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My head is exploding because of all of the news and what a dramatic, shocking, unbelievable, but yet in a lot of ways predictable turnaround in terms of everything that we have been telling you about the deep state,
about the abuse of power, about the corruption, about look, it all goes back to Hillary, and it all goes back to rigging an investigation.
It all goes back to her felonies and obstruction covered so that she could continue, and they they thought she was going to be the president, and they wanted a curry favored number one, number two, they also hated Donald Trump.
And in the process, a lot of laws were broken, and a lot of corruption took place, and a lot of deep state actors are now being exposed.
And what is the most amazing thing I will tell you today, without giving details, is the dam is about to burst.
There is about to be a massive cascading of information that will prove to you and has been, it literally, it's you can tell when the new when the New York Times, Washington Post are now corroborating what we've been reporting.
Well, I I can take this back and give you the date.
March 7th, 2017, Sarah Carter, John Solomon on Hannity talking about there was a FISA warrant issued against the Trump campaign.
And now that is evolved into now there might be multiple, not just one, but multiple uh FBI informants within the Trump campaign.
And probably the biggest breakthrough of the story, now we all know who the FBI Snoop was, this guy by the name, and I'm I'm the I had this name forever.
I didn't do it.
The only thing I said publicly, I said, little hints.
I said to Sarah Carter a couple of times on TV last night.
Sarah, am I gonna recognize his initials?
Well, yeah, it's Stefan Helper.
Sean Hannity, Stefan Helper, S H S H. That's what I was saying.
So I, you know, but now the the people that are outing this guy are the deep state.
This this was not Hannity, and they have to, in light of the fact that three weeks from now or thereabouts, we're gonna get back for Memorial Day weekend, and that vacation, hopefully, you never know in this business.
I might be working, but we're gonna get back, and you're gonna get an IG report that, according to all counts, is going to be devastating to many of these deep state actors.
And apparently, from what I'm hearing, we'll see.
I hope Michael Horowitz did what he did in the case of the deputy FBI director, uh, Andrew McCabe, and that ended up in a criminal referral.
And I I warned James Comey.
I said, I on Twitter tweeted, took the time to do it.
Jim, remember, you have the right to remain silent.
Now I'm gonna say these words to other individuals, like uh John Brennan and James Clapper, and there are others of you I will be talking about in the days and weeks ahead.
Because this is this is all about to explode into the open.
Here's what you're gonna learn more than anything, big picture, is that how corrupt your media has been, how wrong they have been, and how, in their desire to destroy a president and delegitimize a president that they never believed could win,
and were shocked that he did win, that they have been a part of an effort to undermine and in their minds hopefully impeaching or getting out of office Donald Trump.
It is all of that and more a complete and utter deep state soft coup in the United States of America.
And it's all coming crumbling down as we speak.
Very interesting.
I guess Trump is supposed to be meeting with Rod Rosenstein.
Keep the name Rod Rosenstein etched in your brain for days and weeks and months to come.
I want you to remember what I'm saying here.
Watch what happens to Rosenstein.
Rod Rosenstein apparently meeting with the president today.
And I guess uh the FBI director, Christopher Ray.
But we do know Rod Rosenstein, another BFF of Muller.
We do know that people like him.
Well, we know, first of all, he was the one that recommended that Comey be fired, or the FBI would never be able to recover.
So he is a witness against Comey.
That's pretty fascinating.
That would be called the conflict of interest.
But the bigger problem for Rod Rosenstein, and I am predicting right here and now today, is he signed the final FISA warrant against the Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
Every three months, remember, the Carter Page, the first FISA lie.
Remember, they used the bought and paid for Clinton dossier formulated by Fusion GPS, funneled through the law firm Perkins Coey, and and Fusion GPS hired a foreign national by the name of Christopher Steele.
Christopher Steele used all of these Russian sources, Russian government sources, and put the dossier together.
The newness memo, the Grassley Graham memo.
It was the bulk of information presented to the Pfizer court.
The only problem is it was never verified.
It was never corroborated, and they never told the FISA judge ever.
They had an asterisk that I might have a slight political taint.
No, they knew and did not tell the judges four times that Hillary bought and paid for those Russian lies.
And the worst part is in interrogatories in legal cases in Great Britain, Christopher Steele is under oath saying, oh, you know, it was raw intelligence.
I mean, I just took it as raw intelligence, maybe 50-50 chance.
Well, you don't take something that the author of says maybe kind of it's raw, 50-50, and use it to obtain a warrant to spy on a presidential campaign in an election year to help the one you want to win.
So all of these people involved in this, because by FISA law, they have an obligation not to purposely lie to a judge.
They have an obligation to have verified, corroborated, and to not omit or lie by omission by not telling them who paid for it, who put it together, and what the circumstances are, because the idea that any judge would have signed off on it if they knew the truth never would have happened ever.
You know, it's very interesting.
I'm watching like uh John Brennan is panicked.
I mean, two of the most virulently anti-Trump officials are now shouting from the rooftops in panic at this point that it's gonna be a disaster if the DOJ follows the president's directive to launch a full-blown investigation into the FBI.
Now we've got a spy, and maybe, maybe, I'm I'm not.
We know we had a spy in the Trump campaign.
And don't believe the media that now because of the IG report, they're trying to get ahead of it, which is what I told you last week when I first saw the New York Times piece.
They're trying to get ahead of it because they know it's all gonna come out.
So they want to slow bleed it, then rather than have a one big huge massive bomb blow up what their operation was.
And they get their willing accomplices at the New York Times, Washington Post.
These are the two biggest hack liberal newspapers in the country.
They are the worst.
They are not about news.
They brag about, well, if we go after Trump, you know, you should see the number of subscriptions that go up.
Oh, okay.
So you got the hard left.
Oh, so in other words, basically, you're all a bunch of liberal activists, you know, posing as journalists or so-called journals.
Anyway, so now you've got all these people, John Brennan and Sally Yates are imploding before our eyes, and they are people who most likely were up to their eyeballs in all of this.
Yates went into an anti-Trump tirade, you know, this morning.
Brennan hit the panic button last night after Trump announced the new investigation.
By the way, I wanted to say something.
I disagree with the president.
And Rod Rosenstein responds, well, we'll let the inspector general.
No, we're not going to let the inspector general, because that's a year and a half that we buy time so that they can say, you know, come up with whatever lies they want to, you know, corroborate with each other in the interim.
This needs to be found out now.
Right now, by law enforcement now.
You don't put somebody who doesn't even have the power to ultimately, you know, uh recommend or or the power of uh putting together or convening a grand jury and indict people.
That's not within the power of the inspector general.
You know, so President Trump's turning the tables.
This whole thing, go back to January when I came back from vacation.
This is the year of the boomerang.
Here's what's shocking.
Let me let me, it's so deep.
I'm just, I put together a massive pile today.
Everything that nobody covered, but let's see, me, Sarah, John Gregg, Sidney Powell, Sebastian Gorka, you know, who else was there pretty much from the beginning.
David Schoen's become a great addition to us.
Um, who am I missing?
They're all there.
Tom Fitton of a Judicial Watch, another great, great work he's done.
Isn't it about me?
On radio, you have Rush.
On radio, you have Mark on, you know, and a lot of great local hosts, you know, Lars and and all these wonderful guys, Michael Berry, Laura, Laura Ingram, by the way, has been amazing too.
Just been absolutely spectacular.
Joe Pags, our buddy Joe.
You know, there's everybody I keep saying, anyone that'll listen, we're all spokes in a wheel here.
And we need every spoke to make the wheel go round.
Dan Bongino, another one.
Anyway, look just quickly.
What Obama and his political chom gang did is far worse than Watergate, our buddy Charlie Hurt.
The mainstream media silence is in the American thinker on Stefan Halper's name ends.
And then it goes on another piece, Washington Examiner.
Rod Rosenstein asked DOJ Inspector General to review possible Trump campaign infiltration.
They've got caught.
Another one.
Trump attorney, after twice lying, the FBI admits Clinton Lynch tarmac documents exist.
They've lied to us, just like Clapper perjured himself.
And Brennan has lied to us repeatedly about all of these matters, and including in front of Congress and congressional testimony, sworn testimony.
Another headline, Trump to order investigation into FBI DOJ surveillance of his campaign and Obama administration involvement.
Um what is it?
Town Hall, Derrick Hunter.
The deep state is real and much bigger than you know.
And I continue, and it goes on.
One year in, the Russia investigation keeps leading back to the investigators.
Uh, let's see.
Molly Hemingway at the Federalists.
You know, you just go on and on.
Joe de Geneva.
Is he nuts or does he know something?
I can tell you he's not nuts.
The American spectator's been great.
John Brennan's exceptionally sensitive issue, the American spectator.
Halper spells game is up for Obama spies, the American thinker.
A great piece out on that today.
You know, um, then you have, you know, Devin Nunes, Freedom Caucus members, you got to add them to the list of people that have known this.
Clapper pretends to know nothing of CIA ops and denying planting spy on Trump.
I've only gotten through a third of the pile of articles that is now coming out that we have been telling you is coming, and the details of which we have been telling you for a year and a half.
And the media has missed the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in our lifetime.
In our lifetime.
And they went with a phony Russia Trump collusion story.
And there was never and is never going to be any evidence.
