Sean Hannity Show - Rosenstein in Hiding - 10.10

Oct. 10, 2018 - Sean Hannity Show

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Rosenstein in Hiding - 10.10

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	800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, uh as we speak, our friends in Florida and the Florida panhandle and Panama City Beach are now in the midst of what is the single worst hurricane ever to hit the panhandle.
	National Weather Service, worst case scenario for Florida.
	Look, it's literally a category four making landfall and maybe even a cat five borderline cat five hurricane, 175 mile gusting winds at the time.
	And uh I gotta tell you, this is as bad as it could have possibly worked out as it comes in.
	The governor of Florida is telling everybody that we everything is pre-positioned food, water, medicine, uh supplies, cots, blankets, pillows, baby formula, everything that everybody's gonna need.
	And literally some of the wind gusting now in in and around the whole panhandle is very, very dangerous.
	If you didn't get out, if you didn't listen, and you're hearing my voice, make sure you're bunkered down.
	These are winds that can knock buildings down.
	So it is uh worst-case scenario of four of our friends in the panhandle.
	You know, that's Pensacola, Destin, Panama City Beach, uh, and and uh all throughout the panhandle.
	Hurricane Michael now with these uh amazing category force uh winds, cat four making landfall as we speak.
	National Weather Service is advising stay inside and survive.
	Uh when it passes, help will be on its way.
	The president, the governor, Rick Scott, you know, everything's been pre-positioned.
	There's not much anybody can do right now.
	So hunker down, get in the safest place you can and uh hopefully ride this thing out and uh and survive this.
	I know a lot of you are gonna be experiencing a lot of property damage, loss when you get back to your homes.
	Those of you that heeded the warnings to evacuate.
	The rainfall situation itself, there's gonna be a lot of flooding that it's gonna be occurring now and through tomorrow, and rising waters and tides, et cetera, which is all part of it.
	Um, this hurricane also is taking on an enormous amount of power.
	It came in.
	Most hurricanes usually slow down before they actually hit land.
	This one came in full force, uh, as was predicted by our own Joe Bastardi, who's gonna join us at the bottom of this half hour, and actually is going to sustain a lot of its power.
	It's gonna make a northeasterly turn.
	Uh, it'll be a little south of Atlanta.
	Atlanta's not gonna get the brunt of this at some point tomorrow, but Augusta is gonna be hit really, really hard.
	So draw a line from Panama City Beach, Florida, straight to Augusta, Georgia.
	And if you're in any of those surrounding areas, you're right in line of of the path of Hurricane Michael, and it's moving at a pretty rapid pace, which means that'll be there sometime tomorrow, and then make its way up the coast through Columbia, South Carolina into North Carolina.
	And then we expect at that point it's probably gonna go out to sea a little bit.
	But the bottom line is uh this is a cat four borderline cat five hurricane and the strongest one ever To uh reach the Gulf Coast area there and the panhandle area.
	And uh on top of it, we got catastrophic storm surge, these destructive wind gusts, 175 miles per hour, and even higher, um, over a million power out outages we expect occurring, and not just near the coast, but also inland after now this is hitting as we speak.
	Rainfall flooding is going to be a significant threat into the Carolinas.
	So uh everybody, if if you're in, if you're in Georgia, if you're in South Carolina, if you're in North Carolina, you know, you can make your preparations now.
	And I would listen to local authorities if they're telling you to get out, get out, and uh you can come back, take whatever important pictures, valuables you need to take with you, pack the car, move inland and protect your family.
	And uh, you know, our thoughts and prayers are with everybody in in harm's way today.
	This is this is the real deal.
	This is, you know, Florida governor scared to death for those who stayed.
	This is why, you know, at times they make predictions.
	They tell you to leave, and it it's not as bad as they say it's gonna be.
	This is one of those times it's as bad or worse than they predicted it's gonna be.
	The worst, the worst hurricane ever for the panhandle in Florida.
	That's how dangerous this is.
	As it goes inland, we're talking about an Augusta, Georgia.
	You're gonna be having eighty to a hundred mile an hour wins tomorrow.
	Same thing as you head up to Columbia, South Carolina into the into North Carolina.
	So a lot of bad stuff uh happening.
	Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody, and just no help will be on the way.
	We live in the greatest country on earth with the most generous people on earth, and whatever our friends in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas are gonna need.
	I know that people will be there to help in any way imaginable.
	Uh, we have some breaking news on the deep state as it relates to Rod Rosenstein.
	Now, this is really outrageous.
	Rod Rosenstein, now think of everything that he's involved in.
	Think of how conflicted he has been as it relates to all things deep state that we have been telling you about now for a year and a half.
	He is the person in May of 2017 recommending the firing of Jim Comey.
	He is the guy that appointed special counsel Robert Mueller.
	He is the guy that signed the third Pfizer renewal, the fourth FISA application to spy on the Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
	Uh the bulk of the information in the Pfizer warrants, as we all know now, where the Hillary Clinton bought and paid for phony Russian dossier that even its author, Christopher Steele, doesn't stand by.
	And of course, that was funneled money.
	It was made to look like a legal expense when in fact it was anything but a legal expense.
	Now he was now uh supposed to testify because three people now, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, the former deputy FBI director, and James Baker.
	Again, we just learned this, you know, this week.
	James Baker, now the third person, are all saying that Rod Rosenstein talked at length about surreptitiously going into the Oval Office, taping the president of the United States.
	By the way, that would be without a warrant, and then hoping he can get some information, something from the president that could then ignite or start the process of invoking the 25th amendment to remove the president from office.
	Now he's denying it, said he was being sarcastic, said it was he was joking about it, but the testimony of Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, and James Baker all contradict what Rod Rosenstein is now saying.
	Well, Rod Rosenstein was scheduled to testify tomorrow to the House Judiciary Committee.
	But unfortunately, at this hour, they're at an impasse.
	And the impasse is over the terms of the testimony, because lawmakers are calling for what is the standard congressional task force interview and insisting that Rod Rosenstein give a transcribed interview and that the interview be under oath.
	He's refusing to do so.
	And those close to Rosenstein say they prefer a meeting, and I'm sure they do, or a briefing with the House Judiciary Committee Chairman and other lawmakers.
	They don't want any paper trail.
	They don't want to be under oath at all.
	Now the House Judiciary Committee aide said on Wednesday they left the door open for a possible resolution.
	There should be no resolution.
	The resolution is to subpoena Rod Rosenstein and have him testify under oath.
	Did he or did he not?
	As Lisa Page, as McCa Andrew McCabe and as James Baker are all saying, did he or did he not talk about wearing a wire against the president in the hope of getting something he says to help invoke the 25th Amendment?
	Either he did it or he didn't do it.
	And then we can also talk about why he signed the fourth and final Pfizer warrant application as it relates to Carter Page.
	Why, why did he sign off on a document?
	He himself talked about, well, with regards to Pfizer warrants, you know, that is an affidavit, and career law enforcement swears to the validity, the truthfulness.
	And if they're wrong, there's consequences.
	Well, we all know the bulk of the FISA applications, including the last one.
	If there's one that shouldn't have been signed, by that point, they knew Hillary paid for it.
	They knew the DNC paid for it.
	They knew it was full of uncorroborated, unverified information.
	We're now nine months in to surveiling Carter Page.
	By then you'd think they would have figured out that the dossier was phony and made up, and even its own author uh couldn't prove any of its contents.
	And when questioned in an interrogatory, in Great Britain said, I don't know if any of this is true.
	It's just raw intelligence and people just saying things like two hookers urinating in a bed in front of Donald Trump uh in Moscow in the Ritz Carlton.
	Well, nobody ever verified that or corroborated that.
	And it is if you're going to get an affidavit, it is the law, especially a FISA application, a FISA warrant and protocol that you verified the contents and the information you're presenting to a court, and you don't purposely withhold information, pertinent information like the fact that Hillary Clinton bought and paid for that phony dossier that you didn't take the time to verify or corroborate,
	because obviously they all hated Donald Trump because remember, Strzok is the one that said, well, first he could smell the Trump voters in a Walmart, but also said that Hillary should win a hundred million to zero.
	And then you can add to that the insurance policy comment that he made.
	And what you really have here is, I think, now the validation or the corroboration of what the insurance policy was.
	Insurance policy is that you have people conspiring.
	Not only, remember, Lisa Pates testified, as we head into May, nine months into the investigation into so-called Trump-Russia collusion, by the very same people that gave Hillary Clinton a pass on the biggest obstruction of justice case in history, Then they go into the Trump-Russia so-called investigation Lisa Page confirms that they had no information.
	Peter Strzok's text confirmed that there's no there.
	But anyway, then they start a leading media leak strategy, all coming from the same source, which is Hillary's bought and paid for dossier.
	They get their willing accomplices in the media to spread their lies and propaganda from the dossier, and it creates an atmosphere where an impression is being created that, whoa, there really is something going on here.
	And then it's used by the very same people, the phony information that they spread to whip up hysteria so that they can go forward after the firing of Comey on the 9th of May in 2017.
	Then they appoint Rod uh Rod Rosenstein goes out and appoints his buddy Robert Mueller.
	But there was no evidence at all, according to Lisa Page that there was any reason to open a special counsel investigation.
	The whole House of Cards, the corruption, the silent coup is now exposed.
