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A lot to get to.
A lot of spygate, deep state gate news.
First, the president is on Long Island in New York.
It's where I live.
And the president is discussing the challenges and the problems of the gang MS-13.
And of course, this week, the media purposely took him out of context.
Then most of them had to walk it back.
Although they tried half not to.
It's unbelievable how corrupt they are.
And I want to just play a little bit of the president.
And yeah, oh, some of the people from MS-13, yeah, they kill other people and they're horrific.
For example, let me play the mother telling her story first.
I want to thank everyone for being here.
And Mr. President, thank you again for listening to us and our needs in eradicating these MS13 individuals.
My daughter, Kayla, was a beautiful girl.
She had dreams and they took that away from her.
That's not right.
On how these kids were murdered, tortured, is unacceptable.
We should not be tolerating this behavior at all, whatsoever.
Law enforcement, thank you so much for your hard work and dedication in keeping our kids safe, our communities, and working together as one and helping out each other with information that you guys receive.
And again, thank you for Don Drunk for supporting our law enforcement to the fullest capacity that they need.
You said the other day that these individuals are animals.
You're correct.
They are animals and how they kill, how they get these kids, and they torture them.
No child should ever, ever have to suffer.
As parents, we have to endure that pain, that numbness every day of our lives.
My daughter, Anissa, supposed to be graduating in a couple of weeks.
We're supposed to be getting, you know, graduation outfits, having a party.
We're unable to do that.
No parent should ever have to go through this at all.
We have families here from the four boys from Central Iceland.
Jose Peña, Jorge, Ugira, Michael, and the Jefferson.
Their families are suffering every day, but they thank you for your hard work in trying to make the situation a little bit better.
Please stand, please.
People have to realize that the situation originates in school.
It plays out in school and it comes out into the streets.
We need to focus on what's happening in the schools.
We have to put in professional educators in there to help the teachers, the school administration, how to handle this.
They say they know how to handle it.
They really don't.
Two years, as you've heard before, I was fighting with the school district, two years for my daughter, and they did nothing.
In fact, they lied in my face.
So we can't tolerate that behavior either in the schools.
When there's a problem, they need to notify.
When there's a threat, they need to notify law enforcement immediately.
They need to get help.
And if they say they have it under control, they're basically lying in your faces.
They do not have this under control.
These people, these individuals, they know what they're doing.
They know how to work.
At one point, they were called organized crime.
They know how to work it.
We need to stop it.
So imagine just for a second here: you're that mother, and your daughter, who's supposed to be graduating this year and going to graduation parties, got killed and tortured by MS-13.
And the president mentions their animals, people that would do that to other human beings in the media.
He's calling all immigrants.
It wasn't asked about all immigrants, as we pointed out.
It is so corrupt and it is so dishonest of our news media.
Anyway, glad you're with us.
I feel sorry for that mother.
That's where I live.
I was raised, born and raised.
Let me just tell you: the news is now breaking in such fast, unbelievable pace.
There was a book written years ago by Art Bell, The Quickening.
There is a pace in terms of news that is so rapid and so quick.
You know, 30 years in this business, I do remember times when I only had the local newspapers and national magazines and local news reports and nightly news reports to ask that was your news.
That was it.
And I think information is a good thing, especially because otherwise you would be fed a steady dose of propaganda daily by a corrupt media that doesn't want to tell the truth.
And we have this deep state that wanted to sabotage Donald Trump and help Hillary, literally being exposed almost on an hourly basis.
And what is an obvious plot, coup, soft coup, to influence an election, undermine one candidate, prop up another candidate, and it's now getting blown wide open.
And, you know, we now have the president rightly weighing in on all of this, and he is right.
And you can see the panic that has set in with the likes of Clapper and Brennan and Yates and so many other deep state actors like Comey.
You know, it's a dangerous time when our country is led by those who will lie about anything, backed by those who will believe anything based on information from media sources that will say anything.
Americans must break out of the bubble and seek truth.
He's so arrogant.
It's like, I wonder if he's got a missing chip in terms of what truth and reality is at this point.
And facts matter, the FBI's use of confidential human sources, the actual term.
No, they're spies.
And just because you want to use FBI jargon doesn't impress me.
Okay, confidential human sources.
What you're not saying is they were inside the presidential campaign.
Was there a warrant?
Did you go to a court?
Did you have probable cause?
Now we're seeing your timeline is collapsing and that this started much, much earlier in the late winter, early spring of 2016.
And meetings that took place, which we're going to get into in the course of the program today.
Attacks on the FBI and lying about it will do lasting damage to our country.
How will Republicans explain this to their grandchildren?
How are you, Mr. Comey, going to explain your time, your actions to your grandchildren, sir?
Now, the most amazing part of the development, which dovetails perfectly into what Comey is out there tweeting out, and I'll get to the president's comments about it all in a minute, is we have our friend Kerry Pickett over at the Daily Caller pointing out that there are multiple,
many FBI agents that want congressional subpoenas because FBI rank and file want to testify about the agency's problems and the misdeeds and nefarious actions of people like him and McCabe and others and Strzok and Paige.
And the sources are claiming there is a demand within the agency to prosecute former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe because they want justice.
This makes them look bad, although they have done nothing but serve this country with honor.
And they also say the Bureau has become totally politicized under the leadership of these guys, obviously.
They want a subpoena by Congress because FBI agents, it's required by law that Congress pay their legal fees and protect them from agency retribution when these are the best people in the Bureau.
Let me give you a fact without any background.
This is me, the reporter side of Hannity.
We wouldn't be unfolding, the truth would not be unfolding before your very eyes, but for the brave men and women within the FBI that know exactly the things that I have, that me and this whole group of people have been telling you about for the last 18 months.
And they have been helping.
That's why you never sweep with a broad brush.
These are honorable people, honorable people in law enforcement that have dangerous jobs and that do their jobs with honor, integrity, respect, and absolute dignity.
And the same in the intel community and the CIA.
And then you have the players.
Then you have the Comeys.
Then you have the deep state actors.
Then you have McCabe and Strzok and Paige and Loretta Lynch.
Eric Holder's part of that group.
And you have, let's see, Clapper and Brennan and Yates.
And what did Obama know and Kerry know and Susan Rice know and Valerie Jarrett know and Ben Rhodes know?
And when did they know it?
Are we really going to get to the bottom of this?
Are we going to get to the truth of this?
But these agents, they're all over the country.
They're proud of their jobs.
As this Daily Caller piece points out, Kerry Pickle will join us later.
They love the Bureau.
They're proud of what they do.
They're sickened by the likes of Comey, McCabe, Holder, Lynch, and Brennan, and Clapper, the liar that he is.
They're sick of it.
And literally the fact that the Bureau used the powerful tools of intelligence, which I have been warning about how long now?
Literally against the American people and the will of the American people, and that they never, all starting with Hillary Clinton's crimes or felony, violating the Espionage Act with that to avoid congressional oversight, secret, top secret, special access program information on a hard drive in a mom-and-pop bathroom closet.
Subpoenet emails, no problem.
I'll delete them.
Good luck to any of you that try that.
Let's acid wash the hard drive so nobody could ever find them.
And then let's get an aide to beat up our BlackBerries and our iPhones and the process of all of this.
You know, as Joe DeGenova told the Daily Call, they're just waiting for a chance to come forward and to testify.
Now, all of this talk about tomorrow's meeting, I'm telling you right now, they're not going to hand over the documents tomorrow.
They're not going to give unredacted documents.
They are in full cover-up mode.
That's what all this obstruction has been about with Congress.
Doesn't matter that Congress has constitutional oversight in any of this, you know, but they literally, the problem is now the dam is breaking.
And you're going to see a cascading of information even quicker than it's been coming.
We have an FBI agent at Mike Flynn's interrogation ready to testify against McCabe, Strzok, and Comey.
They knew he didn't lie.
Why did they go out with an indictment?
They launched a counterintelligence operation against Donald Trump and his presidential campaign and his transition and his presidency.
Do you understand how profound that is?
And by the way, we have new orders for Paige and Strzok, the Lovebirds, to give us all their information.
And the role of Rod Rosenstein in all this.
He's whining and complaining to favorable news NBC that, oh, the Trump and Republicans are piling on.
What, about your misdeeds, your actions, how you operated, the things you did so wrong.
Agents are saying that they want Congress to issue them subpoenas now.
Might as well just come clean.
Be better for everybody.
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So we find out that on May 11th of 2018, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley sends a letter to the FBI director and Rod Rosenstein.
Apparently, Rod Rosenstein has a vicious, horrible temper, likes to yell at congressmen and aides and anybody that apparently he doesn't like.
Apparently, he's feeling very, very edgy these days, kind of like Clapper, Brennan, Yates, and all these deep state actors.
