc.
etc.
That these were memos compiled by former British intelligence operatives, that in fact that they contained classified information, report on interference in the 2016 election, that those claims were sourced to multiple U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the briefings.
The next day, Clapper issued a statement describing a call with President elect Trump, in which Clapper, quote, expressed my profound dismay at the leaks that have been appearing in the press, and then emphasized, I don't believe the leaks came from them.
He leaked it.
The committee assessed that CNN about the dossier especially significant since CNN's report, two-page synopsis of the report was given to President Obama and Trump with the approximate of Buzzfeed decision to publish it all.
Leakers, liars.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour, 800-941-SHAWN.
If you want to be a part of the program here, So the bottom line is this final Russia Gate report released by the House Intelligence Committee accusing Obama administration's most senior intelligence official, Jim Clapper, of leaking the steel dossier to the media to Jake Tapper, CNN, where he eventually got hired, and others.
There was, it also says there's no evidence that President Trump and his campaign colluded or conspired in any way with the Russian government during the 2016 elections, but both his team and the Clinton campaign had shown poor judgment and ill-considered actions, they concluded.
The striking part of this, the committee seems to tie completely.
And that is the director of national intelligence under Barack Obama, James Clapper, to the anti-Trump media leaking surrounding the steel dossier.
And the report said when first asked, Clapper denied leaking, but he later acknowledged talking with CNN journalist, so-called journalist Jake Tapper in January of 2017 about the steel dossier and admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic.
So he first lied and denied, and then he admitted to his lie.
That's lying to Congress.
Remember, it starts this this part of this report starts with continued leaks of classified information have damaged national security and potentially endangered lives.
That's how it starts.
Now, Mr. Tapper would then go on to, in fact, publish an article that detailed the two-page summary of the steel dossier, Russia allegations that not only were unproven, not corroborated, not verified, they're turned out to be false.
And anyway, then FBI director James Comey presented to Donald Trump at Trump Tower when he was the president-elect just days before he was inaugurated.
Quote, former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, now a CNN national security analyst, provided inconsistent testimony to the committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN, which has since hired him.
Mm-hmm.
Talk about disclosures.
Yeah, interesting to get lectured by fake news CNN, isn't it?
Clapper is just one of several Obama officials who absolutely must be indicted.
Do you understand that?
If you're ever going to have any faith in our system of justice anymore.
Because let me go back to the beginning.
It says continued leaks of classified information have damaged national security and potentially it has endangered lives.
It talks about James Clapper, now a CNN national security analyst.
And when he was initially asked about the leaks, uh, as it relates to this steel memo, this report that was given to then President elect Obama.
That's when Comey pulled him aside at Trump Tower and any other intelligence related to hacking, et cetera.
He subsequent, well, he first denied discussing the dossier.
He lied, in other words.
He was initially, he denied it.
Then he subsequently, I'm reading directly, acknowledged discussing the dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper.
And then he further later admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic.
And then you look at, well, Jake Tapper's actions, and he writes an article about the whole thing.
So he gave it to him.
Now that discussion with Tap took place in early January 2017, around the time I see leaders had briefed President Obama and President Elect Trump.
Goes right from the president straight to Jake Tapper, fake news CNN.
And it goes right up there for the world to see.
Unverified, uncorroborated, false accusations put together by a bunch of partisan hacks, and it took a while for us to learn who paid for it.
Hillary Clinton paid for it.
And if that doesn't prove, I don't know what does.
Mishandling classified information.
This was so classified that they said it damaged national security.
It's so classified they said it endangered people's lives.
Clapper issued a statement describing a call with President Elect Trump, in which Clapper expressed my profound dismay at the leaks that may be appearing in the press.
Oh.
And I don't believe the leaks came from this organization.
The committee assesses the leaks to CNN about the dossier were especially significant since CNN's report, quote, the two-paid synopsis of the report was given to President Obama and Trump with as proximate a cause of Buzzfeed news decision to publish the dossier for the first time only a few hours later.
Mm-hmm.
And until that point, the dossier had remained unpublished.
And as the accompanying article can explain, now BuzzFeed News publishing the full documents that Americans can make up their own minds about the allegations about the president elected have circulated in the highest levels of government.
So in approximately early August 2017, shortly after his testimony to the committee, Clapper joined CNN as a national security analyst.
What a joke at this point.
Some other aspects to this.
In this House Intel final Russia Gate report, and I I don't think I'll be able to say it enough because the news media and uh people like Adam Schiff basically have been out there, they've been lying to us the entire time.
They don't particularly seem to care about truth.
They don't care seem to care about anything at this point, except destroying the president, delegitimizing the president.
I'll read it again.
While the committee found no evidence, 14 months they investigated that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated or conspired with the Russian government.
Investigation did fine poor judgment, ill-considered actions by the Trump and Clinton campaigns.
Okay.
That's what they found.
Sounds fair.
People made, you know, but what the bigger issue here is it goes on to describe systematic efforts.
How Russia has been doing this in Europe for years, how they've been doing it in the United States for years.
Devin Nunes took the time to write in the Washington Times in 2014 that this was coming in 2016.
That then puts heightened awareness on what I think is a massive breach of national security, also.
That's why Hillary never should have broken the law and put top secret classified special access programming information in that mom and pop shop bathroom closet of hers.
Because we now know and believe at least five foreign entities got a hold of that.
Okay, so then where did WikiLeaks get it from?
Julian Hassan says it wasn't Russia.
Was it Iran?
Was it who you know?
Who knows where it came from at this point?
Who knows?
Maybe they should interview him.
Anyway, the House Intel Committee and this final report also points out and shows that the special prosecutor Robert Muller accused him of filing a baseless indictment against General Michael Flynn.
This is big news saying there's no evidence that Flynn lied to the FBI.
General Flynn, remember he pled guilty in 2017, December, to quote, willfully and knowingly making false statements to the FBI during interviews on meetings he took with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
House Intel Committee's report specifically highlights that Flynn pleaded guilty despite bureau agents determining that there was, quote, no deception in the interviews.
Pretty amazing.
Why would the government accept a guilty plea knowing he's not guilty?
Why did they pressure him to do that?
Lawyers involved.
This is a serious problem in this country.
The double standard is a we know, Brennan, same thing.
Clapper, same thing.
Comey, same thing.
McCabe, same thing.
They were running a rogue operation over there.
That's why everything we've been reporting is now being corroborated and confirmed.
I've been telling you it's coming.
Here it is.
Here it is.
Very scary for the country.
