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Yes, the IG report is out.
And there is an expectation, especially among well-informed, smart conservatives that have been following this now for two years and a frank, frankly, a built-up expectation about what you're ever going to get out of the swamp.
And I don't mean to be crude to the Inspector General, but I have the entire document in front of me printed out, all 500, whatever pages of this.
We have about 15 people sorting through different sections of the IG report.
And it very much reads like the bureaucratic, legalistic, parsing, swamp creature document that you would expect.
Now, you're going to say, well, that's not what we expected.
I think to expect any less is, well, your expectations are a little too high.
Now, with that said, there is so much to cover here.
And more than anything else, as we start out this program, it's a little after 3 a.m. here in Singapore.
We stayed here for this reason.
We didn't go home.
It's a 22-hour flight without any delays.
And I figured if I took the shot, it was a window.
I could have gotten home, but there was like a two-minute delay window in there.
And yeah, well, no, it was three hours.
We had a three-hour delay window.
And if anything happened, I wouldn't be here.
And I was not taking that chance.
But with that said, let me start out with something that is separate and apart from this IG report.
And we will break it down for the next three hours on this program.
And the one thing that stands out in my mind as I go through this more than anything else is we, the few of us that have been conservative, that have been all over these issues, have been proven more than right.
We have not been wrong on any of this at all.
And the fact that this corroborates it is, you know, this whole thing could have been 50 pages, to be very blunt with you.
And it could have just basically been a number of Hannity monologues put together, and it would have done a perfect justice to it.
But that's not the way the swamp, well, you guys are laughing.
It's true.
You know it's true.
But let me give a quick reminder to you.
As I said yesterday, there are facts here that are no longer in dispute at all as it relates to what happened here.
We know, and I have all the audio tape.
We can go back to the July 5th presser, three days after Hillary was interviewed, the exoneration of Hillary Clinton after a 13-minute James Comey stinging indictment that he had made.
And, you know, I love the idea that, well, no reasonable prosecutor would conclude.
You tell that to Christian Saussier, who had only six pictures, six.
And we'll get everything to reckless disregard, the legal standard.
Foreign intelligence agencies had tapped into all of this.
All of what we said is true.
But when you go back to it, it's a very simple issue, is that Hillary Clinton violated the law and committed multiple felonies.
And Hillary Clinton violated the Espionage Act by putting all of this information on a private server in a mom-and-pop shop bathroom closet.
And she did it to avoid congressional oversight.
She wanted it separate and apart.
It's illegal to do what she did.
The law is clear on this.
This is not in dispute.
We know that when Hillary had her email subpoenaed, any of you out there listening, if you have anything subpoenaed by Congress, by a court, and you decide unilaterally that you're going to delete 33,000 emails and you're going to acid wash your hard drive with BleachBit, and you are then going to have an aide break up devices and only hand over to the FBI devices without any SIM cards,
which renders it useless to the FBI, you're not going to get away with it.
You're going to be in the biggest trouble of your life.
You will be facing obstruction of justice charges.
All of what I have said to you is irrefutable.
It is incontrovertible, and even the FBI knows it.
And that's where we now run into a problem in all of this.
Then, oh, Nick, where do you hear the latest struck page little nugget that we got here?
With all of that said, then they got the biggest anti-Trump FBI investigator by the name of Peter Strzok.
Now, we've been slowly, slowly giving you the different struck page emails.
Well, we now found the most damaging one, the smoking gun, if you will, that was written by Peter Strzzok, who led the FBI investigation.
And don't forget, he's the one that started the whole.
The same players, same actors all started after they were finished exonerating Hillary Clinton by writing the exoneration in May before they ever interviewed her July 2nd.
The circumstances under which they interview her are beyond any treatment that anybody else would ever get.
And the IG report goes into great detail about that.
But in the report, it actually has this exchange.
Remember, Strzzok is the key investigator on both the Clinton email case and the investigation of Russia in the Trump campaign.
And he assured his lovebird girlfriend, Lisa Page, we will stop Trump from making it to the White House.
Quote, Trump's not ever going to become president, right?
Lisa Page, she is the chief counsel for Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director.
And he writes back, no, no, he won't.
We will stop it.
And therein, and at one point in the IG report, as I'm reading it, they determined, well, this wasn't a political decision.
I'm like, it's all political.
It's all politics.
Even when they finally, you know, a month later, get into the Anthony Weiner laptop emails and the things that they found there.
They found it a month earlier.
And it was only for fear of leaking by the Southern District of New York or others who had brought it to the attention of the FBI did they finally begin to get their act together.
Now, I'm going to start with a summary, and I thought Chairman Gowdy's statement on it was particularly good.
Yeah, the same Gowdy that I have been mad at because he jumped to conclusions without having seen all the documents as it relates to spies in the Trump campaign.
Anyway, he released the statement regarding the IG report.
He said, and I think this sums it up really well in terms of, you know, it's very hard to go through 568 pages here, but we're going to work through it slowly and systematically so you understand everything that is in this report.
He said, I'm alarmed.
angered, deeply disappointed by the IG's findings of numerous failures by the DOJ and the FBI in investigating potential Espionage Act violations by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Now stop there.
This is everything we've said.
And there's been others, Rush, Mark, others on radio, and even people that hate me.
Some of us have had it right.
You know, when you look at Sarah Carter and Sidney Powell and Greg Jarrett and Sebastian Gorka and Dan Hoffman, and I can't name everybody that has been a regular on this program, we have been telling you all of this.
We've known it.
It's all been true and it's all corroborated in many ways, although it's sort of backdoor corroboration in instances, which of course is frustrating because you can come right out and say it.
And they don't come right out and say it because that's what bureaucracies do.
That's what swamp people do.
That's how they've been trained.
I don't even know if they know any other way.
Anyway, Gowdy goes on and says, this report confirms investigative decisions made by the FBI during the pendency of this investigation were unprecedented and they deviated from traditional investigative procedures in favor of a much more permissive and voluntary approach.
This is not the way normal investigations are run.
We'll give you the details of what he means here in a few minutes.
The investigation was mishandled.
The investigatory conclusions were reached before the end of witness interviews.
Well, that's my way of saying exoneration before investigation.
Gowdy goes on, the July 5th press conference marked a serious violation of policy and process, and the letters to Congress in the fall of 2016 were both delayed in substance and unnecessary in form.
And moreover, the treatment afforded to former Secretary Clinton and other potential subjects and targets was starkly different from the FBI's investigation into Trump campaign officials.
And the fact that they allowed volunteers to consent in the former were replaced with search warrants, subpoenas, and other compulsory processes in the letter, in the latter.
What he's saying here is they treated Hillary one way and Trump another way.
And what they did is, oh, can you guys just come in, sit down, we'll have a little chat.
Bring your lawyers in.
We'll make you queen for the day.
And that means anything you say won't matter.
It's all okay.
It's all going to be good.
Wink, wink, nod, not.
Everything's fine.
But when it comes to Donald Trump, oh, it's search warrants, it's subpoenas.
Oh, they're, you know, it's compulsive.
They are compelling people to do what they have to do.
Many of the investigators and supervisors were the same in both investigations, but the investigatory tactics were not.
A two-tier justice system, not equal justice under the law, not equal application of the laws.
He goes on, former Director Comey violated department policy in several significant ways.
The FBI's actions and those of the former Director Comey severely damaged the credibility of the investigation, the public's ability to rely on the results of the investigation, and the very institutions that he claims to revere.
The report also conclusively shows an alarming and destructive level of animus displayed by top officials at the FBI.
Peter Strzok's manifest bias trending towards animus cast a level of animus displayed by top officials at the FBI.
Peter Strzok's manifest bias towards animus cast a paw in the investigation.
Bias is so pernacious and malignant as to both taint the process, the result, and the ability to have confidence in either.
Understand here what we're talking about.
You had people in the upper echelons and the FBI and the DOJ that made it their business.
They decided their personal bias literally guided their opinions that they gave.
Now, it goes on.
The law enforcement community has no greater ally in Congress than me, but continued revelations of questionable decisions making by the FBI and DOJ leadership destroys confidence in the impartiality of the institutions I have long served, respected, and believed in.
I've almost gone out of my way every day to tell you this is not the rank and file.
This is not the rank and file.
This is the upper echelon.
And they took this case from field agents that would have done their job, but were prevented from doing their job to put the fix in because A, they thought Hillary was going to win.
They wanted to curry favor with Hillary Clinton, and they hated Donald Trump.
