Liz Novak, was a Sacramento salon owner who had to move her salon because of the homelessness and drug abuse that Governor Gavin Newsom has allowed to run rampant. Since Newsom has changed the laws, and police are unable to arrest or deal with the vagrancy, Novak took to social media and videotaped her complaints to her obscenely liberal Governor.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.
You know, uh, Linda, I'm really looking forward to Elizabeth Novak on the program today.
Um, great idea, great booking.
It was your idea.
No, it's it's Jason's idea.
Jason brought it to me earlier in the week, and he said, Hey, have you seen this video?
He brought it to you.
He brought it to me.
You're welcome.
Yeah, welcome.
Exactly.
We have our own language here on the Sean Hannity show.
Tip to Moss.
All right.
So this just fits.
You know, we've been spending a lot of time focusing on, you know, the selective moral outrage of liberals.
Uh look, look at the El Paso shooting hours later, the Dayton shooting, and all the media wants to focus in on is the El Paso shooting because they can bludgeon Trump or so they think with that.
And based on their logic, then Elizabeth Warren would be responsible for Dayton because it was Elizabeth Warren supporter and uh Steve Scalee shooting.
Well, that would be a Bernie Sanders supporter, so he's responsible.
Just they never it it is just so obviously fake and phony.
And yet it's on every issue.
They don't care about Russian interference unless they can bludgeon Trump because there's no bigger Russian interference than what was likely Russian disinformation, quote the New York Times from the get-go, which is Hillary's dossier, the bulk of information, a spy on a presidential candidate, transition and president.
But we've been focused in like a laser beam on Baltimore.
We sent our special correspondent Lawrence Jones to Baltimore.
We sent him numerous times in places in New York City.
We have sent him to San Francisco twice because nobody really believed the first report.
So we sent him back.
And Los Angeles, this homeless encampment problem that they have there.
You know, the the two weekends combined around the El Paso and Dayton shootings, or as Joe Biden says the Michigan and what's the other state, he got it wrong as usual.
Didn't have any city or state right.
But, you know, I'm I'm watching all this.
There has this mass migration out of these liberal states.
Why is there mass migration?
Why are people live leaving beautiful states like California?
I've lived in California five years, but you know, that was in 1987, eight, nine.
You know, a beautiful place.
It was the like the poorest person in Santa Barbara, had no money, barely paying my rent every month.
It was some pain in the neck.
But I was starting radio and and I I was I've gotten lucky and had opportunities, had a little courage to jump off the high dive a few times.
Anyway, you look at what's happening.
All of these cities with decades of liberal governance, liberal governance, and where is the violence?
Why doesn't the media care about Chicago violence?
Because they can't bludgeon Trump.
Or why don't they care about Baltimore violence?
Because they can't bludgeon Donald Trump and blame him for it.
Or the same with the homelessness in Los Angeles, these encampments that have gotten so out of control.
There was a shooting in one of them yesterday, two people shot.
Then you've got San Francisco.
Lawrence Jones went there twice, one mile from Nancy Pelosi's home.
One mile away in one direction.
One mile from her office in the other direction.
In the middle is an area where drug addicts are on the streets shooting up drugs, dropping their needles everywhere.
We've got all the video to prove it to you.
There is a huge problem in terms of people urinating and defecating right there a mile away from Nancy Pelosi's home and office.
And I'm thinking, well, wait a minute.
This is California.
We have the homeless encampments in California.
And what do we have?
You know, in Chicago, violence, poverty, misery.
Why, why haven't these cities?
California has a 13.5% state income tax.
What are they doing with all of that money?
Why are people leaving New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California in droves?
Why are why are People moving to Texas and Florida and Tennessee and the Carolinas and any low tax, no tax, no state income tax state.
Why are they leaving?
They're leaving because of the poor governance, the decades run rule where it's never ending, pick your pocket, you know, cradle to grave, womb to tomb, funding for everything.
You know, so we're gonna have this owner on of the Sacramento business.
She owned a hair, she owns a well owned a hair salon.
And she's been sending out these messages on social media, blasting Gavin Newsom.
Now, Gavin Newsom's been, what, 22 years, mayor of San Francisco, then lieutenant governor for eight years.
You know, 22 years, now he's the governor.
And what we just got here is his answer.
But listen, just listen, because the only thing I say is if you're in any of these liberal states, like we're taxed to death in New York, um, and you're gonna leave and you're gonna move.
All right, fine.
I don't blame you.
I need to get the hell out of here.
I need to like write a letter to Governor Cuomo, Comrade de Blasio, goodbye from a kid that was born and raised in New York.
I I'm not taking it anymore.
You have you've taxed me out of New York.
I could write that letter and it'd be a pretty good letter, don't you think, Linda?
I think we could get another Broadway song out of it.
We might get another Broadway song.
Say Hannities.
I just did that in the studio.
It's so funny.
Jon Stewart did a really funny, but he got the Jersey boys because I said Nathan Lee.
Say Mr. Hannity stay.
Who would we tax to his money was gone?
Who would we impose socialism upon?
Say for life and talking.
Stay in your fast and second homes, don't disappear forever.
My gallon comes.
Please, Mr. Henny.
Now, why did this happen?
I play the whole thing.
This they had the whole Jersey boys crew.
I happen to know from people that actually have talked to John Stewart.
John Stewart hates my guts, which is the feeling's kind of mutual, but I don't wish any harm on, you know, uh he's he has different points of view.
I thought he did a really good thing with the people that uh that served on post-9-11 and the health issues.
I I agreed with him.
We need to take care of those people.
And thankfully we got the job done finally.
All right, but here's the point.
That came as a result of the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo saying this about conservatives.
Uh, their problem is not me and the Democrats.
Their problem is themselves.
Who are they?
Are they these extreme conservatives who are right to life?
Uh poor assault weapons, anti-gay.
Is that who they are?
Because if that's who they are, and if they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York.
So this is that's not who New Yorkers are.
You don't have a place in the state.
Well, I'm I am right to I believe, yeah, life kind of begins at conception, and I don't believe that the baby should be born and let make sure the baby's comfortable, and then let the mother decide.
Or during dilation and the birthing process that you can just uh, yeah, yeah, I don't think I want this kid that's about to be born.
No, I'm not, I'm not that extreme liberal.
But then all of a sudden, these liberal, these governors of other states like Florida, Governor Scott at the time, North Carolina, and we got an invitation from there, Texas.
Uh, what was it, Governor Abbott at the time?
Uh or Rick Perry, I don't remember.
They both have been, I'm an honorary Texan.
I need Texas is great.
Um, invited me to come there.
They said they they would love to have me.
And I pay all my taxes.
I don't have any choice, if even if I wanted to.
I'm like, I know they're gone over with a fine-toothed comb every every year.
Trust me, they are.
Um, I believe in the second amendment.
I'm not anti-gay.
As a matter of fact, I think I'm the most outspoken person in the country about the treatment of gays, lesbians, persecution of women, Christians, and Jews in countries that practice sharia.
And I say all the time that I mean this ought to be something we all agree on.
But anyway, okay, now I have my 9.9%, 9.1% state income tax in New York.
I live in the second highest property tax county in New York, the county I was born in.
It's insane what they charge.
Nassau County, just buying Westchester County in New York.
Uh, then we have sales taxes, hidden taxes, every taxes tax.
I pay over 60 cents of every dollar I make to government.
And that's a lot of money.
You go to immediately, I get to keep 16% more if I move to a no-income tax state.
And I don't care how high their property taxes are, they won't begin to touch what New York is.
And so all these people are leaving.
The only thing I'm saying is if you're gonna leave, don't bring your idiotic liberal policies with you and destroy the new states that you're moving to.
When Mike Huckabee told me that all these people are leaving California, and if you rent a U-Haul to get to Texas from Los Angeles, 1600 bucks.
I don't know if it's uh you haul that you drive or you haul that you're you know, a hitch to the back of your car.
I'm not sure which one he was talking about.
But if you take it from the same place in Texas to California, you can get it for 400 bucks or less.
Because you're doing you haul a favor at that point, because really the exodus is from one state to another.
Now, this is a phenomenon created by liberal government.
And you listen to this, this poor woman.
Listen, being a hair salon owner is not easy.
I mean, that is a labor-intensive job.
I mean, Linda, I don't go to hair salons.
I've taken my daughter a few times to a nail salon.
My daughter gets mad because I try to get uh hire a couple of people to work on her at the same time because it takes forever.
Yeah, nothing like Russian spa experience.
Nice job.
