Sean Hannity Show - Tragedy in Maryland - 6.28

June 28, 2018 - Sean Hannity Show

01:33:44

Tragedy in Maryland - 6.28

Sean reacts to the tragic news of another shooting, this time in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Maryland. Sean breaks down the latest information and is joined by Gregg Jarrett and Sara Carter to discuss next steps after this shooting. The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	All right, college, what a news day this is.
	Unbelievable news day.
	I told you the left was going to freak out over the president and his choice that he has now a second pick, the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.
	I told you, I told you to buckle up, get ready.
	They are so predictable.
	It's not hard to figure this stuff out.
	I actually have been thinking, I've now been studying the left in this country and watching and learning and watching and learning and reporting and learning and watching.
	They just don't have any other playbook.
	And it's the same thing with the election.
	What do you think this separation of children issue was all about?
	Is it really their great care, concern, love was all about the children?
	No, I think liberals care about children.
	But the pylon was political because their silence was deafening because it was happening when Obama was president.
	The irony is, brought to President Trump's attention, he actually fixed it.
	Now, it's a short-term fix.
	It's an executive order.
	That's not how things are supposed to get done.
	I played 22 times Barack Obama himself saying that he doesn't have the authority, that he's not an emperor, and that he cannot, through executive fiat, by use of a pen, change the laws that Congress has passed, and that his obligation is to enforce the laws, even if, in his opinion, that's causing great harm.
	And Obama did nothing.
	He didn't lift a finger.
	But Donald Trump put the short-term fix in.
	He did it.
	But he also knows, I'm sure his counsel has told him, that that's not going to last very long because it's the obligation of the legislative branch of government to pass the laws and for presidents to sign things into law.
	Now, the president has been offering a deal on immigration.
	It's not going to happen with this watered-down amnesty bill that they tried to push through yesterday.
	I knew it wasn't going to pass.
	I wasn't going to waste your time with a lot of it.
	But the real bill, that the president, he pointed out four big principles.
	He wants the funding for the wall up front.
	To me, that's the biggest, most important item.
	Any promise of future monies for the wall are never coming.
	They'll never give it up.
	You've got to get it up front.
	It's like you always get the tax increase immediately, but you never get the spending cuts that are promised.
	That always is down the line and never comes to fruition.
	Similarly, historically, you're always going to get the concession, the amnesty, the DACA kids, the separation of families issue completely solved legally, and you're never going to get the money for the wall.
	You'll get, well, we'll give you $1.7 billion to start the wall.
	The president's already building the wall.
	There right now is construction of a wall on our southern border, but they don't have the monies to go and build the entire, I guess they probably need close to a thousand miles of fence.
	It's a lot of, you don't have to do everything if you include drones and some of the more open areas, but I'm talking about the heavily trafficked areas.
	You hire enough security guards, you put in the right technology, nobody will be able to cross that border ever if you do it the right way.
	And so that money has to come up front.
	Of course, you have to end the visa lottery.
	You know, the way chain migration is, one kid gets in.
	I mean, there were reports that kids are with people that are not their parents.
	A lot of these reports, we brought them to you.
	And in those cases, well, if the kids get in and the kids get to stay, then they get to bring not just mom and dad, then they get to bring grandma and grandpa, and then they get to bring their aunts, their uncles, and that's what chain migration is.
	And what the president is saying is we need a merit-based system.
	For example, a visa lottery program.
	We don't know the person that gets the lucky visa number.
	Is that person a good person?
	Does that person want to come here for hope and opportunity and be a part of our family and loves America and wants just opportunity to have a better life?
	There are plenty of those people.
	But there are also other people that are up to nefarious and no-good deeds.
	And we've seen instances where people commit horrific crimes and they were visa lottery winners.
	And then, of course, people that overstay their visas.
	And, you know, there's just a lot that we would need in all of this to get this done.
	But the president, anyway, let me go to these explosive hearings.
	I'm going to spend a lot of time on this.
	And we're going to spend more time, too, on the demonization, if you will, and the freakout and the predictable panic of the Democrats.
	It's all the same.
	Let me tell you what the Democratic Party wants to do between now and Election Day.
	It's simple.
	They're going to smear, slander, besmirch, use character assassination, and try to portray every Republican as racist, sexist, misogynistic, as xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic.
	They're going to say Republicans want dirty air and water, they want to kill children, and they want to throw Granny over the cliff.
	That's what they're going to say.
	That's all they ever say.
	Do they have a real strong agenda that is inspiring, that will make America a better place for our kids and grandkids?
	They have no such agenda.
	Right now, their agenda is now, it was four items, and I've now added a fifth.
	Agenda item number one is they want to impeach the president.
	There's no reason to impeach him.
	There's no high crimes or misdemeanors to impeach him on, but that doesn't mean a thing.
	And the interesting thing about Democrats is they don't want to even tell you the truth about what their real agenda is, but they want to impeach the president.
	Some of them say it, impeach 45, impeach 45, impeach 45, and then they're told by the leadership, don't say it.
	We agree, but don't say it.
	You're giving away our big secret.
	Of course we're going to impeach the president, but don't say it.
	So fundamentally, they're just a bunch of liars, and it's sort of a lie by omission.
	It's obvious they want open borders.
	They do not want a wall.
	And all they want to do is keep the borders open.
	Democrats believe and Democrats think that that is a voting constituency that they're going to win over by having open borders.
	But by the way, it's not good for the country.
	We need to be able to protect our borders.
	I've been to the security briefing down in Texas.
	I've been there 12 times from the Rio Grande to San Diego, helicopter boat, all-terrain vehicles, horseback, walking.
	I've done it all.
	I've seen tunnels.
	I've seen drug warehouses.
	I've seen gang members arrested.
	I've got it all on tape.
	So they want open borders.
	They want to impeach the president.
	And we know that Nancy Pelosi is actually saying she wants to take back the tax cuts.
	She wants her crumbs back.
	She referred to them as crumbs.
	Now, it turns out to be about $2,000 a family.
	We see that all these companies, because of the tax cuts and because of the burdensome regulation being literally ripped apart daily by Donald Trump, well, she wants the crumbs back.
	So they want to impeach.
	They want open borders.
	They want Obamacare.
	They want the crumbs back.
	And the last item is they don't want the president to fulfill his constitutional duty and appoint the next Supreme Court justice with the vacancy of Anthony Kennedy.
	And whoever that person ends up being is going to be smeared, slandered, besmirched.
	The character assassination will begin.
	The borking of such a person will begin.
	And that is the playbook.
	Do they talk about anything that is going to help forgotten men and women in America?
	They have no agenda.
	There's nothing.
	And that's what makes, for example, this election, you know, the loss of Joe Crowley and the victory of this woman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
	By the way, she recently was a bartender, which, you know what, I did that for a living.
	I actually respect it.
	It's a hard job, harder than people would think, and especially if you want to be good at it.
	She has the most radical left-wing views.
	There was a New York Post Stephen L. Miller editorial today, op-ed today.
	Radicals rule Bernie's left-wing disciples take over the Democratic Party.
	Comrade de Blasio, he picked Bernie Sanders to swear him in for a second term.
	A sign, much like Groundhog, signaling six more weeks of winter that the heart of the Democratic Party was changing, even if Bernie himself refuses to acknowledge that he belongs to it.
	And then you've got this big, it was a political earthquake here in New York.
	Joe Crowley was the guy that Democrats were looking to in the House to maybe be the next speaker instead of Nancy Pelosi.
	Now, they've all tried to blow this whole thing off.
	Governor Cuomo of New York, you know, denied that Cortez's victory here had any bearing.
	He's going up against, you know, that actress from Sex in the City, Cynthia Nixon.
	She's running for the governor of New York.
	I mean, it's crazy.
	And he was asked about, well, I think this is apples and oranges.
	I think what you saw in the Crowley race, this was a minority community, largely in this district, that is afraid, that is angry.
	And Miss Ocasio-Cortez.
	Is that how you say Ocasio-Cortez?
	I think so.
	Did a very good job of connecting with the city council speaker in New York, Corey Johnson, saying that he attributed it to a very low turnout, then backtracked saying, well, I didn't mean it in any way to downplay her victory or the amazing grassroots-driven momentum of her campaign.
	Nancy Pelosi said that they made a choice in one district.
	Let's not get yourself carried away as an expert on demographics and the rest of that.
	It's not to be viewed as something that stands for anything else.
	Well, she actually stood up for herself and said, yeah, it does, actually.
	It really does.
	And this is your Democratic Party.
	This is the party of Maxime Waters, obviously.
	By the way, we're getting some breaking news that there was a shooting at the, what's called Capitol Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.
	The Baltimore Sun is now reporting.
	We have multiple deaths also being reported, and the sheriff is saying the multiple fatalities in a newsroom shooting.
	Oh, good grief.
	So scary.
	The suspect, though, has been apprehended, according to the sheriff.
	And we'll continue to follow that story.
	It's so sad that there are so many sick, demented, and evil people in this world.
	It really is sad.
	You know, imagine you go to work and this is what you're dealing with today.
	Some crazy person comes in.
	And I'm not turning this into a gun debate.
	I know that's where the media will be in 30 seconds from now.