	No wonder Rod Rosenstein doesn't want to speak to the Senate uh Judiciary Committee, the House, sorry, the House Judiciary Committee.
	No wonder.
	Why would he?
	Especially under oath, where then he could be charged with lying under oath, you know, and people worry about that.
	Just ask Papadopoulos or General Flynn.
	All right, we have a lot of information we're going to get to.
	We have a Rasmussen uh poll out today.
	Republicans tied with the Democrats on the generic ballot.
	That is huge.
	We have more information, specific information of just how radical the Democratic Party's agenda is if they ever get back power in 27 days.
	We have in Arizona, McSally, thankfully, is taking the lead in that close Senate race out there.
	She's really an American war hero.
	And uh anyway, I think we're seeing a lot of movement in Missouri in favor of the Republican candidates.
	A lot of movement.
	Heidi Heikamp is in trouble in North Dakota.
	Joe Donnelly's in trouble in Indiana.
	Bill Nelson needs to be defeated by Rick Scott, who I love in Florida, but Rick Scott can't be campaign.
	He's now taking care of the people in the panhandle.
	Um, and other important races that we're watching as well.
	We'll get to all of that.
	Joe Bastardi on Hurricane Michael is also coming up today in the course of the program.
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	Sean, good news polling operation Rasmussen.
	Uh, by the way, they had the best accuracy record in 2016 in the presidential election when so many others were wrong, now saying that Republicans are tied with Democrats on the 2018 generic ballot.
	Latest Rasmussen survey, 45% of likely voters would choose a Democratic candidate if the elections for Congress were held today.
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	Now that's a five-point recent improvement for the GOP.
	But if you go back at this time in 2014, prior to the last non-presidential uh year congressional election, Democrats had a 4139 lead, but Republicans went on to win nine Senate seats and increase their majority in the House.
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	All right, when we come back, a Category 4 hurricane landing, 155 mile per hour winds in the panhandle of Florida.
	Joe Bastardi, weatherbell.com.
	He'll join us and he'll give us the latest.
	Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan on the issue of whether Rod Rosenstein will testify.
	Greg Jarrett, Dan Bangino, much more all coming up.
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	All right, 25 now till the uh top of the hour, 800-941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program as we speak, we have a category four.
	Borderline, really category five hurricane now slamming the panhandle of Florida, uh, Panama City, exactly where we told you it was going to hit.
	We have gusts of a hundred and seventy-five, eighty miles per hour, storm surge up to thirty feet, uh, and the center is hitting hard and furious and fast, just as Joe Bastardi uh predicted since Sunday in his forecast and on this program yesterday, and uh he joins us now from Weatherbell.com, the official meteorologist of the Sean Hannity show.
	Um everything you said and more.
	Um Cat Four, maybe borderline cat five.
	Yeah, at landfall.
	Now it's it's inland now, thirty to forty miles.
	And we want to give you some uh the the track of this is gonna be very uh right through middle Georgia, uh very close to making Warner Robins about two A.M. this morning, near Augusta tomorrow morning, and near and south of the track, for instance, uh it looks like wind gusts are going to be to 100 to 120 miles an hour in southwest Georgia, probably uh seventy-five to a hundred miles an hour in middle Georgia.
	Around the Augusta area, the uh strongest winds are probably going to be between uh sixty and eighty miles an hour near and southeast of Augusta, and in Columbia I'd say fifty-five to seventy-five near and southeast of there.
	So the track of this by tomorrow night uh will take it uh uh t uh take it probably uh north of Fayetteville, n uh North Carolina, and then two AM in the morning, it reaches the uh reaches uh Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and then it goes out.
	So that's how we're expecting this to move uh over the next uh twenty-four to thirty-six hours, and so it's gonna be moving pretty quickly uh through a lot of these areas.
	Well, let me go through this a little bit more.
	Uh first of all, I mean, the the governor's saying I hope to God that nobody stayed and people evacuated on the coast.
	I'm not so sure that that's the case.
	I mean, I'm looking at some of these images, and it's it's downright scary.
	Flooding has already occurred in in some of these coastal areas.
	Um, but these are the types of winds that could blow down houses, correct?
	And and structures.
	Yeah, I uh I suspect you're not seeing any any uh video coming in from where this made landfall.
	Because I mean, vi it's one thing, for instance, that Pensacola is on the west side of this in Mobile, uh Pensacola has had uh winds out of the north 40 gust into 60, but it's blowing out.
	So it's at Panama City area, uh Port St. Joe.
	That's the area where it's ground zero, and that uh you know, uh if you told me structures, and I'm not just talking about uh, you know, a small structure.
	I'm talking about uh, you know, Camille took apartment buildings out along the beach.
	So I'm gonna go to the house.
	Well they're saying this this storm, Joe, is the most powerful on record to ever hit the Florida panhandle.
	Right.
	Between Mobile and Tampa, this is the most powerful on record.
	You know, uh that also goes west to Mobile.
	Now Camille, once you get West of Mobile, you get Camille and there, Bapas, Christian and those places.
	That uh Camille's a benchmark storm there, and Donna and Charlie down south of Tampa, uh, the benchmark storms there, of course, Andrew in Miami uh there.
	Nineteen twenty-six was a bad storm along the coast, but it was only a category three up near Pensacola.
	Now, this is this is the wor the worst storm.
	Now, when we get uh look, folks, to the east of the track, severe weather, tornadoes are gonna break out.
	Tonight into tomorrow, and we're talking um southern and eastern east of the track.
	You're talking now about uh Georgia, but it's gonna be a little south of Atlanta, a direct kind of hit at eighty hundred miles an hour, I'm guessing into Augusta.
	Well, no, I think I think Augusta is sixty to eighty, maybe ninety miles an hour.
	It'll back off by then making making, like I said, uh may get gusts as high as that.
	Southwest Georgia, where it's going to be entering in a couple of hours.
	They're going to be seeing winds a hundred, hundred and twenty miles an hour and gusts in there.
	I mean, uh that that's phenomenal because you gotta understand, folks, as Powerful as these things are, when they get inland, frictional effects.
	Uh it's almost like if you if you're running a nine one uh sprint, nine one one hundred yard dash, if you tweak your hamstring, you you can't run that fast.
	If you really pull it, you can't run at all.
	Well, these things are perfect machines, but once they get inland, the frictional effects, the fact that they're moving away from the source of energy, the water, they they wind down, but we're talking about a relative winding down.
	How many times is August of Georgia get winds to near hurricane force from a storm that has hit all the way down uh close to three hundred miles or two hundred and fifty miles to the southwest?
	But the tornadic activity, you gotta make sure we cover for that.
	Eastern eastern Georgia, eastern South Carolina, eastern North Carolina.
	These tornadoes as as a storm winds down in the low levels, still very strong in the upper levels.
	So what happens is that discrepancy creates these vortices, these F ones, F twos, and so you get these higher gusts with that, and you have tornadoes.
	It wouldn't be surprising to me if there are a couple dozen tornadoes tonight into tomorrow in the areas south and east.
	And and so the rainfall, I'm sorry I'm I'm you know, just spouting this information now.
	It's like there's so much coming in, I can't can't get it out here.
	Uh the the rainfall three to six locally twelve inches uh from uh from where we are in Georgia, uh Florida and Georgia now, but through South Carolina, through North Carolina, and a lot of that area that was devastated by Florence, uh the coastal areas probably aren't going to get it as bad.
	They are going to get pretty strong wind gusts in there, but this is just inland until we get to Elizabeth City.
	And you folks in tide water, very late tomorrow night and on into Friday morning, you're gonna get north winds coming in there 60, gusting to 70 miles an hour right down Chesapeake Bay, because as this reaches the coast and those same frictional effects I'm talking about over land diminish, the storm will wrap back up again and then go out to sea and stay uh I mean there'll be a nor'easter from uh DC to to Boston.
	Tell me exactly what uh what are the areas that that may have uh tornado activity exactly so people can make preparations and be ready.
	Well, uh south and e uh south and east of a path, let's say from Columbus, Georgia, uh to Greenville, Spartansburg, I think, uh to Raleigh Durham to the tide border of Virginia.
	You live south and east of that path, and the further south and east you go, the more uh the more you have to watch out for that.
	You're gonna see tornado watches and warnings be put into effect in those areas uh uh over the next several hours, I believe they'll start putting that out, uh putting that out in there if they haven't already.
	I'm sure there's tornado watches up now.
	I'm just uh trying to look at the uh forecast map going forward to tomorrow and on into Friday.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Now I want to just go through this very, very slowly.
	It's about thirty miles inland now, as it is pounded hard the the panhandle of Florida, and it's now moving northeast.
	And as it moves northeast, it's gonna first hit Macon, Georgia, 100, 120 mile an hour winds possible for there.
	Uh through Augusta.
	100 to 120 southwest Georgia, making eighty to a hundred in that.
	Okay, making I'm sorry, gusts.
	And then making its way through Augusta, and then it'll go up the the northeast coast uh to the Carolinas, I guess through the tip Columbia through uh the rest of the coastal South uh Carolina area and then into North Carolina.
	Right, and it'll be near Elizabeth City, 2 a.m. in the morning on Friday, and then about a hundred miles east to Norfolk in the morning uh seven a.m., eight a.m. and then on out to sea, and a glancing blow uh uh, you know, it it'd be like a nor'easter for three to six, maybe eight hours, uh New Jersey on into southeast New England out of this.