Well, I mean, a manny petty, if you sit there with one person, oh my, can we at least have two?
One do the feet, one how about one for each hurry up with that relaxation.
I know my daughter is just saying, dude.
She just gave she just said, Dad, can we please I'll do it myself?
Yeah, I don't think I'd let you in.
Uh, yeah.
I said, why?
She goes, it's embarrassing.
First of all, you have the attention span of a net.
So I can't imagine having you in there rushing me, not paying attention and telling me to hurry up.
I'm trying to be nice, you know, and bonding moments with the people.
Yeah, be nice.
Give her the money and say have a good time.
Okay, but I would take her because she would try to not like find the time for it.
I'm like, here, I'll go with you.
Wait in the car.
Then I hired two people.
Then once I hired three people, and that was that was the tipping point.
You know what you should do?
I got a great idea.
So you should let her go to the spa, take her time, and you can go play golf.
Wolf.
Nobody, I'd never heard of the game golf.
So I tell you, I was watching it last night.
Very impressed with me.
I watched it a little bit.
Yeah.
What's a what is how what is par mean?
They're doing pretty good.
What is par mean?
How do you get a par?
You swing your club.
Swing your club.
You hope that the ball goes in.
Goes in.
And then you walk along in funny shoes.
And how do you get a birdie?
I have no idea.
And what's a bogey?
I don't know any of these special words.
What's a double bogey?
I don't know.
All right, this is priceless because you know nothing about sports.
But I had the challenge.
So good effort.
Nobody knows goof.
Um, all right, but I'm gonna play this when we come back.
And she's gonna join us later in the program.
This woman, Elizabeth Novak.
It's not easy to own a salon.
Takes forever.
I mean, do you go to a salon to get your hair done?
I assume.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Um, okay.
It takes me about either I go to the local barbershop or you know, Linda, who's been with us at Fox for 22 years, is wonderful, and she'll cut my hair if I ask her.
And I I'm there for like how fast can you do it?
I don't, I don't do any of the extra stuff.
How long does it take to do your hair?
Me?
Yeah, you.
Oh, forget about it.
I gotta go in, I gotta have coffee, we gotta talk a few minutes, we've got to talk about the direction we're taking my hair.
Sort of like the song Suns in the Bucket, the Biddy's in the beauty shop gossip going nonstop.
I love my salon.
I love my hair styles.
Oh my god.
You gotta listen to the song by Sarah uh Evans, uh Suds in the Bucket.
It has that line in it.
Biddy's in the beauty shop, gossip going non-stop.
I'm like, what?
Where did this come from?
It's awesome.
I love it.
All right, we're gonna play.
You gotta hear from this woman because it describes everything that's wrong.
Everything that's failing.
That's why Obama and Biden failed.
Liberalism doesn't work.
People are leaving liberal states in droves.
The government is chasing them away.
Uh, all of Biddy's in the beauty shop, not because of going.
Is that really what happens, or is that just a cliche?
Oh no, that's that does happen.
Oh, yeah.
So is it really offensive that I would say, you know, if I with my daughter we go to a nail salon?
I mean, there's there's extra people that aren't working at the time.
It's not like I'm taking people away from other customers just to kind of speed up the process a little bit.
You don't think that's a good thing to do.
What do you think the purpose of a spa moment is?
I don't know.
How about you get in and get out?
I mean, so so when I go to a barbershop, there's no biddies in the barbershop, gossip going nonstop in a barbershop.
Yeah, that's not even the same thing.
And first of all, there's a lot of chit chat in a barbershop.
No, we do a lot of talking.
Listen, I got my I got these guys, they're awesome.
They're really cool.
We thought we do.
And what do you guys talk about?
Politic.
Politics sports.
What else?
What's golf?
Anything?
Wolf.
What's a par?
I have no idea.
What's a birdie?
I really don't know.
I'm gonna Google it on the break.
You know, I started out.
I was gonna be so pissed off.
I am really angry.
I mean, I'm glad we have on this woman, Elizabeth Novak.
She's gonna be up in the next hour.
And she she's been sending these messages to Gavin Newsom, a 22-year veteran of politics, mayor of San Francisco, Lieutenant Governor, eight years since 2004.
Now the governor who's a wannabe president one day.
And, you know, here you have 13.5% state income tax.
She has to shut down her shop because of what is a rampant problem all over California, which is why so many people are leaving.
High taxes and still they can't afford shelters, and you got people shooting up in the streets in San Francisco, Sacramento, and elsewhere, these encampments.
Uh, they have a problem with defecating on streets in these big cities.
What do they do with the money that they are given or take?
They confiscate.
There's no way here's explanation.
That's next.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
Happy Friday.
So before I play the tape of Elizabeth Novak will join us in the next hour at some point, you know, you got to understand something here.
You know, the now the New York Times has revealed that they now want to move on.
Because uh, well, it was more it was a little trickier than we thought, and it didn't work out the way we wanted, and we built a whole newsroom to cover one story, the Russia lie, and we pushed the conspiracy, but now they're moving on to racism of Donald Trump.
That's it.
That's their focus now, and they have which happens every two and four years.
And I'm thinking, okay, well, what are the indicators that Donald Trump has a good shot of being reelected?
Are we better off than we were three years ago?
The answer is overwhelmingly yes.
Best employment situation since 1969, every demographic.
We've mentioned that a lot.
And then the other thing that the media seems to want to do is just kind of talk down the successful economy.
Now, even openly, like in the case of Bill Maher and others, hoping for a recession.
They want it, well, okay, maybe it doesn't impact Bill Maher, but it's gonna impact American workers.
It's gonna impact the forgotten men and women that after eight failed years of Biden Obama, where we added 13 million more Americans to food stamps and eight million more in poverty.
Oh, now we're gonna we're gonna just abandon any hopes that they continue to get ahead in life and have opportunities in life.
You know, it's funny.
The Bank of America's CEO is a guy by the name of Brian Moynihan.
He blasted what he called the uh pundant acracy on NBC News.
The TV economist helped spook the stock market last week with their overhyped the yield curve inversion in the bond market.
And he pointed to the soaring consumer spending, which is up nearly 15% since Donald Trump became president.
We also have 7 million new jobs created, and we also have oh, 7 million fewer people on food stamps and millions that have gotten out of poverty.
And he went on to say he said the consumer's doing well and making more money.
They're employed, and more importantly, they're spending more money.
That's good because when people produce goods and services and other people buy, that's good for the economy.
That's good for American workers.
That means maybe they can get a nice house in a safe neighborhood, drive a nice car, you know, have a happier life.
You know, it's again, here we are.
What is what is crazy Bernie want to do?
I mean, this is pretty insane.
Bernie wants to now spend 16 trillion dollars.
16 trillion, and I'm not making this up.
Uh to up the ante on all he doesn't want to be out socialist by the socialist.
And so he's saying that he wants to literally tax oil executives.
You know, psycho burning.
I don't know.
He's vowing to even criminally prosecute oil company executives and tax the living daylights out of them.
Okay, but those companies don't pay taxes.
We're about to have a summer where we're gonna pay less than two bucks a gallon for gas.
And we're energy independent for the first time in 75 years.
Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused.
Wow.
We're going to end the greed of the fossil fuel industry.
They're so dumb.
It's the lifeblood of our economy, our energy.
And by the way, if you want to bring Putin to his knees and not be dependent on the politics of the Middle East and some countries that hit our guts, uh, we should uh be as independent and the biggest exporter as possible because truck drivers are trained to make 80 grand a year starting out as we learned in North Dakota.
Unbelievable.
Oh, and then he's gonna spend 16 billion dollars.
16, I'm sorry, trillion dollars with a T. Well, we only take it, we our budget's only four trillion dollars for his new Green Deal.
And every I've guaranteed everything.
Where's that money gonna come from in a crashing economy with no oil and gas?
Is how nuts they are?
That's why all these people want to leave these big states.
I'll give you another reason.
So New York State results are in for kids in third through eighth grade, public school students in New York.
And once again, more than half the kids flunked.
Only 45.4% of kids in third through eighth grade in New York public schools, meaning the state were deemed proficient in reading.
Only 46.7% were proficient in math.
We pay more per capita than any other country in the world of industrialized nations.
We're 37th.
Wow.
What do you get for your money?
Nothing.
You think of a new creative innovative idea?
They even had this all girls' public school experiment in New York, and liberals sued to stop it.
After the kids loved it, the parents loved it, the scores were phenomenal.
Why innovation?
You know, when it would destroy what is the unholy alliance between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party.
Just listen a little bit though.
