Sean breaks down President Trump's visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Do you recall President Obama's "I'll have more flexibility after the election?" Where was the outrage from the liberal media then? The media has been attacking President Trump but was his performance this week really that bad? Putin's still very much on the hot seat and public shaming won't work with him. 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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Glad you're with us, President moments ago talking about his trip abroad and uh about the brew ha ha by the predictable Trump hating media uh about uh what would he uh what he thinks about the intelligence community and much more.
Let's listen in.
Most recently I returned from Helsinki, Finland, uh, and I was going to give a news conference over the next couple of days about the tremendous success because as successful as NATO was, I think this was our most successful visit.
And that had to do, as you know, with Russia.
I met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an attempt to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing humanity.
We have never been in a worse relationship with Russia than we are as of a few days ago, and I think that's gotten substantially better.
And I think it has the possibility of getting much better.
And I used to talk about this during the campaign.
Getting along with Russia would be a good thing.
Getting along with China would be a good thing.
Not a bad thing, a good thing.
In fact, a very good thing.
We're nuclear powers, great nuclear powers.
Russia and us have 90% of the nuclear weapons.
So I've always felt getting along is a positive thing, and not just for that reason.
I entered the meeting with the firm conviction that diplomacy and engagement is better than hostility and conflict.
And I feel that with everybody.
We have 29 members in NATO, as an example, and I have great relationships, or at least very good relationships, with everybody.
The press covered it quite inaccurately.
They said I insulted people.
Well, it's asking for people to pay up money that they are supposed to pay uh is insulting.
Maybe I did, but I can tell you when I left, everybody was thrilled, and uh that's the way this was too.
My meeting with President Putin was uh really interesting in so many different ways because we haven't had relationships with Russia for a long time.
And we started.
Let me begin by saying that uh once again the full faith and support for America's intelligence agencies.
I have a full faith in our intelligence agencies.
Whoops, they just turned off the light.
That must be the intelligence agents.
There we go.
It's okay.
You guys okay?
But that's okay.
So I'll begin by stating that I have full faith and support for America's great intelligence agencies.
Always had.
And I have felt very strongly that while Russia's actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election.
Let me be totally clear in saying that, and I've said this many times.
I accept our intelligent community's conclusion that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place.
Could be other people also.
Uh a lot of people out there.
Uh, there was no collusion at all.
And people have seen that and they've seen that strongly.
The house has already come out Very strongly on that.
A lot of people have come out strongly on that.
I thought that I made myself very clear by having just reviewed the transcript.
Now I have to say, I came back and I said, what is going on?
What's the big deal?
So I got a transcript I reviewed it.
I actually went out and uh reviewed a clip of uh an answer that I gave.
And I realized that there is a need for some clarification.
It should have been obvious.
I thought it would be obvious, but I would like to clarify just in case it wasn't.
And a key sentence in my remarks, I said the word would instead of wouldn't.
The sentence should have been, I don't see any reason why I wouldn't, or why it wouldn't be Russia.
So just to repeat it, I said the word would instead of wouldn't.
And the sentence should have been, and I thought I would be maybe a little bit unclear on the transcript or unclear on the actual video.
The sentence should have been, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be Russia.
Sort of a double negative.
So you can put that in, and I think that probably clarifies things pretty good.
But administrations, my administration has and will continue to move aggressively to repeal any efforts and repel.
We will stop it, we will repel it.
Any efforts to interfere in our elections.
We're doing everything in our power to prevent Russian interference in 2018.
And we have a lot of power.
As you know, President Obama was given uh information just prior to the election, last election, 2016, and they decided not to do anything about it.
The reason they decided that was pretty obvious to all.
They thought Hillary Clinton was going to win the election.
And they didn't think it was a big deal.
When I won the election, they thought it was a very big deal.
And all of a sudden they went into action, but it was a little bit late.
So he was given that in sharp contrast to the way it should be.
And President Obama, along with Brennan and Plapper and the whole group that you see on television now, probably getting paid a lot of money by your networks.
They knew about Russia's attempt to interfere in the election in September.
And they totally buried it.
And as I said, they buried it because they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win.
Turned out didn't happen that way.
By contrast, my administration has taken a very firm stance.
It's a very firm stance on a strong action.
we're going to take strong action to secure our election systems and the process.
Furthermore, as has been stated, and we've stated it previously and on many occasions, no collusion.
Yesterday, we made significant progress toward addressing some of the worst conflicts on Earth.
So when I met with President Putin for about two and a half hours, we talked about numerous things.
And among those things are the problems that you see in the Middle East, where they're very much involved, we're very much involved.
I entered the negotiations with President Putin from a position of tremendous strength.
Our economy is booming and our military is being funded $700 billion this year, $716 billion next year.
It will be more powerful as a military than we've ever had before.
President Putin and I addressed the range of issues today.
Starting with the civil war in Syria and need for humanitarian aid and help for people in Syria.
We also spoke of Iran and the need to hold the nuclear ambitions and the destabilizing activities taking place in Iran.
As most of you know, we ended the Iran deal, which was one of the worst deals anyone could imagine, and that's had a major impact on Iran, and it's substantially weakened Iran, and we hope that at some point Iran will call us and we'll maybe make a new deal, or we maybe won't.
But Iran is not the same country that it was five months ago, that I can tell you.
They're no longer looking so much to the Mediterranean and the entire Middle East.
They've got some big problems that they can solve, probably much easier if they deal with us.
So we'll see what happens.
But we did discuss Iran.
We discussed Israel and the security of Israel, and President Putin is very much involved now with us in a discussion with B.B. Netanyahu on working something out with surrounding Syria.
And Syria, and specifically with regards to the security and long-term security of Israel.
A major topic of discussion was North Korea, the need for it to remove its nuclear weapons.
Russia has assured us of its support.
President Putin said he agrees with me 100% that they'll do whatever they have to do to try and make it happen.
Discussions are ongoing and they're going very, very well.
We have no rush for speed.
The sanctions are remaining.
The hostages are back.
There have been no tests.
There have been no rockets going up for a period of nine months.
And I think the relationships are very good.
So we'll see how that goes.
We have no uh time limit, we have no speed limit.
We have uh we're just going through the process, but the relationships are very good.
President Putin uh is going to be involved in the sense that he is he is with us.
He would like to see that happen.
Perhaps the most important issue we discussed at our meeting prior to the press conference was the reduction of nuclear weapons throughout the world.
The United States and Russia have 90 percent, as I said, and we can have a big impact, but nuclear weapons is I think the greatest threat of our world today.
And they're a great nuclear power, we're a great nuclear power.
Uh we have to do something about nuclear.
And so that was a matter that we discussed actually in great detail, and President Putin agrees with me.
The matters we discussed are profound in their importance and have the potential to save millions of lives.
I understand the many disagreements between our countries, but I also understand that dialogue and the uh when you think about it, dialogue with Russia or dialogue with other countries, but dialogue with Russia in this case where we've had such poor relationships for so many years.
Dialogue is a very important thing, and it's a very good thing.
So if we get along with them, great.
If we don't get along with them, then we'll you won't get along with them.
But I think we have a very good chance of having some very positive things.
I thought that the meeting that I had with President Putin was uh really strong.
I think that they were willing to do things that frankly I wasn't sure whether or not they would be willing to do.
And we'll be having future meetings and we'll see whether or not that comes to fruition.
But we had a very, very good meeting.
So I just wanted to clear up.
Uh I have the uh strongest respect for our intelligence agencies headed by my people.
Uh we have great people, whether it's uh Gina or Dan Coates or any of them.
I mean, we have we have tremendous people, uh tremendous uh talent within the agencies.
Uh I think they're being guided properly, and we all want the same thing.
We want success for our country.
So, with that, we're going to start a meeting now on tax reductions.
We're gonna be putting in a bill.
Kevin Brady is with us, and uh I might ask Kevin just to say a couple of words about that, and then we'll get back on to a private meeting.
But Kevin, could you maybe give just a brief discussion about what we're all right?
We're gonna end it right there.
That uh just taken place moments ago.
The uh president obviously dealing with a lot there, and the clarification clearly on the issue because of the media outrage over all things.
One two quick headlines here.
You've got to understand everything you are seeing and hearing is at a level of double standard that should take your breath away.
You have to see everything that the media and Democrats are doing, and some Republicans.
It's all seen through the prism Of a midterm election.
The last aspects of this are, yeah, the president has never.
I'll explain this when we get back.
All right, but I'm I'm way behind here.
But I will get to all that.
We also have coming up in the program, Louis Goomart, uh, our buddy Austin Goolsby's going to check in.
We'll play my interview with the president from yesterday and uh give you some other thoughts, remaining thoughts from Helsinki as uh we have just gotten back today.