	That's not it.
	You know, as I've always said, I mean, honestly, I've been saying now for days that something horrible is going to happen because of the rhetoric.
	Really, Maxine, you want people to create, call your friends, get in their faces, and Obama said that too.
	Get in their faces.
	Call them out.
	Call your friends.
	You know, get protesters.
	Follow them into restaurants and shopping malls and wherever else, she said.
	There's somebody being airlifted out now as we actually speak.
	Thank God for those helicopters, the airlift helicopter guys.
	I met a guy in the lobby the other day at Fox, and I saw that he had, you know, he was dressed as a paramedic, and it said this is what he did.
	I forgot the actual phrase for it.
	And I said, like, you take organs and you do this.
	And he goes, they do, it's airlift.
	That's what it was.
	They do airlift rescue all the time.
	You know my buddy Neil Borts?
	He's like a plane enthusiast.
	He's a plane nut.
	He always asked me to go up in his planes.
	I'm like, I'm not getting in that stupid little tiny plane of yours with you driving it.
	He said, are you out of here?
	And he's actually semi.
	He's actually a very good pilot.
	He really is.
	And I give him a lot of credit, but I'm not letting him fly me in that little itsy-bitsy little thing.
	And then he's got a loop-diddy-loop plane that he wants me to go on because he wants to see if he can make me puke.
	And I'll have like a hidden camera in there, Hannity puking on Bortz's plane.
	But in all seriousness, these guys, you know, we got another helicopter now dropping down to hopefully save somebody's life.
	Thank God we can do this for people.
	And those people are amazing.
	Neil Bortz, by the way, does this.
	He'll fly, you know, body parts.
	All right, well, NBC is now reporting four fatalities.
	Apparently, the suspect is in custody.
	This is at the Capitol Gazette newspaper in Annapolis.
	All right, there's been a shooting, Capitol Gazette newspaper.
	It's in Annapolis.
	The sheriff there has said there's been multiple fatalities, but the suspect apparently has been apprehended.
	We have no context as to why this has happened.
	Also, a report that a shotgun was, in fact, used in this particular shooting.
	And we're also learning that the Baltimore Sun is now taking safety measures in regards to what's going on there.
	But what we know is the shooting took place at the Capitol Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.
	It was a paper that is owned by the Baltimore Sun.
	The AP is saying multiple people are confirmed shot.
	The sheriff is confirming that there have been multiple fatalities.
	And we now believe this just crossing the wires, the Daily Mail saying four dead, 20 injured.
	We'll update you as more information becomes available.
	We don't know the reason why.
	You never really know, except that we know that there's absolute pathetic evil in the world and horrible, horrible people that have no respect for human life at all.
	I'm going to set this up, and in the next half hour, we're going to start playing this for you.
	I'm going to give you the list.
	Rosenstein complaining today that I'm not hiding anything.
	I've been told by a really good source, Rod Rosenstein apparently is talking about me and doesn't like me and was complaining fairly bitterly about me.
	Now, I don't know if that fits into the same thing.
	He was asked today if he had threatened some of the staffers.
	I talked to one of the ones that he did get angry, and you could see flashes of his temper today on display.
	And Rod Rosenstein did, according to my source, Greg Jarrett's source is, Sarah Carter's source is, that he lost it and said, well, I'm going to subpoena your emails.
	And then he joked about it.
	Oh, I can't subpoena emails.
	That's not the point of any of it.
	Anyway, so he was there today.
	The House has passed a resolution to force Rod Rosenstein and the DOJ to hand over all documents.
	I think the president's probably at some point going to have to step in.
	Gowdy tells Rosenstein, finish the hell up.
	And we see that apparently Peter Strzok was kind of muzzled by FBI attorneys yesterday.
	We got some key information on that and all the other details in some of this incredible audio that we're going to get to.
	And we have the latest in the meltdown over the Supreme Court now selection and opening of the president.
	Everything I predicted about Borking and Clarence Thomas-like attacks, they're all coming.
	Buckle up.
	And it's an election year.
	All right, we have more details.
	Not good, actually, on this shooting that has taken place.
	Glad you're with us.
	25 now till the top of the hour.
	If you're just joining us, there has been a shooting reported at what's known as the Capitol Gazette newspaper.
	It's in Annapolis, Maryland.
	It's one of the smaller papers that's owned by the Baltimore Sun.
	We now can confirm that multiple people have been shot, maybe as many as 20 according to the Daily Mail.
	There have been multiple fatalities.
	We believe four dead as of now.
	Apparently, a newspaper intern tweeted out, please help us.
	And Fox is reporting that authorities believe that they have the one and only suspect.
	But as we speak, they're checking and they're being extraordinarily cautious as it relates to the potential of other shooters and maybe even potential bombs.
	So they're not given the all-clear yet.
	They have no reason to believe that.
	It's just out of an abundance of caution.
	And police going through their checklist, doing what they do to get everybody out of the building.
	A scene, sadly, that is all too familiar.
	In this case, it's not students, but it's people that work at the newspaper coming out with their hands up, dropping their backpacks or dropping their briefcases and moving to the areas that the police are telling them to go to.
	I know that probably the tendency of the left is to go out there and blame, blame, blame.
	And here comes again another firearm discussion.
	We have one report that a shotgun was used in this case.
	It seems like every shooting, there's another different type of style or weapon that has been used, you know, or it's the case of where people make these bombs up.
	I think their intentions are what, and their hatred and whatever sick political agenda some of them may have or no agenda, just pure hatred or ideology that drives people to do horrible things to innocent people.
	It's just always sad to see all of this.
	In an unrelated story, we do have literally a mob, NBC News reporting, nine people arrested this morning after federal officers in riot gear got moved in to clear the entrance of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service, one of their holding facilities in southwest Portland.
	The ICE facility had been closed since Wednesday after the protest group calling themselves Occupy ICE PDX set up camp.
	Their goal was to shut down the Immigration Enforcement Agency.
	And at approximately 5.30 a.m. today, federal law enforcement officers initiated a law enforcement action to reopen the federal facility.
	And Federal Protective Services spokesman Robert Sperling said in a prepared statement, quote, you know, officers cleared the entrances to the building and arrested eight people who were taken to the federal courthouse in downtown Portland.
	The ninth was taken into custody later in the morning.
	Activists said that they were representing the National Lawyers Guild.
	There has been, when it comes to crazy, there has been a lot of crazy lately.
	You know, you think of, you know, just go back and think of Sarah Sanders goes to a restaurant with her family and not only is asked to leave, but then they ask, then the owner follows the family.
	Sarah and her husband and children went home.
	They were just probably rightly disgusted.
	And then the owner that read whatever restaurant goes the Red Hen, the Red Hen restaurant.
	Sure, they're doing a booming business.
	They could just throw people out that have good money.
	Never understood that for anybody.
	If I'm in business, I'm there to serve you.
	I'm not there to ask you what your politics are.
	If I'm in business, I want to give you the best service I possibly can.
	If I'm in business, I assume your money's green, regardless of whatever your political point of view happens to be.
	This just breaking, by the way, President Trump was briefed on the shooting incident at the Capitol Gazette newspaper in their offices in Maryland.
	He offered his thoughts, his prayers for the victims, and the POTUS now is on his way back to Washington, D.C. after stops in North Dakota last night in Fargo and then stopping earlier today in Wisconsin.
	So he's on his way back to the White House.
	We'll see if the president talks later today about this.
	And then you think of Maxine Waters' rhetoric and Corey Booker's rhetoric.
	And then you think of not just Sarah Sanders, but look at what they did to Pam Bondi the other night.
	Pam Bondi on the show.
	They literally, big guys surrounding her.
	She's with her boyfriend.
	They're calling her the ABCDEFP words and everything in between.
	And they're taunting him.
	Are you going to let us call her a boo?
	Are you going to let us call her a boo?
	You're not going to do anything, tough guy, blue eyes?
	I guess he has blue eyes.
	And for his sake, you know, imagine the position you're in.
	Your blood's boiling.
	They're provoking a fight.
	I think anybody's natural instinct is to want to stand up for yourself.
	But if Pam Bondi's boyfriend does just that, then he's the one that gets in trouble.
	So you got Sarah Sanders.
	You got Pam Bondi.
	You got Secretary Nielsen.
	And Secretary Nielsen is, she's run out of a restaurant.
	And then they're protesting outside her home.
	Then they're outside of Stephen Miller's home.
	Well, it's mostly seems women and children.
	Then you got psychos like Peter Fonda saying, oh, let's put the 12-year-old son of Melania and President Trump in a cage with a bunch of pedophiles and basically talks about raping Secretary Nielsen.
	Sick, twisted, ugly times.
	And then you got the encouragement factor.
	And, you know, let's listen to Maxine Waters and what she has to say.
	Unbelievable.
	Listen to this.
	You got that?
	Maxine Waters is telling people, go confront him in restaurants.
	Let's confront them in malls.
	Let's confront them in department stores.
	Let's go after everybody here.
	And then Corey Booker wants to be president.
	He's saying the same thing.
	I'm going to rally and now you ain't seen nothing yet.
	Alrighty, you have members of your cabinet that have been booed out of restaurants.