Why is Elizabeth Novak who's joining us in the last hour, which fits the theme?
Why people are leaving New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California in droves, and I don't blame them, just don't bring your liberal policies with you to your new state.
Why is she leaving Sacramento?
Let's listen a little bit.
This video is for Gavin Newsom.
Um, I'm gonna wait for a response from you, but I'm not I'm not gonna stop messaging you, tweeting you, making videos to you, emailing you, writing you, calling you.
I want to know what you're gonna do for us Californians.
I have had a business in downtown Sacramento for 15 years, a successful business.
I now have to leave my place of business.
I have to close my shop.
Um, I own a hair salon.
Yes, I can go do hair somewhere else, but it's not as convenient to my clients as downtown Sacramento is.
Thank God I live an hour and 10, 20 minutes away from there.
But I just want to tell you what happens when I get to work.
I have to clean up the poop and the pee off of my doorstep.
I have to clean up the syringes.
I have to politely ask the people who I care for, I care for these people that are homeless to move their tents out of the way of my my the business, my the door to my business.
I have to fight off people that push their way into my shop that are homeless and on drugs because you won't arrest them for drug offenses.
I have to apologize to my clients as to why they can't get into my door because there's somebody asleep there, because they're not getting the help we need.
I talked to the police officers.
They told me to contact you.
They want to do something and they can't.
You change the lives.
So I want to know what you're gonna do for us, the ones that are unhappy.
You want to make a stink sanctuary state.
You want to make it comfortable for everybody except for the people that work hard and have tried their hardest to get along in life, and now we have to change that because of your loss.
Your liberal ideology is not working, and I don't know who you're trying to please.
While you sit in your million-dollar home and you don't have to look at what we have to look at, there's hardworking people out there that have to deal with this on a daily basis.
What are you gonna do for us?
Now Elizabeth's gonna join us uh at the bottom of the half hour in the next hour.
It's unbelievable.
Why it's sad.
That's a hard job running being a salon owner.
That's that's labor-intensive work.
How much do you pay if you don't mind me asking when you usually go to a salon?
Linda, I don't yeah, maybe that's a personal question.
I don't know.
New York prices are not comparable to the rest of the country, I don't think.
All right.
That's probably true.
I mean, look, I just give I give a nice tip to my guy, so I just give him like a fee.
I just walk in here.
Take the I don't even know what it costs.
I don't ask.
And you have a speed fee.
Do you tell him he has five minutes to cut your hair?
That mop on your head.
And if he doesn't do it in five minutes, he doesn't get the fee.
And people say, well, why don't you color your hair a little bit and get Botox?
I'm like, what?
No, not happening.
I dare you to dye your hair.
Yeah, I dare you.
Yeah, so not happening.
Why don't you go blonde?
Okay.
Did you notice fake news CNN is now hired?
Their top FBI Russia hoax co-conspirator, Andrew McCabe.
You know, the guy that told uh 33-year war veteran.
Oh, you don't need a you don't need a lawyer when in fact he did need a lawyer.
And then call me bragging, oh, we took advantage of the chaos, something we wouldn't do in the Bush or Obama administrations.
Anyways, fake news CNN, they have no intention giving up the Russia hoax.
They hired McCabe.
And um, you know, he has now joined the first name in fake news as a paid contributor.
That's fine.
It actually probably is a perfect fit.
And he says, well, the CNN gig gives McCabe his uh fighting and termination in court.
He filed the lawsuit in district court, alleging that his removal was part of a scheme by the president.
He's flipped this sucker on its on its head.
Um he says, uh, because he wasn't politically loyal to the president.
Nice try.
Um but what's interesting about this is Sarah Huckabee Sanders got hired by Fox.
And then you got Humpty Dumpty, and you know, do you know that other guy that writes for them who hates my guts?
What's his name?
Um, Oliver.
That guy, uh by the way, really strange stories about Oliver from my staff.
Yikes.
But anyway, putting that aside, one day I run into him at Geraldo's bookport.
He goes, Hey Sean, how are you?
And I'm like, Do I know you?
No, it's me, Oliver.
I'm like, Oliver, who?
No idea who Oliver is.
It's me, Oliver from CNN.
I said, Oh, fake news CNN.
I walked away.
I really that really happened.
You know, what about all the you know, Jim uh Schiano was a political appointee of uh sorry, Scuda was a uh political appointee of Obama on foreign affairs.
He was hired by fake news CNN.
Axelrod now works for conspiracy TV MS. Uh, or he did for a while.
Now he's a fake news CNN.
Uh Robert Gibbs, you know, he went to conspiracy TV MSDNC.
Gensaki went to the Obama House White House Communications Director.
She's a fake news CNN contributor.
Jared Bernstein went from Biden's chief economist to conspiracy TV MSDNC.
Ben Rhodes went to NBC and MSDNC.
Rom Rombo Deadfish joined uh ABC along with his buddy Georgie Stephanopoulos.
Andy McCabe now, FBI director under Obama, now fake news CNN, and then we got James Baker and Josh Campbell and Jay Carney and Josh Erner.
So they were mad at you know, okay.
Well, you hire a guy that was fired for lying and leaking.
Okay, well, then I guess everything kind of fits perfectly.
It's like a perfect marriage as far as I can see.
This is CNN.
Have some good news.
The head of the U.S. Border Patrol uh announced this morning 200 miles of new construction on the president's border wall is now stopped.
Uh started now, thanks to the president reallocating funds.
He was on Fox this morning, and you know, he said the decision to deploy troops to the southern border was a significant factor in speeding up border wall construction.
It's on top of the miles and miles that they ended up fixing.
Um I think is a good thing.
By the way, for all you impeachment Democrats, sorry, new poll shows, even Democrats have given up on your impeachment uh fantasy.
Monmouth University poll been tracking the issue.
59% of voters overall now oppose this endeavor.
Now I guess that's not good.
You have a Democratic lawmaker says he likes the way illegal immigrants mows his lawn.
Do you hear about that guy?
Imagine if a Republican said this, Tom Malinowski explaining to constituents in New Jersey's 7th Congressional District because uh they're not willing to take the jobs that the community's teenagers no longer do.
Quote, we have to think about the jobs because the reason this happens is because there are a lot of jobs in our community that, like it or not, for better or worse, Americans are not willing to take.
To think about the jobs, right?
Because the reason this happens is there are a lot of jobs in our community that, like it or not, for better or worse, Americans are not willing to take.
I mean, who do you think is taking care of our seniors?
50% of the elder care workers in the state of New Jersey are immigrants.
Most of them legal, most of them documented, but certainly some who are not.
Who do you think is mowing our beautiful lawns in Somerset County?
We don't usually ask, but a lot of those workers are undocumented.
They're addressing not a lot of, you know, kids, sorry for Montgomery High, who are going to be doing that full time.
You guys are you guys are going into robotics for goodness that we're about to uh did I hear laughter there?
I don't know.
I mean, I mean, I I don't see that in my life.
I see people that are happy that the economic situation has gone from Obama Biden and adding 13 million Americans to food stamps and eight million in poverty and the worst labor participation rate since the 70s and worst recovery since the 40s.
I think the 7 million Americans that now have new jobs because of the Trump economy, the 7 million that used to be on food stamps that are no longer the millions that were in poverty that are no longer in poverty are happy at the change.
I mean, as evidenced by, you know, I don't think it's an accident that when we have the best employment situation in the country since 1969, although others are praying for a recession.
Wow, let's just talk about the height of selfishness.
Let's hope I hope there's a recession.
We don't care who gets hurt.
As long as we get rid of Trump.
Doesn't get any sicker than that.
Then let's divide the country.
We we were singularly focused, an entire newsroom on one issue, the New York Times said.
But then it got tricky.
Our lies turned out to be lies.
Our conspiracy theory is exposed.
Now we're going to dedicate our newsroom to the next one thing that's gonna take out Trump race.
We're gonna talk about racism for a whole year.
This is how much they you know, think about this.
It's not Trump that they hate.
Because if they really cared about the American people, they said this is great.
Thank God things are getting better.
Thank God, you know, the economy's improved.
Record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, youth unemployment.
That never happened under Biden Obama.
You would think that that would be met with happiness.
No.
You wonder why people are leaving these states.
If they ever get power and they implement their Green New Deal, what they've done in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California, they will do on a mass scale to the country.
It will be a disaster.
Remember, I said all you cabinet people come up here to tell us yes when we ask you if you're going to answer our stuff.
I said maybe you better say maybe.
So if you want to say maybe now and be really honest, say maybe.