You know, um, the people that are angriest are the people at the top levels inside our intelligence community and the and the people of the good men and women in the FBI.
We need these powerful tools of intelligence when we live in a world with radical Islam and the Iranian mullahs and you know, up to now North Korea and all these other hostile countries, Russia's another one.
Not sure what our relationship ultimately will be with the Chinese.
We've got to be careful.
Clapper admitted he leaks.
That's a he's got the same legal problem now that Hillary has that Comey has, and McCabe has.
18 USC 793, and also lying under oath.
Whether that was obstruction.
You know, when it initially asked about the leaks, he flatly denied.
Okay.
President's right to come out today.
The attorney general said it yesterday.
This it's got to end now.
And we've got to demand that.
And the president is concerned.
He's dealing with France and North Korea and Syria and taxes and regulations and border and crime uh every day.
And uh I wish this this thing needs to conclude.
Um, so I understand his frustrations and understand the American people's frustrations.
Yeah.
Well, maybe it's time now for you to step in and be the attorney general and put this to an end.
And I'm hearing a huge amount of new information is coming out next week.
Some of which will take your breath away.
TikTok.
Unbelievable.
It's a piece in the um spectator.
Boys like the spectator.
Jeffrey Lord works there.
R. M. Atrell works there.
Such a good guy.
He had a great column the other day.
We should put that up on Hannity.com.
Um, they had a piece that they were going over John Brennan, who was Obama's CIA director.
Remember this whole issue of him approbed from nowhere to nowhere.
Anyway, that piece on the spectator goes on to say that Brennan's Brennan's testimony and his leaks.
He started pushing the FBI to open an investigation in the spring of 2016, presenting the FBI with what he called evidence, saying Brennan would shake down foreign intelligence officials looking for anything to hang on Trump.
He'd present information to Strzok and other government officials.
Strzok, of course, along with Lisa Page, the biggest Trump haters out there.
You know, remember they even one point said there's no there, but they needed an insurance policy.
And it goes on the original source of the intelligence that Brennan was receiving was again the same thing from Christopher Steele.
Goes on to say Brennan's alleged intelligence from the British on Trump Russia collusion was just laundered steel opposition research for Hillary.
Again, nobody ever took the time to verify it.
Then it later gets used as the basis to get a FISA warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate in the weeks leading up to an election.
But to do that, they presented unverified, uncorroborated, so-called evidence full of foreign national using Russian and Russian government lies that were not true.
And they never told the Pfizer judges who paid for the document.
I mean, watching, you know, James Comey last night twist in the wind.
James Comey is in so much trouble, which I predicted would happen.
He's now got 18 USC 793 problems.
He's now got issues involving whether or not he told the truth.
Wasn't that hard to figure it out.
He thinks he's being clever because the three law three people he now leaked this information to, which he never should have leaked, which is likely illegal.
He's now hired them as his lawyer, and he's thinking he's being he thinks he's being cute.
He can hide behind attorney client privilege.
Okay, we'll see how that works out for him.
All this leaking, because those deep state actors, they didn't want a, they protected Hillary.
They didn't indict Hillary, the fix was in.
She committed multiple felonies, and then they couldn't believe their eyes.
They think the American people are stupid, and they have done everything in their power to undermine the duly elected president of the United States of America and the case of Comey, the leaks, he even said it, were designed to get a special prosecutor, his friend.
And the special prosecutor picks the worst people imaginable with the most atrocious track records.
Has to end.
This law needs to go away.
On Todd, the special counsel law.
And all these holdovers, all these deep state figures, they need to go away.
And look at the progress in spite of all of them.
All right, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we're still sifting through all this.
Sarah Carter's going to check in with us today.
Also going to talk about some opioid issues.
And people suspect that her ruling father is responsible.
There's just so much to get to here.
It is like an information overload.
It is it is that big former CIA officer exposing Clinton charity as one of the biggest scandals in history.
One of the, you know, look at what this um apparently some type of messaging from McCabe that's saying, uh, get off the Clinton Foundation.
When all is said and done, we're getting closer now to everything that we've been telling you coming true.
Sad on in one respect, but it's the only way we can clean it up, disinfectant light.
We need it.
We need it.
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So we have the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, their report on Russian active measures.
At the end of the day, after 14 months, the key paragraph is well, the committee found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government.
The investigation did find poor judgment, ill-considered actions by the Trump and Clinton campaigns.
All right, joining us now, Sarah Carter, investigator reporter, Sidney Powell, licensed to lie.
Um the president rightly responds after that.
This now has to end.
Sarah Carter.
Well, the president is right.
If there is no evidence of a crime, then what is this special counsel for in this investigation?
And it appears based on all of these months of investigation that they have not found one inkling of a crime that proves that President Trump's campaign colluded with Russia.
I think what's even more interesting, Sean, is right after the president tweeted that out.
Once again, Brennan goes ahead and tweets out uh, you know, very partisan uh what he's been doing for some time, as well as James Clapper, a partisan tweet directed at the president saying, you know, a highly partisan, incomplete and deeply flawed report by a broken house committee means nothing.
I mean, this is the former director of the CIA coming out against the president of the United States.
You know what this reminds me of?
This reminds me of situations in Pakistan and in other nations like Russia, where the intelligence apparatus, you know, members of the intelligence apparatus come out and and attack their leadership openly in an attempt, you know, what we what we have been reporting all along, and some people have called a soft coup, right?
That they tried to attempt on the president of the United States.
It's really incredible.
He talks about partisan.
What about what about the leak of the dossier to CNN and other people by Clapper, and Clapper lied about it and then had to, was forced to acknowledge he did leak it almost immediately.
They did it.
Yeah, I think one of the report's most interesting findings, Sean is number 44 finding that Clapper gave inconsistent accounts with his communications with the president.
Well, Sidney, let me interrupt you.
Before 44 is 43, and it says continued leaks of classified information have damaged national security and potentially endangered lives.
This is not a game here.
No, it's not.
And then explain 44.
I have it in front of me, but go ahead.
Yes, in 44, they find that former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, now a CNN national security analyst, provided inconsistent testimony to the committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN.
In other words, that's a nice way of saying that Clapper lied.
And he's lying, but but this is the highly classified.
If they're explaining these clo back to U.S. 7-9th uh U.S. code 1873 again.
Now it's all of them seem to be in trouble.
All of them seem to be in trouble for the same thing.
Leaking intelligence also lying about all of it, which I guess maybe explains why they wanted Hillary Clinton off the hook, Sarah.
Well, this is so important because it you're absolutely right, is detrimental to national security.
