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If you want to be a part of the program, uh, it is amazing to watch the insanity of the left unfold the way it is unfolding.
You know, it's it is it it's what I said on, I think it was Monday on this program.
It's like invasion of the body snatchers.
It doesn't matter.
I I don't know if they can't see their hypocrisy.
I don't know if it is just raw, pure unadulterated swamp sewer politics that drives them.
Uh uh, a thirst, a quest for power.
I do believe that liberals look down on conservatives in ways we have no idea.
It comes out in odd and strange and sometimes peculiar ways, like, you know, those smelly Walmart Trump supporters.
I can smell them from here.
I like Walmart.
Walmart has everything, and you save money.
It's like I like Costco.
Same thing.
And I I'm not sure why you would denigrate a group of people that maybe just have political agreements like this or irredeemable deplorables.
That was a i i it's a revealing moment when people think and talk like this.
Never forget the day that Alan Baldwin, you know, walked out of the studio and me and Mark Levin tag team him as he was trying to get a radio talk show, and you're nothing but a former construction worker hack.
And I'm like, yeah, okay, guilty is charged.
I've I was proud of my work and the fact that I work my my ass off for all those years with blue-collar work.
That my belief in God is probably the only thing that's kept me sane in my life.
And um, I'm like, No, no, please don't leave.
I beg of it.
I'll take my headphones up.
You go ahead.
Take your headphones off.
I beg of you not too.
I'm off the air now, folks.
Thank you very much.
No, no, stay right there.
We're gonna be back with the stay right there with the uh no talent and come on, Alex.
Come on, come on, you are a no-talent ignorant fool from Long Island.
We should go back to building houses out in Hempstead.
I was begging for a job.
Good luck.
Okay, listen, Sean.
All right, Sean's hanging.
Absolutely.
Come back.
Come back.
Alec, come back.
They're gone.
Alec.
Alec's my buddy Brian.
Well, the studio, please.
But I mean, but just think about that statement.
Uh former construction worker hack and go back to building homes in Hempstead, Long Island.
I didn't build homes in Hempstead or uh I didn't do that work in in New York at all, but that's a second dairy issue.
Why let the truth get in the way of a sick, twisted, ugly story like that?
Um anyway, look, I uh they're revealing moments.
Obama had one too.
You know, with uh, you know, these angry, bitter Americans in Pennsylvania that want to cling to their god, their guns, their bibles, their religion.
All right, I'm guilty of that too.
You know, I'm not a New Yorker.
Andrew Cuomo.
You know, those that are pro-life and they are pro-assault weapons and anti-gay.
Well, I'm not anti anybody.
I think everyone should mind their own friggin' business.
There you go, Andrew.
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?
Bingo.
Second amendment, 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 know, somebody showed me a real estate something or other.
I mean, I think it was a lawyer guy that I know, and he sent me something about retracted names and stuff like that.
Wasn't that?
He goes, just look at the the transfer taxes in New York.
And the bill, nobody's buying anything in New York anymore.
You know why?
Because they're now taking a chunk of it based on what the sale price is.
They want another bite at it.
And then you got like title fees that are like, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars in some deals.
And no wonder people are fleeing New York and droves.
And that's what they want to do to the rest of the country with the new Green Deal.
This is about power.
But there's something that is really odd, strange, and off because we'll we'll start and we'll work our way backwards here.
Now, you, everybody listening to this program knows a simple fact.
And that is that if the name was Vice President Donald J. Trump, granted he would not like the demo.
And Hunter Biden became Donald Trump.
And the deal in Ukraine was that, okay, Vice President Trump, the year's 2014, gets put in charge of the policy and dealings with the Ukraine by President X. And President X says, all right, you're in charge of Ukraine.
And then Hunter Biden all of a sudden does a consulting deal with no experience in Ukraine, no experience in oil, energy, or gas that anybody can find, none whatsoever.
And he gets, you know, in the end, it's like 3.2 million, another 900,000 was exchanged.
I mean, that's four million dollars.
And then all of a sudden, the prosecutor in Ukraine is looking into the oil company that's paying out all this money to the son of the vice president without any experience.
And in the process, well, the vice president goes and says, You got six hours.
He then shakes down the government of Ukraine, demands the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor.
And if you don't fire him, then uh I'm gonna take the billion dollars home and you're not gonna get it.
And then he says, you know, son of a bee, they fired the prosecutor.
Now the prosecutor talked to Rudy Giuliani and John Solomon and let's see, ABC News and uh the Washington Post, and even signed a court affidavit now saying that, yeah, he got fired by Joe Biden, basically, because Joe Biden demanded it and the country needed the money that we had promised them.
I mean, a shakedown with taxpayer dollars.
Now imagine that was Donald Trump Jr. getting the $4 million and it was it was vice president Trump that did demanded that they'd be fired, leveraging taxpayer dollars.
What do you think the media would say then?
You think they would say what they're saying here?
That's a conspiracy theory and that there's no evidence whatsoever any place?
No, uh, I think we'd get just the opposite.
And if we want to stick in Ukraine for just a second, do you think the media that was all jacked up on you know a foreign nation influencing our elections?
Ignoring, of course, that Obama made his comments to Medvedev to send a message to Putin that he'll have more flexibility after the election, but even more importantly, you know, the political defined it, Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire.
What if these were what if there was a member of the RNC in 2016 that was working with the Ukrainian government to dig up dirt on Hillary?
Now, the political January 11, 2017, again, Kiev officials scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton.
Let's say they were quietly working to boost Trump.
That would be collusion, wouldn't it?
And Ukrainian government officials helped, let's say Donald Trump undermine Hillary Clinton, just change the names, questioning her fitness for office, disseminating documents that she's the Ukrainian government, implicating a top, let's say Clinton aid instead of Trump aid in corruption, suggesting they were investigating the matter only to back away after the election, and they helped Clinton's allies research damaging information on Trump.
What if it was Trump's allies they they were helping to get damaging information on Hillary?
Well, if it's anything like the Russia hoax, they'd be pretty pissed off.
What if it was a Ukrainian American operative who was consulting for the RNC because the political piece says the DNC, meeting with top officials in the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, quote, in an effort to Expose ties between Trump, let's say Hillary, a top campaign ad, oh, I don't know, let's say Podesta and Russia.
Well, they would be pretty pissed off.
I think the media would go nuts.
And the Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, forcing Manafort's resignation.
What if it was Podesta's resignation?
Advancing the narrative that Trump's campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine's foe to the East Russia.
What if that, what if all that would happen?
I mean, you have Grassley and Johnson, the Senate sending this letter, a follow-up to a previous letter sent to the AG, this time to Barr, about the brazen efforts, the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign that they use the government of Ukraine for the express purpose of finding negative information on then candidate Trump in order to undermine his campaign.
I thought that's what everybody in the media mob and everybody in the and the DNC and the reason we had a special counsel.
Well, now we've got evidence of it, and they don't seem to care at all.
Nobody seems to care.
What about the China deal that Hunter Biden flies on Air Force II, goes to Asia, stops in China with, you know, the vice president at the time Biden, and then two weeks, less than two weeks later, he's got a billion dollars going into a uh a company that he and Whitey Bulger's nephew and and John Kerry's stepson are a part of.
Well, okay, that's the Bank of China.
That's the Chinese, you know, that's a billion dollars.
It became a billion five.
What if it was Donald Trump Jr.'s company?
What if it was Donald Trump vice president that flew to China and that happened two weeks later?
What would the reaction be then?
I think it would be very different than what we have now.
You know, everybody's making a big deal about Rudy Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani, Brudy Giuliani, um, as he points out, and he pointed out last night on Hannity.
The timeline is important because the facts and the documents that we'll go through in the course of this hour today gathered before the Mueller investigation.
In other words, the stuff with Ukraine was before Mueller, and well before Biden ever announced he was running for president.
And the allegations were brought to Rudy Giuliani after a year of these attempts to bring them to the FBI and DOJ.
They were, I've been telling everybody for a year myself.
John Solomon first brought it to my attention that the Ukraine government was offering proof of collusion with Hillary Clinton and the DNC to our FBI and DOJ.
Well, Rudy just handed it off to them after he had been brought into it.
And by the way, in November of 2018, this information he pointed out was given to him.
He said, I did the investigation while the Mueller investigation was still pending to defend my client against false charges.
I did it before Biden announced his candidacy.
And he writes the Washington media would be attacking me for exposing these allegations of corruption involving the protected class.
They couldn't help themselves.
And he was written, he wrote it, it's become a Pavlovian response, the vast conspiracy.
Biden was long protected by the his Washington press buddies, otherwise they would have been hitting on this in 2015.
If they played their roles as guardians of the public trust, the mob could have stopped it.
He's right.
And this is what I mean by invasion of the body snatchers.
So then you got the China deal.
You got the Ukraine deal.
You got the firing and shakedown with taxpayer dollars to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor.
Imagine if it's Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
And the same with the China deal.
Now work your way backwards.
Imagine that Donald Trump is the Secretary of State and he has a secret server with top secret classified information on it.
And that's illegal.
That's violation of the espionage act.
And anyway, they subpoena his emails, and he decides to erase 33,000 of them and then use Bleach Bit and wipe the driver's server clean and have an aide bust up every, you know, phone and BlackBerry with a hammer and remove the SIM cards.
