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Aug. 9, 2019 - Sean Hannity Show
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The FBI Failed

David Schoen, Criminal Defense & Civil Liberties attorney, stops by to discuss the release of the Bruce Ohr 302’s and the clear evidence of wrongdoing by the biased members of the FBI. 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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I'm Greg Jarrett of Fox News, sitting in for Sean Hannity, who is the hardest working man in television news.
And he deserves a Friday off, doesn't he?
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We've got some huge news that occurred late last night.
Documents that had long been sought, that had been hidden by the FBI, were finally, belatedly revealed.
And they basically show that the FBI and the Department of Justice knew as early as the summer of 2016 that Christopher Steele, who composed the phony dossier upon which the Russia hoax was crafted, that the FBI knew that he was a fraud and a phony, that he was virulently anti-Trump,
and that his bias had tainted and contaminated his so-called dossier, which was the basis for the witch hunt against Donald Trump.
And by the way, speaking of witch hunt, I have a new book coming out very shortly.
It is up for sale and published on October 8th.
However, you can pre-order it now on amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com or go to my publisher, HarperCollins.com.
It's called Witch Hunt, the story of the greatest mass delusion in American political history.
And it's the story of ambitious and unscrupulous people in high positions who abused their authority.
They subverted the rule of law.
They undermined the democratic process.
They weaponized their powers to influence a presidential election and undo the result that they didn't like.
They didn't like that Donald Trump was elected.
So from that moment on, they sought to evict him from office.
And our intelligence community and the FBI were at the heart of the illicit and unprecedented scheme.
And of course, their cudgel, if you will, was collusion.
It was nothing more than a conjured up lie.
There was never any evidence of a treasonous conspiracy that was hatched by Trump and Vladimir Putin in the bowels of the Kremlin.
It was all a hoax.
It was contrived to masquerade as the truth.
And yet, unbelievably, based on nothing, the hoax gained popular currency because Democrats and the media drove it with ferocity.
I mean, they were convinced that Donald Trump was an illegitimate president.
And to them, it was utterly inconceivable that he had actually won the highest office in the land, you know, absent some plot to steal it from Hillary Clinton.
And of course, the centerpiece of the hoax was Christopher Steele and his dossier, this maladroit ex-British spy who was getting paid to write the dossier by none other than Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
And it was based on either Russian disinformation or fabricated hearsay from anonymous sources, but that didn't bother James Comey's FBI and his Confederates, Peter Strzok, his lover, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director, whose entire career proves the Peter principle.
More on that later.
But the centerpiece, as I say, was the dossier, and get this.
They knew the day before they launched the investigation that it was a fraud and that Christopher Steele was a phony.
Now, how do we know that?
July 30th, 2016, the ex-British spy flies to Washington, D.C. 9 a.m., he meets with Bruce Orr at the Mayflower Hotel.
Who's Orr?
He's the number four position in the Department of Justice under Loretta Lynch.
So Steele is sitting at a breakfast table at the Mayflower Hotel, and he gives the contents of the dossier to Orr.
Also attending the meeting of the Mayflower Hotel is Orr's wife, Nellie Orr, who's getting paid by Christopher Steele's employer, which is none other than Fusion GPS, headed up by Glenn Simpson.
Immediately after that meeting at the Mayflower Hotel, Orr convenes a meeting in Andrew McCabe's office at the FBI along with Lisa Page.
And he tells them, he warns them, I know you have this document already, the dossier, but it's highly dubious because the author, Christopher Steele, despises Donald Trump.
The FBI documents uncovered late last night are what is known as FBI 302 documents.
They are a summary of the interview of Bruce Orr by the FBI.
And in it, he admits that he warned Comey, McCabe, Strzok, all the others, including prosecutors at the Department of Justice, which included, by the way, Andrew Weissman, who became the lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation.
Now, the 302 documents that were uncovered last night confirm what I wrote in my new book, Witch Hunt, because I got my hands on the private testimony of Bruce Orr that was actually released by Representative Doug Collins a few months ago.
And I don't think anybody read them.
I dug through hundreds of pages.
And here's Bruce Orr's testimony that's in my new book, Witch Hunt.
Quote, when I spoke with the FBI, I told them my wife was working for Fusion GPS.
I told them Fusion was doing research on Donald Trump.
I told them this is information I got from Chris Steele.
I told them that Steele was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected.
All right, that's critical because the day before they launched the FBI investigation of Donald Trump, they're being warned that this is phony information.
Move forward a few pages into Orr's testimony.
He said, Steele told me he was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.
Orr repeated the warning to the FBI on more than one occasion.
He pointedly informed the FBI, this phony information is coming from Hillary Clinton's campaign, who is financially underwriting this dossier.
Here's another quote.
These guys were hired by somebody related to, who's related to the Clinton campaign.
Well, I got news for you, ladies and gentlemen.
It wasn't just related to the Clinton campaign.
It was the Clinton campaign, along with the Democratic National Committee.
And hold on, there's more.
He not only warned the FBI, he sat down immediately with lawyers, as I mentioned, at the Department of Justice.
Here's a quote.
Here is what Orr testified to in front of Congress behind closed doors.
Question, so the record is clear.
What the Department of Justice and the FBI was aware of was your relationship with Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson, your wife's relationship with Steele and Simpson, Mr. Steele's bias against Donald Trump, Mr. Simpson's bias against Donald Trump, your wife's compensation for work for Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS.
Correct?
Bruce Orr answer, correct.
They all knew that Steele was biased or warned them that this stuff is unverified.
You've got to vet it.
The FBI spent the better part of a year creating a spreadsheet of all the collusion allegations from the dossier against Donald Trump.
And after about nine and a half, 10 months, their spreadsheet was empty of corroboration.
It had nothing.
So they launch an investigation based on phony information from a phony guy named Christopher Steele, paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign.
And then they go to a FISA court and they lie to the court.
They don't tell the court that this is unverified.
They don't tell the court it's based on a dossier.
They don't tell the court that dossier's author hates Donald Trump.
They didn't provide the court with any exculpatory information about Carter Page.
They lied to the court.
They deceived the judges.
And they broke the Fourth Amendment rights of Carter Page.
All of this is in my new book, Witch Hunt.
The story of the greatest mass delusion in American political history.
You can pre-order it now.
Comes out in a couple of months, but you can get it online at amazon.com, barnsandnoble.com, or just go to harpercollins.com.
You can also find a link to it on my website, thegregjarrett.com.
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Well, every day seems to bring new evidence that the entire collusion allegations against Donald Trump were nothing more than a hoax.
And the witch hunt that engulfed his presidency was contrived by nefarious people at the FBI, the Department of Justice, and importantly, the Hillary Clinton campaign.
So last night we find these documents, the FBI documents that show that the FBI knew that this was fabricated information against Trump written by a biased ex-British spy.
And what's interesting is that James Comey set up an information laundry scheme.
It's very similar to a money laundering scheme.
And here's how it would work.
So Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele would secretly feed every new dossier memo to Bruce Orr, the conduit at the Justice Department, or would be debriefed by his handler, FBI agent Joe Pienka.
Pienka would then pass the material along to his partner, Peter Strzok, who would deliver it to Andrew McCabe, who would hand it over to James Comey.
Now, why the elaborate scheme?
Because using this complex sequence, the origins could be obscured.
The fact that it was paid political propaganda funded by Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton, could be disguised.
And it was similar to a money laundering scheme.
Steele and his dirty information were cleansed, and the product, the dossier, would thereafter be referred to as, oh, it's coming from a reliable and neutral foreign intelligence source.