If you remember, Sean, I reported in early March about Clapper and his connections to CNN and how the congressional committees were very concerned about this fact.
And not only that, Clapper came out shortly after when after after he made um uh obviously leaked all this information, not only to CNN, but to other journalists.
That's what they discovered in this report as well.
And he chastised the leaks.
You know, these leaks are so damaging to national security.
Yes, they are.
Yes, they are, Mr. Clapper.
They're very dangerous to national security because all of a sudden, all of the, you know, the people, this the state actors that our president is talking to, um the intelligence reports that are being collected by our analysts, these are serious intelligence reports, not the ones that they wanted to go out by foreign agents like Christopher Steele and the Russians on the president.
Damage the White House, damage the foundation of our country, they damage our our our partnerships.
This is very serious, and I'm certain Clapper, Clapper is going to be wrapped up into these investigations.
What about Brennan?
Is Brennan up to the leaker?
What about Brennan?
And Brennan as well.
I mean, Brennan and Clapper are extremely close.
Brennan and Clapper and Comey as well are very close.
They appear to have known all three of them what was going on down here.
Now Comey himself is walking back statements that he originally made.
He's being caught in um what appears to be inconsistencies with his own statements.
And these are issues that the inspector general is going to be investigating, not only the inspector general, but remember the prosecutors that are put in place to look at these leaks.
Jeff Sessions himself, the attorney general, said there's over 27 leak investigations ongoing right now in the Justice Department.
I'm certain one of those is Clapper, and I'm certain there's other people involved in the FBI with leaking information that should have not been out there and not in the press.
I think that's really well said.
So where do we go from here?
Look, this is your background, Sidney.
This is what you do.
We now...
Evidence is overwhelming, incontrovertible.
We're now getting criminal referrals from Congress and the IG, and now James Comey uh is under investigation.
That would mean Clapper and Brennan are next.
Exactly.
They definitely should be.
I've got an article in the Daily Caller that focuses on two days in January of 2017, January 5th and 6th, taken from Susan Rice's memo to herself on January 20th about the meeting in the Oval Office, actually on January 5th with President Obama,
Sally Yates, James Comey, Clapper, and Brennan, uh, when they say they don't discuss discuss the steel dossier, but of course that's exactly what was going on and in the their minds at the time because they sent Comey the very next day to brief President elect Trump on only the salacious allegations of the dossier,
and Comey admits in his memo that he did it on uh January 6th at the direction of Clapper, and that he did so according to his plan.
He said he executed the session with put the president elect exactly as he had planned.
Uh well it's uh what do we know that's coming?
Um I got rumblings that next week in terms of revelations are going to be massive, Sarah.
You're more connected than me.
I'm hearing the same thing, Sean, and I think there's gonna be uh a w what's coming is is a further uh unredacted report.
We know that Congress right now is fighting to get their Russia report uh less redacted so that the American people can see it.
I've been talking to a number of sources on Capitol Hill that say that some of the redactions put in place on this Russia report and there's extensive redactions in it.
Um don't include and don't appear to include anything that was classified.
Uh so they are going to be fighting for that.
They're gonna fight to get that out.
I think there's gonna be a lot of revelations, revelations about Comey, revelations about others, and continuing investigations for the American public.
I know this is exhausting.
It's exhausting for us investigating it, but it's so important.
It's important to the foundation of our country that we get to the truth, that we tell that truth, and that corrections can be made.
So we can reverse course.
And you called this the year of the boomerang, Sean.
It really is the year of the boomerang.
And I think for a lot of us, we've been stunned at what's been discovered.
I mean, it's it's stunning.
It it is now all being proven and come to fruition.
Uh I gotta thank you both uh for being with us.
We really appreciate everything that you've done to help get us to this.
Sarah, I believe you're staying, correct?
Correct.
Uh and uh thank you, Sydney.
We always appreciate having you on.
We're changing gears a little bit here.
Uh we have uh Heidi Riggs joining us.
She's a chief administrative uh officer of Alvis here to talk about one of the more underdiscussed issues involving our national security, and that's opioids.
That's fentanyl.
That's heroin and the epidemic.
My good friend Eric Bowling, you know, tweeted out uh information almost he he's doing an amazing job after he lost his son at 19.
And it's happening all around the country.
In Heidi's case, her mom died in in January of 2012 at the age of 20, hooked on heroin, pushed through the state of Ohio.
Small towns, big cities, it is now become a massive epidemic.
Thank you both for being with us.
I'm very sorry, Heidi, about your mom.
Hello.
I uh yeah, I'm I'm uh Heidi, I'm sorry you lost your daughter uh back in uh twenty twelve.
I I apologize.
I can't believe, you know, at the age of twenty, I don't know how you survived something like that.
Um it's difficult.
Um I lost her January twenty-eighth, two thousand and twelve, two weeks after her twentieth birthday.
Um she only lived 18 months from the time we found out.
And another and I'm sure like parents that find themselves in that situation that in fact you did everything possible to get her off these things.
Yes.
Um two times in treatment, of course, based on insurance.
You know, the first time was only 30 days, the second time was 90 days, uh out of pocket, close to 20,000.
Um, and it wasn't enough.
Um that's just kind of hold that it had on her.
Yeah.
I do know that the president has spent a lot of time uh of Sarah, and I know Eric Bowling's been part of the this effort and that real attention is now being given to this opioid crisis in the country.
Uh let me play cut one here so people can understand it.
If you would have asked us w what do you know about heroin?
I would have said a street drug, a junkies drug.
You know, not something that is that you would hear about on TV.
It's not something that you would find in a community like Pickerington or any suburb.
I mean, I every day was that I ha we have to keep her alive.
We have to save her.
If she said she was going to a meeting, I would follow ahead of time and sit in the parking lot and see her walk in because I could breathe again because she showed up.
I got one we got one more day.
She's sober one more day.
I remember walking into the apartment, and I've never heard such a horrendous scream in all my life.
When I went up.
*music*
And walked through that bathroom door and saw him there holding my daughter.
I knew immediately she'd passed away.
I know.
She really wanted to make it.
And I know she doesn't want to see any other family go through what we have gone through, and I know she wants me to talk about it.
Tens of thousands of people are dying, including your daughter, Heidi.
That's so sad.
Um, 55,000 Americans a year are dying.
Um, and and it's horrific.
If this was any other disease or any other epidemic, I believe as a country, we'd be dealing with it very differently.
But I think the stigma plays a part.
Uh, thank you for playing part of that video.
