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Wow, what a week this has been.
Jam-packed, crazy news-breaking every second-minute hour of every day.
You know, how many times has this happen going into our vacation?
And look, nobody's you don't need to feel bad for me.
I'm I was supposed to start my vacation Monday.
I always take one long vacation a year.
Well, it's not starting Monday.
It's not starting Monday.
Linda's looking at me like, you know, with just daggers in her eyes.
Uh oh, this is when we get our break from you.
Well, it didn't happen.
You know, it all started on Monday with the inspector general.
And then the the the idiot liar, James Comey, out there, I'm vindicated.
Yeah, until we heard from the inspector general, nobody involved in this is vindicated.
Nobody.
And you look at that, you look at the madness and these ridiculous, watered down, meaningless two impeachment articles that are dead on arrival in the United States Senate, and just how corrupt, just how disgraceful government is at every level.
What did Reagan say?
You know, we're always but one generation.
Freedom is but one generation away from extinction.
This is what he knew and understood and was warning us about.
Because this type of corruption and abuse of power, it we cannot thrive as a constitutional republic.
If in fact this is how things are going to be run.
This is a very ugly, dangerous world we live in.
If there's good news to take out of this week, it's that we were right all along, and now the truth is out there.
And it's out there politically about the do nothing Democrats in their rage and and and psychosis against Donald Trump every second, minute, hour, every 24-hour day, seven-day week, every month, every year, for three long years.
I keep counting down the days, 326 days.
You, we, the people get to shock the world again.
If there's any good news, it's I was right about this too.
The 99% of brave men and women that serve in the premier law enforcement agency in the entire world.
RFBI, they're good people.
They they they they they put their lives on the line for us every day to protect us.
Same thing with the intelligence community.
We're gonna talk to Carter Page.
We're gonna really do a deep dive with Carter Page.
Because he's victimized wow, what they did to this poor guy.
How many people warn me?
He's gonna burn you.
I it was interesting because we had this relationship.
I began to figure out at some point, I don't remember when, I'd be interviewing him, and he wouldn't answer my questions, and he's very good at dodging, and I'd be like, You dodging me.
Answer.
And at some point, I remember in the middle of an interview.
He was on the phone that particular day, wasn't in studio with me.
He'll be in studio today.
And I literally hit what's called the talk back button where he's talking and I can communicate with my team.
And I said to Linda, he's CIA.
You remember the moment, right?
Wasn't that?
I figured it out pretty early.
Oh, for sure.
And I said, because then I kept so when you came back from countries like Russia, you'd you'd talk to agencies, three-letter agencies.
Yeah, yeah, well, you know, we'd have coffee.
Yeah, because he's a good American.
He's trying to serve his country.
And I would ask him, remember, I was pressing him, impressing him.
Because there was it didn't add up.
Muller, the whole fiasco, Pfizer application, dirty dossier.
Mueller interviews him one day.
And he never hears from them again.
Because they knew.
Now we know why.
Now we know that on top of the other warnings, Kathleen Kavlak, Bruce, or that the fact that we know it was an unverifiable, dirty Russian dossier that Hillary Clinton bought and paid for, leaked to the media before the election, conspiracy theorists, hacks like Michael Izakoff and David Korn, et cetera.
Circular reporting they used to make it seem to the Pfizer court that it was something more than it was, and there were multiple sources saying the same thing, therefore it's valid.
They did all that on purpose.
And this poor guy is being spied on for over a year.
And then when the CIA confirms and tells the FBI, no, he he worked with us in good standing.
And you have this, what's his name?
Kleinsmith guy.
I guess he was the one.
They alter the document.
There's an exculpatory for Paige.
Now they're listening in on his phone calls, and you know, he's saying, look, guys, I don't know these two guys.
They know he's telling the truth.
They withhold that exculpatory information.
They withhold Pavinopoulos' exculpatory information.
Oh no, nobody in the Trump campaign would ever collude with Russia.
This poor kid, and by the way, he is to me, he's a kid.
I mean, him and his wife go through hell.
Lovely people.
You know, I remember I had a conversation.
You remember the conversation I had with Papadopoulos at one point?
Because I can't help it.
I offer advice to everybody.
What's the advice I give on on bonus day, Linda?
Say it.
Save your money.
Oh, that's not what I say.
Money is freedom.
Money's freedom.
Yes, you do say save your money.
But at one point, he had a two-week stint that he's facing in prison, and he was telling me, I think you were there.