It's all true.
And it's all here.
It just is not as overt as you would otherwise want to read it.
It is now urgently incumbent on the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, and Director Ray to make decisive, to take a decisive action to restore America's confidence in our justice system.
And he's right.
You know, and then by the way, it was obviously a teed-up article in the New York Times, James Comey.
This report says I was wrong, but that's good for the FBI that they say I was wrong.
No, it's a lot deeper than that.
A lot deeper than that.
All right, 800-941-Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
I'm going to get to all the blockbuster revelations when we come back first.
We're going to go over the executive summary of all of this because it confirms everything that you have known on this show, that we have been telling you repeatedly on this show.
It's too bad it's taken two years to get to this point.
There should be criminal referrals as a result of this investigator, as an outcrop of this IG report.
And of course, Trump's not ever going to be president, right?
No, he won't.
We'll stop it.
That pretty much sums up what was going on among those people at the highest level of power.
And if that doesn't scare you, then I don't know what will.
We are a nation of law.
We're a nation of equal application of laws, equal justice under the law, and constitutional process.
All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity show in Singapore still, IG report is out.
We've got 15 people examining all of this.
We're going to now start breaking down the details at the turn of this half hour.
Greg Jarrett, Sarah Carter with us.
A lot of angry members of Congress right now.
Two of them will join us.
Matt Gates of Florida, Ron DeSantis of, I'm sorry, yeah, Matt also of Florida.
He'll be checking in with us, both Freedom Caucus members.
Session warning that the report could lead to more FBI terminations.
That is probably the least of it.
I would imagine that we're going to get a lot more out of that than people think.
I think when you go back to this, it is a little strange.
I will say this, that anybody can conclude this is not a political document when you have Strzok saying we'll stop him.
Trump's never going to be the president of the United States.
We're stopping him.
And then you look at his involvement in every aspect, not only of the email server investigation, but also Trump Russia.
He was the one that initiated it at the highest level.
So you know there's abusive bias within the highest ranks of the DOJ and FBI.
All right, we'll break it all down.
Stay there.
We've got 15 people now breaking this down for you.
Next.
All right, as we continue from Singapore, we've got full, complete analysis.
We have a lot of friends that have been helping us all day with the release of the IG report.
Many of them will be joining us throughout the course of the program today.
Greg Jarrett, Sarah Carter, Matt Gates, Ron DeSantis, Daniel Hoffman is here, and so much more.
Look, I guess in many ways, I would conclude that this is a weak report in many ways because the facts are not even in dispute here, as I have said so many different times.
And it's important to remember all of that.
But there are a lot of things here that we're going to be absorbing in the next 24, 48 hours.
And by Monday, it's all going to begin to sink in.
It's hard when you get a document, literally, you know, at an hour and a half before airtime to absorb 568 pages.
But one thing that is happening, and these members will be joining us later, Ron DeSantis, Matt Gates, Andy Biggs have requested drafts of the original IG report before it was watered down.
You know, remember, they had at the DOJ, they had this some three weeks ahead of time.
They said a draft of the IG report circulated to people within the DOJ and FBI, providing them an opportunity to respond and rebut the report's findings before the details became public.
We are concerned that during this time, many people have changed the report in a way that obfuscates your findings.
Per Congress's oversight authority, we request that you supply your original drafts along with the final published form.
By the way, an excellent idea, but not our focus really today here.
Now, one smoking gun is a text that shows, remember, Peter Strzok is at the heart of this.
Peter Strzzok and James Comey wrote the exoneration, and they even recognized this in the IG report before the investigation.
He's the one, along with Lisa Page, hate, find loathsome Donald Trump.
Anyway, so the one big smoking gun here, now Lisa Page writes, Trump's not ever going to become president, right?
Now, this is the highest official within the FBI involved in this investigation.
This is the guy that's writing Hillary's exoneration in early May of 2016, and the guy that on July 2nd interviews Hillary Clinton with her lawyers that were also witnesses in the case.
And the IG report refers to all of that too.
He writes back to his girlfriend, no, no, he won't.
We'll stop it, he said.
Now that, and what's so bizarre, if you will, is, and the IG report says, well, we don't have any evidence of any political taint in there.
Yeah, that's evidence of political taint here.
But again, the fundamental issues are not in dispute.
Nobody's disputing that Hillary had the private email server, that top secret special access programming, classified information was on it, that it was subpoenaed, that she deleted, that she acid washed, and she had devices broken up.
Now the question is the handling of this by the FBI and the Department of Justice.
And that's where, you know, we now see this evidence that it was politicized there.
You know, in the bombshell smoking gun text that I just read to you, remember, Strzok is a key investigator, not just on the Clinton email case.
As he's wrapping that up, he is the one that's beginning this whole Trump-Russia conspiracy investigation where there's no evidence.
And by the way, Strzok, the key investigator here, assured the FBI lawyer in August of 2016, that's when he said we'll stop Trump from ever being president.
He's never, no, he'll never stop, he'll never be president.
We'll stop it.
Now, weeks before that comment, stop Trump, we'll stop it, Strzzok is telling Paige that he was on his way to London to interview a Russia gate witness for an investigation.
This is when we start getting into Papadopoulos and Downer, a guy that donated $25 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Andy McCarthy had a good take on it.
It was July 31st, 2016.
Remember, July 5th, Comey gives his press conference.
July 2nd is when Strzz interviewed Hillary Clinton with her aides there.
Unprecedented procedures, even as Trey Gowdy was pointing out.
Anyway, days earlier, the Obama administration had quietly opened an FBI counterintelligence investigation of Russian cyber espionage hacking attacks to disrupt the 2016 election.
And had they listened to Devin Nunes in 2014, they would have had that investigation open long ago.
And just before the election, you know, it was Obama saying no serious person would ever think an outside entity could impact our elections.
And it turned out, yeah, they could.
And you were warned about it and you didn't do a thing about it because you thought Hillary was going to win.
So much of this is predicated on the belief system that she had to win.
They didn't want to piss her off because if she did win, there'd be retribution and the idea that Trump would never be president.
But just to make sure all of this is going on as part of that insurance policy with Andrew McCabe and Strzok and Paige.
Anyway, so FBI agent Strzok was downright giddy this day.
Now, having run the Just For Show interview of Hillary Clinton on July 2nd, he was working for a real cause, the Trump-Russia case.
And he was about to fly to London to meet with intelligence contacts and conduct secret interviews for the new Russia Gate probe.
Remember, to get the interview with the FBI and the Australian diplomat Downer who donated to the Clinton Foundation, they had to go to the highest levels of the State Department to make that happen.
You don't get to just interview, the FBI doesn't get to interview a diplomat just because you say you want an interview.
So that meant that John Kerry knew.
That meant that Obama knew.
And we have more on Obama in just a second.
And then it goes on as he, as he, as was his want several days now when he texted Lisa Page, you know, he goes, damn, this feels momentous because this matters.
The other one did too.
But that was to ensure that we didn't F something up.
Now, this matters because this matters.
It mattered to Strzok because he was getting a chance to keep his promise to his lover to stop Donald Trump.
And that's political.
You know, when you look at this, this email shows the FBI covered up the fact.
Another point in this case, they go in great detail in the IG report.
Everything we told you when they were writing the exoneration and the original drafts in May, they took out the legal standard of gross negligence and replaced it with extreme carelessness because it was gross negligence.
It was a crime.
For them to say that it doesn't in any way rise to the level of no reasonable prosecutor, tell that to Christian Saussier, who spent a year in jail.
And we've brought up numerous other cases to your attention.
Anyway, a never-before-seen email from Peter Strzok also reveals that James Comey was not telling the truth when he told the country that the FBI really wasn't sure whether a hostile foreign intelligence service had gained access to Hillary's classified email.
And according to Catherine Herridge, we've broken it here on our program.
Sarah Carter has discussed it at length.
The FBI did manage to confirm that hostile foreign actors had gained access to Hillary's email.
That's why you're not allowed to do it because you put people, sources, methods in jeopardy.
Hillary did it selfishly because she didn't want Congress or congressional oversight into what she was doing at the State Department.
And I would argue in the end, we'll find out that that has a lot to do with using the office for the benefit of the Clinton Foundation.
But in fact, it is true that they got foreign agents, foreign intelligence services.
They had originally, in one of their original drafts, said it was as many as six foreign intelligence services accessed her email server in the mom-and-pop bathroom closet.
