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All right, 89 days, the most important midterm election in your life.
You know what this is about.
We've got our grand plan that we have now put in place.
And really, we'll be moving right after Labor Day full bore when everyone gets back on their normal schedules, full attention.
One of the real stars who the president actually tweeted out and called the future star of the Republican Party, future Senator John James.
This guy has an amazing background, flew 800 hours in theater in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, served eight years in the military, has more awards than, you know, just an incredible list of awards that he has.
Then he takes a business and quadruples its wealth in a short period of time.
He's a job creator.
And I got to tell you, everything that I hear and see and read about this guy, he's unbelievable.
He's going to join us later in the program today.
I think the president's right.
I think we got a future star in our hands.
Although I did make a mistake once with Sass the Ass.
I thought, you know, I thought he had the potential of being somebody that could be a real breakout star.
I hope his days in Nebraska are soon numbered.
I'd love to see him get primarily.
He deserves to be out.
I mean, he offered so much hope.
Anyway, I was listening to a tape of John James, and I was, I don't get impressed with politicians very often.
This guy's life, his background, his experience, his success, his service.
I mean, it's an amazing life story.
And I love to see that.
That's what it should be for all of us here in America, in my opinion.
All right, we got so much deep state news.
We're going to get to, I promise.
I'm not going to get that deep into the election from the other night.
I do have a couple of sidebar notes on it.
One is pretty funny.
You know, the winner of Tuesday night's primary, Democratic primary in Michigan, you know, widely celebrated as somebody that was going to be the first Muslim woman ever elected to Congress.
That's fine.
That's great.
But that was before she told a TV interviewer today that if she wins, she intends to vote against Nancy Pelosi to continue as the House minority leader.
God forbid, never speaker.
Anyway, I need someone who's connected with different levels of poverty going on in her district.
She said, adding that Pelosi's troubling support of big banks wouldn't put her people first.
And asked if she thought Pelosi was a Democratic sellout.
She responded, well, I don't know, but all I can tell you is she doesn't speak about the issues that are important to the families of the 13th congressional district, and they are a priority for me.
They're the ones that put me here.
They're the ones who put faith in me, and I have to listen to them, and I have to make sure I never back down and don't sell out personally.
You know what?
Good for her.
I mean, I know she's a Democrat, but I love the fact that she's, you know, started so many people say the right things.
They get to Washington, and it's like the culture shifts dramatically and changes, and they want to be, you know, this is a lesson for life.
Don't want to be liked that much.
What do you mean?
We all want to be liked.
Of course, I'm in a business where if enough of you don't like me, I don't have a microphone on your radio station, and I don't have a camera in front of me every night.
So do I need people to like me?
Yeah, but I'm not going to sell my soul to be liked.
And there's a difference.
You know, I watch all of these people that once claimed in their careers to be conservative, and they end up on, you know, fake news, CNN, or conspiracy TV, MSNBC.
They end up there and they become huge, huge, massive liberals.
They don't even, for example, put labels aside, but label, like all of this talk about Trump is a nationalist.
No, he's not governing as a nationalist.
He's not governing in that vein.
What do they also say about him and a populist?
He's a populist.
He's a national, you know, okay, saying American first or America first.
Well, every country does that.
Actually, I think we're the only country that doesn't say, you know, our country should come first.
The American people.
How do we help people around the world if we don't help our own people first?
It's another way to put it.
You know, we've got to get every American working.
That's why I keep pointing out all these economic numbers matter so much because they're millions of real people, our American family, American jobs.
This is American kids we're raising.
That's why I'm hoping the president does something in Chicago.
I'm praying to God we don't have another weekend like last weekend.
71 people shot, 12 dead.
I don't know if any more have passed away.
Others were fighting for their lives.
This is one city.
You know, this is American treasure.
Rahm Emanuel actually said it's up to the communities to fix this.
And I'm like, no, the communities have police that protect and serve the people.
That's why we pay all that money in taxes in Illinois and Chicago in particular is a highly taxed city.
And we're not protecting the people of Chicago.
And all these people are dying and we're not doing anything.
And I, you know, the fact that state representatives in Illinois are saying, all right, forget Rahm Emanuel.
He's an idiot.
They're asking the president to go in.
I hope he, I don't know if he's heard.
I hope he does.
And I hope when he does that he gets in there and can help out, help to say we need to create safer neighborhoods for our fellow Americans as an American city.
But the president does govern to me as a Reagan conservative, which I have been my whole life.
But again, it's labels.
He believes in originalism in terms of judicial appointments.
In other words, not legislating from the bench, not doing in the judicial branch that which you could never do at the ballot box or in the legislative branch, which is what liberals always hope for because they can never run on what they really want and believe.
He is a believer in limited government, ending the bureaucracy, tax cuts to stimulate the economy and create jobs.
A nation without borders is not a nation, Reagan said.
He believes in securing our nation's borders, but he even talks about a big door.
We want to be an inclusive society.
There's also, you know, countries like New Zealand and Australia, they have merit-based immigration.
If you have particular skills that are necessary, that are going to help create jobs that are needed for big business in the country so we can be more competitive.
Yeah, I think they should get a top priority.
So what other countries do, I don't think that's necessarily a horrible thing.
And then if we ask people, if you're going to come in, you've got to be able to take care of yourself.
That's not that much to ask for.
Don't ask the American taxpayers and just do it legally.
So we know you want to be a part of our family.
I don't really give a flying rip where you come from.
My grandparents at the turn of the last century came here with nothing from Ireland.
They were literally dirt poor.
Nothing.
You know, 10 bucks in their pocket.
Good luck.
Have fun in America.
They didn't have the greatest lives.
They didn't have, but they were happy.
They wanted to build a future for their children.
They did.
And then their children wanted to build a future for me.
They did.
I'm trying to build the future for my kids.
I'm hopefully succeeding on some level.
And, you know, we all stand on the shoulders of those that come before us.
I want everybody in the world to have that opportunity.
But, you know, think about this too.
If America's economy recovers and comes back, it benefits everybody worldwide.
The world benefits when America is standing tall and strong economically and on foreign policy.
I mean, whether we like it or not, you know, we are the greatest, last, best hope for man on this earth.
And we better remain moral and true.
And we're not perfect.
We all know that.
We had a president last time that apologized, you know, daily for America, went on an apology tour.
We're not perfect.
But you know what?
If America is strong, if America's economy is strong, if America is strong militarily and we can stare down threats from rogue nations like Tehran, which we're doing and is working, the world's going to be better off.
That means the people in other countries are going to be better off.
We get trade deals that have reciprocity.
Everybody does better.
Anyway, back to the election for a second.
It's funny to watch Bill Nelson down in Florida.
He's actually getting ready now to create an excuse about why he's going to lose down there to Governor Rick Scott.
Rick Scott is a rock star.
I really got to know him.
Rick Scott was up here with Bobby Jindal and Rick Perry.
They're always up in New York.
Why are you guys always here?
They call and say, you know, we'd like to come on the show or we're available if you need us.
And all right, come on.
I'd love to have you.
Why are you here?
Oh, we're here to steal New York businesses.
We're here to entice them with less regulation, lower taxes, and we're going to show how it's worth their while to move to our state to create jobs in our states.
Well, isn't that kind of what Trump is saying?
You know, again, the label, nationalist, populist, whatever you want.
No, these are conservative principles.
And if you have a better economic environment for business and you're telling businesses and meeting with businesses and you're like, well, you would have made another 15, 20, 30 million, and you could have hired 400 more people if you came to our state.
I think if I'm a businessman, I'm going to say that's a good idea.
Oh, and the weather's better.
Oh, and the home prices are cheaper.
Oh, and yeah, we got a thriving environment.
Anyway, so yesterday, Nelson telling the Tampa Bay Times that Russian operatives have already penetrated certain counties in Florida and that they now have free reign to move about.
He's lost his mind.
And then Nelson said something similar earlier in the day in Tallahassee.
That's classified, he said.
And he outlines a scenario in which Russian entities have stripped voters of their registration in order to cause disorder with American democracy.
He's scared lists, you know, that the governor did a great job in Florida.
I can't see Rick Scott not winning.
He deserves to win.
Look at his hands-on approach when the hurricanes came down there.
Oh, by the way, there is a newsbusters article about how the media are blaming climate change for California wildfires, but of course, ignoring forestry policy and land use factors.
You know, of course, first it was global cooling.
The ice age is coming.
That was in the 70s.
Then it was global warming.
And that didn't work out so well with the statistics.
Then they just say climate change.
So if it's hot, it's where our fault is human beings.
If it's cold, our fault.
It's capitalism's fault.