Otherwise, I hope you'll answer that October 17th letter once we get you voted into office.
Yes, Senator.
In looking back at our investigations into the mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts.
All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information or vast quantities of information exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct or indications of disloyalty to the United States or efforts to obstruct justice.
We do not see those things here.
All right, glad you're with us.
Hour two Sean Hannity show.
We're taking you back on purpose.
Now that was in July, July 5th to be specific, 2016.
The 13-minute lead up to Nevermind by James Comey, classified top secret, special access programming information all on Hillary's secret server.
And then, of course, the deletions and the uh bleach bit and the hammers and the SIM cards removed.
Okay, based on him, we can't find a single case.
Well, Christian Saucier went to jail because he had six pictures on his own cell phone of a submarine that he worked on that he was proud to work on.
Uh, what we found in our investigation is what he just said there is we can't find it.
No, that none of that is true.
Far less severe uh and less intentional acts uh have resulted in significant convictions and jail time.
Now, why is this important?
Why are we going back to the Hillary Clinton email server scandal?
Because uh of new information we have care of uh investigative reporter, vice president of the Hill, John Solomon, and it all surrounds her illicit server and the case not being settled because that press conference, what you heard right there was Jim Comey literally failing prior to that statement to grant the investigators.
Now think back in May of 2016.
Remember, they were writing the exoneration.
They took out the term gross negligence, the legal standard.
They put in the words extreme carelessness, so they didn't meet the legal standard.
That was all done on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
Then when you look at the comments of Strzok and Page, puff, they said, Well, we know, we know for a fact this is going through a uh Justice Department that loves Hillary, they're never gonna do anything with this.
Uh, that was their statement of fact on that particular case.
Uh, then we had the tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch just days before Comey's statement.
And then we have the exchange between Comey and Loretta Lynch.
It's a matter.
It's not an investigation.
But what we now know is it was even worse than we thought that the FBI under James Comey failed to grant the investigators into the Hillary email investigation on her secret server in a mom and pop shop bathroom closet that we now know in real time was hacked by the Chinese, likely others as well, and Peter Strck knew and didn't do a thing about it.
We also know that Peter Strck interviewed Hillary Clinton just three days before James Comey gave that uh presser, and she was allowed to bring in which is unprecedented in her interrogation, people involved in the case that had also been given immunity, like Cheryl Mills and one other person.
So what we learned in this report of John Solomon is agents that were tasked with investigating Clinton, but they weren't allowed to see key pieces of evidence, and there's a good reason for that, and it appears the rigged investigation is way more rigged than we ever knew, because the so-called criminal probe, or as the attorney general at the time Lynch liked to say, matter, uh, was a whole con job.
No other American would get away with this.
It's so it's so obvious what was happening rigged from the beginning under Comey McCabe, Page, uh, Loretta Lynch, Strck, and others, there was never going to be any charges against Hillary Clinton.
The one that thought there should have been was James Baker, the general counsel, the top lawyer at the FBI.
And up to the last second, they had to persuade him not to take that position.
Anyway, she got a get out of jail free card.
And if you don't believe me, just try and do what Hillary did, and then try and cover it up and delete subpoenaed emails and acid washer hard drive and beat up your uh blackberries and iPhones and remove the SIM cards after the subpoena.
Good luck with all of that.
But It appears that the level of commitment to protect Hillary Clinton was far greater than we ever knew.
And then ironically, what did they do?
Then they turned on Donald Trump, and immediately thereafter, the same people turned into Operation Crossfire Hurricane, and even later would use Hillary Clinton's bought and paid for Russian lies to spy on a presidential candidate, transition team, and and then a United States president, John Solomon, who's been breaking all of this down, joins us now.
Um why don't I let you fill in the gaps here why this is back in the news, why this is important, and now we have if there was ever any ambiguity that the fix was in, now we know what was in the documents that Comey would not allow the investigators to see, because you know what was in there.
Well, uh, we really don't know exactly what was in there because the uh the FBI it's super classified.
These are really at the highest level classification, known as compartmentalized.
So only the president and a handful of other people normally would have access to it.
So it's a very super secret, very sensitive uh set of information and documents that the FBI had identified was important.
That's their word, the agents working the case, important to see to determine whether Hillary Clinton uh was engaged in criminality with her her server, and at the end of the day, they weren't allowed to see it.
Now we don't know why they weren't allowed to see it.
Did someone overruled them?
That was there a bureaucratic blunder.
We don't know, but it goes to that competency and all of the shenanigans that were going on on the James Comey, Andrew McCabe uh FBI watch.
Uh but it's important to know that the F uh uh the the neglect on this continues to this day.
In 2018, the inspector general of the Justice Department, Michael Horowitz, uh directly uh identified this uh information.
He actually built an annex for people to go look at, made it easy for people to go figure out what they should have looked at and what impact they might have on the case.
And till this day, now late summer of 2019, no one has still, to our knowledge, gone and looked at it or responded to Congress about whether it was evidence of criminality or could have affected the outcome of the Clinton case.
The agents who s who wanted to see it identified it as quote unquote important.
That's their words.
They never got to see it.
Hillary's exonerated before they got to see it, and to this day we're not getting an accounting of what that information was.
It's remarkable.
It shows just how politicized and also how incompetent the FBI was in that period when James Comey was running the department.
Like you, I have sources, and I'm told that the information was so devastating, it would also not only go to the heart of the email server investigation.
How did Peter Strzok when he was informed that the Chinese had hacked into Hillary's website?
I thought that was a bad thing.
That means they got top secret and classified information and they were getting it in real time, we discovered.
He's told all of that and never did a thing about it.
Why?
Well, you know, there's a a great term in the IG report.
There was a uh in the new documents that came out.
The FBI showed a lack of interest in in uh pursuing the possibility that Hillary Clinton's emails were compromised by a very important foreign adversary, China.
Uh th this i is inexplicable.
You can't explain why the FBI wouldn't have an interest.
They were real concerned about whether Russia was compromising Donald Trump, right?
They weren't concerned if China was compromising Hillary Clinton.
It goes to this double standard that we saw through this period through this group of characters at the top of the FBI, McCabe, Comey, Strck.
Very concerning.
And when people say there's a dual justice of system, these are the sort of episodes that make people say, you know what, I might believe that after reading that.
It just does it defies logic.
You're worried about Donald Trump's Russia problem.
You're not worried about ch uh Hillary Clinton's China problem.
You're going to exonerate Hillary Clinton, but you don't look at the evidence that might uh affect that determination, even though you called it important.
Uh there are so many shenanigans, so many inexplicable acts that go on inside the FBI in the summer of 2016.
And let's remind everybody the day you played that clip from, July 5th, 2016, when we're all done with the Russia case, that will be the day of infamy.
It's not only the day that Hillary Clinton is exonerated by James Comey under dubious circumstances, it's also the day that Christopher Steele, the very same day, Christopher Steele, the Apple researcher, British MI6 agent, walks his dossier into the FBI in London.
July 5th is going to be a day of shame for the FBI on multiple cases.
Let me let me go back to what my sources have told me also that now do we know For a fact that this information that Comey is withholding from investigators, uh, do we know for a fact that he knew what was in it?
We do not.
I mean, there's a lot of mystery shrouded in this.
We know the agents knew enough about it to consider it important and wanting to do it.
And when the IG report came out in 2018, and it was a classified annex, everybody I'm I'm told, people directly familiar or who've seen the document said everybody agreed so we should have looked at this, and it's not too late to look at it.
Let's look at it now.
And for a year and a half since that moment, Senators Grassley, Senators Johnson, members of the their staff have been unable to get the attorney general, the Justice Department, the FBI to answer.
Have you looked at it?
Does it change your opinion of Hillary Clinton?
Should there be criminality?
Are there new allegations that surface from it?
There's been radio silence.
So every time you hear the Justice Department saying we're cooperating, just remember this.
A year and a half later, we do not have an answer where they looked at it or considered the implications to Hillary Clinton.
Well, clearly the Inspector General Horowitz did, and he seemed a little shocked that they didn't.
You know, uh Lindsey Graham is saying about the upcoming IG report on Pfizer abuse that it will be, quote, chilling.
And then he told the local radio station in in South Carolina that the IG will come to testify.
It will be Lindsay Graham's committee.
We're going to make sure he gets all the time he needs to tell the country exactly what happened.
He will be in public.
We want to do all of it uh that we can in the open.