And imagine that uh it's the Trump campaign that actually paid for, well, actually took campaign money, funneled it to a law firm, a law expense, campaign finance violation, and they hire, you know, an op research firm like Fusion GPS, and they fire a former MI6 agent, and you got a dirty Russian dossier that even now the New York Times recognizes was likely Russian disinformation from the get-go.
They knew that Hillary's campaign would use it.
That would make a good argument that they were boosting Hillary's campaign like the Ukrainians were.
But anyway, then that becomes the basis of a Pfizer warrant.
Oh, let's see, to spy on what if it was used to spy on Hillary's campaign?
What if the unverified documents were used to get Pfizer applications through that otherwise wouldn't get through?
No, no dossier, no Pfizer warrant.
You know, just change the names.
How would the media react then?
What would the level and intensity of their coverage be then?
Because we have evidence of Russia collusion and Ukrainian collusion, but they only care about Trump collusion.
They don't care about obstruction of justice with Hillary only if it's Trump, even though he was found not to have obstructed and four separate investigations, no Russian interference or collusion with the Trump campaign.
And the same thing with, you know, bludgeon cabin ought to hurt Trump.
I believe, but you're not gonna believe the credible accusations against the lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Phony lying selective moral outrage.
The up is down, down as up.
It's invasion of the bat body snatchers.
They look like normal people, but they they obviously are blinded by a rage that prevents them from seeing their pure, utter disgusting display.
You know, everything you hate about Washington, D.C., it's revealed in all of this.
And they don't care what they have to do to destroy Donald Trump and his supporters, because they don't think much of us anyway.
We have an election in a year, but that's not enough either.
Look at the cowardly shift.
Oh, let's say that was Mark Meadows or Jim Jordan that did what the cowardly shift did.
I think there'd be a different response.
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All right, so I have a timeline that uh Rudy Giuliani put out, and uh I want to go through this because it's key to everything that's happening.
Now, on top of all of this, you got the cowardly shifty shif caught in even more insane lies.
Listen, what we'll play at the bottom of this after the news at the bottom of the half hour.
This guy, oh, we've got all the evidence on Russia.
We got it all.
Uh irrefutable, incontrovertible.
We got it all.
This is a there's a flood of evidence.
I've seen it.
It's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, and never came.
Four investigations later.
It never came.
He's dishonest, deceptive, a proven liar, and I a low life political hack.
And he's leading this investigation, and now we see that he's compromising the investigation.
He actually, we have him on tape saying, uh, no, no, no, we have no contact uh with this uh so-called whistleblower.
We have not spoken directly with the like to, but I'm sure Listablo has concerns that he has not been advised as sure requires.
He knows they have concerns because they're advising the whistleblower through his staff, apparently, even though the New York Times and Washington Post tried to downplay it, they can't, you know, not acknowledge the fact that there's plenty of contact, and they're advising.
Well, you need to get a lawyer and you need to do this and you need to do that.
Well, who else knew about it ahead of time?
That he got an early accounting of the so-called whistleblowers' accusations.
Then you look how that whistleblower report is written up, especially compared to the text, which I don't think anybody expected that Donald Trump was ever going to release because you know, we don't need a non-wistleblower whistleblower's account because we've got, you know, word-for-word verbatim of of the conversation, pretty much.
Well, oh not word for word almost.
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All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
By the way, big shout out.
Happy birthday to our uh friend Ethan.
Been working on the show.
How many years now have you been a part of this extravaganza?
Half my life.
Is that really true?
Yeah, no, no.
I started at about 15 and a half and I'm turning 30.
So how did you work first at 15 and a half?
Uh the step uh wife station thought I was a lot older because I had facial hair and uh I jump in here.
So let me just talk about it.
So you lied about your age.
No, no, no, no.
No, there was no lying.
Okay.
Ethan looked like he was 35.
All right, wait, wait, wait, hang on a second.
Wait, whoa.
Hold on one second.
So he basically withheld information that he knows would have prevented him from getting fired, uh, hired.
He never did that because he doesn't lie.
All right, stop.
All right, I'm not asking you.
You knew if you told people that you're only 15 and a half, you wouldn't get hired.
Yes or no?
I didn't know whether or not I would get hired.
I knew so you you made it a point not to give your age.
I just didn't mention it.
No one ever asked.
No, I actually think like they have these crazy laws in New York.
Now it wouldn't be legal, yeah.
Back then it would back then it was like I'm not so sure, but you can't ask people their age.
You know, it I they're sending out these videos for HR departments in the state of New York, and my staff has been, I guess, having to go through the these training things and they're telling me all about them.
I mean, you can't even say, hey guys, what's going on?
How are you?
Apparently saying guys is not is not gender neutral.
I I don't know if I'm gonna be able to keep up with all the terms that they were describing to me.
I'm like, I don't even know what that means.
And I thought I kind of was kept up with it.
Anyway, so you started at 15 and a half, and you got paid at 15 and a half.
No, no, I interned uh for you and uh the great one uh when I had days off, and then uh I worked in the summer for Mark Simone.
And uh, yeah, ever since then I've been you work for Rush for a period.
I worked for Rush, I worked at Fox for a period, but uh I've always been around this staff, so yeah, over 15 and uh about 15 years now, yeah.
Wow, and you have a new baby in the house.
All right, look, Linda's like chomping at the bit.
I'm you're trying to defend him like you defend everybody.
I'm not defending him.
If somebody makes a mistake on this show and I ask, all right, who's screwed that up?
What do you always do?
Uh it's my responsibility at the end of the day.
And then I'm like, okay, I'm asking I didn't ask you what your responsibility is.
I asked you who did it, and you tried to hide it because that's irrelevant.
The concept.
Then I have to go around you and use the extra effort to discover who did do it.
You should just listen to me and save yourself the effort.
You should be praising me for my hard work ethic at the age of 15.
I gotta be on teen year old.
I give you I give you huge props for being 15 years old and finding a way into working for me, the great one Mark Levin, Rush, and getting into Fox News in the meantime.
I mean, that is an unbelievable story.
Um, congratulations.
Anyway, happy birthday.
And how old's the baby now?
He's four months.
Don't here.
Two bits of advice.
Don't let the kid learn to walk.
Because when they first start walking, it's step-step boom.
Step step boom.
And it's like, uh, you know, it's gonna give you a heart attack.
So, and don't let the kid learn how to talk, because when they get older.
Exactly.
When they get older, they start talking back, and you start resenting it.
Like, why did I ever teach you to talk?
What's the response, Sean, by the way, to you being so skinny?
No, well, no, no.
I'm I'm done now.
I'm like, I lost the weight that I wanted to lose because it was just residual, you know, that nagging fat in your your stomach and stomach and your hips, and I got rid of it.
All right.
By the way, NJ diet is what did it.
Super skinny now.
Yeah, no, no, I lost like 18 pounds.
But by the way, it's a hard diet to be on.
It's not easy.
Yeah, it looks very hard.
Yeah, but you know what?
It finally worked, and you know how many other diets and how many ways of eating I tried before this, right?
And none of them worked.
What happens now when Sensei tries to fight you?
I mean, do you just fall down or actually?
I had no idea that I had muscles underneath that fat.
I did.
I had no idea.
I actually have some shape for the first time of my life, but I've been doing, you know, 200 sit-ups a day forever.
And it's like if you do that many sit ups and that many push-ups, you actually grow muscles.
It's an amazing phenomenon.
And I know I don't use weights, but we do, and I also do the boxing, and you know, we do the mixed martial arts and Kempo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Krab Maga.
And now he can't rats with you anymore because you know, you're like see-through.
The latest thing that we added to my dojo is because I have the heavy bag.
That's like that's my workout hitting.
The bag's heavier than you.
Well, it probably is.
It's correct.
And but I I hit it bare knuckles, and you know, one day last week I was doing uppercuts on it, and I scraped my knuckles, so I've had to tape them in the last couple of days.
And so, but we do that training, and you know, then we do firearm blade and stick training.
And I mean, I do an hour and a half a day.
I don't miss.
It's every day.
Um and it's the best thing you've ever done mentally.
But we've added a, you know, the punching bag.
I'm getting pretty good at it.
You and Robert.
Never had that before.
Uh you know, I love Rocky.
I love Rocky.
I identify with Rocky.
That's my whole life.
You can't have him.
He's mine.
I'm from Philly, all right.
It's not that I have him.
I mean, I've known Sylvester Stallone.
We know his brother.
Oh, sorry.
I don't know, Sylvester.
Okay, right.
All right, anyway, back to the cowardly sleazebag uh shif, the shifty shift that he is.
And, you know, well, now we know he's he actually is office spoke directly to the whistleblower, future whistleblower.
There really isn't a whistleblower.
And reports they uh recommended, oh, yeah, you need to hire a lawyer and meet with the inspector general and file a complaint.
And you look at the complaint, and it's obviously written and lawyered up to the max.
And I it's like everyone said, Well, we've got to hear what the whistleblower says.
Well, well, we have the transcript from the call, which the whistleblowers supposedly talking about, although the whistleblower, this is not even evidence that they knew directly.
This is hearsay.
Well, somebody told me.
So I'm writing up what they told me.
So he was given advance warning and apparently given advice back, funneling it to the whistle future whistleblower, non-whistleblower.
And but you know, behind the scenes, you know, you know, now he's the nonpartisan, totally legitimate whistleblower complaint, and he's behind it from the get-go.