I guess we should all, you know, live in a, I don't know, a tent in our backyards, ride bicycles to work every day.
The planet has a fever.
Yeah, it has a fever.
Fever.
Crazy, insane politicians like Al Gore.
Every single presidential candidate that loses, they go nuts.
They all think they're going to win.
You know who else goes nuts?
The people that ran their campaigns.
They go nuts too.
They can't believe they lost.
Back up, you creep.
Hey.
Get away from me.
Hey, Slot.
Whoa, whoa.
What's this?
Well, I'm going to get Nancy Pelosi tells audience, vote Democratic to give illegal aliens leverage.
That's also part of it.
We've got a lot on the deep state.
Mueller's case against Manafort apparently now is in a little bit of jeopardy.
New emails showing Christopher Steele colluding with Putin-connected oligarch and Bruce Orr, the fourth highest ranking member of the Justice Department, both before and after the election.
By the way, here's an interesting New York Times piece.
You know, Manafort's being prosecuted for tax evasion.
Where's the prosecution of Al Sharpton?
I'll give you the details.
And we've got also Trump rules now would bar welfare payments to new immigrants, which, you know what, if you're going to come here, we want you in the country, but you've got to be able to take care of yourself.
Oh, and Sharpton says he may actually run in 2020.
I'm not making that up.
Oh, and you got one New York Times columnist urging colleagues to conspire so they can torpedo Trump.
That would be called their newspaper on a daily basis.
That's all they do.
All right, we'll get to all of that and much more.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, a lot of news breaking on the deep state.
Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, who the president said is the next rock star of the Republican Party, John James, Michigan Senate candidate.
All right, as we roll along, Sean Hannity Show, so much happening with regards to the deep state.
I want to just give you some headlines on it before we get into some more of the details, and we'll have Greg and Sarah joining us as well.
You know, we've been outlining now for a couple of days how these new emails and correspondence between Christopher Steele and, of course, Bruce Orr, the fourth highest ranking member of the DOJ, and Nellie Orr, Bruce's wife, worked for Fusion GPS.
That's the group that put together the Hillary Clinton bought and paid for phony dossier with Russian lies from the foreign agent, Christopher Steele, who himself doesn't even stand by his own dossier.
Now we've got new emails showing Christopher Steele colluding with Putin connected with a Putin-connected oligarch.
What's happening here is every day now it's getting worse than I thought it was going to even be.
I knew there was a lot more coming, and I'm told there's really a lot more coming, and there's going to be a pretty big bomb dropping tonight at 9 p.m. on my show.
And emails in 2016 between, you know, Christopher Steele, top Justice Department official Bruce Orr, suggesting Steele was deeply concerned about the legal status of a Putin-linked Russian oligarch and at times seemed to be advocating on the oligarch's behalf.
Now, meanwhile, they're conspiring to spread the Russian lies before the election that Steele even knows are just BS, and then right after the election, which we all know is BS, so they could destroy the president that they were hell-bent on stopping with their insurance policies.
I'll explain all of this as we continue.
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All right, 25 now till the top of the hour, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
I noticed there's a story on the blaze, and the headline is the NAACP calls the president a racist after its own poll shows improved black approval rating.
Remember, Rasmussen had the president last Friday at 29%, African Americans' approval rating up from 8% during the 2016 election.
Anyway, so there was a poll that the NAACP put together that shows that the president's approval rating among black voters is nearly three times higher than the percent of African Americans that voted for him in 2016.
Now, again, we have record low unemployment in the African-American community, Hispanic community, Asian community.
And, you know, for whatever reason, you know, they're saying that the new poll actually confirms Trump's racism.
I'm trying to understand this.
The report accompanying the poll results, Trump's improved approval rating among black voters doesn't override the perceived negative impact the president is having on race relations.
Anyway, the poll showed Trump's approval rating among black voters at 21%.
Now, that's 29% on Rasmussen.
He only got 8% of the black vote in the 2016 election.
And by the way, I pointed this out often that during the Obama eight years of economic disaster, if you look at the people that disproportionately were impacted negatively by Obama's policies, it was minorities in America.
And I pointed out the disparity that was in Bloomberg is lower than it's been since 1972 in terms of percentage of demographic communities and getting work in the country.
You know, I think most, I can't stand every election year because it's the same playbook.
Republicans are racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic.
They want dirty air and water.
They want to kill children.
They want children to die and breathe dirty air and dirty and drink dirty water.
And grandma, we're going to throw her over the cliff.
It's insane because none of that is true.
But the policies of the president, lower taxes, ending the bureaucracy, his hands-on approach, incentivizing businesses to build and invest in America, is resulting in a resurgence in jobs for all Americans.
In other words, our family, our American family.
Put all demographics aside.
Don't we want everybody in America to prosper?
I do.
Every American should have their shot at the American dream.
And if we get to that point, you know, we're going to have a better, stronger country.
And it's amazing what economic success does in this country for everybody.
I mean, it's, you know, literally, you know, why every single American, I believe we could get to the point that able-bodied, obviously, I think can have a nice car in a nice safe neighborhood with a nice house, two-car garage, that can afford a family vacation every year, that could afford to go out to dinner,
that could save for their retirement years, you know, if we continue to really focus in on building up America's economy.
And one of the best things I think we're going to do, and we haven't done for years, is that I think we've not tapped into our energy resources.
I keep saying it.
You know, drill here, drill now, pay less.
We've been talking about this for years.
All right, I'm not going to stay focused.
But listen, we do that.
Everybody benefits.
Imagine revitalization in great cities.
We're going to have in the next hour the Michigan senatorial candidate that the president says is a future star of the Republican Party, John James.
You know, imagine if we, he's from Michigan, if we could revitalize Detroit.
One of the saddest things I saw the last time in Detroit, we've talked about it.
You can go on at one point, you can go on one of these websites, Craigslist or whatever places you go to buy stuff, eBay, and buy a house for a dollar.
I mean, you have entire neighborhoods abandoned.
And now they're talking about and have been talking about bulldozing entire neighborhoods to consolidate services because of the massive population loss, because of the loss of opportunity in manufacturing jobs and factories that were once vibrant in all of Detroit that made it one of America's greatest cities.
It's sad what has happened there.
It reminded me of my time down post-Katrina in New Orleans.
It was so bad.
You know, why can't we talk about revitalizing these cities?
You know, that's only going to happen if we get rid of all the bureaucracy, lower the taxes, create a friendly business environment.
We entice businesses to spend trillions that they parked overseas, which we're doing now, so that they can invest in all of these centers here in America and put Americans back to work and build American products.
And then we can, you know, build out from there.
We can get better trade deals.
The better trade deals result in our products being sold to countries that want to partner with us in a free and fair way.
This is not complicated.
It's frustrating because it can happen.
And, you know, so I know everyone breaks things down in a demographic.
Let's get every American the best job we can, the best career job we can, so that they can build their future with confidence, that they can have their piece of the American dream,
they can create a better life for their children and their grandchildren, that they get some of the benefits that literally have been ripped away from them in large part because of government failure and failed government policies.
Government policies destroys the incentive of businesses to literally want to do business in our own country.
That's now changing.
It's not an accident that we've turned the economy around from the lowest labor participation rate since the 70s to now the highest labor participation rate ever.
You know, it's not an accident 14 states have record low unemployment.
It's not an accident that we have record low unemployment with these varying demographic groups, women in the workforce, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans.
Veterans are now getting back to work.
That's good for the country.
The 2016 election was about the forgotten man and forgotten women in this country.
And that's why I was beating the, you know, pounding it daily.
You know, the 13 million more Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty.
You know, you know these statistics because I purposefully say it because the policies failed the American people.
You know, we can fix all of that, and it's beginning to happen.
That's why this election in 89 days matters.
It's like what Reagan said back in 1984.
Stay the course.
Let's not go backwards here.
Unfortunately, people's memories are short.
I don't think they remember how bad it was under Obama.
It was bad.
His policies did nothing to help people around the country and create jobs and opportunity and incentivize business.
It was just the opposite.
Anyway, let me go back to this Byron York piece in the Washington Examiner, and now we got these emails in 2016 between Hillary Clinton's British spy buddy that got us the Russian lies.
He doesn't even stand by his own dossier.
And the fourth highest ranking Obama Justice Department official, Bruce Orr, whose wife Nellie worked for Fusion GPS.
Anyway, they suggest Steele was deeply concerned about the legal status of a Putin-linked Russian oligarch.