Anyway, Strzok and Paige, they tell a senior FBI executive that it goes too far to say hostile actors gained access to Hillary's private email account.
Then Strzok continues: it would be more accurate to say we know foreign actors obtained access to some of her emails, and including at least one secret one via compromises of the private email accounts of some staffers.
Now, when Comey made his public statement July 5th, 2016, he said it was perhaps likely that the emails were compromised, but they had no direct evidence of it.
Well, that contradicts, again, what Peter Strzok is saying.
They knew that she had compromised it, but it's all part of the whitewash.
You know, and what's by the way, what's Jeff Sessions now going to do in all of this?
What is Jeff Sessions going to do about Rod Rosenstein intimidating members of Congress that are trying to do their congressional oversight?
You know, at what point do we look at these new comments of Strzok and Page, we'll stop him, or what their insurance policy is?
What does that all mean?
You know, the IG, by the way, Barack Obama's up to his eyeballs in all of this.
You know, they find that one of the people Hillary Clinton was emailing to on her private account was Barack Obama.
They knew it was Barack Obama, but then they altered it to say a high-ranking government official.
Yes, some high-ranking official.
Now, one of the reasons they had to also bury this is because that meant that Obama's dragged into this, that Obama knew about the private email server.
And as Mark Meadows said today, why does Peter Strzzok still have a job?
How is that possible in all of this?
How is he still employed here?
Why is he not being criminally investigated?
And why has Rosenstein failed to promptly inform Congress of all of this inappropriate, improper conduct that went on here?
Another find that we have in this is agents involved in the Clinton Foundation investigation.
They were instructed to take no overt investigative steps prior to the election, literally outright saying it.
You know, and this goes to, I believe, Sally Yates at the time.
Numerous witnesses told us that agents involved in the Clinton Foundation investigation were instructed to take no overt investigative steps prior to the election.
We asked Sally Yates about this instruction.
She said, yeah, I think there was discussion about the look.
And if agents on the Clinton Foundation investigation want to go do, you know, record stuff and stuff that you can do covertly, fine, but not overtly.
Okay.
An investigate.
Do you think any of you listening to this program right now would get that consideration?
No, it's a two-tiered justice system.
Our conclusion the whole time was right, that there's not equal justice under the law, equal application under the law.
And that's the whole point of it.
If you have an investigation about the Clinton email, about Clinton and emails and all of this evidence of obstruction and she's not charged and you write an exoneration before an investigation and then you're breathless in your desire, stated desire to stop Trump, to have an insurance plan, if God forbid he does win, and then you're enthusiastically embracing the Russia investigation,
this is the biggest abuse of power scandal ever in American history.
You got to understand that.
This was designed, the illicit scheme to help Hillary Clinton get elected and prevent Donald Trump from ever becoming president and then destroying him after he becomes president.
It's everything that we told you it is and was.
And frankly, it is transparent and it is obvious.
I was just told that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she's doing a briefing today.
Did they ever finally even ask a single question about the IG report?
Not at all.
Now the media is going to go into complete spin mode because Democrats are putting out there, oh, the Anthony Wiener aspect of this is huge because, you know, the bigger problem with the anthony, they had all of those Anthony Weiner laptop emails, 350,000 of them, and they did nothing as it relates to, you know, telling the public about it prior to the election.
They had it in, what, early September, and we didn't get it to the end of October.
And the only reason we got it, and the report goes into this, as it relates to the timing, the only reason we heard about it was Comey was scared to death that it was going to be leaked and that he would be embarrassed and it would be known finally that they had had it for an extended period of time here.
Apparently, Lisa Page sent a text on February 24th, 2016, specifically saying not to bring too many FBI resources into any Hillary interview because she might be the next president.
And she would remember, don't go loaded for bear.
You know, let's protect our careers and all of this.
And of course, he can't be president.
Kenny, we'll stop him.
That ought to put a chill up and down your spine.
We will stop him.
And if he wins somehow, we have an insurance policy.
We can prevent him from ever governing.
And that then therein lies the whole double standard.
The biggest thing here is every consideration, they threaded every needle, even though Hillary committed multiple felonies.
They list the felonies in the IG report.
They list them.
And they threaded every needle, gave her every consideration.
And it's evident they did it because they expected her to win and wanted her to win.
And when you compare it to what they've been doing to this president, that you, the people of this country, elected on this whole Russia investigation, they have given him zero consideration.
They've done the opposite.
They're abusing their power.
They're going overboard.
FISA abuse just the tip of the iceberg in all of this.
Lying to FISA court judges on four separate occasions and even threatening congressional investigators for doing what is their constitutional authority because that's how political it's become.
Not rank and file, upper echelon.
And frankly, if there's justice, we need to see a whole bunch of criminal referrals in all of this.
Remember, after the McCabe IG report came out, the criminal referral came after.
I wonder if Jeff Sessions is paying attention to this.
800-941-Sean is our toll-free telephone number.
We are going to be joined by Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, Congressman Gates, Congressman DeSantis.
That's all coming up, Daniel Hoffman, as we continue.
We're in Singapore.
Couldn't get home in time, so we had to stay for this report.
We're going to break down all the details, all their findings when we get back.
All right, when we come back, Sarah Carter and Greg Jarrett and Matt Gates and Ron DeSantis break down the IG report as we continue from Singapore.
All right, our two, Sean Hannity Show IG report is out, and we have full, complete breakdown analysis.
And it's a lot to, I wish I could do a better job.
It is a lot to absorb.
An hour and a half before airtime, we have assembled a team of people and we've actually assigned certain sections and pages to each sign.
One of the things that we are learning here, insubordinate Comey, process procedures not followed.
Interestingly, he actually ripped, tore up other FBI agents for using Gmail accounts.
What do we discover?
He had his own little Hillary Clinton Gmail account problem, which probably needs to be probed more deeply.
He broke all FBI procedures, and this was done to protect Hillary Clinton.
The bizarre conclusion that, oh, there's no political bias, but yet the smoking gun email from Peter Strzok to Lisa Page, no, Lisa Page asking, will Trump make it to the White House?
Will you prevent him from making it to the White House?
No, no, no.
We'll stop it.
Oh, okay.
On top of all the other text messages we have, we have five employees now referred for investigation as a result in all of this.
And joining us now, investigative reporter Sarah Carter and Fox News contributor.
And Greg Jarrett, well, this book is going to be, well, the definitive book to counter what should have been blatantly, clearly stated in the IG report, and that is the Russian hoax, the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.
How are you, sir?
Back in New York, Sarah, good to see you here in Singapore.
Let's start, Sarah.
You've been up since we got the initial, well, I guess conclusions or summary part of this, and now reading the whole 567 pages of it.
Give us your headlines from this.
Well, this is a massive report.
It's going to take a while to go through all of the details, but I think one of the most important things to come out of the Horowitz report was the IG found that a number of FBI agents, Peter Strzzok, Lisa Page, had a willingness to damage the Trump presidency.
And I think that is very understated.
You know, we have been looking at these text messages back and forth.
We've noted the bias that are in these text messages, but how far were these people willing to go?
And the IG makes it very clear that there was a willingness to damage Trump, and that's very concerning.
Let me add a point to that because we had all the earlier Strzok Page emails, and he's lonesome and he's horrible, you know, despicable human being and everything else.
And of course, we had the, oh, we need the insurance policy just in case.
But on, I forgot what page this was, a page sent a text to Strzok on February 24th, 2016, specifically saying not to bring too many FBI resources into any Hillary interview because she might be the next president and she would remember, don't go in loaded for bear.
And then Strzzok and Comey write the exoneration in May, which the report deals with.
And before they ever do the investigation, clearly a whitewash.
And what they did is they covered for obvious crimes, which the fundamentals of this has not changed is because the IG report came out.
That is, Hillary did all of those things.
And now that we've got Page writing Strzzok that Trump's never going to make it to the White House, is he?
No, no, he won't.
We'll stop it.
Go ahead.
We'll stop it.
I mean, think about those words.
I was on the phone today with a number of former FBI agents, one recently retired.
And what was so fascinating is that they said they've never in their life imagined in the 108 years of the existence of the FBI that the result, this day and age, the result of this would be that the director would make a decision that has never been done before in the FBI to end an investigation when it was not as pervy, and that people within the FBI connected to Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page,
James Baker, the former general counsel, that all of these people were working actively to conspire against an incoming president and a potential political candidate.
And pull this out of the hands of the agents.