You know, the same guy, by the way, who went on uh MSDNC and claimed we have not spoken directly to the whistleblower.
Uh we have not spoken directly with the whistleblower.
Uh, we would like to, but I'm sure Listblower has concerns that he has not been advised as the law requires by the inspector general or the director of national intelligence, just as to how he is to communicate with Congress.
Uh, I'm sure they have because they've been already advising the whistleblower.
I mean, that's the he's lying through his teeth again.
Listen to how many times, let's go to the Russia case that he kept telling us they had oh, all the evidence is in, oh, it's abundance of evidence.
Oh, yeah, it was so much evidence.
They didn't have any evidence.
Listen.
There is already, in my view, ample evidence in the public domain on the issue of collusion.
If you're willing to see it, uh, if you want to blind yourself, then you can look the other way.
I could certainly say with confidence that there is significant evidence of collusion uh between the campaign and Russia.
I've been very clear over the last uh year or year and a half that there is ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.
Uh Now, bear in mind that meeting at Trump Tower, which takes place after the campaign is alerted that the Russians have these emails.
Don Jr. is told, hey, at the highest levels ultra-sensitive, we have information incriminated on Hillary Clinton as part of the Russian government effort to help Donald Trump.
That looks a lot like collusion to me.
Well, certainly if uh the Trump campaign went to a meeting with the Russians seeking to enlist uh or receive the help of the Russian government uh in getting damaging.
Which is what the trail of evidence and emails suggests is the case.
Yes, that would be a potential form of collusion.
You have an offer of illegal help, you have the acceptance of that offer.
You have an overact overt act in furtherance of that conspiracy.
That is, I think, by any rational Americans' expectation, the personification of collusion.
What about the contractor that met at the Ukrainian embassies with people from Ukraine for the very purpose of working with Ukraine to undermine Trump?
It fits there.
Or the use of the and the buying of a dirty Russian dossier.
I mean, that was then used as the basis of a Pfizer warrant.
He doesn't care.
They don't care about truth anymore.
I mean, this is what's missing.
You have to suspend any fidelity to truth, to reality.
I mean, to common sense, reason, and you've got to just be this pure political animal.
And right now, between the mob and the media, and I call them the mob for a reason, because they're acting like a mindless mob.
And they just, you know, it's like uh inside the the beltway thing they all got going on between New York and LA and San Francisco and DC, where, well, um let's see if we can all say the same thing to each other and get on the same page, which they do all the time.
Rudy's new information, you know, he starts out from 2010 to 2014 with Ukraine, the high-ranking minister in the pro-Russia-Ukrainian government of Victor uh Yankovich granting his company valuable gas exploration permits.
That's called Barisma Holdings.
February 2014 is when Obama named Joe Biden as the point man in Ukraine.
February 2014, revolution of dignity took place, and uh Yankovich and his government were ousted.
Anyway, they flee to Russia.
They also have been taking billions out of Ukraine and using banks all over the world to launder money.
This is important.
Again, look at the timeline that Rudy put out.
November 18, this information was given to him.
He did the investigation while the Mueller investigation was still pending to defend his clients against false charges of collusion before Joe Biden never announced his candidacy.
And we, but we did have the report.
You know, from the very beginning, we had the report that went out from politico that Ukraine did help and collude with the DNC contractor on behalf of the Clinton campaign and did smear Trump, and they did have an impact on the race, hence Manafort.
Anyway, Poroshenko is then elected in May of 2014.
And by the way, in 2014 in April, well, that's when the at the time, you know, this guy Zlochevsky fly pleased with uh Yankovich to Russia.
They also have been taking billions out of the country, about seven billion in U.S. aid.
And Zlochesky play places Biden, Hunter Biden, son of VP Joe Biden and Devin Archer and his partner and former aide, uh, then Secretary of State John Kerry on the board of Barisma, the third partner in Rosemont Seneca Capitol.
That goes back to the China deal.
None have any experience in anything involving energy, gas, or Ukraine.
Anyway, then Poroshenko is elected president of Ukraine, and the prosecutor is this guy, General Viktor Shokin.
He opened a criminal investigation of Barisma and their payments to the vice president's son Hunter and Devin Archer.
And then the guy that was fleeing to Russia, Zolovchevsky, Well, he was a fugitive by the Ukraine government, and Biden and Archer remained on the board of this company.
That would be Barisma.
And Hunter Biden meets for breakfast with the deputy Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, regarding concerns about Barismo.
So he's actually lobbying to keep his lucrative payouts.
Hillary Clinton in October of 2015 testified on Benghazi.
And according to the vice president's book, Hillary tells him that she's not going to go after Hunter Biden if the vice president runs but can't control what her staff will do.
Remember, Biden was warned by the New York Times that his son was being investigated.
And in December of 2015, the then Vice President Biden told Poroshenko that he's got to get rid of the prosecutor looking into Barisma Holdings and his son Hunter.
That would be General Victor Shokin, who's now on the record five separate times.
Why?
Because now Rudy Giuliani had interviewed him.
We've discovered last night.
That would be, let's see, John Solomon, ABC, Washington Post.
They all interviewed the prosecutor, and the prosecutor said the same thing to everybody, and we can add to that an affidavit signed by General Victor Shokan, the prosecutor.
And anyway, so he gets fired because the vice president insisted on it to protect his kid.
And this business deal.
And Biden and Peroshenko talk on the phone in February 2016 three separate times.
How about we release the transcripts of those conversations?
In March of 2016, that's when Biden threatened Peroshenko with not getting the billion dollars unless this is, you know, in loan guarantees.
If it's not executed, they'll go into default.
And Ukraine Parliament then has to fire the prosecutor Shokin.
And then anyway, in May of 2016, Biden arrived in Ukraine, announced the billion-dollar loan guarantee.
Then Biden called in April of 2016, Peroshenko discussed the appointment of a new general prosecutor prosecutor general.
Then a new person comes in.
And the VP praises the appointment of the new person.
And that new person in March of 2016 meets with the U.S. ambassador and tells the new prosecutor that he must drop the investigation of individuals and institutions, including apparently an organization run by Soros, according to Rudy.
And uh they're also aware of the Biden incident.
And Ukrainian law enforcement agency announced they uncovered a massive fraud.
Now, if you just fast forward, imagine if all of this is Donald Trump vice president and Don Jr. was getting the benefit of all of this protection.
And that's when, you know, Biden in January of 2016 goes before the Council of Foreign Relations and brags about what he did.
It didn't mention that his son was a major figure in Barisma's fraud and a beneficiary, and records showed 3.2 million to Hunter Biden through a Cypriot bank and a separate payment of 900 grand to the other company, the one used in the China issue, Rosemon Seneca.
That was described as being for lobbying for Joe Biden.
And then fact we have politico even acknowledging that, yeah, they helped Hillary.
And that a DNC contractor was meeting in the Ukrainian embassy in Washington about these very issues.
I mean, the but it's a conspiracy.
It's unproven.
These are long, long debunked allegations.
Media's nothing's been debunked.
Just the opposite.
It's obvious to anybody with a brain and eyes to see clearly that what went on here.
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The president himself called on the Russians to assist his campaign by hacking Hillary Clinton's emails.
Was using that office as leverage to obtain dirt.
So uh we talked uh for a couple minutes last night.
He uh expressed regret uh for not having uh been more clear in his wording.
Um he said at the time when he was saying that uh obviously we now know that they that the whistleblower had approached his staff, but uh there wasn't a hundred percent certainty that the whistleblower who had approached the staff was the same one who was behind the actual complaint.
There's a suspicion it was, uh, but there wasn't a hundred percent 100% certainty.
He also was explaining that uh he was trying to compel the whistleblower to come testify the before the committee when he was saying that.
Uh, but again, he expressed regret uh for saying for for what he said on the initial interview with Morning Joe, and uh said he should have been much more clear about it.
Uh, I will say this puts him in some uh some trouble.
Uh he clearly uh wasn't being forthright uh in that interview with us a couple weeks ago.
Um, and he should have been.
Uh he was less than clear.
He lied.
I mean, he just outright, well, we we didn't have any no, no contact whatsoever, no, not at all.
Before that, it is the cowardly shifty ship, and uh all the false claims.
Oh, there's significant evidence.
There's ample evidence.
We have the evidence on Trump Russia collusion, same guy, different hoax, different name, same words, same same cast of characters.
Uh, and again, they missed the obvious, the real story.
There was 2016 Russia collusion.
It was Hillary's bought and paid for dossier.
And then, of course, the unverified warrants.
This, of course, after the investigation was rigged into her email server and the obstruction that then followed.
Uh, then we have the FISA warrants not verified, Russian lies used as the formulation to get the Pfizer applications, unverifiable information.
We're getting to the bottom of all of that.
Also the outsourcing of intelligence gathering to allied nations, which would be why Bill Barr needed introductions to Australia and Italy and Great Britain, uh, because that's where apparently the outsourcing went to to circumvent American laws.
And now we're on the second bigger witch hunt, which means you have to suspend any fidelity to truth, reality, and common sense, and believe that Donald Trump in that conversation with the new president of Ukraine did something wrong when the transcript shows no such thing.
And in the meantime, you're going to ignore that we do have direct evidence the DNC, Hillary Clinton's campaign, colluded with Ukraine for the purpose of impacting the 2016 election in Hillary's favor.
And then, of course, we have the Bidens, who have enriched themselves with obvious corruption.
