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Dec. 25, 2018 - Sean Hannity Show
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Best of Hannity: GOP and 2019

The “Best of Hannity” returns with Sean’s interview with FLorida Governor-elect Ron DeSantis Who looks forward to 2019. Plus, James Okeefe, Congressman Jim Jordan and Jon Sale. The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In his inaugural address, the 41st President of the United States said this, we cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account.
We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood, and town better than he found it.
What do we want the men and women who work with us to save when we are no longer there?
That we were more driven to succeed than anyone around us.
Or that we stopped to ask if a sick child had gotten better, and stayed a moment there to trade a word of friendship.
Well, Dad, we're gonna remember you for exactly that and much more.
And we're gonna miss you.
Your decency, sincerity, and kind soul will stay with us forever.
So through our tears, let us know the blessings of knowing and loving you.
A great and noble man.
The best father, a son or daughter, kid a half.
And in our grief, by just smile knowing that dad is hugging Robin and holding mom's hand again.
All right, that was George W. Bush at the at the service of his father, George H.W. Bush.
Very touching moment.
Uh watched the whole thing, and uh I thought it went off perfectly, and I don't know, it was just uh you you just you look into somebody's soul.
How do you want to be viewed after you're gone?
What do you want to be remembered for?
Uh we talked to Ron DeSantis, governor of the great state of Florida.
How are you, sir?
Welcome uh aboard.
Uh what were your interactions with the Bushes like?
Well, it's interesting, Sean.
I was um the captain of the Yale baseball team in two thousand and one, and that was the three hundredth anniversary of the university, and so they had a big jubilee, and the main speaker was Bush 41, um, who was right, I think the only Yale undergrad to ever be elected president or one of the few.
Um, and so he asked to come out the baseball practice to meet the team, and he just wanted to wish us well, wanted to see how we were doing.
So I got to introduce him uh to the rest of the team.
My coach pulled me aside before and said, Listen, the president's gonna come, tell all these knuckleheads, don't drop any F bombs in front of them, be respectful, and I'm like, of course.
And uh, but he was a very humble guy and was just interested in how we were doing and really loved his time playing baseball, really loved the sport, and so I had never really even met anyone that was famous at that point in my life.
And um, and it was um, you know, I was like, man, yeah, this is a good guy, and I've always just thought he was a really good guy.
And then when you think about his life, when he uh the most famous picture in Yale Athletics history is uh H. W. Bush as the captain in 1948, receiving uh Babe Bruce autobiography from the Bambino.
Babe was gonna die six months later, but you have this epic picture of them at Yale Field with thousands of people there, uh, and there's this this handoff, and so at that point in in Bush 41's life, he's playing college baseball, but he already fought in World War II.
He joined when he was eighteen, so he was already a bona fide American hero and had already lived a lot uh of life by the time he was playing college baseball.
So just a really first class individual.
You know, I I've known the family, I've interviewed all of them many, many times, including Barbara and uh HW and 43 many times, and Jeb and and other extended family members over the years.
So I know them very, very well.
They are what they seem that they are.
They're really good, honorable, hardworking, decent people that you know have this census calling for service.
Um, and obviously you have it as well because you're part of the freedom caucus, now you're the governor elect of Florida.
When do you get sworn in?
January 8th.
And so uh from that day forward, Sean, I'm gonna be pestering you to move the studio down to Naples so that I can save you a lot of money on your taxes.
So just be ready for that.
I war have warned you that during the whole campaign uh it's gonna happen because I think uh I think you can't.
It is the greatest story because all these companies, if you read the Star Ledger had a a good piece a while back about this, and there's been other articles written about how there are massive amounts of money, wealth leaving states like New York and states like Illinois and California and New Jersey, and they're leaving because of the horrific economic environment, the high taxes, burdensome regulation.
I mean, we saw it out in California recently, you know, these horrific fires, and then we find out well, there's a hundred and thirty million dead trees that people aren't allowed to cut down, that the state is not allowed allowing people to even remove the kindling brush when it gets dry.
I mean, that stuff's flying all over the place, especially if you have a high wind or a Santa Ana wind.
Uh people are there's no more, you know, timber industry, they destroyed that to protect whatever species of whatever, and what they have done now is have created an environment where you can't put these fires out anymore.
And and now people are dying.
I mean, bad government policies.
So you see the migration of states like Florida.
I really think had Florida gone in the other direction, and you would have elected the mayor of Tallahassee with the worst economic record, the worst crime record in his city, I think it would have been a disaster for Florida because he was talking about a 40% corporate tax, and I think you would have seen businesses leaving on a fairly regular basis.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I had people who um said they were going to leave out of Florida and go elsewhere, and that and that does happen from time to time.
Sometimes people will come to Florida and sometimes they will move to like North Carolina after they're retired or something like that.
Now, it doesn't happen as that much, but there's there's reasons for that, but that would have accelerated.
I mean, you would have seen a lot of people flee, all the people who are looking at potentially coming down here, these businesses would have fought twice and probably would have decided not to do it.
So we're in a really good spot because we have a good uh record of success.
I'm gonna continue good policies and can even build off those.
I'm gonna get to a point on my first day in office, three Supreme Court justices here in Florida.
One of the problems we've had with Florida government for a generation has been an activist liberal majority on our Supreme Court.
Well, I get sworn in, I sign these judicial appointments, and judicial activism is done in Florida.
That's gonna be good for our freedoms, but it's also good for having a good economic environment because they would strike down things that the legislature would pass, like tort reform, uh, because they were siding with basically the liberal interest, and so it was a very political cord, and that's coming to an end very soon.
I've got to ask you, in light of it's it's now eighteen years since 2000 and the course the the recount that took place with swinging and pimpled and dimpled and hanging and and perforated Chads and whether that's a vote or meant to be a vote, an overvote, an undervote.
And you know, here we are almost 11 almost every election year, we have problems in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
And it seems to me that for whatever reason, nobody's just stepped in to fix it.
Will you have as governor the authority to get a system of voting in Florida that will work where people couldn't, you know, be up to shenanigans or no good.
Oh, yes.
So there'd be things I can do unilaterally, but then there'll probably be an election reform package that we pass in the legislative session, uh, making sure I'm really concerned about what's going on in California with this ballot harvesting.
I think that that's prone to fraud.
So we want to make sure that the absentee votes through the mail in Florida have integrity.
Um we want to make sure those are documented when they come in because what Broward was doing, supposedly they would get these ballots in during early voting and some absentee ballots and they just never even log that these things are coming in and then all of a sudden 48 hours after the election they start counting the 75, 80 thousand votes.
That is unacceptable.
That causes people to lose confidence in the in the results.
I I don't think I I don't think I'm a big fan of you know month long voting either because I think that lends itself to some type of corruption at some point unless you're gonna have a representative from every party stand watch over the ballots twenty four hours a day.
And the thing is too Sean with some of this the way we do the early and absentee and I'm not sure we're gonna necessarily move away from vote by mail in Florida because it's a lot of people like to do it.
I imagine we're gonna continue to have some level of early voting but the thing is some of these states you start voting in like the beginning of October my first debate with my opponent in the governor's race wasn't till October 21st.
People were already voting before we even had a debate and so I think that the more you spread out the voting obviously you have different issues with administration potential potential for fraud in different areas but then it's like are we making like one crisp decision as an electorate and you don't really do that anymore.
It's kind of like a rolling process and not all voters have the sa access to the same information when they choose to cast their ballots.
So it's just a little different.
All right last question and then we'll let you go.
So the three governors that I got to know best in New York were Rick Scott who's now going to be a senator uh Rick Perry of Texas and Bobby Jindal when he was the uh governor of Louisiana the these three governors came up to New York and I I couldn't believe they were up all the time.
And I was always asked 'em why are you here?
And I thought what are you taking free New York vacations?
It was never the case.
They were all competing successfully to get an entice and talk to big businesses in New York with their high taxes, burdensome regulation, uh horrible winners and enticing them to states like Florida where they're gonna get a better style lifestyle and and and be able to produce more of their product at a cheaper rate and get you know much better deals for homes and everything else in between and so many people have moved down there.
That I I'm probably one of the reasons too you're those three states don't have a state income tax.
Yeah exactly and so what's going to happen I'll continue that but I think we can even do it at a greater level because this spring is the first year where people are going to have to fill out their tax returns and not be able to deduct the state tax uh state income taxes.
And so that's gonna hit a lot of people in New York.
It's gonna hit you, Sean big time.
It's gonna hit um people in New Jersey Connecticut So if I if I live down there six months in a day I can officially be a Florida resident.
That's right.
And uh the amount of money you will save I mean um you could buy uh a new house down there.
You I know you give a lot of money to charity.
I mean you're talking probably you give millions more dollars to charity.
I mean it would be better off for Florida's economy but I think the money would be better rather than wasted you know in the New York I'm looking at my whole staff my whole staff is looking at me hey stupid why don't you make the move stupid that's what everyone's telling me with their eyes right now.