And Grassley, apparently, you know, stating that Comey testified the FBI didn't think General Flynn lied.
Then why is General Flynn charged with lying to the FII?
Now, that's interesting.
Grassley revealed that who the second FBI agent besides Strzzok was in the room in this ambush-style interview against General Flynn, and Grassley demanded that the FBI DOJ produce the transcript of Flynn's intercepted call with his soon-to-be Russian counterpart and the related 302s, the reports FBI agents take to summarize an interview with the subject.
Now, they recently, the unredacted portion of the House Intel report revealed Comey testified to the House Intel Committee members, the FBI agents who ambushed Flynn did not detect any deception.
Why was he charged?
The report also revealed the illegal leak, it was illegal, of General Flynn's call with his soon-to-be counterpart is what allowed the FBI DOJ to keep a counterintelligence operation open on General Flynn.
And now Grassley's asking and demanding answers from the FBI and DOJ.
Supposed to be in by this Friday.
And in the last paragraph of Grassley's letter, he requests that the other agent besides Strzzok be available for a transcribed interview with his committee staff.
He says the information requested, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Now, why is General Flynn indicted for lying to the FBI when the FBI agents, even the Trump hater, Peter Strzok, and the other agent in the room and Jim Comey, all admit they never detected anything that represented lying?
This is how we treat 30-year veterans of this country that serve this country.
You've got to be kidding me.
Or did they threaten his son and then maybe he said, all right, I'll fall on the sword for my kid.
Anyway, there's so much news in all of this.
It is really taking my breath away.
Now, I got to know General Flynn during the campaign.
Here's what I see.
I see a guy that's a patriot, and I know something happened, you know, which caused him to get fired.
And I don't know, I never have gotten the specifics of it ever.
But there is an interesting point that Senator Grassley's making.
And he's told the FBI, he wants to see the interview summaries with General Flynn, because we now know the agents who interviewed General Flynn say that they never saw any evidence at all that he was lying.
And his interrogation was used by Mueller to indict him.
The charge was lying to the FBI, despite reports that neither of the agents that conducted the interview agreed with that conclusion.
Anyway, in his letter to the FBI director, Grassley reveals that the second agent, along with Peter Strzok, interviewed Flynn on January 24th, 2017.
Grassley demanded the FBI DOJ produced the transcript of Flynn's intercepted calls with his soon-to-be Russian counterpart and all the related 302 interviews, summaries that come with it.
That's the FBI speak for, you know, they make summaries of every interview they have.
And he wants it done by this Friday.
And as Sarah Carter has pointed out, now weeks ago, according to numerous law enforcement sources, neither Strzok nor the other agent believed Flynn was lying during their interview with him as reported.
And by the way, another nonpartisan law enforcement officer were present in the Flynn interview, according to all these sources.
Do you realize if you look at, let's just slow down a minute here.
If you look at all that they have done and, you know, Andrew Weissman, the pit bull of special counsel Mueller, let's look at all this.
You got 13 Russian companies, big, big breaking news.
See, a conclusion.
So they indict all these 13 companies.
Well, now we've learned that they never thought those 13 companies were ever going to respond.
Turns out one of the companies they indicted never existed at the time.
Great job, Andrew.
Really, really good, thorough job.
And now the special counsel's office has got quite the dilemma because it's part of the process when you're indicting people because you want the word Russia so desperately in the investigation because it didn't work out with Flynn.
And then Paul Manafort, as Judge Ellis said, we know what they're doing.
Why did they go back to a 2005 tax fraud issue involving not Russia, but Ukraine?
Why?
Oh, well, Judge Ellis said it very well.
They wanted to put the screws.
He says it's often a technique of prosecutors.
They like to put the screws to somebody, like Paul Manafort in this case, so that Paul Manafort will begin to feel the pressure, and Paul Manafort will begin to sing.
There's always the risk, of course, that he'll compose.
That means, oh, you're threatening me with 30 years in jail.
What do you want me to say?
I'll say anything you want.
Get me out of jail.
That would be composing.
That would be suborning perjury.
And we know the reason because Judge Ellis told us that too.
When he said, well, we know the real reason you went back to 2005 in a case that's unrelated to anything to do with the original mandate.
God only knows what that mandate is.
And the only reason is, is that you want to get information, put the screws to Paul Manafort so he sings, maybe composes, and then you can use that to try and prosecute Donald Trump, can't prosecute or indict a sitting president, or lay the case out for impeachment against such.
And that means Paul Manafort's going to get the screws tightened ever so as tight as they can get them.
They're going to tighten those screws.
Why do you tighten the screws?
Well, you threaten 30 years in jail or more.
And that means Paul Manafort would die in jail.
And I don't know.
Then they say, well, but if you just say that you lied, but you tell us this, this, and this, you won't see any jail time.
We'll just give you a year's probation, two years probation.
Okay, that ankle bracelet you're wearing, we'll rip it right off you today.
Just tell us what we want to hear.
You know what we want to hear.
Tell us.
What do you know?
Well, Paul Manafort wasn't in the Trump campaign very long.
Unbelievable.
You know, look at what's happening.
Operation Crossfire Hurricane.
Amazing.
Glad that they have some decent musical taste over at the FBI.
Maybe we'll call Mueller's group a beast of burden.
Play the rest of it.
I was born in a crossfire hurricane.
That's the first line.
That's where the operation was labeled.
Operation Crossfire Hurricane.
You got it there, Jason?
Oh, he's pulling it up.
Anyway, so what happened?
Then we have, you know, surveillance, leaking of intelligence, unmasking.
We still have to get to all of that, too.
Now we have spies in the campaign.
Not one spy, but multiple spies in the campaign.
Wiretap fever.
We have unmasking fever.
And we have, on top of that, what, national security letters, et cetera, et cetera.
And we have, you know, we're changing the rules going back to 2011.
And then 2016 in December.
Remember, the government listed Trump Tower officials, then National Security Advisor Rice unmasking the names of Bannon and Kushner and Flynn.
Clapper made a new rule following National Security Agency to disseminate surveillance material within the government.
Now to all these other agencies, then the media strategy, the leaking to the media.
You know, Clapper, John Brennan, two of the most, you know, integral Intel officials, you know, joining national news organizations now almost daily.
Clapper, you know, oh, it was just a mistake when I lied to Congress.
Oh, really?
I wonder if Sean Hannity makes a mistake.
And I misremembered that.
They didn't mean that.
Yeah, that's going to go over.
Well, that's going to be Hannity handcuffs.
Hannity held hostage day 428.
It's unbelievable.
By the way, I'm watching the case of this kid.
Just to digress here a second.
In upstate New York, a couple got so fed up with their unemployed 30-year-old son and his refusal to leave the nest that they sued in court to evict him.
And they won.
They gave their son five notices before seeking legal action, and the kid just didn't care.
I mean, you know, if I recall, I think it's Eagles.
Maybe I've read this.
Maybe it's not true at all.
I have no idea, but I'm just going to throw it out there.
There are birds that, you know, if the little baby bird won't leave the nest on time, mama, papa bear come in and they take it up to a high place, and they're going to drop the bird.
And it's like, you know, sink or swim, fly or die.
Although I do think there's certain species that will swoop down and save the little bird and give it another shot, take it up again.
Start flapping.
Drop the bird again.
That means you want to see the little bird fly and live free.
Well, it's time for this guy to live free.
You know, I can't imagine.
No, I think the problem was he was living free.
It's time for him to work.
No, that's a good point.
I mean, at some point, don't you want to live on your own?
Have your own life?
I have so many comments for this gentleman, but I'm going to keep them to myself.
You know, I'm sorry, but for the parents to have to take this guy to court, I mean, that's pretty bad.
But that's what the educational system has brought up nowadays.
What's that?
I mean, every educational system, when you go from elementary school to high school to all the way through college, you're taught that you are supposed to be taken care of no matter what, whether it be the government or your parents.
Let me tell you something.
The best thing everybody in life needs to go through, and you're saying, yeah, easy for you to say, Hannity.
Easy for you to say, okay, I didn't have money for a big portion of my early adult life, nothing.
But I will tell you, it's important.
I think everybody needs to struggle.
Everybody needs a little struggle in their life.
And if you don't, you're robbing people of the ability to dig down deep inside themselves and see what they're made of.
Because what you're going to find is that you're going to find usually, wow, I can do this on my own.
Wow, I can be independent.
And you'll actually grow as a human being.
Give people too much, and what's going to happen is they're not going to grow.
So a certain amount of stress is good.
Now, creating a little safety net for people that you love, in case they kind of don't make it, okay, I'll hit you, I'll help you, but you got to get your act together and get moving here.
Okay, I'll help you a little bit.