But yet they ignored Hillary, paid for a phony Russian dossier to lie to the American people that she paid for that then becomes the base of a Pfizer warrant after her friends fixed it so she didn't get the justice that she deserved under the rule of law and equal justice under the law, under our constitutional law system.
This is bigger and deeper and wider, and it's about the dam is about to bust and cascade over.
Like my show runeth over a little late here.
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You know, there's just so much that we can and will get into that it is an amazing time in the history of this country.
And it's profound.
And the sad thing is is if the deep state gets away with this, and then they never thought this is their big mistake.
They never thought Donald Trump had a chance.
And if that was the case, if we he didn't win, you never would have known this existed.
All of this existed.
So Sarah Carter, who's gonna join us at the top of the next hour, has a new piece out.
Concealed FISA documents may hold the key to the Trump surveillance.
What was I just saying about Rod Rosenstein?
And the president apparently, as I reported, is meeting with senior FBI DOJ, uh DNI officials, national intelligence officials, in a meeting to discuss classified documentation requested by the House Intel Committee and whether or not members of the Obama administration authorized the use of a longtime informant of the CIA and the FBI to be investigating members of the Donald Trump 2016 campaign.
Well, now we have reports out today that in fact they paid this guy.
Now the New York Post says 400,000, and we have another report, Zero Head says a million dollars to the guy whose name that they leaked.
Why were they paying him so much money?
Okay, something is wrong here.
Now, anyway, it goes on to say, came on the heels of the president's demand over the weekend.
You know, once it became known Operation Crossfire Hurricane, including surveillance of members of the Trump campaign, at this meeting, it was crucial.
It's going to be an opportunity now for the president to order the Justice Department, Rod Rosenstein, and Jeff Sessions and the FBI to now turn over classified information, not only requested by the House Intel Committee, but may give us the answers related to the scope of the FISA abuse scandal against the Trump campaign, and the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein that signed the fourth warrant application.
Well, every application was filled with uncorroborated, unverified information that we now know is false.
Every judge was lied to, and the lie by omission, they never told the judges Hillary paid for it all.
Thank you, my good friend uh Scott Shannon, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
You know, you look at there's so many new details that I want to get to with you first, and then I'm uh we'll go into a deeper dive of Sarah's what I think is really insightful article about where these Pfizer documents, why we need to see these Pfizer documents, these applications are so crucial in all this.
And and while this is all happening, remember we're probably in about two, three weeks, we're now gonna get the IG's report on as it relates to the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
We know she committed felonies.
There's zero ambiguity about the server in the mom and pop shop pathroom closet, just like the first draft of Comey and Strck said that five to six Foreign and tele services hacked into it.
You know, so when people say, well, where do the leaked emails come from?
Okay, well, it could have been anybody.
And the fact that she, of course, deleted 33,000 subpoenaed emails and acid wash the hard drive.
I doubt many of you heard about Bleachbit before Hillary Clinton and this particular case.
And then, of course, busting up devices with hammers.
And, you know, Hillary's answer to Ed Henry, you mean like with a cloth?
You mean that I clean the server with like a cloth?
Uh, which she knew, you know, I mean she must think, and I guess a lot of liberals do think we're stupid.
I think they really do.
Here's an amazing development in all this.
Now, the Justice Department has called for an inquiry after Trump demands the probe into whether uh the FBI infiltrated or surveilled the campaign.
This is now under pressure, rightly from the president.
The president should be outraged.
You know, Trey Gowdy, oh, you need to act like innocent people act.
Innocent people act outraged when they are falsely accused.
That to me is the most natural reaction.
And the president reacting to all of these lies and this witch hunt that has gone on with no evidence and his son being dragged into this, you know, for 30, 40 hours of testimony.
You know, here's a question.
What percentage of people in Congress, Democrat, Republican, Independent, if they got a call and said, we've got opposition research on your opponent, what percentage of politicians would take the meeting?
I would.
It's not illegal.
You know, it turned out to be a meeting about adoption and the Beginski Act with Russia.
Nothing that, and nothing that would have had to do.
Now, collusion's not even a crime on top of it.
Why are we even discussing it as a possible crime?
Anyway, this is a pretty remarkable step, and Rod Rosenstein's reaction to it.
I don't like the idea proposed by Rod Rosenstein.
Well, let's have the inspector general look at.
It's taken 14 long months to get the report we still don't have yet into the handling of the Clinton email server.
500 people are now working, have been working on that report.
Now handed over to Congress and the D uh or sorry, the DOJ in the FBI.
You know, in case they need to make redactions.
Well, if you're Rod Rosenstein or any of the key deep state players, you're going to redact everything in the name of national security.
And then if they want to offer suggestions, yeah, take it all out.
You know, this is where I hope the inspector general stays strong.
But anyway, the so the Justice Department, Rod Rosenstein responded, and um that in fact it should be looked into by the inspector general.
And if anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action, he said.
These developments in the wake of a longtime U.S. intelligence source assisting in the investigation.
We now know who the person is.
You know, the person that I was just telling you about.
Here's another amazing development in all of this.
Mark Penn.
Mark Penn, Ted Olson, uh, Cheryl Atkinson.
These are really really smart political operatives.
I never liked Mark Penn.
Mark Penn is my favorite person.
He actually writes a piece.
He was Hillary's chief strategist in the 2008 presidential campaign.
He's worked with the Clinton family since the mid-90s.
And he literally dropped a what is the the equivalent of a bomb in terms of a verbal altercation.
We do not advocate violence on the Sean Hannity show ever.
But what is literally a boom, if you will, on Robert Muller, Rod Rosenstein, Christopher Steele, and the Clinton Foundation and the intelligence community, and he recognizes what we've been saying, everything about the deep state.
He uses the word deep state, laying out the absurdity and the danger of the Obama administration's abuse of the surveillance and law enforcement of this country.
What do I say?
Weaponizing The tools of intelligence against political enemies and the American people.
He is correct.
And the headline in the Hill is stopping Robert Mueller to protect us all.
I never thought I was going to read what I read.
And by the way, Ted Olson, same thing.
Cheryl Atkinson goes into such, she's going to be on the program later this week, such in in-depth coverage of all of these abuses.
Now, I know you've heard it here, but to watch even the mainstream media now we have dragged them, kicking and screaming.
And they paid attention, and some of them to their credit, have actually said, you know what?
They're right.
People like Hannity, Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, our whole team is right.
The Freedom Caucus, Devin Nunes, right.
The rest of the media has been wrong.
And so he writes at this point, there's little doubt that the highest echelons of the FBI and the Justice Department broke their own rules to the to end the Hillary Clinton investigation.
Wow.
And then it goes on to say, you know, if in this particular piece, if you when you read deeper into it, Hillary Clinton, you know, stopping Robert Mueller to protect us at the all, and um hits Trump, pulls out the rush, he pulled out the Russia hat, et cetera.
But it goes on to say in this whole thing, but we can expect the inspector general to document what was done or pointedly not done.
It is hard to see how a year-long investigation of this won't come down hard on the FBI director, James Comey.
I think the odds that Comey's going to get a criminal referral are very high.
That's my opinion.
If there is equal justice under the law and Michael Horowitz does his job, James Comey will get a criminal referral in this matter.
And by the way, I don't take any glee in saying it or saying to him before his dopey book came out and his self-promotion tour, and I'm I'm better than everybody else tour, and I only had three meetings with Donald Trump, but I'm going to call him a mobster tour and everything in between.
I don't take any glee.
As the son of a mom who worked in a as a prison guard for 25 years, and my father working in family court probation, and the and the, you know, when my grandparents come here at the turn of the last century, one of the one of the best jobs anybody in our family could get was in law enforcement.
Extended family in the MYPD, you know, and then I had a couple of extended family members in the FBI.
That was the that they were the creme de la creme, the top.
They made it.
That was making it such deeply, such a deeply respected, and I still respect, I'm not going to get caught up in, you know, broad strokes sweeping indictments against rank and file, because I know rank and file FBI, intelligence, CIA.
They're there, as a matter of fact, the truth is without some of them stepping up to tell the truth, we wouldn't be here.
There's an irony in all that.
So just because a few at the upper echelon, we can't judge them all.
Anyway, James Bryan Comey stopping Muller to protect us all, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Muller plans to wrap up the investigation, et cetera.
But you know what?
This is somehow this thing is reading badly.
But anyway, it goes on.
The deep state is in a deep state of desperation, he writes, with little time left before the Justice Department Inspector General's report becomes public, and with Special Counsel Muller having failed to bring down Donald Trump after a year of trying, they know a reckoning is coming.
What did I tell you last week when the New York Times article came out?
This is Mark Penn.
At this point, there's little doubt.
The highest echelons of the FBI and Department of Justice broke their own rules to end Hillary Clinton's matter.
And it goes on, but we can expect the inspector general to document what was done or more pointedly not done.
Mark Penn is basically acknowledging.
Yes, Hillary committed felonies and they rigged the investigation.
It's hard to see how a year-long investigation won't come down hard on the former FBI director and perhaps even former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who definitely wasn't playing in a secret no aids allowed meeting with former President Clinton on the Phoenix Tarmact.
Thank you for observing what is obviously the truth.
With zero with this report on the way, congressional investigators beginning to zero in on the lack of hard verified evidence for starting the Trump probe.
Current and former intelligence and justice department officials are dumping everything they can to save their reputations, but it's backfiring.
They started by telling the story.