John you could make the move you could pay to relocate your staff you could probably pay for them to have uh new homes and you'd still save money in New York a hundred percent.
I mean and that's why the only thing that worries me is you got people from these high tax northeast states New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts it's happening people have been leaving states like Michigan and drove but Illinois, California they can move to Florida.
They they can move to Texas, but they can't they can't bring their liberal views with them.
They've already helped destroy one state.
You can't don't go down and ruin the next state that you're living in.
I can tell you this from the people that particularly in the Midwest, the people that moved down from the Midwest to Florida, they are really really uh strong um for us usually as Republicans.
I mean we register a lot of transplanted midwesterners because I think they tend to go to the southwest part of Florida, Naples, Fort Myers, uh Sarasota and you know, a lot of people from New York seem to gravitate towards Oh, yeah, yeah.
But these people get it, and I think that um we've had a lot of success with folks coming down from from particularly the Midwest.
Listen, you take away the panhandle, and boy, they came out in huge numbers for you, and you take away Southwest Florida, and you got a blue state in Florida.
You know, especially Southeast Florida.
Uh I-4 corridors always up for grabs.
That's always a tough spot, right?
Yeah, so you know, and I actually, I mean, I did better than most Republicans do in Southeast Florida in terms of lowering the margins.
Um, and we did do good in the panhandle.
Now the uh the place that got hit by the hurricane, they did come out and vote, you know, pretty good numbers, but their increase wasn't quite what some of these other counties were.
And I think the hurricane had a lot to do with it, but um, and then we we you know held our own in central Florida.
But yeah, Southwest Florida, where you came for Sean was huge, and then you were up in in Northwest Florida for us, too.
Those are two huge areas uh for Republicans, and they came in big for us.
All right, Ron DeSantis, congrats on being governor, and uh we're looking forward to every time you're in New York, come stop by and I have no problem with you offering better deals for people.
That's the free market system, and companies that want to save money and have less government government burdensome regulation on their backs.
Uh Florida is is obviously the top state.
It's my second home now.
So all right, Ron DeSantis, thank you, sir.
800 941 Sean.
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800 941 Sean, you want to be a proud uh member of the program.
We love having you as we say hi to Frank is in Los Angeles, K E I B. What's up, Frank?
How are you, sir?
Hey, Sean, I'm doing well, thank you.
And I appreciate you taking my call.
Just real quick, just following up on what you were speaking about yesterday with Christmas and that type of stuff.
And first of all, I'm not a highly religious person, but I noticed where I live out in the west end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, and there's an area called the Commons in Calabasas.
And I was looking for the Christmas tree that they normally put up there for uh, you know, the holiday season, and I noticed it was gone, so I called up the company that owns that, this guy Rick Caruso from Crusoe Development, and they were telling me that they're not going to have a tree today or this year because the uh the tree died.
So no artificial tree, nothing along those lines.
So I try not to be conspiratorial on it, but I also don't want to be a sap, and I wonder that if that's just one more thing where you know, Christmas is not what it was.
I look I go out of my way because I I have friends of all backgrounds, faiths, and r religions.
And when you say Merry Christmas, somebody you're not saying it to offend them.
Um if you know that like for example, Hanukkah is going on now.
And I say to many of my friends that I know that are celebrating Hanukkah, happy Hanukkah.
And I just think at the end of the day that it's it's kind of a basic simple thing to do.
All right, quick break, right back.
We'll continue on the other side.
Also, we'll be checking in with Cheryl Atkinson.
Uh her case is moving forward as she was spied on by her own government.
She'll explain next.
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Yes, ma'am.
I had a question for you.
So let's just say my boyfriend was a dreamer, but he's registered to vote.
He just needs his ID, right?
Uh-huh.
That's it.
That's it.
So long as he's registered.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Can I just ask you a question?
I went back and we went and grabbed his driver's license.
He's just he's saying something about how some people are questioning whether it's legal since he's not a citizen, but he was able to register.
If he's if he if he has his ID, that's all he needs.
If he's ready to do it doesn't matter that he's not a citizen.
No.
Right.
No.
If he's right, just did he has a honey?
It might not be that he's registered.
If he's giving you out this job, well, it may not be that he's registered.
No, he is registered.
He's able to show you that.
Uh it's he's got it with him.
We ran home and grabbed his driver's license.
Yeah, he's saying he saw some mess on the internet saying that it's not legal for him to vote since he's not someone said on the internet, I don't know.
Hey, I didn't do that.
Yeah.
No.
We have dreamers voting, right?
If he has a voter registration card, he's registered.
Right.
He has an ID.
Drop his iPhone.
Right.
Okay.
Takes his ID.
Right.
Bring it up here.
That's his ID.
Show it to the vote.
Okay.
Um Pam, I just had a question because my uh so let's say my boyfriend's out in the car.
Yeah.
And um, he's just really nervous because he's a Docker recipient.
He was able to register, though.
Uh well, no, he is in the system.
Okay, but he knows that, like, I don't know, there's like an issue with DACA, people voting.
Um yeah, a lot of them.
Got a lot of them.
Okay.
Tons of DACA voters.
Thank you.
Okay.
All right, we'll do.
He just needs his ID, right?
That's it.
All right.
And it doesn't matter that he's listening.
Okay.
I'm registered to vote, and my girlfriend is too.
Uh she has her license, but she's uh like a doctor recipient.
Okay.
So I mean, like she'll be good.
She'll be good.
Just bring her ID.
Yeah, she has she definitely has her ID.
Um, but she doesn't have I don't think she'd like has been fully processed as a citizen yet, but like she does have her ID.
But she's in the process of getting it, right?
Yeah, like she's not a citizen yet, but yeah, you know, DACA program, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, they're still good.
Oh, wait, okay.
Okay, then I think she'll just bring it in.
Just bring it.
You're good to yeah.
So it actually says I you can actually.
Okay, cool.
Because also my her mom and her aunt.
She she also has the ID to all they have the ID.
So in the city of Texas, there's no uh no discrimination against her.
We don't actually verify now.
I'm gonna make a statement.
Yeah.
Okay.
America is in a dark age right now.
I agree.
Is it one that you like recommend?
I I'm gonna say that, but don't come telling me he told me.
No, but he right now to give him a bit of it.
Or for you and but think about how the country is going, he's going that way with that way.
I just hope it's gonna change soon.
Well, you'll vote don't change it.
If you don't vote right, then it's going that way.
Yeah, it's a tug of war.
All right, I'll be right back.
Thank you though.
Yeah.
It's kind of hard to like I don't want to vote Democrat, though, because Trump.
Well, that's what I mean.
I hope everybody that was Democrat Uh new on my mind.
I vote Democrat.
Okay.
Your name's James.
Yes, sir.
How you doing?
My name's James.
Nice to meet you.
Good to see you.
Did you know that it was um unlawful to um give uh your ad your advice on who to vote for?
Yes.
Okay.
You do know that's illegal, right?
Yeah.
You're talking about that late outside.
No, the the young man that came in here earlier.
Yeah.
But I I I I told them I can tell him that.
You told them that.
Okay.
All right.
Did you tell that young man though that he voted Democratic all the way and didn't you didn't say that?
No.
Oh, you didn't say that.
No, I ain't calling it.
Oh, okay.
He was telling me.
He was telling me that he votes uh he he didn't want to vote for Trump.
He was telling me that.
Yeah.
And I still have to do it.
Just vote any way you want.
You know?
Yeah.
I say you vote all Democrats if you don't want to vote for I did say that.
Oh, that's called electioneering.
That's illegal.
But you know what difference does it make?
All right, 20 uh three now till the top of the hour.
And before that, you heard a Texas voting official telling, yeah, uh Project Veritas undercover reporter that oh, non-citizens can vote.
And then another poll worker admitting we don't check for that.
We don't check for citizenship.
Oh, yeah, it's fine.
Don't worry.
We have loads of people like that.
Well, bring them in.
Don't worry about it.
Nonsense fine.
Um now, if we go back and look at this election, um, I don't think there's any doubt that the undercover work done by Project Veritas had an impact on this election.
As they got undercover video of uh Tennessee Senate candidate, former governor.
At one point the polls were very tight in Tennessee, Phil Bredison, and till that Project Veritas tape came out exposing him uh as being a phony.
Then we had Claire McCaskill being exposed as being a phony and Heidi Heitkamp being exposed as being a phony, and Andrew Gillam and Kristen Cinema of all those races, I think they had a major impact on the outcome because it made massive, huge news.
Um and there's been, I guess, some ramifications for James O'Keefe.
These are the newest developments that he has.
Mr. O'Keefe, Project Veritas.
How are you, sir?
Founder.
Hey, Sean, great to be with you again.
Thank you for having me.