Now Rudy Giuliani add him to the ranks of ABC, Washington Post, John Solomon, and even uh uh signed affidavit of the prosecutor fired by Joe Biden within six hours because his son was being investigated by that prosecutor, and any denial uh is just pure garbage, and and it's so obvious what happened here.
Peter Schweitzer, he first opened up the Biden corruption issue in his book Secret Empires.
Greg Jarrett's new book is out next week.
He's also with us, Fox News legal analyst comes out on Monday, Witch Hunt, uh, which is a sequel to his number one bestseller.
Welcome both of you.
Peter, let's start with the Bidens, because there is a big story.
There is a timeline.
Uh, the president is correct.
This is obvious corruption.
The prosecutor fired is now on the record five separate times.
He was told he got fired because of Joe Biden's pressure, and Joe Biden shaking down Ukraine by using a million tax dollars, pressuring them to fire the kick guy looking into his son.
That's right, Sean.
I mean, here's what we know.
We know that when Joe Biden was vice president of the United States, Barack Obama, and this is matter of public record, appointed him on point his point person toward two countries on the planet.
One of those was Ukraine and the other one was China.
And what we know is that Joe Biden's son at that time got massive deals in two countries of all the countries around the world, those same two countries, Ukraine and China.
So this is a classic follow-the-money story.
But what's different, Sean, is you know, there have been stories in the past about, you know, Billy Carter did some stuff and you know, Neil Bush.
What's different here is that systematic, uh, it involves large sums of money, and we have the explicit fact that Hunter Biden traveled with his father on Air Force II in December of 2013.
We now know, because the Chinese executives have admitted it, they were introduced to Vice President Biden by Hunter Biden on that trip.
And then 10 days later, Hunter Biden's small firm lands this billion dollar, later expanded to a billion-five deal uh for private equity.
They had no grounds for getting.
So this is a classic case of corruption on a scale that I have not seen before.
Um, and you know, Joe Biden's stories have continued to unravel on this.
First saying he never talked about it with his son.
Now evidence has come out that he does.
We even have pictures that show him meeting with Ukrainian executives on a golf course.
Um it's deep trouble for Joe Biden.
Before I ask Greg the legal question surrounding all of this, I mean, if anything, it was almost what, four million dollars in the Ukraine case.
Um, in the case of the deal with the Bank of China, that that's a government bank, isn't it?
Or partially government-owned bank uh entity?
Yeah, that's right, Sean.
In fact, uh there were there are entities in China, uh government-run pension funds that were investing into this.
And again, the Biden team has been deceptive and lying as they have tried to spend this.
What they've tried to say is that Hunter was just an advisor, it will the fund really wasn't that big.
These are all statements from Biden's lawyer.
What we've released, what's in the book are actual documents.
The documents show he was not advisor.
He was on the board of directors of this entity.
It's in black and white in Chinese corporate documents.
We have the documents that show they got a billion five.
That's the assets they have, not what Biden's lawyer claims.
So, you know, it's a question of looking at the facts versus looking at the spin.
All right, so that's the clearly so that's a billion five, and it's Hunter Biden, it is uh John Kerry's stepson, Heinz, and it's Whitey Bulger's nephew.
Uh in the Ukraine case, correct me if I'm wrong, did Hunter Biden have any experience in Ukraine, oil, gas, or energy, and in China did he have any experience with China or the issues involving private equity involved in that kind of deal.
Uh zero, Sean.
Uh his job before his dad was vice president, he was a lobbyist.
Um, and his last gig was representing online gambling companies.
So we have no background in any of this.
And you know, this is the point that I make when people bring up to me and say, Well, what about the Trumps?
The Trumps have these businesses.
The huge massive difference between the two is the Trumps came into the White House with large, well-established businesses.
What we're talking about in Hunter Biden's case is literally a couple of months after his father is elected vice president, he opens up a firm where he has no background and gets gigs where he has no background.
It's it's a stark difference between the two.
You cannot even compare the two.
Greg, let's look at this from the legal side.
What do you see?
Influence pedaling.
Or at least significant evidence that would justify the Department of Justice opening an official investigation into what uh Joe Biden openly bragged about, this quid pro quo.
That is arguably a corrupt act intended to benefit his son by extorting a billion dollars in U.S. taxpayer taxpayer funds, unless they drop a case uh involving Hunter Biden and his company, Barisma, this Ukrainian gas company.
And also, you know, he joins Barisma at the same time, this gas company, at the same time his father is encouraging Ukraine to increase their gas production.
So uh, you know, Biden is not entitled to a get-out-of-jail free card simply because he's now running for president.
And that, you know, seems to be the argument of Nancy Pelosi and and their confederates that, oh, You you can't launch an investigation of an opposing party's candidate.
Well, that's what Barack Obama did.
His administration launched an investigation of Donald Trump and Trump's campaign during the 2016 election.
That hypocrisy seems to be lost on the media that continues to peddle the canard that this has all been debunked, that no credible news organization has looked into it.
I would point their attention to the Washington Post, which on July 22nd published a uh a story in which they had interviewed the fired Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
And Shokin says we were closing in on Barisma and Hunter Biden, and that's why I got fired.
Joe Biden demanded it.
So, you know, this is a violation, arguably, of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
It could be a uh, you know, uh extortion, it could be bribery, it could be honest services fraud.
Uh Biden's explanations are vacuous.
The DOJ needs to move on this.
Well, the th the issue here is now to be a liberal today, you have to say you care about foreign interference and elections, four separate investigations, no Trump Russia collusion.
Uh they didn't get what they wanted.
There is nothing that I see at all in any way that is nefarious, wrong in any capacity in the transcript of the call with the Ukrainian president, but we did have the dirty Russian dossier, and now we have complete evidence proof going back to uh,
you know, the political article of 1117, and that is that yeah, the Ukraine admitted that they had worked with the DNC and Hiller on behalf of Hillary's campaign, they were colluding to get dirt on Trump, and which is how they got the Ukrainian mana for dirt.
Yeah.
And I wrote about it.
Oh, it totally did.
I wrote about this in two chapters in my new book, Witch Hunt.
Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian American, was hired by the DNC as a subcontractor.
And, you know, her goal and her contacts, uh and they achieved this actually, was to dig up dirt on Donald Trump and the Trump campaign, uh, in order to help Hillary Clinton get elected.
Now, uh the media, you know, for some reason doesn't think that's uh a criminal collusion conspiracy to meddle in an election.
Uh, but the accusations against uh Donald Trump somehow are, even though the Mueller report concluded there was no criminal collusion, conspiracy, obstruction of justice was inapplicable under the law and the facts.
You know, the the media, and I write a chapter in the book uh about the media.
It's called the Media Witch Hunt, 54 pages in which I recount all of the biased stories that the fake news media got wrong.
They were blinded by their hatred of Trump, and they committed media malpractice on almost a daily basis.
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All right, as we continue with Peter Schweitzer, his book, When Did You Write Secret Empires, Peter?
And by the way, Greg Jarrett is with us.
His new book, Witch Hunt, full of great new information.
Uh is out on Monday.
Uh, when did you write Secret Empires?
Secret Empires was written in 2017, came out in March of 2018, and uh was on both your TV show and radio show, and was the number one New York Times bestseller.
Um, and it was largely ignored by the mainstream media, and uh now it's being picked up again uh because these issues are resonating.
And and you know, just to pick up real quick, Sean on something that Greg said, which I think is so important is you know, this issue of foreign influence, which is an issue which we should take seriously, but nobody wants to take a serious look on the left at this question of foreign influence as it relates to the Biden business dealings.
The point is this why do they think the Chinese are throwing money at Hunter Biden?
Why do they think the Ukrainians are paying him $83,000 a month, according to banking records, for a job he has no background and skill set for?
He's not being paid because he knows something because he actually has expertise.
So what's he being paid for?
It's precisely about foreign influence, and the Chinese have written about this that their goal is to sort of buy off the political leadership in foreign countries to get favorable treatment.
So it it speaks to the disingenuous nature of so much uh of this discussion on foreign influence.
Here's a classic case of a payoff of a favor being given to a powerful American politician that is lucrative business deals for for his son.
Um, and nobody seems to care about it on the on the left.
It's it's remarkable.
And if it was the name was uh, let's see, Don Jr. and the vice president at the time was uh Donald J. Trump.
Although he wouldn't like the demotion, uh, the media reaction, I think you can bet Greg Jarrett would be uh dramatically different.
The media would be apoplectic with hysteria.
Uh, you know, it is a crime as a public official to misuse your office to confer a benefit to a foreign power in exchange for either money or something of value to yourself or your family.
It's a classic example of a corrupt act.
And as I said before, there is sufficient evidence here for the Department of Justice uh to open an investigation, and Joe Biden did it to himself.
His hubris uh and his arrogance uh led him to brag about what he did.
And, you know, he I guess he just assumed that, you know, he gets the same get out of jail free card that Hillary Clinton got.
Apparently that investigation has been reopened.
I just read last week.
We'll see.
Um Greg's book is out Monday.
You can get it on Amazon.com, Hannity.com bookstores Monday.
Uh that's a great book, Witch Hunt and Secret Empire's Peter Schweitzer, uh just two years ahead of its time.
Finally they're catching up to us, Peter.
Um Thank you so much for being with us.
Great work, both of you.
Quick break.