I'm always there.
That he was, I think I'm I'm gonna go back on this.
I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't take the two weeks.
Anyone can suck it up for two weeks.
I said, if you don't, they're gonna go after you, and you're gonna spend six years in prison.
And they did nothing.
They they say they, this is another thing we learned this week.
They say that this whole Operation Crossfire hurricane, counterintelligence investigation, which by the way, I keep reminding everybody can't happen without the White House being involved and knowledgeable of it.
This is why, you know, Horowitz is a preview of coming attractions.
He he was doing his investigation in a bubble.
It was extensive.
He did a lot of good work here.
His conclusions were a little weird.
Uh, especially the other.
These conclusions were a CYA.
Yeah, you know, yes, you're right.
But then when he was, when they dug down, and Lindsey Graham dug down on him.
Uh, well, James Comey says he's exonerated and he's vindicated.
Yeah, nobody in this is the director James Comey said this week that that your report vindicates him.
Is that a fair assessment of your report?
Um, I, you know, I think the activities we found here don't vindicate anybody who touched this.
Yeah, nobody who touched this.
So it's ironic that it is the biggest abuse of power, corruption scandal in history.
We've been vindicated.
I was shocked today.
I'm in a state of shock.
Linda sent over an article.
I've never had, I never get good press.
I just don't.
I don't expect it.
I don't want it.
I don't give a flying rip anyway.
I just don't care anymore.
Whatever part of my brain that's supposed to care about bad press and care what other people think, it doesn't exist anymore.
I'll tell you, I do care about, I care about you, this audience.
We care about getting the truth.
You know, think of everything we do here, Rush does, Mark does, a few of us on Fox, not everyone, few of us, you know, is very different, special, and unique.
I always say we're all spokes on a wheel.
You see what the president's accomplished under unprecedented fire daily.
You know, forget journalism being dead.
They are the most repulsive group of people, disgustingly dishonest.
The very thing they accuse us of, like everything they accuse Trump of, boomerangs back on them, Hillary with the dirty dossier, and now quid pro quote Joe in Ukraine.
Same with the media, everything, they're state-run, extreme radical, democratic socialist party.
You know, they're the press office.
Just corrupt to the core.
Instinctually, I always knew it, and I never wanted to go to a White House correspondence there because I can't say I can't stand them.
I never went.
Fox was begging me.
No.
Anyway, Jeff Lloyd, I was shocked today.
And he's a friend of this program, and somebody that saw the Trump phenomenon very early, smart as hell, worked in the Reagan administration.
Writes the vindication of Sean Hannity, a relentless pursuit of the truth.
And I was one of the things that's not about me.
I was very happy that he he mentioned that this was an ensemble team.
There were many of us.
There really were.
I should make the full list.
Maybe I'll do that next week.
There weren't many in Congress that really dug down.
Freedom Caucus, Rockstars, Jordan, Meadows, Gates, Radcliffe, you know, then Devin Nunes.
Wow, when you compare his report versus the compromise corrupt congenital liars, lies.
I'm highlighting more lies tonight.
All this week I've been highlighting the lies of Comey and the lies of the congenital liar.
They're spectacular lies.
The impeachment is it's dead on arrival.
Mitch McConnell was, I got, did you see him last night?
I saw him.
He was good.
I thought he did a good job.
I've been very critical of him.
By the way, I've been critical of Republicans for a decade now.
In a lot of ways.
Weak, spineless, they buckle, visionless, you know, swamp creatures.
They've they've they've gotten better.
I still would never join their party.
I don't want to ever want to be a part of any party.
We learned this week, and the good, I'm staying on this, and I'm glad I said it as much and as often as I did, because this was only a few within the FBI and the intelligence community that are corrupt.
Not that not the rank and file people that protect us every day and they risk their lives doing it.
You got Comey signing off on three of the four FISA applications.
What do we learn this week?
He knew darn well that this was an unverifiable document.
I couldn't believe that even Christopher Steele that we knew said, I have no idea if any of it's true.
Only had one subsource who laughed at the idea that anyone would take any of it seriously.
It was like bar talk.
Hillary paid for it.
17 significant failures and accuracies, omissions, subsected out, and it's well over 50.
And under this corrupt leadership of Comey, look at what they did to Carter Page, who we'll talk to later.
Look at what they did to General Flynn.
Look at what they've done to the country.
Look at what they've done to the president.