It's great to be back home.
This is my last election.
Yeah, uh, after my election, I have all the questions.
I transmit to Vladimir, I have more flexibility after my election.
I didn't see anybody in the mainstream left wing media get all outraged.
Well, what was I more flexibility all about?
You know, I where was the outrage from your left wing media?
Where was it when that president dropped 150 billion dollars in cash and other currency on a tarmac from a cargo plane or multiple cargo planes for the mullahs in Iran?
I I just I sit and I watch and I wonder, and um, you know, this where the president was very clear he trusts the intelligence community, but there is a demarcation here.
I don't think he has a lot of faith in Obama's intelligence community.
John Brennan, proud former communist, how he ever got to run the CIA, I don't know, but you know, he's now literally encouraging the intelligence community to stage a mutiny against President Trump to keep him in the dark and quote, vital intelligence developments.
John Brennan continued criticizing the president, called it treason yesterday, um saying that Mr. Trump could have potentially risked intelligence capabilities during his private meeting with Vladimir and the Intel community might begin to withhold intelligence from Trump.
Oh, is that what he's trying to do?
That they are the big deciders they know better than everybody else, just like what they did during the election.
In light of the president's comments.
Well, the president just clarified all of those comments.
You cannot look at any of this without seeing it through the prism of the biggest abuse of power, corruption, scandal in American history.
You cannot look at this and not know that there are all sorts of 2018 implications in everything that has happened.
Because Donald Trump was never supposed to be in this position.
They were gonna stop him in the primary, but he beat 16 other people.
He's never gonna beat Hillary Clinton, but just in case, we'll still rig her investigation to allow her to continue to be a candidate where every other American would go to jail, and then we'll turn our sights on him.
And 18 months later, all the hopes have been put in the arms of Robert Mueller, and there's no evidence of Trump Russia collusion.
Yeah, of course the Russians have been meddling.
They did it in 08, they did it in 2012, they did it in 2016.
Devin Nunes warned about it in 2016.
Obama said Trump was whining and no serious person would ever believe it.
You not see the utter hypocrisy?
It's nauseating.
So predictable, though.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
President uh clarifying, it's revising and extending his remarks if you want to use a congressional uh term over the Bruhaha over the Helsinki uh press conference with Vladimir Putin.
You know, it's very interesting.
I found this in the Washington Times when the president decided not to throw the DNC, you know, whatever influence, and I don't think anybody doubts.
We've known for quite a while.
House Intel Committee pretty much confirmed it a long time ago.
People I trust a lot that there was uh always attempt to so chaos in American elections on both sides.
Multiple now studies have said it didn't impact any of the votes of 2016, shouldn't have surprised anybody.
One person that said it couldn't happen here, no serious person would believe it is Obama.
The idea that somebody could do this, blah, blah, blah, blah, because I read it to you yesterday.
Anyway, in his final press briefing in 2017, um, Barack Obama was asked whether he you know could have done or said more about Russian hacking that happened on his watch.
And that's one of the great ironies.
If you look at the loudest voices in all of this, they're all the predictable anti Trump people.
With some other congressmen and and others that have jumped on board, um, which is you know, fine if that's their opinion.
We'll see how they react to the president's clarifications.
He said he misspoke on one particular word, and he said it wouldn't have instead of would have.
And he said it added to confusion.
But anyway, Obama said in his final press conference, it's not like Putin's going around the world publicly saying, look, what we did wasn't that clever.
He denies it.
So the idea somehow that public shaming is gonna be effective, I think doesn't read the thought process in Russia very well.
So how come when Obama says it, the media thinks everything he does is brilliant?
If Donald Trump actually does it, he's somehow in the words of the former communist Brennan, a traitor.
Can't wait to see what Brennan's role in deep state gate eventually turns out being.
Because I have a funny feeling it's far more extensive than what we know currently.
Matter of fact, I do know that there are certain things that are probably going to come out fairly shortly as it relates to it.
Look, all of this, let me tell you something.
There's nothing you're gonna see or hear throughout the rest of the month of July, August, into the Labor Day weekend, post Labor Day, when the 2018 midterm elections now get into full gear.
That is not going to be political.
Every single thing that is said and done on all sides is political.
There's a lot at stake here.
From the very beginning, when Donald Trump took office, I said he has four or five forces working against him.
Well, you got liberal Democrats, they're never gonna.
I I'm certain if Donald Trump gave every American 10 million dollars and cured cancer, they'd still criticize him.
They'd find a way to criticize him.
So there's there's nothing productive that they are offering.
Then you've got the media that literally in the lead up to the election, and they just have not stopped.
There's nothing Donald Trump can ever do right in their views.
It's just a matter of what is the feigned moral outrage of the day.
This one is a particularly sensitive issue because it deals with an 18-month conspiracy theory and a lie, and the fact that they've missed the biggest abuse of power corruption story in their lifetimes, and they want to justify it, and they want to seem like they were right all along on the conspiracy theory, which never came true.
But the way this was supposed to work out was not the way it worked out for them.
Trump wasn't supposed to get the nomination.
He wasn't supposed to win it, he wasn't supposed to beat Hillary.
He was supposed to be, then the insurance policy was going to kick into place.
That's where Robert Muller comes in.
And in spite of indictments, there's no American connection to the 12 people that were indicted last week.
Great timing.
And the lead up to the president's summit with Vladimir Putin.
Um, so you got to see it through this.
Then you got the never Trumpers.
They want to prove that they are the pure real Republican party.
Then you have weak Republicans, and there are a lot of them, the establishment Republicans, and they're the guys that basically they they they just want an establishment candidate.
Doesn't matter what the results are, if he doesn't take on the demeanor of the establishment president and he's rude and he's crude and he tweets and oh, just doesn't make it into the cocktail circuit parties.
Um, and he's a threat to the deep state, and he's a threat to the establishment, and he's threat to the culture that is Washington, D.C., which is a pretty disgusting swamp in so many different ways.
Um, you know, when you think back over the years, there is a little irony here that you know, Bush lied and people died.
And it was the left that was always critical of the potential abuse of intelligence.
Here's why I am very dubious of the loud feigned moral outrage.
Because number one, we get a daily dose of it every day.
Now the daily dose of it is this was really, really, really real.
This is it.
He colluded with Russia.
And it just doesn't.
It's literally, I'm immune to this nonsense at this point.
So it is an opportunity to just get louder and louder and more adamant and more hysterical.
And they present it as news on some of these news channels, and it's not news.
And I don't think the media's ever been worse.
But if we're really going to have an honest discussion, of course, Russia tried to influence our elections.
Yeah, but we we have multiple studies now that prove they wanted to create as much chaos as they possibly could.
And we also know that they did it in 08.
And we also know that they did it in 2012.
And we also know that Obama said it couldn't happen in 2016 that no serious person would believe it, and Donald Trump needed to stop whining and get back out on the campaign trail and try and get votes.
Now, where do I think this president's distrust?
Do I think he had distrust?
No, I think he was pretty clear in his remarks today as it relates to the intelligence community.
And he has full faith in their assessment, and he is, you know, always had.
And they're also their assessment is no, there was no impact on this particular election.
But where does the president's distrust come from?
Maybe from Comey and Strzok and Page and Clapper and Brennan and Susan Rice and Susan Powers and Ben Rhodes.
And let's see, a process that literally allowed Hillary Clinton to rig a primary election against Bernie Sanders.
I don't want anybody hacked in America.
I believe in American privacy.
I can't believe after all these years, America during the Obama years, because this all happened during the Obama years.
I can't believe we haven't lifted a single finger to fix and shore up the secrets of the United States of America.
You know, go back when he was a teenager.
You know, the story is Assange hacked into NATO, not NATO, NASA and um and the Department of Defense.
What was it?
He's 17, 18 years old.
Okay, he's in his 40s now in an Ecuadorian embassy.
At this point, how is it possible that these types of hacks are actually getting through?
Now I know corporate America spending millions and millions and millions of dollars in cybersecurapus to protect their companies and protect their proprietary secrets and trade secrets and all the information that they have.
Well, where's our federal government protecting national security secrets?
And when you have a case where you have the top level of the FBI, you know, look at the the recent.
Why would the Samantha power ever need to unmask a single person?
Never mind one person a day.
How did that happen in the last year of the Obama administration?
That's another issue we have to get back to.
So why are we surveilling Americans?
Why is it we're unmasking Americans if they're caught up in some type of conversation and the with the government has very strict rules about how they're to minimize those calls, and then after minimization, they never reveal the identity of an American.
I'll tell that to General Flynn because that's the exact opposite of what happened in his case.
But why would a UN ambassador ever need to unmask a person a day in the lead up to the 2016 elections?
We never got answers to that.