	We have protesters taking up at the house.
	Who sang no peace, no sleep.
	No peace, no sleep.
	And guess what?
	We're going to win this battle because while you try and cook the Bible, Jeff Sessions and others, you really don't know the Bible.
	God is on our side.
	On the side of the children.
	On the side of what's right.
	On the side of what's honorable.
	On the side of understanding that if we can't protect the children, we can't protect anybody.
	And so, let's save a voice.
	Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.
	And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.
	And you push back on them.
	And you tell them they're not welcome anymore.
	I saw an administrator in a out and about, there's nothing wrong with confronting that person, but not to lead with love and to do it in a way that is more reflective of the values that we are trying to reject in our country is unacceptable to me.
	God is on our side.
	Show up wherever you see them, member of the cabinet.
	You know, get a group of people together and then confront them.
	Get a crowd.
	Confront them at a department store, restaurant, at a gas station.
	You're not welcome anymore, the Democratic Party of today.
	Well, it's happening.
	Now, I don't think in any way, shape, matter, or form.
	I don't want any liberal taking my words out of context.
	This is very separate, very apart from what we don't know any of the details, except that we now know that multiple people were injured, we think as many as 20.
	And we have about, we believe, four fatalities in this newsroom shoot.
	This is separate and apart.
	Very separate, very apart.
	We don't know what's behind that, but we do know this.
	What Maxine Waters is advocating for is extraordinarily dangerous.
	If you're going to do what now has happened to Secretary Nielsen and Attorney General Pam Bondi of Florida and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and you're going to say these things about the president and about his wife and about his daughter and about his granddaughter and about his son, we've got a big problem in this country.
	And separate and apart, again, from what other news we're covering today, somebody is going to get hurt or worse as a result of this insanity.
	Because why?
	You disagree?
	And it's all happening.
	It's not happening in a vacuum.
	The left has not recovered from Donald Trump's victory.
	That's when they had the women's march.
	That's when Madonna said, I thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
	That's when Ashley Judd went and lost her mind.
	And then it kind of calmed down because they're all excited and they kind of believe for a long time that Robert Mueller was going to get rid of the president for them.
	And then the other issue is Donald Trump, they didn't expect this type of success.
	After eight years of Obama and his economic statistics, that's why they have nothing to run on.
	That's why Democrats are running on a very simple platform with no vision.
	Impeach Trump, keep open borders, keep Obamacare.
	Of course, they want their crumbs back, and don't let anybody that Donald Trump appoints become a Supreme Court justice.
	Five things now that they're banking on.
	Nothing that would help the American people.
	And they're going to lie, distort, propagandize, misinform, make stuff up like they always do.
	Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.
	They want dirty air, water, kill children, and kill grandma.
	Tell me where I'm wrong.
	And they're going to bork.
	Whoever gets chosen, they'll try to bork that candidate.
	All right, back to the other story today.
	Rod Rosenstein complaining, I'm not hiding anything.
	Let me play one cut, the shorter cut of Jim Jordan from today.
	And this is Jim Jordan just grilling Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Ray and on a whole variety of issues, including, I'm not hiding anything.
	I got a whole list here of things he's hidden.
	Mr. Gowdy talked about how long this investigation is going on, how long there's been a special counsel.
	We started asking for information in July of last year, and some of that is still not given, still has not been given to the Congress.
	Still not has been given to this committee, to the committee charged with defending the Judiciary Committee.
	So I appreciate what you do.
	I just want the information, and we're so frustrated that there is now a resolution on the floor of the House.
	In just a few minutes, that will be voted on.
	Time of the gentleman has expired.
	Mr. Rosenstein will be allowed to respond.
	I don't have any control over what resolutions you vote on, sir.
	And I'm here to do that.
	If you're interested in the truth, Mr. Jordan, the truth is we have a team of folks.
	They're Trump appointees and career folks.
	And they're doing their best to produce these documents.
	Director Ray explained to you the process.
	He's got hundreds of people working around the clock trying to satisfy these requests.
	So whether you vote or not is not going to affect it.
	You're going to get everything that's relevant that we can find and produce to you.
	I support this report, sir.
	I'm not trying to hide anything from you.
	Oh, yeah, I'm not trying to hide anything.
	Okay, well, I have a list of things.
	Peter Strzok's smoking gun.
	Yeah, the one that says we'll stop him.
	No, he hid that.
	Yeah, why didn't they release that bombshell?
	You know, we'll stop him.
	We'll stop Trump.
	Or Rod Rosenstein's DOJ withheld the fact that Strzok was a personal friend of Judge Contreras.
	Remember?
	In the Michael Flynn case, he's the judge that presided over the Michael Flynn case.
	Federalists reported three months ago Strzok and Page had texted about their friendship with Rudolph Contreras.
	Those texts were deliberately hidden from Congress.
	In those messages, Paige and Strzzok discussed Strzzok's personal friendship with this guy and how to leverage that friendship in an ongoing counterintelligence matter.
	And then the DOJ initially refusing to release the Nunes memo, remember?
	And saying it would compromise sources and methods and damage national security and jeopardize the lives of U.S. intelligence interests.
	And then when the White House finally pressured the DOJ to authorize the release, none of those excuses were true.
	The Nunes memo, which the DOJ was so desperate to conceal, begging Paul Ryan not to release it, revealed the completely unverified steel dossier was the bulk of information unverified, uncorroborated, presented in the FISA application, the original application and subsequent applications.
	And the DOJ never told the court that dossier was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton.
	Most important part of the FBI's argument before the FISA court.
	Then they, for example, they tried to hide from Congress the fact that the two most important investigators on both the Hillary, well, Fix being in and the destroy Trump Rusher probe were vehemently anti-Trump.
	Mueller quietly shoves Page and Strzok out the door, and apparently he never even read the text messages.
	And they had already spent months on Mueller's team, the lead people.
	House investigators started demanding explanations.
	Why were they cut loose?
	The answers are vague, suggesting they left for personal reasons.
	That was a lie.
	And finally, in December 2017, five months after Strzzok and Page were shown the door, the Inspector General, not the Mueller investigation, not Mueller's boss, Rod Rosenstein, they released the first batch of explosive texts between the two Lovebirds.
	And Rosenstein, who told the House today that he'd never tried to hide anything from Congress, Stonewall Congress on everything.
	The most explosive evidence in the entire biggest abuse of power in our history scandal.
	Now there's a resolution passed in Congress today to force Rosenstein to hand over these documents or he's going to get impeached.
	Gowdy's screaming, finish the hell up today.
	Then we find out the FBI muzzled Strzok yesterday during the Key House testimony because the FBI counsel in the room instructed Strzzok not to answer many questions.
	What's the point of that?
	Whole thing has been a big cover-up.
	And he's smug and just, and you saw his arrogance on display, and we'll play the exchange later with Jim Jordan.
	All right, we're following this story.
	We don't have any updates.
	Multiple fatalities, maybe as many as 20 injured in Annapolis, Maryland.
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	We have the latest on the shooting here.
	Don't expect this, even though it's very early on, to be a very have major casualties or several hundred casualties.
	But we do have injuries.
	I can confirm that.
	I'll get you as much information as possible.
	I just don't want to give you guys inaccurate information at this point, so that's the only reason that I can't provide more.
	So, yeah, so once the building is secure, we'll get more information whether the suspect is in fact in custody.
	That building is secure, and we'll make sure we give everybody a quick briefing on the extent of the injuries and how many injuries.
	At this point, one of the main messages that we want to get out to the public is: one, avoid the area.
	Okay, we have a lot of police officers here from our jurisdiction.
	We're very thankful for other jurisdictions, Annapolis City Police Department, Maryland State Police, Howard County, federal agencies.
	Everyone has came here to make sure that we get as many people safe as quickly as possible.
	So, we're asking family and friends to meet at the Annapolis Mall if you need to meet up with a friend or a loved one that was inside that building.
	Our reunification center has been set up inside the Lord and Taylor inside Annapolis Mall.
	So, we're asking everyone to respond to Lord and Taylor.
	We have officers there that will assist you with meeting up with friends and family.
	So, that's the biggest message we want to put out right now.
	We're doing our very best to get the building secure, and we should have information for you very shortly.
	And as soon as that building's secure, we'll be able to provide more information.
	We appreciate everybody's patience and doing everything that we can to get everybody out safe.
	Thank you.
	Lieutenant, can you tell us alone?
	That's what Ryan was going to say.
	Yeah, unfortunately, at this point, I don't have any information on the suspect.
	At this point, we believe that it is one suspect.
	But again, that's one of the many things that we have to go through in our checklist to make sure that that building's secure.
	We need to make sure that there is just one suspect.
	We need to make sure that there's no other people that are suspects or that help this individual.
	And we need to make sure that there's no type of bombs or anything inside that building.
	So, all those things we have to think about to make sure that people are safe inside that building.
	So, again, our number one priority is getting people from that building outside safely and reuniting them with their families.
	Once that building's secure, we can provide more information and the investigation will begin, and we'll be able to get a lot more details.
	I can't confirm exactly how many injuries.
	I do know that we do have injuries that was first called in.