That wasn't true.
In truth, the Trump-hating Christopher Steele was the antithesis of neutral.
He'd been fired by the FBI for leaking to the media and lying about it.
But the FBI used this information laundering scheme to continue to use him as a source while pretending to disassociate from him.
And even after Trump won and was sworn in on January 20th, 2017, Steele was composing and circulating even more specious material that, you know, the new president is a Manchurian candidate.
He's in league with Putin.
It was all a lie.
And his clandestine contacts with the FBI and the Department of Justice continued well into Trump's first year in office.
And last night's documents uncovered show that it went all the way through May of 2017.
Why is that date important?
Oh, yeah, that's when Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller, Comey's longtime friend and ally, as special counsel to continue the witch hunt, which is the title of my new book.
You can buy it online.
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Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean Hannity.
We're talking about the latest news that came out last night.
Documents uncovered by Judicial Watch confirmed by Fox News.
You can actually read these documents online.
They demonstrate that James Comey's FBI knew in the summer of 2016 that the entire collusion allegation against Donald Trump was a hoax, that it emanated from the Hillary Clinton campaign and Christopher Steele, an ex-British spy, who was virulently biased against Donald Trump and warned the FBI and the Department of Justice,
this is unverified.
You need to vet this.
They tried.
They couldn't.
That did not deter Comey and McCabe and Peter Strzok and all of the others from launching a dilating investigation of Donald Trump, the candidate.
And they continued their secret counterintelligence operation against the sitting president of the United States after his inauguration, and of course, launched the ultimate witch hunt with the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller.
Witch Hunt is the name of my new book, The Greatest Mass Delusion in American Political History.
You can buy it online.
You can pre-order it now.
Joining us is David Sean, who is a terrific civil liberties attorney.
And David, what's your reaction to the latest news?
I wish what I could say to you is that it's shocking, but unfortunately, nothing shocks anymore.
And I don't think it's shocking to you because you forecast exactly this kind of thing in your book.
Listen, we found out a lot of things now.
We've said before we only had scratched sort of the surface on how bad this thing looks.
Think about this.
Just from these documents that Tom Fitten and Judicial Watch got now, Bruce Orr, et cetera, we know now that this phony outrage that the Trump campaign supposedly was seeking opposition research, that sort of thing, which nobody has shown to be illegal.
I mean, it's a complete fraud that they were outraged by that.
We know now that Hillary Clinton's campaign was paying for it.
We know now from these documents that this agenda of never Donald Trump for president seems to have driven everything and every player involved in this terrible, terrible scam that's now cost the country tens of millions of dollars, a great deal of time, and a great deal of anguish, and has set aside the integrity of the FBI, unfortunately, or some at the FBI and our judicial system, set it back tremendously.
Because remember, Greg, I'll wrap up here, but remember, these documents were used, and Steele was used as a source to get surveillance from the most secretive and intrusive court in the country into Americans' lives.
Outrageous.
It is outrageous.
And a few minutes ago, I was explaining the information laundering system that Comey and McCabe and Strzok set up to conceal the identity of their source.
So Simpson and Steele would feed the new dossier information to Bruce Orr.
Orr would deliver it to Pienka.
Pienka would deliver it to Strzzok.
Strzzok would give it to McCabe.
McCabe would give it to Comey.
So it was like a money laundering system.
They were trying to hide the fact that it came from Christopher Steele and commissioned by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Isn't that evidence that they knew what they were doing was wrong?
Of course.
It's exactly the opposite of what their legal obligation is.
Their legal obligation was to report to the FISA court and anyone else who reviewed a document that was being certified to that court as to the nature of the source, the questionability of the source, the political agenda of the source, all of those things.
All of those go to the reliability and reliability and credibility are the key to getting search warrants, surveillance warrants, all of that sort of thing.
But think about in the broader picture.
You know, you hear all of this criticism of the Trump administration has politicized this department or that department.
That department was irretrievably politicized by all of these people who you've mentioned and written about extensively in your book.
And we only know now that it's only much worse than we ever thought before.
When documents like this come forward, it's just mind-boggling that this went on and that nobody's been prosecuted on that end of things.
So the FISA court, which issued the warrant to spy on Carter Page, and this spying went on for a full year because there was the original warrant application and then three renewals.
So a full year of spying on Carter Page.
In the end, they found nothing.
There was nothing to find.
But the FISA court was deceived, according to my count, David, in six material ways.
They were not told that the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid for the information.
They were not told that Steele had lied.
They were not told that Steele had a known bias against Trump.
They were not told that the FBI evidence was unverified.
They were not told of exculpatory evidence suggesting the innocence of their target, Carter Page.
And judges were not told that the wife of a senior DOJ official cultivated some of the Clinton-funded opposition research which the FBI was using.
If you were a FISA court judge, how outraged would you be and what would you do?
I'd be outraged, as outraged as I could be, and I would immediately convene some sort of contempt proceeding.
I would demand answers immediately because the integrity of that court has been perverted now.
Maybe irretrievably.
I don't know.
This has never happened before that we're aware of.
But I hope you're going to put those six points and more, spell it out like that, in the sequel, because American people have to know this.
Remember, what you haven't talked about now, and you have talked about in the past, and I'm sure is in the book, is what Andrew Weissman knew about this with Bruce Orr at the time.
Andrew Weissman then becomes a member of the special counsel team.
So there is almost no limit to the corruption that attends this disgraceful episode.
And I still don't think we've really scratched the surface on who did what, when, where.
That's very bad.
And by the way, these directly violate the rules of the FISA court.
Specific rule right on it, Rule 13, requires that omissions or material representations be corrected immediately upon discovery.
So these, you know, people like James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates, Rod Rosenstein, who signed off on these FISA warrants, could be held in contempt of court.
It could be criminal contempt.
And they could be charged with fraud and conspiracy to defraud the government because the court is a branch of government.
Yes.
Yeah, I'm interested in seeing, I'm sorry to cut you off, but I'm interested in seeing now the nerve of McCabe and Strzok to have filed civil lawsuits over their termination.
Maybe they're going to provide fertile opportunities for some real discovery now.
And certainly it's going to pit McCabe against Comey because they're at odds on their stories.
I think this could be great stuff.
I can't imagine what they were thinking filing those lawsuits.
You have the IG condemning them both.
The IG is a neutral party here.
This is a guy full of integrity, doesn't have any political agenda, and he condemned both of their actions.
You have with Strzok, I'm sorry to skip subject so much, but I have to say it here.
You have with Strzok a guy working in counterterrorism, espionage work who's carrying on an affair on the job, number one most greatest vulnerability factor, someone in that business for blackmail, and lying, cheating every day, using a separate set of phones so that his wife doesn't find out about the affair.
And this is a guy now who's complaining that he was terminated from what should be one of the most respected jobs in the country, a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
You couldn't make this stuff up.
Well, you know, I looked at his lawsuit.
It's a joke.
I mean, he claims that his First Amendment, free speech, right to political speech was violated by his fiery.
No, it wasn't.
He was fired for three reasons.
Number one, he used an FBI device, the cell phone, for 7,000 personal text messages.
And second of all, conduct unbecoming.
He embarrassed the FBI by virtue of those text messages.
And third reason he was fired, he was sending government documents, FBI affidavits, to his personal email account, which is also a violation of FBI regulations.
All of that was in the Inspector General's report, which turned the matter over to the Office of Professional Responsibility.
In the end, you know, he was fired.
So he doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Neither does McKay.
McKay was fired for lying not once, not twice, but four times to the Inspector General and investigators.