Well, I do believe this had a big impact in a lot of these states because I we played it nationally, and I did notice a lot of local pickup, which means the people in these individual states, I mean, you exposed a lot of people to a lot of phoniness, and they were all contrived, but yet you got them all on tape.
I think you got everybody, you know, wondering what that what just hit them.
Um, this was uh a campaign across the country.
We had a lot of recruits that we had worked with and hired over the last two years, some of whom, by the way, came to us from your radio show.
I I was uh on there two years ago saying come apply to work for Project Veritas as an undercover journalist.
And Sean.
By the way, if I if I was young, I would want to do this.
This is this would be fun for me.
I would really enjoy undercover work like this.
Well, it takes a certain type of person.
You have to be curious and enterprising and have initiative and have a little acting skill and political skill, but you have to have a sense for justice.
You really have to believe that there are wrongs like voter fraud that the media will not report on.
And some people, Sean, come construction workers, school teachers, nurses, just normal everyday heroes that decide to do something about it.
And Sean, in this election, McClare McCaskell, Gillam, we had exposed, I mean, the difference between how they projected themselves in public versus who they were in private.
These election officials you just played on the air, they're all telling people who to vote for in Georgia, which is a misdemeanor.
And in Texas, they're saying DACA illegals vote all the time is what they told us.
So it was an extraordinary election season, and I think people are waking up to see the power of video, just how powerful the truth.
Just showing people who they're talking about.
What is the fallout band?
Because there's always fallout and aftermath for Project Veritas after stuff like this.
And I did read that there were some people looking to bring legal action against you, which, by the way, is just a means, I think, of trying to stop you from doing the work you're doing.
Sean, they I mean, going back to the two years ago to the videos we did on Creamer where they were inciting violence at Trump rallies, that guy Creamer is suing us for bogus things for for uh intrusion and trespass and tortious interference.
They're coming after us.
They're trying to use litigation as a weapon to silence us and to stop us and to send a message to everyone out there that if you expose them, then they're gonna come after you too.
They did it to David Delydon, they're doing it to me.
They're they're I've got twelve lawsuits against me.
I'm being deposed, I'm in depositions.
By the way, we did have a victory real quick.
We did take it all the way to the federal court in Massachusetts on the recording law and it's declared unconstitutional.
So we defeated them in federal court this week.
But Sean, there's a bigger issue.
That that these people think they can use lawsuits to stop us, and they want to try to make a lesson out of me.
And in response, I have no choice but to make a lesson out of them.
They have awakened a sleeping giant.
You've got how many people listen to your show?
Twenty, thirty million people out there listening, okay?
And whether it's in your car, whether it's on your iPhone, iHeartRadio, wherever.
And you're thinking to yourself, I want to have purpose in my life and make a difference.
I want to expose them.
I want to do this.
Maybe I even have access to some things that are happening, and I want to and I want to do something about it.
If that's you, you should think about joining our crusade.
You should think about signing up to be a journalist.
Because journalism is an activity, citizens now need to do it, not just the mainstream press.
All right.
So are you actually recruiting people now?
I mean, do you uh or is this a job opening you're telling us about or what?
I'm telling you that last time I one of the times I went on your program, there was a there was a person inside of Silicon Tech.
I'm not going to tell you which company was.
This person came to me.
She is a fan of yours, she was a listener of yours, and she worked for one of these companies.
And she wrote to me and said, The things I find this company, I'm gonna quote her the things I find this company doing are so appalling.
I feel the public has a right to know.
Veritas Project Veritas just gave me the courage to do the right thing, even if it meant sacrificing free food and my high salary at the company.
She now works for Project Veritas full-time, documenting what has happened, and we're gonna go public with it soon.
My point is there are people out there who feel they want to make a difference in life, who feel like they should be exposing the corruption and the fraud in our government in our voting system in these tech companies.
And you can do something about it.
Just go to Project Veritas.com and send me a note, and I will recruit you.
I will pay you a full-time salary so that you can do this because Sean, we have to fight back.
They they've awakened a sleeping giant.
We have an invisible army of people out there.
I'm just trying to understand uh look, on a legal basis, and I know you have an army of attorneys, so I'm not really I'm sure it's expensive, and I'm sure that makes it difficult, and I'm sure it's time consuming to sit through deposition after deposition.
But um I do believe this is important work, and you you do dot every I and cross every T, and you are fully aware of what the laws are in these states, correct?
One party, two party record states, like for example, you would not have been able to do this or it might have been questionable if you were in California, correct?
Well, Sean, we just and we didn't do it in Massachusetts, which is a state that you're referencing, but just to show you the enormous will and and the sort of moral courage of our attorneys, this is a pretty historic victory for the First Amendment.
We got the statute in Massachusetts overturned in federal court on the grounds it's unconstitutional.
We have really good lawyers.
I mean, this wasn't the New York Times, it wasn't the Washington Post that changed the law under the first this was Project Veritas.
This is the new frontier.
It you can't expect these journalists.
By the way, sixty minutes used to do this all the time.
Shows did this all the time news programs over the years have been.
Sean, they don't want to actually expose what's really going on these days because it contradicts their policy positions if they expose the truth.
So they won't do it.
But you but the people out there can.
And to answer your question, we never break the law.
We wouldn't ever dream of doing anything that broke the law.
Some people have.
We don't do that.
But that doesn't mean that The people out there listening to this program, if you feel compelled to live a life of purpose to actually document and expose this stuff, you should still contact us and we will talk to you and we will try to put you to work.
By the way, watch out for liberal infiltrators.
They're gonna try and do it the jujitsu move on you is my first guess.
All right, uh James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas.
These new tapes are unbelievable.
We're linking them now to Hannity.com.
Uh their website has them all in full uh Project Veritas.com, I believe.
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All right, wrapping things up with James O'Keefe.
He is the founder of Project Veritas.
These are big, big campaign issues.
Now, if they're gonna fight back by going after you and bringing you and dragging you into lawsuits, what happens from there?
Well, Sean, I mean, we can never settle the lawsuits.
Bob Creamer is suing us, he's going around to get other people to sue us.
They're trying to make a lesson out of me to send a message to Patriots.
If you do this, if you expose them, so what I have to do is take a stand and never settle.
I did nothing wrong.
I was doing my job as a reporter.
It's my first amendment right.
We got the Supreme Court, rather the federal court to overturn the statute in Massachusetts.
And I just want to awaken a sleeping giant army of exposers.
They can take down one man, but they can't take down us all.
James Damore gave Google a black eye.
You can do that too.
If you're on the inside and you see something, let's reverse George Orwell and let's make them afraid.
Let's report on their abuses.
That's what the future of Project Veritas is.
It's to it's to engage a citizen army.
So where can people either you know write you, call you if they want to do this?
Because uh, I bet there will be people, but I would tell you, and this is my advice.
I might also bet people on the left are gonna try and penetrate your organization.
Well, we have a we have a very Sean, we have a very professional, dedicated group of employees at Project Veritas.
We have we have we have many people that work with me who make sure that the people that come through our website, you go to Project Veritas.com.
If you if you're on the radio right now and you're hearing, that's me, I want to do that.
I want to serve a purpose to expose the go to our website, Project Veritas Dom, Project Veritas.com, and apply and submit a tip and tell us who you are and why you want to do this, and we'll put you through our our system and we will we will find the people who are meant to do this because we have to create a an army of exposures.
They have awakened a sleeping giant.
And and again, Sean, they're gonna try to make an example out of me in response.
We're gonna make an example out of them.
We're gonna make them know that we're watching them.
And if you're lying, cheating, or stealing, you may become the next unwilling internet celebrity at Project Veritas.
All right, James O'Keefe, Project Veritas.com.
Thank you, sir, for being with us.
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People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.
President's decision to end DACA was heartless and it was brainless.
When we use phrases like undocumented workers, we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration.
Hundreds, hundreds of thousands of families will be ripped apart.
If you don't think it's illegal, you're not gonna say it.
I think it is illegal and wrong.
Tens of thousands of American businesses will lose hardworking employees.
And the argument there, Mr. President, is Americans don't want to do the work.
We just can't find American workers to do the work.
Mr. President, that is a crock in many instances.
It's just not true.
In my view, Trump's decision to end the DACA program for some eight hundred thousand young people is the cruelest and most ugly presidential act in the modern history of this country.
I cannot think of one single act which is uglier and more cruel.
We've got to do several things, and I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.
People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.
Come up to Westchester, go to Suffolk and Nassau County, stand in the street corners on in Brooklyn or the Bronx.
You're gonna see loads of people waiting to get picked up to go do yard work and construction work and domestic work.
You know, it this is not a problem that the people who are coming into the country are solely responsible for it.
They wouldn't be coming if we didn't put them to work.
My proposal will keep families together, and it will include a path to citizenship.
Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, uh, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.
We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully uh to become immigrants.
Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earn citizenship.