And at times, seemed to be advocating on the oligarch's behalf in the same time period that Steele was working on collecting the Russian-related allegations against Trump, known as the Trump dossier, which all turned out to be lies, unverified, uncorroborated, which, by the way, was designed to manipulate and misinform you, the American people, in the lead up to an election.
And then, even in a more sinister way, became the basis in the bulk of information for FISA warrants.
And that fraud was committed on a FISA court four times.
Absolute information withheld.
Hillary paid for it.
They'd ever told the court, but we never independently corroborated this.
They just handed it over because they so desperately wanted to get Trump.
Now, these emails given to Congress by the Justice Department began on January 12, 2016.
Steele sent Orr a New Year's greeting.
Steele brought up the case of Russian some aluminum magnet guy, Oleg Dara Pasca, referred to in various emails as OD or OVD, at the time seeking a visa to attend an Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in the U.S. Years earlier, the U.S. revoked Daraspaska and his visa, reportedly on the basis of his involvement potentially with Russian organized crime.
The emails show Steele and Orr were in frequent contact.
They intermingled talk about Steele's research, the oligarch's affairs.
Glenn Simpson, the head of the dirt-digging group Fusion GPS, that hired Steele to compile the phony dossier, also part of the conversation.
And Steele emailing again on February 8th, 2016, alerting Orr that our old friend OD apparently has been granted another official emphasis in original visa to come to the U.S. later this month.
And Steele wrote, as far as I'm concerned, this is good news all around as before.
It would be helpful if you could monitor it and let me know if there are any complications that arise.
Orr replied that he knew about the visa.
To the extent that I can, I will keep an eye on the situation.
And by the way, Steele again asked to meet anytime.
Or was in the U.K. or Western Europe.
Steele wrote again, February 21st in an email.
OVD, visit to U.S. Steele told Orr that he had talked to Waldman and Paul Hauser, who was Daripasca's London lawyer, and Steele reported that there would be a U.S. government meeting on Daripasca that week, quote, an interagency meeting on him this week, which I guess you will be attending.
And then Steele said he was circulating some recent sensitive, you know, Orbis reporting on Daripasca, suggesting that he was not a tool of the Kremlin.
Sounds like Bruce Orr is colluding with Russia and somebody of questionable character.
And Steele said he would send the report to a name redacted in the email as he has asked for legal reasons, I understand, for all such reporting be filtered through him to you at DOJ and others.
And Daripasca's rehabilitation was a good thing.
Steele wrote, We reckon, therefore, that the forthcoming OVD contact represents a good opportunity for the USG.
Orr responded by saying, Thanks, Chris.
Extremely interesting.
I hope we can follow up in a few weeks.
These incriminating emails go on and on.
If Mueller had an ounce of integrity, this would be what he's investigating.
It's insane, absolutely insane what is going on right now with this deep state investigation.
You know, what did we learn yesterday?
We learned that Steele and Orr were communicating to hurt Trump before the election.
His wife working on Fusion GPS and the dossier.
They're meeting.
They're talking constantly before the election.
They talked then about how frustrated they are with the long re-engagement after Steele got canned by the FBI.
Remember, we learned last week that the FBI had been paying Steele 11 separate payments.
And then he's asking, well, you know, from Steele to Orr, why can't I get him with the special counsel?
What's taking so long?
Well, his entire dossier, he himself under oath in Great Britain said was raw intelligence that he couldn't verify.
Heard nothing back from the special counsel colleagues.
They're feeding this crap, these lies, just like they fed it to four separate FISA court judges.
Now they're trying to feed it to Mueller to take down Trump because they didn't succeed in stopping Trump.
So now we're at the insurance policy phase of all of this.
Disappointing.
We would risk everything to help them reach the truth.
What part of his dossier is truth?
None of it.
And what's really even more astonishing, documents showing Steele was a confidential human source for the FBI seven months before the FBI officially and formally launched their investigation into Trump-Russia collusion.
And almost immediately, the FBI knew Steele was untrustworthy.
Formally admonished within a couple of weeks, 10 months later, fired for lying to the FBI.
But they're still paying him.
And, you know, both the Bureau and the Justice Department should never have relied on him for anything, nor should they have signed off on his phony dossier to get FISA warrants.
You know, records showing that Steele telling Bruce Orr just before the election that he was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.
And then afterwards, they're colluding.
How can they, you know, how could they possibly stop him now that he is elected?
All of this is illegal, by the way.
And it's conspiracy and it's Russia.
It's so sick and ugly and twisted and despicable that all of this information exists and your media doesn't do a darn thing about it.
And they don't follow it.
And they purposely don't report a lot of it.
And they go with their lie and their narrative.
It's just so despicable.
So corrupt.
You said earlier Bruce Orr was not working on the Russia investigation.
Let me ask you, here's my knowledge.
To your knowledge, did you not know that Bruce Orr was meeting with Christopher Steele, getting information about the dossier and supplying that information to the FBI at the same time his wife Nelly was working for Fusion GPS that was helping Hillary Clinton.
Did you not know he was doing that for the FBI?
Correct.
You did not know that.
Correct.
Okay, so he officed a couple of doors down, but you had no idea that he was actually the go-between to get that information.
At Hour 2, Sean Hannity Show, glad you're with us, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of this program, as we have massive new developments to this deep state story that we have now been uncovering layer by layer by layer, as we now see that in the last two days, and there's going to be more news tonight as it relates to this go, you know, deep state go-between as the plot thickens with Bruce Orr, Christopher Steele,
two columns, one by John Solomon, one by Sarah Carter, now showing the depth and the length and the breadth of which there were contacts with Christopher Steele.
And remember, he's just like Strzok and Page, he wants to defeat Trump.
The most stunning admission he had was in Great Britain when he actually said, oh, this is raw intelligence, and this raw intelligence has not been verified or corroborated.
And this raw intelligence, I don't know if it's true, maybe 50-50.
But not only were they trying to use that phony, unverified Clinton, and by the way, the FBI was also paying Christopher Steele, use that dossier to undermine the president and his hopes and his chances in the general election.
Now we're seeing the depths to which they have gone and what they were doing in terms of meeting and seemingly conspiring to get all of this phony information into the hands of Robert Mueller so that Robert Mueller can use the lies again to sabotage Donald Trump's presidency.
Number one, it's an attempt to rig and steal an election, and then it's to undermine a duly elected president.
A lot of details as it relates to these Bruce Orr documents raising really, really serious questions about the connections involved in all of this.
Sarah Carter, Fox News contributor, investigative reporter, Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, his book now two weeks in a row, number one on the New York Times list, The Russian Hoax, and that is the illicit scheme to clear Hillary Clinton and frame Donald Trump.
Welcome both of you.
Sarah, let's start with the new news here that we have, because I think this is now we're getting even deeper into this, the weeds than we ever thought possible.
We now have the fourth highest ranking member of the Justice Department.
His wife helped put together this dossier, Nellie Orr, we're told, and that he is selling and meeting with Christopher Steele, who was fired by the FBI, plotting to bring him back, and also the emails revealing that they want to meet with Mueller and feed him this debunked information.
Well, I think it's incredible because I think for a while we've known that Orr played a significant role in what happened during the 2016 FBI investigation into this alleged collusion, Russia-Trump collusion.
And I think there was a lot of concern that how expansive the players were.
Not just Bruce Orr, but there were people within the State Department.
We know that.
We know there were high-level officials like Victoria Newland, Sidney Blumenthal, who was friends with Hillary Clinton, Cody Scheer, who was also very close to the Clintons, and how all these people intermingled and shared the same information, all the same information that Christopher Steele, by the way, like you rightfully said, Sean, wasn't able to prove.
He got this disinformation from Russian sources and from other European sources, and he was not able to prove the majority of it.
But it spread like wildfire among these people that wanted to actually stop President Trump from ever becoming president.
And if he did become president, well, we see what's happened now.
And now what we know is that Bruce Orr was in communication with Christopher Steele consistently.
Explain the nature of these communications, though.
I mean, we went over some of this last night, but I mean, as you look through the depth of all of this, I mean, we can start.
This is both before and after the election.
Before the election, Steele writes to Orr.
Remember, Ellie Noor work, Ellie Nellie Orr works for Fusion GPS.
She speaks Russian.
She's a Russian expert.
Right.
And she was hired for that specific purpose and also for the specific purpose of her connections inside the DOJ.
All of these people were working in concert with one goal in mind.
Okay, so before the election, you got Steele writing to Orr.
I spoke to my old colleagues last week, and they assured me that they would not stand in the way of our re-engagement with the Bureau or text back.
Great.
I'll pass this along to my colleagues.
Thank you.
And then right after the election, nine days after the election, months after the Mueller witch hunt was underway, Steele writes to Orr.