So neither, I mean, these two knuckleheads have the audacity to file a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice.
But getting back to the FISA warrant application, it'll be interesting to see what Inspector General Horowitz puts in his new report, which should come out next month, about James Comey.
Because if Comey is at all consistent with the testimony he gave behind closed doors before Congress, later released, I read it.
It's unbelievable.
The man claims total amnesia.
Oh, you know, gee, I don't really, you know, I don't remember reading, you know, the FISA warrant application.
And, you know, I didn't know that Hillary Clinton campaign paid for that.
And, you know, I didn't know anything about fusion.
I mean, how could you sign off on a warrant to spy on somebody, to wiretap them, pen registers to go through their electronic data, and not do proper due diligence?
No, absolutely right.
And every one of us is at risk when that kind of thing happens within, you know, that realm, the surveillance of our personal activities, intrusion into our personal lives by the government.
But I have to say this, he's a particular, Comey's a particularly troubling phenomenon to me.
You know, I've said it all along, and I know I'm in the minority on this show at least, but I think he's never going to be prosecuted.
Somehow, this guy seems to be above the law, and somehow he seems to know it.
The arrogance is just shocking.
Think about the smaller things that he did.
When he leaked those documents to what he then later said, Daniel Richmond, he said, was his attorney advising him.
Daniel Richmond was working as a special government employee with the Justice Department, according to Comey at least.
If that were the case, he can't be Comey's personal attorney also in a position adverse to the department at that time.
There are all of these things that tended it, and he just gets more and more arrogant, sells more and more books.
It's an amazing phenomenon.
I think that the Justice Department has to send a very different message if they want people to believe in and trust in the rule of law.
Yeah.
I think you're absolutely right.
David Sean, one of the best criminal defense attorneys I know, civil liberties attorney.
Thanks for joining us today.
Really appreciate it.
We're going to take your calls on the other side.
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I'm Greg Jarrett.
We're talking about the latest news that came out late last night, documents showing that the FBI kept using Christopher Steele and his phony dossier for FISA warrant applications to spy on the Trump campaign, even though they knew that the ex-spy was hopelessly biased and that his entire document had been tainted by that.
Let's go to David in California, who joins us.
Hey, David, how are you?
I'm doing good, Greg.
How are you doing?
I'm well.
Thank you.
My question is: well, my statement is: if we're doing this investigation and the documents through everything that you and your colleagues have turned up, where there is wrongdoing, there is possible criminal activity, at least with Hillary's part.
But the commentators later say, well, this probably not going to go anywhere.
No one's going to get indicted.
What are we doing?
Why are we doing this?
The opinion is going to be on one side, and the opinion on our side is going to be the same.
So what are we doing?
Well, I would say a couple of things.
First of all, not all corrupt acts are crimes that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
That doesn't make them any less wrong or corrupt.
So the truth is paramount, that first and foremost.
But second of all, I think you're right.
If the standard was a standard by which the Department of Justice and the special counsel prosecuted people associated with Donald Trump, then that standard ought to apply to people like Comey and McCabe and Peter Strzok and Bruce Orr and others.
Because remember, all of the people who were processed, who were charged with process crimes for lying, Michael Flynn, who didn't really lie, but was forced to plead guilty to a lie.
I mean, if that's the standard, let's apply that standard to the crooked, corrupt people at the FBI and the Department of Justice.
I agree with you.
Let's go to Scott, our next caller.
Scott, you're in Rhode Island.
How are you?
Good day, Mr. Jarrett.
I appreciate what you share.
I'm a service member of almost 30 years.
And the one thing that I appreciate in your commentary and when you're talking about the witch hunt, rule of law is rule of law.
And for these individuals who call themselves elected officials, it's very disappointing when they want to have the double standard.
Watch what, you know, do as I say, don't do as I do.
And a father of two girls who are asking me about being mentors, and I'm looking at these individuals, it's disappointing when you see Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Charlie Wrangel, and the Democrats would say, well, you know, for example, we don't need the wall, but yet they're on video saying that we've passed appropriations.
And then when Trump asks for the money, it's less than half of what they appropriated.
Listen, I'm with you.
And thanks for your phone call, Scott.
I appreciate it.
We're going to have more of your phone calls a bit later on in the program.
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Welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean.
Happy Friday, everybody, by the way.
Let me lay out a scenario for you.
Imagine if Donald Trump's campaign secretly paid a foreign spy to obtain Russian information about Hillary Clinton and then fed that information to the media, the FBI, the Department of Justice, all in an effort to influence the 2016 presidential campaign.
Well, my goodness, he would immediately be accused of colluding with Russia.
Demands for his indictment and impeachment would reverberate through the halls of Congress, in newsrooms across America, on television, airways, social media websites, everywhere.
Trump did not actually do this to Hillary Clinton.
Clinton did it to Trump.
And yet the president is the one who was hounded by the constant condemnation of having colluded with Moscow to win the presidency, even though we now know he did no such thing.
On an almost daily basis, the media has declared him guilty in the court of public opinion.
Trump has been saddled with multiple investigations by the FBI, by Congress, by a special counsel.
Clinton was not.
So it's really hard to make sense of it until you consider the bias that animated the actions of those who sought to destroy Donald Trump.
The unadulterated truth is that Trump never colluded with Russia, but the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee did.
They paid for Russian disinformation.
They fed it to the FBI and the media to damage Trump's candidacy and influence the election.
And when that failed, the effort was then kicked into overdrive to exploit the same phony material to destroy Trump and undo his election.
In sum, Hillary Clinton's campaign colluded with Russia to falsely accuse Trump of colluding with Russia.
I mean, it is so far-fetched, you could not make it up.
And yet it happened.
Now, what I've just recited to you, this hypothetical, is actually the introduction to chapter two of my new book.
Chapter two is entitled Clinton Collusion.
The title of the book is Witch Hunt, the story of the greatest mass delusion in American political history.
You can order it right now.
Go to amazon.com, barnsandnoble.com, or go to my publisher, harpercollins.com, or go to my website, thegregjarrett.com.
Also, check me out on Twitter at Gregjarrett.
And Greg, by the way, is spelled with a total of three G's, two G's at the end.
Jerry G J A R R E T T. That's my Twitter handle.
But I encourage you to order the book.
The first book called The Russia Hoax, The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump was really just sort of the predicate that laid out the basics.
The new book, again, which you can pre-order now, Witch Hunt, lays in all of the details.
And it lays out the facts, the evidence, and the law about rampant corruption in government and how people like James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzzok, Lisa Page, Bruce Orr, James Clapper, John Brennan, and so many others abused their positions of power and weaponized their government institutions to try to bring down Donald Trump.
Joining me now to talk a bit more about it is John Solomon, executive vice president and columnist for The Hill.
He's written a story on Democratic donor George Soros.
But before we get to that, John, this latest news that broke last night that confirms what we already knew, that the FBI and the Department of Justice were well aware of the bias of Christopher Steele, who composed the phony dossier upon which the FBI and the DOJ relied to pursue relentlessly Donald Trump.
What do you make of it?
It really is remarkable.
If you read the 12 reports, you end up realizing very early on this was just a giant political dirty trick that the FBI willingly participated in.
You've got Bruce Orr with his wife, Nellie Orr, fusion contractor, working with Christopher Steele to get information that is highly suspect and bought by Hillary Clinton to the FBI so the FBI could justify an investigation of the Republican nominee for president and his campaign that's now disproven tie to Russia.
It is absolutely stunning.
And as you read it, I read it last night.
I've seen these before.