One interesting side note to this is a follow-up.
If we can go to Greg Jarrett, we know in all of this is that they are now going to Congress, take this report, and they have at the ready now, FBI agents.
Let me be clear.
The FBI agents, the rank and file, are going to be the heroes in this story because they're the ones on the ground.
They're the ones that know the truth.
They're the ones that are dying to tell their story, which they cannot tell until they are subpoenaed.
Now, my sources, Sarah's sources, Greg's sources, we all know that those guys are already lined up.
We know following this report will be a follow-up here.
And one other thing, Greg, I mean, it was interesting to see all the laws that you had identified in this document.
That to me, you know, jumped off the page.
And the second thing is the Strzok email shows the FBI covered up the fact that hostile actors, in fact, did gain access to Hillary's email, which was in the original draft that they took out, just like gross misconduct and extreme or gross negligence versus extreme misconduct.
All of that we were dead right on from the get-go.
Yeah, and that was the most important part I thought as I read through the report today, that they did confirm that Comey initially found Clinton committed crimes.
And then the language was redlined out.
It was altered.
And, you know, the IG never really gets to the bottom of that.
And then the other changes which you just mentioned.
Look, Comey comes out of this bruised, battered, and bloody.
But, you know, frankly, it's not surprising to me the IG was unable to connect the dots that he cleared Clinton for political reasons.
It's what I predicted in our program last night.
I mean, and here's why.
And no one's going to leave an incriminating paper trail that says, let's fix the Clinton case to absolve her.
Nobody's going to confess to it after the fact.
That would be confessing to a crime.
But the evidence is sufficient for Americans to draw the inexorable conclusion.
Comey contorted the law.
He twisted the facts.
He ignored compelling evidence to clear Clinton, and nothing else makes sense.
And you can really see that in the section to which you just referred, in which the IG really breaks down the statutes that were examined by Comey and others that Clinton surely violated, and yet they just sort of misconstrued and massaged them.
And you can tell the IG thought so.
The Justice Department Inspector General did refer five FBI employees for an investigation into whether this politically charged hostile text messaging, et cetera, et cetera, violated FBI code and some laws here.
I don't know if that's going to be enough.
I mean, it's not just Strzz and Page.
Go ahead, Sarah.
Yo, it's not just Strzzok and Page.
It would have been impossible for it to be just Strzzok and Page, although Strzzok was in charge of both the Russia investigation.
He was very, very well involved in the Hillary Clinton use of a private server to conduct government business.
I think what I found most interesting tonight, because beyond the Inspector General report, we want to know what the FBI agents on the ground are thinking.
We want to know how they feel about all of these revelations.
And something came up today that was so important.
They said unless the FBI cleans house, ensures an internal investigation into the FBI, that means Christopher Writer anybody who was connected with McCabe, who was connected to Peter Strzok, to Lisa Page, to all of these players, that they be either removed from the FBI or demoted or moved into another position because the FBI cannot continue as is.
And if they don't do that, they don't do that, it's going to be a major problem.
It's going to be a problem for the FBI agents that are in there that are doing their job.
And another thing, Sean, the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Oversight Committee, they need to subpoena FBI agents, bring them before Congress, have them tell the truth.
They can't just go through the FBI and DOJ.
Remember, this is CYA.
They don't want this to be public.
Imagine how embarrassed, you know, Christopher Wray feels about this and others.
Well, embarrassment's not good enough.
They need to clean it out.
They need to start it fresh, and they need to move forward.
And the only way they can do that is by telling the truth.
You know, one of the things that I think, you know, your book is out in just a short time in July, Greg, and this is the heart of the book here.
And it's real simple.
The illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton.
It's called the Russian hoax, the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton.
And I forgot that what's the second part?
And frame Donald Trump.
And frame Donald Trump, because here's why.
And I thought Trey Gowdy's summation of this was dead on.
The treatment that they afforded Clinton and other subjects and other targets here was starkly different from the FBI's investigation into Trump campaign officials, where things were voluntary and consent was given.
You know, even the July 2nd, you know, the IG report goes into the July 2nd interview of Hillary Clinton conducted by Peter Strzzok, whose girlfriend is saying, go easy on her.
She's going to be president.
You don't want to piss her off.
You know, what was voluntary is replaced by search warrants, bullying tactics, subpoenas, compelling people to do all of these things.
I mean, it's dramatic.
It's like saying, I'm going to prosecute, you know, a liberal this way and a conservative this way.
It goes to the heart of whether we have equal justice under the law, application under the law, and due process for all.
And the answer is no.
And that's what should be glaring to everybody.
Oh, absolutely.
Look, and here's, let me give you an example, a little-known fact.
There actually was a grand jury convened in the Hillary Clinton email case, but they never used it for testimony or presentation of evidence for a grand jury to consider.
They only used it as a vehicle for a handful of subpoenas, and that was it.
And that tells you it was a charade.
What happened when Mueller launched his investigation?
He immediately convenes a grand jury to present evidence, to obtain warrants, to engage in all kinds of investigative techniques that were never used in the Hillary Clinton case.
So it does underscore the two standards, one for Hillary, in which he gets away with crimes, and another for Donald Trump, in which he falsely is accused of crimes.
Well, and also, Greg, I think what's really important here is the fact that what we've seen is the scope of the investigation.
What's so fascinating to me is that the scope of the investigation under Mueller is so wide and so far-reaching, and we still don't even know it wholly because Rod Rosenstein, obviously that memo, we don't have access to it yet.
But the scope of the investigation into Hillary Clinton, that was so narrow.
And they weren't, you know, the scope was so narrow, and they allowed witnesses in on the interview and gave them all kinds of exoneration.
So for me, that is one of the most important points.
Well, this is very important because prosecutors, you know, referred to the categories of witnesses and senior aides to Hillary Clinton were allowed in the interview.
And that would be unprecedented.
And they didn't take their laptops.
All things we had discussed in detail, and I'm sure is in detail in your book, Greg.
It is.
I mean, I have talked to so many former federal prosecutors and indeed former top officials at the FBI who are aghast that Cheryl Mills and Samuson, who were top aides to Hillary Clinton, who got immunity, then were allowed to sit in on the interview of Hillary Clinton.
They're fact witnesses, and now they can conform their testimony to hers.
This is just antithetical to justice.
And it really emphasizes that this was rigged.
It was fixed.
It was rigged and fixed, and everything we have been saying up to this point is all true.
And there's a real danger here if justice is not properly served.
And all of this done under the circumstances of a presidential election.
Just think about this.
They're aiding one candidate.
They're rigging an investigation into the guilty party, launching a full-fledged, full-thrott investigation into somebody over nothing.
And this is what their conclusion is because why?
They had a chosen candidate.
They had a candidate they thought was going to win and wanted to win.
All right, as we continue, Sean Hannity show.
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Greg Jarrett back in New York.
His book, of course, The Russian Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.
You know, I said before this report came out today, Greg, that it's going to be interesting because all the information you've put together, now you're comparing it, and I know you haven't read all 568 pages of this thing, but you've gone through as much as we possibly can.
What have they missed compared to what you found?
Well, I think they've totally ignored that Hillary Clinton violated other statutes beyond the Espionage Act.
They go through the Espionage Act, and they do a pretty good analysis of that, but they disregard— How can you not say this was willful mishandling of documents?
Well— Well, exactly.
Under 18 USC 1924, they seem to totally ignore that.
And that one is a very straightforward statute that removal and retention of classified documents by government employees.
Exactly.
Not only that, but false and misleading statements, destruction of evidence.
These are things that they didn't really deal with that my book goes into great depth on.
So it is a, I know it's 500 pages, but it's a rather shallow report in that regard.
Well, personally, for me, I think I understand why they ignored it.
They also found in the IG report that multiple people within the FBI, including Comey, misused what was government documents and sent them through unsecured servers.
And I'm sure if the IG was asked to do an investigation into how many FBI agents and how many senior level FBI agents on the seventh floor were actually sending classified information on unsecured servers, I think they'd be quite shocked and surprised to find out how many are doing that.
I think that's the point.
It's irrefutable.
It's the evidence incontrovertible.
She committed these crimes.
All right, we'll come back.
We'll continue more with Sarah Gregg and Congressman Matt Gates of Florida joins us.
We'll talk about Rod Rosenstein also in the next half hour.
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Yeah, more than an insubordinate, Comey.
It's a corrupt upper echelon of the FBI.