	And then this is the last this is the last one, Sean.
	So you don't have to worry about it.
	How do you know it's the last one?
	Now that fascinates me that you say this is the last one.
	This isn't gonna happen for the rest of the year.
	Well, we knew back in September that we were going to have one come up out of the Caribbean because of the it's the overall pattern.
	And I'll tell you what, folks, you've we've been in the east, this is two thousand and two all over again, except Lily, Lily, which was the big hurricane in the Gulf hit a little bit earlier in Louisiana in October, but we had all the warm weather in the east, September and October.
	This is pointing the way, believe it or not, this the the pattern recognition toward the winter season, which I think it's gonna be a big winner for much of the United States this year.
	There's certain types of patterns are set up.
	So uh it's going to get much, much cooler across the eastern part of the United States in the wake of this storm.
	That will then establish it.
	We may see something that tries to develop but stay or most likely stay offshore before it's all said and done.
	But impact storms on the United States, this is the last one, in my opinion.
	Joe Bastardi, you're helping to save people's lives and uh your help every day.
	You nailed this with exact pinpoint perfection and accuracy, which is so vital for pe people to make proper decisions about whether to stay or go.
	Uh, thank you for being with us.
	We really appreciate it.
	We'll get back to you later in the program too.
	All right, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	There is a really disturbing piece on the law and crime website.
	It's Dan Abrams website, that's a sister website to Mediaite.
	And it chronicled the FBI director who's testifying today on Capitol Hill, and he was asked by Senator Rand Paul whether President Trump was still being wiretapped by any government intelligence agency.
	Now, you would think the answer's, oh, absolutely not.
	But that's not the answer.
	His answer was not exactly reassuring.
	Now, the FBI director, Chris Ray, declined to actually answer that question as to whether or not the FBI, the National Security Agency, is currently collecting phone conversations of President Trump.
	And during a Senate committee hearing on national security issues, Senator Paul asked, Do you think it's possible that the president's conversations with international leaders?
	Remember when he was first in office that you were leaking conversations with the president of Mexico, the Prime Minister of Australia.
	I mean, that's never happened before.
	Anyway, he was asking whether it was possible that pr the president's conversations with international leaders are, you know, in the foreign intelligence surveillance uh surveillance act database.
	And Ray's response was, well, I'm not sure there's anything I could speak to in this setting.
	Well, then Senator Paul continued.
	Do you think it's possible that Congress, members of Congress, are in the FISA database if we talk to international leaders?
	And then Ray deflected again.
	He said, Well, Senator, I'm quite confident that we are conducting ourselves in a manner consistent with the law and the Constitution that's subject to extensive oversight.
	I don't know that I can speak to every hypothetical about whether there have been such situations.
	And then Rand Paul asked Director Ray whether journalist conversations were being possibly scooped up by the intelligence community's vast spying apparatus simply because they write stories about people with, say, a terrorist name in them.
	And Ray declined to answer again.
	I can't speak to specific hypotheticals.
	Well, at that point, Rand Paul cut the FBI director off and said the answer's yes.
	And as his time with Ray was drawing to a close, he spoke about the potential abuse within the FISA system.
	And Rand Paul is absolutely right.
	He said, You've had people bringing their politics to work.
	The concern of us who want more control over what you do and how you look at data is, as James Madison said, men are not angels.
	That's why we have the Constitution.
	That's why we ask you to get a warrant.
	The information you've gathered in foreign database is not constitutional in the sense that it's gathered with no bar.
	There's no warrant.
	There's no constitutional matter to that data.
	And yet you're going to use it on a domestic crime.
	That has been our complaint for years and years and years.
	And I got to admit, after 9-11, I thought Pfizer was a great idea.
	Never having any belief that it was possible, as naive as I guess I was, that we would have government officials at the top upper echelons within the Intel community, the FBI and the DOJ that would literally be weaponizing the powerful tools of intelligence that we give them to protect we the people.
	And that I never in my lifetime thought that a political candidate can put together a flimsy dossier with Russian sources, and it becomes the Basis for a Pfizer warrant application, but not one for the original application and three subsequent applications,
	and that the bulk of the information was bought and paid for by one political candidate to use against another candidate, and that it was never verified or corroborated, but still presented to a Pfizer court, and they purposely don't tell the Pfizer court judges that the other candidate paid for this, and that they never verified it.
	By swearing, you know, uh when we'll get into this, you know, with Chairman uh Mark Meadows of the Freedom Caucus and Jim Jordan later.
	I mean, think about that.
	This is we we we have a constitution for a reason.
	There's a reason why you need a warrant.
	There's a reason why you have to present credible evidence to a court to get a warrant.
	The bar is even higher when it comes to a Pfizer surveillance warrant.
	And what has happened here is the single biggest abuse of power corruption scandal ever.
	Now we've got three people on record saying that Rod Rosenstein, well, he had a plan hatched to surreptitiously record the president in the hopes that they can invoke the 25th Amendment, and he won't even testify under oath.
	Said no.
	And Congress is letting him gonna let him get away with that?
	Trey Gowdy's gonna let him get away with that.
	Bob Goodlat's gonna let him get away with that.
	Anyway, a lot to get to.
	Newt Gingrich, when we get back, we'll have more on Hurricane Michael.
	Uh Chairman Meadows of the Freedom Caucus, Jim Jordan are coming up.
	We got a lot to get to today.
	Right as we roll along, Sean Hannity Show, 800 941.
	Sean, we're monitoring the war, what is now the worst hurricane ever to hit the Florida panhandle.
	Hurricane uh Michael will continue to monitor that.
	We got an election in 27 days.
	We'll talk strategy next with Newt Gingrich, Rod Rosenstein refusing to testify before the House Judiciary Committee.
	Should he be subpoenaed?
	Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan will join us on that.
	Now that we have three people, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, and James Baker saying that he wanted to surreptitiously tape the president and try and get the 25th amendment invoked.
	All right, glad you're with us.
	Twenty-seven days to the all-important midterm elections.
	Glad you're with us.
	800-941 Sean.
	If you want to be a part of the program, really good polling information as it relates to the election.
	Uh Rasmussen now, and by the way, they had the best accuracy in 2016 of anybody in terms of election results.
	They nailed it.
	And the latest Rasmussen survey finds that 45% of likely voters would choose Democratic candidates.
	If the elections in Congress were held today, 45% would opt for the Republican.
	And another sign that the vicious strategy against Judge Kavanaugh is backfired.
	Rash Musan also points out Republicans are a lot more angry about how it was handled than Democrats, with 62% of Republicans saying they're more likely to vote vote as a result.
	Only 54% of Democrats.
	Twenty-seven days, we will know.
	This will be the day after election day, four weeks from now, whether or not Nancy Pelosi will be the next speaker of the House, Chuck Schumer the next uh Senate majority leader, whether or not the success and the progress that we have obtained in the last two years will come to a halt, or whether the American uh renaissance will continue.
	It's a very simple choice election on every issue.
	And that's the Democrats want their crumbs back.
	They want to repeal the largest tax cuts in history.
	We know they want endless investigation of President Trump.
	It'll be nonstop 24-7, and we know the ultimate goal of most Democrats is to impeach the president.
	We know that they want to keep Obamacare.
	Republicans would like to have free market solutions.
	We know they want to eliminate ICE and want to open borders.
	Republicans want to build the border wall.
	And Kevin McCarthy has put forward a bill to have full funding of that wall.
	Where do we go?
	27 days left.
	Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, probably the smartest uh strategist when it comes to elections that I know.
	Uh welcome back, sir.
	How are you?
	Well, it's great to be with you.
	Let me just say I'm gonna shock you.
	I believe the quote you have from Hillary Clinton is right.
	She's correct.
	Meaning we win, if we get if we get a Trump Supreme Court, we get conservative policies in Congress, we roll back the regulatory state.
	Her world goes away.
	I mean, I I don't blame her for being terrified because she should be.
	The American people have risen up and said we don't want radicalism.
	We don't want to abolish America in favor of global institutions.
	We don't want to abolish the U.S. Constitution in favor of nutcake left-wing judges.
	We actually like lower taxes, more jobs and a better future.
	And from the standpoint of a left-wing Democrat, this would be the end of their world.
	So I think her level of intensity and emotionalism is right because she's actually sending a signal to people.
	This is what this is about.
	You want a future where the Hillary Clintons and the Congresswoman Waters and people like Nancy Pelosi define your future?
	Or do you want a future in which you have the power because you've got money in your pocket, your taxes are lower, the red tape is less, the Washington bureaucracy is smaller, and you actually get to define your own future.
	It is that dramatic a difference.
	Well, look, you know as well as I do, there's only been three times in the last hundred years where the party that wins the White House ends up picking up seats in in Congress in their first midterm election.
	Now, the last time that that happened was after the 9-11 attacks in 2002.
	And I think the country was so unified at that moment that there was no desire to change power in any way, shape, matter, or form.
	I think before Judge Kavanaugh, I was a little worried about the enthusiasm gap that existed between Republican voters and Democratic voters.
	Uh that gap is now closed completely.
	And in most instances, when there's a tie, that means that's a huge advantage for Republicans because pollsters don't tend to get that right.
	All right, well, look, look, you you mentioned a minute ago one of the key examples of why the next few weeks are going to become Republican weeks.