The flipping, the flopping, the flailing that goes on on the issue of immigration, and of course the the beatdown that the president had with Pelosi and Schumer today, uh, and he's not given up, and it's clear, and the other good news is he has the support of even people like Lindsey Graham saying, no, he's got to hold out.
This is a fight worth fighting.
And you know, the president also taking major steps today to rein in the abuse of our welfare system by non-citizens who utilize federal subsidies in far greater numbers than their U.S. born counterpart.
I mean, sixty-seven percent of illegal immigrants, according to a recent study that came out.
And the president now also threatening that if he has to, he'll use the military to get the wall built that way.
And that exchange goes back and forth.
He says, Look, get it done.
I'll have the military do it.
And if I have to shut down the government, it's a myth that Republicans get sh get hurt by government shutdowns.
They were afraid to do it when Obama was president.
Now they're afraid to do it when a Republican's president.
They're just afraid.
Um, so you know, 3,000 people on a single day got caught jumping the border uh recently.
And there's nothing that they're proposing, meaning Nancy or Chuck, that is gonna fix that.
Anyway, Jim Jordan, uh Freedom Caucus member with us.
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Uh, what did you think of the president's uh exchange with Pelosi and Schumer today?
Sean, I loved it.
I I mean, this is this is why the American people elected this guy president, because he is standing firm and and going to this is not about shutdown.
This is about doing what we said.
Doing what we told the voters we were gonna do, and one of the central promises made in the 2016 campaign is that we were gonna build a border security wall, we were gonna get control of the border, and the president is standing firm for that.
We took a position as a freedom caucus last night that we will only think about supporting this this big spending bill if in fact we do what the president said today.
So I I thought it was great, and I think the American people think the same thing.
Well, look, it's you know, he pointed out that you know it everywhere the wall is, it's a hundred percent certainty we stop all illegal immigration.
Also, it's good we we saw a potential catastrophe building with the caravan, and as much as if what happened at the southern border of Mexico, and it was attempted up here, had happened up here, and we didn't have the means to stop them, then at that point it becomes unlimited illegal immigration into the country.
And also, you know, it was bad enough to watch rocks and bottles being thrown at our ice guys and the border patrol people, but it was happening right before our eyes.
Yeah.
this is common sense, and the president is standing strong for common sense reform here.
Build the wall and reform our asylum law.
Stop the catch and release, change our asylum law.
And if you do those two things, this caravan phenomena that we've watched the last several weeks, that's how you deal with it.
That's how you send the right message.
That's how you have orderly legal immigration, not what we've been seeing uh the last several weeks with this caravan and the attempts to try to get over the wall, under the wall, through the fence, all the things they're trying to do.
So I again I I love what the president did.
He stood firm there.
Um, and I think this is where we gotta be.
Stand firm for doing what we told the American people we were gonna do.
More importantly, what they elected us to do.
Any insight as to what's going on with Mark Meadows.
I keep reading his name all over the place as a potential candidate for chief of staff, which I'm sure you would probably like, because then it's a coup for you, and you'd be probably back in the driver's seat.
Well as chairman, you were the chairman, right?
But you lost your chairmanship.
I love I love what you bring it out.
You're the honorary member, you know.
You're the only honorary member outside of our group that's into freedom conference.
You're the only people I try Honestly, you I will tell you one person that is impressing me more and more is Lindsey Graham.
Lindsey Graham said, no, this is a fight we're gonna have and the president's gonna win.
And he's right.
It's we have to win it because if not, this never goes away.
And it's interesting to watch the Democrats.
There's nothing that apparently that the president would offer them that they would take because they so desperately want to just say no to him and not be seen as as making any deals with this president.
So that means no progress at all for the country if they follow up on that.
Doesn't matter what the president's for, they're against it.
You played the montage there at the at the front end where it shows all the things they said before.
Now they're for the borderless hemisphere, as their candidate for president said in 2016, they're for abolishing ICE.
So they've changed dramatically.
To your first question, Mark Meadows would be a tremendous chief of staff.
I hate to lose him on Capitol Hill because he's my best friend up here, but he would be great for the president.
If that's who the president chooses, I think the country and the president, and uh, you know, our entire nation is well served if that's who he picks.
But on this immigration issue with Lindsay, uh Senator Graham is exactly right.
Stand firm, Mr. President, stand firm, let's get this done.
Uh now we got a few weeks left where we have the majorities in both houses.
Let's make it happen.
Well, I said Mitch McConnell saying that he's going to go forward.
How do you feel about the prison reform bill?
Um I interviewed Jared Kushner last night.
The one thing that had bothered me is is one part that Tom Cotton had been pointing out.
Uh there can't be any possibility that any violent felons are released as part of that deal.
But on the other hand, I I do you remember Alice Marie Johnson, the woman when she was had her sentence community by the president.
And she comes out of prison, 20 plus years in prison, one-time offender, it was a drug, it was a drug deal.
And she got out and she said something that I thought was amazing.
She said, first, thank you to the president, thanks to the country, and then she went on and said, I'm never gonna let you down.
Thank you for giving me a second chance.
And then I got a chance to interview her, and she's as lovely or more lovely in person.
Yep.
We have to find those people that deserve that second chance and maybe even transform the use of the pardon power of the president.
I'd love to see that.
Exactly.
We're all in need of God's grace.
Uh if you do something wrong, you're gonna have to serve your time.
But while you're in prison, let's let's get you the training, the help that you need so that when you do get out, you can you can you can go on with your life and get that second chance.
And I know Jared has been working hard on this.
We think this is the kind of legislation that makes sense.
There were some concerns to Senator Cotton raised.
I think those are being addressed.
We had Mike Lee at our freedom caucus meeting last night.
Mike's been a strong proponent of this legislation.
So I I again I think Jared and the team have done a lot of good work.
And let's see if we can get this thing done.
Uh, and I think we can.
All right, so let's imagine at first I was a little concerned, and I heard Nadler and some others saying we're gonna end the deep state investigation almost immediately.
There's no point.
So we all knew that was gonna happen.
However, we now we we had the testimony of were you in were you in the testimony when Comey gave it last week?
Heck yeah.
The whole time.
Okay, and James Comey literally said he said in that meeting, well, first of all, he said I don't remember some 250 times.
Put that aside.
Yeah, he never vetted the dossier.
We already knew it, but now he's on record saying they never vetted the dossier, but he put his signature to it, right?
And Sally Yates did, and Rod Rosenstein did, right?
Yeah.
Well, I I think it's even worse, Sean.
He didn't know anything about Christopher Steele.
So it's one thing to take his work.
You don't know anything about the work product, the guy who wrote the work product that you took to the court to get the warrant.
He never talked to Christopher Steele, didn't know Christopher Steele was meeting with Bruce Or, top Justice Department official, didn't know that Bruce Or was passing Chris Steele's information to the FBI, didn't know that they had terminated Christopher Steele, didn't know that Christopher Steele continued to give information to the FBI after he was terminated, didn't know any of that, and yet takes his work product to the FISA court to get the warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.
That's the uh literally that was the biggest takeaway I had is you didn't know squat about the key guy whose work product was the basis for the whole darn thing.
Have you heard about this email chain that John Solomon was reporting about?
Now we there were there were three buckets that the president has talked about that he would unredact and release to the American people.
Bucket one would be the FISA applications.
Both the Nunes and Grassley Graham memos say that the bulk of information came from the dossier that we now know they never vetted.
On top of that, Christopher Steele has since you know distanced his own self from that by saying, Oh, I have no idea if any of it's true uh when he was threatened with perjury in an interrogatory in Great Britain.
So but then we want the 302s, gang of eight, but there's also this email letter chain.
Come is on it, and uh what can you tell us about it?
I asked him about it.
He didn't know it that was another one of his 245.
Uh I don't know.
So I did ask him about an email chain relative to the fact that Christopher Steele, this is this was uh in Mr. Solomon's reporting, and I went basically from Mr. Solomon's reporting that that Mr. Steele had met with reporters in September of 2016 prior to again his dossier being taken to the FISA court as the basis for the for the Carter Page Pfizer.
So I asked him about that, he didn't know anything about it.
I specifically asking, so you didn't know anything about Christopher Steele possibly meeting with Michael Isaacoff of Yahoo News.
He didn't know anything about that either.
I do think we need to come back to that and explore it deeper because it was basically two questions, is all I had got I got a chance to ask him about.
I think we need to dig a little deeper into that, but he didn't know anything, uh, and that's what he told us in the uh in the deposition last week.
So we we have the sentencing memos.
You know, this is what we've the what the whole Mueller investigation has become lying to the FBI, lying to a f uh uh law enforcement, um about taxi medallions, loan applications, um not paying your taxes, which is really stupid if you don't pay them.
You gotta pay your taxes because that's the easiest way they're gonna throw anybody in jail.
And, you know, so we have all of this hysteria by the media and the left, and they're all throwing around the word impeachment.
By the way, these are the people that have been hating on the president from day one and even before he got elected.
The reality is you can't you can't indict a sitting president.