But I have to tell you, reading it last night, you just keep asking yourself, who didn't stop this?
Why wasn't this stop?
Any average American would have put their foot down and say, this is crazy.
We're not going to use the FBI this way.
Well, Peter Stroke and Andrew McCabe and James Comey, they let this charade go on for more than nine months, and then they kicked it over to Robert Mueller so we could have another year and a half.
It's a real, it's a tragedy.
It's a Greek tragedy with American epic performance.
But you know exactly what James Comey has signed the first FISA warrant application to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
You know what he's going to say.
He is going to feign amnesia or he will say, you know, I don't know.
I can't recall.
I didn't know anything about that.
You know, when you look at his testimony behind closed doors, which was later released, I think roughly 200 times he said, you know, I don't know, I don't recall.
I mean, it's amazing the guy pretends to be either ill frame of mind or incompetent.
But that's going to be his defense.
Well, the good news is he can play that in the court of public opinion, right?
Because he's done it well already.
But before the FISA court, ignorance is not a defense.
As you know, he signed that first affidavit.
It was marked verified.
That meant the components of the steel dossier that were used and certified as verified and that they have to be verified.
We now know that the main allegation, the one that almost certainly tipped the judges over to letting the FBI spy on Carter Page and see if he was a Russian spy, was this claim that he had met with Igor Session and Igor Davinsky, two key Russians that are close to Vladimir Putin.
That came clearly from the dossier.
And at the time that the FBI said it was verified, the FBI knew it was unverified.
It never got verified, and it eventually got debunked.
So James Comey can claim all the MDs that he wants in the court of public opinion, but in the court of law, those judges that signed that warrant have some very serious questions for him, and he won't be able to use the ignorance defense there.
Well, and the other part of it is that, you know, he is the master of prevarication and deception.
I well remember when Brett Baer interviewed him right about the time his book came out, and he was shamelessly peddling his book and trying to rip off readers with falsehoods.
And he said, you know, he was asked, well, Hillary Clinton paid for this.
Why would you use this?
He said, oh, my understanding is the Republicans were hired to fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, which is a total lie.
It's wrong.
It's wrong.
Yeah.
No, well, yeah, he can remember those facts, if not the right facts.
And that tells you something about James Comey and his self-righteous campaign that we've seen the last couple of years.
He ran a bad FBI.
There's just no other way to say it.
He stole information from the FBI, leaked classified information, wrongly usurped the authority of the Attorney General during the Hillary Clinton email case.
And you don't have to take my word for it.
That's what the Inspector General has found.
He was an incompetent FBI director who allowed, because of his incompetence, allowed people like Peter Stroke and Andrew McCabe to run a Russian investigation that any real FBI agent would have shut down because they saw it for what it was, a political dirty trick, a political opposition research hit on Donald Trump, not worthy of the FBI or counterintelligence assets.
And, you know, the other guy who signed off on the final renewal of the FISA warrant was Rod Rosenstein, the altogether compromised deputy attorney general who was in charge of the special counsel case.
I find it interesting in front of an audience, he was giving a lecture, he talked how important a FISA warrant application is.
And if you get it wrong, you can be fired or even worse, you can be prosecuted.
And yet, when he appeared, I remember vividly in front of Louis Gohmert during a congressional hearing, and Gomert was trying to nail him down.
He seemed to suggest that he never bothered to actually read the FISA warrant that he executed and swore that he was swearing to the veracity and the authenticity of the verified information that we now know was unverified.
And at that time, as we know now from the good work of Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, and particularly Devin Nunez and his staff, there are more problems with the fourth FISA than any of the other three, and all of them have terrible problems.
But the last one, we are told time and again, has the most serious accuracy and honesty information.
When we get to more detoxifications over the next few months, like these ore documents, which was the opening salvo, we're going to see the FBI committed a fraud upon the court knowingly, willfully, and in a very dishonest way.
The sleight of hand used to, they know it's Clinton because they hire Christopher Steele because Christopher Orr, I'm sorry, Bruce Orr told them.
We have it in the documents now.
And yet they tell the court, we think maybe this guy might have a political motive.
No, no, no.
They knew he had a political motive.
They certified that Christopher Steele, the FBI, could get no derogatory information about Christopher Steele.
Bruce Orr's notes show that the FBI was warned of multiple derogatory information.
One, he had a motive.
Two, he had a political client.
Three, he had a political deadline.
Four, his intelligence was suspect.
It was too raw and unverified.
And Bruce Orr giving a caution about that.
That all constitutes derogatory information, yet the FBI swore it had no derogatory information.
James Comey, Peter Stroke, and Andrew McCabe are the people most responsible.
And then ultimately, the former Deputy Attorney General for signing that fourth Pfizer without asking harder questions.
It's not going to be a good call for the Justice Department and the FBI.
You know, we didn't get around to talking about your latest column, George Soros secret 2016 access to the State Department.
People can read it online.
Just go to thehill.com, look up John Solomon.
It's his latest column.
And I want you to know, John, that your outstanding reporting, you've broken more stories on this subject, is featured prominently in my new book, Witch Hunt.
So listen, hats off to you.
Thanks to you for all of your truth out.
And remember, we were all paddling against a river going in the other direction, but the facts were followed, and the facts tell a far different story than the American people.
So that you were a very, very big part.
If you go back and read your first book, it is remarkable how pressing it was to where the facts ended up turning out.
So bravo for that.
All right.
John Solomon, great reporter.
Thanks for being with us.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
Have a good weekend.
Good.
Thank you.
You too.
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It talks a lot about the FBI, but also about the intelligence community, Brennan and Clapper.
They too were determined to sabotage Trump before he took his oath of office.
And they had a ploy.
Their ploy was to brief him about the phony dossier to use it as a pretext for leaking it to the media.
Now, that is the definition of devious.
And it wasn't just that.
The unmasking and leaking of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's conversations with a Russian ambassador, that was not only unconscionable, it was felonious.
It's a crime to leak classified information, but they did it.
Comey and McCabe manipulated him into an FBI interrogation under the guise of the Logan Act, which has never been prosecuted.
Flynn was eventually fired.
He was later charged with lying after the agents who interviewed him concluded that he did not appear to be lying.
Try to make sense of that.
But that's your special counsel, Robert Mueller.
And Comey was also busy compiling confidential presidential memos that he stole and leaked to effectuate the appointment of his friend and mentor, Bob Mueller.
By his own admission, Comey's intent was to influence the investigation of the man who fired him.
And that was the witch hunt, which assumed odious dimensions as Robert Mueller hired a hit squad of partisans.
It's all in my new book, Witch Hunt.
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Welcome back, everyone.
I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean Hannity, who is taking the day off, and he certainly is entitled to that and deserves it.
He's the hardest working man I know.
I think I work a lot.
He works twice as much as I do.
So, Sean, I hope you're having a great Friday.
And you're stuck with me, Greg Jarrett, the poor man's Sean Hannity.
Nevertheless, we will endeavor to continue for this hour as well as the next hour.
And I'm really happy to have with me Rose Tennant, who's a well-known talk show host.
And I'm sometimes on her program, and I really enjoy it.
She asks great questions, and we always have a good conversation and dialogue.
So, Rose, welcome to the program.
Thanks for being here.
I was thrilled to hear I was going to be on with you, Greg.
You know, I'm like your biggest fan.
And if anyone else says they are, I'll take them out on that one.
Don't do that.
Don't do that.
No, I'm kidding.
Hey, listen, the reason we're not your biggest fan.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
I wanted to talk to you about this nonprofit private organization.