I am presuming you've heard nothing back from your special counsel colleagues on the issues you kindly put to them from me.
He's already fired by the FBI at this point.
And his phony dossier that he says he has no clue if it's true, now debunked.
He's pushing after the election.
And then Steele goes on to say, to say this is disappointing would be an understatement.
Certain people have been willing to risk everything to engage with them in an effort to help reach the truth.
But there's even more than that.
I mean, they literally were trying, I'll go to Greg now, to use the Russian lies that Hillary paid for to lie to the American people and rig an election, not unlike what you did to poor Bernie Sanders.
And then after the election, Steele is still involved with top DOJ, FBI people, and they're trying to undermine the president with something we now know not to be true.
And I haven't even yet mentioned how that phony dossier that they never verified or corroborated, it has since been debunked, then is used to get not one, but four FISA warrants and lying to FISA judges on four separate occasions and putting forth a fraudulent document and also purposely withholding other information like, oh, Hillary paid for it, which would have sunk it from the beginning.
Well, it just shows it shows you how devious and corrupt James Comey and others and Bruce Orr at the Department of Justice were in their efforts to try to destroy Trump, to frame him for things he didn't do.
The FBI knew that dossier was fabricated.
They knew that Steele was a liar, and even after they were forced to fire him and could no longer use him under FBI guidelines, they used Bruce Orr as a conduit.
I mean, talk about an underhanded scheme.
And even after Trump is elected and is sworn into office in January of 2017, they keep at it.
Why?
Well, in addition to wanting to undo the election results, they knew they'd broken the law because they'd used this unverified dossier to the FISA court, and they were desperate to try to verify that, which was unverifiable.
Let's explain, because in your column yesterday, you bring in the fact that Strzok and Page are even connected to this, Sarah.
Yes, and I think this is really important.
And what Greg said right now is even more important.
I mean, they were using it as a back channel, or as a back channel, they were piggybacking off of information, which is what they did in the foreign intelligence surveillance application that they took out on Carter Page.
So basically, without verifying anything, what they did was they just piggybacked off information that Steele was leaking to the media.
And now, according to documents that I have seen, that I have, I've obtained a series of them, we know that Orr had actually met with in his notes, it appears on November 21st, after the election, several weeks after the election, he had met with none other than Strzok, Lisa Page, Joe Pianka about what?
About the probe.
He talks about Christopher Steele in these notes.
He also talks about Paul Manafort, which I found very interesting.
You know, they're going to push forward.
There's no prosecution yet moving forward with M, which is referring to Manafort, got to contact Steele.
And I think this is incredible because the FBI, just like Greg had said, and established, the FBI had let him go because he violated all of their laws.
They knew it.
So they had to have this back channel, and the back channel was Christopher Orr.
So in Christopher Steele, you mean?
I mean, yeah, Christopher Steele.
And what they did was they used Bruce Orr, and we have the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Department of State all working in concert during the Obama administration to investigate President Trump for none other than Hillary Clinton and he, which, by the way, paid for the Christopher Steele dossier.
And we know that Glenn Simpson now is very well involved with Bruce Orr as well.
He was in contact with him.
It wasn't just through his wife.
They had direct contact.
And it's all becoming very murky.
All right.
So now there are other handwritten documents that I hear are coming out.
Do you know anything about those?
Yes, there are a number of handwritten documents.
Some of those documents actually, and these ones I have not been privy to.
This is according to sources that I've spoken with, actually have Peter Strzok conversations with Bruce Orr.
So I think that'll be very interesting to see.
What was Peter Strzok saying?
What were they conversing about?
How were they involved together in this investigation?
Another, I think, very important point here is that Lisa Page, remember, was the general counsel of Andrew McCabe.
She had no business really being involved, and I've spoken to a number of people about this in a national security investigation such as Trump at the time.
So what was Lisa Page's role?
What was McCabe's role?
I mean, McCabe has been fired since, but what was his role during this investigation?
How did he handle this?
Was it just Peter Strzok, or was Peter Strzok reporting to others like Bill Preestap, who was above him, we don't hear much about, and then McCabe above Bill Prestap.
So these will be very interesting notes to look through to find out.
I've heard that Congress has received a few thousand documents.
Some have said 200 between text messages and emails and other documents related to this case.
All right, let me go back to Greg on the legal side of all of this.
You know, we do have the bought and paid for Russian lies that was used and disseminated by people like Brennan.
And we know Steele was briefing the press.
We now know he didn't even believe his own dossier.
That's all a lie to the American people to swing an election on a lie that is based on Russian lies that Hillary paid for.
You got Shiftless Schiff breathlessly talking to a Russian hoaxer who's out there telling him, I've gotten good pictures of Donald Trump.
I give to you.
I give, you know, tell Vladimir.
I will meet him after the election when I have more flexibility.
All these incidents, and we never get any movement on the law here.
The level of a double standard, it takes my breath away.
And I repeat what I've been saying, Greg.
If we don't have equal application of our laws and equal justice under the law, we don't have a constitution, and our constitutional republic crumbles.
Yes, and all of these are felonies.
One of them is abuse of power, 18 U.S.C. 242.
You know it well, Sean.
Major fraud against the U.S. is another felony, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. If you're using a position of power improperly, you're defrauding the government, especially when you're violating somebody's constitutional rights, Carter Page's constitutional rights, President Trump's constitutional rights.
The law enforcers were actively the lawbreakers in this particular case.
They were so determined to frame Donald Trump for crimes he didn't commit that they themselves, the top DOJ and FBI officials, engaged in corrupt acts that are crimes.
And the irony, of course, is that Mueller is investigating Donald Trump for nothing when, in fact, he should be investigating the original investigators who broke the law with impunity.
That's called investigating the investigators, a term we used almost from the beginning.
All right, both of you stay there.
Greg Jarrett, Sarah Carter, we'll have a lot more on Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern.
All right, as we continue with Sarah Carter, Greg Jarrett, all right, we don't have a lot of time here.
What do we know about 302s that show that Steele kept feeding the FBI allegations after he was fired, after Trump won?
Sarah.
Well, what we know is that this is one of the biggest things that Congress has been beating over to try to get the 302s, the interviews with Bruce Orr.
And that is going to reveal the most important and most pertinent information would be all of those 302s.
They would contain all the interviews with Bruce Orr, how he got the information, particularly from Christopher Steele, how that was passed over to the FBI, to the Bureau, and how he moved it.
What we do know is that, and this was, thankfully, Devin Nunez had it in his Russia report.
If you go back to that and read that again, it's even more true today than it was then now that all this information has come out.
The fact that Christopher Steele himself was adamant about not having, about not having President Trump win this election was very telling.
And I think that the 302s will be very revolutionary as far as like the same thing.
This is really about to explode wide open yet again, and it gets deeper and deeper every time.
I'm just out of time, though.
Greg, again, congrats.
Two weeks in a row.
New York Times bestseller list.
Sarah, we'll see you tonight with your breaking news.
John Solomon tonight, much more.
Nine Eastern on Fox.
We'll take a quick break.
We'll come back and we will continue.
And the person that the president says is the rising star of the GOP.
Next.
Stabenow's numbers are plummeting because she's associated with resistance.
Debbie Stabenow cares more about resistance than results.
She cares more about obstruction than economic opportunity.
And having someone like me who gets results from the battlefield to the boardroom, I'm a combat veteran who got the results of bringing all my aircraft and all my men back home safely.
I'm a business leader who got the results of growing my company from 35 million to 137 million and improving the economic situations of over 100 families in Michigan and east of the Mississippi.
Debbie Stabenow votes with Chuck Schumer 95% of the time.
And there are people home in the state of Michigan who are wondering if their lives are going to get any better by having somebody who's obstructing the president and not bringing opportunities back home.
How important was the president's support in your victory?
The president's support was amazing, was icing on the cake.
The people of the state of Michigan came out, but the president really took a leading effort in getting the word out, helping us get the vote out.
And I'm grateful for the president's endorsement and also Vice President Pence, who I'm actually going to be running into in Grand Rapids.
All right, that was the big winner in Tuesday night's primary in Michigan.
And that is soon to be Senator John James, hopefully for a lot of people's sake.
The president tweeted out, congratulations, future star of the Republican Party, future Senator John James, a big and a bold victory tonight in the great state of Michigan in the first of many.
November cannot come fast enough.
Now, as you just heard, he has a military background.
He has a business background.
He's created jobs.
He served his country.
And anyway, he joins us now as we now are only 89 days from what I am calling the single most important midterm election in our lifetime.
And John James joins us now.
Sir, how are you?
Congratulations on your big victory on Tuesday night.