When we come back, how will Republicans in the House deal with the duplicitous double standards, the unfairness, the madness of impeachment?
Uh we'll check in with the Republican whips, Steve Scalise next as we continue.
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President of the United States and those around him during an election campaign colluded with a hostile foreign power.
I keep getting asked, are there echoes of Watergate in this?
And there are there is already, in my view, ample evidence in the public domain on the issue of collusion.
If you're willing to see it.
And the president used that opportunity to try to coerce that leader to manufacture dirt on his opponent and interfere in our election.
You know, Russia was interfering in the election.
Um, and they weren't doing it on their own, and he was in on it.
Do you think it was appropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader for help investigating his chief political rival for 2020?
Again, go look at what he talked about in that cult conversation.
He was talking about the 2016 interference that happened in our election.
Look, there have been media reports for years.
Joe Biden himself bragged long before he was a candidate for president that he went there to Ukraine and held the billion dollars back.
You know, I'm gonna leave in six hours unless they fire the prosecutor.
My goodness, Chuck, a lot of people have been asking for that to be investigated.
Congressman, you know the reality about Biden.
You know, you know the truth behind that.
Why are you putting it out there as if it's a oh my gosh, we have no idea what you're what he was talking about then?
I mean, we're we're taking something that actually happened that the entire Western Alliance supported.
This was a bipartisan effort, as you know in Congress that supported the government.
And if the Western Alliance supported holding back a billion dollars, of course there was a lot of corruption.
In fact, that's why Zelensky got elected with a mandate to clean up corruption.
He and President Trump are talking about that in the conversation, uh, things that both of them are doing to clean up corruption and drain the swamp.
Uh, look, all of this stuff with with this whistleblower report, uh, there were a lot of things, if you read the whistleblower report that are concerning in terms of allegations that were very partisan.
In fact, the Justice Department or the inspector general determined that the whistleblower does have a political bias.
Uh, you know, again, let him let him go forward and make accusations.
Uh, but Holy's accusations have turned out to not be true.
Uh, yeah, and nobody needs the non-whisteblower whistleblower's account.
Why?
Because this is second, third hand, who knows how many hand information.
And obviously written in the most damning way possible, apparently at the instructions of the cowardly shifty uh Adam Schiff, the biggest liar in the United States Congress.
No wonder why.
Now I guess we know why he's ducked this show as much as he has, Linda.
I mean, we've offered him three straight hours.
We've offered him hours on TV.
Won't take it.
Won't come near the show.
I'd love to have him on.
Anyway, that was uh House Republican whip uh Steve Scalise on one of those low-rated Sunday shows.
I think it was uh Meet the Press.
Boy, how far they have fallen from the days of Tim Russet, I'll tell you that.
And saying the framers did not put the power of impeachment in the Constitution so you could stop somebody from getting elected who was duly elected in 2016.
Steve Scalise, welcome back.
Sean, always great to be back with you.
I read I've read this transcript over and over and over again.
I that there's not even an uh a comma that is that is inappropriate in this thing.
But what we do know is the following.
We do know the country of Ukraine, uh, that representatives met with a DNC contractor on behalf of the Clinton campaign, and in fact, Ukraine colluded to help elect Hillary Clinton, and they did it in a variety of ways.
And it had an impact, as even the politico acknowledges on January 11th, 2017.
Uh, and on top of all of this, we have probably the biggest uh pay-to-play scheme or let's say shakedown with taxpayer money caught on tape bragging about it with Joe Biden and the money that his son Hunter and his friends were making in Ukraine with no experience in energy, oil, or gas, uh, or no experience with Ukraine and the billions uh five they're making in China with no experience in China or private equity that anybody can discover.
So uh while they've in a sense they've done us a favor, but the media mob continues to lie.
It's so true, Sean.
I've read the transcript multiple times like you.
You know, when I went on Meet the Press, the first thing Chuck opened with was saying, you know, the president said, Hey, will you do me a favor?
And then started talking about Biden.
And in fact, it's incredibly misleading because when you read the transcript, if you did, uh you know that he said, do me a favor, look into CrowdStrike, which is the company that was looking into the 2016 interference by Russia and a lot of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign was doing, like you pointed out, which by the way, we've never gotten the facts on.
Uh They didn't even turn that information over to the FBI so that we could find out more about how Russia tried to interfere with our elections.
And President Trump is talking to Zelensky about helping root out the 2016 corruption, which I thought the left wanted us to look at and root out.
And instead of applauding the president uh for actually being aggressive at rooting out the corruption in 2016, which happened when Barack Obama was president and Joe Biden was vice president, the media is trying to impeach the president for this.
They're going to regret this in the end for a lot of reasons.
But number one, I mean, they're trying to impeach a president for doing nothing wrong.
And that's not what the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors is all about.
Well, I mean, this is a witch hunt number two.
Um there's no collusion again, but they're not going to waste, I guess, almost three years and and put it in the hands of a special prosecutor only to be disappointed yet, or or a special counsel only to be uh uh disappointed yet again.
But in the meantime, they do nothing for the country.
They've whipped everybody's minds into a frenzy.
And I'd love your thoughts on the uh cowardly shift.
I mean, we have this guy lying, we've got the evidence, we've got the evidence, we have it, it's there, it's significant, ample evidence to impeach Trump over Russia.
And he lied all through that.
Now he's up to his eyeballs himself in corruption because it appears that, yeah, in spite of what he said publicly, his uh office had uh a lot of contact, made a lot of recommendations to the whistleblower that's not a whistleblower.
Right.
There are a lot of real concerns about the things you just raised.
And and he said some things again, it's going to be fact checked, and ultimately we're going to get to the bottom of a lot of this, even though Pelosi's trying to stop us from doing it, we're going to.
And uh, you look at what Adam Schiff said, and it's important to remind everybody over and over again, Adam Schiff is the same guy who during the entire Mueller investigation for almost two years, was going out on every TV show he could find and say he has more than circumstantial evidence that the president colluded with Russia.
And there was no evidence because it didn't happen.
And instead of admitting he was wrong, which he was, because if he wasn't wrong, he would have shown us the evidence, Sean.
It never existed, and he was throwing it out there to try to impugn this president who's doing such a great job at getting our economy back on track, at following through on the promises he made, at cleaning up the corruption that was going on, not only in the United States, but in all these other countries, including Ukraine.
And so instead of just moving on, he goes on to something else, and they just keep making allegations.
They're trying to find people, and clearly this whistleblower, even according to the inspector general, has a political bias, uh, did not get this information firsthand.
And oh, by the way, Sean, I know you knew this.
They just days before the whistleblower filed a complaint, changed the rules for whistleblowers.
It used to require first hand knowledge.
They changed it so that it could be somebody who had secondhand knowledge.
Who made that change?
We're gonna find that out.
We have to find that out.
This is part of the transparency uh that deserves to be there.
Uh, what kind of people are over there uh in these federal agencies that are trying to carry out a political bias, like we saw uh with Cohen, like we saw with the Mueller report, where people at the FBI and other agencies were abusing their power to try to stop Donald Trump from getting elected.
Uh this is scary stuff.
It's stuff the public wants to know about.
They don't want to impeach a president who was duly elected just because the Democrats don't like Donald Trump or don't like the fact that he was elected instead of Hillary.
He won the election.
I think he's gonna win next year's election because he's doing that.
Is anything the House Republicans?
Last question question, exit question that the House Republicans can do as it relates to what Pelosi is doing and Schiff is doing.
Uh and number one, will you also go after Schiff for his lying duplicity in all of this?
I don't see how he could lead any inquiry into anything because he needs to have his own inquiry taking place, one against him.
Uh, can anything the House Republicans to can do to slow down, stop this madness, even though they're not even allowing Republicans to have equal time, like in the case of Volker.
Well, we've got to use every means we can to let the public know what's really going on.
Look, Andy Biggs, a colleague of mine, uh, has a resolution that I co-sponsored uh too.
It's a privilege resolution to call out Adam Schiff for the things that he's done.
Uh, you look at what Speaker Pelosi's done uh to try to shield her members from a vote on the House floor.
Never happened before in any of the three impeachments that moved through the House Committee.
Uh in each of those three, there was always a House vote.
Uh, And it was always a bipartisan vote on the House floor.
This is hyperpartisan where Pelosi doesn't even want her vulnerable members to vote on it.
And go back to the author of the only impeachment resolution that's out there.
He said just last week that if we don't impeach Donald Trump, he will win re-election.
This is all about not about high crimes and misdemeanors, because there were none committed.
They don't want Donald Trump to get re-elected, and they're abusing the power of impeachment to try to make it happen.
They will not be successful.
And I think it's going to backfire on them.
I think it already is backfiring on him, and we're going to keep getting all this information, getting the facts out.
All right, Steve Scalise, the House uh Republican whip.
Thank you for being with us.
800-941 Sean, our number, Adam California.
Adam, how are you?
Thanks for your patience.
Glad you called.
Oh, I'm glad I called too.
My my concern is this is an opening closed case of textbook bullying, and they've been bullying our president since he took office.
And it's and it's not affecting one kid on a playground.
It's affecting our whole nation and the way our nation conducts business.
Well, listen, they haven't lifted a finger to solve a th a thing.
I mean, you know, for example, in an Obama's second term, oh, yeah, they're all for funding the wall, all for getting a wall done.
Uh now they've what?
Now they're for open borders, free health care for illegal immigrants.