So there's a lot of questions about the abuse of power because we have the most powerful tools of intelligence, and we also have a constitution, and we also have a fourth amendment against unreasonable search and seizure.
And then you add it to, okay, well, Comey and Page and Strzok and all these other people, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible.
And in fact, Hillary Clinton had her investigation where she committed all these crimes, violated the espionage act, a classic case of obstruction of justice.
And all these people got together and they decided to write an exoneration before they even did their investigation.
The same person at the heart Of interviewing Mike Flynn and then doing a phony interview with Hillary Clinton, the ever so arrogant Peter Strzok.
It's getting interesting now.
Lisa Page appears to be contradicting him behind closed doors and saying everything you're reading in those text messages read exactly as you think they read.
Yeah, we wanted to stop him.
And yeah, we had an insurance policy.
And yeah, this was about us using the power of our positions to rig a primary so she could get through it, an investigation so she'd survive, because we wanted her to beat the ever so loathsome Donald Trump.
Well, I think Donald Trump might have a problem with those people and those type of tactics, and the fact that that can happen in the United States of America.
And then we're going to turn our sights on Donald Trump himself, and we're going to build this big Russia collusion narrative and everything in between.
And at the heart of that is going to be another Trump hater by the name of Jim Comey.
And Jim Comey's involvement in all of this is going to be interesting to see where he ends up legally by the time all is said and done.
And then if you look and you take it even a step further than that, well, then we're going to let Hillary Clinton were so upset about the influence of the Russians.
I haven't heard any of the people that are so outraged here over the fact that the president wasn't strong enough with Vladimir Putin on meddling in the 2016 election.
It wasn't his watch.
Why aren't they mad at the people whose watch it was under?
But putting that aside for just a second.
What about the 2016 election in Hillary Clinton and the fact that she bought and paid for a Russian dossier after she funneled money through a law firm into an op research firm into the hands of a foreign national, Christopher Steele,
and the bulk of information to get FISA warrants against an American citizen, American citizens, perhaps, came from her bought and paid for Russian lies that they then tried to peddle to you, the American people, so that you would be manipulated into voting for her, and none of it had been verified.
None of it had been corroborated, none of it ended up being true.
And that is Russian influence in an election that was bought and paid for by a particular political party candidate.
And the media they can't even find it within themselves to see outrage in all of this.
Anything Donald Trump is the worst on earth.
Anything Hillary does is, well, Hannity, while you're talking about Hillary, she's not the president.
Because it's a flagrant double standard.
You know, I happen to have a lot of faith and belief and the need for strong intelligence.
But if you're going to put these tools in the hands of individuals that have political agendas, then we've got a big problem because then you're risking all of the foundational freedoms that we expect in a democratic republic.
And all of these issues have been ignored.
And all of the typical groups now that are piling on Donald Trump and I'm sure won't accept as clarification from today.
Not that it'll matter.
It won't matter because the American people are going to look at their jobs and they're going to look at, okay, is it better to try and engage rather than having constant hostility and conflict?
I did notice a lot of people that were involved in the lead up to the Iraq war, which you know, it did become an unmitigated disaster.
Why?
Because we don't fight wars to win it anymore.
How many times have I said this?
We're going to send American treasure to go fight, bleed, die, lose their limbs, come back disfigured, and then have the government like they did with after 58,000 dead in Vietnam, never mind.
Or after Iraq and Afghanistan, never mind.
You know, we're going to pull out early because it's politically expedient.
You know, what do some of these people want?
A nuclear war between the two countries.
You know, if Putin actually was interesting in the interview of Chris Wallace, so I thought I did a really good job pressing him.
Even though Putin says, let me finish.
I will explain it to you.
But I thought it was, you know, he said, well, what's the point of having a summit if you're going to go up on stage and just yell at each other?
You can do that on the phone, which they could do if they wanted to.
But you cannot tell me that this abuse of power scandal is not much bigger than what the media is feigning outrage over just today.
It's either a tweet, it's a comment, because Remember, Mueller was supposed to, this is sensitive for the media because they've been wrong for 18 months.
So anything with Vladimir has to fit into their tight little conspiracy theory that is crumbling before their eyes.
That conspiracy theory, that narrative that they built, there's no evidence for after 18 months.
So now they want to manufacture it.
And that's exactly what this is, because if they had, and James, if you can bring that in, I'd appreciate it.
If they had the stuff that they're looking for, then Robert Muller would have, you know, brought those indictments.
Doesn't mean that some might not be coming.
I do know that the person that encouraged the investigation into if anybody had been fact, you know, meddled in the election or conspired in any way with the Russians.
Well, that he wanted him looked into.
I gotta take a quick break.
We'll come back.
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Uh but it's all predictable.
And it's all part of a strategy.
And it's all part of a distraction campaign.
Quick break, right back.
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He slept with the city.
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So, you know, the the extent to which the relationship with Russia has deteriorated.
The president said it's it really's never been this bad.
And he said in four or five hours when I interviewed him in Helsinki, uh, but this is my sit down with the president immediately after he had the summit with Vladimir Putin and the joint press conference.
You were very strong at the end of that press conference.
You said, where are the servers?
What about what Peter Strzok said?
Where are the 33,000 emails?
And there was this mystery answer that I think surprised a lot of people by the president of Russia as it relates to the Mueller investigation.
Well, first of all, he said there was no collusion whatsoever.
Uh I guess uh he said as strongly as you can say it, they have no information on Trump.
It was an interesting statement, too.
You know, many years ago when I was there, what was it, 13 foot, a long time ago?
Uh he said there were many, many business people there.
In all fairness, I was a very successful businessman, but I was one of a lot of people.
And uh one thing you know, if they had it, it would have been out.
He said it's nonsense, is right.
And he uh also said there's absolutely no collusion, which you know, and everybody that watches your show knows, and I think most of the country knows, and Tucker standing right over there definitely knows because he gets it.
He's one of the people that get it.
But I'll tell you that uh I thought it was a really amazing time.
Not about that.
I think it's a shame.
We're talking about nuclear proliferation.
We're talking about Syria and humanitarian aid.
We're talking about all of these different things, and we get questions on the witch hunt.
And I don't think the people out in the in the country buy it, but the reporters like to give it a shot.
I thought that President Putin was very, very strong.
Let's talk about how the day went.
You actually used the term four hours ago that changed.
Right.
Talking about the relationship.
Was it that quickly and that profound?
Very long meeting, and it was a good meeting.
We discussed so many different things, including nuclear, including uh war and peace, including uh economic uh Syria, Ukraine.
We discussed many, many things.
And at the end of a long period of time, I mean, it was really a long, it was just the two of us.
And at the end of this meeting, I think we really came to a lot of good conclusions.
A really good conclusion for Israel, something very strong.
He's a he's a believer in Israel.
He's a fan of Bibi.
And uh really helping them a lot and will help them a lot, which is good for all of us.
Let's talk about specifics that you went over as it relates to both Syria, which he has been a supporter of the Assad regime, and of course, Iran, which is the number one state sponsor of terror, fomenting proxy wars.
Right.
Well, I think on Syria we're getting very close.
Uh I think it's becoming uh humanitarian situation, and a lot of people are going to move back to Syria from Turkey and from Jordan and from different places.
They're going to move back, less so from Europe, but uh they will be moving back from lots of different places.
So I really think we're not very far apart on Syria.
I do think that on Iran, he probably would have liked to keep the deal in place, because that's good for Russia.
You know, they do business with it's good for a lot of the countries that do business with Iran, but it's not good for this country, and it's ultimately not good for the world.
And if you look at what's happening, Iran is falling apart, they have riots in all their cities, the inflation is rampant and going through the roof.
And not that you want to hurt anybody, but that regime, we would let the people know that we are behind them 100 percent.
But they're having big protests all over the country, probably as big as they've ever had before.
And that all happened since I terminated that deal.
So we'll see.
You know, they were talking about.
Can you partner with Russia to perhaps stop the fomenting of terror, stop the proxy wars?
Did was that discussed?
Well, it was, and I think that would be a great thing if we could do it.
Then you have some people that say, oh, you'd have to do, you know, get involved with Russia, but if we can stop killing all over the place or terrorism, we discussed radical Islamic terror at great length because they have the problem too.
Uh we discussed ISIS, and as you know, we've pretty much eradicated ISIS in the Middle East, and we've done a very strong job.
He acknowledged that.
But we discussed ISIS and the threat of ISIS, and basically the threat of terrorism.
Yeah.
Let me go to the issue of nuclear proliferation.
2021, the START Treaty would need to be uh extended, and also the INF as it relates to, and he did bring up the idea of missile defense.
Um were those issues discussed, and did you make any progress?
Well, I think we're at the very beginning, it's a very important issues.