I'm sorry that, you know, you had the accident, your car's smashed, and you don't have money to fix it.
I'll help you out or whatever.
You can't make the rent because you lost your job.
Okay, I'll cover you for a month or two.
Get your ass back to work.
I know it sounds harsh, doesn't it?
It sounds mean, selfish.
What?
It's not mean at all.
Of course it's not.
Now, Judicial Watch has been doing great work, and the Justice Department informed Judicial Watch late last week, the FBI plans to send letters to Strzok and Page asking them to preserve agency records on their personal accounts and personal devices and requesting confirmation that they are doing so.
A little late now.
Really?
You've got to be kidding me.
Yeah, I'm sure they saved them all, you know, because they thought that, well, law enforcement may want them one day, and we just want to be good stewards.
Just like Hillary.
Rod Rosenstein, who apparently has a vicious, vile temper, I'm hearing.
And he's becoming a bit unhinged behind the scenes, I'm also hearing.
And really mean, even to highly respected people in government.
He's now giving, you know, apparently whining and complaining at the Bloomberg Law Leadership Forum and event in New York.
When I announced the new policy on interagency coordination a few weeks ago, I explained that the term piling on refers to a football player jumping on a pile and other players after the opponent has already tackled.
He then added the piling on is never a good thing.
The dictionary defines piling on as joining other people and criticizing someone, usually in an unfair way.
And I also have experience with that.
I'm so I'm definitely piling on.
I'm definitely against piling on no matter what definition you use.
Oh, like piling on Trump, piling on Manafort going back to 2005, indicting General Flynn.
Nobody thought he lied.
And that kind of piling on?
President's been on fire about all of this in the right way.
You know, he quotes James Clapper.
Trump should be happy that the FBI was spying on his campaign.
Never before in the history of this country as a presidential campaign had spies that we know of ever.
President says, no, I'm not happy.
Spying on a campaign would be illegal and a scandal.
I keep telling everybody, and it's now beginning to unfold before your eyes.
This is the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in the history of this country.
Nothing comes close.
And the media is still, you know, blinded in their hatred of Trump.
President tweeted, spy gate could be one of the biggest political scandals in history.
It already is.
It's now a fact.
It's clear as they had eyes and ears all over the Trump campaign.
That is absolutely true.
FISA warrants, Hillary Clinton's misdeeds, and a rigged investigation, exoneration before investigation.
Anybody else would go to jail.
And of course, the bought and paid-for phony dossier, foreign national Christopher Steele, who in an interrogatory in Britain said, oh, that's raw intelligence.
I never believed it was all true.
I just, 50-50 may be best.
Yeah.
But that was then used as the basis, the bulk of information, to get a FISA warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate in the lead up to an election.
Sally Yates signed off on it.
Rod Rosenstein signed off on the last one.
Every three months has to be renewed.
And we can't forget not just one spy.
We might have had multiple spies in the Trump campaign.
President goes on, look how things have turned out on the criminal deep state.
They go after phony collusion with Russia, a made-up scam, end up getting caught in a major spy scandal, the likes of which this country may never have seen before.
What goes around comes around.
What did I say in the beginning of this year?
This is the year of the boomerang.
Look at this boomerang.
It's even going to get more powerful in the days and weeks to come.
I promise you.
Follow the money.
The spy was there early in the campaign that never reported collusion with Russia because there was no collusion.
He was only there to spy for political reasons and to help crooked Hillary win, just like they did to Bernie.
Why did nobody ever care about Bernie Sanders?
Remember, it was Donna Brazil that said it was rigged, the primary campaign.
But how do we know Bernie wasn't in on it?
Who knows?
Certainly wouldn't act the way I'd act if I had a campaign stolen from me.
I don't feel sorry for Bernie.
Then Trump goes on, if the person placed very early into my campaign wasn't a spy, but put there by the previous administration for political purposes, how come such a seemingly massive amount of money was paid for services rendered many times higher than normal?
Well, reports as much as a million bucks in two years to spy on the Trump campaign.
It's very scary what we're reporting.
It's chilling.
And if we don't fix it, we're done.
There's no way.
This will never stop.
All right, Sarah Carter, great column by Kerry Pickett, and another great column by Cheryl Atkinson, all coming up in your call straight ahead.
We're cleaning everything up.
This was a terrible situation.
What we're doing is we're cleaning everything up.
It's so important.
What I'm doing is a service to this country.
And I did a great service to this country by firing James Comey.
I did a great service to our country by firing James Comey.
All right, that was the president earlier today as he was going to his plane and he has a speech, obviously, in Long Island today and obviously about MS-13.
And that, of course, earlier in the week was taken out of context.
The president is now, the president is really finally taking on the deep state in every way imaginable.
You know, going on to say, quoting James Clapper, Trump should be happy the FBI was spying on his campaign.
He writes, no, James Clapper, I'm not happy.
Spying on a campaign would be illegal and a scandal to boot.
Now, this has never happened in American history.
None of this has ever happened.
President saying spygate could be one of the biggest political scandals in history.
I would argue we're already there.
Or deep state spygate.
You know, he points out that it's clear they had their eyes and ears all over the Trump campaign.
And then he points out, look how things have turned around in the criminal deep state.
They go after phony collusion with Russia, a made-up scam, and they end up getting caught in a major spy scandal, the likes of which this country may never have seen before.
What goes around comes around.
That certainly fits into what I said in January, that this 2018 will be the year of the boomerang.
Follow the money.
The spy was there early in the campaign and yet never reported collusion with Russia because there was no collusion.
He was only there to spy for political reasons and help crooked Hillary win, just like they did to Bernie Sanders, who got duped.
Nobody ever talks about what they did to Bernie Sanders, how that was rigged.
Donna Brazil's words, not mine, the head of the DNC's words.
And if the person placed very early into my campaign wasn't a spy, was put there by the previous administration for political purposes, you know, how come such a seemingly massive amount of money was paid for services rendered many times higher than normal, reports of over a million dollars now.
And then you could see the deep state in a deep state of panic when James Comey, and I warned him he had the right to remain silent.
He didn't listen to me.
And he goes on, he says, dangerous times when our country is led by those who will lie about anything, backed by those who will believe anything, based on information from media sources that will say anything, Americans must break out of the bubble and seek truth.
Facts matter, he says.
The FBI's use of confidential human sources, the actual term, yeah, spies, is tightly regulated and essential to protecting the country.
Attacks on the FBI lying about its work will do lasting damage to the country.
How will Republicans explain this to their grandchildren?
Mr. Comey, how are you going to explain your conduct to your grandchildren?
And Andrew McCabe, and what about Struck and Page?
And what about Loretta Lynch and the tarmac?
And what about you creating a two-tier justice system by rigging the investigation into Hillary Clinton, all of which we now know is true.
And FISA court judges being lied to and spies being put in campaigns.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
Joining us now, we have Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio.
He's a member of the Freedom Caucus and Sarah Carter, investigative reporter.
Welcome, both of you.
We also have other breaking news today all over the place, actually.
The Daily Caller saying FBI agents want to want Congress to issue them subpoenas so they can tell and reveal the Bureau's dirt.
Another one, FBI agent that was at Michael Flynn's interrogation is ready to testify against McCabe, Strzok, and Comey.
And all the hard work that Sarah Carter has done in this whole process, it seems like everything that we have been reporting for over a year and a half, the good work, the sources you have had, everything is panning out at a level I don't think any of us expected.
March 7th, 2017, you said there was a FISA warrant against the Trump campaign.
Now we have a FISA warrant and spies and FISA courts lied to and a rigged investigation.
Sarah.
Much bigger than we ever thought, Sean.
I mean, it's so unbelievable.
It surpasses almost anybody's expectations when the investigations first started.
I can tell you this: as far as the FBI agents, 100% right on.
I've been reporting this for a long time.
I've said over and over again: there were two people that interviewed Flynn.
They were at the White House.
We all know Peter Strzok, who's now been shamed and is over at the Human Resources Division at the FBI and was demoted.
And his texts have been out there for some time, was one of those agents.
And there was another agent.
Definitely, for more than a year now, the FBI sources that I have have said over and over again: this source is willing to come out and talk if they're subpoenaed.
Absolutely.
They want to talk.
They want to tell the truth about what happened.
And I think that's vitally important.
But as of yet, nobody has called on this FBI agent to do so.
And I find that very curious.
Well, we know that nobody's ever heard from the FISA judges either, Sarah.
And my life experience teaches me that if you go before a judge, you better say, yes, Your Honor, no, Your Honor, yes, ma'am, no, ma'am, yes, sir, no, sir.
Because if you don't, those judges are going to get pissed off pretty quickly.
Well, you've got to think about it.
I mean, there were four FISA applications that were taken out on Carter Page.