I'm doing wonderfully well.
Thanks for having me on, but I got to get off the glory to God.
We worked hard.
We prayed hard, and the president came through for us.
And we're going to make sure that we come through for Michiganders for the American people when they get to the Senate next year.
You know, I look at your background, and I'm extraordinarily impressed.
And I've had people, you know, getting in my ear say, you got to look at John James.
He's a rock star.
The president, obviously, getting behind your corner.
And I look at you.
You're a veteran.
You're a businessman.
You're pro-Second Amendment.
You're a pro-business conservative.
We see the benefits under the president's economic plans.
We've had a dramatic economic turnaround in the country.
And tell us a little bit about who you are, where you served, what you did.
I know you were part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
And I know you earned a combat action badge and two air medals, among other awards.
I know you logged in almost 800 hours in theater flying, leading two Apache platoons.
What can you tell us?
Well, I can tell you that I'm no star, Sean.
I'm just a servant.
I left my home when I was 17 years old, enlisted in the Army for a year.
I went to West Point and graduated in 2004.
As you mentioned, I became a Ranger-qualified Apache pilot and flew 750 hours combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
But actually, one of the things I saw over there that disturbed me the most on top of being in combat was the fact that during the Great Recession 10 years ago, I came back to the dining facility and I was watching news on the Armed Forces networks, and they were showing shots back home, Flint, Detroit, Saginaw, areas of my home, Michigan, that looked worse than the combat zone I was flying in.
And that really kind of threw me for a loop because I'm over fighting for Iraqi freedom.
And I didn't feel like there were enough folks back here fighting for Michiganders.
And so I got out of the military and joined my family business, as you also mentioned.
But it's a logistics company, an automotive logistics company, headquartered in Detroit.
And I took the leadership lessons that I learned at West Point, the leadership lessons that I learned in the Army, and I was able to get results in the business world because I made no excuses.
I recognize that leaders eat last.
And I also recognize that mission first, people always.
And I was able to help grow my family business from $35 million to $137 million in a little bit less than five years.
I believe that, as your lead alluded to, having somebody who recognizes that we need getting results from Washington, from our elected leaders, understanding what it takes signing the front and the back of a check, understanding that we need more servant leaders in Washington who understand what it's like to be a veteran as the world becomes a more and more dangerous place, who understands what it's like to put our own capital at risk and create economic opportunity, not just obstruction.
That's what we need on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
I'm honored for the opportunity to continue my servant leadership, and it'll be exciting.
Your background in the military, I know you served eight years, by the way, that you serve this great country of ours, and you got all of these distinctions and awards, and you can't minimize those because every one of those hours, nearly 800 of them, in theater, was a risk to your life.
And we can't thank you enough for your service to your country.
I'm very angry how we fight wars now.
And that is that, you know, we start out, we're all gung-ho.
Vietnam, we lose 58,000 guys.
We lose 5,500 Iraq, Afghanistan.
Many get their legs and their arms blown off.
And literally, they're disfigured for the rest of their lives.
And then we say, never mind, because the war becomes politicized.
We cannot do this to the military anymore, sir.
We can't do this.
It is morally reprehensible to me that if we're going to send these brave men and women, like yourself, into theater and then say, never mind because it's politically expedient at that moment to pull out and not win the war, why are we starting it?
You know, it's classic by having career politicians in a position where they're making decisions that are going to send our boys and girls off into harm's way.
We need to have more combat veterans there who understands what that exactly means.
You know, we're really good.
We're really good at creating veterans in this country, but we're not so good at taking care of them.
And that's going to be one of my very first priorities when I get to the United States Senate, to make sure I support our president's agenda, making sure that we support our veterans.
That's one of the highest priorities for me.
But my opponent, Senator Stabenow, is using veterans as a prop.
Right now, she's going around talking about roundtables, and she's talking about improving wait times at the VA when she's been an elected official for 43 years, and she's been in Washington for 20, and all she's done is pass five bills renaming buildings.
If she really cared about veterans in anything other than an election year, she would have done something when we've been at war for the past 15 years and been an elected official for 43.
She doesn't care about veterans.
She cares about getting elected.
But I care about veterans because I am one.
We still have to address the veteran suicide rate.
22 per day.
We have a quarter of a million guys with PTSD.
Yeah, you're right.
And I can't tell you how many times people have called me.
They know somebody in trouble.
And I literally, Ollie North gets on the phone with these guys, and he is spectacular.
He has personally saved people's lives.
We're not doing enough.
We're absolutely not doing enough.
And that's the thing.
Our veterans deserve more than going off and putting their lives on the line and then coming back and being forgotten and abused.
I believe it's morally reprehensible.
We owe our veterans better.
And the best thing we can do is make sure that we have folks out there to make sure they have the funding, they have the support, both when they go and when they come home.
The toughest battle that our veterans face should not be when they get off the battlefield.
And I will be duty-bound to make sure that I continue my service to our veterans.
I consider my eight and a half years just a down payment on the freedom that I enjoy as an American citizen.
And I will spend the rest of my years making sure that veterans have the benefits and the support that they deserve and have earned.
Listen, unless it's going to hurt you, I would love to endorse your candidacy.
I am so impressed with your life and your background and the things that you're saying.
And what's even more interesting is that after your service to your country, you worked in the family business.
It's called the James Group International, I believe.
And you're the president of this company.
And you have led the company from $35 million to $137 million in revenue.
You've created over 100 additional jobs in Michigan and around the country, other jobs.
Last time I was in Detroit, I've got to be honest, sir, it broke my heart.
One of America's great cities.
I mean, you have neighborhood after neighborhood after neighborhood just empty.
And they're bulldozing those neighborhoods and consolidating services.
And it's like, well, the manufacturing jobs that Obama said are never coming back, they're now coming back.
I want them to go to Detroit and cities like it.
Well, you know, that's one of the biggest reasons I came back.
The Democrat model relies on victimhood.
It relies on the government being the solution and the provider.
And Michigan has a rich heritage of folks who embrace capitalism and who embrace the American dream.
Michigan is the birthplace of the middle class.
It's the home of the American dream.
It's the place that people immigrated to from all over the world and from all over the country.
People like my dad, who came up from the Jim Crow South, born in 1941 in Starkville, Mississippi, and couldn't go there because he was black.
But he refused to accept dependency as his destiny.
He served his country honorably in Vietnam, and then he came to Detroit for that opportunity working in the automotive industry.
He started a trucking company with one truck, one trailer, and no excuses.
And he was able to hand his son a $35 million company that I then grew into a $137 million company and now knocking on the door of the U.S. Senate.
That is only possible in this great nation of ours.
We need to have somebody who understands what that takes to grow a business and bring Detroit, bring Michigan back to economic greatness.
And if you'd like to learn more, please go to johnjamescoresenate.com.
Follow me on Facebook and Twitter at John JamesMI.
You know, I want to say this.
I mean, I love everything that you're saying.
We know that Michigan can elect Republicans statewide, but it's not easy in Michigan.
Debbie Stabenow, she supported the entire Obama agenda.
We had 13 million more of our fellow Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty.
We had the lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, worst recovery since the 40s, lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
And he accumulated more debt than every other president before him combined.
Now, fast forward, we have the largest labor participation rate that we've ever had, 4 million new jobs, 3 million fewer people on food stamps.
You see what the president's done with tax cuts and how it's helping working men and women in this country and families in this country.
You see what getting rid of burdensome regulation has done.
The president personally lobbying for companies to build their factories and manufacturing centers here in nearly a million new manufacturing jobs that Obama said were never coming back.
How do we particularly help your great state of Michigan?
Well, I love how you brought that up.
Don Lemon mentioned a couple days ago on my election night that Donald Trump uses race to divide America.
When you take a look by the numbers, the unemployment rate amongst minorities is at its lowest in decades.
You're taking a look at the fact that among African Americans, particularly in Detroit, Donald Trump's numbers have gone up and he's now at 29% and growing because people don't care about what the pundits in New York say.
They care about their quality of life.
Slow down here.
I happen to live in this city and pay these ridiculous taxes because my job mandates it.
It's not by choice, I promise you.
Well, you might be one of the exceptions.
What do you mean I might be one of the exceptions?
I am the exception.
You are the exception.
Well, you know better than anyone that there is a massive lack of objectivity in the liberal progressive media that refuses to give our president the credit for reviving our economy.
See, I'm old enough to remember a couple of years ago when the previous administration said we just needed to accept 2% growth, where our president said that 3% is table stakes.
Our president said we are going to take the shackles off of American industry and we are going to allow access to the American dream for everyone, regardless of what you look like.