	Kevin McCarthy just introduced a really important bill that says basically, look, here's your choice.
	You want to stop Fentanel from killing people, you want to stop carfentinel, which is even worse than killing people, you want to stop opioids coming in from Mexico, you want to stop human trafficking coming in from Mexico, you want to stop MS-13 coming in from Mexico, you gotta control the border.
	And he has got the first bill that actually says unequivocally, we're gonna control the border.
	Now, what are the Democrats offering?
	They're offering open borders, either abolish or shrink ice, sanctuary cities.
	So the Democrats are saying, look, we feel really bad that your child may die of an opioid overdose.
	We feel really bad that your neighborhood school may be terrorized by MS-13.
	But after all, we're left-wing ideologies, and you can't expect us to be practical.
	So why don't you go along with us?
	Because, you know, that's the right thing to do is open up America and let every drug dealer, every human trafficker, and and every single MS-13 gang member coming to the country.
	I think if that's the choice on election day, you and I are gonna have to fasten our suitcalls because we're gonna be in for an election result like we have not seen in our lifetime.
	Well, I could I believe now firmly that you know all the people that have been claiming a blue wave, a blue wave, and blue wave can be shocked again, just like they were in 2016, and there were only a couple of us that believed that that was even possible.
	And uh, I think one indicator of just how far left the Democratic Party is gone is out in California, the sanctuary state of California, and you have Gavin Newsom running up against this business guy by the name of what I think what's his first name, John Cox.
	John Cox.
	And and Cox is now in a five-point almost within the margin race against Gavin Newsom.
	And one of the biggest issues to emerge is not only the sanctuary city status of the whole state, but the proposal of Gavin Newsom to provide free health care to anybody.
	It doesn't matter, he's you know, resident of California, citizen, non citizen, doesn't matter.
	Everybody gets free health care.
	Look, I look I would ask everybody listening to us, just close your eyes for a second and think about the problem.
	Don't do this in your driving.
	Keep your eyes open.
	But everybody's not driving.
	Close your eyes for a second and think about Gavin Newsom is proposing at a time when Senator Feinstein has introduced an open borders bill, and by the way, President Trump's been very clear on this the last couple days.
	The Democrats in the Senate, every single Democrat in the Senate has co-sponsored the Feinstein open borders bill.
	So now what the Democrats are proposing to us is the following.
	We're gonna have open borders so anybody who wants to can come in.
	We're gonna offer them free health care paid for little tax money.
	Now just apply your common sense.
	Worldwide, among billions of people, the words gonna go out within days.
	If you have an illness, get to California.
	They want to take care of you.
	I mean, how many people do we think are gonna show up who need health care?
	Well, what if you don't have health care and you live in Alabama or you live in the Missouri or you live in Michigan?
	Uh I wouldn't mind driving out to California if I needed serious significant health care.
	Who's gonna pay for it?
	Now they do have a state income tax of 13.
	That's a great idea.
	I never thought about the notion I apologize.
	Until you said it.
	I have a very dark, twisted way of thinking.
	Go ahead.
	No, no, no, no.
	I'm impressed.
	I've you know, this is one of those times when you've taken me just totally off my feet.
	It hadn't occurred to me, you're exactly right.
	Newsom's plan could apply to every American.
	So what we can say to every governor in the country is someone to California, because Gavin Newsom will be able to do that.
	We'll ship him out to California.
	I've never thought of that.
	You know, it'll it'll lower the health care cost for every other state in the Union.
	Everybody you sick, go to California.
	Gavin Newsom offered you free cash.
	Every state in America billions of dollars.
	Um I had never thought of it.
	I gotta go, I gotta think about this, Sean.
	This by the time I do your show tonight, you're gonna be in work on this one.
	You're gonna work on this.
	You probably totally off guard.
	I think credit is the same.
	You know, it's not easy to get New Kingridge off guard.
	I will say that.
	I'm actually you know, there there have been times and when you know you have warned me as the you know, we're we're really family.
	I've gotten to know you so well.
	I consider you and your I consider you family.
	And you know, but do you you're you're always you know quick to tell me you're out on a limb again.
	You're out there again, but what are you doing?
	You you're you you don't hesitate to tell me when you think I'm gone too far.
	You won this round.
	No, it's not about winning.
	I'm amazed.
	You know what I want for the c I want the country to win.
	I'm not sick of winning, and I'm glad we have four million more Americans working, ending burdensome reg regulation, a chance at energy independence, the wall is being built if we can fund the rest of it.
	Um I'm happy about you know, all of the the renegotiated trade deals.
	I think it's a more secure world.
	And I th I I like the success.
	I like the direction we're heading, and I think we're better off than we were two years ago by a long shot.
	Well, that's what's amazing about the moment this moment in time is you know, because you and I met with the president last week, and you know, we're we're we're talking with a guy who has kept his word in deregulation, kept his word in conservative judges, kept his word in cutting taxes, kept his word on getting better trade deals, and you look at the results and you think to yourself lowest African American unemployment in history, lowest Latino unemployment in history.
	I think uh down to what, 1969 is the last time we were this good for everybody in general.
	When you look at all this, you think this is really working.
	And that's what the argument is.
	The fight this year is between results and resistance, and the president is focused on results, and the Democrats are focused on resistance.
	You know, I think that we have an opportunity here.
	I just hope the American people are awake to what is at stake here.
	And um, you know, I go through what the Democratic agenda is, and it is very dire to me.
	Endless investigation.
	They want to impeach the president.
	They want the higher taxes, even though Americans are seeing a thousand, two thousand dollar extra dollars in their pocket every year.
	That's real money for real people.
	We're seeing manufacturing jobs coming back, jobs we were told were never coming back.
	We see the the Midwest growth now beginning a comeback that is is rival to none that we've seen in our lifetime.
	And you know, I just I see millions of Americans off of food stamps, eight million off of Poverty since Trump has become president.
	This is real progress.
	And maybe some people don't like the president's style, but he's getting things done.
	The disruption and the speed of Trump works.
	Why would we go backwards?
	Well, I think that's right.
	I think the the big challenge in the next few weeks is for every single person who wants America to keep moving in the right direction to make sure that they vote, their friends vote, everybody they know votes.
	This is because elections, you know, one of I learned this a long time ago.
	Elections aren't about polling.
	Elections are about who shows up.
	I always tell people when they say, Well, what do you think's gonna happen?
	I say, show me the first five or six precincts.
	When I see real Americans vote in a real precinct, I begin to think about, okay, I'm beginning to get the pattern.
	And I think that uh we have a real shot here at the most historic midterm election in American history.
	And I say this very clearly.
	If if this breaks the way I think it could, it'll be the most historic midterm election in American history, and it will further accelerate the Trump revolution at creating jobs, defending America, reshaping the federal government, draining the swamp, and doing the things we need as a country for us to be safe.
	Right, as we continue Sean Hannity show, Martha McSally has taken a lead out in that Arizona Senate race.
	We have a close race in Nevada with Dean Heller.
	Uh right now, uh Claire McCaskill is down in Missouri.
	We could pick up a seat in in Montana against Tester, uh, which is a possibility.
	Joe Donnelly is in trouble, Heidi Heitkamp is in trouble.
	Bill Nelson is in trouble, and hopefully Joe Manchin becomes a Republican.
	Speaker Gingrich, we continue with you.
	How important are these Senate races?
	How winnable are they all?
	Well, first of all, they're unbelievably important.
	Remember, the the great achievement uh beginning to shift the American judges back to people who believe in the Constitution and who believe in America is only effective if Mitch McConnell's the leader.
	I mean, the work he has done this year working with President Trump is truly historic and heroic.
	And uh it's not just the Supreme Court justice, although obviously we're all thrilled uh that we were able to finally uh have a success in in achieving a victory last week, but that that doesn't that's just the beginning.
	Uh the the fact is that the president and and these Senate majority leader have worked together to move almost one out of every four federal judges towards a more constitutional, more conservative, more American interpretation of the kind of of the law.
	And this is a remarkable achievement.
	If the Democrats were to win this, and this is why I say to everybody back home, this is not complicated.
	I mean, you you've got British in running in Tennessee saying, Oh, I'm really a moderate.
	Well, who's gonna vote for it?
	He's gonna vote for Schumer.
	Period.
	The Democrat in Arizona, she says, claims to be a moderate.
	Who's gonna vote for it?
	It's gonna vote for Schumer.
	Period.
	Well, what what does that mean?
	It means not a single Trump judge will move forward.
	Not a single Trump appointment will move forward.
	So control the Senate is absolutely vital if in fact you want to continue to move the American government towards a pro-American constitutional conservatism, which I think is what frankly helped win the election in 2016.
	Warmer Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, in 27 days, you will be on this show and we will be analyzing the results.
	The people get to decide.
	Please vote.
	Thank you.
	The rule of law is indispensable to a thriving and vibrant society.
	It shields citizens from government overreaching and arbitrary action.
	Pursuing truth means always yielding to the facts.
	even if they run counter to our hopes.
	In a courtroom, truth is about credible evidence, not strong opinions.
	There's a lot of talk about FISA applications, and many people that I see talking about it seem not to recognize what a FISA application is.
	A FISA application is actually a warrant, just like a search warrant.
	Uh in order to get a FISA uh search warrant, you need an affidavit Signed by a career federal law enforcement officer who swears that the information in the affidavit is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief.