	So, again, we don't anticipate this being some type of a mass major casualty with hundreds of injuries, but we do have injuries, and so we're doing our very best to make sure that those people receive care that need care.
	And, you know, we're doing our very best to make sure everybody else is evacuated out of there.
	So, right now we're prioritizing.
	We have a couple offices in there, plus the cat.
	Is it in the capital police or now we have the police or one of the doctor's offices or what?
	Yeah, I can't confirm an exact location inside that building, but I can tell you was inside 888 Best Gate Road, which does house several different types of businesses.
	So, I hope to have more information on that very soon.
	Again, I just want to make sure that all the information that we pass along is accurate since it involves such a serious incident.
	So, we want to make sure that that information is accurate, that gets out there to the public.
	Thank you, everybody.
	Lieutenant Frazier's released everything that he can right now.
	We'll give you an update as soon as we can.
	Thank you, guys.
	All right, that's Lieutenant Ryan Frazier.
	It's so sad.
	We're going to continue to update this all throughout the day here.
	What we have is a shooting now reported at the Capitol Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.
	It's one of the subsidiaries, or it's owned by the Baltimore Sun.
	As you heard, Lieutenant Ryan Frazier now confirming multiple fatalities in this particular case, and multiple people have been injured.
	The Daily Mail reporting as many as 20 injured and four dead.
	And what we're told is the first sign of this is a newspaper intern tweeting, please help us.
	And then authorities, of course, believe that they have the one and only suspect.
	As you just heard, though, Lieutenant Frazier, you know, rightly pointing out, they have a checklist that they've got to go through.
	They've got to make sure that there's no bombs in that building.
	They've got to follow that checklist to the letter.
	They believe they have the one and only suspect, but they also want to make sure that nobody was assisting the shooter in this particular case.
	And no other people were involved in all of this.
	And they have a right order that they are now going through before we can get any more information, and that is to get people to safety and fully and completely scour that entire building and going through the checklist, getting everybody out and getting everybody to safety and getting everybody they can reunited with their families.
	Fox 5 in Atlanta is saying that federal law enforcement is saying it's still active and ongoing, which seems to be conflicted by what Lieutenant Ryan Frazier just said just seconds ago.
	We have one person definitely in custody that is believed to be the shooter.
	Apparently, the shooter shot through a glass door.
	There was an earlier report today, not confirmed, and we're not rushing to be first here.
	We're rushing just to pass on information due to possible change that it was a shotgun that was used in this particular incident.
	The Baltimore Sun is pointing out that agents with the ATF are also on the scene in Annapolis providing support to all the local law enforcement guys.
	And the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms can help tracing weapons, conducting interviews, and all sorts of other assistance.
	Now, we have another story that is just breaking.
	We don't have a lot of details on it, but we'll give it to you.
	The New York Police Department, they've confirmed to Fox News that they are taking precautionary measures and have mobilized personnel to all major news outlets in their jurisdiction after this newsroom shooting in Maryland.
	If you remember, one of the tactics we always have learned, for example, go back to 9-11, in the case of radical Islamists or terrorists, they usually plan multiple attacks in different areas on the same day and they spread them out.
	So everybody should really be on high alert all across the country today.
	And our prayers are with everybody in that newsroom.
	And while it's not connected in any way, I'm not suggesting it's connected in any way.
	The incendiary rhetoric that we have been hearing and the calls to confront people in restaurants and at gas stations and department stores and the incidents that we have seen with Sarah Sanders and Secretary Nielsen and Pam Bondi and, of course, the tweets threatening the president's son and threatening Secretary Nielsen and even the granddaughter.
	of the president.
	Things are getting way, way too hot and out of control.
	Again, separate and apart from what happened here.
	And it's a little scary.
	And the idea that you have elected officials telling people to basically get your friends and confront them and confront them and confront them.
	Well, what are you supposed to do when somebody gets in your grill and in your face?
	Look at the Pam Bondi situation.
	Her boyfriend is with her.
	Hey, Blue Eyes, you're going to let us call your girlfriend a bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep?
	Because she's a bleep, bleep, bleep.
	What guy isn't going to want to step in and shut their jaw shut?
	It's a natural feeling.
	But if the boyfriend of Pam Bondi took the bait, he's going to be the one that gets in trouble.
	Dan Bongino is with us, former Secret Service agent, NRA TV contributor, host of the Dan Bongino show, Jonathan Gillum, author of the best-selling book, Sheep No More.
	I think both of you would agree.
	I mean, I don't know how Pam Bondi's boyfriend did it.
	He absolutely did the right thing.
	At some point, doesn't it become, you know, when somebody gets in your face like that, tries to provoke you that way, that that in and of itself legally is simple battery?
	Dan, go ahead.
	Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, Sean, listen, this has been going on for a long time.
	And what really bothers me about it is once you dial it up to that point, reason goes out the window.
	I mean, you know what I'm talking about.
	Whatever you're involved in, like whether it's a boxing or any kind of martial arts training, you know, you lose, you kind of lose reason after a while.
	When people start dialing stuff up and you get to this, you know, in your face and screaming, and then it turns into pushing, and then pushing turns into, you know, God forbid, something else later on.
	This is why I've been on, you know, on my show and other shows lately saying everybody has to really cool down the temperature on this stuff.
	I mean, we're all walking off a cliff here together.
	There's no positive end to this at all.
	And I really wish they'd understand that.
	These words have meanings.
	When you have political leaders out there on bullhorns, you know, in a blind rage and stuff, and just, you know, screaming for people to be harassed on cable news, you go out and harass them and confront them.
	You know, there's nothing good that can come out of this, Sean.
	Nothing.
	That's the scary start.
	And again, I want to be very, very clear here.
	I'm not equating or comparing.
	I'm only pointing out that I have been saying that there's going, somebody's going to get hurt or worse here, Jonathan.
	And it's getting, the rhetoric is over the top.
	It's now way out of control.
	I totally agree with you.
	And, you know, Dan, the reason I want you to go first, I wanted to see how you would, what you would say.
	And I agree with you 100% because, you know, you've been in the business where your job was to protect other people and to protect them from, you know, not just somebody who was out to kill them, but somebody who's out to hurt them.
	And it was the President of the United States that you were protecting, both then in law enforcement.
	And one thing, Sean, I got to tell you, one thing that bothers me, we are the best at responding to incidents like you're seeing right now in Maryland.
	And we respond quickly.
	Let me tell you, these guys, I've been watching it all day.
	This is why I have gone, and Dan, you have done the same thing.
	I'm going out of my way every day to say this is not rank and file FBI when I'm talking about, you know, McCabe and Comey and Strzok and Paige and these other people.
	And I even have said and predicted they're going to be the heroes here.
	Because look at what these guys deal with every day.
	They risk their lives.
	They put their asses on the line for us every day.
	They're amazing.
	All right, well, we also now have discovered to be just joining a shooting reported at the Capitol Gazette newspaper.
	And we have multiple fatalities, multiple injured here.
	The suspect did use a shotgun.
	It's been now confirmed and apparently shot through glass into the newsroom.
	As many as 20 people now, we believe may have been injured.
	The police, we heard from Lieutenant Ryan Frazier, rightly so.
	They believe they do have the one and only suspect, but they're checking for bombs, obviously clearing the building, and making sure that there are no potential accomplices or anybody that might have been involved or helped this individual that they do have in custody in any way, shape, manner, or form.
	And that means for the police, they can't give the all-clear because they have, to be thorough, they have to go through their checklist, get everybody out of the building, and then, of course, do a complete search.
	Other law enforcement is on the scene.
	FBI is on the scene.
	We have ATF on the scene in Annapolis.
	They're providing all the support they can to local law enforcement.
	ATF obviously involved in tracing weapons, conducting interviews, other assistants, and it's kind of an all-hands-on-deck moment.
	Newsrooms in New York are on high alert, according to the NYPD.
	They have called in all off-duty personnel to literally go to major news outlets.
	We'll continue to follow this story, Dan Bongino, and Jonathan Gillum when we come back.
	All right, 25 now until the top of the hour.
	Sarah Carter and Greg Jarrett will join us in the next hour as we continue.
	Big explosive hearings on Capitol Hill today, Rod Rosenstein and the FBI director, Ray, Jim Jordan, DeSantis, and Gates just grilling Rod Rosenstein.
	I have picked up a number of inconsistencies as it relates to Rod Rosenstein's comments today.
	I just will get into all of that.
	If you're just joining us, there's been a shooting.
	We have multiple injuries and fatalities at what is called the Capitol Gazette.
	It's in Annapolis, Maryland.
	It's owned by the Baltimore Sun.
	The Daily Mail reporting, four dead and 20 injured.
	The fatalities have been confirmed by Lieutenant Ryan Frazier.
	We don't have the exact number on potential injuries.
	We're watching this very, very closely.
	We do know some facts of what had happened.
	The shooter, apparently, who is, by the way, the only suspect, they believe they have him and that he is with the police now as we speak, but they're checking for bombs and other shooters, and they can't give the all clear until they go through their checklist.
	But we do know that a shotgun apparently was used in this particular case, and he shot through a big glass window into the newsroom.
	We don't know why, we don't know who, except that they have him in custody.
	The one person is in custody, believed to be the shooter.