We don't want to have a classified session unless we need to, uh, and called it chilling and words that were given to me between this and what happened abroad, and that would be the outsourcing of spying and intelligence gathering even against an uh United States president and allies of the president uh were outsourced to circumvent U.S. laws to our allies in Italy, Great Britain, and Australia.
Um, we know this is coming out.
Now, um, but the one thing I can't get a handle on is if I ever committed a premeditated fraud using a phony Russian dossier, which you reported the FBI finally picked up a spreadsheet on and and they picked out over 90 percent of it was false, if not all of it.
And then it was they were warned that it was false.
They were warned it was political.
They were warned that Steele had an agenda numerous times.
You've also broken that stories, Kathleen Kavlek and and Bruce Orr warned everybody, but they used it anyway, and then Christopher Steele himself renders the dossier unverifiable, saying himself he has no idea if any of it's true.
That's right in an interrogatory, but they used it anyway.
That sounds like premeditated fraud against a Pfizer court for the purpose of spying on an American citizen, and in this case, a backdoor to the Trump campaign transition and presidency.
Now the question is, would I go to jail over that?
I think I would.
Well, the I was talking to a very wise person last night who's covered the Justice Department and and and watched it for many years as a trained observer, and they said that there are three levels of justice that seem to be apparent.
One for Republicans and everyday people, one for Democrats and Hillary Clinton, and one for the Department of Just Us, playing off the word justice.
And and I think there's a growing concern that there's been an extraordinary body of evidence now brought forth of wrongdoing within the Justice Department.
Let's take a couple of just plain examples of the case.
Why is FBI director Ray seemingly unwilling to cooperate and hand over papers that would take our premier law enforcement agency and get it back on track?
He seems resistant to helping repair the damage that was done by his predecessor.
And let's take a look at some other things.
Fifteen months ago, the inspector general referred former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe for prosecution for lying, felony lying to uh ongoing investigations.
How many months ago for felony lying?
What happened to Papadopoulos?
What happened to Michael Cohn?
What happened to Manafort?
15 days it took to get them charged.
Fifteen months have passed, Andrew McCabe hasn't been charged.
We know from my reporting, and it's now been corroborated by many others in the media, that uh the inspector general also referred James Comey for prosecution, and the Justice Department passed on that.
At some point, I know the question in the American public will any, I get this question every day.
Will anyone pay a price uh beyond termination for the misdeeds that went on in the FBI?
This fall is the fall of reckoning.
The Justice Department will show whether it has the willingness to prosecute its people or whether they will skip prosecution and just use shame as the final mechanism for exposing what went on to the other.
Well, that would mean we don't have equal justice under the law.
I gotta take a quick break here.
We'll come back, we'll continue more with uh investigative reporter.
Yes, another bombshow by John Solomon, uh, also executive vice president for the Hill.
Quick break, right back, we'll continue.
All right, as we continue, John Solomon is with us.
And uh, yeah, more breaking news.
This time, yeah, they had a lot of evidence in the Hillary case, but they wouldn't give it to investigators.
You talked about this fall, you mean September, October.
That there are 10 declassified Russia collusion revelations.
Of course, one is going to be the Pfizer report, which I understand is complete.
You even reported that last night.
And but it's gonna need redactions or at least to look over for national security purposes.
That's right.
And you've identified all 10 of them.
So the question I have is if if in fact a rigged investigation happened, if premeditated fraud on a PISA court happened, if there was an attempt of a coup using Hillary Clinton bought and paid for Russian lies, and the witch hunt was really the witch hunt we knew it to be, and all these other people abuse their power, and maybe even outsourced intelligence gathering that would be illegal to circumvent laws.
You're saying that there's a chance nobody goes to jail for those things.
Well, uh, here's the most important thing.
If there were going to be criminal charges, there would be grand jury activity going on in Washington.
I have talked to dozens of defense lawyers who represent people up and down this this drama, and and none of them report that they've got a grand jury subpoena.
They've been asked for grand jury evidence, and many of the people who have gone before Durham and Barr are doing so voluntarily, meaning they're not necessarily under oath.
So that right now this appears to be an administrative review.
That could change.
But I got a break, but you know, I gotta tell you something.
This is all gonna be revealed to the American people.
Everything we've reported is true.
That's the main key, correct?
Yes or no, and I gotta go.
Yes, 100%.
This video is for Gavin Newsom.
Um I'm gonna wait for a response from you, but I'm not I'm not gonna stop messaging you, tweeting you, making videos to you, emailing you, writing you, calling you.
I want to know what you're gonna do for us Californians.
I have had a business in downtown Sacramento for 15 years, a successful business.
I now have to leave my place of business.
I have to close my shop.
Um, I own a hair salon.
Yes, I can go do hair somewhere else, but it's not as convenient to my clients as downtown Sacramento is.
Thank God I live an hour and 10, 20 minutes away from there.
But I just want to tell you what happens when I get to work.
I have to clean up the poop and the pee off of my doorstep.
I have to clean up the syringes.
I have to politely ask the people who I care for, I care for these people that are homeless, to move their tents out of the way of my my business, my the door to my business.
I have to fight off people that push their way into my shop that are homeless and on drugs because you won't arrest them for drug offenses.
I have to apologize to my clients as to why they can't get into my door because there's somebody asleep there because they're not getting the help they need.
I talked to the police officers.
They told me to contact you.
They want to do something and they can't.
You change the laws.
So I want to know what you're gonna do for us, the ones that are unhappy.
You want to make a stink sanctuary state.
You want to make it comfortable for everybody except for the people that work hard and have tried their hardest to get along in life, and now we have to change that because of your laws.
Your liberal ideology is not working, and I don't know who you're trying to please.
So while you sit in your million-dollar home and you don't have to look at what we have to look at, there's hardworking people out there that have to deal with this on a daily basis.
What are you gonna do for us?
Why does the poverty problem seem to be getting worse, not better here?
And what is a robust it's gotten it's slightly better the last uh 18 months and the the poverty.
Because we have like global synchronized growth, you've got a boom.
Like this is probably a combination.
Yeah, look, I'm not I'm not here to look.
I just got here a few months ago.
So what's my top priority?
Anti-poverty efforts.
I I think we just need to double down on being even more intentional.
What I mean by that is focus on what's working and do away with what's not.
I'm not just spending more money to spend more money.
I'm talking about targeted investments for us.
The fact that the state's even engaged in the homeless issue is novel.
We're focused on that issue in a way at state level we never have been.
Again, it's been a few months.
You want to attack us, know that we're attacking the problem.
Folks, the other side just want to attack it politically.
We're trying to attack some of the root causes.
I can point to addresses.
I could tell you names of 12,000 people we got off the street.
The folks that were on the street when we left.
Vast majority who were not from California.
I'm not suggesting that they're not our responsibility.
In fact, quite the contrary.
We took responsibility.
We were dealing with an by the way, vast majority also come in from, and we we know this from Texas.
Just interesting fact.
And I agree with those folks that criticize what's happening with homelessness in the state.
But to suggest it's because of liberal policies, policies, it's laughable and insulting.
It's not laughable and insulting.
I mean, what's laughable and insulting is Gavin.
I want to be the president of the United States.
I can taste it.
Um he's been in politics, uh, mayor of San Francisco, uh, lieutenant governor, now governor for he's been in in government 22 years.
They are under his leadership with Jerry Bro, uh, what?
A 13.5% state income tax.
And I gotta tell you something.
So we sent Lawrence Jones to all of these big cities.
Now there's a they're common problems.
And when you look at it, look at Gavin Newsom's all right, Gavin Newsom.
No, he's now the 40th governor of California.
Started, okay, that job.
You look at the office that he had.
Let's see.
Uh he was the 49th lieutenant governor from 2011 to 2019, eight years.
Mayor of San Francisco, 2004 to 2011.
He hasn't stopped since 2004, being in the world of politics in the exact area we're talking about.
We sent Lawrence Jones to Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Baltimore, and all these big cities, decades of of liberal rule, and now we have what?
What was just described by Liz Novak, a Sacramento salon owner when we sent Lawrence Jones, one mile from the gated community of Nancy Pelosi in one direction, one mile to her office in the other direction.
There you have people shooting up all over the place and leaving their their used needles all over the place, defecating in the streets.
There's Izzy Feces problem galore.
The smell, the stench is horrible.
She couldn't get her millionaire Silicon Valley friends to build a shelter for somebody where they can get a meal, a shower, drug counseling, maybe a a place to go to the bathroom.
Oh, I guess I guess they want tack our tax dollars, 13 and a half percent state income tax is not enough.
All right, so the person you just heard on that tape, Liz Novak, a Sacramento salon owner is on our newsmaker line.