Each one renewed 90 days by law.
It has to be renewed.
And if, and it appears, based just on the Russia report, we don't even have all of the evidence yet.
Because remember, they've only been able to see it, and only a few people have actually seen those FISA applications.
But there were four of them.
And the last one was renewed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
And that last one has to contain all the cumulative evidence that was collected in order to continue proceeding with the surveillance on Carter Page.
That means everyone Carter Page was talking to was being collected in that dragnet.
That means everybody that they were talking to were possibly being collected in that dragnet as well.
So I think what's important here is that all of those evidentiary pieces of evidence, all of the documents that have been requested by the House Intelligence Committee, remember there was that April 24th letter that we've never seen.
It's a classified letter.
It was actually sent to the DOJ, and this is what the fight's been about: that all of that evidence and all of those documents need to be turned over to the committees so that they can review those documents and get the answers that they need to close this investigation out.
Let me go to Congressman Jim Jordan.
On the congressional side, look, Congressman, we have co-equal branches of government.
You're part of the legislative branch.
The executive branch, we have oversight.
We have separation of powers.
It is the constitutional duty of Congress to literally protect the country with oversight powers, but yet there's been obstruction and slow walking and lying in the name of national security to redact information that's embarrassing, like Jim Comey and Peter Strzzok not thinking that Michael Flynn, General Flynn ever lied.
So we know what's going on here, and I don't care about this meeting tomorrow.
I don't believe them.
I don't trust them.
They have purposely held this information back.
Yeah, they sure have.
And you said earlier, when you go in front of a judge, it's yes, sir, no, sir, yes, Your Honor, no, you aren't.
You know the other thing you have to do in a courtroom, Sean?
You have to give the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
The FBI took a dossier to the FISA court to get a warrant to spy on a fellow American citizen, and they didn't do that.
They didn't do what you and I have to do in court.
They didn't tell him the dossier was paid for by the Clinton campaign, and they didn't tell him that Christopher Steele, the guy who wrote the document, had been fired by the FBI.
So when they now tell us, oh, we're going to help you tomorrow.
We're going to give you the information that you as a separate and equal branch of government are entitled to, I'll believe it when I see it.
But you're exactly right.
Their track record is not good.
And the other thing you remind me of in your earlier comment, you were so right about Clapper.
Clapper said yesterday, the informant wasn't spying on the Trump campaign.
He was looking at potential Russian interference in the election.
Well, if that was the case, why didn't you alert the Trump campaign?
Why didn't you tell him, oh, Russia's trying to get some people on the periphery of your campaign?
Why didn't you tell the Trump campaign?
Why didn't you brief the nominee of the Republican Party who's running for the highest office in the land?
Don't give me that baloney that we got from Clapper yesterday.
That made no sense, and yet he's trying to get away with that.
Well, I think those are all really good points.
And Clapper and Brennan and Sally Yates and all these deep state operatives seem to be in a big state of panic here.
But the bottom line is, you know, this is so massive, Sarah.
It goes back to the unmasking scandal.
And, you know, we have all of this surveillance taking place, all of unprecedented, a 350% increase in 2016 in unmasking of American citizens without the process known as minimization.
We had the leaking of raw intelligence in the case of General Flynn.
We're not even talking about that part of all of this.
We still haven't gotten the Inspector General's report as it relates to Hillary.
And we know the evidence.
There is no question anymore.
She committed felonies.
18, USC 793, violating the Espionage Act with that server in a mom-and-pop bathroom closet with classified top-secret special access programming information.
And then when it's subpoenaed, you don't have the right to delete 33,000 emails, acid wash your hard drive, beat the crap out of your devices so there's no trail of any of it.
And then have people like Strzok and Paige, Strzzok rather, and Comey, literally start writing your exoneration months before you're interviewed, the key witness, and 17 other key witnesses.
And then you don't get to pay for Russian lies to manipulate the American people, bought and paid for, never corroborated.
And then deep state actors present it before a court, which is a violation of law, violation of FBI protocol, lying to judges to get a warrant to spy on an American citizen, a member of the Trump campaign.
They didn't do it once.
They did it four times, and they never told any judge that she paid for it.
They lived to the American people.
Sean, they lied to the American people over and over again.
They lied to Congress.
I mean, now, you know, Congress is starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
And those pieces of the puzzle show guilt over and over and over again.
You know, Comey came out today, and he was saying, you know, the Trump campaign should be lucky, should be lucky that they had an informant in the campaign, as they like to call it, or spy, as I like to call it, somebody who is reporting back information on them.
But when you look at it on its face, my question to Director Comey would be, well, why didn't you give him a defensive briefing?
Like Congressman Jordan said, if you were so concerned that somebody was going to try to penetrate the campaign, your duty and obligation, your duty and obligation to a candidate for the presidency of the United States would be to report that to them, to give them a defensive briefing and let them know, hey, we have some concerns.
But it appeared that it fit perfectly into whatever they were thinking.
Because remember, when Trump made the announcement in March 2016 and he kind of put out the people that were involved in his, you know, that would be working with him on foreign policy.
That's when Carter Page came out.
That's when George Papadopoulos was announced.
And it was right after that that Comey and Loretta Lynch met in that early spring.
And then they met again with senior Obama officials.
And right in the Russia report, they deliberated.
They deliberated whether or not to give a defensive briefing.
And then they chose not to.
And it wasn't even a month after that that all of the sudden Fusion GPS shops around, apparently, you know, this dossier on Trump, which was just an opaque, and Hillary Clinton and the DNC pick it up from there and they decide to investigate Russia-Trump collusion.
Well, you know what?
I don't believe in coincidences, Sean.
Well, now we've got spies, maybe multiple spies.
You've heard what Caputo had to say, and you heard what Devin Nunes had to say.
There might likely be more than one.
You know, what I'm trying to understand, what was the justification for putting spies?
Where's the warrant for putting spies?
You know, the threading of the needle, the Clinton-like or Clinton East the like, you know, propaganda and statement of James Comey just doesn't apply with anybody.
We have due process in this country.
We have the rule of law in this country.
We're supposed to have equal application under the law in this country.
We do have laws against unreasonable search and seizure.
And I don't believe anybody, I don't, this has never happened that anybody knows of that the FBI exonerates one candidate from known felonies and crimes and then literally turns the power of the deep state against the other candidate and puts spies within the campaign and also lies to FISA judges so they can get deeper into the campaign.
All right, hold this thought there.
We're going to come back.
We'll continue more with Sarah Carter.
As we continue Sean Hannity Show, Jim Jordan's going to join us at the bottom of the hour again.
We continue with Sarah Carter, investigative reporter.
You know, something, I was reading Andy McCarthy's piece and another excellent analysis on when the FBI decided to start this investigation.
And we got into this last night in terms of their timeline is really off.
And what he's pointing out, what you have been telling me, and I haven't been paying close enough attention, to be honest, is that in late in the spring of 2016, Comey briefed principals of the National Security Council on the Carter Page information.
This all started, their narrative that this started after the Clinton investigation was rigged.
This is false.
The timeline is off, isn't it?
It's completely off.
And I think this is what, you know, the revelation of part of what the congressional committees have been investigating.
It's about the timeline.
It's about the process of these FISA applications.
And this is where they're getting caught up in their lies.
You know, first they tried to say it was Carter Page, it was the dossier.
Then we saw the story in the New York Times that said, no, no, no, wait a minute.
It wasn't about when Carter Page went in July to Moscow.
It was about when George Papadopoulos had met with Ambassador Downer in England.
And that's what spurred this investigation.
No, all you have to do is look at their own timeline when they met.
And that was in the early spring.
That was after Carter Page was announced as being part of the Trump campaign.
And lo and behold, you know, it was Loretta Lynch, it was Comey, it was Andrew McCabe.
He was involved in these discussions as well, along with principals of the Obama administration, the most senior leaders.
That would have been Clapper.
It would have been Brennan.
It would have been others that were involved in those principal discussions, including Samantha Powers and others, that would have known about this.
Well, at that point in time, you would say to yourself, if they were really concerned about Carter Page, who, by the way, helped the FBI put away four Russians.
So when the Russians, they believed the Russians were trying to turn him, and that was back, way back in 2015.
They went to Carter Page, and Carter Page actually assisted the FBI.
Stay right there.
Sarah Carter, investigative reporter, is with us.
All right, 800-941-Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
Quick break.
More with investigative reporter Sarah Carter, Jim Jordan, and at the top of the hour, Cheryl Atkinson has an amazing timeline.
Kerry Pickett has some new news to give us as well as we continue.
Let me tell you something that I know for a fact.
This informant, this person that they planned, tried to plan into the campaign and even into the administration, if you believe Axios, he's not the only person that came with the campaign.