That's DOJ policy, period.
Uh, neither the special counsel nor the SDNY nor Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein can defy that policy.
Not only that, there is no campaign finance violation here for a multitude of reasons, which I went into earlier today.
Right.
No, right.
I mean, this is all about you know, Cohen did a lot of things he shouldn't have done, Mr. Manafort, but didn't register, right as a lobbyist, didn't take it's all that kind of stuff.
But you where's the relationship to what the underlying mission of the special counsel was?
Where is where is the any type of collusion or coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to date, not one bit of evidence in any of that to show that there was any type of coordination.
So I I always just come back to the basics.
That's what Mr. Mueller is supposed to be looking at.
We have not seen any of that, and yet Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff, they already got the president going to prison, and they finished it again on the stuff he shows, which is really.
Hey, listen, I'm just hoping that the new attorney general is will believe in equal justice under the law and equal application of our laws, and if that's the case, and we really are worried about Russian interference, then I think the uranium one deal shows a lot of stupidity, bad decisions, corruption, and and Putin influence, and I think the same thing with the dossier that was disseminated to the American people to make Americans vote against Donald Trump.
I'd like that to be dealt with as well.
But stay right there.
More with uh our good friend Representative Jim Jordan, House Freedom Caucus member.
And as we uh continue with Jim Jordan, House Freedom Caucus member, Congressman from Ohio.
Um, so it's a little different.
I mean, it's a good thing I will say that the president worked so hard to save the Senate, because it doesn't matter what Nancy Pelosi does in the end or what the House Democrats do as extreme as they are, but it makes your job harder.
And if they come in with a canon of subpoenas is as they are telegraphing, yeah, how do you in the minority fight that you focus on the truth?
I mean, that that's all that's what you've been focused on, Shauna does such a good job with what we've been focused on, Mark Meadows, Matt Gates, and a bunch of us uh in the House, you focus on the truth.
And and that's that's gotta be our job.
So look, we have an obligation, constitutional duty to provide oversight of the federal government, particularly in the oversight committee where Elijah Cummings already had sixty-four subpoenas he wanted to send this Congress, so we assume those are coming uh the next time.
But we focus on the truth.
They're gonna drive w how they want to, and they're gonna do what they want in subpoenas and hearings and bring people in and all the things they do.
Our job is to vote for the case.
Could you imagine if anybody deleted the emails when they were subpoenaed by uh Gerald Nadler or any other uh committee chair of the Democrats and then use acid wash bleach pit to clean the hard drive and bust up their devices?
I wonder what they'd say then.
I wonder if they subpoenaed me and I did all those things.
What do you think would happen?
You'd be in big trouble.
This is the double standard that drives people crazy, and you've talked about it, but it's so true.
One set of rules for us regular folk, but a different set, if your name is lynch, learner, page, struck, you get a different set of rules.
You know, one of the things I was struck with too, and I actually asked this question to Mr. Comey.
Think about good go go to the basics.
Remember, it was the same people who ran the Clinton investigation who then took over and launched and ran the Russian investigation.
And I think you go right back to the beginning.
Think of the names they gave each of those investigations.
One was called the mid-year exam.
That's sort of like you had to get through this.
We had to go kind of make it look like we were doing it, but the fix was in and they were gonna make sure Clinton was exonerated.
And then the other one was called crossfire hurricane.
Which I just think when you step back and think about the names and what those names imply.
That's sort of right from the get go shows you there was some extreme bias against President Trump right now.
July of sixteen, right from the get-go.
All right, Jim Jordan, thank you.
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Um, I know a lot of you missed it earlier today.
I think it's worth it, it's like a ten minute exchange here with the President Pelosi and Schumer in the uh Oval Office and dealing with government funding, government shutdown possibility and funding the wall.
Uh Lindsay Graham's back in the president, Republicans are back in the president.
They say, No, we did we we made a promise.
This is what people want them to do.
That's fight.
Stand up and fight because it's the right thing to do.
And so here's that exchange, which I I just thought the president just nailed them uh multiple times, and it was great.
Listen to this.
We may not have an agreement today.
We probably won't.
Uh but we've had an agreement on other things that are really good.
Nancy, would you like to say something?
Well, thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to meet with you, uh, so that we can work together in a bipartisan way uh to meet the needs of the American people.
I think the American people recognize uh that we must keep government open, that a shutdown is not worth anything, and that you should not have a Trump shutdown.
Uh, you have the White House.
If you say Trump you have the White House, you have the Senate, you have the House of Representatives, you have the vote.
You should pass.
No, we don't have to vote for that, too, because in the Senate we need sixty votes, but in the House.
Yeah, but I can't excuse me.
But I can't get it passed in the House if it's not gonna pass in the Senate.
I don't want to waste time.
Well, you well, the fact is you can get it started that way.
The House we can get passed very easily.
Okay, we do.
But the problem is the Senate, because we need ten Democrats to vote.
And that's they won't vote.
The point is is that their equities to be weighed.
And we're here to have a conversation careful way.
So I don't think we should have a debate in front of the press on this.
But the fact is the Sen the House Republicans could bring up this bill if they had the votes immediately and set the tone for what you want.
If we thought we were gonna get it passed in the Senate, Nancy, we would do it immediately.
We get it passed very easily in the House.
We would get it.
Nancy, I'd have it passed in two seconds.
It doesn't matter, though, because we can't get it passed in the Senate because we need ten Democrat votes.
That's the question.
Again, let us have our conversation, then we can meet with the press again.
But the fact is is that uh legislating, which is what we do, right?
You begin, you make your your point, you state your case.
That's what the House Republicans could do if they had the votes.
But there are no votes in the House, a majority of votes, for a wall, no matter where you say it.
Exactly right.
You don't have to do that.
If I needed the votes for the wall in the House, I would have them in one session would be done.
Go do it.
It doesn't help because we need ten Democrats in the Senate.
Put it on the negotiation.
Okay, let me ask you this.
Just and we're doing this in a very friendly manner.
It doesn't help for me to take a vote in the House where I will win easily with the Republicans.
It doesn't help to take that vote because I'm not going to get the vote of the Senate.
I need ten Senators.
That's the problem.
You have the White House, you have the Senate.
I have the White House.
The White House is done, and the House would give you the vote if I wanted it, but I can't because I need Nancy.
I need ten votes from Chuck.
Let me say something.
Let me just say one thing.
The fact is we do not have the votes in the House.
Nancy, I do.
And we need border security.
Nancy.
Nancy.
We need border security.
It's very simple.
Of course we do.
We need border security.
People are pouring into our country, including terrorists.
We have terrorists.
We caught ten terrorists over the last very short period of time.
Ten.
These are very serious people.
Our border agents, all of our law enforcement has been incredible what they've done.
But we caught ten terrorists.
These are people that were looking to do harm.
We need the wall.
We need more important than anything, we need border security of which the wall is just a piece.
But it's important.
Chuck, did you want to say something?
Yeah, here's what I want to say.
We have a lot of disagreements here.
The Washington Post today gave you a whole lot of Pinocchios because they say you constantly misstate how much the wall is built, how much of the wall is built, and how much is there.
But that's not the point here.
We have a disagreement about the wall.
Whether it's effective or whatever.
Not on border security, but on the wall.
We do not want to shut down the government.
You have called 20 times to shut down the government.
You say, I want to shut down the government.
We don't.
We want to come to an agreement.
If we can't come to an agreement, we have solutions that will pass the House and Senate right now and will not shut down the government.
And that's what we're urging you to do.
Not threaten to shut down the government because you're not going to be able to do that.
Because you can't get your way.
Let me say something, Mr. President.
You just say my way or we'll shut down the government.
We have a proposal that will Democrats and Republicans will support to do a CR that will not shut down the government.
We urge you to take it.
And if it's not good, border security, I will take it.
And if it's not good, border security, I won't take it.
It's what the Because when you look at these numbers of the effectiveness of our border security, and when you look at the job that we're doing, we just said it is effective.
Can I be can I tell you something?
Yeah, you just said without a wall, these are only areas where you have the walls.
We want to do it.
Where you have walls, Chuck, it's effective.
Where you don't have walls, it is not effective.
Let's call a halt to this.
We've come in here as the first branch of government.
Article one, the legislative branch.
We're coming in in good faith to negotiate with you about how we can keep the government.
Open.
We're going to keep it open if we have border security.
If we don't have border security, Chuck, we're not going to keep it up.
We are going to have border security.
And it's the same border.
You're bragging about what has been done.
But we want to do the same thing we did last year this year.
That's our proposal.
If it's good, then it's good now, and it won't shut down the government.
Chuck, we can build up a that's bigger section with debate money.
Let's debate in private.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, let's debate in private.
That is devoid, frankly, of fact, and we we can't.
We need border security.
I think we all agree that we need border security.
Good.
We do.
See?
We get along.
Thank you, everybody.
You say border security and the wall.