And uh first of all, Elizabeth, thank you for being with us.
So you're now how you're all these years, 15 years in business.
You have to now relocate.
Why did you feel the need to relocate your hair salon in Sacramento, which by the way is not cheap to do for anybody that has ever made a move, but why?
No, you know it's not.
TG and actually I'm not able to relocate it now.
I have to just go run a station somewhere because those the prices have gotten so high.
But I decided to do this because I don't feel safe after dark, and actually I even don't feel safe during the day because I had someone come in during broad daylight because they're on drugs because they aren't arrested for it.
So um, and then the health hazards, the the syringes, the um excrement in front of my shop, urine, it's smell.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, that's what we've uh I've now sent Lawrence Jones, our special correspondent for the Hannity Show, uh, numerous times all over the place.
San Francisco, and what we see is it's exactly what you are describing.
It's terrible.
It's absolutely terrible.
Yes.
Um now uh you see needles, you see feces and urine on your doorstep.
Explain that.
On my doorstep.
Okay, um, well, uh when I'm coming to work in the morning, I really don't know what I'm gonna walk into, and it's something every single day.
There's cups of urine, and I'm not quite sure why they do that, but they leave cups of urine, and it's almost without getting too graphic graphic as if they lean up against my front door and use the restroom to go, you know.
Um use the restroom on the front door.
Um my shop has a little courtyard in which I can't put any uh anything to detour them.
I can't put plants, I can't put anything like that because they break them, uh, they break my windows, but they must be doing drugs in there because it seems off the beaten path, and they feel like nobody can see them, but I get to clean it up.
And there's not enough time for me to call, you know, um the city to come do it when my clients are on their way.
Do I want to lose clients or do I want to just clean it up?
So you were making money in your business, correct?
Correct?
You you had a profitable business.
I absolutely and you're going to work on most days, you have to clean away used needles that people shoot up heroin or whatever drugs they're using.
People are urinating and defecating on your doorstep.
Yes, they are.
And I'm finding other drug par paraphernalia like um crack pipes, I guess, things like that.
Yes, I am.
Now the drug problem.
Gavin Newsom, who's been, let's see, mayor of San Francisco since 2004, Lieutenant Governor the last eight years.
He says, Well, I've only been here a few months.
What do you say back to that?
You know, it's funny.
I just heard the full statement and I I I I laughed.
I I don't know what to say to that.
Um I say to Gavin Newsom.
Um this all started changing this drastically in six to eight months.
And I'm telling the truth, God is my witness.
So that's what I have to say.
Well, I mean, the fact of the uh matter is uh in the state of California, kind of like the state of New York where I am, and I why I stay here, I have no earthly idea.
My staff looking at me, they're all saying, Yeah, why are we here?
Um I'm here really for work, and and really that's the only thing holding me here.
But the reality is um you pay 13 and a half percent state income tax.
What other taxes do you pay out there in California?
Oh, you have business everything is taxed here.
I mean, and uh business tax.
Um it's taxed on everything.
You know that.
It's what am I paying for?
That's my question.
What are we paying for?
If we have to live in something that looks like a third world country, you know, what are we paying for?
Well, I I don't think you're getting anything for your services.
You know the strange thing, you know, the reason we sent Lawrence Jones back to Nancy Pelosi's district, and by the way, he's been to Ocasio Cortez'd district, and he's been in New York City and he's been in Baltimore and he's been in Chicago, and uh, you know, it seems like I mean, we've been to Los Angeles and all the it's all the same.
All these big city problems, but for decades have been run by liberals.
Yeah, Biden Biden Obama for eight years, 13 million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, more regulation than we've ever had as a history of a country.
And and then you see the worst recovery since the 40s, the lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, Donald Trump comes in and he he governs as a conservative.
He gets rid of burdensome regulation for business.
He gives us the biggest tax cut.
We're now energy independent for the first time in 75 years.
And then you have record low unemployment for every demographic group in the country African Americans, Hispanic Americans, women in the workforce, youth unemployment.
Uh, and they say, No, no, no, it was Obama that did that.
And I'm like, No, he didn't.
He had eight years and he couldn't get the job done.
Um, but I don't see a state like California ever flipping back.
Do you?
I don't.
I really don't.
And you know, I I mentioned I I try to stay neutral in the whole thing, and and uh with this day and age and where things are going, there's new no neutrality.
It's clear and present what the problem is.
Well, I i it's a clear, but here's the thing.
If somebody like you who's willing to work hard, look, I I'm just assuming in Sacramento that uh you know, to be a salon owner, you also work on people's hair, right?
I assume?
Yes, yes.
Okay.
It's it is a intensive hands-on job every day, right?
Yes.
How many other people worked in your store with you, maybe either rented space from you or worked for you?
I've had since I've opened, I've had about 10 people come through, and now it's we're down to three.
And now, you know, I have to close.
So your next step is you're gonna find a safer location of somebody else's salon, and I guess you work out some type of partnership arrangement, you bring your customers with you.
Yeah, you it's a rental.
I I rent a space from them, and that's that's great.
Well, let me ask you this.
Why wouldn't you?
I don't know what your family situation is, but maybe you should consider.
You know, I I was shocked when Mike Huckabee said on my TV show that you know, if you rent a U-Hall from California to Texas, it's like sixteen hundred bucks.
But if you take a U-Haul from Texas to Los Angeles, it's four hundred because everyone's leaving.
You see, all these big states are losing population.
Why wouldn't you consider moving?
Or would you?
Uh you know, I'm I I I would if my family would go where I have a very, very close family and and rural here, and you know, we haven't been given the the green light from God to go anywhere.
So we gotta be a light in the darkness somewhere, right?
Well, listen, if we could ever help you in any way, shape, matter, or form we want to, we feel really bad for you.
Um and if there's like a uh I'll I'll let you talk to Linda and maybe we can put up a link for people in Sacramento.
They want to see a hair salon, uh, go to a hair g a person that uh does good work.
I'm sure you do.
Uh we'll put your name up there, okay?
It Well, we wish you the best of luck.
It's not easy to be in business, and that's that just shouldn't be happening.
Not in this country.
It's unbelievable what this poor woman, Elizabeth Novak, has had to go through.
But Linda, doesn't that break your heart?
You you're gonna put her information on the web, right?
Yeah, I actually just hung up with her.
And she she really is so sweet, you know.
She's she's married, she's a hog worker, you know, she was just, you know, doing what she loved, doing hair, treating her clients the way that you know any client would want to be treated and trying to give them a nice place to come and and get their hair done.
And instead, she's dealing with crackheads, people busting into her shop, they're attacking her and other salon workers, and she goes to the cops and the cops tell her we're so sorry we can't help you because Gavin Newsom has changed the laws, and we are literally not allowed to to remove them.
So it's like, okay, now they're on the premises, they're not a client, they're defecating on her doorstep on her door, they're peeing all over the property, they're leaving syringes, they got kids around.
I mean, it's a it's a nightmare.
It's absolute disgrace.
But this is how we treat people that create jobs, businesses.
We just run them out of town, and uh the conditions are you know, all of these big cities are all losing population.
These these big states are losing population for a reason.
I don't care.
I really don't.
I don't care if people move out of California, if you're gonna go to Texas, Florida, Tennessee.
Don't bring your stupid liberal policies with you.
Because if you're leaving the state because the state's been destroyed by bad governance and decades of liberal rule, well, don't bring that with you and destroy the next state that you're going to.
That that would be really silly and dumb and stupid.
I mean, right here on this block, we have several hotels that are now giving out their empty rooms under mandate by de Blasio and Cuomo to homeless people and immigrants who can't find housing because they're here illegally.
So now you have people paying three, four, five hundred dollars a night to stay in the hotels right here in Midtown Rockefeller, you know, center area where we broadcast from where all the networks are broadcasting from, and there's all this money being spent, and you have people that are living in the hotels for free.
Because that's what our our mayor wants to do.
He's not helping veterans, he's not protecting police officers, but he's giving homeless people and illegal immigrants rooms for free.
Yeah, isn't that five?
By the way, you know the numbers 500,000.
This is an amazing number of people.
Uh yeah, 500.
He's gonna have 500,000 illegal immigrants in New York at free health care.
Five hundred thousand free.
Free, free, free.
Then, yeah, okay, well, there's many New Yorkers that live in dumps, but no, let's let's give it to other people first.
Uh it makes no sense to me.
And I'd listen, if I had the money, I'd love to help everybody in the world.
But you know what?
There is a price to pay for all of it.