This was in the New York Times last week.
Alexander Downer, an Australian diplomat, is having remembered a bar conversation with George Papadopoulos.
I didn't know who this guy was.
And then it goes on, but how did the FBI know they should talk to him?
That's left out of the narrative.
Downer's signature appears on a $25 million contribution to the Clinton Foundation.
You don't need much imagination to figure out that he was close with the Clinton Foundation operatives who relayed information to the State Department, which then called the FBI to complete the loop.
And then the same people that started the investigation into Trump were the same people that literally days before had just exonerated Hillary knowing she committed crimes they covered up for.
and they rigged the whole thing.
In no way would a fourth-hand report, which we've been telling you, from a Maltese professor justify wholesale targeting of four or five members of the Trump campaign.
It took Christopher Steele with his funding concealed through false campaign filings to be incredibly successful at creating a vast echo chamber around this unverified fanciful dossier bouncing it back and forth between the press, the FBI, so it appeared there were multiple sources all coming to the same conclusion.
Wow.
Mark Penn.
Ted Olson was amazing.
I don't have time to get into it.
Love to get him on to talk about it.
So was Cheryl Atkinson is a new letter from Charles Grassleader, Rosenstein.
It seems to have a lot of bombshells in it.
In the form of a letter is the head of the Senate Judiciary, the senator is exercising his oversight duties of Congress and is asking all the tough questions of Rod Rosenstein.
Pay attention to that name.
Rod Rosenstein.
And that issue here is the authority, the marching orders that were given a special council Muller.
The term unfettered power was used by Grassley.
Very, very similar to what we heard from this judge Ellis III a couple of Fridays ago.
You know, um, and the person, and I thought Red State nailed this.
The people that are outing Stefan Halper wasn't me.
I've known about I've known his name for a long time.
I only went as far as saying, well, I recognize Sarah, the initials.
Stefan helper, Sean Hannity.
It was just my way of cleverly, I thought, telling her I knew who it was.
I knew she knew.
The president, I hereby demand, and I will do so officially tomorrow.
The Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump campaign for political purposes.
And if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama administration, yes, he's right.
He is right.
Joe DeGeniver, you know, the president, yeah, he uh sessions has to go.
It's unbelievable.
The whole thing is unbelievable.
And you the saddest part to me is this is happening in the United States of America.
It is sad that all this has gone down.
All of it.
And yes, Sarah Carter is right.
The concealed documents may hold the key in all of this.
If we can ever get to the bottom of it, Nunes is now saying the FBI had more than one spy, may have had more than one spy surveilling the Trump campaign.
If Devin Nunes says it, that's true.
He's not saying it from a point of ignorance.
We've asked for specific documents that we still not have received from the Department of Justice.
Why won't they hand them over?
Congress has constitutional oversight authority.
They're not turning it over because it is damning evidence against them.
In their conspiracy, in their desire to undermine the president you, the American people voted for.
And then a spy is paid between 400 and a million dollars in the last two years.
Not bad work if you can get it.
Who authorized that funding?
The president's right to authorize and order the investigation of spying.
And the fact that this witness who helped launch the, you know, this downer guy, really?
25,000, 25 million dollars, the Clinton Foundation?
Sally Yates is in a panic.
Brennan is in a panic.
Rightly so.
Rudy Giuliani has given Mueller a final ult ultimatum.
No Trump interview unless the FBI comes clean about what they've done here.
This is not rank and file FBI.
I am telling you, do not fall into the trap.
The media wants you to, well, now all of a sudden, law and order conservatives have turned on.
No.
We've turned on a few deep state operatives that abuse their power and corrupted the process and did things they never should have done.
All right, Sarah Carter is uh coming up next in the next hour, 800 941 Sean.
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All right, Sarah Carter gets uh joins us when she gets uh when we get back.
She has an incredible column, literally just broke about well, about an hour ago, just as we were coming on the air.
Concealed Pfizer documents may hold the key to Trump surveillance.
There's a lot in here that I think gets to the heart of where this all needs to go.
That's straight ahead.
Wow, this is amazing news.
Uh glad you're with us, Howard 2, Sean Hannity Show.
All right, one is um, and I some agree with this.
I support already Jim Jordan for the next speaker, a House uh speaker of the House, and Jim is now emerged as one of the stars in this effort to hold the deep state, the FBI, the Justice Department accountable.
Uh Daily Caller now saying a coalition of more than a hundred conservatives sent the letter to uh Jim Jordan urging him to throw his name in to replace Paul Ryan.
Uh I'm supporting him.
He if he I want him to run and I want him to win.
That's my take.
Now, uh the House Intel Committee, a member is now saying that the today that the FBI's spy gate scandal is worse than the White House knows.
We know that's true.
Although I think the president is getting much more deeply involved and aware every day.
And I'll explain that in just a second.
Here is the latest leak.
This all started with the New York Times piece last week.
And when I read it, I kind of chuckled.
On the one hand, it was a great compliment in that everything that Sarah and Greg and um oh gosh, I'm gonna forget everybody.
Uh John Solomon, Tom Fitton, Dan Bangino, Sidney Powell, uh, David Schoen, and all of us.
I'm gonna forgive people, and all these guys in the Freedom Caucus, and of course, Devon News.
Everything we've been reporting here on this show and on TV is now being leaked, which is a great acknowledgement.
But on the other hand, they're only doing it because they want to slow drip this out because of the bombs that they know that are coming that will expose them.
Here's the latest political reporting, Rod Rosenstein.
What did I tell you the last hour?
Pay attention to that name.
Granted the Mueller investigation, quote, special status, which gives Mueller's investigators the power to investigate pretty much anything they wanted to investigate, whether it's within the scope of the original mandate or not.
No wonder why Rosenstein wanted to redact so much of the scope memo.
No wonder why Judge Ellis III is demanding to see the not only the original mandate, the original authorization, but also remember they raided Manafort's home on July 26th, and on August 2nd, then he authorized, well, more investigative powers.
It seemed backwards to me.
And it was backwards.
Anyway, politico, like the Washington Post, like the New York Times, it seems like they're spreading it out, you know, amongst all their liberal allies in the press, which means pretty much everybody but me and talk radio and Fox News.
Anyway, it goes on to say several court filings indicate when lawyers from Muller's office appeared in uh Alexandria earlier this year, they did so not only as representatives of Mueller's office, but also as a special assistant United States attorneys attached to the U.S. attorney's office there.
One lawyer who has studied the use of this provision said the granting of that status, it's called Sauce of S-A-U-S-A.
Pay attention, I'll explain that in a minute.
Gives the authority, Mueller's team theoretically, the authority to pursue matters that are not within the special counsel's mandate.
Now the designation gives Muller and his prosecutors is a band of Andrew Weissman Pitbull, corrupt, you know, Democratic donors, the kind of dual status they that could complicate any attempt by Judge Ellis to try to shift the cause or the case to federal prosecutors based in Alexandria possibility the judge mentioned two Fridays ago.
And a spokesperson for Muller's office confirmed to political, they don't respond to the Hannity Show ever, that some of the attorneys on the special counsel's team have that special status.
Now what this means is, and what Peter Carr pointed out from Muller's office to a local federal court rule that allows federal prosecutors to handle cases there when, quote, appearing pursuant to the authority of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, quote, as special assistant U.S. attorneys, they are not confined to the scope of the special counsel is acting under.
So they're using this to basically justify what Ellis was pointing out that they want to put the screws to Manafort to make Manafort sing or maybe compose so that they could either prosecute or impeach Donald Trump.
So this has all been going on, and they never decided to leak until now, because it's all coming out.
Anyway, at least four of Muller's prosecutors submitted court pleadings indicating they have this status.
What the New York Times refers to as Robert Muller's pit bull.
Now, what's interesting, Weissman is the guy that got tens of thousands of people losing their jobs at Anderson Accounting.
You know, the same Andrew Weisman was overturned nine-zero in the Supreme Court.
The same Weissman put four innocent Merrill executives in jail for a year.
That was overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The same guy has been excoriated not once but twice for withholding exculpatory evidence in cases.
Why would anybody pick anybody with that atrocious track record to be his pit bull, unless, of course, Muller wants, you know, uh to go after Trump in as bad a way as possible.
All right, now the other news I'm telling you about, and joining us now is Congressman Ron DeSantis.
He's on the Freedom Caucus, thank God for this group, and also Sarah Carter investigative reporter.
She has a brand new article out.
It broke about an hour ago.
Concealed FISA documents may hold the key to Trump surveillance.
Now, the president's meeting with Rosenstein and Ray and other officials were told probably it the meeting's over by now, or maybe it's ongoing.
Rosenstein signed off on the fourth Pfizer warrant.
And of course, we know that the bulk of evidence to for the original application, subsequent applications is the debunked bought and paid for Clinton dossier by put together by a foreign national with Russian lies in it.
Sarah, take over.
Absolutely.
So this is what's so fascinating about this meeting.
You have uh, you know, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Christopher Ray, and D and I Dan Coates at the White House with the president.
And as you say, the meeting may be ongoing or it may be over by now, but they went there specifically uh to discuss these uh congressional demands for the documents that are related to these FIFA applications, these foreign intelligence surveillance applications that they had on Carter Page.
And the House Intelligence Committee, as well as the other committees, they believe that not handing these documents over are impeding their ability to conduct oversight.