To me, the most important issue is uh the nuclear issue, because I know President Obama said global warming is our biggest problem, and I would say that no, it's nuclear warming is our biggest problem by a factor of about five million.
Uh the nuclear problem, we have to make sure we have to be very careful.
And you know, if you look at Russia and the United States, that's 90 percent of the nuclear weapons.
Two biggest nuclear power.
And he also said he wants to be very helpful with North Korea.
We're doing well with North Korea.
We have time.
Um, there's no rush.
You know, it's been going on for many years.
But we're doing very well, as you know, we got our hostages back, there's been no testing, there's been no nuclear uh explosions, which we would know about uh, you know, immediately there's been no rockets going over Japan, no missiles going over Japan, and that's now been nine months, and the relationship is very good.
You saw the nice letter he wrote.
And so I think uh a lot of good things are happening, but President Putin is very much into uh making that all happen.
A lot of people in the lead up to this, obviously you met with our NATO allies.
Yes, and America pays 70 cents of every dollar, and a lot of people have not lived up to their commitment as it relates to that.
And also interestingly, because uh a big part of NATO's mission is to prevent any hostility from Russia.
And yet Angela Merkel is willing to put import billions of dollars worth of their energy up to 70 percent, which I would argue would make them vulnerable.
And uh Russia billions of dollars.
Now that's her choice.
I mean, if she's going to do it, but it's a little tough when you're in NATO and you do that.
Uh I will say that I was amazed at the media, because honestly, I was there for a day and a half, and it started right when I got there, and I was very respectful, but I told people it's unfair.
The United States could be paying for 91 percent.
Okay, it could be.
So the minimum is 70 percent, but it's probably 91.
So we're paying for 91 percent of the cost of keeping Europe safe.
On top of that, the European Union takes total advantage of us with tariffs and with trade barriers.
But they kill us on trade.
We lost 151 billion dollars last year.
So they beat us on trade and we defend them for essentially nothing.
And I said, it's not gonna be that way anymore.
You gotta pay up, you got to pay more.
He gave me all of the credit.
Last year there is 44 billion dollars more, only because more additional.
And he said it was only because of President Trump.
So I figured I'd wake up the next day and read these wonderful stories.
And and by the way, I got along great.
I actually thought finally, I'm gonna have a great story.
Okay, foreign relations.
I'm gonna have a great story.
And instead of saying that I raised 44 billion, not million, 44 billion last year for NATO.
I raised, could be over 100 billion dollars this year and into the future.
They said that I treated the heads of other nations rough.
And I didn't.
I actually have great relationships with them.
The lead up to the summit, you actually tweeted out if you were given the great city of Moscow for retribution for all the sins, et cetera, of Russia.
The media would be asking why you didn't get St. Petersburg as well.
I said that.
I said, if I got Moscow as a uh as part of a deal, they said, here's Moscow.
Please please pardon us.
Uh that Sakobo was really very nice.
I have to say it was very nice.
You know, they did a great job in in running that.
But it is true.
Uh, you know, I said, if I got Moscow, they'd want St. Petersburg, where they'd want more.
So the media was a very unfair.
In 2014 in the Washington Times, it's Devin Nunes said with a certainty that Russia would try to impact the 2016 elections.
Barack Obama, in the month before the 2016 elections, and I will read and I will quote no serious per person out there would suggest that somehow you could even rig America's elections.
No evidence that it has happened in the past, which is not true.
And number two, or that it could happen in this election, and I invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and to go out there and try and get votes.
He would say that two weeks before the election.
Well, he thought Hillary Clinton was going to win, and he didn't want to do anything to disturb it.
And, you know, frankly, when I won, he said, this is the biggest deal.
But before I won, he said this is nothing and it can't happen.
It's a very dishonest deal.
And you know, you have to find out who did Peter Strack report to, because it was Comey and it was McCabe, but it was also probably Obama.
Uh, if you think that Obama didn't know what was going on, when you watch, and I said it today with President Putin, when you watch Peter Strzok's performance, the lover of Lisa Page, when you watch that performance, the FBI, I'll tell you, I know so many people in the FBI, these are incredible people.
What they have to do, what they're going through watching this guy, a total phony.
I mean, how about uh we'll stop it?
Or something to that effect.
He said, we will stop you.
Yeah, well we'll stop him.
And then insurance.
And he said originally, I guess it was the two of them.
No.
Then he said the next day, well, I meant the American people.
And even the Democrats say that doesn't work.
Uh Lisa Page contradicted him and gave a more honest assessment.
I heard she did much better than he did, and she was honest and took uh a lot of hard shots, but at least she was honest about it.
Uh he's a disgrace to our country.
He's a disgrace to the great FBI, a disgrace.
And how he's still being paid is beyond belief.
Did you like President Putin's idea?
Robert Mueller should go talk to him.
I was I was fascinated by it.
So they have a treaty where they work together with the United States, because everyone said we don't have an extradition treaty, but they have a treaty where they work together, and his prosecutors would prosecute it, and he said that Robert Mueller's people could go with them, but they probably won't want to.
Yeah, interesting.
Let me ask.
Do you think they're gonna want to go?
I don't think so.
Um and of course, this pit bull, Andrew Weissman, who I think has a pretty atrocious record that we have found.
It's very sad what's happening to our country because of this.
We have we've never done better in so many ways, including economically.
But when you see this thing going on, and I will tell you it's driven a wedge between us and Russia.
Maybe we've just knocked down that wedge, but it has driven a wedge.
And President Putin said that one of the early things he said when we started, he said it's really a shame, because we could do so much good, whether it's humanitarian aid throughout the Middle East, whether it's not just Syria, uh so many different things, the safety of nuclear, which is ultimately there's nothing bigger, nothing more important.
And they drove a phony wedge, just a phony witch hunt rigged deal with guys like Peter Strzok and Comey and McCabe.
McCabe Stroke Page.
The whole group, and you can imagine who else.
It's a real shame.
And there was Russia interference.
Hillary paid through a law firm, a investigator group, fusion GPS.
They hired a fire foreign national that put together a Russian dossier that was used to lie about you, which by the way, Putin confirmed today.
He didn't have such information on you, apparently.
He knew exactly about it because he's been saying it.
Makes him angry when he sees it.
And you know, it's very interesting.
You look at what's happening and you look at what that whole thing.
He understood it, and he was, I don't know if you could see it.
He was incensed even talking about it.
But he's willing to take those twelve people.
There is no extradition, but he's willing to let Robert Mueller's people go over there and bring a big investigation of those people working together with Russian investigators.
Last question, because I know you got a lot to do, and you just finished a busy day.
You've now been in 21 countries in since January of 2017.
Like North Korea, you were very clear in saying that this is a process.
Where would you like to be in a year, both with North Korea and with Russia?
Well, I think we're doing really well with Russia as of today.
I thought we were doing horribly before today.
Really, I mean horribly, dangerously.
He's that big.
That dramatic today.
Oh, I think it was great today, but I think it was really bad five hours ago.
I think we really had a potential problem.
Don't forget, we're two nuclear nations.
Ninety percent of the nuclear power in the world between these two nations.
And we've had a phony witch hunt deal drive us apart.
This is the biggest wedge.
This was the biggest wedge.
It's the thing that he told me when he went in.
He said, What a shame.
He felt it was very hard for me to make a deal because of you know, all of this uh nonsense in much of the case.
You have to understand, you take a look and you look at all of these people.
I mean, some were hackers, some then I know they 14 people, and they have 12 people.
These aren't 12 people involved in the campaign.
Then you had many other people.
Some told a lie, you look at Flynn, it's a shame.
But the FBI didn't think it was lying.
Uh, with Paul Manafort, who's who really is a nice man.
You look at what's going on with him.
Uh it it's like Al Capone.
It's a very sad thing for our country to see this.
All right, so we're gonna get to our uh analysis of all of this.
My interview with him and the summit and the president's updated remarks coming up in mere moments, but when we come back, we're gonna analyze this interview.
Also, in light of the president's updated comments about, yeah, he was very clear he trusts the intelligence community, trusts their assessment about the 2016 election.
Uh I've talked now to experts.
This has been the Russian MO now in literally election after election, country after country now going on for years and years and years.
We've known about a lot of them.
Devin Nunes warned about it himself in 2014.
Nobody took lifted a finger.
Um we know that because you know we had a special relationship with tell Vladimir.
I'll have more flexibility after the election.
Tell Vladimir.
Okay.
I will transmit.
I transmit to Vladimir.
I transmit it.
Um why wouldn't we?
You know, it was they're very you know, there's so much phony fame outrage out here.
Anyway, we'll get a full complete analysis.
Todd Woods, uh Scott Ulinger, who's a Russian Intel operations officer expert, and Greg Jarrett, all coming up straight ahead.