It's non-political.
Well, I guess it's not for profit, but not really private.
It's called Made in America.
And you can go to maidenamerica.com, by the way, and check it out.
But tell us about the group and the event coming up.
I will.
Thanks for the opportunity.
It is a for-profit organization.
And what I love about this organization is that it was founded by Don Buckner.
And this gentleman had a company called Vactron, and it was a really very unique business.
He did vacuum excavation to clean out critical areas.
And it was very clever.
He's very clever.
But you know what?
He sold his company because there was something that he always wanted to do.
And that was establish this Made in America organization.
And, you know, it was just about a year ago that Made in America decided that it was time for the very first, Greg, U.S. manufacturers opportunity to bring their American-made products to one venue.
And it's in Indianapolis, October 3rd through the 6th.
But this is something that was near and dear to Don's heart.
Really wanted to do this.
This is the first time ever something like this is being done.
And it's just magnificent.
It's fabulous.
The founder and CEO is Don Buckner.
And let me correct myself.
It's a nonpartisan private company.
But it's not a political group by any means.
So tell us in Indianapolis, I mean, so talk to us about that particular event.
Well, this is really cool because, first of all, we have already several hundred vendors, but we do have room for more, by the way, if there's anyone listening.
But what they want to do, the heart of this company, this organization, is to highlight American-made products and businesses and tell their stories because, Greg, there are so many really good stories out there of American-made ingenuity.
And they want to drive home the importance of those products that are made in this country.
And it's being made up of small and to mid-sized companies that are owned here in this country, from crane companies to someone making a bakery product that's in your local Walmart.
And I wanted to give you an example just to show you, because I love that our founders escaped this culture in Europe where wisdom was believed to reside in your bloodline.
It depended on your birthright, whether or not you were genius.
But our founders knew that a spark of genius resides in every one of us.
And the way to unleash it is to unburden the individual from those shackles of the ruling classes.
And what we're seeing now as a result is this rise in America of that we have proved that we've got the best solution to the human condition because of our freedom.
And you have examples like Angela Horowitz, who's in Florida, a mom who started Baker's Stow and Go, and she did that because she was transporting iced cookies and cupcakes because as a mom of a young boy who was involved in sports and also the school calls upon us a lot of times as moms To bring in, you know, cookies or cakes, and we could never figure out, and this was one of always my dilemma, too.
I could never figure out how to get those cookies and cakes transported without messing up the icing.
Well, she figured it out.
This product is made in Florida by a woman who saw a need and she filled that need.
We also have Paul Welborne of Welburn Cabinets.
He's one of the last American cabinet manufacturers in the United States.
He's got 1,500 employees, and he's a sponsor of the Made in America Kitchen at the event.
And then here's a lady, too, that I was really impressed with: Serati International, Barbara Creighton.
She started her business at age 50.
She wanted to produce a bio-identical hormone for rebalancing women who are going through menopause.
And it was a natural solution even before that became popular.
And it's made in the great state of Texas.
So our economy depends on a strong manufacturing base to provide those high-paying jobs to Americans.
And over the last two and a half years, I know you know this because you and I have talked about this, we saw an increase of over 600,000 new manufacturing jobs in this country.
They said it couldn't be done, and guess what?
It was done.
And that's what the Made in America organization wants to do: keep the momentum going.
They are American proud, and they want to keep that momentum going.
They want to see more job opportunities for Americans.
So they want to unify together under this one umbrella, this one topic, that we can do it here in this country and we can do it better.
So they want American jobs to continue to increase, and that's what I really like about the organization.
Well, you know, I was reading some of the material here about the group.
I was amazed to read, but now it makes perfect sense to me: that eight in ten American consumers say they would rather buy an American-made product than an imported one.
That's according to Consumer Reports survey.
So, you know, Americans want to support Americans.
And it does have, as you point out, a rich history dating back, you know, more than two centuries ago.
I was reading Ron Chernow's great book on George Washington.
He also wrote the great seminal book on Alexander Hamilton.
And it was interesting as I was reading along, before the Revolutionary War, Americans were so dependent on Great Britain to import their goods and their textiles and their clothing and so forth.
And, you know, their flatware and Chinaware and so forth.
Everything came from Great Britain.
And George Washington was one of the first people who said, we have to stop being so reliant on Great Britain.
And one of the reasons was, of course, the taxation that was involved.
And so interestingly, American leaders back then sent people, you know, rather secretly abroad to Great Britain to study their industries, their manufacturing.
They had factories, textile factories there.
And these people came back and said, here's how you do it.
And that's how some of America's first factories, small factories, textile industry came about, as well as agriculture as well.
And that was the beginning, the genesis of a shift toward American process goods.
And, you know, and then, of course, it took flight after the Revolutionary War as well, where American products actually became superior to those abroad.
So there's a great rich tradition to all of this.
And I'm so delighted that Made in America and Don Buckner's group is really taking off and holding this event in Indianapolis.
Yeah, I'm so excited to be a part of it.
I love that bit of history that you just shared right now because, you know, I mean, just having that freedom to invent and having the freedom to start a business if that's what you want to do.
I mean, American Genius is written all over those vendors that are going to be showing their products at this event.
And it just makes me so proud, too, of them and of this country that really promotes that kind of growth and promotes that kind of ingenuity.
And, you know, and I want to say, too, that not only are we open to vendors, I mean, the companies who want to exhibit, but also, you know, we have a pass for the three days.
It's only $24.95, but you can attend, you can check out the products at the trade show, but also we have some really great speakers.
First of all, I mean, kicking off the event, and right now, because we're on your show right now, for a limited time only, those people who buy a three-day pass can attend for free the kickoff concert with Big Kenny and John Rich.
I mean, they're loyal supporters of the Made in America cause, and they too want to raise awareness for the American-made products.
And so John Rich, by the way, is a businessman, as you well know.
Everyone's heard of his Redneck Riviera whiskey.
I hope to sample a little bit of that myself when we get there.
But also, Ted Nugent's going to be there.
Dean Guitars and Redneck Riviera are the sponsors.
We've got Stephen Moore, Cowboy Troy, Daryl Waltrip, who started his own business.
Rosemary Gibson, Warren Tuttle, Mark Handel, Harry Moser, a lot of really great speakers.
So it's not just for those manufacturers to show their products, but also it's an opportunity for the public to come in to see those products.
But even more important than that, Greg, to be inspired by what these people have done and what these speakers have to say, because they too have within themselves that genius that can go and do anything they really want to do.
We have that freedom to do that in this country.
And the guys always like to talk about how Made in America is more than just a label.
But, you know, and it is.
It's a promise to Americans that's made by Americans.
And it's America's beating heart.
It really is.
It's jobs and towns and families reborn.
And that's how we see the Made in America label.
All right.
Well, the event comes up in Indianapolis October 3rd through the 6th.
And Maiden America is the nonpartisan private company.
You're involved in it, which is good enough for me.
Rose Tenna, talk show host.
Thanks for being with us today and telling us about it.
Really appreciate it.
Thank you.
MaidenAmerica.com is the website.
Thank you, Greg.
I appreciate it.
Take care.
All right.
When we come back, we're going to take some of your phone calls.
We've been talking about the latest documents that came out last night that demonstrate without a doubt that the FBI well knew that the entire collusion story was a hoax, that the author of the dossier upon which it was based was suspect and biased, and it didn't stop them.
It should have.
What are your thoughts?
We'll take your calls on the other side, 1-800-941-Sean, 1-800-941-7326.
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I want to go right to your phone calls.