And yeah, everything we know is true.
Everything we said from the get-go is irrefutable.
The evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible.
Hillary Clinton violated numerous laws.
Now, did they come out and say it in the report?
No, this was an investigation into the investigation of the Clinton email server scandal.
But there is Hillary Clinton, you know, look at the laws, 18 USC 793, willful mishandling of documents or information relating to national defense.
Remember, even Comey said it.
She had top secret, classified, special access programming information mark classified on her email server.
That's a violation.
That's a felony.
Or the removal, loss, theft, abstraction, destruction of documents or information relating to national defense through gross negligence or failure to report such removal, loss, theft, abstraction.
That's Hillary 2, guilty, fact, indisputable.
Or 18 USC 1924, unauthorized removal, retention of classified documents, material by government employees.
Guilty, fact, indisputable.
Or 18 USC 2071, concealment, removal, mutilation of government records.
Yeah, all true.
And then the obstruction aspect of all of this.
Oh, subpoenaed emails.
Just let me delete 33,000 of them.
But it's about yoga, wedding, and a funeral, and I'm emailing my husband who doesn't have an email account.
33,000.
Really?
How many emails could you possibly send on one wedding, one funeral, and yoga?
There's not 33,000.
It's impossible.
Even if you sent like five yoga tips a day in the emails, it's still not possible.
And then, of course, we have more evidence of obstruction, which is when you acid wash your hard drive and you delete it with bleach pit, and then you have an aide bust up your hammers or your BlackBerries with hammers and then, of course, pull out the SIM cards of the one device you do hand over to the FBI.
Why didn't the Inspector General just come out and clearly state it?
He'll have to answer himself.
But to me, this is a swamp document that is meant and designed to protect the swamp.
In a second, Sarah's going to break some news about the FBI director.
And when you think about everything we learned here, what did we learn?
We learned that, yeah, hostile actors gained access to Hillary's emails.
That means top secret classified special programming information.
You know what that means?
If you're an operative, sources and methods of the United States of America were compromised.
Our highest level of classification was compromised by Hillary.
And they put it in the original draft when Comey and Strzok were writing it back in May.
And then, of course, they interview her in July.
It's Peter Strzzok, who loves, who's being warned by his lover.
Now, be nice to her.
You know, don't go too hard on her.
Or else, you know, she's probably going to be president.
You don't want to piss her off.
You're going to want access to her.
Well, that all happened too.
Hostile actors have access to it.
That puts this country in jeopardy.
You understand?
The idea, this could have been written in 50 pages, blasted everybody out of the water, but that's not what the swamp does.
The swamp protects the swamp.
You know, we do have five criminal referrals for investigation here, investigative probes that are a part of this report.
You know, we know that all FBI procedures were broken here.
A full analysis of how there's a two-tier justice system, the way they go after Donald Trump with subpoenas and every single aspect of the law and the heavy hand of the law on him and his campaign.
And I'm not even talking about FISA abuse right now.
And then with Hillary, every needle is threat.
Every consideration given.
The exoneration written before the formality of a, okay, we've got to interview you.
Let's make it fast.
Bring your friends in.
We're not going to take their computers.
We'll make them queen for a day.
And they have total, complete freedom just to, you know, get away from all of this.
And then, and the fact that they say there's no political bias here, but yet we got a smoking gun that says where Peter Strzok's lover, Lisa Page, is asking, you know, there's no way he's going to become president, is he?
This can't happen.
And he writes back, you know, she writes, Trump's never going to become president, right?
Right.
And then he writes back, no, no, he won't.
We'll stop it.
Who's wheel?
How could you ever suggest that's not political?
All right, we continue.
Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, Greg's new book is coming out that deals with all of this, the Russian hoax, the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton, frame Donald Trump.
Also, Freedom Caucus member Matt Gates is with us.
And I got to ask you, you sent a letter.
You want the unredacted, any changes to this report that they now had three weeks in the lead up to this to suggest such to the Inspector General.
And as part of oversight, you and two other congressmen are demanding the full report in its original form.
I would assume now you'll probably get that by 2025 based on the Department of Justice and how they work.
Yeah, it's very funny, Sean, how the Department of Justice and some of their agents view this time-space continuum.
Of course, we want all the drafts, and of course, all the things you said about Hillary are true and awful.
But the bombshell in this Inspector General's report is chapter 12 that goes to the very beginning of the Trump-Russia investigation, the political bias that the Inspector General essentially says was part of the origin of the hoax.
Think about this, Sean.
The quote you just read where Peter Strzok is saying to Lisa Page that we'll stop him.
Trump won't be president.
It was eight days before that very text message that Peter Strzok himself ended up on Pathopoulos and started the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.
Eight days.
So this is a Department of Justice that cannot produce records to us in a year.
But all of a sudden, Peter Strzok knew eight days after he opened up on Papadopoulos that he could bring down Donald Trump.
Here's why.
On page 420 of the Inspector General's report, the Inspector General says that they cannot exclude political bias in the decision from Peter Strzok to end all focus on the Hillary Clinton investigation and to have everybody prioritize the Trump-Russia investigation.
They cannot say that it wasn't political bias that led to that investigative decision.
I think that is the bombshell that we'll carry today.
And also, there's this mysterious new character to the story.
Attorney number two, this was the top FBI lawyer that went on to the Mueller probe, and he was texting other FBI officials, viva la resistance, literally associating himself with the resistance movement while he was working for Bob Mueller as the FBI's top lawyer.
What page is that on?
What page do you know what page that particular exchange is on?
I found an exchange on page 512 that I found more fascinating.
And it was in August of 2016, Agent 1, Agent 5 exchanging the following instant messages as part of a discussion about their jobs.
And one agent one goes, I find anyone who enjoys this, this job, an absolute blanking idiot.
And if you don't think so, ask them one more question.
You know, who are you voting for?
I guarantee it will be Donald Trump.
And I forgot about Trump, says Agent 5.
That's so sad and pathetic if they want to vote for him.
Agent 5 goes on, someone who can't answer a question, someone who can't be professional for even a second.
And then in September, same agents, one and five, exchanged an email.
I'm trying to think of would I rather instead of spending time with these people, Agent 1, stick your tongue in a fan.
Agent 5, I'd rather have brunch with Trump.
Ha, says Agent 1.
French toast with Drump.
I would rather have brunch with Trump, Trump, than a bunch of supporters like the ones from Ohio, and this is their word, not mine, that are, quote, retarded.
Incredible, because that's how they actually feel about Trump voters.
And that's not just how those FBI, senior FBI agents felt.
I mean, we know Comey felt the same way based on his description of Trump himself.
But this is how the Clinton campaign felt about Trump voters, and that's why they paid such little attention.
But I think right now, what Congressman Gates is saying is absolutely essential that the beginning of this investigation, let's just go back to what the House Intelligence Committee wants, Sean, House Oversight Committee, what everybody's been looking for.
What was the beginning of this investigation?
Well, there's more evidence of politics at page 416.
I mean, I never really liked the Republic anyway.
Pence is stupid.
That's not political.
The whole idea that, you know, Lisa Page is writing, be nice to Hillary when you do the interview.
Don't go loaded for bear is the term she used, Greg Garrett.
That's not political.
Yeah, look, the key line is where the IG says this is not only indicative of a biased state of mind, but implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects.
That's a direct quote.
So, you know, clearly they harbored a bias.
Could the IG come up with an admission or a piece of paper that said we did it.
We carried out our bias by launching the Trump investigation and clearing Clinton.
No, they didn't.
I mean, that's pretty rare in any case.
But the facts and how they dealt with Trump and Clinton on very different playing fields demonstrate that is what happened.
Let me go back to Congressman Gates.
Congressman, we now know, too, that they'd covered up the fact that hostile actors gained access to Hillary Clinton's email.
Now, that means sources.
That means individuals.
That means lives and methods are exposed.
And if I had to guess, you know, that's why everybody was like, well, where did the Clinton emails come from before?
Well, they came from her originally.
And I'm sure Russia, yeah, they're probably one.
China's probably another.
North Korea, Iran, those would be the first hostile actors I would think of that had access to her top secret classified special access programming emails.
And that rendered sources, individuals, human beings, human intelligence.
Didn't that put them in their lives at risk?
And when you go back to the whole Valerie claim that she's a covert agent, which she never was, and the left's reaction to that, and you compare it to this, and the fact that they just want to gloss over that to me is unspeakable.