And the documents are so important, Sean, because those FISA documents and all the related material to those FISA documents could answer all of the questions that we have regarding both the informant that was giving information on the Trump campaign and every subsequent piece of evidence that they turned over to the FISA courts or lack of evidence that they turned over to the FISA courts in order to get those warrants to spy on page.
And think about this.
It lasted seven months into the Trump campaign.
Seven months into the Trump campaign, and the last person to sign off on the FISA warrant on the fourth FISA warrant was not a good thing.
No, into the into the Trump presidency is what you mean it started during the campaign just before the election.
That's correct.
It started just before the election and it goes on all the way until September 2017 because there's a 90-day renewal process for these FIFAs.
But remember, every single FIFA warrant that goes before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, that's the secret court, have compounded evidence inside.
So not only do they have the evidence that they previously showed the FISA court, they have to prove that they have even more evidence to continue the surveillance.
So what was it that they used?
Comey tried to describe this as a mosaic when he did his interview to Brett Baer, and he tried to downplay the dossier, which by the way, they knew from the beginning.
They knew that the dossier was unverified.
They knew that Chris.
Doesn't that violate law?
Yes.
Doesn't it violate FBI protocol?
Yes.
Didn't they have an obligation to tell the judge that Hillary paid for it?
Yes.
They didn't do any of the above at any point that we know of, correct?
And they in the original application, subsequent applications.
Correct.
But remember, each subsequent application would require that they provide continuing evidence to continue the surveillance.
And based on what Nunitz has said openly to Maria Barcelomo, based on what everybody is asking for, it appears that it is the evidence, the subsequent evidence, which Rod Rosenstein himself signed off on when they sent this to the foreign intelligence surveillance court.
It would be that evidence that they're going to be able to do.
Let me bring in look at.
Sean, just think about uh where we're at here.
So supposedly you launch a counterintelligence investigation against Donald Trump's campaign because George Papadopoulos popped off with at a bar drinking about oh, the Russians may have Hillary's emails.
Now, wouldn't you, if you were honestly that concerned about it, why wouldn't you just interview Papadopoulos and ask him where he where he found that out from, ask him if there's anything more he knows, and then go from there.
Instead, they launched this massive investigation.
They have this guy who is an informant.
Uh, really, I think in from what I've been able to gather on it, um, perhaps trying to get information, but I think part of it was he was trying to manufacture conta contacts between various low-level Trump campaign affiliates and foreign nationals to provide a pretext for further surveillance down the road.
So the more and more that comes out about this, the more and more disturbing it is.
And look, government getting uh beyond its its its bounds is a problem anyway.
So when you're talking about surveillance and you're start talking about intelligence capability used against American campaign, that is as serious as it gets.
We're also talking this is look, I've been saying it for the longest time.
This is the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in history.
Now we're newness is saying, Sarah Carter, that the FBI may have had more than one spy surveilling Trump.
And we're learning, you know, when I said to you last week on the air, Sarah, am I gonna recognize the initials of this spy in the Trump campaign?
Obviously, we all knew the name.
Now the guy, Stefan Halper's name is out all over the place.
I purposely chose not to release it uh until others did, and it looks like the Intelligence Committee did it more than anybody.
Now there's two conflicting reports out.
One by the New York Post and one by the Zero Hedge in their piece that anywhere between four hundred thousand and a million dollars was paid to Halper.
Absolutely.
And so now you see the problem.
The problem here lies in what did the FBI do?
How did they handle their assets?
And as well as these assets were connected to the CIA, they were connected to the intelligence community, and who else could they have paid?
If Halper is not the only one, and it's still alleged because the DOJ will not come out and verify that it was Halper, so it's still alleged.
But if Halper, who's allegedly the informant, providing information on four separate members of the Trump campaign, who else could they have used?
And did they pay for those assets as well?
And that's something that can only be answered in the documents connected to the FIFA applications.
And it appears that Rod Rosenstein is fighting tooth and nail, and so is Christopher Ray, to not allow the committee to have those documents.
And that's what makes me so highly suspicious of it.
Because this is not about protecting national security.
This appears to be about protecting the DOJ and the FBI from malfeasance.
All right, we we're gonna hold you guys over.
Stay with us.
We have just have too much ground to cover here.
And I don't want to have to rush through it.
So uh if you guys can stay a little longer, we will keep you into the next half hour, 800-941 Shawn is on number.
All right, so much news breaking today.
Yeah, there was a spy in the Trump campaign.
And according to two conflicting reports, the FBI's uh campaign spy collected, well, anywhere between four hundred thousand and uh a million dollars in the last two years.
Sarah, what is your reporting showing on it?
Uh it's well, you know, this is what's so complicated.
You're talking um directly about Sean uh the the investigation, right?
How the cost of the investigation?
No, no, no.
I'm talking about I I want to know how much this FBI spy was paid, because you know, there the look the spin has been, oh, he wasn't a spy in the campaign.
I'm like, yeah, he was.
Just look at what the questions that he's asking Papadopoulos and every and Carter and everybody else, Carter Page.
Well, this is what we know.
We know that Stephen Halper had Stephen Halper, sorry, had multiple contracts with the with the Department of Defense New Assessment Division.
One of those contracts were for 411,000, and it was a sole service contract, which is really which is really strange.
It's not common in the Department of Defense to have that type of contract.
So it's not certain what he did for all of this money.
There were also multiple other contracts included under the Department of Defense.
Now remember, sometimes this is, and this is just based on my sourcing, these are ways of paying an asset, right?
A way of paying someone money, getting them money for what for the services that they've done, because they still have to do it legally.
So it went through the Department of Defense.
Now, in order to understand the extent of which he was paid, or the extent of which other possible informants were paid if there were others, um and if helper, once again I stress that the Department of Justice has not verified that this is the person.
Uh but that would only be known through the documents provided through the FISA.
And let me because uh you guys are gonna stay through the half hour.
Uh you've agreed, thank you.
But let me bring Ron DeSantis in.
Uh and that raises the question did they ever pay, for example, Christopher Steele, who they fired, and then used, of course, you know, remember in the interrogatories in Great Britain, he was saying, well, the dossier, you know, may be true, may not be true.
Raw intelligence 50-50.
Huh.
That's used to get a FISA warrant.
I know.
So I think what happened with Steele is I do think there was an agreement to pay him.
I think what may have happened is that the payment was ultimately not sent because when he started talking to the press, the FBI had no choice but uh to stop working with him because that was such a good idea.
Did they ever tell the Pfizer judges they fired him?
No, exactly.
They never did that.
And so there's a whole host of problems from there.
You know, Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, and I wrote the letter to the president last week saying just declassify all of this because there's obvious answers to these questions about whether this guy was paid.
We know there's a record.
So let's just produce that.
Answer the question, yes or no, and then answer the question.
Was he directed to make contact with these people by the FBI, justice, or CIA?
Right, stay right there.
Ron DeSantis Freedom Call because he's also running for governor of Florida, investigator reporter Sarah Carter.
We're gonna get into more of our deep dive when we get back.
If they ran a spy ring or an informant ring and they were paying people uh within the Trump campaign, if any of that is true, that is an absolute red line.
There is not an honest person in this country who can believe that taxpayer dollars going to to fund this ring and and operate like this, like what's said in in the New York Times, I think it would have quite a bit, you know, quite a bit of detail on it.
If any of that is true, there's a red line in this country.
You can't do this to political campaigns.
But I mean, this was done.
I mean, according to them, this was done in in the spring.
I mean, before the counterintelligence investigation was even open.
If that's true, we need to know about it.
Well, I can tell you that nobody was ever interested in an informant.
Uh we asked for specific documents that we still have not received from the Department of Justice.
So they continue to leak out things about this informant.
Uh and we don't know if that there's one informant or more informants uh because there's so much out there now, it's really getting tough to follow, and all we're asking for is give us the documentation that you used to start this investigation.
All right, 25 till the uh top of the hour, 800 941 Sean, our toll-free telephone number you want to be a part of the program.
That was House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes saying, Yeah, if this is a spy informant that was put in the Trump campaign, a spy on the Trump campaign, that is a red line, you think?
Just like lying to a Pfizer court.
Yeah, that's a red line too.
And not corroborating, verifying, not telling the court in an original application, subsequent application, three subsequent applic applications, Hillary paid for it.
Never checking.
Rod Rosenstein, of course, signing off on the fourth Pfizer warrant.
Personally, if he's not conflicted out for this, he's certainly conflicted out over being witness number one on why the president should have fired James Comey.
And then Nunes now suggesting there could be multiple informants within the Trump campaign.
And then, of course, they're down leaking the name of the informant.
And uh so much more.
And he was paid the last couple of years, anywhere between four hundred and a million dollars.
We haven't been able to, but these paid definitely paid money.
Now we just have to find out the exact amount, which I think the taxpayers have a right to know.
And Congress has a constitutional right to oversight.
It is their duty in in our republic.
Checks and balances, coequal branches of government.
And the slow walking and the obstruction, and of course the redactions and then in the name of national security, which turn out to be outright lies.
And then just the refusal to turn over to Congress what is their constitutional authority to have a look at.
And we have another leak today that Rosenstein granted Mueller investigation special status in terms of at least four people.
In other words, that they could also be working on other issues involving in terms of in other words, as special assistant U.S. attorneys, they are not confined to the scope of the that the special counsel is acting under.