That video has been seen over 11 million views as far as Canada and Australia, and I think it really does show that no one is immune from this.
It doesn't discriminate.
It affects every walk of life, and it is in every community.
It's in small towns, big cities, it's everywhere, Sarah Carter.
It's everywhere, and it's coming across our border, Sean.
And I want people to think of it this way.
We're working on a very big project uh on this on the U.S. uh Mexico border and the deadly fentanyl that is coming across our border.
I know there's a lot of issues when it comes to opioids, but I can tell you it's extraordinary when it comes to the border crisis and why the president and others are fighting so hard.
People have to think of it this way, and I know Heidi, and she is an amazing woman who has really fought to make her daughter's life mean something for everyone and her daughter's death.
And when we think about this, we have to think of our children.
Are there are predators out there ready to hook our children on heroin, ready to give our kids that one first taste of that what they call the devil?
This is what heroin addicts say.
It's like the devil.
It it draws you in.
Sometimes you don't even know it, and before you know it, it's taken over your whole life.
And something has to happen.
The amount of fentanyl that comes over that border, the amount of money that the drug cartels make off of these illicit drugs that are really taking a generation of children is incredible.
This is a national security emergency.
Absolutely.
People want to argue about building the wall.
I've been to the drug warehouses down there.
I bet wall-to-wall, you know, floor to ceiling, the biggest warehouse you've ever seen.
And a stench that is unbelievable.
Um, well, Heidi, I want you to know in your family, please know you're in our thoughts and prayers.
Um, and I know that there's a lot of movement in this, and uh, I think you know, if it's possible, maybe we'll put you in touch with our friend Eric Bowling.
He's now devoting his life to this after he lost his son.
And um Yes, it's it's important, Sean, because you know, this is killing a generation, and it the collateral damage to our nation, to our states and our communities is just astounding.
And I believe I've been saying this for the last year, that I believe this is domestic terrorism.
Why would you manufacture a drug that would kill your customer?
Wow.
Um, uh, I have said that, and I, you know, now you're gonna be able to do that.
These kids get hooked on on Vicadin per cassette uh or or oxycontin, and then if they want to then they get addicted, then they pay eighty dollars a pill, and then somebody says, Well, you can have this bag of heroin, it's a stronger high, and it's only ten bucks, and they don't know who knows who makes this crap.
No, they don't.
And and it's not just heroin, but well, mo a lot of the drugs coming over the border are laced, whether that be marijuana, Adderall.
And but recent the recent statistics are showing that people are now going straight to heroin, where past statistics have shown the progression from prescribed opioids then to heroin.
So this is important.
I mean, you know, we've lost more we lose more people.
I've got to take a break.
It's scary.
Okay.
Yeah, no, it's scary.
It really is.
I'm so sorry, but Heidi, thank you for the good work you're doing, Sarah.
Thank you.
Quick break, right back.
I'm not really sure why there is so little coverage of things that we in America just find unconscionable.
Mistreatment of women, so on and so forth.
What do you hear the next story we have?
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My name is Litifal Maktoum.
I was born in December 5, 1985.
Um my mom is Hurya Ahmed Lemara.
She's from Algeria.
My father is uh Prime Minister of UAE and uh the ruler of Dubai, Mohammed Ben Rashid Said al Maktoum.
He has uh three daughters called Latifa.
I'm the middle one.
Uh there's one older than me and one younger than me.
And he has two daughters called Mariam also.
Um I have 30 brothers and sisters total.
I had to say that uh in case this video is discredited in any way that no, you know, there is a Latifa there and a Latifa there.
Yeah, there's three Latifas.
I'm one of them.
I'm the middle Latifa.
Um my full sisters are Mirta and Shamsh.
They're both older than me, and Majit is younger than me.
Um, and I'm making this video because it could be the last video I make.
Yeah.
Pretty soon I'm going to be leaving somehow.
And I'm not so sure of the outcome, but I'm 99% positive it will work.
And if it doesn't, then this video can help me because all my father cares about is his reputation.
He will kill people to protect his own reputation.
He he he only cares about himself and his ego.
So this video could save my life.
And if you are watching this video, it's not such a big thing.
Either I'm dead or I'm in a very, very, very bad situation.
Let me explain why we're doing this segment here.
Glad you're with us.
24 now till the uh top of the hour, 800-941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
If you remember back in the 2016 campaign, I I think I don't know what others have done, what everyone else has done.
I uh if you remember, I made a really big deal about, you know, Hillary Clinton, champion of women.
Turns out women were paid less on the campaign.
And the money that was given from countries that abuse women, and I use the the Saudi Arabian example, and I used Kuwait as an example.
You know, countries that allowed in some cases marital rape was legal.
Uh women told how to dress, women can't drive, women can't vote, women can't go abroad, they can't even leave their houses in some countries without the approval of of uh a man in the house.
And Hillary would take millions and millions of dollars.
She claims to be a champion of women, and she took millions and millions of dollars for the for literally four from these countries that treat women horribly.
Many of them kill gays and lesbians just for being who they are.
And Christians and Jews are persecuted.
You can't build a church, you can't build a temple in many of these countries.
But the money went flowing into the Clinton Foundation.
So a while back, um, uh, our friend Linda is like, you got to look at this video.
I'm like, what video?
Okay.
She goes, there is a modern day princess that is literally on the verge of death, that is going to be killed, that is being persecuted.
And in other words, it was the daughter.
Her name is the Dubai Princess, Latifa al Maktoom is her name.
And so finally, Linda convinced me to watch the video.
And you hear nothing but fear.
That was the first part of the audio you just heard, and literally panic and the fact that a princess could be killed for no reason at all, except that she wanted to be free.
And Linda, to her ever growing credit, you know, Got me to look at more and more and she did a deep dive into all of this.
And I said, Is this really true?
Remember, you I kept saying, is that really true?
We have a princess in the world, you know, we all like Prince and Princess stories, but this princess is being held captive.
What is the status of her now?
Which is the question.
She's still in captivity, and we're fortunate enough to have her uh attorneys here with us today to bring us up to speed on everything.
Yeah.
David High is with us and Rod Haas Sterling is with us.
They're both attorneys.
They're both working with an organization and detained in Dubai, which is based on the it based in the United Kingdom, helps people, like Queen like Princess Latifa, with legal problems in the UAE.
They have seen this before, apparently.
Uh David, I'll start with you.
Is this Princess is literally at risk of losing her life?
Hi, hi, Sean.
Hi, Linda.
Thank you for having us.
And it it I mean it just listening to that here, it uh it still gives us goosebumps.