Because on top of it all, it's all illegal.
These are all crimes what she did.
They are, Sean.
And the very outrage you just is shared by so many former FBI agents.
Throughout the Inspector Jeff's report, they detail circumstances where Comey and McCabe had all of these current and former agents outraged.
Comey was getting inundated with emails from people out in the field saying, hey, if I'd have done this, if I would have subjected Americans and their safety to this risk, I would have been thrown out of the FBI and probably prosecuted.
And so to try to manage public relations, Comey was meeting with the society of former FBI agents who were furious that this had gone on and who expressed their extreme displeasure with the way James Comey kind of allowed a lack of accountability to persist throughout this agency.
Here's the question, Sean.
Where do we go from here?
Is this just going to be another report that lays on a dusty bookshelf in Washington, D.C.?
Or will the Attorney General, upon seeing these facts, realize Hillary Clinton?
Oh, I've given up on that.
Well, let me ask this all-important question, because isn't it true that Congress has lined up FBI agents that were pushed aside?
In other words, the people that we respect the most, that they were pushed aside.
This was put in a special category where only the upper echelon of the FBI was involved in this investigation.
And aren't they in the end going to be the heroes here?
In other words, the FBI agents that know what they did here was wrong and they saw it and they knew it and they can't say anything about it unless they're subpoenaed.
Aren't they lined up ready to go and tell their story?
Let's hope so, Sean, because it was Andrew McCabe, who's now referred to criminal prosecution, who sent that infamous email, you know, saying that this was going to be taken away.
He later testified that it was a headquarters special.
We need to know why the D.C. field office was deprived of jurisdiction to handle this matter.
And I think it was because politics had infected the upper levels of our justice system and our FBI.
And you know what?
It goes on today.
We have not truly drained this swamp because we've got this illegitimate Russia investigation built on a rotten foundation, and we see how rotten it is each and every day.
Sir?
Absolutely.
If this would have been another country, and Congressman Gates, I think you can understand where I'm going with this.
But if this would have been another country and we were writing a story about this, what would we write about?
We would be saying that their intelligence apparatus, their law enforcement apparatus, was trying to take out a duly elected president based on these text messages, based on the evidence that we have at hand.
No, the cover, the title of Greg's book nails it: The Russian hoax, the illicit scheme to clear Hillary, who's guilty, and frame Donald Trump.
That's it.
It captures the whole thing.
By the way, you can get early orders at amazon.com, Hannity.com, and it will be in bookstores everywhere in July.
Quick break.
We'll come back.
More with Congressman Gates, more with Sarah Carter, more with Greg Jarrett and Ron DeSantis coming up.
We expect the FBI Director Ray, he's also saying it's not political.
That's a joke at this point.
We just gave you all the examples of politics here.
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We expect the FBI Director Ray is giving comments at the bottom of this half hour.
It's about six after the hour a.m. in Singapore and, well, six after the hour Eastern time, p.m. in New York, D.C.
The IG report is out.
Five FBI employees referred for an investigation.
I would expect and anticipate that there are going to be criminal referrals based on the report.
In many ways, disappointing.
In many ways, I would say this is a report of the swamp to the swamp.
Linda had a pretty good line.
He's calling the IG Horowitz, he's Switzerland.
He wants to be viewed as everybody.
But what are we discovering here?
Yeah, that Strzok and Paige are talking directly about, you know, Lisa Page asking Peter Strzok, he's never going to become president, speaking of Donald Trump, right?
Right?
The lawyer asking Strzok.
Strzok writes back, remember, he's at the heart of this investigation.
He's the lead guy.
He's the one writing the exoneration months before he interviewed Hillary July 2nd.
And then the big exoneration of Hillary Clinton takes place thereafter.
And then, of course, he writes back, no, no, he won't be president.
We'll stop it.
Same people texting, well, we have the insurance policy, right?
Then we learned also that, in fact, yeah, there were hostile actors that got a hold of Hillary Clinton's emails on her server in the mom and pop shop bathroom closet.
You know, the whole idea that Hillary is not indicted in all this.
Now, there's a lot of people saying that she may very well now have and be facing serious legal jeopardy and problems.
We'll see over time.
But after Strzzok vowed to stop Trump in the text exchange with Lisa Page, well, it was only a couple of weeks after July 31st that they launched the Russiagate investigation.
And as they pointed out in the report, and as Trey Gowdy and others now are pointing out, the system of investigation, the methods of investigation, when you compare them, and this is the heart of all of this, do we have equal justice under the law?
Do we have equal application of our laws?
Tell that to Christian Saussier today, who went to jail for a year, six photos.
And you go through the different legal standards and all the laws, and they even mention a lot of them, not all of them, in this report.
You know, but what happened to him?
Why didn't it happen to Hillary?
Why is that even possible?
How is it?
Do we have equal justice under the law?
Are people treated fairly under the law?
Or if you're somebody like Hillary Clinton and you're likely to be president in the minds of these people that are doing the investigation, you don't want to piss her off.
Now, don't go in too strong-armed here against her.
Lisa Page telling Peter Strzok.
Now there's a question.
Rachel Stockman has a piece out on, I was on lawandcrime.com.
FBI agent Strzzok just threw a major legal bone to Paul Manafort and all the other Mueller targets.
And I think this is some good insight into this.
As quote, she writes, they're probably jumping for joy at the IG report, which examined Clinton's probe specifically, raising concerns that the political bias may have impacted investigative decisions based upon the text messages of Page and Strzok.
And the investigators seem particularly concerned with the ones that we have just mentioned to you.
And anyway, she goes on to say that in some ways that they were both involved in the Russia investigation and assigned to the probe conducted by special counsel Mueller.
Remember, Strzok was on Mueller's team, his merry band of Democratic donors.
And anyway, the special counsel, before they removed them, and Strzok was assigned to lead the Russia investigation in late July of 2016.
And as agents were zeroing in at that time on Paul Manafort and other former Trump affiliates like General Michael Flynn, now Manafort's facing charges related to all of this.
Anyway, if the OIG report reads that the suggestion in Russian-related text messages that Strzok might be willing to take official action to impact the president's electoral prospect caused us to question the earlier mid-year investigation report in which Strzzok was involved and whether he took specific actions in the mid-year, meaning the Clinton email server investigation, based on his political views.
And when it came to the Clinton investigation, they were unable to find evidence.
This political bias led to the improper decision-making.
However, it's important to note no conclusion was given as to whether these messages could have impacted the direction and decisions as it relates to the Russian probe.
I'm sorry, this reeks of all political bias.
And the handling, if you're comparing and contrasting the way they have, you know, viciously gone after Donald Trump and subpoenas and knocking down doors at 6 a.m. and guns drawn compared to what they did in the Hillary Clinton case, where she's given every consideration that nobody else in this country would have gotten.
That's a big part of this.
Anyway, Congressman Ron DeSantis joins us as we continue with Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett.
Greg's book is coming out perfectly timed for next month, The Russian Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.
Let's bring you in, Ron DeSantis, also a gubernatorial candidate in Florida.
Your general thoughts, reactions, and feelings.
Well, one of the things that I think we take away from this report is there's really no more basis for this Robert Mueller investigation on two different fronts.
There was never really a strong or even a case for obstruction for firing Comey, but I think this report makes clear Comey should have been fired.
It was absolutely justified.
And he would be a horrible witness in an obstruction case.
So that just needs to be bad.
That needs to end.
And then obviously with the Peter Strzok, that damning text message where he's saying, you know, we'll stop him from winning the election six days after he launches a so-called collusion investigation based off some idiotic statement that Papadopoulos supposedly made drunk at a bar, some 20-year-old, 25-year-old kid.
This whole thing was tainted from the start by the bias of people like Peter Strzzok.
So on both prongs, Trump-Russia collusion, no case.
Obstruction, no case.
Mueller needs to close up shops.
You know, I see a tweet from Mark Meadows, and he points out a specific section on page 420 and 421, which is remarkable.
And it calls the Struck page text not only indicative of a biased state of mind, but even more seriously implies a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects.
Isn't that go-to-jail stuff, Congressman?
Look, I mean, for a while, just before I even get there, why the heck does Peter Strzzk still have a job?
This guy needs to be fired.
Are you kidding me?
What is that?
That's a good question.
And didn't we hear recently he still had access to top secret information, classified information?
He never had his security clearance suspended, or at least they've never told us that when we've asked.
And so, and yes, look, I think there's a lot of criminal liability here.