And so it's not about black and white, left and right.
It's about red, white, and blue, and making sure that we have economic mobility for everybody to enjoy, moving plants back in from Mexico rather than sending them out, saying that manufacturing is going to be at the center of Michigan and that, you know what?
President Donald Trump is Rough Belt Robin Hood.
He's the one who came back and said, and that's why people, regardless of race, are saying, you know what?
Somebody who cares about us cares about putting money back in the hands of the people who've earned it.
That's what people truly care about because there's growing economic insecurity in our state.
And regardless of what you look like, people just want to be able to take care of their kids and take care of putting food on the table.
And that's what I hope.
I'm going to have to.
That's what I care about.
Got to take a break.
We'll come back now with Republican senatorial candidate, amazing life story.
John James is with us.
800-941-Sean, a toll-free telephone number.
All right, as we continue with John James, he is the Republican senatorial candidate, extraordinary background as it relates to serving our country.
And his business background is incredible.
And now he's taken on Debbie Stabenow in Michigan.
What a rock star he is for the future of the Republican Party.
We hope he can win.
The president first congratulated him on his win as the candidate for the Senate in Michigan and literally said that you are a star of the Republican Party and a future senator.
I'm going to tell you something, and I only watched you from a distance, haven't talked to you before that I remember.
And here's the thing I want to say.
I have never interviewed a politician or somebody getting into the political world that has as much, has impressed me as much as you have.
Debbie Stabenow, for whatever reason, she supported every failed policy that has hurt Michigan.
And now she's not supporting the policies that are helping Michigan.
I hope the people of Michigan understand this is about their lives, their families, their future.
And I honestly think that you have an amazing future.
I love everything you've been saying here today.
And I wish you all the best in the election.
We'll have you on television if you'd like to come.
And you're welcome on these airwaves anytime you want.
Well, Sean, you offered your endorsement earlier, and I would be honored if you would extend that.
You are a patriot, sir.
And I'm looking forward to being on your show.
All right.
Good to talk to you, my friend.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Take care.
All right, news roundup information overload hours Sean Hannity show.
All right, so fake news, conspiracy TV over at NBC News.
I bet Tom Brokaw is so proud of his cable news network, which is not news at all.
It's just a bunch of political hacks.
They think they got Devin Nunes.
They think this is it for Devin Nunes.
This is the big smoking gun.
Let's play what they think is a big smoking gun.
What puts us in such a tough spot?
If sessions won't unrefuse, and Mueller won't clear the president, we're the only ones, which is really the danger.
That's why I keep it.
Thank you for saying that, by the way.
I mean, we have to keep all these secrets.
We have to keep the majority.
If we do not keep the majority, all this goes away.
They know it's ridiculous to go out to the president for obstruction justice.
But if they tell a lie often enough, and they put it out there, and they say, oh, we're looking at the tweets, because you got a mixed act of tweets, right?
Like, sometimes we love the president's tweets, sometimes we cringe on the president's tweets.
But they're trying to make a political, this is all political is why that story ran in the New York Times on the tweets.
Now, if somebody thinks that my campaign for Kathy's campaign is colluding with the Chinese or young the country, hey, it couldn't happen.
It could be a very bad thing if Kathy was getting secrets from the Portuguese, let's say, just because my Portuguese got a bad guy.
So Kathy was getting secret information from the Portuguese.
Yeah, well, you know, may or may not be a good thing, but ultimately that said the Portuguese thing that's Ross Hurts on a stolen email she decided to release the other.
Okay, now we have a crime, right?
Now, let me tell you what, Devin Nunes, it's a little difficult to hear.
If Mueller, who we know is abusively biased, if Mueller won't do his job, and that is he's involved in the witch hunt, he doesn't care that Adam Schiffler Schiff is on tape colluding and conspiring with Russians to get Donald Trump.
We got the tape.
If he's not going to act on the hillery bought and paid for phony Russian dossier that was literally spread to misinform the American people with what they knew were lies and then used to lie to four FISA court judges, if he's not going to do his job, yeah, Congress needs to do their job.
We have separation of powers, co-equal branches of government.
And Nunes saying that, yeah, if Mueller doesn't do his job, we are the people that will do our jobs.
And then him saying that, yeah, okay, well, sometimes Trump's tweets make us cringe because Trump just speaks his mind, is iconoclastic, and he fights back.
That's a good thing.
I think the American people now respect Donald Trump for who he is.
It's criminal for one candidate to release stolen emails on another.
And then on impeaching Rod Rosenstein, Rod Rosenstein has been ignoring congressional subpoenas, purposefully obstructing.
Now, here's the point.
You have the craziest lunatics over at fake news, CNN, Conspiracy TV, MSNBC.
Let me just play some of the low lights, highlights of guys like, what's the guy that's name at 8 o'clock?
Chris Hayes.
All right, and Maddow.
Okay, let's play some of, and the media doesn't care.
You can be a total conspiracy nutjob.
You know, Chris Hayes suggesting we might have a president that is a Russian agent.
By the way, they call that news.
Tom Brokaw, just listen, I bet you're really proud of the brand you spent your lifetime working on.
Does Russia have some kind of leverage over Donald Trump?
In a new cover story from New York Magazine, writer Jonathan Chait argues, we have not allowed ourselves to consider the full range of possibilities.
Chait lays out what could be considered the worst case scenario for Trump-Russia collusion.
But Donald Trump has been a Russian intelligence asset since 1987.
1987 is when he went to Moscow and he's feted by the Russians in mentors, Moscow.
And then he comes back, then he starts talking about running for president for the first time.
And then he starts talking for the first time about how our allies are a bunch of freeloaders and we should kick him to the curb.
So it really dovetails with Russian foreign policy because then and now.
Now, again, that's probably a coincidence, but it might not be.
And at the same time, we're oddly influential with the guy who wants to kill us.
Can you imagine in any other presidential administration the news breaking that the White House counsel was notified weeks in advance that a national security advisor candidate was under federal investigation and the White House then went ahead and made the hire.
That would be a bigger scandal than almost anything we've ever seen in any other presidential administration.
Having been involved in a lot of different liberal groups over time, as somebody who's looked directly to the left of Mao, we have never thought of ourselves as a country where like Uday and Kusay get to be ministers of whatever they want, right?
We don't think of ourselves as a ruling family kind of place, but now that's what we are.
Let's compare the Trump kids to Uday and Kusai.
You know, Saddam Hussein's kids.
Oh, and let's suggest we have a Russian agent, the press president.
And don't forget the big announcement of the Trump tax rate.
Got it right here.
45-minute bill.
Oh, Trump paid his fair share of taxes.
But I got it.
He paid however many millions and millions of dollars.
We got it.
Yeah.
Oh, and Trump, notice the words, wants to kill us.
The press wants to kill us.
Okay.
Self-described as left of Mao.
Okay.
General Flynn, the biggest scandal in presidential history.
And it just goes on.
And we have so much more we could play.
And this is now obviously they don't know what the Constitution is about over there.
They don't understand checks and balances.
They don't understand the concept of separation of powers.
They don't seem to understand that when you rig an investigation, right, an exoneration before an investigation, oh, and then by the way, you're pushing a phony Russian propaganda dossier on the American people to lie to them and manipulate their votes in the lead up to the election.
And you don't verify it or corroborate it.
And you don't tell the FISA court that it's not verified or corroborated.
Then you don't tell the courts that, oh, yeah, one other little itsy-bitsy detail, Hillary paid for the thing, because you want the entree into the Trump campaign and their email system.
So you could literally destroy then candidate Trump.
And then that doesn't work out.
And we now know the same people like, you know, Orr and Steele, and even them wanting to get to the special counsel to feed him more lies, even though Steele admits that he's never verified his own dossier that Hillary paid for.
You can't make this stuff up.
And it's all happening in America, but you won't hear about it.
This is what fake news is.
This is what lying news is.
This is what conspiracy TV is.
And the left, they get all jacked up, hyped up, because Devin Nunes is demanding proof and documents as part of our checks and balances system.
Devin Nunes, it is his job, his role.
It's Congress's role.
It's called oversight.
And they are finding the biggest abuse of power scandal in our history.
And Esrod Rosenstein, well, he's just not listening to subpoenas.
Kind of like Hillary, who obstructs justice.
Deleting subpoenaed emails, using BleachBit to clean up that hard drive and busting up those devices.
Good luck to anybody that's listening to this program that ever tried that on their own.
Anyway, joining us now, News Roundup Information Overload Hour, Jonathan Gillum, author of the bestseller, Sheep No More, Danielle McLaughlin, attorney, constitutional expert.