And the FBI is not the only Obama agency that came with the campaign.
I know because they came at me.
And I'm looking for clearance to my attorney to reveal this to the public.
This is just the beginning.
And I'll tell you, when we finally find out the truth about this, Director Clapper and the rest of them are going to be wearing some orange suits.
I was told by the intermediary on May 9th that they wanted to get them to me.
I gave this information to the House Intelligence Committee.
I gave this information to the Senate Intelligence Committee two weeks ago.
And I gave this information to the Mueller team.
And they never reached out to the intermediary to check on it.
All right, that was Michael Caputo.
Remember, he was interviewed by me when he got out of the special counsel's office in his last interrogation, if you will, that took place.
Remember, after that interrogation by Mueller and his merry band of witch hunters and liberal Democratic Party donors, then he went on to say as he was leaving, and we'll be watching you on TV, you know, which is nothing but a direct threat to Michael Caputo to shut up because we're watching you.
Okay.
Remember, Judge Ellis talking about unfettered power?
That's what he's talking about.
Really?
Is that what law enforcement is going to do?
Because he wants to tell his story and tell the truth.
This is now imploding right before their very eyes.
And if you're just joining us now, 25 till the top of the hour, you have FBI agents now wanting Congress to issue them subpoenas.
They want to reveal the dirt and the misdeeds of those in the higher echelons of power in the Bureau.
The FBI is having a ton of other problems, too.
And we're also looking at the timeline into all of this.
And Andy McCarthy points out in the late spring 2016, FBI's then Director Comey briefed the principals of the National Security Council on, quote, the Carter Page information.
We do not know the NSC principals attended, that attended Comey's briefing about Page, but how curious that the House Intel Committee interviewed so many Obama administration officials who were on and who are knowledgeable Knowledgeable about the NSC, and yet none of them provided a date for this meeting more precise than late spring 2016.
He says, I'm not buying it, by the way, neither am I.
The real Russiagate origination story begins in the early spring of 2016, long before Page went to Russia, long before the U.S. government was notified about Papadopoulos' boozy conversation with Alexander Downer, the guy that donated $25 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Back in February, after the House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes put out the Republican Majority's memo known as the Nunes memo about FISA abuse, well, Committee Democrats responded, as I point out at the time, that the memo by the ranking member Schiff let slip that the FBI had interviewed Carter Page in March of 2016.
You know, so why was the FBI interviewing Carter Page a full four months before Russia had committed the so-called crime that set everybody's hair on fire in the DNC email hack?
Now, Page had previous connections with Russia, and the FBI was concerned that he was being recruited as a Russian agent.
Why didn't they tell the Trump campaign?
Why didn't they bring them into the process?
You know, but if a tangential connection to Russia by Carter Page was all it took to get Comey so concerned about Russia compromising a presidential election, why was it not a problem that Bill Clinton got a $500,000 speaking fee from Kremlin-connected sources back during the Uranium One deal?
I mean, it's just such a double standard.
Why were the FBI wasting their time with Carter Page when the Clinton Foundation had already gotten, what, over $100 million from Russian-connected money?
Anyway, Sarah Carter remains with us.
Investigative reporter Jim Jordan went for a vote on the House floor.
He'll join us in a second.
I think this timeline, it could end up being the smoking gun that makes everybody now realize that what we have been told is not true.
The story about Papadopoulos, the four-way hearsay story, is not true.
Well, and it also tells us something else I think that's very important.
That it appears to be that it was a conscious effort among those members of the Obama administration, including Comey and everybody else who discussed this, to allow this to continue.
And if you want to say setup, it might have been a setup.
Because my question here is this: if they were meeting sources, and I don't, you know, there were people overseas in London, and that was when Carter Page was at that meeting, and we have these spies approaching people in the Trump campaign.
And the one spy informant had connections to the CIA and the FBI, I would have to say to myself, he wasn't just accidentally running into Carter Page.
He wasn't just accidentally running into, you know, George Papadopoulos.
He was actually told to run into them and collect that information.
And that makes it a big difference between a spy and an informant if he was directed to do that.
So then I would have to say to myself, well, okay, if this guy's connected to the CIA, did Brennan know about this?
Was Brennan sharing sources with the FBI?
How did that come about?
How did they make this happen?
And these are the questions that we have to be asking ourselves in the bigger scheme of things, Sean, and in this timeline.
All right, it is pretty unbelievable when you get to it.
Now, the other news that broke earlier today that we haven't hit yet is Rod Rosenstein, who I hear has a really vile and vicious temper and has been lashing out at everybody, including members of the House Intelligence Committee and elsewhere.
And Rod Rosenstein, who really was conflicted out of this from the get-go by recommending the firing of Comey and then signing off himself on not the first FISA application warrant, not the subsequent renewal or the second subsequent renewal, but the final subsequent renewal.
And that meant that the bulk of information he signed off on, that makes him more guilty than anybody, in my opinion, was the Hillary Clinton bought and paid for Christopher Steele created Russian sourced, Russian government source lies that made up the bulk of that application.
He signed off on that personally.
I would think that would have conflicted him out of all this.
And it sounds like he is the guy that has the most to hide in all of this.
He appears to be the guy that has the most to hide in all of this, and he is.
And this is the reason why the Department of Justice has been fighting tooth and nail and Christopher Wright not to expose what I believe will be found out later to be malfeasance within their department.
And this is what's so incredible about this.
He signs off on the final FISA.
That means, well, if you want to take it flat on its face, he should know what was in that FISA.
He should understand what they were doing.
I mean, this was at this point in time.
You have a president of the United States.
Seven months into that final FISA, President Trump was running the country.
So they were actually investigating the campaign because everybody that was connected to Carter Page fell into that drag net.
And that's what I'm talking about here.
So you have to ask yourself, why is Rod Rosenstein fighting so hard to not release these documents?
And like you, Sean, I don't have a lot of faith that the meeting that is apparently going to happen tomorrow will reveal anything new.
Probably they will be discussing these issues.
But look, they've been discussing these issues back and forth, back and forth.
And they've threatened contempt.
They've threatened subpoena.
And once again, you know, they find a way to maneuver.
That is, the Justice Department finds a way to maneuver and allow these things to happen so that they're once again back in another meeting.
I mean, this is the reason why Chairman Nunez didn't want to attend any more meetings with the Justice Department, out of that fear that something would happen, that they would either set them up, try to get them to leak information, but all the leaks came out of the Justice Department.
That's what nobody understands here.
The majority of leaks, crossfire hurricane, all the information relating to the supposed spy, informant, those leaks had to have come out of the FBI and Justice Department.
And that's what's so important to understand here is that none of those leaks came from anybody else but them because they were the only people who knew about it.
Let me play Jim Clapper.
I mean, we know that he lied under oath and he said, oh, I just made a mistake.
No, he lied under oath.
And now he's trying to cover his tracks by saying, oh, it was just a mistake.
He made this comment just recently on fake news, MSNBC, the conspiracy theory network, that has been wrong the entire time.
Anyway, I'm sure no one in the Obama administration knew about the FBI informant and the Trump campaign.
He's lying again.
Listen.
I wasn't aware of it contemporaneously, nor was I aware of the identity of any informant, nor should I have been in my position as DNI for the FBI, for the informants for the FBI.
Because one of the things that's important about this program, which is quite legitimate, is a very valuable source of information for the FBI, is confidentiality.
And so if someone is going to cooperate and help the FBI, they need to know that their identity is going to be protected.
So this is going to have, I think, a chilling effect on, regrettably, the identity is out there in the media.
It's going to have a chilling effect on other informants who already help the FBI and certainly make it more difficult, I think, to recruit other informants.
It's deliberately shielded from political officials.
So I'm sure no one in the White House, I certainly didn't know about it.
It would be approved at a, I'm sure, at a very high level within the FBI because this is a rigorously overseen program, has definite rules, regulations, and protocols that have to be adhered to to manage an informant.
There's no evidence that they ever in the history of this country put spies inside of opposition party campaigns like they did here.
And where's the warrant, Mr. Clapper?
I thought Alan Dershowitz had an amazing answer to this.
Here's his answer.
If this had happened to Hillary Clinton, the ACLU would be jumping up and down the way they did when I was on the board of the ACOU, when undercover agents were put into the anti-war movement, into civil rights movement.
All they were there was to listen into Muslim churches.
Civil libertarians are generally a little bit suspicious when undercover agents go just to ask questions.
And I think we as civil libertarians ought to be suspicious to this.
Allay our suspicions, and then we'll be fine.
And Sarah, I mean, the point is they purposely put these spies out there, and there was more than one.
It's incredible.
It's incredible.
And who leaked that information?
Let's just go back to the Department of Justice in their letter.