I mean, Hillary, for example, the whole idea that they weren't going to charge her was because, oh, she didn't intend to harm.
There was no harm.
We don't know if there was harm.
Well, the OIG, they point out they know that foreign actors obtained access to some of her emails.
That should have been a basis to go forward initially.
Strzz was the one who scrubbed that from Comey's statement.
So he manipulated this process time and time again.
And I think it really is a major abuse of power that was fueled by this absolute hatred for Donald Trump.
Agreed.
Greg, let's get your legal aspect of this.
And, you know, where are we going with this?
What happens here besides the usual whitewash?
We don't follow up like Operation Fast and Furious, Benghazi.
You know, everybody's so disheartened that we never get the guilty parties and we never finish the job.
Well, I think that Strzz may be fired by the end of today.
I'm looking forward to FBI Director Ray's public statements at the bottom of the hour.
Who are these five people that are being looked at now by the FBI?
Do we know?
Because it didn't say.
Yeah, no, we know Strzz is one of them because he's actually identified.
As to the others, I don't have their names.
But what's interesting is that it's very unclear what kind of a referral that is.
I take it to be for disciplinary action, and Strzok is certainly one of them.
But a lot of these individuals have already left.
Rabiki, McCabe, Comey, Paige.
I mean, they're all gone.
Strzz's like the only guy left.
But there are others that will receive disciplinary reviews.
And, you know, Strzok, Strzok is gone.
You know, I can't believe he hasn't emptied his desk and been shown the door and turned in his badge.
And that may happen by the end of today or by the end of this week.
Sarah?
Well, I also think that Strzok has been there because that gave the Inspector General the ability to question him, the ability to interview him.
I mean, if he had left the FBI or resigned, I see him as a potential cooperating witness as well as somebody who is going to be a target.
We know that FBI Director Christopher Wray, I've been told by my sources, has already spoken to the employees internally by video conference.
He did say to all members, this is before he's coming out publicly now, he said, we're holding employees accountable for any potential misconduct.
We've already referred the conducted highlight in the IG report to OPR and the FBI's independent Office of Professional Responsibility.
And we need to hold ourselves accountable for the work we do and the choices we make.
We know that they are going to take this IG report as seriously as possible, and particularly with the five agents that are going to be recommended for disciplinary action.
And also know that Director Ray has already spoken with the head of all FBI field offices throughout the world and is going to hold a meeting with them to review what's happening right now within the Bureau and oversee possible significant changes in the future.
And let me ask you, Congressman DeSantis, I mean, from my understanding is there's going to be a lot of FBI rank and file that are brought in and asked now more specific questions because they can't tell their side of the story unless they're subpoenaed.
And then I hear they're lined up banging at the door, begging for a subpoena because they want to expose the truth in all of this.
Well, I hope so, and I'd love to be able to hear from them.
But some of our guys, Sean, as you know, got to get more aggressive on this.
We need the answers now.
You can't just bring in one person six weeks from now, then another one two months.
I mean, we need to do this and keep the momentum going.
We also have to get the answers to why wasn't that struck text message given to Congress?
It wasn't even redacted.
When they gave us the text messages from August 6th, 2016, you have the entire text string with just that text missing.
And so is that just a coincidence?
I find that hard to believe.
I think somebody removed that when it was being produced.
Who was the one that did that?
What did Rosenstein know?
When did he know it?
And we got to hold people accountable for that because that, I think, has been the most egregious example of a long list of examples of them obstructing Congress.
Yeah, I mean, some of the conversations I got to tell you that I'm reading about that they have in here are very disturbing between, you know, one FBI employee.
You know, I mean, I never really liked the Republic anyway.
Employee two, I mean, I never really liked the Republic anyway.
Number three, as I have initiated the destruction of the Republic, would you be so kind as to have coffee with us this afternoon?
I'm clinging to small pockets of happiness in the dark time of the Republic's destruction.
And then you have another example.
This is the day after the election, the presidential election, November 9th, 2016.
FBI attorney two and another FBI employee not involved in the Clinton email server investigation exchanging the following messages I am numb.
I can't stop crying.
That makes me even more sad.
Like, what happened?
You promised me this wouldn't happen.
You promised.
Okay, that might have been a lie.
I'm very upset.
Ha ha.
I'm so stressed about what I could have done differently.
Don't stress.
None of that mattered.
The FBI employee, the FBI's quote-unquote influence.
I don't know.
We broke momentum.
FBI employee, that is not so.
All these people who were initially voting for her would not and were not swayed by any decision that the FBI put out.
Trump supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POSs that think that he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing.
And they probably didn't watch the debates.
They aren't fully educated on his policies and are stupidly wrapped up in his unmerited enthusiasm.
The other FBI attorney, I'm just devastated.
I can't wait until I can leave today and just shut off the world for the next four days.
Why are you devastated?
I'm watching TV for four years.
I'm not watching TV for four years.
I just can't imagine the systematic disassembly of the progress we've made over the last eight years.
ACA, Obamacare, gone.
Who knows if the rhetoric about deporting people, walls, and all that other crap is true.
I honestly feel like there's going to be a lot more gun issues, too.
The crazies won finally.
This is the Tea Party on steroids, and the GOP is going to be lost.
They'll have to deal with this guy for four years.
We have to fight this again, and Pence is stupid.
Yes, that's all true.
And it's just hard not to feel the FBI caused some of this.
It was razor-thin in some states.
Yes, very thin.
Plus, my GD named is all over the blankety-blank documents investigating his staff.
But I absolutely do not believe the FBI had any part.
So who knows?
That breaks to him.
You know, what is he going to do?
And then they said, I'd say that we're discussing your personal feelings, the outcome of the election between friends.
When asked about the FBI employee, he meant, you know, so they're covering their tracks too.
Unbelievable.
These are armed employees.
Federal employees.
That's correct.
That aren't supposed to be political.
Well, this should never happen in the United States.
This is the power that the intelligence community and law enforcement wields.
I got a break.
We'll come back.
We're in Singapore.
Quick break, right back.
Continue.
All right.
As we scour through these 568 pages, we're finding unbelievable, what contempt and hatred really for the American people.
And something I've always said, liberals think we're dumb.
Liberals think the American people are dumb, that they're superior.
And it justifies the ends justifies the means in all that they do.
All right, 25 to the top of the air.
You know, this gets more devastating the deeper we dig into this IG report.
The level of hatred and contempt for the American people is breathtaking among those people in the upper echelon that, you know, their attitude towards anybody that was voting for Trump and how sick they were to their stomach and how much they hated him and the names they called him.
Unbelievable.
Now, we're literally narrowing this down into, I think, one of my most important monologues on TV tonight on Hannity, 9 Eastern.
And we'll get to all of that.
We also discovered, yeah, this was hacked into her email server by, yeah, numerous hostile foreign agencies.
They have them all.
They have everything.
They had it.
And they watered it all down.
And in fact, we now know Strzok is telling his girlfriend Paige, we'll stop him on top of the insurance policy.
Anyway, the FBI director, Ray, is talking about it.
Now, for them to say, with all of the political things I've exposed here today, and they're in this report, oh, this isn't political, it's just a bunch of crap.
And that is the swamp protecting the swamp.
But with that said, let's dip in and listen to the FBI director.
Morning, everybody.
Thanks for being here on such short notice.
As you all know, of course, the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General issued its report today about DOJ and FBI activity in the run-up to the 2016 election.
Let me say up front that I appreciate the Inspector General's work on this important review.
I thought I'd take a few minutes to talk about the report, and then I'm happy to take a few questions.
The FBI's mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.
But to carry out that mission, we're entrusted with a lot of authority.
So our actions are subject to close oversight from the courts, from our elected leaders, and from independent entities like the Inspector General.
And that's how it should be.
That kind of examination, that kind of oversight, makes the FBI stronger as an organization and makes the public more safe.
With that in mind, let me briefly address the findings in the Inspector General's report.
I take this report very seriously, and we accept its findings and recommendations.
It's also important, though, to note what the Inspector General did not find.
This report did not find any evidence of political bias or improper considerations actually impacting the investigation.
This report is not true.
The report does identify errors of judgment, violations of or even disregard for policy and decisions that at the very least, with the benefit of hindsight, were not the best choices.
We've already started taking the necessary steps to address those issues.
First, we're going to hold employees accountable for any potential misconduct.
We've already referred conduct highlighted in the report to our disciplinary arm, OPR, which is the FBI's independent Office of Professional Responsibility.