And the sad part about that, and it's called SASA for short, special assistant U.S. attorneys.
Anyway, the sad part about that is nobody knew.
And they're trying now to leak that because now they have to justify the fact that they raided Paul Manafort's home, guns ablaze, which is typical quintessential, Andrew Weisman at six in the morning.
And all they really had to do was uh call Paul Manafort's attorney and say, uh, can you please uh we're outside Paul Manafort's door?
Would you mind opening the door?
Which would have been what did they think to Paul Manafort at six in the morning was waiting with shotgun in hand?
Is that what they believed over a tax case from two thousand and five that had nothing to do with Russia that had to do with the Ukraine?
This is insanity.
This is you know, as Judge Ellis said, we don't want any one branch of government with unfettered power.
Coequal branches of government, separation of powers.
Our founders and our framers in their wisdom.
They understood the necessity of these checks and balances, so that not one group of people would have unfettered power.
That's why.
And of course, they put the screws to Manafort, quoting Judge Ellis in the hopes that he'll sing so they can prosecute or get information to prosecute Trump.
Even if he's singing like a canary and composing like a commerce, brand new music to get out of trouble.
It's unbelievable.
Anyway, we continue.
They've been uh willing and gracious with their time to stay with us.
Uh Ron DeSantis, he is a member of the Freedom Caucus, Congressman from Florida, running for governor, by the way, in the great state of Florida.
And uh also we have our investigative reporter Sarah Carter has been with us.
Uh let me start with you, Congressman DeSantis.
What about this uh leak now to politico on top of the Washington Post leaks, the MBC leaks, the New York Times leaks?
Obviously, there's a lot of scared deep state operatives out there that are trying to get ahead of this uh because they know not only is the inspector general report on the email server and and Clinton investigation coming out, but now the Pfizer, you know, story and everything seems to be falling apart, including Mueller's investigation.
No, exactly.
And the the leak about uh Mueller having the special status, that really confirms uh Rosenstein is supposed to be overseeing and directing this investigation, but really Mueller is directing Rosenstein.
I mean, Rosenstein is like Mueller's little poodle.
Uh he's not shown any backbone to actually oversee this investigation.
And I can tell you, Sean, for all the complaining that they're saying that we in Congress somehow want to damage national security just because we want to get documents.
They say you can't have the documents because it will damage national security, and then they turn around and leak it to the New York Times and the Washington Post.
The gall of this bureaucracy is simply unbelievable.
What are you know, Sarah?
As I look at this and then I listen to Chairman Nunes talk about a red line.
A red line means this is it, game over.
That's what he's talking about, and he's right.
And it should have been over a long time ago.
But you know, now we're talking also on top of a red line having a spy in the Trump campaign.
Then we got the issue of multiple informants now that he suggested.
And I don't think Chairman Nunes would make that comment unless he knew something.
Well, absolutely.
You wouldn't you wouldn't think that he would come out and and make these statements unless he knew something, and this is part of that bit of mosaic.
This is using Comey's words, you know, his own words with Brett Baer, that he was trying to downplay the dossier and say it's say it's part of a mosaic of evidence that they had collected.
Well, what is that evidence?
Uh, you know, former FBI director James Comey.
And I think what's so crazy, Sean, is that the DOJ and the FBI have given more information in the last week to the New York Times and the Washington Post than they have given to Congress, which has the authority for oversight.
And that's because they are trying to change this narrative and try to make this narrative more in their favor.
And that's absolutely unbelievable.
I mean, this is the authority of Congress to conduct oversight over what's happened here.
And this will be one of the biggest stories in modern American political history when this information comes out.
Because they actually had people connected to the opposition.
Hillary campaign, uh, the DNC paying for spies, and it appears now that the FBI was doing the same with assets inside a campaign to collect evidence, and actually it appears, based on the evidence that's out there right now, a lot of which was leaked by the DOJ and FBI, that they were attempting to set up the campaign for a fall.
I don't think there's any doubt about it.
This is a coup.
This is a this is an attempt at a coup.
Now, when the president tweeted this weekend, Congressman, that he wanted a full investigation.
I don't think he said the inspector general.
Rod Rosenstein jumped on the president's tweet to talk about, well, these the inspector general.
Well, it's taken him nearly 18 months to get out the first report.
With all due respect, this is not something that we we have 18 months to deal with here.
And I think that would be a bad idea, especially when Congress should be handed over the documents yesterday.
Exactly.
We need the documents, declassify everything.
Obviously, I don't need to know a source's name.
It's irrelevant.
What's relevant is the conduct of the FBI, the conduct of Comey, the conduct of McCabe, maybe the conduct uh conduct of Brennan at the CIA.
We need all of that information.
Well, Brennan and Sally Yates seem very nervous in the last 48 hours.
Very, very nervous.
And so once that's out there, then I think it'll be a matter of just going through the documents before we determine does that need to be referred uh for criminal prosecution.
I've already already referred people like McCabe and Comey because I think that they've lied, but maybe Brennan, maybe some of these people, and you're right, Sean.
The inspector general, it ultimately they may do a thorough job, but that'll take a year and a half.
We don't have a year and a half.
he doesn't have the ability uh to indict at the end of this.
He doesn't have he can't convene a grand jury.
Zero ability to prosecute anybody.
And just imagine Mueller has has nailed a bunch of people for extraneous offenses that have nothing to do with the campaign.
Wouldn't it be a tragedy if the people who were actually violating the law during the campaign somehow are able to just get off shot free?
We can't let that happen.
I've called this the year of the boomerang.
It's interesting.
I've uh I I've read, for example, this spin so many great columns, one by Cheryl Atkinson this weekend, one by uh Ted Olson this weekend.
Uh one that really shocked me was Mark Penn, who basically, Sarah, is saying everything that you and I and others have been saying and and Freedom Caucus guys have been saying since March of 7th of 2017.
The Wall Street Journal is now called on Obama to testify about what he knew and when he knew it.
I I picked up last week, you know, the the whole idea that right after they rigged Hillary's investigation, days later, the New York Times gave us some details, they immediately are heading off to uh to meet the you know, this guy out Downer who donated 25 million of the Clinton Foundation because he got drunk with Papadopoulos,
four-way hearsay, and even Mark Penn recognizes this, but the little detail that was missed is they had to, before the FBI interviewed this guy down, or they they had to go through diplomatic hoop after diplomatic hoop, which tells me John Kerry knew, which then raises the specter that Barack Obama knew.
And and I think that Barack Obama, former President Barack Obama, has a duty to explain what he knew.
And this isn't about, you know, and you talked about Mark Penn and his and his uh op-ed.
This isn't about whether you support Trump or not.
This is about the weaponization of the intelligence community to be utilized against a presidential campaign.
And when and a president and hang on, and a president elect and a president.
And a president.
Because it's ongoing.
Yes, because it is ongoing.
And this shakes the foundation, the core of our country.
Because this is how we lose ourselves, right?
If we allow this to happen, then we're no better than Pakistan, then Afghanistan, then the former Soviet Union, than the current Russian Republic.
That's correct.
That's the danger.
We're Venezuela.
That's it.
Let me go.
That's why we need to find out the truth.
And that's why I'm very concerned, Sean, as well, about you know, the meeting today that took place at the White House.
Because you know one thing is certain that Rod Rosenstein and Christopher Ray were kind of laying out their belief that the president should not turn these documents over to the Congress.
I hope they lose oversight.
Now, do you mention John Brennan, Congressman DeSantis?
He tweeted out Senator McConnell, Speaker Ryan.
If Trump continues along this disastrous path, by the way, he once voted for a communist for president.
How he ever became CIA director is a mystery.
You will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy.
You do a great disservice to our nation and the Republican Party if you continue to enable Trump's self-serving actions.
Um he sounds panicked.
And I also noticed that uh, you know, uh Sally Yates is panicked, and uh Sally Yates goes out and starts talking about his assault on the rule of law is taken to a new level by demanding the Justice Department look into the surveillance abuses in the 2016 campaign.
Oh, well, I guess she doesn't care about free, fair open elections and doesn't care about the abuse of intelligence and the powerful tools of intelligence turned on the American people.
Are you kidding me?
And she abused, I mean, she sent uh under her auspices the FBI to interrogate Flynn when there wasn't a good cause to do it.
They had the intercept of what was said, and yet they did that.
That was a perjury trap for Flynn.
Look, Brennan is going to be very difficult to nail down.
He's very slippery, but boy, the way he is reacting, uh, and then the fact that you had this this source who very well may have had CIA ties as well.
Uh, I think he needs to be probed very seriously for his actions and all of this and whether he was helping to facilitate some of these contacts and passing along any of the fruits of the surveillance.
All right, listen, I know we kept you much longer than we thought, uh, but I think it's just so much to literally wrap our arms around here.
Uh, I think it's worth the extra time and attention, and uh, you guys have been phenomenal.
Everybody in the Freedom Caucus, Ron DeSantis, Congressman Florida, also a gubernatorial candidate, uh coming up uh in that election, and uh I think would be a great governor.
All the way.
Oh, Sean Hannity said nice things about Ron DeSantis and supports him.
Full disclosure, because if I don't disclose where I went to the bathroom, apparently I've I've I've committed some type of uh journalistic malpractice.
These rules don't apply to anybody else, though.
And Sarah Carter, I once actually had dinner with her and Linda together, and it was a meeting, and I paid.