I mean, we first heard it two months ago, and like you, we thought, is this real?
And the sad thing is that it is.
Um and you you know, we we don't know a hundred percent if Latifa is still alive.
Um the last time she was seen was being taken at force on a boat in international water, the US boat that was attacked, um uh claiming political asylum and telling the people that were taken her that she would rather die on the boat than be taken back to the UAE.
And that's the last time we saw her, which was the fourth of not saw her, but heard from her, which was the fourth of March.
Would it be usual practice for her?
You are representing her, she knows you support her.
Would she make every effort to get in contact with you if she could?
She uh one would assume so, yeah.
One would assume so that would be the normal practice.
I mean, the the extent that she went to to make sure that we were contacted, protected in terms of releasing videos and documents and information, we would assume that that would be the case and you and you and Radha are practicing attorneys in the UK, right?
Well, I'm uh yeah, we I'm a practicing attorney in the UK and and Rad is also a a legal counsel as well, and and and we have a NGO called Detained in Dubai, which Radha set up ten years ago.
Uh Rodha, do you have any idea what happened to her and what you fear may have happened to her?
Well, it it seems, and we're assuming because the UAE government hasn't responded uh to any calls from media or or anyone else, uh, we're assuming that she was um taken back to Dubai and that's where she's being held right now.
But until they provide an official response, uh we're we're not going to know for sure as to whether she's safe, or as as you saw in her video, she said that she was locked up for years, tortured, abused, and um she had uh medication forced on her to sedate her.
So we can only assume that that same practice is happening to her right now, and that's why they haven't presented her to the media.
What is the general treatment of women in Dubai?
Well, despite um despite the great efforts that are underway to celebrate, you know, International Women's Day and to promote women's rights and to ensure equal pay and and to see women on the board of directors of major companies.
Um it it's actually quite the opposite.
We've we've seen, you know, over the years of lot of women reporting that they've been raped, and then they've been charged with having sex outside marriage as though it were voluntary.
So there's certainly no equality or and and the treatment of women there is clearly if the ruler himself is treating his daughter in that way, that attitude is only going to permeate down.
Let me ask you, David, because you have your own personal experience with this, and you were detained in a in prison.
You were there for what, close to a year, I understand it.
No, a little bit longer.
Twenty-two months all all altogether.
I was there for five months of that was for so-called Twitter abuse.
Twitter abuse, you were put in a prison for Twitter abuse?
I was jailed for for Twitter abuse, correct.
I would have gotten a life sentence if I was there then.
Um I was thinking to say what was the prison experience like?
And and you're there because you are a human rights activist.
In other words, you see a problem, you've dedicated your life, and I know Rodha, you have dedicated your life that when people are being persecuted and at at risk of of losing their lives in this case, literally the daughter of the leader of Dubai and you're the ruler of Dubai.
So you're talking about you know, the highest profile person and you believe her life is in jeopardy.
Well, how did they treat you in prison?
I mean, I was treated very, very badly.
I mean, you know, I used to run a football club in England, so my case became quite high profile.
And because of that, I've been able to help other people.
I mean, I was tortured, abused, raped, I wasn't even allowed to go to so-called hearings, uh I say so-called hearings, and and yeah, you know, in the end, when I was uh just about to go home, they uh filed something else with pickles, which was Twitter abuse.
I mean, it you know, anywhere in the world where they can keep you in jail for Twitter abuse of five months and then find you innocent, um is ridiculous.
And so I've seen firsthand um in my own case, because I've experienced it, um, but also in other people.
And then when I when I finally got back to England, I spent about I think six months in hospital as an inpatient hospital repairing all the broken bones and the you know the broken mind, etc.
that that I that I've been through.
Um and then I felt that I had to help other people because I've seen what happens.
And I think there's you know, it's it's irony is not the right word, but the fact that you know Radha and I are probably very vocal, probably the most vocal critics of the justice system in in Dubai, and I use the word justice.
You know, I I I know that everyone has a conception about Dubai, but there really are a lot of misconceptions about Dubai and the UAE.
Uh I I really do think I don't know many other people that are broadcasters in America that have taken on the issue of life for women and gays and lesbians and Christians and Jews in some of these countries that practice Sharia.
Um and the reality is, Rodha, is that when you look at their laws and you look at the reality, it's very different than say the perceptions that they want to project to the rest of the world.
Isn't that true?
Well, certainly.
On the on the one hand, the ambassador of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed, and the Dubai Media Office is promoting the UAE as the Las Vegas of the Middle East.
But this case and and all of the cases really that we've dealt with over the past ten years, illustrate that it it's far from the Las Vegas of the Middle East.
In fact, it's more like Saudi.
But this perception and the fact that they're using celebrities to market it, uh American celebrities to market the country back to American citizens, is creating an and this is important.
They're paying really, really the for the top talent, singers, actors, celebrities, they're paying them massive amounts of money to go to Dubai, marketing it like it's you know, the brand new Vegas or the Vegas of the Middle East, if you will, when in reality, would it be a fair statement to say that women are abused on a regular basis?
Yeah, I I think that's an absolutely fair statement to make.
And we get inquiries all the time from women saying they're in captivity, they can't leave the country, their husbands confiscated their passport, they can't get it back, they can't get justice, their children are taken away.
You know, what whatever it happens to be, there is a lot of abuse of women in the country.
What about the what about the United States?
Because I know there is an alliance with the UAE, the Saudis, the Israelis, the Egyptians, Jordanians against Iranian hegemony, which is a bigger problem because you're talking about nuclear weapons.
What would you like to see the United States should they be highlighting these human rights abuses?
Well, I think I think that the US really needs to respond to this one in particular, because what we've seen is Sheikh Mohammed has told an American citizen that he didn't commit a crime, but they felt that it was okay to go and abduct him from a US flagged yacht in international waters against all of the treaties, using the very military that the US is providing them.
And if we don't cut it off there and stop that from happening and let them know that that's not okay, what's next?
Do you think there's any way that the you can get enough media attention that could save this woman's life, this princess's life?
I absolutely do.
In our experience over the years, and we've dealt with uh around about 10,000 cases, so that's quite a lot.
What we've seen is that any cases that are highlighted to the international press are usually dealt with quite swiftly by the government of the UAE.
And in one case last year, Sheikh Mohammed himself intervened in that case because it was highlighted to the media.
So any kind of press and spotlight that we can maintain on Sheikh Latisha's uh plight will likely lead to her uh freedom.
All right, we're gonna take a break.
We'll have more on this.