We've been talking about FBI Department of Justice corruption in the Russia hoax that begat the witch hunt.
Joining us is Scott from Long Island.
Hey, Scott, how are you?
How's it doing, Greg?
Great, Greg.
If we don't have Sean, you are definitely a great fill-in for him.
So thank you.
Thank you very much.
You know, as all of this information, for those of us who pay attention, continues to unfold and the picture gets clearer and clearer of what really went on, the thing that concerns me is that those people who don't pay attention or who only watch the mainstream media and don't get this information, unless, you know, the AG or somebody frog marches all of these co-conspirators out of a courthouse one day, will it ever matter?
Will there ever be an aha moment for the rest of the country to realize what actually happened during the 2016 election and where the conspiracies really took place?
Yeah, you know, it's a great question, and I wish I had a good answer, except that I'm a believer in the truth, and in the end, the truth will prevail.
It is easy to invent a lie.
It's easier to spread a lie.
Uncovering the truth is hard, and it takes time because malevolent people like Comey and McCabe and Strzok and others, Brennan Clapper, I mean, they engage in elaborate cover-ups, which is why documents have not been forthcoming.
There is still an effort by Christopher Wray at the FBI to obstruct lawful subpoenas to produce documents.
I mean, the documents we got last night only came about because Judicial Watch spent more than a year suing the Department of Justice to get those documents.
Now, there has been a sea change under William Barr, the Attorney General, who has told people that DOJ and the FBI, knock it off.
And so hopefully more documents will be produced and more people will be held accountable.
Let's go to Michael in Arizona.
Michael, how are you?
Great.
How are you doing, Greg?
I'm well.
Your last caller was fantastic, and I am calling.
I'm a little disappointed with Sean and you and John Solomon and Sarah Carter that you're not on TV every night asking for Trump to fire Ray.
I think he's deep state.
I think he's corrupt.
I think he's going to hope that Trump is not re-elected and that he can outlast these subpoenas.
And I'm surprised that you and Sean have not been really outspoken.
And I'm also surprised that somebody below maybe A.G. Barr has not called up Ray and said, hey, you know, get off your butt and start releasing these things.
All right.
Well, listen, I appreciate your input.
I would say on my behalf, I have relentlessly condemned Christopher Wray on television and on radio.
And I can't tell you the amount of heat I've gotten by people who support Christopher Wray whenever I say he's James Comey's twin and just as corrupt.
So, you know, I think I've been pretty fair, but pretty straightforward with viewers and listeners.
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He's going to be joining us to talk about the deep state and the latest documents implicating the FBI.
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We've been getting almost on a daily basis new information that collusion was nothing more than a hoax.
And of course, Robert Mueller and his team of partisans never established that anybody in the Trump campaign had conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.
And this should have come as no surprise to anybody, any serious person who is paying attention.
And yet, the witch hunt persisted, but there were never any witches.
In my book, The Russia Hoax, I argue that the case against Donald Trump was never warranted by the facts.
It was never supported by the law.
And in my new book, Witch Hunt, the story of the greatest mass delusion in American political history, I chronicle all of the new evidence that proves the original thesis.
The fallacy of Trump as a collusive agent of the Kremlin.
It didn't exist, and it was blindly accepted by so many people without skepticism, without question, without scrutiny.
Now, for some people, this was just sort of an emotional response to an unexpected election.
You know, they countenanced this suspicion and accepted it as truth.
Their dislike of Donald Trump or his policies or both absolutely clouded their judgment.
It blinded them to any fair analysis.
And other people embraced the lie for malevolent purposes.
The liberal media in particular, in concert with Democrats, continued to endorse this false accusation.
Notwithstanding all of the evidence to the contrary, they betrayed a fidelity to objectiveness and fairness.
And they allowed their enmity and bias to obscure any reasoned judgment.
So you can read about it in my new book, Witch Hunt, which is available for pre-order online at amazon.com, barnsandnoble.com.
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But there's somebody else who has been following this day by day and who knows almost as much about it as Sean and John Solomon and so many others because he was an instrumental member of Congress when a lot of this was unfolding.
And he was asking during hearings all the right questions.
I'm talking about former Congressman Jason Chaffetz, who is a Fox News contributor and he's author of the new book.
It's called Power Grab, The Liberal Scheme to Undermine Trump, the GOP, and Our Republic.
It's available for pre-sale right now.
It'll be in bookstores in less than a month, about three weeks from now.
And he joins us.
Congressman, thanks so much for being with us today.
No, thanks, Craig.
Thanks for having me on.
Appreciate it.
You know, I want your reaction to the documents that were finally belatedly uncovered through a lawsuit by Judicial Watch.
And they essentially demonstrate without a doubt now that the FBI knew that Christopher Steele was severely biased against Donald Trump.
And yet the FBI kept using the Steele dossier over and over again, not only to fuel the Trump-Russia investigation, but presenting this information, even though they knew it was unverified and likely phony, to a FISA court, not once, but four times, to spy on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign associate.
What's your reaction to those documents?
Well, first of all, hats off to Judicial Watch for having the legal prowess to go get a judge in order to help compel them to get that, because they were able to do things that Congress, in its inept way and its inability to defend itself, was able to do.
So it's good to see those.
As you know, John Ratcliffe, the Congressman out of Texas, Trey Gowdy, former Congressman now out of South Carolina, they've been able to see the unredacted versions of these, and they have been giving us hints and clues, if you will, along the way.
These are still have some redactions in them.
But nevertheless, the documents that are now coming out, I think, are further evidence that what Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General, is looking at, and probably most importantly, Mr. Durham, the Connecticut U.S. Attorney, they have this in their hands.
They've had it for months and months and months now.
And if there's ever a time to actually hold people accountable, and I'm not just talking about drawing attention to it, I'm talking about putting handcuffs on people and firing people, taking away security clearances, and putting some people in jail for doing the unthinkable, which is going after a presidential campaign because of their own personal political bias.
You know, it's amazing to me the duplicity of a guy like James Comey, who, of course, holds himself out to be the ultimate symbol of rectitude.
And he's not.
I mean, he's one of the most devious characters in this sordid story.
But James Comey, here's a guy.
He's running a secret counterintelligence operation against the candidate Donald Trump and then President Donald Trump while simultaneously lying to Trump about it, assuring the president, oh, you're not a target of the investigation, when in fact, the documents now reveal he clearly was.
So he was lying to Donald Trump about that.
No, it's unbelievable.
You know, I was just reading through some of the documents.
You know, one of the characters that's involved and engaged here is Bruce Orr and his wife, Nellie Orr, who, of course, worked for Fusion GPS, an organization that had less than 20 employees.
It just so happens that Bruce Orr, a senior person at the FBI, his wife is also working for GPS and tied up in this whole steel mess.
But it reminded me when I looked at this document.
Do you know what the title of Bruce Orr was at the time when the FBI did the interview on December 19th of 2016?
His title at the Department of Justice was he was the Deputy Attorney General and Director of the Department of Justice's Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force.
I know.
So why is he brought over and engaged in this?
These are some pretty serious things that they have to do for law enforcement.
He's helping to run the drug enforcement task force, and he's over here helping to, you know, come up with this concoction about Donald Trump.
What is that?
I know.
It's really amazing when you think about it.
And the other part of the equation is, and you just alluded to it, how could two guys, Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele, basically all on their own, but with seed money from the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, how can these two nefarious characters essentially hold a nation and a presidency hostage for more than two years?
It's unbelievable.
You know, it's interesting when I look back at what Donald Trump has done.
He has maintained his innocence the entire time.
I know he's been frustrated about that.