We need to hold ourselves accountable for the choices we make and the work we do.
We're doing that fairly but without delay in the way that people should expect.
We're going to adhere to the appropriate disciplinary process, and once that process is complete, we won't hesitate to hold people accountable for their actions.
Second, we're going to make sure that every FBI employee understands the lessons of this report.
Because change starts at the top, starts with me, we're going to require all of our senior executives from all around the world to convene for in-depth training, specifically focused on learning the lessons that we should learn from this report.
Then we're going to train every single FBI employee, both new hires and veterans alike, on what went wrong so these mistakes will never be repeated.
Third, we're going to make sure that we have the policies, the procedures, and the training that are needed for everyone to understand and remember what is expected of all of us.
That includes drilling home the importance of objectivity, of avoiding even the appearance of personal conflicts or political bias in our work, ensuring that recusals are handled correctly and effectively and communicated to all the right people.
Making all of our employees fully aware of our new policy on media contacts, which I issued last November, and making painfully clear that we will not tolerate non-compliance.
Ensuring that we follow all DOJ policies on public statements about uncharged conduct or ongoing investigations.
And ensuring that our employees adhere strictly to all policies and procedures about the use of FBI systems, networks, and devices.
I've also directed our Associate Deputy Director to lead a review of how the FBI handles sensitive investigations and to make recommendations on how those should be staffed, structured, and supervised in the future so that every sensitive investigation is conducted to the FBI's highest standards.
We're going to continue also to work with the department to gauge our progress in each of these areas.
The OIG report makes clear that we've got some work to do.
But let's also be clear on the scope of this report.
It's focused on a specific set of events back in 2016 and a small number of FBI employees connected to those events.
Nothing, nothing in this report impugns the integrity of our workforce as a whole or the FBI as an institution.
As I said earlier, fair and independent scrutiny is welcome and appropriate accountability is crucial.
We're going to learn from this report and we're going to be better and stronger as a result.
But I also want to be crystal clear about the FBI that I get to see.
In the past 10 months, I've been able to visit over 30 of our FBI field offices around the country and a whole bunch of our LEGAT offices overseas.
I've visited with folks from every FBI division at headquarters and in office after office, meeting after meeting.
I see extraordinary people doing extraordinary work.
Again and again, I hear remarkable stories, frankly inspiring stories, about the work the men and women of the FBI are doing to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.
Just in the past several months, we've disrupted terrorist attacks in places ranging from the fisherman's wharf in San Francisco to a crowded shopping mall in Miami.
In March, we charged a ring of Iranian state-sponsored hackers with stealing terabytes of data from scores of American companies, universities, and government agencies.
In Austin, we deployed more than 600 of our people to assist in the investigation of the package bombings down there.
This year alone, we've rescued 1,305 kids from child predators, some of them as young as seven months old.
We've arrested more than 4,600 gang members, violent gang members, in just the past several months.
Our FBI lab has closed thousands of cases through fingerprint analysis and DNA analysis.
And our hostage rescue team has deployed something like 27 different times on missions around the country.
I could go on and on.
The FBI's men and women are doing all that work with the unfailing fidelity to the Constitution and the laws that it demands, the bravery that it calls for, and the integrity that the American people rightly expect.
As FBI director, I'm laser-focused on ensuring that our folks get to continue that great work and do it with the fidelity and bravery and integrity that we've always had.
As I've been saying since as far back as my confirmation hearing, I'm a huge believer in the importance of process, of doing this job by the book in every respect, and I expect all our employees to do the same.
I've tried to emphasize that at every opportunity.
In my view, the FBI's brand over the past 110 years is baseless.
Let me jump in here.
This is the FBI Director Wright.
We're about three or four minutes behind because we were in a break when it started, but we started from the beginning.
We're going to advance this now to the point where this live and he's taking questions from the media.
Let's go there.
If you think that's the case, and if so, what you intend to do to try and fix some of the perception perhaps that the public may have of the FBI now?
Well, that's a subject that's near and dear to me.
I guess I would say a couple things.
One is there's no shortage of opinions about us out there.
I will tell you that the opinions that I care the most about are the opinions of the people who actually really know us and know us through our work.
So I'm focused on what a juries think when our agents take the stand.
I'm focused on what the judges think when we give them a search warrant.
I'm focused on what victims and their families think when they are asked, who do you trust to get your child back.
I'm focused on what do our state and local law enforcement partners think when they think who do they trust?
Who do prosecutors want to work with on cases?
To me, it's the work that matters.
If I look at things like that, I look at how our recruiting is doing.
I look at how our retention is doing.
Our recruiting, we get about 12,000 plus people, for example, trying to be special agents every year.
Our admission rate, our selection rate, 5%.
That's better than the admission rate at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Stanford.
And it's not a fluke.
You know, we just recently hired a whole new crap of honors interns.
So the young people coming out of college who have lots of choices about what they want to do with their careers.
We have the highest number of applicants we've ever had for our honors intern program.
Want to know what that admission rate was?
5%.
If I look at things like that, I look at what people think when they know us, and I look at what people think when they express their views through their actions.
I look at our attrition rate.
Our attrition rate in the agent population in the FBI is 0.8%.
Let me just tip in here.
I want to be clear.
Nobody's damning the entire FBI.
Nobody.
I don't think there's a day that has gone by, radio or TV or both, where we haven't gone out of our way to talk about rank and file and what they do for this country every day.
And I have expressly said to people, don't get caught up that every FBI person is like Comey and Strzz and Paige and McCabe and Orr and all these other people because they're not.
You know, but the obvious political bias, listen to this from March 12, 2016, Paige forwarding an article about, quote, the far-right candidate in Texas stating, what the blank is wrong with people.
That Texas article is depressing as hell, but answers how we could end up with President Trump.
And then Paige says, I can't believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual serious candidate for president.
June 11th, 2016.
Now remember, this is Strzz.
He had already been writing Hillary's exoneration in May and didn't interview her until July.
So right in the middle of this, he's saying they fully deserve to go and demonstrate the absolute bigoted nonsense of Trump.
And then two days later, Paige, Donald Trump is an enormous, I don't even know how to say, how do you say that?
You see, you say it.
Is that what you're saying to me?
You say it.
Oh, you want to say it, Sarah?
I don't want to say it.
You're saying, no, don't say it.
I don't even know what vernacular to, you know, I work for a living with my words.
What?
It starts with the D, ends with an E. Sarah Carter recommendation.
All right.
It rhymes with ruches.
All right.
I got it.
Yeah.
Shocking, Linda.
Another damning text.
Strzz sent to Paige, we'll stop it.
We'll stop it.
And, you know, you go on about all of this, and you just, you know, it should take your breath away.
And I'm even going a step further than the FBI director.
And I'm saying that in the end, it's going to be the FBI that are the heroes of the story.
How could you say that with all this corruption?
Strzok, Paige, McCabe, Comey, all of them, or even the Attorney General at the time, Loretta Lynch.
That's the people that are going to tell the real story.
Viva la resistance is in here.
And, you know, then, you know, I can't find, you know, all the people, the way they condemn the American people and bashing Trump is, you know, retarded.
Anyway, Daniel Hoffman, I'm sorry, the FBI director taking all our time.
How are you?
We don't have a lot of time.
No, good to be here, Sean.
This is, you know, from my perspective, I was reading over the report and I've also been in touch over the past few months with FBI agents, good friends of mine.
This is an enormous self-inflicted wound on our part, from the top by Comey.
It reflects horrific.
This is important.
From the top.
Right.
And you agree with me that in the end, when Congress brings forward the FBI agents on the ground that know the case and knew that this was all happening and they're not allowed to speak, that will be devastating.
Well, we need that.
I can tell you from the perspective of somebody who gave 30 years of his life to serving our country that the one thing that offends us as much as anything is political bias or the appearance of political bias, which would interfere in the work that we're doing on behalf of our nation.
And the fact that Director Comey allowed that to happen is really an indictment of his management of the FBI.
I found another one, and this is, well, I don't have time.
All right, we'll have it on Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern.
Thanks, everybody, for your patience.
This is a hard, when you're doing these shows, it's hard because you're literally reading 568 pages, and we have 15 people sending us information, and we're just trying to get it to you.
We'll make it a little more comprehensive and pull it all together for TV tonight at 9.
All right, Hannity tonight, Rudy Giuliani, our full compliment of guests, the best analysis of the IG report.