The ruler of Dubai, his daughter now missing, and the world is looking for her.
Anyway, we'll continue with our guest David High and Rodha Sterling is with us, and we'll get to your calls final hour free-for-all with Michelle Malcolm also coming up.
800 941 Sean.
All right, we talked a lot about the abuse of women under Sharia law.
Uh, in the case of Dubai, their ruler has now basically put his own daughter in in prison and is now missing and Nobody knows what happened, and two lawyers looking into this trying to assist her.
David High is with us and Rodha Sterling is with us from the UK.
I'm gonna give you the last word, David High.
Um is there is there any help from the UK government?
Is there any help from any of America's allies?
Any help from uh Australia, New Zealand, any c is there any human rights groups that that are actively assisting you?
I think Sean, I think that the the thing that we've experienced, and it's the sad thing is that there's too many fested interests and and you know in in the UK and everywhere else, and and including, you know, in in when we uh I mean we actually when we were looking to journalists you were one of the first journalists that we we approached because we needed brave people because something that we've experienced, and particularly in relation to other human rights charities, is that they don't want to get involved because the Bay have a great public image and they spend a lot of money on fake news and thin.
Um and so it's it's been disappointing.
And to be honest, I think these celebrities need to be contacted if you hear that they're going.
Uh I think one of the best things you could do is find out and tell us and make sure that they're aware of what the conditions are.
If nothing just have a behind the scenes call and say, okay, you're getting a million dollars for two days.
Um, but let me tell you what you're not gonna see that's really going on in this country behind the scenes, and they're using you to create a false image.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Well, I that's why I thought it was wrong for Hillary to take all that money from all those countries that abuse women, gays, lesbians, Christians, and Jews.
And I was the only one, I think, in the country that said it again and again and again.
And here you have, you know, a woman's life in danger.
And you're right, there's a lot of money being poured out there so they can build up, you know, the financial aspects of their country.
And meanwhile, people are treated like crap and abused.
All right.
Thank you both.
Good luck in your endeavors, and uh we appreciate what you're doing, and thanks for sharing that story.
Uh, Linda, I know you've been digging deep into this.
Um you really this has really impacted you, I think, in a big way.
Yeah, I I think it's just one of those things where it's such a miscarriage of justice, and and this woman is sitting in prison somewhere, and we just it's if we know about it, we have to do something.
It happens human trafficking exists in the world today.
There is human slavery today.
There's child abuse today.
There's all this evil that goes on.
And I it's it really heartbreaking because you you know, you just know, and then you got the bigger picture, then you got the bigger issues you got to deal with.
Follow up on uh Dr. Ronnie Jackson.
Yesterday the president uh suggested that Dr. Jackson does not have the experience to run the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Is that a fair assessment?
And that's not what the president said.
I think you're taking some of his words uh out of context.
And based on your search today, I know you don't appreciate when people take your words out of context.
So um I'd appreciate if you not do that to the president.
Uh if he didn't think he had the experience, he wouldn't have nominated.
He said that that had been one of the questions that people had posed about him.
Obviously, the president thought has all the experience necessary to run the department.
Look, I think he has an incredibly uh strong background.
He's a highly qualified, highly skilled individual.
And if he didn't think he was capable of doing the job, he wouldn't have announced his nomination in the first place.
Just a few minutes, just since you brought up being taken out of context, it seems to be a press-related question.
Are you trying to say that this administration is a champion of a free press?
I certainly think that uh as I stated a moment ago, we uh support a free press, but we also support a fair press.
Uh and I think that those things uh should go hand in hand, and there's a certain responsibility by the repress to report accurate information.
I think a number of people I think a number of people in this room do that every single day.
They do their very best to provide fair and accurate information, certainly support that, and that's one of the reasons I'm standing here taking your questions.
Um and a lot of times taking your questions in a tone that's completely unnecessary, unneeded, and frankly doesn't help further the conversation or help the American people get any more information in a better way, which is your job and my job, and that's what I'm trying to do.
I'm gonna move on.
David goes ahead.
I will say though, uh, it was rather remarkable to hear uh the founder of this World Economic Forum uh also take jabs uh at the press and say that the president uh is the victim of biased interpretations and misconceptions, uh, all in all.
That that was a fairly uh pitiful display, uh, I think uh to have so many business and and global leaders here have those kinds of statements made uh with the president by his side, and then nobody really takes exception to that.
But that that is sort of the what we're living in.
That's the environment we live in uh with President Trump.
I think The problem is is that uh people around the country don't know it's an act.
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 and what they do to us on a daily basis very seriously.
They don't have all their faculties in in some cases, their their elevator might not hit all floors.
My concern is is that there's a better journalist is going to be hurt one of these days.
Somebody's gonna get hurt.
And uh at that point, you know, the White House, the president of the United States, they're gonna have to take a hard look in the mirror and ask themselves whether or not they played a role in this.
When did Jim Acosta, by the way, news roundup information overload hour?
When did Jim Acosta and what a beatdown by Sarah Sanders?
Where were his outspoken remarks about Madonna fantasizing about blowing up the White House or Kathy Griffin and her severed head incident and so many others and De Niro and all these other wanting to commit acts of violence against the president?
All the president has said is that there's a lot of fake news out there, and that is uh absolute fundamental truth in the world we live in today.
A lot of lies, a lot of fake news, a lot of breathless reporting, a lot of conspiracy theories, all of which is a fact.
And you know, everything that we learn about the media, everything we've known about them has been proven true.
Every bit of it.
And I just, you know, I sit here and I watch and I and I wonder, really, is this what you think of people that they don't have all their faculties because they like Donald Trump?
The elevator doesn't go to all floors, irredeemable, deplorables, you know, bitter people, bitter Americans in Pennsylvania clinging to their God, their faith, their Bible, their guns, their religion.
Wow.
Such arrogance, such contempt.
And isn't that going this whole deep state issue?
The whole process of delegitimization of the president, an attempt to undo a duly elected president, take away the the will of the people because they think they know better.
Michelle Malkin is with us CRTV, who got an award out in Hollywood and now is up for another warden in New York.
And I'm thinking, wow, that's how amazing.
Uh I consider Michelle my sister, and she considers me her brother.
So uh my sister, I'm so proud of you.
Thank you so much, Sean.
Well, and you had your own success in Hollywood as well.
And I think that there really is a cultural ground swell.
This is a tipping point.
People want the truth, and they're tired of getting it from propaganda like Jim Acosta, supreme and grandstand, and then acute other people of fomenting division and inciting violence when it's people like him are who are responsible for doing it, and the smearing condescending tone with which he treats people who disagree with him, and with the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders for all of the things.