	And that's the way we operate.
	And if it's wrong, sometimes it is, if you find out there's anything incorrect in there, that person is going to face consequences.
	And if you find out anything's wrong in there, that person is going to face consequences.
	You got to fix your signature to this, you know, a signed affidavit to get a Pfizer warrant, signed by a career law enforcement person swearing that what you are presenting to the court is true and that you know it to be true, and have affirmed it to be true.
	Well, that didn't work out with the third renewal FISA application in the case of Carter Page, uh, which is the fourth Pfizer warrant issued, but the fourth one that was signed was signed by Rod Rosenstein.
	And we all know that the bulk of information that was put in the FISA warrants, well, that was based on the phony Clinton bought and paid for dossier that not even Christopher Steele stands by to this day, and that was never verified, never corroborated, and has turned out to be mostly debunked, which is among the many other conflicts that Rod Rosenstein has.
	Of course, he's the one that recommended firing Jim Comey.
	He's the one that signed the Pfizer warrants.
	He's the one that appointed Mueller.
	And uh now he was scheduled to appear tomorrow under oath.
	And uh two sources now telling Fox News at this hour that Rod Rosenstein's scheduled appearance before the House Judiciary Committee is at an impasse over the terms of the testimony, and he doesn't want to have a transcribed interview under oath, which is the standard for Congressional Task Force interviews.
	And those close to Rosenstein say, well, he prefers a meeting or a briefing with the House Judiciary Committee chairman and other lawmakers where there's no paper trail, where there's no under oath part.
	Well, the question is why would he be afraid to go under oath?
	Well, here to weigh in on this and much more uh as this impasse continues, Mark Meadows, he is the Freedom Caucus chairman and Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, also a Freedom Caucus member, uh, and by the way, would be in this House Judiciary Committee interview of Rod Rosenstein.
	Um we also have learned in the last three days, Mark Meadows, I'll start with you, that we now know that Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director who's under criminal investigation, Lisa Page, who is out at the FBI, James Baker, the top attorney at the FBI.
	They all are telling the same story that Rod Rosenstein said that he wanted to surreptitiously record the president of the United States in the hopes of being able to get him to say something that would allow them to invoke the 25th amendment.
	So we there's a lot of questions for Rod Rosenstein at this moment.
	Well, there are a lot of questions.
	I think probably the bigger question is why would Rod Rosenstein uh not be prepared to come to Congress tomorrow to clear his name.
	And I think the reason for that is there there are credible witnesses.
	You know, your lead-in had Rod Rosenstein's voice saying, Well, you know, there needs to be facts, and we have the rule of law.
	Well, we're willing to to consider him innocent until proven guilty.
	Him not coming tomorrow indicates uh that there is real credibility with these witnesses that suggested that he not only wanted to tape the president, but he wanted to use those tapes uh to effectively have a DOJ coup on the president of the United States.
	Well, he met with the president apparently earlier this week and flew on Air Force One.
	Does anyone know what the result of that meeting was?
	Well, I think probably the biggest thing is uh Sean is is uh let's don't read too much into a flight on Air Force One.
	I think it's the president trying to be reasonable and hear Rod's side of the story.
	I think the president has been extremely measured.
	I tell you who's not measured at this particular point.
	Uh you you've got Rod Rosenstein believing that he can hide behind the fact that he's the number two at DOJ.
	I can tell you you got two people on the phone today, Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows, who are not going to let that happen.
	Okay, Jim Jordan, why is this even an issue?
	Why isn't you you have the power to subpoena Rod Rosenstein, do you not, and bring him in and put him under oath?
	Yeah, I mean, and this is why that should happen.
	And I hope I hope Chairman Goodlap will do that.
	We've already subpoenaed the McKay memos.
	And McCabe memos are what the New York Times cited that said there were people in that room with Rod Rosenstein who said Rod Rosenstein was talking about recording the President of the United States.
	So we have the FBI former chief counsel, Jim Baker saying he took that as seriously when he was told about that meeting that Rod Rosenstein was thinking about recording the commander-in-chief of this great country, and we have the McKay memos that reinforce that.
	We've subpoenaed the McKay memos, and we've asked Mr. Rosenstein to come in and answer our questions.
	Neither one of those things have happened.
	So that's a you know Mr. Rosenstein in his lead-in that you played, Sean, he he talked about trend he he talked about facts and adhering to this and how our our our rule of law and our justice system works.
	Well, one of the hallmarks of our justice system is transparency.
	Show us the documents, give us those McKay memos, and more importantly, come answer our questions.
	That's what bothers both of us.
	Well, why would the committee allow him to pull out of this?
	Well, I can tell you that the committee has shown weak leadership, and I'm uh I'm I hate to criticize anybody, uh, but we've had two weeks.
	Uh I can tell you this the speaker of the House, the majority leader of the House, uh, Jim Jordan and I, with Chairman Goodlat in the room and and two or three other staffers, we all agreed that what we would do is move expeditiously to have him come in, do a transcribed interview.
	And if they did not, if Rod did not, because I suspected that he wouldn't come in, uh, that we would subpoena him and compel him to do that.
	And I can tell you that uh it's it's more excuses on why he should not be transparent, and and I for one am tired of it.
	So we're basically saying Republicans that have the power of subpoena and could literally force him to come and testify under oath and answer these really important questions.
	If there was a plot, a scheme, a plan.
	Now you've got three people corroborating, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, and now James Baker, all saying that he talked about taping the president of the United States in the hopes that it would uh provide materials that they could invoke the twenty-fifth amendment.
	He says, No, no, no, I didn't say I was just joking about it.
	I don't see what's so funny about it or said it sarcastically.
	I don't I I don't even see any sarcasm in that.
	And they are saying that they all believed he was saying it seriously.
	Yes, that that that is accurate, and even if he was joking, you should the guy who is in effect running the Justice Department should not be joking with subordinates about recording the commander-in-chief of the United States.
	That is that even if it's a joke, that's not something you do.
	Particularly at the time that this was happening.
	Remember, Sean, this is back in May of 2017 when the whole darn city is in an uproar because on May 9th, the president fires Jim Comey.
	On May 17th, Rod Rosenstein names Bob Mueller as a special counsel.
	Well, there's one other thing, Jim Jordan, don't happen in between there.
	Remember, Lisa Page said up to that point, they never had any evidence of Trump Russia collusion, but there was a media leak strategy, so that what they were creating an atmosphere where people were thinking there was some type of reason to appoint a special counsel.
	Which now gets back to what the insurance policy was that Paige and Struck were talking about, and it seems we've got our answer now.
	Well, you're right.
	I think not only were they leaking the narrative, and Jim's exactly right, you know, there's a whole lot that has gone into this, you know, where we've got actually uh memos that have been subpoenaed, testimony that's there, uh a narrative that was put out there by the Department of Justice and FBI, and yet they knew that many of the things that they were putting out in the media could not be substantiated.
	I I would go even further than this.
	You know, you you did the lead-in.
	I'm not even sure that Rod Rosenstein read the FISA application that he signed.
	You know, when you start to look and hear some of the testimony, it is chilling the amount of documents that they failed to read.
	And I I'm not so sure that Rod Rosenstein even.
	Well, did they fail to read them?
	Do we know they failed to read them or they didn't care?
	I mean, there's two different possibilities here.
	Um we're discussing here, and the Grassley Graham memo pointed it out, the Nunez memo pointed it out that the bulk of information used to obtain the Pfizer warrants, that that they were literally committing a fraud on the Pfizer court.
	They never substantiated, they never verified, they never corroborated any of the steel uh this Christopher Steele's you know dossier.
	And as a result, it was used as the bulk of information to obtain the warrants, and the problem is not even Steele agrees that there's any truth in what he wrote.
	Well, they they that's correct.
	That not even uh uh Steele and Simpson believe all the things that were given to Bruce Orr.
	But here's the other problem.
	His is even Bruce Orr knew that some of the things that he was writing there were not accurate.
	And and yet somehow they get put in uh a 302 and they get used as just justification to actually uh further an investigation in terms of the president of the United States.
	It's just sickening.
	It truly is sickening.
	All right.
	So what's the next step?
	Well, why isn't Goodlat and Gowdy demanding that that Rod Rosenstein appeared tomorrow under oath and answer these questions whether or not he talked about surreptitiously, you know, taping the president of the United States for the purposes of of invoking the 25th Amendment.
	We need an answer to that.
	Yes, we do, and the American people need an answer, and that's what we'll be pushing uh Chairman Goodlat to do.
	He indicated that he would do that.
	So now is the time, obviously, to get that done and make sure Mr. Rosenstein gets in there to answer these important questions.
	Now that we know that there's there's actual documents that talk about what took place in that meeting back between May 9th and May 17th of 2017, where he allegedly said that he was going to record the president, and now that we have a a individual who's come forward and said he took it seriously after talking with Page and um Mr. McCabe, who came right from that meeting.
	So look, we got to subpoena him, we've got to bring him in so we can ask him the questions.
	All right, we'll take a quick break.
	More with Congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, and more on the latest.
	Why won't Rod Rosenstein answer these questions under oath?
	We continue with Congressman Jim Jordan and Congressman Mark Meadows.
	All right, so the next step then is what?
	I mean, do uh do I need to give out the numbers of Trey Gowdy's office and Chairman Goodlat's office and say call these men and demand that they subpoena under oath?