I think anybody.
But I actually look back at Donald Trump and say, how were you so restrained in your outrage of what was going on here when you know the actual truth and then it comes out and verifies that, yeah, he was telling the truth.
And he's as open and as transparent as possible.
I've said this several times before.
Donald Trump should be winning awards from those bureaucracies in Washington, D.C. about openness and transparency and the Sunlight Foundation.
But he doesn't because they'd never want to give him any credit for maintaining his innocence, but then opening up so that they could do this Mueller investigation, which ultimately led to his definitive clearance.
Yeah, I mean, it is truly amazing.
You know, as transparent as he was, yet he gets accused of obstructing justice, obstructing the special counsel investigation and the FBI, which is utter nonsense.
This is a guy who made all witnesses available.
This is a guy who handed over more than a million pages, 1.4 million pages of documents to the special counsel.
goodness sakes, he even allowed his White House counsel, Don McGahn, to be interviewed for 30 hours by Robert Mueller, which no other president, I guarantee you, would ever allow.
I mean, it is clearly.
None of his attorneys are recommending that he do that, right?
That is just Donald Trump acting from his gut saying, you know what, go ahead and talk to him.
I don't care because I did it right.
And I lived, I was in Congress the entire time, start to finish of the Obama administration.
Greg, we don't have enough time on this Hannity program to detail all the times that the Obama administration did the exact opposite, destroying documents in the IRS case, destroying documents in the Hillary Clinton case, destroying documents and not making them available with Benghazi.
I mean, how many big, serious cases, in some cases where people died, and yet Donald Trump's over there saying, hey, have a look and talk to anybody, even though I don't have to let you.
It's just, it really, the difference between the Obama administration and the Trump administration just gets bigger and bigger for me.
Well, and when you read the Mueller report, which is 443 pages of nonsense, I mean, it is the most disorganized, self-contradictory, schizophrenic document I have ever read.
You know, trying to read that thing and make sense of it, making sense of the nonsense in it is really, you know, a Herculean task.
But, you know, he never interfered in the investigation.
What he did was he called it a witch hunt, and he complained about it.
He complained about the conflicts of interest that he thought Robert Mueller had and the team of partisan lawyers.
And they tried to twist that into obstruction of justice, as if proclaiming your innocence is somehow obstruction of justice.
I mean, it's just ludicrous.
Well, and he's the commander-in-chief.
He's the president of the United States.
The Constitution gives him every single imperative and right to do what he wanted to do.
He could have fired those people.
He didn't.
Despite a lot of people saying, hey, you should probably do that.
You know, he was highlighting, look, the conflicts of interest.
I can't believe these people still have their bar licenses.
I can't believe they have security clearances.
I can't believe they have a job anywhere.
I mean, at my local mall, I wouldn't want to have these guys guarding it.
So it's just unbelievable how much they've gotten away with.
But again, these new documents, I think, do further demonstrate where we're going with this.
And it's probably after Labor Day because the country kind of takes off here for the summer.
But after Labor Day, I think you're going to start to see some movement.
Attorney General Barr thought we were going to see it in May, but there's a lot of new information that's come to light.
And I think it also is a signal that Mr. Durham is doing some serious stuff.
And they got to make sure this is buttoned up tight.
Hey, listen, if you don't mind, I'd like to take a quick break.
And then I want to get your thoughts on the Inspector General report, which should be coming out probably next month.
But I just want to get your thoughts about that.
If you'll stick around for just a moment, we're talking with Jason Chaffetz, former member of Congress, who was instrumental in many aspects of investigating the Russia hoax, which, of course, begat the witch hunt.
We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean Hannity.
I'm talking with Jason Chaffis, former member of Congress, who knows a lot about the Russia hoax and the witch hunt.
And, you know, among the documents we found last night, the 302, the FBI reports on Bruce Orr, is that Christopher Steele, who composed the Phony Dossier, was deathly afraid and feared congressional inquiries.
No kidding, because they were inquiring into how he had been peddling a phony dossier.
Yeah, this relates to Senator Grassley's questioning of Director Comey.
And it's funny to actually see it articulated now on a piece of paper, but I bet they were scared to death.
Grassley, I think obviously the senator from Iowa is one of the best and most tenacious.
And I tell you, having worked with his staff, they do wonderful, wonderful work.
And I think Lindsey Graham has a real opportunity now to kind of grab hold now that he's the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and continue on.
And I've been very encouraged by Senator Graham's comments about the tenacious ability of that senator in a key position to demand answers.
And I think it's going to get, there'll be more and more exposure because of Senator Graham's work.
That's right, put out there by Grassley.
Right.
In fact, in reaction to those documents last night, Graham says, you know, this just demonstrates the whole thing with a fraud.
He said he called it systematic corruption at the highest level of the Department of Justice and the FBI against President Trump and in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Jason Chaffetz, thanks for being with us.
Jason has a new book out called Power Grab, the Liberal Scheme to Undermine Trump, the GOP, and the Republic.
It's available for pre-sale now.
It'll be in bookstores September 3rd.
Congressman Chaffetz, thanks so much.
Thanks, Greg.
I'm Greg Jarrett.
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In my new book, Witch Hunt, Chapter 2, I spent about 50 pages explaining how there was no Trump-Russia collusion.
There was Clinton-Russia collusion.
There was FBI-Russia collusion.
And yet, none of those corrupt acts seem to interest special counsel Robert Mueller in the least.
I mean, think about this.
This guy was tasked to find proof of a non-existent collusion conspiracy by Trump to steal the election from Hillary Clinton.
And no plausible evidence ever surfaced over the 22-month length of his probe.
And instead of diagnosing who engineered the hoax and exposing its manipulation to destroy a presidency, the special counsel was determined to sort of imagine an obstruction of justice offense that was utterly unsupportable in the law.
And Mueller knew it.
I mean, just read his report.
His explanation for why he decided not to decide the issue of obstruction was stunningly unintelligible.
And Attorney General William Barr said he was actually baffled by Mueller's quote-unquote strange statement, which then forced Barr and other top lawyers at the DOJ to correct Mueller's tortured interpretation of the law because the evidence did not sustain an obstruction offense.
But beyond the special counsel's incomprehensible reasoning and really his shameless derogation of Trump, what was extraordinary about the Mueller report was what was missing.
Nowhere in the exhaustive 448 pages was there a serious and earnest examination of all the clandestine actions of the Clinton campaign and the Democrats to hustle in hype their false Russia information to damage Trump and impact the 2016 presidential election.
Trump didn't collude with Russians.
His opponent did.
And Mueller conspicuously ignored it.
Oh yeah, there were a couple of passing references in the report to Steele.
There was an indirect reference to his infamous dossier.
Think about that.
How is that even possible?
I mean, the special counsel reportedly interviewed Steele twice.
Was Mueller only looking for incriminating evidence against Trump while ignoring the role of his opponent in successfully paying for Russian information to influence the election?
I mean, this was a remarkable abdication of duty for a man whose primary responsibility was to determine any Russian interference, any interference in America's democratic process.
This glaring omission only reinforced how the special counsel's investigation was infected with bias against Trump.
You can read about all of this in my new book, Witch Hunt, the story of the greatest mass delusion in American political history.
It's available now for order online at amazon.com, barnsandnoble.com, or go to harpercollins.com, the publisher, or simply go to my website, thegregjarrett.com.
We're taking some of your phone calls, 1-800-941-Sean, 1-800-941-7326.
Let's go to Mark, who joins us from Brooklyn.
Hey, Mark, how are you?
Hi, Dill.