Hannity, where do you see our opening monologue tonight at nine?
Nothing would Be easier politically than to refuse to meet, to refuse to engage, but that would not accomplish anything.
As president, I cannot make decisions on foreign policy in a feudal effort to appease partisan critics or the media or Democrats who want to do nothing but resist and obstruct.
We've never had a summit with a KGB spy master, someone who has, you know, completely studied and examined Donald Trump and a president who spent the weekend golfing and has not been preparing.
What do you think is going through uh Putin's mind and how is he likely to be interpreting President Trump's behavior?
He's delighted.
He's absolutely delighted.
He wants to throw the United States off balance, and he wants to divide the United States with its allies.
Mission almost accomplished.
This does not seem like a president who's really going there to really hold uh Putin accountable.
I just don't see how we can expect anything to come out of this and why Donald Trump is forcing the issue so much.
All right, glad you're with us 24 now till the uh top of the hour.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Joining us now, reaction to my interview and the president's trip abroad.
We have Todd Wood.
He is a former special operations helicopter pilot, has contributed to the Moscow Times and believes the president's strategy with Putin is a correct one.
Scott Uliger is with us, Ullinger, and he's a retired CIA ops officer and Russian Intel operation expert, and Greg Jarrett, his book is out next week.
If you haven't got a copy, it's on Hannity.com, the heart of it all, the Russia hoax, the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump.
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All right, Scott, it's this is your area of expertise.
Let's start with you.
And as I pointed out earlier, the president did make an addendum to what he had said just to make sure that everybody understands that he has the full faith and support of his intelligence agencies.
And uh also uh they always have had his support, and Russia's actions had no impact.
Let me be clear, I accept no interest community conclusion that meddling uh took place.
Um, and so on and so forth.
That's right.
The I think what's what's most unfortunate about this whole thing is that what you saw was uh uh incredibly aggressive uh Western press corps at the summit.
Now, if you uh think back, it would have been unimaginable at Reykjavik, for instance, with Gorbachev and uh Reagan that you would have had a Western press corps that was eager to throw a grenade at the president to derail those kinds of discussions.
But that's in fact what the press was trying to do and hoping for that kind of result because their their this uh their hatred of Trump uh is more important to them than the potential of death U.S. and Russian bilateral relations.
Greg Jarrett, what's your point on this?
You know, it seems to be overlooked or forgotten that Donald Trump did say he has confidence in the DNI Dan Coates in American intelligence.
What he distrusts is the intel that has been peddled by Comey and Brennan and Clapper, uh, especially in their ICA report in January of 2017.
And look for good reason the president uh distrusts Comey Brennan and and Clapper.
These three individuals have an established record of deception and corrupt behavior.
And Trump also distrusts anything Mueller and Rosenstein do, and that's justified.
They assembled a team of partisans to pursue an investigation without legal justification.
I mean, how many charges, Sean have been brought for collusion?
Zero.
Now, I mean, I have no doubt the Russians meddled in our election, and I I say so in my book, The Russian Hoax.
They've been doing it for decades.
But collusion with the Trump campaign, that's a completely separate issue.
There's no evidence of that.
Would it have been a good idea, Todd Wood, for the president to get up there?
And this was an interesting point Putin made in an interview that he gave to Chris Wallace, I thought, is that well, what if he wants to go at the jugular of Vladimir Putin and make a big public display and not make any progress on nuclear proliferation or radical Islamic terrorism, or even some of the issues That we're discussing, and Greg's right, this this type of interference has been going on.
Russian propaganda misinformation campaigns have gone on forever.
Um, they're the experts at it.
I read a book years ago, you know, synthesis of Russian mind control techniques.
They take it to a level nobody else ever thought of.
But the point is, yeah, you're right.
Why go halfway around the world to say you're a jerk, you're a jerk, walk out of the room, and things are even worse than when you started.
No, you're right, Sean.
And what amazes me is that the media and the establishment, if you will, continues to underestimate this president.
I mean, Trump is a master negotiator.
He's starting he's been thinking about this for a long time.
He's been preparing the battlefield, if you will, for this negotiation.
He's playing 40 chess, and these people uh just still don't get it.
I mean, what Russia is not the enemy that can just they can if they wanted to, but they're not out in the public saying we want to destroy the United States, we want to destroy uh Israel.
Who is it's Iran and North Korea?
I think all of this is a much bigger play to try to get Russia to help remove Iran from Israel's borders and the north of the Golan in the Southern Syria area, push them back out of Iraq.
And if that can happen, then you saw the Palestinian crisis, you saw the Syrian Civil War, you saw the Shiya militias in Iraq.
I mean, there's a whole host of things that Iran is supporting.
I think this is all much bigger than the media or anyone is thinking about.
Of course, Russia interfered in our elections.
They've been doing it for a hundred years, and they're very good at it.
But we can confront them, we can defeat that, but they're not out there saying they're gonna be able to do that.
Why is America not built the defenses to defeat that at this point?
If it's been a hundred years, why how are we still behind?
How is it still possible?
It's shocking.
I mean, you saw what happened to the Obama administration.
I would also say that, you know, intelligence services, the uh of dictatorships or you know, much more uh non-democratic regimes are are much more they always have a leg up on open societies such as the United States.
We're always, no matter how good our there are always going to be a certain amount of catch-up because we are a free and democratic society.
So there's that's why the Russians have always been able to attempt to uh and unsuccessfully manipulate our elections, but that danger is always going to be there.
But regardless of it's never said on a podium by any president or not, the espionage wars will continue.
The CIA will continue to collect against Russia, and the Russian uh GRU and uh SVR will continue to work against the United States.
That's something that's always going to be present.
Well, I think it's also one big fat lie that that you know, Barack Obama wasn't involved in trying to undermine the election of our closest ally in the Middle East.
I mean, nobody seemed to care.
It is true.
There's absolutely no doubt of it.
Nobody seemed to care.
You know, and nobody seemed to care about the Democrats' manipulation of our electoral process.
All of these Russian lies of Hillary Greg Jarrett that she bought and paid for, that was disseminated knowingly false information to the American public on as a means of trying to lie to them to get to get her elected.
And bringing it putting aside the primary was fixed.
And and that, by the way, is a crime under the Federal Campaign Election Act.
Severe violations of which aren't just civil penalties, they're crimes.
And you know, look, the the Russians who hacked the DNC and the Clinton campaign committed crimes.
And I say so in my book.
I mean, it wasn't some bombshell last Friday.
The evidence was there uh a year and a half ago, and I write about it in my book.
But let's not forget that those hacked emails exposed how Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party were manipulating the election process to benefit her and harm Bernie Sanders.
And they weren't filing proper campaign reports about it, which is also a crime.
In the big picture, where was the media hysteria when Obama was privately telling the Russian leadership he'd be able to capitulate once he was re-elected?
I didn't hear the media denounce Obama for being a traitor, but suddenly yesterday Trump says nice things about Putin, and you know, it's treasonous.
He's a traitor.
The anti-Trump hysteria is overwrought.
It is uh I you know, look, I think a lot of this though goes to one really simple but profound thing profound point that you, me, and others have been making here.
In 18 months, Greg Jarrett, they have not found a single instance of Trump Russia collusion because it doesn't exist.
Right meddling in interference are not collusion.
They're two very different things.
So after peddling these lies, they they they literally were going in there, even as if the president got Moscow, they'd want St. Petersburg.
I'm almost convinced if he cured cancer at this point, they couldn't say a good word about him or gave every American ten million dollars.
And they just went in predetermined narrative and just were looking for the one word stumble that they could just dive back into the Russia-Russia-Russian narrative, you know, and then they'll get back to Stormy when this dies down.
Yes, it's true.
And you know, lead the charge seems to be John Brennan, who, as I tweeted yesterday, every time he opens his mouth or tweets uh something, he removes all doubt about his ignorance.
He, you know, was accusing the president of treasonous acts.
My God, you know, what a dope Brennan is.
You know, you uh treason laws are very specific in the United States.
Uh you have to be at war with an enemy uh for treason to take place.
Just uh check out the uh Rosenberg's case.
They were never charged with treason for giving nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
They were charged and prosecuted, put to death for espionage, but treason was off the table.
Uh just as and and you know, uh Brennan, uh you know, this is a guy who voted the communist party.
Uh you know, I find it hypocritical uh for him to be condemning President Trump and his uh exchange in appearance uh with what is essentially a communist leader, a dictator, uh Vladimir Putin.
You know, more on John Brennan.
Um this is a guy who emphatically denied that the dossier factored into the intelligence community's uh public report uh in January of two thousand sixteen.
And and so now Brennan's actually being investigated by the House Intelligence Committee for lying.
Uh he also swore he didn't know who commissioned the dossier, even though you know he knew it.