	Rod Rosenstein, why aren't well, I don't know why there would be any hesitation considering that he is up to his eyeballs and everything for the firing of Comey, the appointment of Robert Muller, the signing of the third Pfizer warrant, and three people now saying that he's talking about taping the president of the United States in the context of possibly invoking the 25th Amendment.
	What else do we need to get a subpoena for somebody?
	Well, uh hopefully uh uh one, I would not encourage giving out anybody's phone number, and you're great at holding people accountable, but here's what I would say is the fact that you're covering it and your listeners and the people that that truly tune in on a regular basis to listen to you, they need to make sure their member of Congress feels the heat and understands how important this is.
	But the other part of that is is Jim and I are trying to work today to to stress the importance of why transparency and and the fact that the deputy attorney general must come in.
	He must raise his right hand and say, This is what I did, and this is what I didn't do, and anything shy of that uh really uh would would be an indictment on his credibility.
	Yeah.
	What about the president now talked about declassifying and releasing the unredacted Pfizer applications, especially pages 10 through 12, 17 through 34, the final Pfizer warrant, the one that Rod Rosenstein signed.
	Have either of you seen that particular Pfizer application?
	I have not uh Sean, we need to see that.
	We need to see the notes that are taken after every time Bruce Orr goes in and talks with the FBI.
	Remember, Mr. Orr told us that after each conversation he had with Glenn Simpson and Chris Steele, he would then contact a person at the FBI and he would sit down with them and they would take notes.
	We want to see all those notes of all those conversations.
	We know there are at least 12 of those.
	So the so-called 302s.
	We need to see those.
	And remember when the president first talked about declassifying, where we all asked him to do this three weeks ago, he talked about any communications from Andy McKay, at least the page, all those documents as well.
	That would include the McKay memo.
	So we we need all that information.
	And again, if Mr. Rosenstein, that lead-in you did talks about how our great system of justice works, key To that is transparency.
	Give us the information that we need to see, and more importantly, the American people need to see.
	Well, if you want to call Chairman Gowdy, it's 202-225-6030.
	Be polite, please.
	202-225-6030.
	Chairman Goodlad is 202-225-5431.
	202-225-5431.
	We'll put them up on Hannity.com and again be respectful.
	But I think with all that's going on, they should demand that he testify under oath.
	Thank you so much, Congressman Mark Meadows.
	Thank you, Congressman Jim Jordan, and uh we appreciate your push for the truth.
	We need to get to the bottom of this.
	All right, we got to take a break.
	When we come back, we've got a lot more to come.
	Dan Bongino, Greg Jarrett, we'll have more on this.
	Also the latest on this hurricane that is pounding the Florida panhandle as we speak.
	Hurricane Michael and much more.
	Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
	We got a great show.
	We'll tell you about that in a minute.
	The idea of holding a victory rally like this for Justice Kavanaugh to say this the court should not be a partisan institution, but then stand there and thank mainly Republicans.
	Joe Manchin got a shout-out for his vote.
	It's just not something that's supposed to happen.
	Remember his divisive language tonight at Justice Kavanaugh swearing in?
	Prove that this president is our divider in chief.
	Time and again, when the president gets a chance to heal the country, he does just the opposite.
	My question to you is how you would sum up what you saw yesterday happening in the East Room at the White House.
	It was graceless.
	There was talk of impeaching the new Supreme Court justice if Democrats take control of the house.
	But will you support, would you support an impeachment effort if your party controls the House?
	Do you think it is a good move for Democrats politically, strategically, ethically, morally, to pursue potentially an investigation that could lead to impeachment?
	There's discussion now of impeaching not the president, but Brett Kavanaugh, now that he's a Supreme Court justice.
	Running on this idea that Democrats are are that Democrats intend to impeach Judge Kavanaugh is a way to keep the enthusiasm about this nomination in play.
	Is it realistic to expect an investigation that could potentially end with impeachment proceeding?
	Kavanaugh, if they get control of the House, possibly looking at impeachment, what do you make of those pledges?
	That there will be an attempt to impeach Justice Kavanaugh.
	Would you support a House investigation at the start for an impeachment vote into Judge Kavanaugh?
	Right, there you hear it.
	And uh in all of its glory, the media encouraging Democrats to impeach Kavanaugh.
	That's their next step.
	That's part of what they want to do.
	The media depressed after the Kavanaugh confirmation.
	Now we've got every single Democrat on record now saying what they want to do if they get back power, that they want their crumbs back, they want tax increases.
	They're out there suggesting that, well, maybe the next step is well, we'll we'll keep Obamacare, we'll impeach the president.
	Endless investigation, raise your taxes, and we want to eliminate ice and open borders.
	Wow, what an agenda.
	Anyway, Dan Bongino is joining us.
	Um he just released his brand new book.
	It's called Spygate, the attempted sabotage of Donald J. Trump, Craig Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, and Don Dan has some catching up to do.
	He's been number one on the New York Times list with the Russia hoax.
	Uh, welcome both of you to the program.
	Um you watch the tactics, you see the polls for the first time, Rasmussen showing that Republicans have more enthusiasm than Democrats in the lead up to the midterm elections.
	I think the Kavanaugh hearings has uhwoken people to just how vicious the Democratic Party can be.
	Yeah, uh, listen, the old tactics of the past with the Republican Party, which you're intimately familiar with, were Democrats lob a political grenade right onto the field.
	Usually some kind of uh you go through the list every night on your Fox show, you know, uh racist, misogynist, you know, the Istophobic, phobophobe kind of stuff, these identity politics grenades, and Republicans would scatter.
	Well, they tried a new one with Kavanaugh.
	They tried a really disgusting one, this rapist line, which is one of the most important things I've ever seen in politics.
	And for the first time, Sean, in a long time, we had a president in the White House who said we're not gonna back down, and Kavanaugh, we're not gonna let you back down.
	We're gonna back you up.
	And we won one.
	And that win, I believe, is really just and listen, it's not a scientific sample.
	I don't want to oversell it.
	But based on me just driving around in my town, which is a 50-50 Republican Democrat County, Martin County, Florida, Republicans could not be more ecstatic that we finally have a warrior and a fighter in the White House who is not going to flee the battlefield when that identity politics or disgusting label uh comes in from the Democrat Party.
	And I think it's really uh spiced up the Republican base, and I think we may have uh we may have a a decent uh election day.
	Well, I'm not sure.
	I can't I can't read the tea leaves.
	Um I think it all comes down in these midterm elections, always comes down to turnout, and if people are motivated, like the Rasmussen poll says, uh then it would happen.
	I mean I'm looking at the numbers that Republicans are more mad about the Kavanaugh controversy than Democrats uh and are more determined to vote in the upcoming elections.
	This is a dramatic 25-point shift in just the last six weeks, Greg Jarrett.
	So that would give hope to me and hopefully the American people that somehow the Republicans can buck the trend and and maintain power in the House and maybe pick up some Senate seats, which I think are a distinct possibility.
	Well, I think you're right.
	The only question is with twenty-seven days remaining, uh, does this trend that Republicans are motivated and energized to vote have legs?
	Will it last over the course of the next four weeks?
	Um you know, we just don't know that.
	But you're right, the polling data does show that.
	And I, you know, I think that there is a general anger among both men and women across America, that this was a process of the confirmation hearing that was anathema to fairness and the presumption of innocence and due process, and that absent some corroborating evidence from a 36-year-old claim, you really can't ruin somebody's career and their lives.
	And you know, the reputation uh that they've built up and the goodwill and their family's reputation.
	So I mean, I do think that there is a feeling across America that a lot of this is unfair.
	Now, there are liberals and the media, which is redundant, uh, who are so rabid that they don't care about fairness.
	They just care about their own political agenda, however misplaced and wrong it may be.
	And so you're never gonna change their minds.
	There is no reasoning with unreasonable people.
	So we'll just have to wait and see.
	It's up to the Republican Party, I think, and and the candidates, and indeed President Trump, to maintain the momentum going forward over the next twenty-seven days.
	Look, the Hill had a great article today about what their agenda is, and they the Democrats have big plans, none of which will help the country.
	Uh, they want to shore up Obamacare, which has been nothing short of a disaster for the American people.
	They want more Dodd-Frank financial rules to protect, quote, dreamers and the integrity of elections.
	In other words, they want massive amnesty.
	They want to aggressively probe any single thing they can.
	They want this country locked down into endless investigation and likely the impeachment of Donald Trump.
	They st you know, Republicans celebrate the passage of the biggest tax cut in history.
	They refer to it as crumbs, and they're saying it's time to take the crumbs back.
	I guess the crumbs are the most delicious part of the meal.
	Um so all of this is in de jeopardy, Dan Bongino.
	I don't see a waning in people's enthusiasm now.
	I think they have they went so far in the Kavanaugh case, and frankly, in the last two years, what we have witnessed with the and you chronicle this in your new book, you know, the the attempted sabotage of the president, I think they see the fundamental unfairness, and nothing they stand for is gonna help the average American have a better life.
	Right.
	And Sean, the the media and Greg just nailed it, by the way.
	You know, the media and the Democrats, which is it it's it's it's symbiotic.
	Uh I mean, it it's a host and a and a parasite at this point.
	They're the same thing.
	They have ginned up this rage, uh not all of them, but many of them against Donald Trump to such an intense point.