Can you have border security without the wall?
You need you need the wall.
The wall is a part of border security.
What it means to have border security.
Yes.
We need border security.
The wall is a Part of border security.
You can't have very good border security without the wall.
No.
That is a political promise.
Border security is a way to effectively honor our responsibility.
And the experts say you can do border security without a wall, which is wasteful and doesn't solve the problem.
It totally solves the problem.
And it's very important.
This is spiraled downwards.
When we came at a place to say, how do we meet the needs of American people who have needs?
The economy has it's sp uh people are losing their jobs, the market's in a mood.
Our members are already.
But we have the lowest unemployment that we've had in 50 years.
60 people of the Republican Party are losing their offices now because of the transition.
People are not at the morale.
We've gained in the Senate.
Nancy, we've gained in the Senate.
Excuse me.
Did we win the Senate?
We won the Senate.
When the President brags that he won North Dakota in Indiana, he's in real trouble.
I did say this.
We did win North Dakota.
It's the most unfortunate thing.
We came in here in good faith.
And we are entering into a this kind of a discussion in the public meeting.
That's not bad Nancy.
It's called transparency.
I know, it's not transparency when we're not stipulating to a set of facts and when we want to have a debate with you about saying we confront some of those facts.
You know what?
We need border security.
That's what we're going to be talking about, border security.
If we don't have border security, we'll shut down the government.
This country needs border security.
The wall is a part of border security.
Let's have a talk.
We're going to get the wall built, and we've done a lot of wall already.
That's bigger part of border security is the wall.
It's a big section.
It's a big part of it.
Is it everything that you need?
It's a big part of it.
We need to have effective border security.
We need a wall in certain parts.
No, not in all parts, but in certain parts of a 2,000 mile border.
We need a wall.
How much money, Mr. Bray?
We are doing it much under budget.
We're actually way under budget of the areas that we've renovated and areas that we've built.
I would say if we got if we got five billion dollars, we could do a tremendous chunk of wall.
Well, we're gonna see.
We're gonna see.
Look, we have to have the wall.
This isn't a question.
This is a national emergency.
Drugs are pouring into our country.
People with tremendous medical difficulty and medical problems are pouring in, and in many, in many cases, they're it's contagious.
They're pouring into our country.
We have to have border security.
We have to have a wall as part of border security.
And I don't think we really disagree so much.
I also know that you know Nancy's in a situation where it's not easy for her to talk right now, and I understand that, and I fully understand that.
We're gonna have a good discussion, and we're gonna see what happens.
We have to have border security.
Mr. President, please don't characterize the strength that I bring to this meeting as the leader of the House Democrats who just won a big victory.
Elections have consequences, Mr. President.
That's right.
And that's why the country is doing so well.
But the president is representing in terms of his cards over there, are not factual.
We have to have an evidence-based conversation about what does work, what money has been spent, and how effective it is.
This isn't about this is about the security of our country to take an oath to protect and defend.
And we don't want to have that mischaracterized by anyone.
I agree with you.
No, no, I agree with it.
So let us have a conversation where we don't have to contradict in public the statistics that you put forth, but instead can have a conversation about what will really work and what the American people deserve from us at this uncertain time in their lives.
lives.
The one thing I think we can agree on is we shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute.
And you want to shut it down.
You keep talking about it.
The last time, Chuck, you shut it down.
No, no, no.
And then you open it up.
Twenty times quickly.
I don't want to do what you did.
Twenty times you have called for I will shut down the government if I don't get my wool.
None of us have.
You want to know something?
You said you want to put that up.
You said it.
I'll take it.
Okay, good.
You know what I'll say?
Yes.
If we don't get what we want, one way or the other, whether it's through you, through a military, through anything you want to call, I will shut down the government.
Okay, absolutely.
And I am proud, and I'll disagree.
I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, because the people of this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country.
So I will take the mantle.
I will be the one to shut it down.
I'm not going to blame you for it.
The last time you shut it down, it didn't work.
I will take the mantle of shutting down.
And I'm going to shut it down for border, but we believe you shouldn't shut it down.
Thank you very much everybody.
Thank you.
Thanks.
We're going to go, guys.
It's time to go.
We're going to go.
We have a lot of great people for Jesus.
A lot of people want the job.
A lot of people want the job.
And I have some great people.
A lot of friends of mine want it.
A lot of people that Chuck and Nancy know very well want it.
I think people you'd like.
We have a lot of people that want the job, Chief of Staff.
So we'll be uh seeing what happens very soon.
We're in no rush.
Why we're in no rush.
Why no rushes president?
Why?
Because we have a wonderful chief of staff right now.
We are in no rush over a period of a week or two, or maybe less, uh, we'll announce who it's going to be.
But we have a lot of people that want the position.
Thank you very much.
All right, so that was from earlier today.
That was the president with uh Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office.
Uh, I'll take a quick break here.
We'll come back, we'll continue.
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John Sale, formerly of the Southern District of New York prosecutor, is going to analyze this ridiculous notion that campaign finances the big Muller find here, because it's not, and it's ridiculous, and anyone that tells you it is doesn't know what they're talking about.
All right, as we continue, let's get to our uh busy phones here.
Michael is in Pittsburgh, PA.
Mike, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Good Sean.
Uh, good afternoon.
The only problem that I think I have is the fact that the representative created a slush fund from our money, and then went ahead and paid off women who accused them, supposedly, of sexually harassing them.
And I don't know who these women are.
Was it someone's cousin?
Was it their sister?
I mean, we have no way to trace, you know, how much hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of dollars of our money, and we don't know who they were.
We don't know what happened, but we knew that with Mr. Kavanaugh.
We know it with Mr. Trump, President Trump.
You know, a little openness about it.
Well, here's what we here's what this is what I know.
And this was uh printed, this goes back a year now.
And I remember first seeing it in the New York Post.
You know, like Democratic control House members, they want to impeach President Trump for for non-disclosure agreement payments or whatever.
You know, a lot of times they're made just to make things go away and it's cheaper.
Other times it's true and accurate and they pay a lot of money.
But the difference here is um, and I think you're raising a point.
I think we have a right to know, because I think there's gonna be a lot of explaining to do Republicans and Democrats if they're spending millions of our tax dollars um to silence women who accuse them of everything from sexual harassment to worse.
And that would include a whole lot of Democrats who stand accused.
Now, say what you will, the president's issues, believe them or not, were 12 years ago.
And the president, which we know, uh would use his own money, but not the case of Congress.
You know, we had a congresswoman who testified that current members of Congress are known sexual harassers, and that $15 million of taxpayer money has been paid to hush accusers.
Okay, and Re Representative Jackie Spired told, you know, a news outlet that millions have been doled out.
And even CNN reported, according to Congressional Office of Compliance, there were 268 settlements.
Okay.
We're footing the bill for that.
Now, if you want to pay somebody off and have your own non-disclosure agreement, have at it, but don't make me pay for it.
I'm not paying for it.
At least I'm gonna at least we do should have the knowledge of what went on, right?
Yeah, I think the hash to hash with a hashtag me too or the bring back the girls.
Uh that's all gonna be fake, and it's all gonna be for naught if they don't really push push it here.
I mean, they really need to go after these people, whether they're Republicans.
I'll bring this up tonight.
You're raising a good point.
All right, thank you so much for the call.
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All right, uh former SDNY process Southern District New York uh prosecutor, uh John Sail will join us.
We'll get his analysis on this whole uh campaign finance non-issue, but we'll get his take on it straight ahead as we continue.
It is proven that the president directed or coordinated with Cohen to commit these felonies.
Is Are those impeachable offenses?
Well, they would be impeachable offenses.
Uh whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question, but certainly they'd be impeachable offenses.
This president, in my estimation, has done everything possible uh to certainly uh be eligible for impeachment.
And so I really do think that it should be started.
I think what this totality of today's filing show that the House is going to have little choice the way this is going, other than to start impeachment proceedings.
This is a man who came in and said, I'm bigger than the House.
I'm big in checks and balances, I'm bigger than the judicial community, I'm bigger than the free press.
And he's gonna pay for that the rest of his life.
When immigrants procure their citizenship by fraud, we strip them of their citizenship.
When a president procures his presidency by fraud, should we consider doing the same?
That can be a criminal case if they can prove willfulness there.
I also think it is potentially grounds for impeachment.
I think the American people would support impeachment.
Donald Trump will be, must be impeached.
He's got to know his future looks like it's behind bars.
Donald Trump is a uh uh criminal enterprise.
It certainly looks uh like they are the kind of offenses uh that would call for impeachment hearings.
You have this memorable phrase of individual number one, you know, it's gonna go down, I think, in the history books, along with some of those memorable Watergate phrases.
Do you agree with Congressman Adam Schiff who's gonna be the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee that President Trump could be uh indicted and possibly face jail time after he leaves off?
Yes.
These are felonies that we're talking about.