All right, I'm telling you, I don't trust this.
Apparently the meeting with Rod Rosenstein and Ray are over.
It was agreed that White House Chief of Staff Kelly will immediately set up a meeting with other FBI, DOJ, DNI, together with congressional leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested.
Dan Coates was in this meeting, the director of national intelligence, uh Director Ray, Rod Rosenstein, and I don't trust it.
Because the ones we need, they're not gonna release.
That's my prediction.
More straight ahead.
Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
Everything we think we know about the Trump Tower meeting, what Donald Trump Jr. testified before the Senate, um uh for the Senate Judiciary Committee, um, and and the version of events based on the transcripts that we've all read today.
Do you believe those version of events, or do you think we don't actually know what happened in that Trump Tower meeting?
I think we there's still a lot that the public uh does not know.
I know there are a lot of things that I don't know.
Uh I knew a lot when I was in government, uh, but I do you know more about that meeting than we do in the public domain?
I'm not gonna talk about what I might know or not know about particularly.
I only ask is you just said you just admitted it, so I didn't mean to say it.
Yeah.
I'm saying I know a lot about what happened during my time and at CIA uh during the presidential campaign that has not you know come out publicly for a variety of reasons.
But I know that Bob Muller and his team of investigators have uncovered a lot more information uh and and are putting the pieces together.
So I don't think anybody should assume uh complete knowledge and the truth about any of these uh interactions or meetings.
Do you know if the Bureau ever relied on the steel dossier as any uh as part of any court filings, applications, petitions, pleadings?
I have no awareness.
Did the CIA rely on it?
No.
Why not?
Because we we did we it wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence uh information that we had.
It was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done.
Uh it was it was not.
Yeah, there.
I can't wait till we get the uh information on Brennan.
Anyway, glad you're with us, eight hundred nine four one Sean, our toll free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program.
You know, um everything that the media it's now becoming more clear by the day.
Everything that they have b their narrative for over a year and a half is crumbling before their eyes.
The narrative, as I went through at the beginning of the program today, I won't do it again now.
The narrative about all of these deep state operatives, actors, upper echelon, intelligence, CIA, FBI, DOJ, and their actions, spying on the Trump campaign, the Pfizer warrants, the fix-in for Hillary, not equal justice under the law, the Hillary standard of justice, and then the the rest of us.
All turned out to be true, correct, and I am telling you, there is about to be another cascade of information coming.
I mean, it is it is going to it is the single biggest corruption story, abuse of power story, sadly in American history, and the media in this country's been missing in action.
You know, is it reassuring that in the last week, as the deep state knows their their time has come and they're getting exposed, that they leak to their friendly media friends like the New York Times and the Washington Post, and then spin their way out of, you know, what is obvious abuse and corruption.
I guess there's a certain part of that satisfying.
It's sad to me that it all happened, but it's not gonna work because the American people know what they have been fed for the last year and a half, and they also know that this counter-narrative has been going on in the background, and there have been of a number of us.
Just not enough of us, in my opinion.
Anyway, he's from the Hill, Joe Concha is a regular course on Hannity, the TV program, and I saw that John Brennan sends out a tweet to Mitch McConnell and Speaker Ryan, and it says, if Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear the major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy.
Well, we are a republic, but small point.
Uh you do a great disservice to our nation and the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump's self-serving actions.
And then you wrote Mr. Brennan back.
Not sure if Mr. Brennan understands that these kind of tweets he continually puts out might give the impression that he isn't a political.
Well, he was a former communist, and that's a fact.
He did vote for a communist candidate, didn't he?
At one point, I read about that recently.
I'm like, what?
And this guy became CIA director, Sean.
I mean, you talk about who the media is now.
The media is made up of pundits that include former heads of major law enforcement agencies.
Brennan, MBC MSNBC contributor, who sounds completely paranoid, by the way, right now, with with the tweet you just read.
James Clapper is a CNN contributor.
Phil Mudd, formerly CIA FBI, CNN contributor.
James Comey on a book tour like the Hillary Book Tour that will never end, bashing the president.
And that's what all these people have in common.
All of them seem to really, really dislike this president.
So now you have to believe that while they were doing their job, Sean, that they were apolitical, that they just went about their business the way a doctor does and looking at a patient, no feelings whatsoever, just the facts, pursue the facts.
But then you see these tweets and you see them do interviews, and you say, there is no way they could have been nonpartisan when they're on the job, and it had to affect the way they went about their business.
Well, it's now obvious.
And you know, if you look at maybe I wasn't gonna do this, but let me let me go back to where I started the program today, and and that is, you know, if you look at all the headlines, you know, something has happened.
Now you follow media coverage.
That is, you know, look at Cheryl Atkinson's piece or uh the the New York Post, Michael Wasser's piece, or even I think the biggest shock of all of this is you even have Clinton people now, Mark Penn, you know, talking about the deep state.
Now, there was a time, and you follow this, where, you know, I was excoriated by uh so-called news people for the coverage that I have been involved in for the last year.
You know, but I'm looking at I have a pile of headlines today, and let's see.
Uh oh, Charlie Hurt.
What Obama and his political choom gang did is far worse than Watergate.
Uh mainstream media silence on Stefan Halper's uh name ends.
The fact that this guy was paid, according to the New York Post, 400,000 in it, and according to his uh a report in Zero Hedge, over a million.
This guy was paid a lot of money for spying on the Trump campaign.
That's a problem for them.
Trump attorney, after twice lying, FBI admits Clinton Lynch tarmac documents exist and will be issued.
They lied about it.
James Clapper perjured himself while giving congressional testimony.
We're supposed to trust him.
We're supposed to trust Brennan.
Here's another headline Trump to order investigation into the FBI DOJ surveillance of his campaign and Obama administration involvement.
Um the deep state is real, a a town hall piece, and much bigger than you know, Derrick Hunter.
Now, with all due respect, I mean, some of these people were there in the beginning, some of them.
But, you know, like is always kind of the case in my career, you know, vetting Obama and some and thinking Donald Trump can win, too, examples.
You know, I have kind of been hanging out here with just a few really smart, hardworking investigative reporters, and we've been ahead of it, and the media's been wrong, Joe.
They've been wrong for a year and a half.
And not only have they been wrong, they've been hostile to those of us that have been right and the president themselves, and they've been part of what is the biggest abuse of power in history instead of covering the biggest abuse of power in history.
Not only hostile, Sean, but sanctimonious, right?
Condescending, patronizing towards the president.
Remember when he first alleged that the the Obama administration, or at least the people that are working in his department of justice, had surveilled, had Wiretapped had done something to actually infiltrate Trump Tower and to uh basically what we're reading about now with Halper, right?
As far as putting an FBI agent into the campaign, and he was laughed at for saying that.
People were saying he was crazy for drawing that conclusion.
Well, who's right now?
So I have a feeling by the way, can I Joe?
I can give you the date.
March 7th, 2017, Hannity the television show, Sarah Carter, John Solomon say the Trump campaign, a FISA warrant was issued, they were surveilled.
Who's this John Solomon you speak of?
He sounds very familiar.
Oh, that's right.
He writes for the Hill, yes.
And Sarah Carter.
They've been coming on your show pretty consistently making uh these allegations.
What I noticed about Sarah and John, because now Sarah's a Fox News contributor, but she wasn't for a while.
They're they're free agents, right?
They can go on any network that they they want, or at least Solomon can in CNN, MSNBC.
Well, for whatever reason, they never have him on because they don't want to hear what he's actually reporting.
And he's only been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, so what does he know?
Uh but overall, uh Sean, I would say that we've gone now into Ken Starr territory in terms of public perception of the Mueller investigation and of investigations of Donald Trump in any capacity.
Because that in the end seemed to be to the American people at the time, something that was politicized, something that went way outside of its scope, and something that explored things that people simply didn't care about.
And Bill Clinton left office with a 68% approval rating.
And now you see that with President Trump to a certain extent.
Yes, the economy's doing great, and the North Korea developments and ISIS is destroyed, but really I think there's a boomerang effect now going on that shows that when you go after him this hard and you don't produce anything to back it up, like I don't know, actual collusion with the Russians, then you see slowly that real clear politics average of polls that we've talked about going up 37% in December, now over 43% here a couple of months later, despite an overwhelmingly negative press.
So, you know what?
In the end, this could end up being a positive for President Trump, a big positive, if he is vindicated, and it seems like that is starting to happen, at least as far as the way these investigations are being conducted.
I made a decision personally, and you've known the name of uh Mr. Halper for a long time as well.
I knew it all last week.
I'm not sure when I first got it.
I don't remember the exact day.
That's not how my mind works.
I can't tell you what uh who was my guest on this show on Friday, but I can tell you Reagan's accomplishments to the T from uh the 1980s.
It's just how my my mind works.
How are they gonna reconcile all of this insane coverage that has been so off and the lack of coverage about the biggest abuse of power scandal?
How do they reconcile that?
Well, they're they're they're suffering, right?
I mean, uh CNN uh particularly just this month is down more than twenty percent in its ratings.
Which it wasn't like they were on some high perch and they came off of it a little bit like the NFL, but they're already in third place, and I mean a distant third place.
Uh and now they're even losing what, one-fifth more of their audience?
Because you could only put on Michael Avanetti, which they've done now more than 75 times and talk about Stormy Daniels, but then never it never goes anywhere, right?