	I mean, think about the things, Sean, that have come out.
	I mean, new lows in politics.
	Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee called a rapist, Donald Trump called a tree treat guilty of treason, a a crime literally punishable by death.
	That's not hyperbolic.
	He'd been he's been called treasonous.
	They've ginned up the base so much, Sean, that here's the problem the Democrats have created for themselves in the election.
	That in order to seem like the more anti-Trump candidate to get that money in those volunteers for your 2020 presidential campaign or to get that money in the midterms, what do you have to do?
	You have to oppose the traitor.
	You have to oppose the train rapist or whatever sick name they called Kavanaugh.
	So that that's what's leading to this uh the psycho pathology on the left.
	And I agree.
	I I don't see this waning, and I do see Republican voters saying, listen, when is enough enough?
	You attack this this American patriot and Kavanaugh, you try to take down the Trump administration, weaponizing the government when is enough enough?
	And I think they're going to show up.
	I hope, I pray they do.
	Well, what do you think about Hillary's uh endorsement of uh the incitement of getting in people's face saying you can't be civil?
	So he's basically calling for incivility.
	You you can't be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.
	And then the other comments made by people like Maxine Waters and others get in their face, follow them into grocery stores, follow them into gas stations, confront them, chase them out of restaurants, which we have seen going on and on uh on a regular basis.
	For Republicans, it is absolutely wonderful.
	You know, they ought to send an early Christmas gift to Hillary Clinton, Michael Avenatti, Maxine Waters, Jerry Nadler, Nancy Pelosi, many of those individuals are calling for uh the investigation and impeachment of Brett Kavanaugh, which Americans realize is wrong and preposterous.
	I could certainly explain how on a legal basis impeachment is not possible uh for Brett Kavanaugh.
	But the more that these toxic individuals and all of the ones I mentioned, especially Hillary Clinton, are toxic, uh, the more that only drives Republican voters to the polls to make sure that these people uh are not uh in positions of power and will not be able to uh ruin the accomplishments of Donald Trump, which have been incredible.
	You know, in the course of two years, he's accomplished more than Barack Obama did in eight years, the greatest level of American economic growth and prosperity in modern American history.
	And I that is not just made up.
	I mean, the statistics demonstrate that.
	And so if Americans want to maintain that prosperity, um and add, you know, money to their wallets into private uh from government officials who love to squander hard-earned money from American taxpayers, uh, their choice is easy.
	Well, I did like what Kevin McCarthy introduced, which is a bill to fully fund the Trump border wall.
	Uh the president has already spent about what, three, three and a half billion dollars.
	He needs about twenty-three billion dollars more to get the job done.
	And I think that is certainly one of the big issues that Americans would be motivated to go out and vote for.
	And the other, I think, you know, the president rightly said he could make as many as four more Supreme Court appointments.
	That is a massive issue at this point.
	Uh it's it's a tipping point for the courts.
	You know, if you think of the age and the health of some of the justices, um there's no doubt there will be vacancies in the in years to come in the near future.
	Yeah, and don't forget, Sean, the the circuits and the district courts.
	The Supreme Court gets all of the attention.
	You know, it's the sexy story, the highest court in the land, quite obviously.
	But as Greg can tell you, most of these cases that are of importance to American businesses, American individuals, moms and dads out there, are settled at the circuit court level.
	They don't even make it to the Supreme Court, and Trump already has was it 26 appointees to the circuit courts, and there's a couple more uh getting ready to to be confirmed as well.
	So this is a really big deal.
	Now, um, we have of course the Ginsburg seat, uh, you know, that that couldn't come open if Trump wins re-election, it it may come open.
	Uh I and I say this, Sean, uh, I'm worried.
	I mean, I mean it.
	I'm actually worried what will happen to the country if that seat if if Ginsburg decides to step down.
	I mean, look what we just witnessed with Kavanaugh.
	Can you imagine what's going to happen if that seat comes open and it's a potential six three conservative majority on the courts?
	I mean, it it genuinely frightens me.
	And again, that's not melodramatic.
	I worry for my kids what will happen.
	Both of you have been following and have been part of an ensemble group of us.
	There's not a lot of us following all of the deep state movements.
	Now the issue today, and we just had on Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan talking about uh Rod Rosenstein is now saying he doesn't want to appear before the uh House Judiciary Committee on the issues uh before them, and that is the latest one that Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, and James Baker have all said that that Rod Rosenstein uh talked about surreptitiously taping the president of the United States in the hopes of getting something on tape that might invoke the twenty-fifth amendment.
	This is the same Rod Rosenstein that is up to his eyeballs in conflict, having written a letter and recommended the firing of James Comey, the same guy that signed the fourth and final Pfizer warrant that we should have unredacted and released to the American people.
	That hasn't happened yet, and the same guy that appointed Robert Mueller.
	Uh why wouldn't he want to testify, Greg Jarrett under oath?
	Well, he doesn't want a transcribed interview or anything under oath, uh, which Chairman Goodlat and others are demanding.
	Why?
	If it's not recorded or not under oath.
	Rosenstein can do what he always does, deceive and lie with impunity without putting in self in legal jeopardy.
	So what Rosenstein really wants is Oh, you know, Mr. Goodlatt, let's just you and I sit down and have a cup of coffee and we'll chat a little bit.
	So uh if Rosenstein were to lie, as as I suspect he might, um he doesn't uh he's not looking at a false and misleading statement of Congress.
	He's not looking at perjury because he can always deny the conversation that Goodlat remembers.
	Which is why this is so critically important.
	Well, they've got a demand, they've got to subpoena him and they've got to demand he show up, and they've got to put him under oath, and these answers have to be given.
	But uh I gotta let you both go, though.
	Great job, Greg Jarrett.
	Congrats on the success of the Russia hoax.
	Stan Bongino's new book is out right now, Spygate, the attempted sabotage of Donald J. Trump.
	That's soon to be a bestseller.
	Thank you, Dan Bongino.
	Appreciate you both being with us.
	When we come back, Weatherbell.com's Joe Bustardi will update us next.
	Fortunately, this is a Gulf Coast Hurricane of the worst kind, uh, because all of the elements uh associated with hurricanes come into play.
	So uh the storm surge estimates are anywhere between nine and fourteen feet.
	Um storm surge is gonna be the worst where the eye makes landfall just to the east or south of where the eye makes landfall.
	Uh somewhere right now, it's projected between Panama City, Apalachicola, uh, and then it's gonna push forward.
	So not only is it gonna bring 14 feet of ocean water and coastal flood inundation, there'll be wave action on top of that, which is the primary driver of why we evacuate, sir.
	And then uh coupled with that, you've got over 145 mile per hour winds.
	Um, you know, uh uh you know, structures built before two thousand one are not designed to to handle that type of wind typically.
	And uh it's gone for unfortunately pushed through the state.
	So we're asking uh citizens in Southwest Georgia, Central Georgia to uh be vigilant and make sure that they understand what's about to come because this area is gonna see a cat one, cat two storm as it moves inland.
	And with the vegetation there, what we're anticipating is a lot of down trees uh impacting the power grid.
	And uh, you know, here again, we're gonna see a lot of de devastation along the coast structurally, and then as it moves in, you're gonna see power outages throughout the state.
	All right, that was Brock Long, FEMA administrator uh saying that Hurricane Michael is a Gulf Coast hurricane of the worst kind.
	Michael striking the uh Florida panhandle, uh it the exact dead hit and winds now gusting up to 175 miles per hour.
	Uh the damage is severe.
	It is hitting at maximum strength now as we speak.
	Uh, we welcome back to the program.
	Our good friend Joe Bistardi, he's the official meteorologist of the Sean Hannity show with Weatherbell.com.
	Well, everything you predicted as we talked earlier in the program today has come true.
	This is a bad, bad storm.
	It's they're now in the middle of it, and uh it's more devastating than we even thought it could be.
	Well, we had it going to a uh category four uh my company from Sunday.
	And as a matter of fact, I uh you know, and my dad used to always say to me, if you have to tell somebody you said something you must not have said it loud enough but not everybody hears things a few days away so uh it was actually uh we put it out publicly with a Patriot Post uh which is a conservative blog I do uh Monday morning telling people how bad it's going to be but look here's the thing with this storm folks the first thing is this is not climate change or any evidence of it okay so look but uh you could see this coming you could see the whole pattern
	coming and back I you know we talked to Sean on the 16th of September I said I'll I'll be seeing you again in October probably because of a big Gulf storm right now you said it right on the show I know.
	Yeah right right on the show but and you could see the pattern setting up for this everything got together and that's why and you see that every once in a while but let me put it in perspective this is the worst storm ever to hit between Mobile and Tampa that I can find on records.
	Okay now you know whether 10,000 years ago something hit worse.
	So we're not I'm not gonna sugarcoat that but on the other hand it's not because of your SUV.
	All right this is what nature is capable of doing and you can see this pattern setting up pretty far in advance it's also one of only a handful of storms in the last 25 years including Harvey by the way that hit at its peak.
	Andrew did that Camille did that Irma wasn't at its peak when it came into Florida.
	It was weakening off its peak.
	Most of these hurricanes have we've been blessed they're not like the 30s 40s and 50s that hit on their peak.
	Now as far as the storm it's as it made landfall as a borderline category five I'm uh and when it's all done they may call it a category five I'm not sure they're gonna have to go in and look at the damage.