As it relates to impeachment, Anderson, the Constitution could not be any clearer.
Impeachment is the appropriate remedy for bribery, for treason, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
It speaks for itself.
If the president orchestrated uh and ordered uh Michael Cohen uh to uh break the law, to act in a criminal manner, and did so knowingly, uh, as Jerry Nadler, the incoming chairman of the uh House Judiciary Committee said, uh that would be an impeachable offense, uh potentially, again, if knowledge was there.
All right, dude's round up information overload, and yeah, that is your left-wing media and their overreaction and their stupidity and their ignorance all on full display here.
You know, it's amazing that collectively they they were waiting for these sentencing recommendations on Cohn and Manafort and the end of the cooperation deal that Manafort had with the special counsel, thinking that there's a smoking gun.
So on Russia, but of course, there was nothing.
For Michael Cohn, we're talking about taxi medallions, financial issues, tax issues, uh uh loan applications, and for Manafort, pretty much the same thing.
Nothing to do with Russian collusion.
So first it raises the question, why might we even be here, right?
Then on the Michael Cohn, then they they found nothing on Russia, and then like we gotta get something.
Well, Michael Cohn said that he did this at the direction of the president.
Um problem with Michael is that's not the only version of that story that he's given.
He said actually that he did it on his own without any input for the president.
When the president found out, he paid him back.
Um so that turns into a whole different thing.
I I go back to Levin's piece earlier that I I mentioned uh that he put up on Facebook.
When you look at actual campaign rules and the and the wording in the context, they don't include non-disclosure agreements, NDAs, or infinite other contracts, payments, arrangements, acts of a private nature, as campaign contributions.
In other words, it's normal human behavior that was never intended ever, nor is it mentioned to be regulated or reported.
So the Southern District of New York, which I have a lot of respect for in this case, I believe is way off course, and whatever private payments might have been made in any amount uh by anybody, their private payments involving private matters and to underscore there's no reporting requirement because they're not campaign payments made with or without with or without campaign funds.
So the inclusion of this um and their desire to only believe the version of events that fits their narrative uh doesn't really work in a court of law.
And as a practical matter, it you know, how do you get to pick and choose which version of somebody's story that you want?
He's not a cooperating witness in this particular case.
And but you know, this is what the left wing does.
This is what they've been now calling for for two years.
Um and as for impeachment, I mean, there's nothing dumber that I've heard in my life.
A non-disclosure agreement is a non-disclosure agreement involving private matters that people agree to.
They don't have to agree to it, but they choose to agree to it.
And unrelated to anything that ever had to do with his office or obtaining his office.
And how you know how we get to this point is just showing you how desperate and political things have become in this atmosphere of destroyed Trump.
Anyway, John Sale is a former federal prosecutor.
He served in the Southern District of New York as an assistant special Watergate prosecutor as well.
And uh Sale has particular understanding of this Southern D district of New York, probably the most prestigious uh, I guess, in the country.
Is that a fair statement, John Sell?
Uh I think it is, even though I've been in other U.S. attorney's offices, I think it is.
I mean the cases that have And you worked with Andy, I think, on the blind shake case, didn't you?
You worked with Rudy over the years as well.
Well, I worked with Rudy over the years.
Uh the judge in the blind sheet case was my good friend Michael Muchese.
Right.
I mean, the the names that come out of here are who's who in terms of legal minds and political uh uh political powerhouse people.
So and and I've taken the Southern District of New York are taken on some of the biggest hardest cases, especially with terrorism and other issues.
What is your reaction to all of this?
Do you think there's any validity to this campaign finance argument?
Well, I think that it that's pretty easy one.
Uh for starters, when Michael Cohn first entered his plea, he pled to, as you pointed out before, he pled to matters involving his own misdeeds, uh false tax returns, false applications to loans, having nothing in the world to do with the president.
And they threw in a couple of so-called campaign violations, and he gratuitously added, oh, and it was directed by uh obviously he was referring to the president.
And then his lawyer went on TV and tried to sell his cooperation to the special counsel, which is a kind of a bizarre way to do it.
So now he's changed his story for about the eighth time.
But I'll tell you, Sean, something that really is unusual.
And as I said, I'm proud of my former office.
But uh usually when two prosecutors' offices take different positions, they don't do it publicly.
They'll sit down sometimes with the Department of Justice being the referee, and then they take a uniform position.
So here you see the special counsel saying that he was helpful somewhat, and you have the Southern District blasting him in a sentencing memo.
But this to get back to your question, I mean, first of all, it's only Michael Cohn who is saying he was authorized by individual number one, which I think it's disingenuous to say individual number one, because we all know who he's referring to.
But I don't concede that that happened because of his credibility.
But if it did happen, and just for the sake of argument, uh there it's a specific intent crime.
So uh it would have to prove that individual number one knew it was against the law, which they can't prove, and it's also an offense which is rarely prosecuted criminally, and where and is usually dealt with by a fine.
So, you know, is that impeachable?
Well, spitting on the sidewalk's impeachable if a Congress votes it is, but of course it shouldn't, it's not an impeachable offense uh in in fairness.
And I'm not I don't join the bandwagon.
I watch the TV show regularly Sean, and I'm a big fan, but I don't necessarily agree that Mueller's office is on a witch hunt, but I just think they're wrong.
And I think the fairness we know you frequently talk about the the uh the investigation is tainted.
I think you don't have to go there to just look at what are they doing regarding the president, and I'm not here to defend the president, but what they're doing regarding the president is unfair.
The special counsel's office.
These redacted pleadings to me are appalling that they're filed publicly.
And I called four different very seasoned federal judges in different parts of the country.
And I asked every one of them, have you ever, in your twenty some odd years sitting on the bench, seen anything like that?
And every single one of them said no.
And here's my problem.
X or whichever one we're talking about, in public, they file a document that says he provided very valuable information regarding and then it's all blank.
So what does that lead to?
Speculation about is it X, is it Y?
I'm not going to mention their names because I'm going to then contribute to the problem of destroying their reputations.
That information should be filed under seal so that nobody's speculating and nobody is in their imagination creating evidence about the president, about the president's family.
And the only thing it tells me is that this investigation is probably not coming to a close.
As I've said before, if a special counsel does a very thorough investigation, and it does not incriminate the president, they have not failed.
If the evidence shows it does, then that's one thing.
But we have not seen any evidence to incriminate the president.
And everyone is spy on some of the other networks, everyone was speculating.
And that's all it is.
Let me tell you where my main criticisms are I think we've lost any sense of equal application of our laws, equal justice of our laws, under our laws.
I look at very I I can compartmentalize and break down each individual case for you, but um there are a whole lot of people I have listed that have been caught lying to either Congress or to the FBI, and nothing has happened to them.
I'm worried about a double standard.
I'm worried about in the Michael Flynn case, the abuse of surveillance, they didn't they ended up unmasking him and leaking raw intelligence against him, which is against the law.
He wasn't doing anything nefarious except talking to a future counterpart.
Nobody in the FBI thought Michael Flynn had lied when they did the interview with him, but yet he signed on to that because he's bankrupt, and I would suspect they probably said, Well, we're gonna go after your son, and he probably dove on his sword.
I think it's a pretty good educated guess.
Uh we know they were writing an exoneration of Hillary in May, where they had written in the legal standard, gross negligence, and changed it, shifted it to extreme carelessness.
That was in early May of 2016.
Uh Comey said that he wasn't writing it before he interviewed her.
That was a lie.
And Peter Strzok and James Comey were writing that, and then it ends up that I felt like they gave her a pass.
I think that it's a clear violation of having top secret classified information uh on an outside server the way she did, and their original uh assessment was that as many as six foreign intelligence agencies hacked into it.
And then we have, of course, the beginning of the Russians investigations.
Comey said Friday, Lisa Page before that they had nothing after nine months of looking at it, so why after nine months did they start with a special counsel that James Comey helped precipitate?
Um and then we get into the issue of you know the Russian dossier.
And and lying to Pfizer courts for Jim Comey to say they never vetted or verified anything in that document that he signed that would spy on an American citizen, a Trump campaign official.
Um, if we really care about Russian influence, I think we would dig into that matter as deeply as any matters involving Trump.
I think the Uranium One deal is is even more problematic because we ended up handing over twenty percent of America's uranium.
While we had a spy inside of Putin's network in America, we knew they wanted a foothold in the uranium industry.
Our spy was telling our top FBI official at the time, uh Robert Muller, that there was blackmail, bribery, extortion, and kickbacks going on.
It still happened, and the people involved kicked back 145 million of the Clinton Foundation.
So if we cared about Russian influence, we would be also covering those stories, and they're not.
Um in the particular cases I'm mentioning here, I feel like I have real evidence and corroboration where they have none as it relates to Trump.
So the double standard is glaring to me.
Well, Sean, you lay out a very plausible case, and I think there should be an investigation Of all of that, and I give all of the people you're referring to the presumption of innocence.