I mean, we see these people on all the time, but uh everybody at home's like, we don't care.
Let's let's talk about important things like you used to do.
So that's that's how they're gonna reconcile it by you know what, when the ratings uh keep falling, people get fired, and uh, you know, they'll just have to start over and maybe go back to the network that I grew up loving, which was the I don't know how how does anyone ever get out of their head the branding of fake news?
How?
They don't no, they don't.
They don't.
This is You don't recover from that.
Look, I would understand that, say a Hillary Clinton rally, they they're saying Sean Hannity sucks.
But when you go to a Trump rally and they just turn around, you see all them back there, they're all fake news.
Fake news, fake news, and then the audience just on their own, without any prompting from candidate or President Trump, CNN sucks.
They go right to it.
Everybody knows to bring up you can bring up Bernie Sanders, you can bring Corey Booker, you could bring up all these 2020 candidates, right, on the Democratic side, and you'll get some booze, but you don't get the kind of real passion of boo, the Bronx kind of cheer that you get when you bring up uh a CNN because they feel they've been,
you know, they when CNN says we're objective and we're just the searching for the facts, and then they see a Jim Acosta, you know, go on the air and actually tell Jimmy Kimmel that he was just as tough on Obama as he was on President Trump, and you could just go back and play the clips where he was saying he was getting uh we got a great clip of him asking a very tough question.
He's actually covering the second inauguration of of Barack Obama, and uh I almost thought he had a thrill up his leg like Chris Matthews.
And obviously, this is uh this is the moment that everybody is waiting for on inauguration day when the president and the first lady step out of their remote and walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Uh you know, I I feel I feel like I should pitch myself right now, Wolf.
I can't believe I have this uh this vanish point of history in the making.
So you're literally what about fifteen, twenty feet away from the president.
I'm I'm probably a good uh I would say fifty feet away from the president right now, Wolf.
Very, very close.
All right, that wow.
I mean him and Chris Matthews and Obama.
Could you imagine them in a room together?
Maybe these people gathered.
We love you, we love you.
I felt this girl going up my leg.
Remember that guy go, uh, Mr. Burr, uh, uh, uh, uh, oh, it's such a blessing to see you, Mr. President.
Thank you for taking time out of your day.
Oh, gracious God, thank you so much.
And as long as we're pulling out classics, uh, this is when Obama got elected.
Listen to this.
I never thought this day would ever happen.
I don't have to worry about putting gas in my car.
I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage.
You know, if I had him, gonna help me.
All right, listen, uh, we'll take a break.
We'll come back more with Joe Contra on the other side of this.
And as we continue with Joe Contra, media critic of the hill.
Uh frequent guest on Hannity, he's done an amazing job.
All right, so where's knowing that without giving away too much?
I know there's about to be a cascade of deep state information that I think will shock the soul of the American people.
Where does the where does the media go, if anywhere, to get their reputations back in this?
It's kind of like being cheated on, Sean, and uh, I hate to get into my personal life too much.
Before I got married, uh, I was cheated on, and I never could look at that person the same way again.
You know, I mean I tried to work it out, but no, once that trust is gone.
Why would anyone cheat on Joe Concha?
I have no idea.
That's the biggest mistake anybody made.
Look at you now.
Yeah, that's a big thing.
You know, play Toby Keats song.
How do you like me now?
I have a feeling my ex-girlfriend probably watches other cable news networks besides Fox or listens to Hannity on the radio.
Oh no, she's she's she's privately stalking you, following your every move and saying, Oh, why did I do that?
Oh wow, we've gone off on a tangent.
But the point is that once you've been uh cheated on, I'm I'm responsible for that tangent.
Uh it's it's kind of like putting uh tooth uh toothpaste back in the tube.
It's like unringing that bell, you know, you can't do it.
So I don't know, particularly conservatives and Republicans who already were very, very wary of the media before Donald Trump ever came along, right?
Now that that never that you never get those people back ever again.
And I think once Donald Trump leaves uh the stage, whether that be uh in you know a couple years or uh uh six years from now, I don't know how they ever attract an audience again or how they know how to do their jobs outside of talking about Donald Trump again.
I I think, yeah, it'll it'll break, and you're just gonna see a lot of people who have careers now that that no longer will because no one will be watching.
If no one's watching, no one's paying the bills, uh, the advertising bills, and no one's getting the big contracts anymore.
So, yeah, I think when Donald Trump goes away, a lot of these people will be going away too.
All right, thank you, Joe Contra.
And by the way, uh there was so many obituaries written about me because we do go, Linda.
This is what we do.
We go out on a limb.
We vetted Obama, nobody had the guts to do it.
And we were right, and we were proven right what would happen to the country.
I wish we were wrong in that sense, but we weren't.
Same thing here.
You know, we were right about Trump.
No, nobody's oh, had no chance to win.
Yeah, he did.
And we're right about the deep state.
When we come back, your phone calls coming up 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program.
The body of a young Hispanic female was found in the 9900 block of Sharps Crest, Houston, Texas.
The victim appeared to have been executed and left in the street.
We were able to identify a group of MS-13 gang members who we believe are responsible.
Police in New York saying the suspect in a series of brutal crimes is a gang member and illegal immigrant who's been deported four times.
Tommy Vladimir Alvarado Ventura is accused of stabbing two women and sexually assaulting a two-year-old girl.
And they used two females to lure four young males to the park.
And they were brutally bludgeoned and stabbed and hacked up with machetes.
It's gruesome.
I mean, it's not like you're shooting somebody from a hundred feet away.
You are you're getting blood splattered onto you.
The killers slashed Perez's neck.
Today, Alexandria police announced three suspects, an adult male, 17-year-old boy, and 16-year-old girl investigators say those men are MS-13 gang members.
Yesterday, three subjects responsible for two attempted murders with bladed weapons and in one incident firing a handgun at the victim were taken into custody last night.
All purport to be MS-13 members.
19-year-old Miguel Lopez Abrega was charged with first degree murder of the victim.
As the press release says the victim had been stabbed over 100 times.
Investigators say the Queensman is a member of MS 13 and is responsible for killing a valley stream teen earlier this year.
According to court documents, Julio Caesar Gonzales' Fance brutally beaten body was discovered inside the Massapequa preserve in late March.
Thank you.
I know about.
If they don't reach the certain threshold, I cannot tell ICE about it.
We have people coming into the country trying to come in.
We're stopping a lot of them.
But we're taking people out of the country.
You wouldn't believe how bad these people are.
These aren't people.
These are animals.
So we saw what happened, you know, all the Brujaha.
By the way, glad you're with us 24 now till the top of the hour.
800 941 Sean is a number.
You want to be a part of the program.
I'll get your calls and comments in here.
Uh so the president says, yeah, he's asked a question about MS 13 gang members.
The the numbers of brutal violent crimes committed by members of this gang have been so well chronicled and innocent Americans dying.
Now he was asked specifically about them.
And he said that they're animals.
And then the media said, Oh, Donald Trump called all immigrants animals when he specifically did not, which is so dishonest, but yet predictable.
Um the reality is I've been down to that border twelve times.
I've been out on horseback, all terrain vehicle, boats, helicopters, drug warehouses, tunnels.
I've seen it all from the Rio Grande to San Diego and every spot in between.
And I'm telling you, I was there when a gang member was arrested.
I didn't know at the moment, didn't know at the time, but we found out later.
They informed our show, yes, this is a known gang member.
Now, this is so important for the safety, the security of every American in every city.
And on top of that, you know, look at the opioid uh problem and the abuse problem.
You know, go watch the show trade on on Showtime or any of these Netflix series, ones called drugs, and you're gonna learn about opioids and where they come from and how they're made and how there's literally our borders being so porous, they pour across the border to target small towns and big cities all across the United States.
Anyway, joining us, she happens to be in what are you doing in town?
Congresswoman Diane Black of Tennessee is with us, by the way, a Republican candidate for governor.
Um, and this is an issue you have been against catch and release.
You support the president on building the wall.
Absolutely.
Where where are the rest of these so-called Republicans?
Well, we want to build the wall, and the president wants to build the wall, and yet Congress has not funded it.
And look, this is nothing new.
We've been wanting to build this wall for the past three presidents, and yet we don't have the funding.
And so my bill that I've actually put into the hopper is that we allow the American people who want to see the wall built to be a part of that.
And it develops an a dedicated fund so that you can send your money to build the wall.
Let's get it done.
You know, the only problem I have with it is this.
Okay, I live in New York.
All right.
Well, now my taxes are a little lower, except I don't get to deduct the New York state tax So I'm paying about when you had state, federal, local, city tax, and you have a state income tax in New York of nearly 10 percent, city tax at New York of four percent, on top of the what was 40 percent, you know, uh federal income tax.
So uh when I pay all my taxes, it's sixty-three cents out of every dollar.
And I have to pay because my name is Sean Hannity, and there are a lot of deep state actors that hate me.
And so they try they pull my file as often as they can, unfortunately.
So my point is to you, you know, I don't want to have to pay.
The money's there.
We have enough money to pay for the wall and protect our citizenry.
Why can't we just pay it?
Why can't the Congress, the Republicans, fund it?
Well, so first of all, let me invite you to Tennessee where we don't have a state income tax and you don't have all those taxes in each one of the people.
How long have you been in New York?
How many days?