They're uh of course they want everybody to get amnesty.
They have sanctuary cities and sanctuary states now that literally aid and abet even criminal aliens uh from even being deported, they're protected.
Well, what happens when they commit more crimes against more innocent Americans, especially the criminals that are out of just let out of jail, they won't even hand them over to ice.
So they've become so radical and extreme and obstructionist.
They what have they done to ever help President Trump get something done that we should all agree on?
Like securing the borders, nothing.
Nothing.
Well, we need to start a class action lawsuit against bullying our president.
We just had somebody commit suicide over cyberbullying.
He's getting media bullying, cyberbullying, political bullying.
We need to uh put an end to this, and they need to be held accountable.
And it's not frightened.
He doesn't have a billion dollars to leverage anymore, just other Democrats.
Well, listen, it's this is why I say it's an all-hands-on-deck moment.
The American people, you you gotta understand there's consequences if you don't engage.
But I agree with what Steve Scalise just said.
This is gonna this is going to backfire and blow up politically in their face as it should as they abuse their power.
Wayne in New Jersey, how are you?
John, great to speak to you.
Yes, sir.
What's going on?
Hey, I was watching your TV show last night, and the graphic that came up, same ship, different day, uh, got me thinking of two more phrases for you.
Yeah, go ahead.
One is the ship will hit the fan.
Yeah.
And bullshit.
Well, it's all true.
Um, you know, it look if it wasn't so serious and bitterly partisan and so absolutely disgustingly hypocritical.
I I mean, I just can't believe how is it that not one person that cared about Russia collusion, they never said a word, not a peep out of them about the dirty Russian dossier.
Nothing.
They cared about obstruction, but not Hillary's obstruction with the deleted emails, the bleach bit, et cetera, the hammers.
And you know, same with the oh, I believe, but you're not gonna believe it when it's a credible accusation against a Democrat.
It is selective political feigned moral outrage, and they get away with it.
We now know Ukraine was solicited by the DNC for help and support to collude with the Clinton campaign to literally impact the election and even political acknowledged in January of 2017 before Trump sworn in that they were successful.
All the Manafort stuff came from Ukraine.
They did all the trashing of Trump And questioning uh who he is and his temperament that a lot of it, they were openly helping Hillary.
And they were having meetings.
Now, again, if it was Trump, it'd be different.
If Donald Trump Jr. was Hunter Biden and it was vice president Trump at the time, I can guarantee you there'd be wall-to-wall coverage of this, you know, the corrupt business dealings that took place here.
If Donald Trump as vice president leveraged a billion taxpayer dollars like, you know, Joe 30330 uh to protect his son from an investigation, I guarantee you they probably end up in jail.
And this is now the quandary, the dilemma for the entire country.
We're gonna allow them to get away with this.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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What exactly did the whole action after?
Well, I would think that if they were honest about it, then sort of major investigation into the Biden.
It's a very simple answer.
Uh they should investigate the Biden because how does a company that's newly formed and all these companies, if you look at, and by the way, likewise, China should start an investigation into the Biden.
Because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with uh with Ukraine.
So I would say that President Zelensky, if it were me, I would recommend that they start an investigation into the Bidens.
Because nobody has any doubt that they weren't crooked.
That was a crooked deal, 100%.
He had no knowledge of energy, didn't know the first thing about it.
All of a sudden he's getting $50,000 a month, plus a lot of other things.
Nobody has any doubt.
And they got rid of a prosecutor who was a very tough prosecutor.
They got rid of him.
Now they're trying to make it the opposite way, but they get rid.
So if I were the president, I would certainly recommend that of you, friends.
Because I'm sure that President Xi does not like being on that that kind of scrutiny where billions of dollars is taken out of his country by a guy that just got kicked out of the Navy.
He got kicked out of the Navy.
All of a sudden he's getting billions of dollars.
You know what they call that?
They call that a payoff.
The president that you are running to on seat is um uh potentially being impeached uh for trying to sabotage your campaign.
How does one deal with that, Mr. Vice President?
With the truth.
Uh, you know, there's not one single solitary legitimate outfit uh here abroad that uh indicates there's anything remotely reasonable to what he's suggesting uh in his uh way beyond uh anything that uh I quite frankly thought he would do.
The president said uh quote, and again, uh he said this without providing, as you pointed out, providing any evidence of wrongdoing, but he said, quote, Biden and his son are stone cold crooked.
Have have you have you talked to your son about any of this?
I talked to my son uh I I we've we've communicated, he lives out in California.
We communicated a couple times.
Uh, but look, uh there is zero, zero, zero, zero evidence of any assertion being made.
Uh I'm not gonna go in on now.
Look, the issue is this president of the United States engaged in something apparently that is close to well, engaged in activity, which at minimum gives uh a lot of uh running room for the Russians and and uh in uh Ukraine, and uh I think we should just focus on he's the issue.
Nobody has ever asserted that I did anything wrong except he and what's that fellow's name, Rudy Hootie or whatever.
That's it.
Now, let me make something clear to Mr. Trump and his hatchet man and the special interest funding his attacks against me.
I'm not going anywhere.
You're not going to destroy me, and you're not going to destroy my family.
I don't care how much money you spend, Mr. President, or how dirty do you tax get.
Well, he's not spending a penny yet.
Uh that's uh well, that's just par for the course.
Now, uh, we welcome back to the program, Jonathan Gillam, Danielle McLaughlin, news roundup information overload, 800 nine-four one Sean.
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All right, here's the intellectual honesty test, uh, Danielle.
So let's take out the name Hunter and Joe Biden.
Let's say the vice president of the United States of America has the name Donald J. Trump.
I know he wouldn't like the demotion, but let's say that's the truth, okay?
And let's say he gets put in charge of Ukraine.
Oh, let's pick a year, 2014.
And let's say that just months after his son, who has no experience in Ukraine, no experience in energy, gas, or oil, gets a lucrative contract as a consultant for a big oil giant called Barisma Holdings in Ukraine.
That ends up being almost four million dollars for them.
Now that's on the heels of a year, year and a half earlier, Hunter Biden on Air Force Two with, well, in this case, it would let's say it's Don Jr. on Air Force Two with Donald Trump and they go to China in 2013.
And while he's over in China, he makes a lot of business contacts, and he gets back less than two weeks later, he's got a billion-dollar private bank equity deal with the Bank of China.
That's right.
Partly state own state-owned China owned bank.
And then it ended up being a billion five.
Uh he's in business with, let's see, John Kerry's stepson and Whitey Bulger's nephew.
They didn't give the billion five to Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, uh, Bane Capital, or any of these other big, you know, groups that have a lot of experience in it.
And they had, again, Hunter Biden, no experience with China private equity, no background whatsoever in this.
Now, if you switch the names out and you put in the son being Donald Trump Jr., the vice president being Donald J. J. Trump, uh, are you telling me that everybody would be going around saying, oh, there's there's no evidence.
There's no proof.
Oh, no, no, no.
It's a conspiracy theory.
Do you think that would be done by the media, or do you acknowledge a truth, which is a flagrant, despicable, frankly repulsive double standard by the media mob?
I agree, Sean.
Hey, Sean, hey, Jonathan.
I don't think there should be any children of anyone in the federal government monetizing the office of the presidency or the vice president.
I didn't quite ask that question.
Would this be handled dramatically different if the names were Donald Trump Jr. and Vice President Trump?
Well, you know what is interesting is that we have the Trump D.C. Hotel, we have Ivanica Trump.
Okay, all right, but they were all in existence before.
They're all in existence before before he became president.
No, Trump has been grounded.
Excuse me.
Okay.
Okay.
This has been a business established long before, and relationships with a lot of the countries before.
Focus on my question.
Would this be handled dramatically different if it was Vice President Trump and Donald Trump Jr. with Ukraine and China?
That's a simple question.
I I don't think, and I think that there has been criticism lobbied at Biden for what he did for hunting Biden.
And I think that's right.
But I think the Trump.
Danielle, would the treatment of Donald Trump and Don Jr. be dramatically different?
I don't see that it is.
I really I really don't see that it is.
And in fact, I think more people should be up in arms about any child.
I don't care whether you're a d Democrat or something.
All right, Jonathan Gillam, your answer.
I I don't I don't think we have to look any further than uh certain members of the president's cabinet, not even the the the president, but members of his cabinet who misused a plane or something like that that had to step down.
They had to step down because of the uh of the overwhelming media and political uh uh virocity that came down upon them.
That was just for misreusing a plane.
That's not misusing their position to go and uh withhold funds to get somebody fired in another country so their son could get off from doing something most likely criminal.
I mean, I think it's evident, uh Sean and Danielle.
I think it's evident that when we look at politics in DC, by and large, the Republicans are held to a standard that uh the Democrats are not, and that uh as I was having a discussion today, that it's the craziest thing.
I mean, you can look right at Joe Biden's words, and then they try to do this uh some type of Star Wars mind control where they say, um, you didn't see that.
In fact, Trump is the one guilty of that.
And it's and it's unbelievable how the media pushes this stuff out.
And then Danielle, I I I just don't even see how anybody can just on the left can even say remotely say that it's the same on the Republicans' side as it is the Democratic.
I think everybody listening, frankly, Jonathan and Danielle are laughing at your answer, Danielle, because you know, we already see the double standard.
There was that we had four investigations, no Trump Russia collusion.