Uh and senior national security and counterintelligence officials uh in our government knew the previous year that it was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
So John Brennan, who was the instigator of the Russia hoax by propagating the anti-Trump dossier, which was totally phony, is in a load of trouble.
I think in the end things will turn out badly for him.
All right.
Uh stay right there.
We'll come back.
By the way, Greg's book now is coming out uh it will be out a week from now in bookstores everywhere, uh, which gets to the heart of all of this.
I don't think the timing could be any better.
The Russian hoax, the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump.
All right, as we continue, final moments.
Greg Jarrett is with us, Todd Wood, former special operations helicopter pilot, and and Scott Ulingers with us, retired CIA uh operations officer, Russian Intel operations expert.
What do you think is going on in the Kremlin today based on the media just trying to always pound on the president with this collusion, collusion, collusion narrative?
How do they interpret that?
Scott.
I th I think that the the Russians may in the short term be sort of gleeful about the mainstream media attacking Trump.
They always seek to have discord in the United States.
So I think that they that in the short term they may have a couple of laughs at um at America's expense.
But the bottom line is regardless of of some of the statements made, our policy against Russia is much stronger than it was under, you know, under the Obama administration.
And they are going to have to deal with that.
Uh, you can actually say the body language yesterday when uh President Trump started talking about energy.
Uh Putin seemed to be definitely uncomfortable because President Trump's philosophy, what he was saying was basically me, the best man win as far as our energy competition.
And it was clear that Putin was not comfortable with that.
Natural gas prices are going down in Europe, and that hits Putin right in the pocketbook and reduces the amount of money he has to make mischief abroad.
No, there's no doubt about it.
I mean, the if Angela Merkel takes her billions of dollars and went to the United States and partnered with us, that's the end of the Russian economy.
And that would if I'm Putin, That would be my biggest concern.
Last word, uh, Todd Wood.
Yeah, uh, one thing that happened today, which may be the first fruits uh to piggyback on what Scott said, the first fruits from the summit is that Russia agreed in talks with Europe and Ukraine to extend or renegotiate the Ukrainian gas issue, which is an arcane issue somewhat, but really what it means is continued revenue into Kiev uh and Ukraine.
So, yes, they are worried about the pipelines.
Merkel has said we have to take care of Ukraine before we build North Nord Stream too.
And so uh this may be the first concession, it hasn't gotten a lot of press.
Uh, but the other thing I want to bring up is that you know, talking about interfering in elections, and Scott may know this because he spent so much time in Moscow, is that we interfered in Putin's election in 2012.
We put a hundred thousand Russians in the streets to with you know, sources' help to try and uh bring him bring him down.
So he has a long memory, and I think this is all about that when it comes to Hillary.
I think it might be true.
Uh Greg Glasswork.
You know, uh the other story is today is that uh we're getting more information that Lisa Page has told Congress that the anti-Trump texts with Peter Strzok mean exactly what they say, despite his testimony that they meant something else.
Didn't he say all that under oath?
This, yes, it could be a huge revelation that breaks wide open the Russia hoax and how Clinton uh was cleared in a scheme, and at the same time the same people were trying to frame Donald Trump.
And that's the book that is out next week, and that is the Russia hoax, the Russian hoax, the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton, frame Donald Trump out Monday.
You don't want to miss it, you can get your early copy on Amazon and Hannity.com.
All right, thank you.
All we'll take a quick break news roundup information overload.
Louis Gomer, oh, and a Hannity shootout with Austin Goolsby.
Maybe he supported the 150 billion dollars in cash and other currencies given to Iran.
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Welcome back.
It was music to Vladimir Putin's ears, no doubt.
The president of the United States suggesting that he sides with Putin and Russia over the United States' own intelligence agencies on the subject of whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
We are under attack from Russia.
If there were physical missiles, like during the Cuban missile missile crisis, Americans would be in the streets and protesting and asking for the president to protect us.
These are invisible missiles.
It's time for Americans to be out on the streets and to speak up about the democracy that we hold dear, the values we hold dear, and what we expect of the president of the United States.
Given a chance to directly confront Vladimir Putin over election meddling in 2016, the president took a pass and said President Trump through the U.S. intelligence community under the bus, and Putin drove right over to truly, truly extraordinary moment in American history.
Something I thought I would never see.
Uh up first, the president of the United States delivering a stunning rebuke to his own U.S. intelligence community with the entire world watching.
You know, he said to me, uh, we all fear that this is something like uh Mohammed Ali going up against an amateur boxer.
And in that scenario, let's just say the president of the United States was not Muhammad Ali.
And I would say that his performance today will live in infamy as much as the Pearl Harbor attack or crystal mat.
And it's really a serious issue that we need to deal with.
I I think the bar was even lower than what you described.
All he had to do was not, you know, put on jammies and crawl under the covers with Vladimir Putin, and he couldn't do that.
When do we see almost a shadow government come out and say we cannot side with the government, whether it's the cabinet or the senate?
I think that's the big question.
It's very clear to me that Vladimir Putin has the upper hand just from the optics of it.
So he has already handed Vladimir Putin a propaganda victory.
I do feel that today turned what's been an ongoing problem of Donald Trump as president in terms of his attitude towards and behavior towards Russia, towards President Putin, has turned a problem into a crisis almost.
You have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit in front of a Russian leader.
It's the only that I've ever seen.
Can we still call President Trump the leader of the free world?
Can we still call him the leader of the United States?
He has gone from snarling alpha dog in Brussels, blasting our allies, to Putin's lapdog in Helsinki.
All right, glad you're with us As we kick off here on news roundup information overload hour.
If you pay close, close, close attention.
Every one of those voices, pretty much, rare exceptions, were all huge Obama supporters.
All of them I don't remember their outrage over the apology tour that Barack Obama went on around the world.
I don't remember their outrage at 150 billion dollars being dumped on a tarmac in cargo planes and cash and other currencies as it relates to the Iranian mullahs who are chanting death to America and burning American flags, and the very same people that were burning the Israeli flag and chanting death to Israel.
I don't remember these voices at the time at all.
Um I don't remember them as the voices that have been in the forefront.
I do remember them as saying, you know, a lot of them, Bush lied and many died, and other little liberal leftist chance that you get any time a Republican is president, but I don't remember them being f outraged that an election was stolen, a primary election by Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders.
I don't remember that happening at all.
I don't see the outrage that in fact Hillary Clinton, everything that we know about the felony she committed, she put sources and methods in jeopardy when she put top secret classified information on her private email server, something she herself said nobody should do.
It's a felony, it's against the law.
It's a violation of the espionage act, nor do I think anybody in the left or any of those voices seem to care that she deleted and then acid wash with bleach bid and then had devices busted up and SIM cards removed from devices.
I don't really remember any of these people outrage that we had people in the upper levels of the intelligence community who were doing illegal surveillance and unmasking of Americans at a rate we'd never seen before during the Obama administration, leaking raw intelligence in the case of General Flynn.
I don't remember any of these voices being outraged that we had the top people in the FBI rigging an investigation into Hillary and then targeting the opposition party candidate, and the way they did it was they lied to Pfizer court judges on four separate occasions with the bulk of information coming from a bought and paid for dossier using funneled money through a law firm through an op research firm into a foreign national's hands who got Russian lies to propagate
to the American people in the lead up to an election, or the FISA court lying itself.
Remember the guy that put together that dossier has since said in an interrogatory, well, it's raw intelligence, it's maybe 50-50.
I don't know if it's true.
Many of the people now that are feigning the most outrage are the people that were involved in all of this.
It's a pretty shocking and amazing time that we live in.
Anyway, Austin Goolsby is with us.
He is a professor of Chicago's Booth School of Economics.
By the way, are you one of these professors that gets off all summer?
Yeah, pretty much.
Do you get paid all summer when you're off?
I'm supposed to do some research.
I'm researching the behavior of Republicans in the in their element.
That's why I'm on this show.
Uh, is that what that is?
I mean, you know, who was the reporter that called me a while back?
They were doing a story on you, and I said the nicest things about you.
I lied to the I was lying to the fake news media about you.
If your listeners read that, they would have my career would be over.
You know, I might as well take a summit with with Vladimir Putin and not give him 150 billion dollars, and everyone will be feigning moral outrage here.
Um look, I think there's something that's a lot deeper in all of this, and that is after 18 months, and there's a double standard, which is very obvious, that which I pointed out, but after 18 months, there's no evidence of Trump Russia collusion.
None whatsoever.
And while I fully understand people's uh desire, and the president clarified earlier today, his remarks, uh, but this has not been an intelligence community.
This has not been an FBI that has been exactly fair to him.
And the things that have been done to him, I think he's taken very personally, I think as anybody would.