Uh I I've only been here two.
Okay.
And you you see the dilapidated infrastructure.
It's and if it was in Tennessee, your do your phones would be ringing off the hook what you see every single second in New York, right?
That's right.
Okay.
How is it possible you have no state income tax and you have far better infrastructure?
Texas, same story, Florida, same story than New York or Illinois or New Jersey or California.
Because people know that they want to come to Tennessee and they want to be a part of what we have there in Tennessee, where we balance our budget by the Constitution, and we make sure that we use our money in a way that uh helps the people's lives and continues to invite more and more people to come.
That's why we invite you there.
But you ask a very good question.
Why are we not funding the wall?
I asked that same question.
Why are we not funding the wall?
And the House of Representatives, we do measures that fund the wall.
And then it gets to the Senate.
And I hate to always use that excuse, but it's not an excuse.
It's a reality that we cannot get the Senate to do the right thing.
And so the American people say, look, let me have an opportunity.
I'm willing to send some of my dollars.
But they can do that now.
They can send money to the Federal Government and say, here's my money to help to build the wall.
However, it's not a dedicated fund.
And that's really what this bill does is it sets up a dedicated fund so that when that money comes uh into the Treasury, it will actually be used to build the wall.
And what the President wants to do, and that is just to protect us from the people like MS 13.
Behind the closed doors, and you're there, and I know you're going to be honest with me, there are Republicans that don't like Donald Trump.
But meanwhile, if any of them win, it will be in spite of themselves after seven years of promising to repeal and replace Obamacare and a lot of other things, because this president obviously everything he says he's gonna do, he did.
Jerusalem's the capital.
He's out of this horrific Iranian deal.
We see what's happening with little Rocket Man.
We have 14 states with record low unemployment, record low unemployment for Hispanics, for African Americans, for women in the workplace.
Um that the biggest tax cut in history.
So he's doing his job.
Where's Congress?
Well, fortunately we have a president who is doing what he said.
And we've too frequently had presidents to come into office and not do what they said.
And uh again, I don't want to uh sound weenie about this and say it is the Senate, but you obviously are not from New York if you're saying I don't want to be weenie.
We do our work in the House and you know I love people.
Sean, if we had the Senate without that filibuster, just think about all the things we not just this year, but what we could have even done during the time of Obama.
400 bills that have been sent from the House to the Exactly Including Kate's Law.
That's right.
Who do you want for speaker after Ryan?
Uh I think that'll be left up to the members uh of of what they decide.
Who would you pick if you had to pick now?
I would not pick right now.
I'd pick Jim Jordan.
I would want what I want to do is I want to hear what they're gonna do.
I want to hear what their thoughts are of how we can come together.
You know enough about McCarthy and Steve Scalese, and I like them both, but I would pick Jordan and I won't I don't think the Freedom Caucus should give in at all to any speaker unless they get a seat at the table.
Well, and and look, I don't disagree with you that we need to have all voices at the table.
And as the budget chair, I did just that.
I had members uh from New York, which were the more moderate, all the way to members like um Sanford that was part of the Freedom Caucus.
And that's what I did as the budget chair is to get people all to come together and how did the omnibus bill get so out of control?
Oh my gosh.
Well, of course I didn't vote for the omnibus bill for several reasons.
It raised yes it it spent too much money.
Um and part of that is because again, you have to deal with the Senate and try to get the Senate to come along so you can get something done, and as a result of doing that, Schumer gets more than what we want.
It's crazy, it's a crazy atmosphere.
Well, the president has uh we had uh the budget director uh Mulvaney on the program, and I guess we're we're literally peeling back at least some of it, what about fifteen billion?
Yeah, about fifteen billion.
And what they're doing is they're actually just taking what was um what we would normally have.
When you come in, studio, you have to turn your phone off.
I apologize for that.
It's all right, no worries.
What we're doing is we're taking what has been appropriated, and when you appropriate dollars, those dollars sit in those funds.
And I always tell people it's kind of like when I I used to do envelopes, and I want to buy a new refrigerator, let's say, and I put my money in the envelope for a new refrigerator, and the re refrigerator was a hundred dollars less less less than what I anticipated.
I don't leave that hundred dollars in the envelope.
I take that money and I'll bring it back into the treasury, which is what we should be doing here.
You know, my first professional radio job was ninety miles south of Nashville in Athens, Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama.
Right on the border there.
Right?
It's literally what is it, highway 65, right?
That's right.
Right off Highway 65.
Um back.
And I honestly have always loved Music City.
I'm a big country music fan, which is rare as a person that's stuck here in New York paying these high taxes.
Uh, what are Marsha Blackburn's chances?
Because I'm a big fan of hers.
I think that Marsha will be okay at the end of the day.
Um people will realize in our state, because we are a red state.
They'll realize that if you send anyone other than the other thing.
Why do you say at the end of the day?
Because it looks like a close race or because I think it will be a tough race.
I think that uh that the previous mayor and governor of the state of Tennessee um is respected because he was more moderate.
He did work with both the the moderates and the conservatives.
And so I think that um especially when you leave office and after you've been out of office for a while, your uh reputation tends to be better than you were when you were in office, and that's kind of the way it is because he's been out of office now for the yeah.
Yeah, people forget you know, it's like Clinton is loved, and I'm like, all right, you let me remind you how bad he was.
Exactly.
Um what about as I look at the the race for the Senate, and uh I think it's a very important obviously to hold for us, but I was never a fan of Bob Corker either.
Yeah.
Bob Corker turned it out to be a big disappointment.
Well, he has disappointed a number of people, including myself in Tennessee, and the fact that even now he is not with um the person that could really make the difference there.
And if we don't have a Republican going in there, even though Bredison sells himself as being so conservative, you know what he's gonna do as soon as Schumer tells him this is what I need you to do, that's what he's gonna do.
We cannot lose that seat.
It's sort of like you could you see Joe Manchin and people like Heidi Heitkamp and um Claire McCaskill right.
You know, here we're it's an election year and they're they want to hold on to their jobs.
Sure, we'll pass Gina Haspel and we'll vote for Mike Pompeo.
They never ever in a million years would have done it otherwise.
And they have six years once they're elected to be able to do whatever people they think, well, we'll do that now, get elected, and then as soon as they come back, uh they'll be the old person again, and they'll wait until seven years goes by and they'll try to change their color again.
So you cannot trust the Democrat when they say, Oh, we'll do this and we'll do that.
We know what they're gonna do.
They're gonna listen to Schumer.
All right, it's good to see you.
Good luck in everything that you're doing.
Uh, Congresswoman Diane Black of Tennessee.
Congresswoman, we uh we always uh appreciate your hard work.
You should have been a member of the Freedom Caucus.
Why didn't you join?
You should you you are conservative.
Oh, well, I actually looked at the Freedom Caucus.
This is the reason why I didn't join it be very c uh.
Because you because Louis Gomer talks too much.
No, no, no, no.
Because um He's one of my best friends.
They take a vote and they say if eighty percent of the people in the c in their caucus vote that way that everybody should.
And you know my voting card belongs to the people of the sixth congressional district of Tennessee.
That's a good that's a good counter-argument.
I but you but I would have joined.
Anyway, we uh we appreciate you.
Good luck in your race for governor.
And thank you for stopping by.
Good to see you in New York.
It's great to do that.
I don't say that, by the way.
I was shocked when I moved down south.
Come back and see us.
Y'all come.
Uh I'm I'd like to look around and I'm saying, uh what you talking about?
I'm from New York.
What do you you mean that?
Really?
Uh anyway.
Good to see you.
Thank you.
All right, let's hit our busy phones here as we uh continue, is let's say hi to Bill is in New Jersey, the all new AM 710 W O R, the talk of New York, New Jersey, Long Island.
What's going on, Bill?
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, thank you very much for taking my call.
Thank you very much for the work that you are doing.
The reason I call I called in is um I I I'm a law enforc law retired law enforcement.
I I authored of the affian of two wiretap investigations, worked for wiretap investigations.
And looking at I mean, uh there's a lot of things to just scratch my head over, but one, the number of people, number of officers, investigators that would have to be involved, um and the instructions given to the team.
So when you know when when when the order is issued, you get everybody together and you sit down with that team of investigators and you explain.
Here's the target, here's the crime, here's what we're looking for, and it's very strict minimization w issue orders that go along with a wiretap investigation.
And what I what I'm curious about is the inventory return, what was given back to the court.
Every time you go in for when they when they wanted a uh continuance, you have to provide an inventory of the number of calls, who you listened in on, what information, and the reason for the continuance.
Yep.
Well, I gotta tell you something, and this is um really, really important.
If we have Pfizer courts lied to and FBI informants in campaigns on election years, we'll we've lost the country.
And it's not a joke, uh this is as serious as anything we've ever talked about.
All right, Kennedy Tonight, an amazing show, nine Eastford on the Fox News Channel.
All right, Sarah Carter's new breaking information.
The meeting at the White House with Rod Rosenstein and Christopher Ray.
And the documents we've been missing.
Is there a second spy in the Trump campaign?
And when is Congress going to get the information?
And then, of course, we've got Mark Penn and Ted Olson and Cheryl Atkinson all now saying everything we've been saying.
Anyway, Joe DeGenova, Sarah Carter, Kimberly Strassel, Jason Chafetz, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Malkin, and Danielle Hoffman.