Can you imagine if there were a conservative reporter or a public figure who talked to a liberal press secretary the way that Jim Acosta does to Sarah Sanders, and she does uh the decimation of all of his propaganda with such precision and calmness and patience, bless her heart.
But you know, you know, you have the document again, and we have talked about it many times over the year, the climate of hate and intolerance.
The social justice mob, the season upon anyone who expresses any critical disagreements at all with the left winger.
Again, a cultural shift and groundswell.
What do people like Kanye West and Chance the Rapper and mainstream entertainment figures saying, I have had enough.
We need free thinking.
And it's the farm that we've been saying for decades and decades.
So we finally have this young generation of independent people who are not afraid to stand up and say, Yeah, I support President Trump.
Yeah, I'm not afraid to be uh associated and identify with the president as our country.
Finally, a Hollywood celebrity who aren't threatening to leave the country because we have a president who believes in making America great again.
Thank goodness.
It's never been conservatives that want to silence liberal speech.
I mean, uh from my from my vantage point, I think people are much smarter than people are ever given credit for.
I think the the American people knew exactly what they were doing in November of 2016, and they saw eight failed years of Obama.
They saw 13 million more of their citizens in poverty, and eight more eight or on food stamps and eight million more in poverty.
They saw the lowest labor participation rate, lowest home ownership rate.
They saw a doubling of the debt.
This is not hard.
And and yet, with all that this president has accomplished, few people know unless you listen to conservative voices because they are obsessed.
They wake up every morning, and it's like the psychosis begins all over again.
Hate Trump, hate Trump, Russia, Russia, Russia, stormy, stormy, stormy.
That's all they fixate on.
They don't care about whether or not these issues get resolved, whether people get the help they need, whether the world becomes a safer place.
You know, you'd think people would be even a little bit interested in what's going on in North Korea right now with the new Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.
And the possibility of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula or the alliance with Israel, the United States, the Saudis, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Emirates against Iranian hegemony.
Those stories are never covered, ever.
No.
You know, the and the North and South Korea stories should have been dominating the news cycle from five o'clock in the morning until now, but they don't want to talk about it.
I saw a lot of long depressed faces on MSNBC and the collusion news network.
Because these are the same elitists and experts who said, Oh, we can't have President Trump out there uh calling out Kim Jong-un and tweeting about whose button was bigger.
This is going to be a disaster.
This is going to lead to an apocalypse.
And now, look at today, a historic day for which they will not give President Trump an iota of credit.
Yeah.
You know, look at the millions of jobs created.
America now is on a path towards complete energy independence, burdensome regulation gone.
Now think of this, Michelle.
Fourteen states now have record low unemployment numbers.
You have the lowest unemployment numbers for black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and women in America.
We've never had these numbers before ever.
Record low means record.
And as a result, there's no coverage, none, zero.
That's right.
And and the flip side of it, of course, too, Sean, is that along with these record low unemployment numbers, more and more people are getting off of the welfare rolls.
We are seeing less and less dependency on the state.
And of course, this is what threatens the Democrat Party, because they count on the extension of perpetual victimhood of their constituencies.
And so when you have people who are having this awakening and this epiphany, hey, what have the Democrats been doing for the last 30, 40 years in Chicago, in Los Angeles, and San Francisco, which has become the armpit of the world for everyone to see.
When you have UN observers who are now calling out liberal Democrats governments uh and and city council members and leadership there saying, look, there are the the streets are literally filled with filth.
What is going on here?
It is an international human rights guy.
Who's been in charge?
Where's Nancy Pelosi?
Where's Jerry Brown throwing open the borders and defying President Trump's order to use the National Guard to protect the people of California and the rest of the country?
Well, two big stories on exactly what you're saying that bear out what you uh are are mentioning here.
There's a CMBC story.
800,000 people are about to flee New York and California because of high taxes and burdensome regulation.
Now, one other thing, the big news today is that had to do with wages and salaries, both of which rose at the fastest pace in 10 years.
Now, again, big news for the forgotten men and forgotten women.
You know, those people that that their elevator doesn't stop on all four on all floors.
Irredeemable deplorables.
You know, just listen to the contempt in all of this.
What we're witnessing right now is just this erosion of our freedoms in terms of Covering the president of the United States.
That is just a strange and unpresidential thing to do to be throwing rolls of paper towels at people.
The last three news conferences, Wolf, all of the questions to the American news media have have been handled by conservative press.
And I think Wolf, there's no other way to describe it, but the fix is in.
Statute of Liberty.
Jim has always been a good idea.
Jim, let me ask you a question.
Jim for people to say Jim, do you believe to this country?
And they're not always going to speak English.
They're not always the same.
Jimmy Jim, Jim, I appreciate your speech.
I think we saw the president's true colors today, and I'm not sure they were red, white, and blue.
Why is he not spoken on Story Daniels, sir?
President kids worry about what's going to happen to them.
President, what about the documents that they worry about what's going to happen to them?
Thank you very much, everybody.
Just Caucasian or white countries, sir.
Or do you want people to come in from other parts of the world where there's people?
The bias is so abusive, obvious, and now it's just predictable.
Interesting that we did see in this House intel report today, quote, continued leaks of classified information have damaged national security and potentially endangered lives.
Finding number 44.
The former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, now a CNN national security analyst, provided inconsistent testimony to the committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN, because he leaked to Jake Tapper, 800-941 Sean Toll Free telephone number if you want to be a part of this extravaganza.
All right, Joe is in Virginia.
Joe, hi, how are you?
Happy Friday.
Glad you're with us, sir.
Hi, Mr. Hannity.
Uh I appreciate you taking my call.
First of all, I'm a retired FBI agent.
Excuse me, I worked at the Washington Field office for over 20 years.
By the way, thank you for your service, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I had a couple of questions.
Uh well, a couple of statements, actually.
Headquarters never ever handles investigations.
They do not conduct investigations.
Comey said last night that they did it because to to uh keep it close or to to keep it secure.
That is ridiculous.
And for the director's office to to conduct an entire investigation when WFO is right there with street agents who would have conducted it legally is the first point.
Secondly, why did Comey feel he needed to release his memos when President Trump said he had tapes?
What was that going to prove for Comey?
If President Trump had tapes, he had tapes.
So why did Comey release the memos?
To what point?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
What is that going to prove?
There are so many, so so many questions as regarding this that I uh you know, it's frustrating because I really wanted to have James Comey on the program.