Welcome both of you.
And all right, why don't you get your little nicety out of the way, Danielle?
I know you try and sound so pleasant so that when I ask you the first question, you're not going to answer it.
Go ahead.
It's so great to be here.
How are you doing, Sean?
How are you doing, Jonathan?
Always wonderful to join you on a Thursday.
It is so disarming when you do this, but that's okay.
Now, I don't agree with you on anything, but I genuinely like you.
How about that?
Well, I like you too.
I mean, but I think your views are absolutely off the charts nuts.
You know, actually, I might agree with you on something.
Listening to that incredible lead-in, it's impossible to respond to anything, but I do think this tape of Nunes is a nothing burger.
It's not only a nothing, it's not only a nothing burger.
I mean, it is their job to do oversight, and you have to admit, as a constitutional attorney, that Congress has a constitutional role.
It's their job to perform oversight.
And when they send out subpoenas and the subpoenas are not adhered to, if anybody in America tried to do what Rod Rosenstein and the DOJ is doing, you and I both know they'd end up in jail.
Sure, and you're absolutely right.
And I do believe in separation of powers.
I think it cuts both ways here.
You know, number one, Rod Rosenstein and his folks have turned over about 800,000 documents so far.
They're not sitting on their hands.
He's testified under oath that they are doing everything they can to respond to Nunes and others.
I think people are concerned about what Nunes said in this tape, because, of course, Congress's job is to keep the executive in check and to make sure that they are exercising their, I guess, their own powers in an equal way.
We have three equal branches of government.
I will say that the things he said on the tape are basic politicking, and I would have expected the same thing to be said by Democrats.
This is their president.
Nunes obviously supports him.
His Congress and caucus support him.
I don't think this is any great conspiracy.
I also believe it's against law to tape somebody in Washington, and that's a problem, obviously.
All right, let's go to Jonathan.
I mean, you know, the way they act, you would think that this is a Watergate tape, but this is what they do every day.
They don't report to the American people the abuse of power, the abuse of power at the highest levels of the DOJ and the FBI.
Now we see that, you know, Bruce Orr, Christopher Steele were trying to not only derail the Trump candidacy, but when that failed, then they were trying, you know, to get phony lying information that Hillary paid for into the hands of Robert Mueller.
That's how deep this now goes.
That's how deep it's gone.
That's the thing, Sean.
You got to remember is as we learn things about this and do this investigation or whatever you want to call it, the reality is we're seeing, we're peering into things that have been going on forever.
That's important for people to remember because when we look at what is happening now in the media and the montage that you played there at the beginning, the reality, Sean, is that, and Daniel, please pay close attention to this, the reality is that they are probably, I would hypothesize, and I said this last week, right, in Media Matters, you know how they always jump in and do stuff.
I said that the majority of these things that they're talking about are bought and paid for by the DNC, not the Republican Party, not Donald Trump.
It's the DNC that has their hands in with the Russians.
It's the DNC that was colluding with an operative to write a fake dossier.
It was the DNC that was doing all these things to get a FISA against them.
A man that was going to become president and defeat the establishment person, Hillary Clinton, that they assumed was going to win.
And when we look at what is unfolding, we are able to look at the family tree of this leftist movement, not just in the United States, but globally.
It's not just the American media.
The global media is doing the same thing.
Sean, there's a family tree of leftists in this country.
They finance it.
They are activists, quote-unquote community activists, whatever that is, because I never see them cleaning up the inner city or reestablishing the family unit.
They are the media personnel that spew lies, and then when you tell the truth, they go after you and try to ruin you.
It goes on and on into politicians.
And what you see is this well-oiled machine that is doing its best to spend something up to ruin this president.
Now, at first, they were trying to do it immediately to get him impeached.
Now they're looking at the long term.
And that's exactly what you see.
I think Nunez is a great American.
Listen, I got to tell you, he's shown great courage.
He's brought us the truth, and he's doing his constitutional duty.
And he's getting, you know, the same liberal crap that everybody gets that tries to tell the truth.
We'll take a break more with Danielle and Jonathan on the other side as we continue on the Sean Hannity show.
All right, as we continue, Danielle McLaughlin and Jonathan Gillum, News Roundup Information Overload Hour.
I guess at the end of the day, you don't seem to care all that much that a Russian dossier was paid for by Hillary Clinton.
Not only was it designed to lie to the American people and affect the outcome of an election, and that Bernie Sanders had a primary stolen, and that a FISA court was lied to it.
You don't have a problem with a FISA court being purposely misinformed.
Let's really clear this out once and for all.
Number one, the FISA court knew that this was opposition research.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, you're not, no, no, no.
The Pfizer court was not told that Hillary Clinton paid for this op research on Trump.
They said in an addendum that there were at the end of the document, it may have a slight political taint to it.
That's all.
Now, that's a big difference from telling the FISA judges the truth is that Hillary paid for this.
And not telling the FISA court judge, oh, we never verified this on our own.
Look, number one, it was a page full of explanations about the source.
She was not named because that would be unmasking, and that is not done.
She's not unmasking anybody because we're not talking about surveillance here.
She paid for it.
Number one.
Number two, Carter Page's Pfizer warrant started a month after he left the Trump campaign.
It doesn't matter.
It gives them a backdoor into Trump campaign emails and everything else because it goes back to in perpetuity.
And how do you get to present to a judge, a FISA judge in particular, in a FISA court, information you have not verified that we now know has been debunked?
Well, we don't know what's being debunked number one.
And number two, neither you.
Hey, Danielle, Danielle.
If they had evidence of Hookers urinating on Donald Trump's bed in the Ritz in Moscow, we would have known by now.
Maybe, but maybe Moha's doing a good job in keeping that under representative.
don't think anybody really cares about that the last thing i'll say that's the that's a that's part of the crap that's in there It was not used to lie to the American people.
It was used to lie to the American people.
They never verified it.
And under oath, Christopher Steele disowned his own dossier.
We knew about this before the election.
Oh, my God.
They all knew about it before the election, which is my point.
Jonathan's going to hate me because we're out of time.
But I love you both.
Jonathan, cheap no more.
New York Times bestseller.
Danielle, my blood pressure's up.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
We are getting closer to being able to confirm that we have a huge development tonight on Deep Stategate that we will be breaking nine Eastern on Hannity on the Fox News channel.
So we hope you'll tune in.
All right, as promised, let's get to our busy phones and we'll say hi to Tricia.
She's in Texas.
Tricia, hi, how are you?
Welcome to the program.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
Thank you.
Thank you for everything you've sacrificed on behalf of this nation.
That can't be annoying.
Listen, compared to others, we're spokes in the wheel.
We got to remember that, Tricia.
Everybody goes out and vote, we win.
Everybody, that's a big spoke if everybody could just vote.
Amen.
Hey, Sean, I wanted to discuss Bruce Orr with you for a moment, if I could.
Yeah.
I spent 40 years in the executive branch.
Please don't hate me for that.
Why would I hate you?
You're serving your country.
There are good people in government.
There are.
There are a lot.
I spent 20 years specifically in government ethics.
What Bruce Orr has done with respect to fusion GPS and the dossier and steal is an absolute violation of a criminal conflict of interest law and punishable by five years in prison for each offense, $50,000 fine.
The facts are just right there for any prosecutor to pick up and take.
Name Justice will not take the reins on that as a general rule.
The U.S. attorneys will run with a case like that.
But effectively, as federal employees, we cannot work on any matter that we have a financial interest in.
And our spouse's employment is a financial interest for us.
Absolute conflict.
Well, I got to be honest.
You're right.
You have high ethical standards.
There are many people in government that do.
But there are other people.
It is so obvious, so transparent what has gone on here that, you know, it kind of is a little shocking to the conscience that they refuse to do their job.
And I got to tell you, it's, you know, this is now what has become a real crisis tipping point for the country because if we don't have an equal, if we don't have equal justice under the law and equal application of the law, then we're all in deep trouble because that means you've got the state now favoring some over others, using the power of the state to go after some because of their political views.
It's even beyond criminalizing political differences.
You know, say what you will about the Manafort trial and whatever the verdict ends up being, because remember, 95% of these federal cases end up in guilty verdicts.
It's just the way the federal system works.
But they dug this case out of mothballs because they wanted to put the screws to Manafort.
It has nothing to do with collusion, Russia, the campaign, Donald Trump.
It's a 2005 case.
And then a guy that's going to get over 100 years in jail for the embezzlement, for the corruption, for the tax fraud, for the lifestyle, the cheating, and everything else.
He's going to get 100 years in jail.
And then they said, no, you just talk about that guy and we'll give you a get out of jail free card.