Remember when Devin Nunez was asking for this information, they were in a back-and-forth fight several weeks ago.
They said, you know, Nunez hasn't responded to our calls.
We're set to meet with him on Friday.
He said, I don't want to meet with you guys unless you're able to produce something.
And what they did was they leaked a letter.
They basically didn't even leak it.
They made it public.
The Department of Justice made their letter in response to Devin Nunez public.
And that's where the one informant came up, where they said information could threaten national security and possibly endanger lives.
And Chairman Nunez came right out and said, look, that isn't even what we asked for.
That isn't even what we asked for.
Our letter is classified.
We are asking for documents.
Our letter is classified.
You're the one that brought up the informant.
And then we get the leaks in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
And Clapper is right about one thing.
Those names and anything surrounding an informant or a spy for the FBI would be considered highly confidential and classified.
So the only people who would have known about this person would have been the people that were handling him and the senior officials within the DOJ and the FBI.
So nobody else could have leaked that information out except for them.
We'll continue our final moments with Sarah Carter.
Then we've got new and more information from Kerry Pickett.
FBI agents in Congress want them to be, they want to be subpoenaed so they can reveal all of the misdeeds by their bosses.
This is a new development.
This is huge.
And Cheryl Atkinson has an amazing timeline, and this timeline is now becoming more crucial by the day.
All right, final moments, an unbelievable news day here.
We'll have all of this tonight on Hannity, Dine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Harry Pickett in a few moments.
Many agents in the FBI, they want Congress to subpoena them.
They want to tell and reveal the real issues and the real nefarious things that have been going on behind the scenes, but they can't say anything unless they're subpoenaed.
All right, Sarah Carter.
So where are we going next?
It seems like even now that this has now gone to another level from FISA abuse and rigging and fixing investigations.
And now that we're seeing their timeline crubble, it appears with the FBI spies inside the Trump campaign.
I see a lot of people in deep legal trouble now.
Deep legal trouble is right, Sean.
There's a need right now for full transparency.
That means these documents need to be turned over, whether that's by the president's order or whether the House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee can get the DOJ on board and agree to this because there's no other way to get around this.
There's no turning back now.
There's too much out there already.
People know what's going on here.
The IG report is set to come out soon, and that will focus on Hillary Clinton, the FBI's handling of the server case.
And I think a lot more information is going to come out in that report.
And then remember, Horowitz, Michael Horowitz, the inspector general for the DOJ, has another report after that, and that will deal with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants.
And that's going to be very important because that'll coincide with the House Committee's investigation.
There's no way they can go back on this right now.
There's too much information out there.
A lot of people need to see the truth.
And I think that there needs to be an overhaul.
And as for, you know, Kerry Pickett's story, I think it's very important.
It's the same thing that I've been hearing for more than a year now from my sources.
I'm stunned and surprised that nobody has subpoenaed these FBI agents yet.
Or the FISA judges.
They need to talk to.
All right.
You deserve a Pulitzer Prize by the time this is all said and done.
Amazing, amazing work that you've done.
Sarah Carter, thank you.
We'll see you on Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern.
We appreciate you being with us.
When we come back, that piece that she was referring to by Kerry Pickett, that many agents in the FBI, they want to talk.
We'll explain that and the importance of the timeline next.
They may have had someone who was talking to them in the campaign.
But, you know, the focus here, as it was with the intelligence community, is not on the campaign per se, but what the Russians were doing to try to instantiate themselves in the campaign or to influence or leverage it.
So if there was someone that was observing that sort of thing, well, that's a good thing.
Just hear what James Clapper said.
Oh, it's a good thing we have spies.
Did we have warrants?
Did we tell the president?
Did you, or the then candidate Trump?
Has this ever happened to any other campaign?
Is it normal practice to lie to FISA court judges with opposition party bought and paid for lies the way it happened with Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for dossiers?
Is this all normal?
This is a good thing.
Anyway, we have a lot of ground to cover.
News Roundup Information Overload Hour on the Sean Hannity Show, 800-941 Sean is our number.
We have two big pieces that we want to share with you this hour.
I mentioned it earlier, Kerry Pickett's piece, where many agents in the FBI, these are the rank and file guys that I almost, I go out of my way every day to point out, they're not involved in this.
This is not their doing.
They shouldn't be, you know, we shouldn't paint with a broad brush because the 99% of them do a great job for us, including the Intel Committee and the CIA and the FBI.
But there are agents, and I think at the end of the day, when we get to the truth, it's only going to be because people within the ranks of the FBI that have stood up and risked their careers and passed on information and told the truth.
We're only going to get there because they are helping, and they have been from the beginning.
And they'll be the unsung heroes in all of this.
So we can hopefully stop these deep state, illegal actions in an attempt, literally, at a coup in the United States.
Anyway, many of these agents, they want Congress to subpoena them so that they can reveal the problems that were caused by James Comey and Andrew McCabe.
And I'm sure we'd love to hear from the FISA judges as well.
And then we now have this all-important timeline, the most comprehensive put together by Cheryl Atkinson.
She's done an amazing job on this.
And she's the host of Sinclair Sunday TV.
It's a program called Full Measure, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Smear, Kerry Pickett, investigative reporter with the Daily Caller.
Welcome both of you to the program.
Let's start with you, Kerry Pickett, and this blockbuster that, yeah, a lot of rank and file want to tell the truth, but Congress has to subpoena them for that to happen.
That's right, Sean.
Very often we hear the term whistleblower, and we also hear many people say, why don't these FBI agents just get protections by our country's whistleblower laws?
But the problem really is that they want to step forward, but the whistleblower laws can only go so far as far as protecting them.
These FBI agents say we would rather be subpoenaed to give our stories because then the Congress will then be able to pay for our legal representation.
The whistleblower laws will not be able to do that.
After all, these are the guys who have to pay for their mortgages just like everybody else.
They have to pay for their kids' college education.
And so ultimately, a big issue here, as far as they're concerned, is that just like everybody else, they want to see the bad apples weeded out of the Bureau.
And also, keep in mind, they're having big problems in the Bureau when it comes to conviction rates over at the FBI.
As of now, like the Time Magazine ended up doing an analysis.
Last year, it was about a 47% conviction rate over at the Bureau.
Across the government agencies, the average conviction rate, anytime government agencies send that over to the Justice Department, they have around a 73% conviction rate.
And that is pretty sad if the FBI only has a 47% conviction rate.
And that has a lot to do with the accredibility over at the FBI.
So they're thinking to themselves it has become too politicized.
And we have to start weeding up the bad apples right now if we're going to start getting our credibility back right now.
I couldn't agree with you more.
Cheryl, let's go to you.
I really appreciated the amount of work you put into your timeline.
And what's so important about it is that there was, and we had discussed this early on, and I haven't mentioned it in a long time, you know, how the rules changed in 2011 and what the impact of that was, and how it became much more, it became much easier to spy on people.
Then we have the rate of unmasking American citizens, a 350% increase in 2016 alone.
And all of these little bits of information put us in a position where the intelligence community had fewer restrictions on them and the feeling that they were invincible.
And I think that led to a lot of what happened in the election and since the election of 2016.
Which begins to smack of a very organized counterintelligence operation, not against Russia, as is claimed, but against the Trump campaign for political reasons.
And I just published a piece of The Hill that outlines eight specific signs that point to this that are, I think, pretty irrefutable.
And Carrie's right, there are people inside our intel agencies who would like to talk, but sources of mine, even if they got protection or supposed subpoenas, still wouldn't want to talk because they don't trust Democrats or many Republicans to be able to protect them and pursue the truth, which is very sad.
Well, I think that's it.
But let's go back.
I want you to go through a little more details of your timeline.
And, you know, the moments that stuck out the most for you in terms of that sort of set the stage that they had at least more power than they ever had before.
And the danger, of course, arises if you have power, you're going to abuse that power.
And in fact, it happened.
Well, just like civil libertarians warned after 9-11, when we make changes for all the right reasons to try to make it better so that we can better protect ourselves against terrorism and things like that, there tends to be abuses.
And the intel community, especially bad actors, will use that to go too far and maybe swing the pendulum in the wrong direction.
But one thing that didn't get a lot of attention that is pretty clear in the timeline is that anti-Russian Ukrainians allegedly helped coordinate and execute a campaign against Trump in partnership with the Democratic National Committee and news reporters.
This is laid out very clearly, yet I don't think it's the subject of anybody's investigation.
That's foreign influence in our election.
Not to mention the foreign influence of the Yemen-born ex-British spy, Christopher Steele, who we know is integrally involved, and the FBI used him and used his political opposition research.
We know about the orchestrated leaks that I've gone through some of those one right after the other in order, some of them on completely false information, but all of them anti-Trump.