This malignant leadership, this politically charged effort because they knew better than we, the smelly Walmart shopper, Trump supporters.
They knowingly, repeatedly misled Pfizer court.
And to do it the way they did it, they did it in spectacular fashion.
Oh no, they altered documents.
They did zero verification, we now know.
You know, exculpatory information withheld.
Omissions at an unbelievable level.
Abusing, taking away the civil rights and liberties of one individual, Carter Page.
All designed to take out a president of the United States with their insurance policy.
How did we get it right?
We just we just kept digging.
We never stopped.
I can't tell you how many times we we had triple sourcing and we'd still wait.
Because we knew if we got one thing wrong, that unlike them that got everything wrong every second of every day, the expectation of all of you is higher.
Very proud of everybody and what they've done for their country here.
And I I have hope.
If we lose FISA, it's not good.
Reforms are coming.
There's got to be accountability here.
I think Barr and Durham are signaling very strongly that's all gonna happen.
That gives me hope too.
As far as this impeachment nonsense, I honestly, it's just who they are.
It defines them.
Do nothing, psychotic, raging lunatics.
They're hurting the country.
Every day they do this.
And they don't seem to care.
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So this is all impeachment.
That's gonna die in the Senate.
The only thing I like about it, maybe you'd think it's warped thinking on my part, is it just it shows how corrupt, how insane, how out of touch, how self-absorbed, how narcissistic these radical extreme democratic socialists are.
Now you can see all of that with the new green deal, 94 trillion dollars.
Great.
No oil, gas, no combustion engine, eventually no planes or cows, and everything in life is free.
Keep your doctor, keep your plan, save money.
A friend of mine recently got an insurance in New York over a couple of thousand dollars a month for one individual.
And it's crap insurance.
There's nothing great about it.
But what did we learn this week on top of it?
The mob in the media is they're not just that they're not only not journalists, they're corrupt to the core.
17 significant failures and accuracies, omissions, altering documents to keep this this coup attempt alive.
It's breathtaking.
You got the led by Jim Comey and company, malignant, not rank and file, purposely omitting exculpatory evidence, suppressing information about the reliability of Steele's principal source, a subsource that's saying this is bar talk.
Now the attorney general is, yeah, they did spy on the president.
Are you kidding?
Yeah, what do you think a surveillance thing is to spy on the president, then candidate, then transition team.
Bad faith?
No, it was a coup attempt in our time.
We learned that this week.
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I hope we do it.
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Parts of the now infamous dossier on Trump have proven to be true.
I know the history of the dossier, but it hasn't been discredited.
In fact, it's been the opposite.
It's been corroborated.
Much of the dossier has been corroborated.
This discredited dossier.
It hasn't been discredited.
Your intel community has corroborated all of the details in there, the meeting.
All of the substance content of the dossier we were able to corroborate in our intelligence Which from other sources, and which we had very high confidence for.
We know that with the Pfizer application, the relevant parts of Christopher Steele's dossier were corroborated.
If the application included information from the dossier, it would only be after the FBI had, in fact, corroborated information through its own investigation.
We also know that as time goes on, more and more parts of the Steele dossier get corroborated.
So when the president just refers to his fake dossier, that is false?
I don't think that's the accurate characterization for the entirety of the dossier.
Investigators have corroborated part of the dossier.
I see it has been corroborated by the intelligence community.
U.S. investigators have corroborated some of the allegations in that dossier, although we do know that parts of it have been corroborated.
It's not been corroborated, but it hasn't been disproven either.
Is there anything in the dossier that has been disproven?
No.
Not one thing has been disproven.
No major thing from the dossier has been conclusively disproven.
To date, none of it has been disproven.
And whole big parts of it are holding up.
The dossier um holds up well.
None of it has been disproven.
All of the allegations in it, I don't know that anything has been disproven.
It's a fact that none of it, not one word has been disproven.
In fact, a lot of it turned out to be right on the money.
Former high-ranking intelligence officials have told us on the record that there is nothing in the Steel dossier that they know to have been disproved.
Much of the dossier has been corroborated.
Do you not accept that?
I don't agree with that, Alice.
This is our reporting, and this is what um this is what crime fighting agencies have said.
That the FBI would not have just taken a dossier to the FISA court and used that as their predicate for the surveillance.
They had to corroborate it themselves.
That's how they operate.
Yeah, the mob and the media telling you, oh no, no, it's the dossier is true.
No, it wasn't.