Yeah, I don't know.
I kind of think two things.
I know he's your friend, and you're an extremely loyal person, and I love that about you.
It's not about loyalty, it's about truth.
This was not his finest day.
And yes, the people that you j that you just had on that snippet are people who are perennially critical of President Trump.
But this one was different in that we could also get a long list of people who have not been perennially critics of the president who expressed close to outrage.
They were very disappointed by his performance.
And I think he can do better.
Look, you you talk to him, Sean.
You should tell him.
So that's what I'm saying.
Why does everybody think that I talk to him as if that I'm the, you know, people make speculation?
How do you know if I talk to him?
You don't know who I talked to.
You have no idea who I talked.
I did talk to him yesterday.
Tell him to, he's got to strengthen himself.
There wasn't a lot of people.
Well, let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this.
Was it a great day in Barack Obama's life when he gave Mullers and Iran 150 billion dollars in cash and other currency?
No, it is kind of what happened.
But rather than argue about that, look, here I'm trying to be, I'm trying to be productive.
And I'll be productive in the productive.
There's a danger, but there is a pr there's a productive outcome.
When John F. Kennedy was the president and he was and he was new, and he didn't have a whole lot of international diplomacy negotiation kind of experience.
He has a summit with Khrushchev.
And it doesn't go well.
Now I would argue it still went a lot better than this one did for Trump, but it didn't go well.
And is this the one where he's banging his shoe on the desk?
Yeah, well, that was to the UN.
But Khrushchev, we now found out, felt that he kind of bulldozed and bullied uh President Kennedy, and he came back to the Kremlin and told him, Oh, I can push this guy around.
And that led almost directly to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Because Khrushchev from that summit was like, ah, this guy's a pushover.
Let's move the missiles into Cuba.
And that led to the problem.
But Kennedy stepped up and said, okay, fine.
I wasn't at my best self at that summit, but I'll be damned if they're going to push me around and I'm not going to let them put nuclear weapons here.
I think that the president now, he has an opportunity, but he uh kind of has a requirement.
This didn't go the way he wanted it to.
And he could say whatever he wants.
It didn't go.
It it didn't go well.
And I fear that Putin is going to take from that, hey, we could invade the Baltics, or we can make more trouble somewhere else, or we can mm mm meddle in the in the next election.
And Donald Trump's awesome.
Here's the problem with your problem with everyone.
Here's the problem that you have.
He's got a backbone on this.
Here's none of this happened on Trump's watch.
I'm I'm literally biting my tongue.
Crimea, Ukraine did happen under Obama's watch.
Nothing was done.
The red line was drawn.
Nothing was done.
And if you look at the general approach to foreign policy that Barack Obama had, it was one of appeasement.
It was the same failed flawed weak philosophy of bribery.
And I do think that, you know, if we're going to be honest here, this all happened on Brennan's watch.
This all happened on Clapper's watch.
This happened on Obama's watch.
Obama two weeks before the election said no serious person would ever think this type of thing could ever happen, and it did happen.
Devin Nunes, a Republican, was warning, yeah, it would happen in 2014.
And in fact, I'm I'm looking at all of this, and I'm wondering, all right, what are we looking to gain out of this?
Because uh, you know, America, what what do we want out of this?
That we want them to stop meddling in our elections or creating chaos and discord in America.
I agree that's what we want.
I uh but it happened in 08.
It happened in 2012.
I have every belief it happened in 2016.
It's a hostile regime, and he's a hostile actor.
And there's there's absolutely no doubt in my mind about it.
Here's the point that I would say, though.
At what point does the United States of America, if you want a serious answer here, have an obligation to step in and prevent people from the outside from being able to do this?
Julian Assange first hacked the DOD and NASA when he was 17.
He's in his 40s.
At what point do we say, shame on you?
No, shame On us, we haven't built the cybersecurity necessary to deal with it, maybe in part because Obama didn't think it was possible.
Well, I don't know.
You you kind of had a roundabout thing.
I agreed with a bunch of the things that you said there, and we should harden our defenses to this cybersecurity.
Now, those guys are not sitting still.
They're getting more and more sophisticated as time goes on.
We have two hundred and fifty thousand IT employees working for the federal government.
What are they doing to stop this stuff?
Yeah, I think they're doing a lot, but they should do more.
You're right.
We should do more.
But Obama said no serious person would think it was hot women.
Get up next to the leader of Russia who's obviously the guy that is masterminding not just against the U.S. but against the whole West.
You know, you're looking at that.
Where is your outrage?
Do you think where is your outrage over the other things that I mentioned that Hillary Clinton rigged a primary?
Where is your outrage over Pfizer courts being lied to and Americans being spied on?
Where is your outrage over surveillance on masking that happened at historic rates in 2016 under Obama?
Where is your outrage that Hillary had a rigged investigation vis-a-vis Comey and Strck?
I what I have tried to be as you as I've never heard you say what they did was try to steal an election, a presidential election.
I've never heard you say that.
Who's they?
Who's they?
Have you been watching?
You don't think that Hillary Clinton committed crimes?
Obama paid the mullers.
That's not that's not a good idea.
You don't think Hillary committed crimes?
And I do not believe that Hillary Clinton stole an election.
No, I think she stole a primary from poor Bernie Sanders if fixed was in.
She didn't.
Wrap things up with uh Austin Goolsby is with us, 800 nine point one Sean at the bottom of the hour.
Louis Gomert is going to check in with us.
Really simple, I guess, from from my standpoint is I just want to know.
Do you have a problem with Hillary Clinton, a rigged investigation, and what evidence of Trump Russia collusion exists that you have in the as it relates to the election which has gone on for 18 months?
Because I have plenty of examples that I've been talking about about the deep state absolutely trying to to fix a presidential election.
Okay, first you just told me you had one question, but that was two different questions.
So let's start on the second.
Well, you're an economics professor.
I thought you could handle it.
Let's start on the second of those.
Is there evidence in your your the in your view?
The evidence suggests that the FBI was against Trump and supporting Hillary Clinton.
And that's part of it.
There's more than that, though.
That they act that she committed crimes.
Is there evidence of collusion?
The goalpost has been moved substantially.
It started, there was no there was to be no evidence of collusion between the campaign and Russia.
Now actually there have been numerous examples of collusion or attempted collusion between the campaign and Russia.
And now it's shifting to what is no evidence.
But Hillary is the one that paid for the there is no such evidence.
She paid for them.
Well, when you say that when Donald Trump got up and said the infamous thing of, I hope Russia, if you're listening, you can find the 30,000 emails.
Well, nobody else could find them.
Well, nobody else could find them in Paris.
Where are the 33,000?
That's a great question.
Where are the things where are the mysterious 33,000 emails on yoga, a wedding and a funeral?
I like to see them.
Yoga weddings.
You can't go.
The Cubs lost for 108 years in a row.
The fact that they were bad did not take the focus off of the things that you've got to do.
I have to have mercy because you have been a Cubs fan for 108 years.
That's how old you are.
Um we love you.
Austin Golesby, thank you.
800 941 Sean is a number.
And I've talked to FBI agents around the country.
You've embarrassed them.
You've embarrassed yourself.
And I can't help but wonder when I see you looking there with a little smirk.
So how many times did you look so innocent into your wife's eyes and lie to her about Lisa?
Mr. Chairman, it's outrageous.
Shame always to ask you.
Mr. Chairman, this is intolerable harassment.
You need your medication.
Mr. Rucker reported to those of you, the four of you there, in the presence of the IC, IG attorney, that they had found this anomaly on Hillary Clinton's emails going through a private server.
And when they had done the forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except for four, over thirty thousand of them were going to an address that was not on the distribution list.
It was a compartmentalized bit of information that was sending it to an unauthorized source.
Do you recall that?
Sir, I don't.
Well, he went on to explain it.
And and you didn't say anything.
You thanked him, you shook his hand.
But the problem was that it was going to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia.
And from what you've said here, you did nothing more than nod and shake the man's hand when you didn't seem to be all that concerned about our national integrity of our election when it was involving Hillary Clinton.
This guy has gotten away with murder, and he's hurt our reputation around the country.
So hearing more and more of that, and also hearing from other government uh uh employees that are saying he's giving butt government employees a bad name.
But uh there I'm just uh still uh holding on to that hope that Springs Eternal that justice will out and it will uh end up holding Stock accountable.
We're not giving up.
All right, 204 now till the top of the hour.
News roundup information overload hour.
That was Congressman Louis Gomert of Texas, who joins us now.
You know, as I go through the list of everything that the left wing media, the Democratic Party does not feign moral outrage at and watch their collective meltdown today, um, and go back to the hearings.
At the heart of the of the struck hearing where you were grilling this man is a really really important charge, which is You bet it is.