It's like uh Bernie Sanders, you know, announcing his version of the new Green Deal, sixteen trillion dollars.
Yeah, but Sean, I disagree with you because helping somebody is one thing, but giving people money doesn't really do a whole heck of a lot because people got to work.
And if you don't work for what you have, you don't respect it.
No, that's true.
That's that's always been the case.
All right, got to take a quick break.
We will come back.
Uh news roundup information overload hour.
Rich Higgins at the top of the hour.
Really unanswered questions in the Epstein case.
Cheryl Mills, she apparently it's it's getting more bizarre by the minute.
We'll dig deep, a hand of the investigation straight ahead.
Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
Uh who authorized granting Cheryl Mills immunity?
I'm sorry.
Who authorized granting Cheryl Mills immunity?
It's a decision made by the Department of Justice.
I don't know at what level inside.
In our investigations, the uh anything, any kind of immunity comes from the prosecutors, not the investigators.
Okay.
Uh, did she request immunity?
I don't know for sure what the negotiations involved.
I believe her lawyer asked for act of production immunity with respect to the production of her uh laptop.
That's my understanding.
But again, the FBI wasn't part of those conversations.
Last week the American people learned that Cheryl Mills, Secretary Clinton's longtime confidant and former State Department Chief of Staff, and Heather Samuelson, counsel to Secretary Clinton in the State Department, were granted immunity for production of their laptops.
Why were they not targets of the FBI's criminal investigation?
A target is someone on whom you have sufficient evidence to indict a subject as someone whose conduct at some point during the investigation falls within the scope of the investigation.
So certainly with respect to Ms. Mills, at least initially, because she was an email correspondent.
Uh she was a subject of the investigation.
Did the FBI find classified information on either of their computers?
I think there were some emails still on the computer that were recovered that were classified as my recollection.
Is that a crime?
Is what a crime, sir?
Having classified information on computers that are outside of the server system of the Department of State, unsecured.
No, it's certainly something without knowing more, you couldn't conclude whether it was a crime.
You'd have to know what were the circumstances, what was the intention around that?
But it's certainly something, it's the reason we conducted a year-long investigation to understand where uh emails had gone on an unclassified system that contained classified information, and what did you determine with regard to the emails found on her computer?
I hope I'm getting this right, and my troops will correct me if I'm wrong, but they were duplicates of emails that had been produced because the emails had been used to um sort before production.
Do you think that Cheryl Mills would have destroyed her laptop?
And if so, why uh this negotiation as opposed to just asking for it by grand jury subpoena?
Well, it's a lawyer's laptop.
So I having done this for many, many years, a grand jury subpoena for a lawyer's laptop would likely entangle us in litigation over privilege for a very long time.
And so by June of this year, I wanted that laptop.
Our investigators wanted that laptop, and the best way to get it was through negotiation.
Do you think any laws were broken by Cheryl Mills?
We have no evidence to establish that she committed a crime.
Do you think that Secretary Clinton broke any laws related to classified data?
We have no evidence uh sufficient to justify conclusion that she violated any of the statutes with respect to classified information.
Is there any distinction between that statement and saying that no prosecutor would bring charges, which is I think what you said in your public statements the the day that you made your announcement?
Well, I think it's another way of looking at it.
Uh I think given the evidence in this case, I still think that no reasonable prosecutor would try to bring this case or bring this case.
So why did you allow Cheryl Mills, Secretary Clinton's chief of staff, to sit in on that interview?
She was a potentially a subject or target in the investigation.
She was a government employee.
She wasn't Clinton's attorney, but yes, she sits in there and talks with her throughout the interview.
Yeah.
My my understanding was at that time she was one of Clinton's attorneys.
She was no longer a subject in our investigation.
The agents had scrubbed her conduct very carefully by that point, and she was no longer a subject.
But that again, that's a reasonable question.
But the facts are not a subject, one of Clinton's lawyers.
She's entitled to be in an interview.
All right.
Now, that is an incredible exchange.
All right, James Comey, by the way, news roundup information uh overload our Sean Hannity show.
Uh, why did the Justice Department give Cheryl Mills immunity uh and not the FBI?
Now that's an important question.
Why was Cheryl Mills and one other person involved in the Hillary Clinton email case when Hillary was finally interviewed, supposed to be interrogated?
I've never heard of a single case where you get to bring people involved in the case that have immunity in the case in the room while you're being interrogated on questions of whether or not you broke the law.
And then uh Comey testifying to Bob Goodlat that there was classified information on Cheryl Mills' computer, but says she didn't commit a crime.
That is a crime.
That is but the the U.S. look, 18 USC 793, espionage act.
We put it up on the screen on TV many times.
We read it here many, many times.
And then Comey testifying that there is not sufficient evidence that Mills or Hillary Clinton broke laws.
No, that's not true.
Mills allowed to sit in with Hillary during an FBI interview because she's one of Hillary's attorneys.
She's involved in the case.
That is a must recusal situation.
Anyway, Rich Higgins is with us uh to shed light on it.
And it also raises other questions about, you know, he has uh information, you know, why are we getting conflicting reports about how many times Bill Clinton was on the Lolita Express of Jeffrey Epstein and conflicting reports, was he or wasn't he ever at, you know, uh this orgy island place of his.
Uh he's formerly with the NSC and Department of Defense, senior fellow at Unconstrained Analytics.
Uh welcome back to the program.
Did you ever hear of circumstances like this where where somebody can have classified emails on their computer, somebody gets immunity from the Department of Justice, not the FBI?
How does that happen?
Uh I'm still shocked, Sean.
Uh I was up there with you on July 5th, 2016 when this decision first came down and Cole Me's in from its infamous press conference.
Uh uh, it's still just you know, every single veteran, everybody who's ever had a security clearance is just befuddled by the whole thing.
It's it's unbelievable.
Well, I mean, but when you add that to what we just reported with John Solomon, and that in fact there was this whole treasure trove of information that the FBI knew about as it relates to Hillary's email server that they never bothered to give investigators.
I mean, I I don't know how you rig an investigation more than they rigged hers.
I just, you know, and and for me to honey, well, why are you harping on Clinton?
She lost.
Well, I'm harping on it because the media only seems to care.
Uh if Donald Trump is involved with anything, Russia, but they ignore the Russian dirty dossier that was used to spy on a candidate.
Uh and they they knew it was they never corroborated it.
It's an unverifiable document of Russian lies, or as the New York Times says it was it was knowingly, it was likely from the beginning, Russian disinformation from the get-go, and then it's used to spy on a president, a transition team, and then to undo a presidential election after they couldn't beat him with cheating like this.
So it matters.
Sean, what people are going to hear soon, and it's it's coming up, and Congressman Goldmert's been working it is you know, the intelligence community IG identified uh several years ago uh that Hillary's emails were being dropped, uh basically BCC'd, everything was going to a company.
Uh the name people will begin to hear soon is called Carter Heavy Industries.
And then the back end of Carter Heavy Industries and where all that leads to is going to be the next big saga in this entire email drama.
Now backing it up to the Cheryl Mills thing that we know we started the conversation with really important everybody remember Cheryl Mills, you know, from back in 2015, she appears in Epstein's little back book.
Her personal phone numbers in there, her personal emails in there.
Oh, say this again in Hillary's little black book or Cheryl Mill's little black book.
Cheryl Mills appears in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
Going back to when you going back to 2005, it was leaked in 2015.
It was originally discussed back in 2015 and then kind of shuffled off.
When you do remember, Cheryl Mills is not a bit player here.
She was the deputy general counsel of the White House until 1999 under Bill Clinton.
She was later staffed to Hillary at State Department, later a lawyer to Hillary, and then became on the board of directors for the Clinton Foundation.
So when she was granted immunity during those mid-year exam interviews, exactly what was she given immunity for, right?
All right, let's go back to the Daily Caller, because they do really good work.
Let's stick with them.
Now, if Mills is the trusted aid who reviewed the email to decide which emails to erase, right?
Didn't Hillary claim her lawyers went over them one by one, but then later we found out they didn't go over them one by one.
So that's a lie too, right?
Right.
All right.
And then she is with Hillary at the interrogation of Hillary.
And meanwhile, she's involved in the case.
Do you see an ethics problem there?
There's a giant look, I'm not a lawyer.
There's a giant ethics problem.
There's an optics problem there.
And the question again, it goes back to immunity from what?
And now now the question I find myself asking is how, you know, did the FBI, did the FBI and the Justice Department get itself in too heavy with the Clinton?
You know, let's let's make an assumption.