	They do believe that everything is clear, but they're being obviously cautious.
	Other law enforcement have joined the efforts, local law enforcement.
	It looks like they're about to walk up to the microphone.
	Well, we do have former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerrig on the line.
	I'm just watching as we speak here.
	And Jonathan Gillum with us, who we're going to get to in a second.
	Well, it looks like they're going to the microphone.
	Bernie, you remember 9-11.
	You were there.
	You almost got killed that day.
	Listen, it's early on in the investigation.
	A lot should come out of this.
	I'd like to know what they have.
	Bernie, hang on one second.
	The Lieutenant Ryan Frazier has come to the microphone.
	We'll get right back to you.
	Very little protection.
	Let's listen.
	Authorities might be speaking right now.
	That's a good afternoon.
	My name is Lieutenant Ryan Frazier, F-RA-S-H-U-R-E.
	Work for the County Police Department, Antarctic County Police Department.
	We have a brief update for you guys just to give some details.
	Please bear with us.
	We can't answer a lot of questions.
	This is still a very active and ongoing investigation.
	We're still trying to make sure that everyone's safe, reunite people with their families.
	And then once the building is secure, we have a crime scene, obviously.
	So we anticipate this being a very long investigation.
	It'll be a very detailed investigation by our detectives.
	So I'd like to introduce first our county executive, Antarctic County Executive, Stephen R. Shu, to answer some questions, give you guys some updates.
	But again, we're going to limit questions at this time just for investigative purposes because we still have a lot of work to do.
	Thank you.
	Mr. Shu.
	Thank you, officer.
	I'm County Executive Steve Shue of Analytical County.
	We've had a terrible shooting incident here this afternoon.
	There are several people who have died from this incident and several others are injured.
	Those who are injured have been transported for medical care to Antarcto Medical Center and to Johns Hopkins Shock Trauma.
	Those fatalities are so sad.
	And I don't know what to say other than our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families and we take comfort knowing that they are in God's embrace.
	The shooter is in custody and being interrogated at this time.
	I want to commend the public safety professionals who were very quick to the scene here within about 60 seconds.
	And we've had a tremendous response not only from Anne Rondo County Police and Fire, Annapolis City Police and Fire, but also state police, Howard County, Prince George's, several federal agencies, including FBI and ATF.
	I want to thank all those agencies for their quick response and being our partners in this very unfortunate incident.
	I'd like to ask Governor Hogan to say a few words.
	Governor?
	Thank you, Speaker.
	You know, I just want to say, first of all, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.
	And I want to thank the law enforcement professionals who responded.
	Our emergency response team was because they did an incredible job.
	They're still doing the job right now.
	But the fact that they responded within 60 seconds, I want to give serious praise to Anundo County and the city of Annapolis for their response.
	And we were here with the state agencies to back them up.
	We have federal agencies.
	It's a tragic situation.
	We don't have all the information yet, and we can't give all the information yet because it's an active crime scene and investigation.
	But we have had several fatalities and several people there in the hospital.
	And we'll just leave it to the professionals to continue their ongoing investigation.
	Lieutenant, I know you said it's early, but could you talk to us about the number of fatalities in any way?
	Is it more than two or others?
	Can you tell us everybody's got our numbers to know of now?
	I'm going to take this opportunity to introduce our acting chief, Bill Cramp.
	He'll answer some questions, but again, please, it'll be very brief.
	You know, we want to make sure that the information we put out is accurate.
	So, you know, there's a lot of people involved here, so we want to make sure that information is accurate.
	And we don't want to say anything that'll ruin the investigation.
	So the suspect is still being interviewed by detectives.
	But again, I'll introduce our acting chief, William Cramps.
	Good afternoon.
	As you can see, this is a very fluid scene.
	You can see that we have over 10 plus allied agencies assisting with Annama County Police.
	The investigation has just started.
	So as Ryan has said, we're going to be quite a while determining what occurred, why it occurred, and how it occurred.
	But as the governor mentioned, we were here quickly.
	We came into the building very quickly.
	We've received a call as an active shooter.
	We do have fatalities and we do have serious injuries.
	We also have many, many witnesses that are being interviewed, and we have an area over by Lord and Taylor that the witnesses can reunite with their families.
	We are asking them to contact their families so that they can come and assist them with getting home safely.
	As Ryan mentioned before, our criminal investigation division has one person in custody.
	That person is at our criminal investigation division down in Crownsville, and we will be speaking with that individual quite frequently and well, shortly, I should say, and get the information.
	The building is secure from a tactical standpoint.
	That means that right now we believe that there are no other shooters in the building, but it has not been cleared from an investigative standpoint.
	So once the QRT and the members of the SWAT team leave the building, the investigators will go in and then we will start the process of putting the investigation yet.
	She's a shooter.
	If you know the police or to the Council of Police anything we can tell somebody.
	Right now we can't confirm exactly where the shooting occurred throughout that building.
	The Capitol Gazette building is inside that building, along with many other businesses and doctors officers.
	Do you have any numbers on casualties?
	Not at this point.
	Not against officers.
	Did your officers interrupt the shooting?
	Where did you have officers?
	Our officers were on the scene very, very quickly.
	I think it was around 60 seconds or a minute, minute and a half.
	And they did engage the suspect, and that's when he was taken into custody.
	So it occurred very quickly.
	Just one second.
	That was, again, just for everybody, that was our acting chief, William Cramp, K-R-A-M-P-H.
	And I'd like to introduce the mayor of Annapolis City, the city of Annapolis, Mayor Kevin Buckley.
	How are you doing, Bob?
	How are you doing?
	So the city sends its love and thoughts for all the families that have been affected by this.
	Let me jump in from here.
	As you just heard, they're really being very careful, rightly so, because this is an active crime scene at the moment.
	But they have confirmed several people have died.
	There's been several fatalities, and in fact, several other people have been injured, multiple injuries.
	John Hopkins Emergency Trauma Center, active and involved.
	It's one of the great hospitals we have in the country, actually.
	The shock and recovery part of the process for those who have been shot.
	We can add a few more details.
	This they gave us that the police responded in 60 seconds.
	I mean, that is a remarkable response time.
	It's almost, they were right, it's almost like they were right there.
	Probably lives were saved as a result, as the story eventually becomes known.
	And there are other 10 other active law enforcement agencies, and it's all hands on deck.
	Bernie Kerrig is with us, former NYPD commissioner.
	We all remember the heroism of Bernie Kerrig on 9-11.
	Bernie, I think they're doing everything right, saying everything right.
	This is what they have to do at this moment.
	And really, they don't want to go out too early with details in case they're wrong.
	Yeah, I think a couple of things stand out to me, Sean.
	One, they're not mentioning or talking about an act of terrorism, although you do have federal agencies that responded.
	You have the FBI and the ATF from what I saw online.
	Two, that the building is cleared by EOT and SWAT.
	It's not cleared for a crime scene.
	If they got there within a minute to a minute and a half, that means the officers that engaged him were extremely close.
	They must have been on the block or somewhere around that building.
	And I'm convinced if he was using the shotgun, probably a 12-gauge.
	If that's all he was using, and he's already, and there's a number of fatalities and a number of injuries, probably a 12-gauge.
	They had to engage him.
	And if they hadn't engaged him within a minute to a minute and a half, there would be a lot more fatalities, I would imagine, a lot more injuries.
	Yeah, you know, this always goes to the heart of why I believe that I ask people all the time, and I know people rush to make this about gun control of some kind.
	And I always ask the question: if you're in any municipal building, and God forbid there's an active shooter, would you prefer to know that there were trained, armed, say, retired police or law enforcement or military on the scene?
	And almost everybody says, of course.
	Then the question is, why don't we do that in our schools when we see these school shootings?
	It's the same thing in a building like this.
	Well, you know what, Sean?
	The first thing I thought of when I heard about this was, you know, whether or not this building was a hardened building.
	You know, I think a lot of these news agencies, you know, I'm not going to get into security arrangements at Fox or NBC, but I can tell you this kind of stuff just about couldn't happen there.
	And I think other agencies around the company should follow suit, around the country should follow suit because it's a strange world we live in.
	News agencies, journalists are targets of terrorism.
	These buildings should be hardened up, and there's ways to do it without overburdening security.
	But I was kind of shocked that this guy just walked up to the outside windows of the building and opened fire, hitting people in the newsroom.
	Well, I mean, that's the scary thing.
	I mean, and this can happen.
	Jonathan Gillum, also with us, author of the book Sheep No More, and Jonathan Gillum, former Navy SEAL, and you've had these situations.
	You've also been an, you know, you work for the FBI.
	You've done all this kind of work yourself.
	You want to add to what Bernie's saying?
	Yeah, you know, Sean, we're the best in the world.
	I was saying there earlier in the show, we're the best in the world at responding.
	Where we fall short a lot of the times, especially in private companies, is that they fail to do threat assessments and realize that this is a potential.
	I'm going to go on a limb here and say that this more likely from an investigative standpoint looks like an active shooter that was probably work-related or somebody that wasn't happy with the story.
	Disgruntled employee or maybe somebody didn't like the way they report stories and there's a political agenda maybe, something like that.