	But there's a lot more left to this storm folks because even though it's weakening hurricane force winds are going to go all the way into central Georgia.
	Not going to be gusting at 175 but they're going to be gusting to 80, 90, 100 miles an hour.
	Atlanta you will escape the worst of this but Augusta, it's probably going to come right over Augusta, very close to Columbia, South Carolina, just north of Fayetteville by this time tomorrow when we're talking and then it will move off the mid-Atlantic coast between Cape Hatteras and Norfolk Virginia very late Thursday night on out to sea to the south of New England.
	Just be a glancing blow in the I 95 quarter.
	In the meantime for you folks in the Carolinas all right you're not going to have the kind of the kind of prolonged siege but in a six to twelve hour period for much of the interior Carolinas they're going to be winds gusting to 40, 50, 60 miles an hour.
	That's going to cause power outages three to six locally 12 inches of rain will aggravate flooding situations in areas that were devastated by Florence.
	I'm I'm sorry to say that we got to call it like it is as this comes through tomorrow into tomorrow night.
	So it's a multifaceted storm with this part Sean as you can definitely see it's all it's a wind, a storm surge there's tremendous rains right now.
	I pray to God that nobody stayed in the path of this you know this whole thing I don't know if anybody ever read what happened in Camille in 69 where they they tried to get these people to evacuate Pascan and the the the storm level the three foot apartment bill.
	So I I'm praying that people did uh you know got out of there and they heeded the warnings you know the president has been awesome with this FEMA has been absolutely spectacular in this rough period we've been going through over the past couple of years and if you if they listen well you come back and rebuild later but uh you know I I I fear for people who stayed in the way of this well I do too that's why I always tell people just just listen to authorities.
	I know people have stayed because I'm I'm looking and seeing online and and various media sites, social sites people are literally live streaming the hurricane and there some of them are even on the beach for crying out loud.
	Meaning that they're probably Sean they're probably live streaming away from the center because I don't think anybody's live streaming where this this thing's a bulldozer about 20 mile wide bulldozer wherever it's coming in directly it looks like Panama City was on the west side of the eyewall and uh I guess it's Port Sa Port St. Joe it's gonna be you know I I fear for that area in there.
	Well you you called it perfectly you said Panama City was ground zero it was and you also talked about the direction that the storm would hit you are right about that, which as you predicted yesterday and and the day before and ever since Sunday, that the angle at which the storm was coming in made it that much more devastating.
	Yeah, again, it's different from different from Florence.
	Florence did not come in at her peak.
	This came in all guns blazing as far as intensity goes.
	And it's one of these cases where everything came together, but you could see it coming together, even back on Saturday and Sunday.
	As you know, I don't know.
	You know, I I send that email out so you could plan the show and see what's going to go on this week.
	I've got some good news for you.
	We're not going to be talking about any more hurricanes this year hitting the United States once we're done with this one.
	This is it.
	This is going to be the last one of the season.
	Uh the last impact storm on our coast.
	Yes, I believe it.
	You know what why it's so important that we put you on and you have this incredible encyclopedic knowledge of every hurricane that's ever hit the United States for crying out loud, but more importantly, with the knowledge that you have, you can impart that knowledge to our audience and you can save people's lives.
	Because, you know, think about you know the years before media we had meteorologists and the ability, satellite imaging, for example, and the ability to actually track and follow these storms, and all of a sudden people will wake up and they're in a category four or five hurricane, then they had no idea where it came from.
	Um yeah, not uh you know the thirty-eight hurricane, you know, you lived out on Long Island is legendary there.
	Those people had no idea what was coming and what I'm saying.
	Hey, Joe, I'm old, but I'm not that old.
	I wasn't there for the 38 hurricane in Long Island, okay.
	I wasn't here.
	It's legendary out there.
	Maybe when you were kids.
	Well, I saw Hurricane Gloria destroy my sister's house, so I did watch that and uh it hit pretty hard back in the day.
	But all right, Joe Bastardi, weatherbell.com.
	Uh we'll have the very latest.
	He'll be joining us tonight on Hannity uh as we get updates.
	Uh let not your heart be troubled.
	I know a lot of you are gonna have a lot of damage.
	You're gonna be in need of food and water, medicine, baby formula cots, blankets.
	Uh I know that like in past hurricanes that the government has gotten their act together, they prepositioned a lot of the supplies that you will be needing.
	Uh I know a lot of you are going to be very devastated by the loss of of your homes, etc., but um the American people are the most generous on earth, and any help we can give you, I know that we'll be available uh as soon as this thing passes.
	I pay attention, those that are in Augusta heading up to Columbia, South Carolina, because that's going to be in your area tomorrow with 80 to 100 mile per hour winds.
	That's pretty devastating.
	Uh all right, let's get to our busy telephones here as we say hi to Reese is in Charleston, South Carolina.
	Reese, hi, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	Thank you, sir.
	Thank you for taking my calls.
	Uh I'll be brief.
	Uh we're just calling in.
	I'm wondering what the possibility of getting the president to either direct or suggest to the DOJ that we go after these false accusers, whether it be the DNC, Hillary, Mrs. Ford, if not for a criminal part, but for the civil part and the cost of the wild goose chases that they were sent on uh trying to investigate these things from Pfizer and and so on and so forth, and then strengthen the laws against false accusations because they ruin people's lives.
	Oh, I you know, I I never said this, but you really think about it.
	All of that information was disseminated to the American people to lie to the American people to feed them propaganda misinformation so that they'd vote a certain way.
	But more importantly, then after the election that they lost, in spite of all of these efforts, all of the lying that kind of always takes place when and that's what the Democratic Party does every two and four years, in spite of all that, then they use this phony information again and again and again,
	have a media leak strategy, feeding information from one source to multiple sources to seem like it's a real story when it was a concocted story, uh a scam, if you will, and that creates an atmosphere where everybody calls for a special counsel, and now we're discovering that people were talking about well, for some in the FBI now admitting that they had no evidence of Russian collusion at all.
	That's why they disseminated the information.
	That's why they leaked it to their friends in the media that were willing, you know, accomplices in all of this.
	And then they talk about undoing a presidential election, surreptitiously going out and recording the president unbeknownst to him, so that they can then invoke the 25th amendment, and then I guess the whole insurance policy is in place, done and finished.
	I mean, that's what happened here.
	Yes, sir.
	And all these things are again being being paid for by the taxpayer, and we're basically taking it in the rear end every time they do this.
	All true.
	There's an unfortunately, you know, when I say this is the biggest abuse of power, scandal, corruption in American history.
	I am a thousand percent right, and we still haven't gotten it right.
	There's a reason Rod Rosenstein does not want to testify, have the information recorded, or do it under oath.
	Because he knows he's up to his eyeballs in every aspect of all of this.
	And yet he's the guy that has all the power.
	I mean, it's amazing.
	He's in the literally the well, the eye of the hurricane, if you will.
	All right, Reese, thank you.
	Appreciate it.
	Um let us go to James in Cleveland.
	James, how are you?
	Glad you called.
	I am fantastic, Sean.
	Thank you for asking.
	Um, first of all, I'd like to give my thoughts and prayers to everybody on the coast going through the hard times down there.
	Hopefully, uh everybody does the right thing and uh plays it safe and got out of there while I was safe.
	But uh the reason I called actually is because I wanted to tell you that uh I was a uh never Trumper back in 2016, and I've completely changed my whole point of view on that.
	Uh I didn't think he was electable, and I didn't think he was conservative back then, and I was wrong.
	In fact, I lost a hundred dollar bet with a fellow employee of mine over it, paid him up the next day.
	But pretty much since day one, I've been defending his actions.
	Uh the president has done a fantastic job.
	He has helped my family and myself so much.
	I can remember three things in my entire life that I've noticed the federal government actually do for me.
	First was the Bush tax cut, and now this fabulous cut from uh the GOP and Trump this time around has put so much money in my pocket.
	The other the other third thing that affected me was when my Cadillac plan was canceled because the ACA and Obama cairns cost me $9,000 out of pocket since my company dumped our Cadillac plan.
	So thank you, Democrats for that, and thank you, Republicans, for giving me more money in my pocket.
	You know, I'm glad you said all of that because there are a lot of people out there that are still in Never Trumper land, and they won't recognize that look.
	I can understand that they don't like the president's style.
	Um it's maybe that it's at odds with how they would manage things, but you cannot argue that he's governing as a strong conservative that gets results, and I'll take results over rhetoric any day.
	And uh I wish some of the other people that were in your camp would would be as intellectually honest uh as you are, and I applaud you for doing so.
	Uh, and I'm glad you're doing well.
	I'm glad your family's doing well.
	All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
	Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
	We'll have the very latest on Hurricane Michael, the hardest, the toughest hurricane ever to smash the Florida panhandle.
	We'll update you on where where it's headed.
	Also, 27 days to election day.
	We've got Newt Gingrich, we have Devin Nunes is gonna weigh in on the issue of Rod Rosenstein refusing to testify under oath after three people, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, and James Baker all say that he talked about surreptitiously taping the president of the United States and maybe invoking the 25th amendment.
	We'll get into that.
	We it's on Hannity on Fox News.
	Hope you'll join us.
	We'll see you back here tomorrow.
	Thanks for being with us.

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