And that is, and Sean, by the way, you were terrific over in Helsinki, England, everywhere I saw you were just terrific.
And it thank you so much for bringing that up, Sean.
You know, people wanted to express outrage that I brought up the manner in which he became such a great serial liar.
But the fact is all of the media should have been explosed exploding because you had COME, you've had Horowitz, all these people saying, Well, you know, it wasn't too bad because there's no evidence that her email, her unsecure server, was ever hacked by foreign entities, and what the blockbuster is, they had the evidence.
And Chuck McCullough, the the Intel community's inspector general through the Obama era, was calling and trying to get Horowitz, four calls he called to Horowitz, trying to get him to return the call because this is critical.
There was a foreign country that got all of her emails.
You need to know this, and he wouldn't return the call.
He didn't want it in the report, apparently, but it was not a country not related to Russia.
And it if they had brought that out, I just feel sure there would have been more people in the country screaming that she's got to be prosecuted.
She wasn't like the Navy guy that just took pictures to do nothing with them.
Her unsecured server uh really put us in jeopardy.
And and you may remember uh, and this uh this was huge.
The uh the Intel community inspector general's office knew that they found out that she had been sending the president's daily intelligence brief.
It's the most sensitive intelligence information we have, the highest protection we can have on anything.
She would send it to her home to where, as I understand, she had tried to get a security clearance for the guy working at her house and and it had been declined and never been able to get him, sending it so he could print it out for her.
And And uh that is just it may have been by facts, it may have been email, may have done both, but I mean, my goodness, she was secretary of a state putting us at risk and for to give those to another country as she did by using that insecure unsecured server.
And you will remember um our good friend from Louisiana gave us uh her intent.
Her intent was she didn't want Louis Gormert rifling through her emails.
Well I'm sorry.
That's the oversight responsibility Congress had and she wanted to avoid it but she put the country at risk by violating the law the way she did.
Let's talk about all the things that nobody seems to care about.
Even Putin made this point and it's sadly embarrassing to the United States but they did rig a primary I've always said well I don't understand why there's no outrage by Democrats that in fact the the primary election was rigged in in terms of the favor of of Bernie Sanders.
I mean, now to watch these people's, you know, feigning such moral outrage, how could this happen in our country and this happened in our country?
But then it gets worse than that.
Then you have the evidence that they put a fix in in a presidential election to exonerate one candidate that was guilty on all counts.
And then with a passion, with all the powers and tools of the intelligence community, go after the other candidate.
And then we've got, of course, surveillance, unmasking, leaking raw intelligence, all of which has happened.
And it's not our intelligence community, just like it's not the FBI, but it was the upper ranks of these institutions that were up to their eyeballs.
in it.
Exactly and and and on top of that there's nobody that's been you look at Trump's record you know I didn't see Donald Trump dropping a hundred and fifty billion dollars on the tarmac of Vladimir Putin that's true and and boy that was quite a disclosure by Putin this stuff uh I guess we'll have to look into that he he had information that uh the U.S. intelligence uh service had had transferred four hundred uh million dollars million dollars I saw that yeah unbelievable but but
But Trump has gotten such a just chillacking from even some Republicans over what they said he didn't say at his press conference and all.
But I want people to understand.
I know he knows a lot more about our intelligence now than I do.
He has to know that this other country, not Russia, had all of Hillary's emails.
there were four little email glitches but over over thirty thousand all the rest of them went straight to this other country's intelligence service and it's not Russia and when you know absolutely as he's gotta know having all that intelligence at his his fingers uh and then you got somebody asking about Russia you know that's just and and as you you interviewed Assange said that's not where WikiLeaks got their information.
So uh there's a lot of variables there and as I said at our judiciary hearing today that got a a little uppity uh from some folks not me of course I was low low key but uh I am so thrilled that after seventy years of Russian influence in our election that the Democrats are going to help us try to stop it.
That's great news.
It's awesome.
Because in 1948, some historians believe that when the Russians helped the progressive candidate, which is sponsored by the Soviet Union, that it threw enough votes Truman's way to help him win.
And even Khrushchev bragged in his memoirs that he was able to throw the election to Kennedy by holding up the release of Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot, that he did that intentionally to throw the election to Kennedy.
And then they were in there helping Jimmy Carter get elected.
In 1984, you had Ted Kennedy working with the Soviets to try to stop Reagan.
I mean, so I think it's great news that Democrats are finally going to help us stop these socialist, progressive, communists, whichever one of the terms you want to use.
I don't think it's about that at all.
I think everything is rooted to the 2018 elections.
It's all rooted to their grasping frustration.
straws so that they can hang on to their 18 month lie about Russia and Trump collusion does it you know It doesn't matter the main aspect of of the summit, which is Putin said no.
Yeah, that's nonsense.
No, we didn't collude.
We didn't think he was a political figure.
We had no idea he was ever going to run for president.
Um it's just interesting because the very same people too.
You want to talk about critics of of intelligence.
You know, Bush lied and people died.
Uh as it relates to Iraqi war intelligence.
Uh that that was coming from the hard left.
Yes, it was.
And it was le some of the left within the intelligence community that was was uh countering him just on a uh an ongoing basis.
And and actually, Sean, one of the things uh that I asked uh candidate Trump uh before I went on as the co chair of the Texans for Trump uh in September.
I said, you know, George W. Bush, he can be a very gracious man, and it had been such a controversial election in two thousand.
But he came in and he thought he would be gracious while even though there were crimes committed during the Clinton administration that had never been addressed, he in effect said, you know what, bygones, whatever happened in the past, everybody starts fresh today.
And I said, please you cannot do that as president.
We have got to clean house.
And he was committed to coming in and cleaning house.
But if anything happened on the way to cleaning house, the people that he would have cleaned out trumped up this thing against him, so to speak, no pun intended.
Yeah, well, I mean, where did it we where did we end up any better?
You know, it's such an ar uh it's such an irony to me is that the left has always thought that if they try to bribe dictators that that's somehow gonna work out well for America.
It never works out well for America though.
Well, let's see, it did with North Korea when Clinton did it, didn't he?
He promised North Korea will give you all the m fuel you need, all the material, everything you need to make a nuclear weapon as long as you promise it as you'll just use it for uh for power.
And I couldn't imagine uh I felt like the uh uh North Koreans were going, really?
Is it like Foxworthy when he said the guy came to repossess his car and he says, gee, uh uh I gotta leave with either cash or the car or a check.
He said, What?
A check?
I can just not oh well, why didn't you say that had to be North Korea?
I'll sign, sure, I'll sign anything.
And then with Iran, like you alluded to earlier, sending a hundred fifty billion dollars in cash to our enemy that's sworn to try to take us down.
I mean, it doesn't get any more sinister than that.
Yeah, and was the world a safer pa place as a result of the apology tour.
Nobody thought the apology tour at the time was such a bad deal.
Um I don't see you know, that's the irony.
They're all saying, well, Donald Trump is uh uh look at Donald Trump and and look what happened here.
This is outrageous.
And I'm thinking, uh he's not apologizing for America, actually.
He's looking out for America's interest and been pushing harder for an American agenda.
Um that's why he said what he did to Merkel.
I mean, for heaven's sakes, why are we spending billions trying to defend Germany when they're spending billions to help Russia?
That does not make any sense whatsoever.
And I'm glad he mentioned that.
But uh the media instead of pointing out how contrary to helping Russia those comments were, and how contrary to helping Russia it is for him to got have gotten America on a track to producing more of our own energy than ever in our history.
We're now the the major player in the world thanks to him and and uh actually Scott Pruitt deserves some some credit in there.
Uh it's unfortunate what was done to him.
But uh man, he has got us on track to really have Russia reeling.
And so what does Putin do?
He knows how he'd play American politics and media.
He says, Yes, we were pleased that you you know won.
So he knew the American media would take that and use it to condemn Trump.
See, see, he said he wanted him to win.
What about the indictment of these twelve Russians that we're never gonna see in the United States, although Putin was uh suggesting in some way that, well, maybe uh Robert Mueller can come over and interview them.
What did you think of that idea?
Well, I thought it would be a great idea if they actually got to interview them, but I do think it would be exceedingly helpful.
It it might be worth just sending some of the Mueller folks over to interview them just so that in return they can point out what they know about who in our intelligence community uh was actually helping uh Hillary get four hundred million dollars for a campaign.
Well, wouldn't we be able to track wouldn't we be able to track that money to see if that money in fact was transferred over?
Yeah, we're we're talking criminal activity here, so it would be worth it just to uh find out if there really was somebody in our intelligence community doing that kind of thing.
All right, stay right there.
We've got to take a break.
Louis Gomert is uh uh we got what actually we're out of time, Louie.
We're gonna have to let you go.
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