	And those things are possible.
	So we have to realize it doesn't matter if you work in an IHOP, which we saw in Nashville a month or two ago.
	It doesn't matter if you work in a newspaper.
	These things are possible.
	You have to perform threat assessments so you can discover where your critical areas are and where those times are going to be critical for those areas.
	And then you come up with ways to harden those, whether it be armed guards or locking the doors and then having a plan on if a shooter is here, we're going to go that way.
	And people need to start thinking that way in this day and age.
	And I'll tell you, when I was watching the Secretary of Transportation get into an argument with people, which we just saw the other day, Mitch McConnell's wife, I thought that her protection detail allowed that to become way too intimate.
	They should go bad.
	And look at, you know, Pam Bondi is a friend of all of ours.
	I mean, she just was going to a Mr. Rogers movie, and her guard said, you know, whoever was on duty with her said, well, I'll park the car.
	And she said, okay, let me go in and get the tickets.
	You know, it seems like a simple act.
	And it happened while the individual was parking the car.
	And I'm not blaming the guy because she told him to do it, Bernie.
	Yeah.
	Listen, I think sometimes the principals that have security details around them, they lose sight of what the details for.
	You know, they don't have days off.
	They want to go to the beach.
	The security should be there.
	They want to go to the movie theater.
	The security should be there.
	It only takes a matter of minutes that you could run into a problem.
	And if the guy or woman is not there with you, you're going to have a problem.
	And I want to say, with regard to the Mitch McConnell thing, if I was responsible for the detail that had her, had him and his wife, I'd have issues with that detail.
	They were definitely put in harm's way.
	They shouldn't have been near those people.
	Those people should not have been on her property.
	I was pretty disturbed by that.
	I was very disturbed by it.
	I mean, that's such a good point.
	All right, well, if you guys can stay with us just a bit longer, we will get into the fiery hearings that took place earlier today, I promise, in our final hour.
	All right, now five dead.
	That's the only update.
	We have multiple injuries in this newspaper shooting.
	If you're just joining us, it's an ongoing active crime scene.
	Police believe that they do have the one person responsible in custody, but they're doing their due diligence.
	Explosive hearings on the Capitol Hill today.
	That's next.
	Mr. Rosenstein, why are you keeping information from Congress?
	Congressman, I'm not keeping any information from Congress that it's appropriate.
	In a few minutes, Mr. Rosenstein, I think the House of Representatives is going to say something different.
	I don't agree with you, Congressman.
	I don't believe that's what they're going to say.
	And if they do, they'll be.
	I disagree, but I think in a few minutes, the House of Representatives is going to go on record saying you haven't complied with requests from a separate and equal branch of government, that you haven't complied with subpoenas, and you got seven days to get your act together.
	I think that's what's going to happen in the future.
	And that's just not Jim Jordan.
	I think that's a majority of the House of Representatives.
	In just a few minutes, I think that's going to happen.
	And I want to know why you won't give us what we've asked for.
	Sir, I certainly hope that your colleagues are not under that impression.
	That is not accurate, sir.
	It is accurate.
	We have caught you hiding information.
	Mr. Chairman, sir.
	Let me make this one point.
	Analyze the question.
	Yes, Mr. Jordan, I'd like to make this one point where we've caught you hiding information, then you can answer.
	Why did you hide the fact that Peter Strzzok and Judge Contreras were friends?
	Why did you redact that in the documents you gave to us?
	Peter, I mean, Judge Contreras is kind of important.
	Fi's a court judge.
	More importantly, just as importantly, the judge that heard Mike Flynn's case.
	Why'd you try to hide that from us?
	Mr. Jordan, I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to respond.
	I've heard you make those sort of allegations publicly on TV.
	I got the red line.
	And I got a good response, sir.
	It's redacting.
	I am the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
	Okay.
	I'm not the person doing the redacting.
	I'm responsible for responding to your concerns as I have.
	I have a team with me, sir.
	It's just a fraction of the team that's doing this work.
	And whenever you brought issues to my attention, I have taken appropriate steps to remedy them.
	So your statement that I'm personally keeping information from you, trying to conceal information from you.
	You're the boss, Mr. Rosenstein.
	That's correct.
	And my job is to make sure that we respond to your concerns.
	We have, sir.
	All right, that's from the hearings earlier today.
	We are going to play a look who is in the studio.
	Am I allowed to mention who you are?
	It's cool.
	All right, Rush Limbaugh, the one, the only Bo Snerdley, has entered the House.
	You had to look at my mads, Sean.
	How you doing?
	James Golden, how many years have you been with the King of Talk Radio?
	How many?
	Oh, my goodness.
	How many?
	You know, everybody.
	We're coming on our 30th year, believe it.
	You know, I'm actually 30 years on radio.
	It's nuts.
	I started in 87.
	I swear that's when I started.
	That's amazing, Sean.
	Isn't it crazy?
	Now, here's the thing.
	First of all, happy anniversary.
	Thank you.
	Here's a great question.
	Imagine the United States of America today, no Rush Limbaugh.
	How bad that would be.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Right?
	Yes.
	Well, and imagine today also if you weren't doing what you were doing, Sean.
	He's paved the way for all of us.
	And that may be true, but let me tell you something.
	No, no, no.
	Not maybe.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	It is true.
	It's true.
	It is 100% true.
	But let me say something to you.
	The crap that you have put up with this year, the utter crap.
	And I'm telling you, sir, it infuriates all of us who love you and who know what a decent, wonderful human being you are.
	It absolutely infuriates us to the core what these people have tried to do to you.
	But you know what?
	You still stand anyway because you are a righteous, wonderful, loving human being, and we love you.
	I'm never speechless.
	You literally have goosebumps.
	Listen, for those that don't know, I have been friends.
	His real name, by the way, is James Golden, not Bo Snerdly, although everyone calls him Bo.
	And if you ever watch, there's two shows during the day during the Rush Limbaugh show.
	There's Rush, who's speaking to 20 million Americans, and then there's James Golden, Bo Snurdly, answering the phones.
	And that in and of itself is another show.
	And I actually think you should throw that on the Ditto cam as well.
	Ditto two.
	Ditto cam number two.
	Although you're kind of like Linda, you know, the expletives keep flying out.
	And I don't know.
	It must be part of the job description.
	I've kind of mellowed now.
	I don't think so, actually.
	I really, you know, your level of mellow is like on steroids and human growth hormone for the average person.
	But listen, first of all, thank you.
	Thank you for your friendship.
	I've watched you guys go through all of this hell for years, and it actually is a source of strength because what I've learned is, and what I understand more than anything, is the people that we are blessed to talk to every day, they understand.
	They see it.
	They get it.
	They understand it.
	And they give us more support in my case than I ever deserve.
	And I take it as a great blessing.
	But, you know, you guys forged a pretty wide, clear path for a lot of people to follow.
	And so I'm more than appreciative.
	I love you.
	You know, you're my brother.
	Love you, Sean.
	You're the best.
	And we got to get you back on TV.
	I miss having you around here.
	Next time I'm in town.
	Yeah, I know.
	You never tell me beforehand you're coming to town.
	I just see you in the hall.
	I'm going to call you the next time.
	You told me that the last time, and they didn't tell me.
	All right, James Golden, thank you, sir.
	Tell your boss we love him and we say hi.
	All right, Sean Hannity Show, 800941, Sean.
	That was from the hearing, Ron DeSantis and Jim Jordan.
	We're going to actually play a half hour of all of that coming up in the program.
	I decided I'm going to spend a full hour here, so let not your heart be troubled.
	Greg Jarrett, Fox News analyst, legal analyst, and I have the first printed real copy.
	I had had a galley earlier of his new book, which that means it's coming out in July, which is just a couple of weeks away now.
	And it's called The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump, which, by the way, the title captures everything that's gone on.
	And I've read this book cover to cover.
	There is so much that I realize I had forgotten.
	And it's going to be a big part of our discussion today.
	Sarah Carter is with us, by the way.
	Of course, Fox News, investigative reporter, SarahACarter.com.
	You guys have been phenomenal.
	I know we've been proven right.
	And we watched today the House resolution to force Rod Rosenstein's hand in terms of turning over Russia Gate documents.
	He has big fights out there today.
	Sarah, we'll start with your report.
	I thought this was an explosive day.
	That's why we're going to play a half hour of it at the end of the show.
	It was explosive.
	It was incredible to see what we have known has been going on all along behind the scenes actually play out before the public.
	You know, to see Rod Rosenstein have to answer the questions that behind the scenes, Jim Jordan, Trey Gowdy, and others have been fighting tooth and nail for, Chairman Nunes as well.
	These documents are so important to them.
	And I can tell you this, Sean, you know, although Rod Rosenstein denied and denied and denied that he was trying to hide anything from Congress, I know from sources that I've spoken to both at the DOJ and the lawmakers, along with the investigators, that that's just not the case.
	That he has done everything in his power to stymie and stonewall the Congressional Oversight Committees from finding the information.
	And he knows this.
	So when I see him there flat out basically lying or defending himself, it's just incredible for me to believe.
	And I thought, you know, DeSantis brought up some really great points, and so did Gowdy as well as Jordan.