I really did.
And well, no one ever no one no one ever asked that question.
I we only watch Fox.
No one ever asked the question, what what did the tapes what did President Trump alleged or reported tapes that he might have had had to do with Comey's memos?
Why did he feel that he needed to release those memos?
It doesn't make sense.
It doesn't add up.
And the last thing is what was in Comey's memo to prompt a special counsel?
What was in there?
That special counsel was appointed within days or a day after Comey released those memos.
And he and Rosenstein had to be in cahoots.
I mean, why?
What was in the memos to prompt the special counsel?
Name one thing.
Trump didn't say anything bad or wrong or anything else.
What prompted the special counsel?
You you you're a smart man.
Would what would have prompted that with that was in the middle of the case?
Well, we know this week from Devin Nunes that there was no intelligence to prompt that special counsel.
None exactly.
No intelligence.
How did it happen the next day if it wasn't planned?
I mean, it's ridiculous.
I put I I I released the memos and it and it prompts a special counsel based on what anyway.
Listen, I I I think you're you're you're getting it.
I'm also glad that the people that are most passionate about what has gone on here are FBI guys.
And it's I I say this often.
We've got to remember it's not the rank and file.
We've got to remember these guys are risking their lives every day, and they're doing their job every single day.
It's not them.
There's uh a few at the top that went rogue and abused their power.
And now we're getting to the bottom of it all.
We have some audio on this.
By the way, thank you for the call.
We appreciate it.
Here just it dovetails right into this.
Listen.
When he tweeted that there might be tapes, the thought hit me like a lightning ball like, wait a minute.
If there are tapes, he will be heard on that tape in the Oval Office asking me to let it go.
There is corroboration.
Of a possible crime.
Yeah, of possible obstruction of justice.
Somebody's got to go get those tapes.
You wanted a special counsel.
Because I wanted someone without political conflict, someone to find the facts.
Well, what a joke that turned out to be.
But now he has lies by omission.
He has the espionage act, 18 USC 793 to worry about.
And isn't it convenient the three people that he leaked the information to, he has now said represent him to put a buffer and create some type of attorney client privilege.
It's pretty unbelievable.
And you know, we're g it's this the deep state runs deep.
I mean, you know, this declassified congressional report, Clapper lied to uh lied about the dossier leaks to CNN.
Well, we know he lied.
We know that also Brennan lied.
There's so many people that are going to be impacted by all of this, and it's it's like every day we just keep keep getting another piece of the puzzle.
The puzzle's been framed out on the outside.
We're filling in filling in the inner inner workings of the puzzle now.
Uh let's go to Randy is in Moore, Oklahoma.
Randy, hi, how are you?
I hope I remember when Moore got hit by that tornado.
I hope everybody is uh recovering well.
I know that was devastating for people down there.
Yeah, we've had a couple of them, but we've we've been pretty lucky.
But uh, you know, there's been quite a bit of damage and loss of life, and you know that's where the Oklahoma Strong phrase came from.
So you know, I gotta tell you, I flew over right after that hurricane, and uh uh and it was it's the strangest thing.
And I know uh right after that tornado rather, um, because you see the line, the exact line of the tornado, and you see how random it is.
You know, this house is saved on one side, this house is saved on the other side, the other the house in the middle gets destroyed.
Yeah, the the tree strip bear of bark and yeah, scary.
I uh I have to if no one's mentioned it lately.
You're you're a great American, and it's a distinct pleasure to get a chance to speak with you.
I I uh I'm a retired Air Force guy.
I spent a significant portion of my career in signal intelligence.
I had top secret clearances, uh, SCIs.
Um I know you have reported, and many people on Fox have reported about the senators and congressmen going into a skiff to be read in and and read you know, classified information.
That's the only place they can go see it.
Someone having a clearance doesn't have a whole lot to do with being uh uh having access to information, Sean.
The biggest thing is need to know.
I just heard uh today on on Fox uh Senate Intelligence Committee uh member from Utah, Senator Stewart mention it.
Just because you have a clearance doesn't mean you can see anything or read anything.
And just because Colme was the OCA, which means you know he was the originating uh classification officer on some of this information.
He admitted some of it was secret.
Just because he classified it that doesn't give him permission to give it to anyone, let alone to someone who doesn't have the need to know and have access to that information.
That's to an ex-Intel guy, that that sticks to my crawl.
Um look, it's funny you because your your call is on the heels of this FBI caller.
And here's the thing that I I feel bad about in one sense, because we we have spent a lot of time doing this deep dive into understanding fundamentally everything that's gone on here, and you see how how important we we give such enormous power and trust over to the FBI, the DOJ, the Intel committee, uh the Intel uh people.
The powerful tools of intelligence cannot be turned against the American people.
Um that's why I keep focusing.
Why is the FISA issue when when it's not a verified dossier, it is not a corroborated dossier.
The Pfizer judges are not told who authored this piece and that it was paid for by the political opponent that that of the other team that they're gonna that is going up in an election in a few weeks.
Um that is what's troubling because we need you guys.
We need those tools in this evil world we live in with the North Koreas and the Irans and and radical Islamists out there.
And to get to the bottom of this, you know, what I'm seeing and beginning to understand is that the guys that do all the day-to-day work are what I always thought they were.
The most honorable people that risk their lives in the Intel community, in the CIA, in the FBI.
And it was taken out of their hands on these matters for political purposes, and that's where these nefarious activities have taken place.
And now it's all beginning to unfold.
Pretty amazing.
Anyway, glad you uh called, sir.
Thank you for your service to your country.
We do appreciate it.
800-941 Sean is our toll-free telephone number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, Jim Comey continuing his self-obsessed Trump bashing book tour last week with a fake news CNN Town Hall by Anderson Cooper.
By the way, as to be expected, the town hall was stacked two to one with anti-Trump messaging and questions from the attendees.
I mean, is this really a surprise?
Newsbuster reports in all, there were 58 questions that were asked throughout the night, and that the questions from the audience only numbered 21.
And while the questions touched on many topics, eight of them were critical of President Trump in some way.
And of the four questions critical of Comey, well, three were about his leadership motives, and only one was about the handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Now that's a reason President Trump nicknamed CNN, the fake news network.
All right, listen, that is all the time we have uh for today.
Uh, what a week it's been.
I hope you have a great weekend.
I hear the weather's gonna be great in a lot of areas.
Enjoy it.
Have fun.
We'll see you back here.
We expect a lot of breaking news on Monday.
We'll have it all right here on the Sean Hannity show.