The very people in the the mob and the media that were after Trump on Russia collusion, uh, didn't say a word, not a single word hardly about the dossier that Hillary Clinton bought and paid for with funneled money.
They didn't say a word about her deleting subpoenaed emails and and bleach bit and hammers, and nor did they seem to care the top secret and classified information was on that server, nor do they seem to care the unverified Russian dossier full of lies was used as a basis to spy on the Trump campaign, Trump transition and Trump presidency, or the outsourcing of of illegal intelligence gathering to allied countries to circumvent laws.
Let me ask you, all right, tell me on what page, what paragraph, what sentence that you think Donald Trump crossed the line in his conversation with President Zelensky.
Tell me where he tell me what he said specifically that that tells you that this deserves a warrants and investigation or an impeachment inquiry.
Well, I don't have the transcript in front of me, and of course it's not a transcript, it's a memorandum.
He does talk very specifically after he talks about uh missiles to the Ukraine for uh their own self-defense against Russia, which we should be readily.
Well, I can read it to you if you would like.
The president in the open he said it today.
He said it today.
He wants G to uh uh here's my question.
Why hunter Biden?
Why Joe Biden?
Why not the thousands probably of other people?
Excuse me, because we now we listen, we now know that the DNC colluded with Ukraine for election interference in 2016.
We do not know that at all.
That is a Russian point.
Uh uh, that's a Russia talking point?
Let me read from let me read from politico, and then if you don't mind, I will actually read from the uh the letter that that Congr uh Senators Johnson and Grassley sent to the attorney general.
I'll read that one first.
The quote brazen efforts by the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign to use the government of Ukraine for the express purpose of finding negative information on then candidate Trump in order to undermine his campaign.
The letter highlighted news reports that during this 2016 election, Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary and undermine Trump and did so by disseminating documents implicating a top Trump aid in corruption, suggesting they were investigating the matter.
Now I'll take you to January 11th, 2017, the politico.
Ken Vogel, David Stern, hardly members of the vast right wing conspiracy, the headline, Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire.
Kiev officials scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton and Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermined Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office, and the Ukrainian government disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aid in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter only to back away after the election,
and they helped Clinton's allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisors, according to the political investigation.
By the way, supported by documents now, and the admission by the government of Ukraine that they did do it.
You know how we know, Danielle, because there was a court ruling that said they interfered in America's rela elections.
A Ukrainian American operative consulting for the DNC met with top officials in the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, all in an effort to expose ties between Trump, Manafort, and Russia.
And Ukrainian efforts, quote, had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort's resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump's campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine's photo of the East Russia.
We have a court decision.
We have the documents from the government, and we have the admission from the government of Ukraine that they did it.
We have Menafort, who is a criminal who is a forester who is in prison.
Danielle, you're the master at switching topics.
You just told me it was a Russian talking point.
Now I'm telling you a Ukrainian court after looking at the evidence.
Excuse me, what about Crowd Strike?
The president was asking to look into election interference in 2016 because he knew it had happened.
Don't you want to get to the bottom of election interference with Ukraine or no?
If it's real and not a conspiracy theory, I absolutely do.
Why doesn't why why?
Well, you're calling political and you're calling a courtroom in Ukraine conspiracy theorist, Danielle.
Is that how is that the new talking point?
Why has the president never admitted that Russia and defeated in our election?
Listen to me.
You won't answer the question.
Because the bottom line is the president didn't interfere.
We had four separate investigations.
But I got to take a break.
Russia.
The four separate investigations we've had.
Trump Russia collusion, the special counsel, the House Intel Committee, the Bipartisan Senate Committee, and the FBI.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Talking about Russia, Sean.
I look, I think if there's something that's a good idea.
That was an investigation into Russia.
I'm good.
You know what?
It's very frustrating because it's there in front of you, and you just, I don't know if you do it on purpose, or maybe you just are just blinded by your rage against Trump.
I don't know.
Like invasion of the body snatchers.
I can't figure it out.
All right, as we finish up here with Jonathan Gillam, Daniel McLaughlin.
I I, you know, we have a court ruling in Ukraine, Ukrainian government admitting that they helped Hillary.
And Danielle says it's a Russian propaganda talking point.
Your reaction, Jonathan.
I mean, I I love you, Daniel, but none of this stuff makes any sense.
Like uh Sean was saying before went to break about how uh the left just doesn't seem nobody on the left wants to admit anything that is true when it has to do with Donald Trump uh or when it has to do with the guilt of the left.
I and I just I want to say this before we go off.
Um, you know, there's no guarantee, Sean, just like we were talking about.
You remember when uh when we were coming up on the election for the House and we before we lost Congress or we lost the House to uh the Democrats, we kept saying it's not written in stone, it's not written in stone.
You can't just say that these things are gonna happen and we're gonna get it our way.
Donald Trump may not win in 2020.
You never know what's gonna happen.
And I would love to see this president go full force.
I believe in him very much, but full force in all of these people.
Uh the Clintons, the Biden, the way that all the deep state has conspired to go against him.
No more reports about this guy or that guy.
Start looking at these people as conspirators because they're all in it together.
It doesn't matter if it's Biden and his son, or if it's over giving billions of dollars to Iran, or if it's a Clintons and all the stuff that they did, it's conspiracy, and they're all working together.
All right, thank you both, Danielle McLaughlin, who's giving me a heart attack, and Jonathan Gillam, thank you.
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Uh all right, let's get to a lot of calls.
A lot of you being, by the way, I know Danielle is one of your close friends, Linda.
I mean, I know you'll love her to be.
She's definitely a cousin from Australia or New Zealand.
I got it.
But I mean, you know, she's saying, oh, that's a conspiracy theory.
It's established in a court of law in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian government admits the collusion.
Listen, she's a lawyer, she's an arguer, she's confrontational.
She's not an arguer.
She just changed, she just does not answer a question.
She's a deflector.
She does not answer a question.
And I'm like, okay.
Like we're all good democrats.
But well, that's the point.
What is wrong?
It's kind of like when I say to her, Danielle, where do you want to go for dinner?
She says, Well, you know, I had a big lunch.
It's not the same.
It's like, okay, there's evidence.
No, that's a conspiracy theory.
There's an intellectual laziness.
And I either it's either that or it's just pure rank raw politics, which means that, you know, if it means destroying Trump and the country gets destroyed in the meantime, or just like asking or praying for a recession.
You know, we hate Trump more than we want the economy to grow.
I mean, how sick is that?
So here's the thing.
This reminds me of when all of your text messages were released late on a Friday night.
Oh, my.
Between you and Paul Manafort.
And I think one of the things that we all found incredibly funny on that night was the fact that people could not believe that your text messages were the exact same thing as what you say on radio and TV.
Well, let me remind people because we have talked about it before I set it up.
It's Friday, and I'm done.
I was off the I was supposed to be off.
I was off that night, actually on TV.
Anyway, all of a sudden, I'm just finished the radio show.
And I look at my inbox and it's like New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, da da da da.
Daily B, you know, every whatever.
And they're like, okay, open one of them, and I got the clue.
Uh, we'd like your reaction to the judge uh unredacting and releasing the 57 pages.
Somebody told me it was like 1100 text messages between me and Manafort.
Okay.
And I'm like, great.
There goes the weekend.
And so I get our our crack jack team of attorneys on it instantly.
And they literally they they gave it to seven attorneys.
And I'm like, I I know this is from whenever 2016, no, 2017 and 16, 18.
I don't even know.
And what's funny about it is I have no idea what's in those text messages.
I'm like, oh my gosh, 57 pages.
So I'm a page 40.
They they call me back.
Oh, fine.
They said the same thing.
It just sounds like you're opening monologues every night.
Right, but my point is, now that you've explained to everybody what happened and where it all came from, is that everybody on the left is just it it's like they get an email in the morning, you know.
Like some people get a daily devotional, they get the daily democratic talking points.
Okay, what are we gonna say today?
Okay, shifts talking trash again.
So we gotta make sure that we all stick to the story because shifty shift has shifts, you know, yet again.
All right, so what are we gonna say?
Okay, so he talked to this well whistleblower, not this whistleblower.
Oh, he he wants to do this story, not that story.
But with us, it's different.
Because when you have the truth on your side, you never need to remind yourself of the last lie you told.
And that's all they do.
So that's it.
There was an interesting exchange, and I'll be honest.
I mean, I'm so busy.
I fire off these texts.
I'm not really thinking, and I don't rem you know, it's like, for example, tell me ask me who is on our show here Monday.
Today's Thursday.
I can't tell you.
It's true, because you were you are not the same person.
You've been you were hiding underneath the real limo.
I was not hiding.
You totally, you know, you are not the Linda we know today.
You just came in every day, and we all thought like you never talked.
When like one all of a sudden, one day she starts talking.
I wasn't the boss, then now I'm in the middle of the room.
Then the New York and the F bombs come flying out every other sentence, but forget it.
Put that aside.
But one of the parts of the exchange was he was said to me, Yeah, they want me to they want me to flip on the president, something to this effect.
Flip on the president and his family, and I specifically Jared, I guess he might have said, I don't remember exactly.
And then he goes, but I'm not gonna do it.
And I'm like, holy me, this guy's life is over.
You know, this is after like solitary confinement or maybe before solitary.
I don't even know before or after.
I have no clue.
I don't remember the timeline at all.
And anyway, and then he says, but I'm not gonna do it.