So all of them one way or another design, again, in what seems like an orchestrated operation against President Trump.
So those are just a few things.
And, you know, as I look over your piece, Kerry Pickett, and based on my own experience, kind of leading, you know, with my chin here, there's been a number of us that have been out in front of this story and getting the crap beat out of us every day, but being proven right every other day, is that at the heart of all of this is it's all political.
And it all seems to start with the desire that Hillary win the Democratic nomination and the belief that she would be the next president.
And then the effort to undermine an opposition party candidate and lie to FISA courts in the process with her propaganda.
So true, Sean, what we have here, one particular source of mine who spoke to a special agent in the Washington field office of the FBI and gave to the Daily Caller a transcript of his interview with the special agent, quote, the administrations are so politicized that any time a special agent comes forward as a whistleblower, they can expect to be thrown under the bus by leadership.
Go against the Muslim Brotherhood, you're crushed.
Go against the Clintons, you're crushed.
The FBI has long been politicized to the detriment of national security and law enforcement.
Now, mind you, Sean, back in October of 2016, I spoke to this same source who also spoke to Washington Field Office FBI agents who said at the time, remember, this is October 2016, this is before Trump was elected, said that Comey stood in the way of the Clinton email investigation.
And just one month later, then you had Trump elected and you had, and a common refrain was, oh, well, it was Comey's fault because he reopened the Clinton email investigation.
No, according to FBI agents, they were saying, no, no, Comey was actually sort of helping Clinton in a way.
So it'll be very interesting to see when the IG report comes out, how exactly was Comey essentially blocking the Clinton email investigation in some way, shape, or form.
Yeah, I mean, this is amazing.
How high, Cheryl Atkinson, as you look at this, can you explain again in a little more detail?
We're not paying attention to the Ukrainian efforts to influence our election.
And by the way, people are surprised about this.
That's ridiculous, too, because in 2014, I know that Devin Nunes wrote in the Washington Times very explicitly warning everybody that Russia had their sight set on influencing and creating some type of havoc and chaos in the American elections.
And that's happened in Europe a lot and it's happened to us before.
So it won't be, I guess, the last effort on their part.
And then, of course, just weeks before the election, Obama saying no serious person ever believes the United States of America could ever, blah, blah, you know, ever be, our elections could ever be hacked by anybody and telling Trump to stop whining.
So this isn't new, but go back to the Ukrainian part.
Well, and I'd like to mention that if they were conducting an investigation into Russia interference in the election at the same time the president was telling people it was not possible and then were utterly incapable of stopping it once they've begun an investigation, that all just points to severe incompetence.
But I don't think that was the case.
I think it was a political operation.
But for the Russians, this was detailed in a political article I found in early 2017 that really didn't get a lot of attention.
But with specificity and with interviews of the actual people involved, there were details such as a Democratic operative, a Ukrainian-American woman named Alexandra Chalupa, briefed the Democratic National Committee early on.
This is in March of 2016 on Russia ties to Manafort and Trump.
And with the DNC's encouragement, he went to the Ukrainian embassy to try to arrange a meeting with Ukrainian president to discuss Manafort and his lobbying.
I mean, Manafort was an enemy of the pro-Ukraine interests because Manafort was tied to this Trump associate, was tied to the Russia interests in Ukraine.
So this may be a political fight that was playing out more than anything else.
The Ukrainian embassy officials and the Democratic operative Chalupa, according to this reporter, this report Politico, coordinated an investigation with the Hillary team into Paul Manafort, which included reaching out to media organizations and media people who wrote articles on all of this, such as Michael Issakoff.
So a direct line can be drawn between Ukrainian officials, the Democratic National Committee, these operatives, and the media in all of this.
You know, just think everyone's so against the influencing of elections.
Everyone seems to forget that Barack Obama even used some taxpayer money in an effort to undermine then prime, now current prime minister, but in his re-election, the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and we've chronicled that story well.
What I think is so absolutely amazing in all of this, indicative of all of this, you look at every indictment we have here, the 13 Russian bot companies.
Well, they never thought they were going to fight back.
And look what happened.
They indicted a company that didn't exist at the time.
I mean, a total screw-up.
And I guarantee you, they're going to have to, because of discovery, they're probably going to dismiss those indictments.
Paul Manafort, as Judge Ellis said, you know, that the only reason they went back to a 2005 to 2007 tax fraud issue was because they want to put the screws to Manafort to make him sing so that he'll give information, maybe compose information that would allow for the prosecution or then impeachment of Donald Trump.
Judge Ellis was right in that case.
You know, look in the case of General Flynn.
And General Flynn, we now know neither Strzok nor Comey or anybody thought he was lying to the FBI.
They didn't believe it.
And they tried to hide that information in the name of national security, redacting it originally.
And the unredacted version shows something different: that the FBI never thought that General Flynn ever lied.
Not once.
We'll take a break.
We'll come back more with Cheryl Atkinson and Kerry Pickett.
She is the host of the TV program on Sinclair on Sunday.
It's called Full Measure, author of the bestseller, The Smear, Kerry Pickett, investigative reporter with the Daily Caller.
Back to you, Kerry Pickett.
What percentage of agents that you are talking to are disgusted by the actions of their superiors as part of your story today?
Because everybody I know in the FBI, they are the most angry of anyone.
Well, Sean, I can't give you an exact number.
What I can tell you, though, is, like I mentioned before, there's just a real concern of just getting back to business because right now they feel like they just simply cannot do what they need to do, which is basically prosecuting criminals and also mainly getting on with their investigations without being scrutinized in some political fashion.
Now, keep in mind, one of the things that I, for example, that one of my sources mentioned to me, he said that one of his one of the FBI field agents that he speaks to frequently, he says that he doesn't even want to put his FBI field jacket on or anything that identifies him as an FBI agent simply because he's almost ashamed.
It's one of those things where the morale in the Bureau is just completely down.
So it's just an issue of credibility right now.
So as far as numbers, that's a little bit tough to peg.
But as far as morale is concerned, morale just needs to really get upped.
And that just is an issue of just bringing back the credibility back to the Bureau.
All right, last word, Cheryl Atkinson.
I think that what's coming out is an overarching pattern that you don't even have to parse to finally to see that there were political motivations here.
And this is indicative of a broad pattern within government of missing documents, of documents requested by Congress that we own that are turned over, improperly redacted, of misbehavior of all kinds by certain government actors, a culture that exists that they were very fearful Trump would come in and ruffle and discover perhaps crimes, in my view, that have been committed.
Unbelievable.
And, you know, if Hillary won, we wouldn't know any of this.
It would all have been covered up.
And that was what that was their miscalculation in all of this.
They never thought Trump could win.
Great work.
We really appreciate it.
Cheryl Atkinson, Kerry Pickett, thank you for being with us.
You know, those are last thing.
Sarah, Jay, David Schoen, Byron York, Peter Schweitzer, Tom Fitton, Sidney Powell, Greg Jarrett.
You know, now more and more people are being added.
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We're going to take a little break from this.
I mean, I'm literally sweating today covering this so hard.
When we get back, my buddy, we're going to check in with Charlie Daniels and much more straight ahead.
The devil went down to Georgia.
Yeah, he was looking for a soul to steal.
He was in a bond because he was way behind, so he was willing to make a deal.
When he came upon this young man, sawing on a fiddle and playing it hot, well, the devil jumped up on a hickory stump.
He said, Boy, let me tell you what.
I guess you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.
Whoops.
And you play pretty good fiddle, boy, but give the devil his due.
I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul because I think I'm better than you.
So he said, my name's Johnny, and it might be a sin, but I'll take your bet.
You're going to regret because I'm the best it's ever been.
Johnny, you're honest up your bow and play your fiddle hard.
Cause hell's broke loose in Georgia and the devil deals the cards.
And if you win, you get this shiny fiddle, let him go.
But if you lose, the devil gets your soul.
All right, that can only mean one thing when we're playing the devil went down to Georgia.
That means our buddy Charlie Daniels is back.
And along with him is Bob Regan, who is the founder of this group called Operation Song, a nonprofit group that empowers vets and active duty military to share their stories through songwriting.
And we're also going to be joined in a minute by Sean Niquette, an Iraq war veteran.
He co-wrote the song.
We played it on the air before.
That's called West Point to Arlington in memory of his special forces captain.
We'll play it in a few minutes.
But let me welcome Mr. Daniels, sir.
I know every time I start doing your song, you laugh.
I know.
I know you're making fun of me.
You still remember the words I am expressed.
What do you mean I still remember the words?
They're etched into my memory.
I had a great time when we did that song of Freedom Tour.
Oh, man.
It was so fun for me.
You look like Garth Brooks jumping around on the stage.
Thank you.