Let's say there was some corruption going on.
You know, at the point they at the point the Justice Department or the FBI itself become corrupted, and you know, and I think you know the general public right now is as and the people I talked to, I'm sure the people you talk about, we we've kind of lost faith.
We've lost confidence in our FBI.
I don't see anybody right now moving to address that.
And a lot of it goes back to these core issues that still to this day surround the Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, Clinton Foundation, and now we've got this Epstein thing that's been brought in on the side.
It it's truly just surreal.
It is it is a Rico-like environment.
So do we ever able to determine, because we had the Clintons put out a report that Bill Clinton only flew with him a few times, but then it turns out to be a lot more times, and then denies being on Norgy Island.
Have we been able to corroborate yes or no if that happened?
I don't know, Sean.
I mean, I I thought it was very strange that it wasn't until I, you know, we found out Epstein had qu you know committed suicide or was dead that we finally saw FBI investigators at the island.
Yeah, that was that was strange.
Just the entire sequencing of events there was off to me.
Yeah, I agree.
You know, You look at the FBI, I mean, they they have no credibility right now with at least half of the American public.
We see they're using Epstein as a confidential informer.
I mean, one of the most interesting things out of Epstein's two thousand eight plea agreement, you know, where he you know he admits that the pedophile, he does his light prison sentence.
One of the one of the contingencies in that was he has to continue to inform to the FBI, right?
And so, you know, we see that.
We see the FBI using foreign intelligence services to target Americans and American political candidates.
Uh and then yesterday we have Patrick Byrne pop up.
And uh I I don't believe Patrick Byrne is lying, simply because Burns' story explains why the def Justice Department and Mueller wanted Maria Butina in solitary confinement.
They didn't want her affiliation back to Byrne and you know how she was being manipulated by the FBI.
Uh they didn't want that getting out.
You know, I I I find this whole thing, because we're now going back to the point where Palm Beach police did this.
This is when he got his sweetheart deal.
Um, do we ever know what actually happened to that well, little black book of his or when they seize the address book of of him, do we know if that's still in existence?
It's still in existence.
There's a if you if your audience wants to, they can Google it, and there are a couple of places that have a redacted version of it.
I've never seen, nor do I know if anybody's doing a complete link analysis with all the various names and people that are are identified inside of there.
Um it it really is uh I think it's a it's a vital piece of information and how that link analysis and those social networks interplay with what we saw with crossfire hurricane and mid-year exam and the events surrounding the two thousand sixteen election all the way up to the present day.
I I think it's a key you know, it's a key piece of information and understanding all of these events.
All right, quick break, we'll come back.
Rich Higgins, uh formerly of the NSC DOD, uh as we continue on the other side.
Also your calls coming up 800 nine four one Sean Tollfree telephone number to continue with Rich Higgins, uh former NSC DOD is we have a lot of stuff to talk about today.
You know, I'm looking at all these people and I'm wondering, well, why would Bill Gates ever get on Epstein's plane?
And I'm thinking, doesn't he have enough money for his own plane?
Uh why would the New York Times seek a thirty thousand dollar donation from Jeffrey Epstein, knowing who Jeffrey Epstein is or one of their their employees' causes.
Why would they, you know, why is he so connected to the Hollywood crowd?
Well, who are the people?
How do we ever determine it was really ever there, either on the plane or on the island?
I I think we have to I think we have to trust Alex Acosta, right?
The the recently resigned secretary.
I mean, he he said Epstein belongs to intelligence.
And you know, and that is your investigative lead, and you go from there.
And you know, and hopefully, um, you know, U.S. Attorney Durham and Attorney General Barr are are gonna run down these rabbit trails and and and get it, you know, get us past the um, you know, the run out the clock approach that the establishment has been taking on the entire investigation thus far.
Uh, you know, while uh Mueller acted as a rear guard action on a lot of the corruption that was happening.
You know, now now we see they're in kind of run out the clock mode, hoping that they can you know take down the president 2020 and bury all this stuff.
So I hope that you know I we we need to we need to press and and to get you know to get some indictments rolling out here, hopefully soon.
Yeah.
All right.
Uh it's been a long time.
You know, one of the things you had said way, way back in the past, and I just want to remind people, moving on just to a little different subject, is your work with the NSA DOD and you know, everybody's kind of concerned now about privacy, security.
Um you don't think Americans have very much privacy at all in terms of emails, telephone calls, text messages, do you?
Uh I think, you know, and it's um I'm not revealing anything that's classified.
I think we need to understand that um the global information environment is a living, breathing thing.
And you know, uh our old understanding of communication needs to just be jettisoned, and we need we need to understand how the ones and the zeros move around in this space.
And well, you know, I I I don't think our you know, we've had such an advancement in the past 20 years in terms of our technology, whether you're talking about travel or social media or email or cellular, you know, communications and so on and so forth.
I don't think our laws are under you know, our privacy laws, our understanding of of uh you know free speech, etc.
I don't think our laws have kept pace with this emergent technical, you know, this technical evolution.
And so we need we need to be mindful of that and very, very cautious of it.
The thing that really makes me concerned is we've seen we seem to have lost our moral bearing.
And uh, you know, and you see it with some of the stuff that's coming out of Silicon Valley right now, where um they're they're in league with China, right?
I mean, well, I mean, look at Hillary.
I mean, Peter Strzok was told that the Chinese were hacking, they he didn't care.
Um, then you've got the issue of uh were was there outsourcing a spying on Americans to circumvent laws to spy on a presidential candidate and a president.
It appears like the answer is yes.
Anyway, uh thanks a lot.
I appreciate it.
Rich, good to have you back again.
It's been a long time.
Thank you for being with us.
Uh very smart information.
I these weeks are intense.
I gotta tell you.
Never the news never stopped.
This is not a slow news August, I'll tell you that.
Uh anyway, a little uh concert series fun on a Friday.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
800-941 Sean, our number.
Uh Anna's in Utah.
Anne, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
Thanks for having me on the air.
Um, I wanted to call after the um comments that the president made and was also brought up in your show about you know, any how can a Jew vote for a Democrat?
And the reason I want to call is my entire life until the last election I voted democratic.
In fact, I voted twice for Barack Obama.
I donated money to him.
I talked people into voting for him.
I was given a ticket to his inauguration by Nancy Pelosi, and was very excited for the first time in my life to go to Washington for an inauguration and be part of that.
Wow.
Um what changed?
Yeah.
Uh a bunch of stuff changed.
Um first of all, I will say that I think I never was a big thinker about politics.
And I was a religious Jew, but close to my mother and wanted to honor my mother.
And my mother and father were children of immigrants, lower middle class, and they always voted democratic.
And because I didn't want to think about politics, I voted the way my mother did.
And never really thought about it.
And I think back in 2009, I was doing a lot of international business.
Somebody got me to read more about the news and know what was going on in the world.
So in 2009, I started reading and reading, and I wasn't watching any news.
And I was in Europe a lot.
So I was in Europe literally on May 22nd for the procurement leaders award, getting my nails manicured when um that the that soldier was hacked in London, Lee Rigby, literally blocks away from me.
And I was like shocked that that that would happen in London.
And then I was in Germany um in July 2014, when this stuff was going on in Gaza, and I was giving a talk in Rostock, Germany, and I could see how all the Europeans were becoming anti-Israel from what we're getting on here.
I got I don't have a lot of time, but I'm gonna tell you something.
The rise of anti-Semitism is real.
There's never been a president that has done more for the state of Israel and advancing an alliance that could eventually, I hope, lead to a real peace in the Middle East than this president.
And recognizing the sovereignty of Golan, that was Donald Trump.
Moving the embassy to Jerusalem, that was Donald Trump.
So many promised, then in the end, never had the courage to do that which he finds easy to do, keep his promises.
And to me, it is uh it is crucial.
And, you know, when everyone talks about, well, foreign interference in elections.
Well, there was one administration, the Obama administration that tried to unseat a ally of ours and a sitting prime minister, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Thank goodness, thank God they weren't successful because he has been a you know, a Churchillian figure and at times the lone voice of moral clarity against radical Islamists and those that believe in a caliphate of convert or die.
And you know, we've got to get people that understand the nature of evil in our time.
And Iran embodies all of that.
Uh, thank you, though.
We appreciate the call, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Uh wow, these weeks go by.
Linda, they not fly by, go so fast, and we're so wrapped up in the middle of it that you just don't even realize, oh, it's Friday again.
And then you know, oh, it's Monday morning again.
But that's what we do, and we had a lot of news this week, and it's only gonna get better.