That's not justice in America because anybody under those circumstances probably would blame their mother for whatever they're being accused of to get out of jail.
Because remember, you're not talking about honest, ethical people here.
So he admits to all these felonies, all these crimes, all this embezzlement, all this stealing, all this corruption, you know, and then he, okay, you're facing 100 years in jail unless you say this about this guy.
You know, it's like Sammy the Bull.
19 murders.
You get to go free.
We'll give you a new house in Arizona, witness protection program, new life, but just we need you to testify against him.
Forget about putting you in jail for the 19 murders you committed.
It's basically bribery.
You're bribing one person to say what you want them to say because in this case, they want Manafort to sing or compose so they can prosecute or impeach Trump.
It's sick.
On the verge of real trouble emerging in America and chaos ensuing and a real, true, clear and present danger to our constitutional republic.
And the fact that few liberals have the courage to stand up for what's right is even more frightening because for them it's all about politics.
Criminalizing political differences is meaningless to them.
Rogue prosecutors, meaningless to them.
Kind of scary.
Tricia, you know, you've been there.
Thank you.
Mike in Santa Barbara, California, my old stomping grounds.
What's going on, Mike?
How are you?
I'm fine, thanks, Sean.
If you go to the end of Chapala Street, I forget the number.
It was many years ago.
The last building on the left, right at the end of Chapala.
Then if you make a left and a right, you're right at that Chubby's hamburger place, which was delicious.
But I was in that last building at the end of Chapalo Street.
That's where I used to live.
Ah, all right.
All right.
Well, they're still in town, and they're still doing great business.
Oh, listen, when I was there, I think a cheeseburger, one of their burgers, and a Coke and a French fry is like $350.
I don't know what it costs today.
It's a little more.
It's about $4, but it's still pretty good.
That's it?
So, yeah, about $4.50, something in that neighborhood.
Yeah, it's probably closer to $6, but that's all right.
What's going on?
Oh, well, you know, as sharp as you and a lot of your guests are, I think you're completely missing the boat on the dossier because they thought Hillary and her team thought they were going to win that election in a landslide going away.
They didn't need the dossier for the election.
I disagree.
They were using that dossier.
Listen, you're in an election.
You know that things can change.
They were using it to literally lie to the American people to steal as many votes as they can and rig it in their favor.
You know, the Clintons, they have a history of that.
Yes, but I think the actual purpose of it was that they did not like Trump saying lock her up all the time.
And they knew they were going to win, and they were setting the thing up so that when they won, they were going to arrest Trump, and nobody would know.
I don't doubt that there's a possibility that they were thinking that deeply because they were overly confident.
But at the end of the day, you know, when Trump said, I don't feel like going after the Clinton, let's just move on.
And he was trying to be gracious.
I think he regrets that moment now.
I would bet, now knowing what we know.
But yeah, listen, just ask Bernie Sanders how honest the Clintons are.
Except he doesn't have the courage to even tell you the truth.
That's true.
That's true.
All right, my friend.
Thank you.
Back to the phones.
Ron is in Oklahoma, Wagner, Oklahoma.
How are you, sir?
Sean Hennity, you're a great American.
You're a great American, sir.
What's going on?
If you would indulge me, I'd like to make two comments.
I picture this whole Russian debacle as being a wheel and all these various actors represent the spokes.
But I keep seeing the FISA courts as the hub.
And I'm wondering if you could use your considerable influence to perhaps subpoena these judges, bring them in, put them under oath.
Perhaps we'll find out whether or not they were just poor, lied-to judges, or if they are, in fact, part of the swamp.
Well, the FISA judges, I don't know.
I mean, every judge that I've ever known has a real sense of confidence about them.
And judges I know, and listen, they earn that respect.
They've been to law school.
They know the law.
They've got a very important position.
Judges that I've met, they expect to be called your honor.
They expect, yes, ma'am, no, ma'am.
Yes, your honor.
No, your honor.
Yes, sir.
No, sir.
And they deserve the respect.
And if you don't give it to them, let me tell you something.
It's like when a cop pulls you over.
I didn't do anything.
What are you doing?
Good luck with that.
Instead of saying, fall on your sword.
And the first thing I always say is, oh, I'm so sorry.
I wasn't paying attention.
I apologize.
I'm wrong.
You're right.
I'm sorry, sir.
That's it.
And if I happen to be carrying my firearm, which I'm legally allowed to carry, I will put my hands outside the window and literally so on the outside, way outside.
And when the policeman comes, I said, I will say I have a firearm in the car or on my waist and give them fair warning and keep my hands out.
I just give them the maximum respect.
And first of all, I do respect them.
I mean, it's not contrived.
It's real.
I love cops.
I respect police officers.
My whole family was in law enforcement.
You know, so I don't think these judges like being lied to, but they're not in a position yet where they can talk.
Things don't work the way they are supposed to a lot of times.
And so I think that they really need to be interviewed under oath.
My second point, sir, if you'll.
I agree with you.
Yes, sir.
Go right ahead.
I want to encourage all American-loving conservatives, Republicans, patriots to stop for a second and realize just how important these midterm elections are.
We could lose everything that we have lived for these last 18 months or two years.
We got a man in the office who can do the job.
Let's not forsake him and let's get off the couches and get out there and put the right people in office.
And I call for all the fellow combat veterans out there and tell them this mission has just started.
There's still a long way to go and there's battles to be won.
Listen, you know, I love what you're saying.
You're obviously a great patriot who loves this country.
And this is what I want to say to everybody.
Look, I'm going to be honest.
People give me, you know, too much praise and credit.
I don't want praise and credit.
I'm just telling everybody, we're all spokes in a wheel.
And those of us that do see what's happening, whatever part you can play, you're going to be a spoke in that wheel.
I'm one spoke.
And, you know, if you just say, I'm going to vote this midterm to stop these people from rolling back the tax cuts, keeping Obamacare, firing ICE and open borders, and impeaching Trump and ending these deep state investigations, you are helping on a dramatic level.
Don't diminish how important that will be.
I appreciate the call.
800-941-Sean.
All right, let's go to Lucy in McKinney, Texas.
Lucy, you got about a minute.
Go ahead.
It's all yours.
Hey, Sean, I have a very quick little thing.
I just wanted to say I've been enjoying listening to your playing the stuff about Adam Schiff and the Russian DJs.
That's been hilarious.
And it has inspired me to come up with my own little funny thing for you.
I figured out the problem with the Democrat Party is that it's full of shifts.
Yeah.
No, it is.
Do you know how risky it is on live radio and TV to say shiftless shift?
And then I'll say it five times in a row, and I'm even shocked.
I don't even mess it up.
But one day I'm going to mess it up.
You know what?
I think what you're saying is true.
I think we need to play this more often.
Let me play it now.
Thank you for reminding me.
I think you're right.
They're full of shifts.
But this is him gleefully talking to a Russian about naked pictures of Trump.
And we also know who was a mediator between Trump and Russian government, who met with ex-advisor of Trump, Mr. Flynn.
It was the Russian singer, very famous singer, Arkady Okupnik, who met with Mr. Flynn on Brighton Beach in Brooklyn in a special Russian cafe, Langeron.
What's the name of the cafe?
Langeron.
Langeron?
Yes, it's on the Brighton Beach.
Okay.
It's a special right.
It's a Russian district in Brooklyn.
And do you know what was discussed?
They discussed many things, but the most interesting thing is they use a special, they use a special password before their meetings.
When they met each other, they said, weather is good on Zerybasovskaya.
Weather is good.
Yeah.
In where?
Weather is good on Deribasovskaya.
There is a name of a street in Odessa.
Did you hear?
Yes, I did.
So it's a street in Odessa.
Yes.
And the code word is weather is good on Zerobasta?
Jerybasovskaya.
Jerybasovskaya.
Skaya.
Okay.
And I'll have my staff follow up to get spellings and more details on that.
Yes.
And the second part of their password was it rains again on Brighton Beach.
It rains again on Brighton Beach.
Yes.
On that meeting, Ukupnik told Flynn that all those compromising materials will never release if Trump will cancel all Russian sanctions.
Okay.
Well, obviously we would welcome a chance to get copies of those recordings.
So we will try to work with the FBI to figure out along with your staff how we can obtain copies of those.
Good.
This is very helpful.
I appreciate it.
Anything else you wanted to add today?
Well, I hope that my information will be useful for you and your committee.
And I also would like to advise you when you or your colleagues will meet Mr. Trump.
I advise you to tell him first part of the password on the weather is good on Zeribasovskaya and look how his face will change the color.
Holluting and conspiring.
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