I swear you're going to fall off a drum rise or something, but yeah, it was bound to happen.
If I stayed on tour with you, you probably were going to lose all your fans.
People say you're ruining the best song we're all waiting for.
People got, you would not believe how charged people got out of it, man.
They loved it.
It was so fun.
Listen, I know how many times you've been over, you know, doing USO tours and seeing our military guys.
You have devoted so much of your personal time and your band's time.
I've been doing it for a lot of years.
I've been, of course, I went to Iraq three times.
But I've been to Guantanamo.
I've been to Greenland.
I've been to, gosh, Kosovo and Bosnia, and I don't know, just wherever our guys and gals are at.
You know, we've tried to get there, especially in my younger years.
We tried to get there.
What do you mean in your younger years?
You're only 30 years old.
You're very kind.
Also, about 51 years.
I hear you every weekend on Y2 Country.
They're playing you all the time.
Well, that's good, man.
I'm glad to know somebody's playing my records.
Of course they're playing your records.
Or, you know, you got the Zach Brown band giving you a run for your money on the devil.
Well, that's true.
They do a great job on that.
I've heard them do that.
Is that a compliment to a songwriter?
And obviously, you're an icon in the country music industry.
And, you know, somebody is successful and really talented as Zach Brown comes along and he wants to play your song.
Is that a compliment to you?
Absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's, you know, I love hearing people do our stuff.
I like to hear other people do it, see how they, you know, how they perceive it to be.
But yeah, absolutely.
And Sean, they do such a great job as Zach Brown does.
I mean, they're just.
I've heard all kinds of people have written parodies of the song.
The best parody I ever heard was a song about the English-Scottish soccer game called Big Widdy Went Down to Wembley.
And the refrain went, Bites on the Terriers, Run Boys, Run.
That's amazing.
I want to welcome your buddy Bob Regan here, Operation Song.
A great idea, brilliant, actually.
Nashville-based nonprofit empowers vets, active military, sharing their stories through songwriting.
You know, look, I wish I had the talent of a songwriter because I got a lot to say, obviously, Bob, but I'm not sure that Hannity singing about the deep state, deep state, James Comey, Rod Rosenstein would fly.
Well, we can work on that.
You don't need to be able to.
Maybe you'll get your right to be able to.
Yeah, we'll call it muddy swamp waters.
We'll call it deep state waters.
You'll get right of a song, Bob.
Yeah.
We can do it.
I've written a song with just about every single anyway.
This is Bob, and I thank you so much for this opportunity.
Well, we appreciate what you're doing for the troop.
Look, Memorial Day is this weekend.
And I know for most of us, that means family, friends, barbecue, golf, fishing, whatever you like to do.
But one of the vets that wrote one of these songs is Sean Niketa is his name.
He's an Iraq war vet, and he co-wrote this song.
We played it on the show before, West Point to Arlington, in memory of his friend, Special Forces Captain Andrew Patterson Keel.
He lost his life serving in Afghanistan in March of 2013.
Anyway, so I want to feature this song, and I just think as you go through your weekend, just take a moment, you reflect about all those that literally gave their lives so we can have the best life possible on this earth and live in freedom and fun like we do in America.
from Couldn't help stop and pray for your family.
Wouldn't but just last me.
Told me about your fiancé and how proud you were of that green beret going overseas.
You knew you were heading into hell.
But you had a guy that was bigger than yourself.
Now I'm trying to live a life worthy of your sacrifice to be the husband and the father you never got to be.
And now your work is done.
Your course on earth is run.
It can be said, well done, be thou in peace.
Be thou in peace.
Just that became an amazing hit song.
Now, in order, and again, to honor Memorial Day, there's a new song called The Last Monday in May.
And what's amazing about this is it conveys the meaning of Memorial Day and the voices of fallen soldiers from the past 150 years.
And it's just so well done.
The vocalists are Ward Davis and Jimmy Ray Sells, a Vietnam vet, Navy Special Ops, and Ian Wagner, Iraq-Afghanistan vet and combat medic and Purple Heart recipient.
And anyway, they performed a song on the National Mall for the past four Memorial Days.
They're going back this month here.
Listen, I took a musket ball in Chancellor'sville.
I went down and I lie here still underneath a cross of stone.
The world has turned and time's moved on.
There are seasons when it seems that everyone's forgotten me till the last Monday in May when all the springtime flowers bloom They come and decorate my grave But only bones lie here in tomb
My spirit flies as high as old glory waves on the last Monday in May I bought on a distant shore in the War II and all war World War I turned into two
They are gone into Pelos It's hard to rest so far from home But one day a year I'm not alone on the last Monday in May when all the springtime flowers bloom
They come and decorate my grave But only bones lie here in tomb My spirit flies as high as old glory waves on the last Monday in May from the jungles of Vietnam to the mountains of Afghanistan
In whatever way to be We'll fight to keep our country free My chopper went down in Iraq One more week, I made it back.
Now my war and battle's done.
I rest in peace and all.
My wife is here, most days with me.
Won't you come, keep us coming in me, they come and decorate my grave, but only bones lie here in tomb.
My spirit flies as high as old glory waves.
Remember all of us and the sacrifices made on the last Monday in May.
I love this song.
The last Monday May.
They're going to be singing that and featuring that coming up this weekend.
I mean, these are all vets that put this together and they perform this song at the National Mall now for the past four Memorial Days.
You know, Sean, first let's start with you.
I mean, I don't know.
I mean, those songs just get me every time.
I think this is such a great, a great opportunity at Catharsis for all these men and women that go fight for us and they come back and they have to deal with, you know, PTSD and all sorts of difficulties, reacclimating themselves to a regular life.
And those that don't come back, it's such an honor that you guys do this for them.
Yes.
Thank you, Sean, for having me on.
I'd love to say a couple words about Andrew, if you don't mind.
You know, we met at West Point when I first entered, really, and he was a mentor and a friend.
And he knew the dangers he was facing, but went anyway.
You know, there's no better definition of a hero than that.
But beyond that, the way he lived his life was one in which he was touching others' lives, obviously, constantly.
And so that's what really motivated me to write the song.
I had a hard time dealing with the loss of a mentor.
And so, yes, it did.
It did help me sort of process that.
But I also wanted family and friends of Andrew to know that he had an impact far beyond his own personal service in the military as well.
What a great honor to your friend.
Charlie, I've known you forever, and I know you give your heart and your soul, especially.
You got such a big part of your heart invested in freedom in this country and honoring those that serve this country.
There's certain songs when you're singing, and especially some of your patriotic songs, and you have a library full of them, amazing ones.
When you're actually on stage, it gets to you.
Has that ever happened?
Yes, it has.
I have had songs that get to me.
Nobody knows it, basically, but I have gotten Gary Adel Stage before.
I feel very strongly about this country as you do, Sean.
I don't know a bigger patriot than you.
You're a great American and a wonderful patriot, but there's a lot of us out here that feel the same way.
And nobody much more, any more so than the ones who've led their lives on the line to go and fight for us.
We can never, ever do enough for them.
We don't do enough for them.
We don't.
Definitely get Gary Add on stage sometime.
I have done it from one-on-one occasion.
Absolutely.
All right.
So, Bob, and then Sean, tell us, you know, people want to be a part of this, what they can do to help you.
Well, first thing, go to our website, operationsong.org, and you go to the landing page.
There's a wonderful video of this song.
And just learn a little more about Operation Song.
We're on Facebook.
We're on all social media.
Just look for Operation Song on YouTube or SoundCloud.
We've written over 600 songs at this point with veterans of World War II.
Last weekend, we were at a retreat with 20 Gold Star kids.
And this idea just kind of took off.
And I had a wonderful career as a professional songwriter.
And I just kind of started doing this six years ago to see if it would work.
And it definitely works.
And I don't take any money for this.
This is my retirement gig.
But anyway, please just go look at Operation Song.
We've got so many wonderful songs on the YouTube channel.
We encourage the veterans to make videos.
There's a wonderful video of West Point, Arlington, which tells the story of Andrew on there.
And I'll just say, you know, go check us out on the web.
And it's a real honor for me and all the songwriters that write with these veterans.
The men and the women, they say, come back to me and say, that was probably my best day ever as a songwriter.
I wrote a song that really meant something.
Well, I appreciate all that you do.
And Sean, God bless you and continued best to you and your family and also the family of your friend, Special Forces Captain Andrew Peterson Kiel, who lost his life in Afghanistan.
And Bob, thanks for what you're doing.
Charlie, love you, your family to me.
And we appreciate all you do always.
Thank you for having us.
Thank you, Race and Song.org.
I appreciate it.
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And a very, very, very strong, heartfelt thank you to all of the families that this Memorial Day won't be with some of their loved ones that were out protecting our freedoms.
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