Oh, hang on one second.
Why don't we pick it up there?
I want to give you a full chance to respond.
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All right, I gave you this whole litany of where I believe the double standard is, and you were saying.
I I was saying before you had to go to the break that you lay out a very plausible case, and I think it should all be investigated by a legitimate appropriate investigator, probably the Department of Justice.
I mean, I don't I think there's too many special counsels around, having been part of a special prosecution, the Watergate.
You know, I think we all came away thinking that there's a problem.
You have to do it right, but there's really no accountability.
That's the danger with a special counsel.
But switching to the president, if I think that should be investigated, and I think every person you mentioned should get the presumption of innocence.
But where is that presumption of innocence for the president?
I mean, and what are you doing?
Two years worth of investigative work with no evidence, and then they're going after people, you know, with thirty-five years of serving their country track records of uh, you know, on uh lying to the FBI.
Doesn't that by the way, doesn't that render doesn't that w take away motivation for those of us that love the FBI from ever wanting to talk to them if that's the result?
Uh well, I think we should respect the FBI.
I think most of the people who I I know I know you do, and because I uh I have an active law practice in Miami and I deal with the FBI all the time, and most of them are one of the best professionals.
But Sean, it's it's not the FBI.
I mean, it's uh just what's going on possibly with a few individuals.
Uh but again, I don't want to prejudge them, but I say other people who are prejudging the president and making outrageous statements based upon nothing.
And that's based upon redactions.
That's the double the redactions.
John Sale just away behind.
Thank you, my friend.
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We now had a big increase in our military budget.
Why are they still without some basics?
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But Sean, I'll let Jake speak more to it.
Jake, why don't you you know fill us in on all the things that you guys are doing and the things that they need?
Well, it's really a myriad of things, uh, Sean.
We we support anything that doesn't go boomer bank through our ITAR compliant vendors.
So it's anything from boots to rifle scopes, laser range finders, helmets, body armor, uh advanced medical tips.
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I mean, I I spend uh approximately tens of thousands of dollars monthly in the support that we provide to our service members overseas, and it's all done through the patriotic donations of just mom and pop from all around the all around the United States that just want to keep America's sons and daughters secure.
All right, so tell me, you know, so how does it work here?
You know, you tell stories, I know what there was a case where a generator that was powering a remote special ops outpost failed and replacement parts were on a 12-month back order through the military supply chain, you were able to acquire and ship those needed parts in less than 72 hours.
I you know, that's mind-numbing bureaucracy to me.
That's the kind of thing that drives me crazy.
But or when a unit was rushed to fight terrorism in the Middle East, but they didn't have the necessary communications equipment.
I I agree.
Most of this help was needed in the Obama years.
Are you seeing a shift and a change though under the Trump administration, considering they now have, you know, considerably increased the military budget and General Mattis.
You know, Sean, we are seeing an increase of the support through the new Trump administration, whether it be our ability to with rules of engagement or engagement authorities being pushed down to the tactical level as opposed to the previous administration where it was at the general officer level.
But yet, you know, the terror the endless terrorist game of whack-a-le, if you will, that's global, uh, we need to have the ability to surge assets at a moment's notice.
And that's really what we're seeing now is the fluidity of the situation for us to go out and remove terrorists from the battlefield.
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Look, the bottom line is I wanted to have you on, explain it to our audience, and and how can they help?
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Hello, Sean.
Um just want to say that uh I've been listening to you for a long time since actually since 2008.
And uh uh I keep hearing over and over again how you know about this Mueller investigation.
The way to stop it, I think, is for whoever's being investigated, whoever's been found guilty of anything that he's uncovered, should just go and have it all reversed because it's all through the poisonous tree.
None of this investigation would have started without that dossier.
And we we know the dossier is false.
Listen, I uh the double standard is what is amazing to me.
It's so funny because Friday there was a the you could feel it in the air.
They thought they had the president.
Then that they got to the inner writings of of the sentencing recommendations and the cone case and the Manafort case, and when you really break it down, they had nothing.
There's nothing Russia.
There's still nothing Russia.
I mean, it's amazing.
Then go to Friday's transcript of Jim Comey, and Jim Comey, you know, said that, oh, when I was fired, we still hadn't found anything about Russia.
That's nine months after this whole thing began, nearly a year.
Lisa Page had said the same thing.
And what you then have is that dossier that Clinton bought for that became the basis, again, unverified.
That's that's the other amazing thing.
He said, no, we never verified it, but he put his name to it.
And that Russian lying dossier that was paid for ought to be as important to the investigation of Mueller, or we need another special counsel to really look into it to that separately and uranium-one separately.
But there's real evidence and proof here.
And all the the only thing they went back on is this whole issue of campaign finance, which I outlined earlier in the program today, and I go back, there is nothing there for them legally at all, in spite of what you are hearing.
Nothing.
So it's a these are pretty amazing times that we live in, and I'm just convinced that you're gonna feel you they're gonna rise up and say that we got them.
Impeachment impeachment.
But they've been saying that from two years.
And it's still the same people.
You know, if you really listen, it just gets louder at times, and then it lessens.
And look, Mueller's gonna do his thing.
He's gonna write his report.
Giuliani will write his report, and there's not gonna be any crimes.
You can't indict a sitting president in anyway, and the Trump administration is gonna go on.
But as you're watching all of this unfold, and then the new investigations in Congress, just ask yourself, you know, how is this all for the benefit of the American people?
Is this gonna help the average American?
Is it gonna keep us safer as a country?
Is it gonna provide more opportunities for Americans?
And the answer's gonna be a resounding no.
And that means that they're doing this purely out of a hatred and a power Play that they have orchestrated.
You know, public servants are supposed to serve their constituents, the people, we the people.
That's what was so powerful about the Pelosi, Trump and Schumer Exchange.
It's the president's like, no, my job's to keep the American people safe.
And they they just can't deal with that reality.
It's a big big issue.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean is on number.
Uh big time AJ Houston, Texas.
What's going on, baby?
How are you?
Big time Sean Hennedy.
What's going on?
Oh man, hey, Rick Quick.
Happy Thanksgiving to you guys, all and everybody.
Everybody up there.
It's everybody always sucking up to Linda.
Everybody's always sucking up to Linda.
On a phone call earlier today, they're sucking up to Linda.
I would not mistake uh true friendship and affection for sucking up.
You know, some people just like other people.
No, because they know that you you hold the keys to the kingdom.
If people can get past you.
Which kingdom is that?
To get to me, something to you.
What?
I don't know.
I don't have any kingdom.
My kingdom is a you know, they just like me for my New York brashness, you know, especially people like AJ, you know, he's in Texas.
Does no one like me there?
No one no one talks like you there, right, AJ.
Nobody talks like that.
You know it's the first of all.
That's what we love about us.
That is the most important.
We love it.
Thank you, AJ.
Oh, here we go.
I'm glad someone appreciates me.
Now, America.
Now that we see who President Trump is for, all the media ought to have egg on their face.
This man is for the people.
This man is for this country.
You see what Nancy and Schumer doing.
They dirty rats, and I say it, and I don't care if they didn't.
They dirty rat.
They don't care for America.
They don't care for our safety.
We didn't have legal, like Trump said.
We got people coming in here that's doing bad things to this country.
And they want two million more out of 2,000 more.
I don't Trump is a man, and don't let nobody fool you people.
This man up there making deals.
This man up there cares about the country.
And if we set back and let the left wing media dictate what this man doing, you're right, Sean.
They're gonna hit him like a mad habit.
But guess what?
They're hitting the wrong man because Trump gonna hit them back just as bad.
And uh, thank God we got to do that.
Listen, I mean, this is what America wanted.
America wanted a disruptor.
America wanted a fighter.
And it's like there's no chance in hell that you're ever gonna win a better trade deal with your European allies, China, Mexico, Canada, unless you say, I'm gonna pull out of the other one and we're gonna have tariffs.
If you don't if the threat isn't real, it's it's empty, and then they're never gonna respond.
So all of that is getting done.
Some of it already has gotten done.
Same with NATO.
Why do we have to pay the bulk of NATO while Angela Merkel stupidly is is making multi-billion dollar deals to make Putin and Russia rich again, and their entire commodity is based on, you know, uh the hope that he doesn't turn off the spigot in a fit of rage one day.
That's a pretty dumb idea.
Okay, John, Rick Quick, the Republican Party, they better know we watching them, and they better grow a set like Trump got.
We see them come on TV just running their mouth and then getting undone.
It's a joke what they're doing.
They better get behind him, or they're gonna be gone in 2020.
The ones that's running well.
We tired of them coming on TV, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Oh, blah, blah, blah.
We sick of it.
Get out there and do your job.
What we sent you up there to do it with bull crapping.
You know, good thing we had a bar.
All right, big time.
I think if they hear that rant, they're gonna they just got their marching orders.
Do your job.
All right, big time AJ Houston, Texas.
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