Well, I have to ask you one question.
When Hillary would have gotten into office, as they would have expected, what do you think they would want to give her?
I know what they want to give her.
They want to give her Trump in handcuffs.
That's why they needed a warrant during the campaign to justify that when they put him on trial and then put him behind bars so he never would run organic against her in 2020.
Well, I hadn't quite thought of it that way, but, you know, And that probably might have been the motivation of some people behind it.
But the original motivation is, as Peter Strzok said, no, we're going to stop him.
That was before the election.
And what was the insurance policy that he and his lover, Lisa Page, were talking about?
He said, oh, I don't know anything about that.
I don't even remember that text.
Well, she did.
She testified behind closed doors, but that testimony was then publicly released.
She said, the insurance policy was our counterintelligence investigation against Trump, that we would enliven it if he were elected, but they didn't think he would be.
And of course he was, so they did.
Let's go to our next caller, Bob, in Illinois.
Hey, Bob, how are you?
Yes, thank you.
I love your radio presence and your TV presence.
Thank you.
And, you know, you're just super at both.
Thank you very much.
In spite of your radio appearance, you know.
But having said that, I think that the Democratic Party, this can be your next book when you can prove it.
And I think you're the guy that can prove things, is that they realize that their party is over.
In other words, they are threatened with never being elected again for quite some time.
And I believe that strongly.
And here's why I say that.
If one looks at what William Barr is intending to do, I believe he's intending to do, and that is expose the Clintons, the Comeys, the Obamas, the whole crew, the halters.
They have nothing left but to try this craziness.
There can't be 20 people this off-center.
Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
There is a level of thought among a great many people that the Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists and that people like AOC and the squad are really sort of the face of the new Democratic Party.
Not really a Democratic Party, but a socialist party or a Democratic Socialist Party.
And with free stuff, which is an old ploy by politicians, free this, free that.
We'll give you a chicken in every pot was one of the old sayings a great many decades ago to entice people to vote for them.
But now it's beyond a chicken.
Now it's free education, free health care.
And try to make sense of that.
I mean, you and I, as citizens, you know, we have to pay for our health care.
But some of these people who are running for president have advocated for free health care for illegal immigrants.
So if you're here legally, you follow the law, you got to pay for your health insurance.
But if you break the law and you come here illegally, you get free health care.
You know, it makes you kind of want to throw out your citizenship and become an illegal.
You know, that way you get free health care.
And, you know, everybody will disavow their citizenship, renounce it, and become an illegal, so we all get free stuff.
It's a great enticement, isn't it?
We'll get a free education.
We'll get free health care.
Pretty soon we'll give you a free guaranteed income.
We'll give you a free house.
We'll give you a free car.
Everything's going to be free.
It's great.
But as Margaret Thatcher said, The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of somebody else's money.
You know, I guess you could continue to print more money, but then you'd have inflation running in at about 10,000%.
All right, let's go to Bella, who joins us from New Jersey.
Hi, Bella.
Hey, Greg.
Quick three things I have to tell you.
First of all, I love you.
Great book.
And keep up the good fight.
Secondly, Christopher Wray has to go.
Third, nobody's going to go down, unfortunately, because it goes straight to Obama and they will never take him down.
And that's what worries me.
They all should go to jail.
Thank you, Bella.
You know, I agree that you'd have to be smoking some pretty strong stuff to believe that Obama wasn't involved in this.
I mean, you know, all you have to do is look at the text message from Peter Strzok to Lisa Page or Page to Strzok, in which, you know, she says the White House wants to know everything on this.
And that was in the context of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
And then Obama's involvement in arranging the debriefing of President-elect Trump on January 6th, 2017, the day before a big White House meeting with Comey and Yates and Brennan and Clapper and the whole gang, in which they decided in that meeting, let's lie to Trump.
We're only going to tell him about the P-TAP, but we're not going to tell him that we're spying on one of his former campaign associates.
We're not going to tell him the rest of the dossier alleging collusion.
Why?
Because they wanted to continue to run their secret counterintelligence op against the president of the United States.
And that's why Comey kept lying to the president saying, oh, no, you're not a subject.
You're not a target.
And in fact, he was.
But that's James Comey, of course.
Let's go to Bill in South Dakota.
Hey, Bill, how are you?
Hey, thanks for taking my call, Greg.
A couple of comments.
Number one, it just wasn't Trump that was being targeted.
It was the will of the people.
Trump just happened to represent the will of the people.
So it's all of us Americans who voted, who wanted to be a part of the Democratic process, who entrusted these people, who they get their power from the people, and they were using it against the people.
That's what makes this so outrageous.
Yeah, you know, I agree with you, Bill.
And, you know, all you have to do is look at Peter Strzok and Lisa Page's text messages.
Anybody who supported Donald Trump was, you know, smelly Walmart people.
And, you know, they were taking a cue from the woman they idolized, Hillary Clinton, who called every Trump supporter a deplorable.
So this is how these people were thinking about it.
You know, they didn't care about the will of the people.
When they targeted Trump, they targeted the will of the people.
You're absolutely right.
Let's go to our next caller, Vernon, in Michigan.
Hey, Vernon, how are you?
I'm doing good.
How are you doing today?
I'm well.
Thank you.
I thank you for all the work that both you and Sean Hannity and John Solomon and Sarah Carter have done to basically expose a lot of this nonsense.
Thank you.
I find it interesting, actually, Dan Pecure, that with all the financial dealings that the Clintons have done with Russia, that isn't it fairly obvious that she, Hillary Clinton, not Trump, would be favored by the Russians or them as a president?
Yeah, you know, They certainly had dealings with Hillary Clinton.
Read chapter 4 of the Russia hoax about the Uranium 1 deal and $145 million that went from Russian coffers to the Clinton Foundation at the same time that she presided over the CFIAS board that approved the sale of 20% of American uranium to the Russians.
Boy, if that ain't a quid pro quo, I'm Santa Claus.
We're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back with more of your phone calls.
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As we wind up the Sean Hannity show, I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean.
William Barr, the Attorney General, and U.S. Attorney John Durham certainly have their work cut out for them.
People like James Comey will plead ignorance or acute amnesia.
He always does.
Other former FBI officials will maybe come up with an incurable case of laryngitis invoking the Fifth Amendment.
And piercing the veil of secrecy that people like Brennan and Clapper routinely hide behind will be a challenge to say the least.
But I lay out the facts, the evidence, and the law in my new book called Witch Hunt, the story of the greatest mass delusion in American political history.
I hope you'll buy it.
I hope you'll read it.
You can order it online right now at the usual places, Amazon, Barnes ⁇ Noble, or there's a link on my website, thegregjarrett.com.
But Witch Hunt presents what I think is compelling evidence that high officials in government who we entrust to uphold the law instead breached that trust and they violated the law.
They're the ones who meddled in the election to help Hillary Clinton.
And then they aspired and conspired to evict Trump from office.
Evidence against him was invented or it was embellished.
Laws were perverted or ignored.
Trump was framed for a collusion conspiracy that never happened and they knew it was untrue.
You see, inventing the lie was really quite easy.
Spreading the lie was even easier.
Uncovering the full truth from here on out, that's really hard.
And it will certainly take time to unravel the layers of all the venal acts intended to take Trump down and ruin his presidency, to drive him from office.
But you know, the only cure for a lie is the truth.
And the only remedy for lawlessness is justice.
The reckoning awaits.
Please buy my book, Witch Hunt, available for pre-order online.
I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean Hannity on the Sean Hannity Show.
Thanks for being with us.
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