	But, you know, asking him, why haven't you recused yourself?
	I mean, after all, you were the guy that wrote the letter asking for Director Comey to be fired.
	And now you're in charge, you know?
	I mean, now that Attorney General Jeff Sessions basically recused himself from everything, now you're the guy in charge of overseeing the special counsel investigation into the Trump administration.
	You were the guy who wrote the letter to tell Trump to fire Comey in the first place.
	That's the whole thing.
	And that goes right to the heart of it all, Greg.
	And how many times have we all said, why is the Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused and Rod Rosenstein not?
	And by the way, we saw that temper today, that infamous temper, that arrogance emerge many times today.
	Yes.
	Rosenstein today has tried to weasel out of just about every important question.
	He has four pat answers.
	When it comes to obstructing Congress and hiding evidence, he says, and you played the clip there.
	That's somebody else's job to go through those documents.
	I'm the dag, Deputy Attorney General.
	His second answer is always, I can't talk about it because of the Mueller probe.
	His third answer is, I can't talk about it because the Inspector General is continuing his investigation.
	And his fourth answer is always when he's boxed into a corner is, I can't answer that because it's classified information.
	So, you know, to say that he is the quintessential weasel in answering questions is an understatement.
	Look, we can go through all of this step by step, but the bottom line is they haven't turned over the documents.
	And at one point, I love when Jim Jordan reminded him, well, you're the boss.
	And then he goes on this long explanation.
	Well, I'm not the one that's making the decision.
	And then at other times, he's admitting that he's in charge of making these decisions.
	But the bottom line is it still is not being handed over.
	And in some cases, these documents have been requested a year ago.
	And all of my sources are telling me, Sarah Carter, that in fact, he himself is mentioned in some of the documents that are not handed over.
	And his excuse on signing the fourth FISA warrant.
	Now, we've been told by Nunes in the Grassley Graham memo that the bulk of information for that original Pfizer warrant had to do with the Clinton bought and paid for dossier.
	He went out there and suggested, well, my recollection is it's not as reported.
	That's right.
	And remember, Sean, that the FISA that he signed off on, when he signed off on that fourth warrant, he would have had all the information that would have been cumulative from the first, second, and third warrant, right?
	And everything thereafter.
	So he would have had all of that information.
	And I'm sure, and I'm absolutely certain, based on the fact that he himself calls himself the DAG, and he seems very enamored with his own position in the Department of Justice, that he would have read through all of those documents and learned exactly what he was signing.
	So that is very true.
	Another really important point that you brought up just shortly is that he, you know, he's showing his demeanor and his personality and why he is fighting tooth and nail.
	It's like he's working against the government.
	When you think that he would want to get to the truth of the matter, he would want to get to the heart of the matter.
	This is his position, you know, to be balanced, the scales of justice.
	Let's get that information out there.
	He has to understand that Congress is reviewing everything because they have oversight authority.
	Yet he continues to put up roadblocks and embellish and lie.
	And remember, a lot of the things that have been redacted have been very pertinent.
	I mean, the most important things that Congress has had to fight tooth and nail for, like, we will stop him.
	And threaten people.
	You saw his, Sean, you saw that.
	That exchange, that exchange of the threat, and Jordan went in hard.
	And actually, this now is somewhat applicable to me as I have gotten word that Rod Rosenstein apparently is not a fan of mine.
	Sure.
	Should I accept that what he said to Nunes and others and Jim Jordan stuck up for these staffers that, by the way, they all said the same thing.
	We broke it on your program on Friday night.
	That's correct.
	I talked to two individuals who were in on the meeting, and Rosenstein lost it in the meeting with anger.
	And you saw the anger today.
	I talked to one of those people.
	And Sarah, how many did you speak to?
	A number of people who have been in those meetings with him, and he is completely out of control.
	He gets cornered.
	He starts to scream.
	He becomes angry.
	He refuses to cooperate.
	Yeah, threatens people.
	He did this.
	But here's the graphic.
	He was under oath today.
	If those people testify that, in fact, he did threaten them and that he lied today, is that a problem?
	He'll prevaricate on the word threaten.
	Now, the two individuals I talked to in the meeting used the word threats in describing what Rosenstein did.
	And he would subpoena their emails and texts.
	And he thought he was funny and cute by saying, well, you can't subpoena email.
	So he will prevaricate on the word threaten and say, oh, it wasn't a threat.
	Pick your adjective.
	But that's how they viewed it as an overt threat that if you don't drop this request for documents, Rod Rosenstein am going to subpoena your texts and your emails and your telephone records.
	That is an unconscionable abuse of power.
	All right.
	Listen, stay right there.
	We're going to keep them for the full hour.
	Sarah Carter and Greg Jarrett.
	We've got a lot of ground to cover here.
	And as we continue, Sarah Carter and Greg Jarrett are with us.
	Let's go back to the threat issue if we can, Sarah, because Greg spoke to two people that were there.
	I spoke to one person, heard from another person, one was hearsay, but one directly there.
	And apparently, this is an infamous temper.
	And by the way, now apparently my name didn't come out of Rod Rosenstein's mouth in the most pleasant way.
	What do I have to say?
	Well, you're certainly not.
	He's not one of your fans, Sean, that's for sure.
	He's upset about the fact that a lot of this is being exposed.
	And it's being exposed on your show.
	Well, what are they going to do, Sarah?
	Are they going to shut me up?
	Are they going to shut you up?
	Are they going to shut up Greg Jarrett?
	Is that what their plan is?
	Are they going to subpoena our emails and try and go after us?
	Because it sounds a little scary what he said to those staffers.
	It is.
	It is.
	And it is concerning.
	And I would have told you years, if this would have come up years ago, I would have said no.
	But look at what happened even during the Obama administration.
	They were subpoenaing all kinds of information from reporters.
	And James Rosen at Fox News, I mean, they were not only listening to his phone calls, this was the DOJ, but they were listening to his parents' phone calls, you know?
	So this is not unheard of.
	It depends on what they think they're going to get from it.
	Are you talking to anyone that they're interested in?
	Can they make that an excuse to go after your information?
	So it is concerning.
	I think that for the first time.
	Haven't you been told that you've been unmasked?
	Let's now have an honest discussion here.
	Yes, I mean, absolutely.
	And haven't you heard that I have been unmasked?
	Yes, I have been told that as well.
	And it could be that we have talked to foreign actors that they may be interested in, whether that be Julian Assange or sources of mine in public.
	I think that's fair.
	That's fair.
	But again, I'm doing my job as a talk show host.
	It's fair.
	But remember, fair could be, it could be fair in one sense, and it could be totally unfair in another sense.
	That's correct.
	It depends on who they're accessing the information.
	Exactly.
	And did they minimize, and are they ever going to leak raw intelligence like they did in Michael Flynn's case?
	We'll take a break.
	Hang on.
	We'll come back on the other side.
	We still have a half hour to go as we continue with Sarah Carter.
	Don't forget Hannity.com, Amazon.com.
	Greg's new book now.
	Quick break.
	Right back.
	We'll continue.
	All right, 25 till the top of the hour.
	Explosive fireworks at the hearing earlier today.
	Rod Rosenstein going before Ron DeSantis and Jim Jordan and Chairman Goodlatt and Trey Gowdy, the other chairman, and a lot of fireworks today.
	Let's go back.
	This is, let me play a couple of cuts.
	One is the first one is going to be Ron DeSantis asking why he hasn't recused himself, meaning Rod Rosenstein from the Mueller probe, and why is obstruction of justice still being looked into, which is a great question.
	And also Rod Rosenstein telling Congressman Matt Gates of Florida, well, he's not going to talk about FISA applications.
	He signed the fourth one, and no FBI agent briefed him on information that led to the FISA renewal.
	Well, don't you have to know and verify and corroborate everything in that?
	Well, listen to this.
	You know, they talk about the Mueller investigation.
	It's really the Rosenstein investigation.
	You appointed Mueller.
	You're supervising Mueller.
	And it's supposedly about collusion between Trump's campaign in Russia and obstruction of justice.
	But you wrote the memo saying that Comey should be fired.
	And you signed the FISA extension for Carter Page.
	So my question is to you: seems like you should be recused from this more so than Jeff Session just because you were involved in making decisions affecting both prongs of this investigation.
	Why haven't you done that?
	Congressman, I can assure you that if it were appropriate for me to recuse, I'd be more than happy to do so and let somebody else handle this, but it's my responsibility to do it.
	And all I can tell you is that.
	Then how do you have obstruction of justice possibility for a president exercising his powers to fire an FBI director that you said should be fired?
	And oh, by the way, the IG report makes it clear Jim Comey should have been fired.
	So why are we still doing this with the Mueller probe?
	The FISA renewal that you signed, list for me the people who briefed you on the substance of that FISA renewal to go and spy on people.
	The process, sir, is that these FISA applications and renewals first come up through the FBI chain of command.
	They are sworn under oath by a career federal agent.
	All right, as we continue, this is a powerful hearing today.
	We're going to show a lot of it on Hannity tonight.
	Sarah Carter, investigative reporter with the Fox News Channel, of course, she's been in the forefront of breaking many of these stories.
	Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, his book is now just a couple of weeks now away from being sent out to bookstores everywhere.