And he goes, Because they didn't do anything wrong.
And I'm like, okay, well, what would somebody be looking for?
And then apparently, like, you know, the special counsel psychos like and and harassers like Andrew Weisman, who apparently was running the whole thing.
Well, Sean Hannity sending special secret messages to you.
I'm like, sending secret messages.
What do you I mean, what is this?
And then the media, fake news CNN and uh conspiracy TV, Area 51 Roswell Rachel Maddow's network.
They, you know, they're all out there saying, holy, I can't believe he believes this stuff.
He really believes what he says.
I mean, do people fake it?
I I mean, does that imply that they just do it and fake it?
I don't understand.
I don't fake it.
I don't know how you can fake it.
How do you fake three hours of radio a day?
I don't I don't know how you fake that.
I I'm I'm a Daniel McLaughlin on at the start of every show and get you revved up.
Yeah, pisses me off.
Clearly.
Uh all right, let's go.
Don Lake Ron Concama.
What's up, Don?
Welcome aboard, my friend.
Hey, it's great to talk to you again, Sean.
What's going on?
Your shows have been just incredible, both on radio and TV, giving us the facts and figures and the evidence that uh you just don't get anywhere else.
I'll tell you what I did today is I called uh representative Ken Marchant from Texas.
He's the uh ranking ethics committee member.
And I asked him to uh and I voiced my disgust in the align conspiracy antics about Adam Schiff.
And I also asked, well, I didn't ask him, I asked his staff to uh let him know to call him in front of the ethics committee to answer some questions.
Well, if it was a Republican, they would literally be, you know, censure and and probably motions to get rid.
You know, Adam Schiff is such a liar.
I mean, when we played the montage again, well, we made one last night.
Oh, you proved it time and time again.
Yeah, we've got all the evidence.
The evidence is clear.
We have ample examples, significant evidence that Trump colluded with Russia.
He's just lying.
And he's lying again here because you no intelligent person can read that transcript and conclude that Donald Trump did something wrong.
He did not.
And just like in the Russia-Russia hoax conspiracy theory, uh, the only evidence we have that Ukraine helped in the 2016 election is we know they helped Hillary at the behest of a DNC contractor.
And they were meeting, and it they had an impact.
And that's not even my conclusion.
That's politico's conclusion.
Well, since since there's no mechanism to remove him from the intelligence committee, I think why not tie his hands up in the ethics committee.
Yeah.
All right, my friend.
Thank you.
Uh all right.
Welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
Thanks for your patience.
Hey, Sean, my favorite anchor, buddy.
I grew up a lifelong Democrat, and uh I grew up in Pennsylvania, I live in Virginia now.
I've seen the exposure since I was young.
Like, and now all the corruption that they do.
Where does the money go?
All the houses in the city are bordered up.
They don't do nothing with the money.
Now that Trump's in there in 2016, I voted out I voted for Trump, and now that he's in there, he's exposing them for what they are.
My daughter goes this.
I moved to Virginia.
My daughter goes to a city school now and is forced to watch CNN for 10 minutes.
And she took a history test the other day, and in that history test, it said radical republicans.
I mean, these people are crazy, man.
Um, yeah, so you're a lifelong, you're a lifelong Democrat.
What do you like about Donald Trump?
I like that Donald Trump, he's a he's a he's a true American, he's a patriot.
I'll tell you this, I'll tell you what I like the most about him.
You know, I I like two things the most.
One, this guy never ever stops fighting.
You know, he actually, you know, he he gave an interview to Michael Goodwin.
Michael Goodwin's a really good columnist at the New York Post, and he's worth reading every day because he's got great information constantly.
And anyway, so the president gave him an interview, and it was in today's edition.
And the president, you know what?
He says, Yeah, you know what?
I love it.
I love fighting.
I I don't mind at all because he's he believes in what he's doing.
It's really that's not any more complicated than that.
And what he really is saying is, you know what?
It's it's a load of bull.
And you know what?
It may sound a little nuts to you, but I like to fight.
The do nothing Democrats should be focused on building up our country, not wasting everyone's time and energy on BS.
And he's right.
That's true, Sean.
That's why I watch him every day at nine o'clock.
I mean, faithfully, me and my family sit out and watch you, Sean Hannity at 9 o'clock.
All right, so Linda wants to ask you a question.
Well, Devin, I gotta ask you a question before I do hang on.
I hope you don't mind.
It sounds strange to say I'm energized, but I love it.
I love it.
Meaning the daily combat with Democrats and the media.
They're so corrupt, they're cons, and all they want to do is win in the election.
That was powerful.
All right, go ahead, Linda.
All right.
So Devin, I got a cool question for you.
So you said your daughter is forced to watch 10 minutes of CNN in her classroom every day.
Indoctrination.
Yes, ma'am.
Yeah.
So let me ask you, you know, have you have to Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Uh you know, they they just had a uh climate march.
You know, I tell my daughter, don't you listen to that climate change it's a hoax, you know?
Now, do you find yourself having to like is she listening to you or is she like confused and conflicted?
No, she's definitely listening to me.
She sits down and watch Sean Hannity with me.
Oh, God bless her.
So let me ask you, can you like is there any other Republicans like in the class, or can you talk to this teacher and tell her, like, listen, when you air that crap, I want my kid out of the room.
You're not indoctrinating my daughter.
They're all liberals.
I'm gonna win the city.
But can you pull your kid out, or does it make it uncomfortable for your kid?
That's correct.
Oh, what a mess.
Well, you got people like uh I follow Sean and Candace Owens, who is brilliant and goes in these inner cities, and that's what the inner cities need.
Yeah, they need education because when they get it, they realize they're actually not democrats, they're Republicans.
They just never knew it.
Yes, that's how they're doing a brainwashing the kids.
Absolutely.
They should not do that.
Should not have politics in school.
It should be our education first.
God bless you, Devin.
You're doing the hard work, man.
Listen, we've lost the schools.
I've given up.
I really have.
I mean, the indoctrination is now, you know, there's a reason they want, you know, to provide government daycare and pre-K all the way through college because they don't want to have to skip a year where they might actually miss the constant, never ending or well-in nightmare of indoctrination.
And, you know, as evidenced by, you know, how do you make kids watch fake news CNN?
Imagine the outcry if people had to watch Sean Hannity.
I mean, the left would go nuts when there's probably, you know, maybe 10 teachers or professors in the whole country that would ever say that's a good idea.
So maybe Fox News should offer 10 minutes for free of your show every day to every public school in the middle.
Well, it is free.
All they have to do is record it or pull up the DVR and they can play.
You have to make it easy.
They make it easy.
Right.
Uh all right.
Thank you, Devin.
You're a good man.
Um, let's say hi to uh our friend Patty from Mississippi.
What's up, Patty?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
I'm just curious, because I wonder why why do I have to keep asking you the same question year after year?
And basically, why is it with this particular case, everything that's going on with Biden and Trump and everything?
Why is it only the freedom caucus guys that are out screaming, you know, run around with their hair on fire?
You know, why where's Mitch McConnell?
Where there's 53 Republican senators, and basically we have Lindsey Graham is the only one saying anything.
Why is that?
You know, I I look, I don't understand why more senators and congressmen don't fight.
I mean, why do they why do these people even run?
Something happens.
I've noticed over the years, and something happens.
These guys get to Washington, and it's like they change.
And I I think they like being called Senator T, Congressman, et cetera.
I have a clue.
I think I I think I may know something.
Because I think the only real bipartisan thing in Washington is influence peddling.
Oh, yeah.
And unfortunately, you know, there's gonna be some people that when our fight with Biden in China and Biden in in Ukraine when the when all the threads start getting pulled, that unfortunately.
They should be out there fighting like we fight every day.
You're right.
I mean, we're on this program fighting for our country every day.
Because I think this is a tipping point.
They win, Elizabeth Warren wins, it's over.
Our system of government as we know it, the freedom uh that we the freedom society that has built a nation of uh and created a wealth that has never been created in the history of man, an opportunity.
I mean, that's all gone, as they'll take control of every aspect of our existence.
It's not gonna be good.
This is this is worth fighting for.
And I guess the the symbol of that at this moment is Donald Trump.
And so if they take down Trump, then they feel the whole system scum's crumbling down.
And, you know, Democrats always circle the wagons.
Republicans don't circle anything.
Just like they didn't have a plan after seven years to replace Obamacare.
It's pathetic.
It's just how is that even possible?
65 phony show votes, you know, the the 2015 vote in the Senate, seven Republican senators get to vote on the same exact bill, a complete, clean repeal of Obamacare, but they change their mind when it's real.
Republicans are just as bad.
You know, I don't know why do they want to even go there?
You know, what's the point of going there if you're not gonna fight for what that which you believe in?
Anyway, 800 941 Sean, toll free number.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
All right, we're going to be investigating all things Ukraine, their election interference in 2016, the mob's insanity, uh, as they they have their double standard is repulsive at this point.
Uh we'll get into the cowardly shifty shift tonight.
Great details.
Jim Jordan, Greg Jarrett, the great one Mark Levin tonight.
Uh Tom Fittness has some breaking news that uh is gonna blow open new cases involving the corrupt government uh that we have.
Uh Bangino, Geraldo, Mike Huckabee, and Sean Spicer, all coming up tonight.
News you won't get from the mob and the media on the Fox News channel.
See you tonight at nine back here tomorrow.
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