	You can get an early copy on Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com.
	There's a link on Hannity.com, and it's called The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.
	All right, let's go to these are important questions.
	DeSantis, why didn't he recuse himself?
	Why is he not going to talk about FISA applications when he signed the last one when we're told that the bulk of information came from the phony dossier and telling Jim Jordan he didn't threaten people when we all have talked to people that say he did?
	He won't answer any questions about the FISA warrant because the answers, the only answers he can give is: yes, we did deceive the FISA judges and we concealed material facts that Hillary Clinton was paying for the phony dossier to spy on the Trump campaign.
	So he won't answer that question, and he uses the typical vacuous excuse that this is still under investigation by the Inspector General.
	But in my book, I go through the law and the code of professional responsibility that demands Rosenstein recuse himself.
	And the fact is, he is now prosecutor, investigator, judge, and jury all rolled into one, and that is absolutely prohibited.
	And it is a mandatory disqualification, and yet he refuses to do it.
	Well, then that raises the issue of legitimacy.
	And this is being argued by these 13, quote, Russia bot companies that Robert Mueller never thought would ever show up in court.
	He thought he was going to get to throw out Russia, Russia, Russia to create the image that Russians had done all these nefarious things.
	Well, it turns out those companies are now being represented by a powerful and effective attorney.
	They just had an 80-page submission to the court saying that the entire investigation is illegitimate.
	And he took a different tack than the Manafort lawyers did.
	And what I find fascinating about this is it raises the entire legitimacy.
	When you have Peter Strzok at the heart of the Clinton, literally aiding Hillary Clinton and abetting Hillary Clinton and putting the fix in in her investigation, the same people are so anti-Trump right then thereafter begin going after Donald Trump.
	And we believe it probably started even earlier than that.
	And that raises the question of the whole legitimacy of the investigation from the get-go, because I think an argument can be made, and I'm asking you legally here.
	Can you say it was tainted from the beginning?
	Oh, absolutely.
	And is that an effective argument in court?
	Oh, it certainly is.
	Isn't it curious that one guy and one guy alone, Peter Strzok, is the lead investigator in the Hillary Clinton email case, and he's the one who sat down at his computer and changed the language to exonerate her.
	And isn't it interesting that then on the very same day that Hillary Clinton is cleared, the FBI is meeting with Christopher Steele, the British spy who fabricated the dossier.
	And isn't it interesting that once the Trump-Russia collusion case morphs into the Robert Mueller special counsel case, yet again, the lead investigator is Peter Strzzok.
	You know, Sarah, I can't say it any better than that.
	I think the argument is extraordinarily powerful that if it is tainted from the outset, that the whole thing needs to be thrown out.
	It's fruit of the poisonous tree, right?
	And that's what we're seeing here.
	I thought Gowdy said it great today, and I found his quote right here, but he said, we've seen the bias.
	We need to see the evidence.
	If you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the Trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury.
	If you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the American people.
	There's an old saying that justice delayed is justice denied.
	I think right now all of us are being denied.
	Whatever you got, finish it the hell up because this country is being torn apart.
	But this is Washington.
	This is the pinnacle of cover-ups.
	This is what they do in Washington.
	You know, other than President Trump, not much gets done in Washington, and Congress is the perfect example.
	And when there's corruption, which is rampant in Washington, D.C. with a deep state, the cover-up, just like Watergate and Nixon, the cover-up is what takes over.
	And the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and top officials at the FBI continue the cover-up, and the feckless Jeff Sessions is clueless.
	He could put a stop to it.
	But Greg and Sean, I think this is so great because for the first time in a long time, people are being held accountable.
	They are being exposed to the American people.
	And had President Trump not won this election, we would have never known that all of this was going on.
	This is exposed because the American people voted for President Trump because he won the election.
	Let me ask another thing, and I think this is really, really important.
	And it's actually what spurred my thought here is a national review online piece.
	And so you got the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein saying that the lead investigator Peter Strzzok's plot to rig the 2016 election to defeat then candidate Donald Trump was, quote, inappropriate.
	Okay.
	That's more than inappropriate.
	That would be illegal.
	These are crimes, and it's the biggest abuse of power scandal in our lifetime.
	Now, I want to ask this.
	How many times have we heard Democrats say that Russia's attempt or alleged attempt to rig the 2016 election, which by the way, I believe they tried, but they tried to create chaos and they supported both sides simultaneously, was far worse.
	What they did, which struck him, what McCabe and what Comey and Page and all these people did.
	And McCabe, all these people trying to rig an election, and they were effective at it.
	They literally exonerated a guilty party who should have been charged with felonies.
	And then they tried to frame, I'll use your words from your book, Greg Jarrett.
	They tried to frame the other candidate and bypass the will of the American people.
	And they've been on this witch hunt ever since.
	Sure.
	This is to undo the election, to undermine democracy.
	And James Comey, if you go, start at page 190 of the Inspector General's report.
	And he admits he wrote two months before he cleared Hillary Clinton a statement which said he had found she was grossly negligent 110 times, representing 110 classified documents.
	A month, and so he's asked about that, and he said, well, yes, I wrote the statement, but I don't remember writing those words that she was grossly negligent.
	How can you not remember that moment that you memorialized in writing your finding that the presidential candidate, the then odds on favorite to be the next president, had committed rampant felonies, but Comey can't remember it?
	And so a month later, there's a whole discussion for a month between McCabe and Comey and Rubicki and Baker and Strzok and Page, and they're all in on it.
	And they say, well, you know, we need to change the language here if we're going to exonerate Hillary Clinton.
	So a month after Comey writes his statement, they sit down at Strzzok's computer and the electronic data is there and it's on page 193 of the Inspector General's report.
	And, you know, with Lisa Page leaning over his shoulder, he makes the critical change that allows Hillary Clinton to get off scot-free and continue to run for the White House.
	I mean, this is unbelievable to me.
	All right, take a break.
	We'll come back more with Sarah Carter, more with Greg Jarrett, 800-941-Sean, our toll-free telephone number.
	You want to be a part of the program?
	All right, as we continue, Sarah Carter and Greg Jarrett are back with us.
	Greg's book, by the way, The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump, just weeks away from being released.
	You can get an early copy on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, and BarnesandNoble.com.
	You know, Bob Goodlett, I thought, had a very interesting opening statement.
	I'll throw this to you, Sarah.
	He talked about the church committees.
	I actually wrote about this in my first book, Let Freedom Ring.
	The church committee established on a bipartisan basis, it was Senator Frank Church, 1975, reviewing the CIA, FBI, NSA surveillance abuses, including improper surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent individuals.
	And the committee conducted a review of what was insidious monitoring of political activities of citizens that were just exercising their First Amendment rights.
	And the church committees and findings resulted in the passage three years later of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA, which is an attempt to balance the need for secrecy and do surveillance and all the things.
	But there are very specific obligations when you have a FISA application.
	One is it's got to be verified.
	It's got to be corroborated.
	You must, it's pertinent that you tell a FISA judge if a political opponent paid for the information.
	You can't just say an asterisk, oh, it might have a little political taint to it, which is what they did.
	And FBI protocols similarly demand that level of scrutiny before you go ahead and get a warrant to violate somebody's Fourth Amendment rights.
	And it happened four times.
	That's right.
	And it has to be renewed.
	You know, every 90 days, they have to renew the FISA application.
	And in order to renew the FISA application, not only do you have to have the information that was previously proven true to the FISA courts or that you presented to the FISA courts, but you have to have further evidence to prove to the FISA courts that you need to continue monitoring this person.
	So it's a very stringent requirement.
	And, you know, Frank Church and those hearings were incredible during that time because they exposed what was going on in our country and the fact that our intelligence communities, and as well as the FBI, it was also the NSA, CIA, FBI, that they had this enormous amount of power and this ability to spy on people, political opponents, people, civil rights leaders.
	I mean, it shook our country to the core.
	You remember when James Clapper testified?
	He lied under oath.
	He testified, I don't know anything about the intelligence community mining metadata, monitoring electronic communications, as well as telephone records of American citizens.
	And the senator in the select intelligence committee who posed that question already had the information that that's what the intelligence community was doing.
	And Clapper's head of, he was DNI.
	He was head of the intelligence community.
	And he knew that Clapper was lying.
	So, Sean, when Rosenstein goes after you, as apparently he has done in private, you know, you're probably like me.
	I assume that the intelligence community is gaining access to my emails, my texts, maybe listening in because of the things I've said in criticism.
	If that's true, we don't have a country.
	If that's true, there's no constitution.
	Anyway, the book, it's now out for early release in July.
	Get your early copy, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, BarnesandNoble.com.
	Soon, bookstores everywhere.
	Greg Jarrett's The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton, frame Donald Trump, investigative reporter Sarah Carter.
	We'll have the latest on the shooting in Annapolis at this newspaper.
	The newspaper is called the Capitol Gazette.
	We'll have full coverage of that.
	We'll have full coverage of the explosive hearings today.
	As predicted, the Democrats meltdown on the president now having a second choice at the Supreme Court.
	All coming up.
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	Thanks for being with us, and we will see you back here tomorrow.
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