And learning about how it's unverifiable, which we knew because of the interrogatory in Great Britain and Christopher Steele under oath under the threat of perjury charged.
I don't know if any of it's true.
And then the subsource, like, this is bar talk.
Hookers on a bed and Ritz Carl Mascot leaning urinating on a bit.
It was a joke.
But they spread it.
That's that's where the failures, the inaccuracies, the omissions, subsect that fifty fifty plus of them, 17 significant.
Knowingly and purposely omitting exculpatory information, altering evidence in a case.
Going before a FISA judge and telling a Pfizer court judge it's something that's unverifiable.
To spy and take away the civil liberties of one American, constitutional rights of one American.
So they one step, two step, which they knew gave them the back door as I've been telling you into the Trump world campaign, transition, and as Barr said, deep into the presidency.
And we can deduce from Barr and Durham's remarks is that they're all likely subject, a likely subject in the criminal probe, which we now know is taking place.
And they know a lot more than Michael Horowitz, who was living in his DOJ FBI bubble because his purview only, he was only allowed to work within that bubble.
His conclusions were a little ridiculous, although that was vetted out by Lindsey Graham, who did a great job this week on all of this.
Um and now we're gonna get into the issues of willful misconduct, and we'll get into the again.
It's only the upper echelon.
Because remember, Hillary should win 100 million to zero.
Well, he can't win, can he?
Well, if he does, we have an insurance policy.
Now we know what the counter-Intel insurance policy.
Kim Strassel, ooh, she picked up a great nugget when she says, yeah, no, fusion GPS founder, Glenn Simpson, was talking about Russia collusion in May.
But the official story is no, it started on July 31st because of George Papadopoulos' comments to uh what's the Australian guy's name?
Stefan Helper in a bar, which was ridiculous and unbelievable.
Anyway, now we have evidence.
No, this goes back way further.
This is their insurance policy.
And the president, as every everybody should be mad.
And this is all you've gotten for three years.
Russia, Russia, Russia, obstruction, obstruction, exhaustion, stormy, stormy, quid, pro and quo.
But the only one is Joe.
Bribery, extortion.
You know, first it's a quid and a pro and a quo, then it's bribery, then it's extortion, and it ends up being he obstructed justice because he sought remedy in the courts to do what every other president before him has done, which is use and exercise executive privilege.
And knowing they would have lost in the courts.
We'll just speed race this impeachment madness.
Now, I'll tell you that when you look at what's happening, and I'm looking only anecdotally at TV ratings.
I'm telling you, even the radical bases abandoned this whole impeachment nonsense.
You got a House Democrat, there's 31 of them, and Trump won districts.
For example, Western Pennsylvania.
Congressman Connor Lamb running as a moderate, because he's running in a district Trump carried in 2016.
He's avoided criticizing Trump on the campaign trail.
Even pledged to vote against Nancy Pelosi if Democrats take back the House.
Looks like the sheep's, you know, moderate and sheep's clothing liberal came out for impeachment.
There's 31 of them.
Nancy Pelosi, remember what happened in 2010?
I guess they forgot.
Gotta pass it before you know what's in it.
She had them dive off the cliff then.
Now she's gonna have them dive off the cliff again.
Follow the congenital liar and nutty Nadler and the shift show.
One of the biggest criticisms of the process has been the speed at which the House Democrats are moving.
If this is but seriously, though, seriously.
It's been going on for 22 months.
Okay.
There has been some criticism, though, I will say, about whether or not you should move forward before the end of the year or wait for the courts.
Why do you think now is the time to move?
Well, I think we're not moving with speed.
This uh was it two and a half years ago that they initiated uh uh investigation.
It is uh not that speech.
It's about urgency.
It's been going on for two and a half years.
Maybe she forgot the Mueller report.
Yeah, uh no up no Russia collusion.
That was the fourth investigation, concluding no Russia collusion.
Uh, MBC News pointing out there might be as many as eight.
Democrats indicating they remain undecided.
Could be much higher.
And by the way, this is so important.
The House Democrats, I don't know if you saw Louisiana Democrat Cedric Richmond is watching what is that golf tournament that's going on now?
I can't even keep up.
This has been such a busy newsweek.
Anyway, I guess Writers' Cup.
Something like that.
Anyway, so he appeared to be watching a golf tournament on his laptop during the roll call.
We just couldn't believe it.
We'll play you later on.
Oh man, was Senator Doug Collins of Georgia?
Yes, I said that on purpose.
He was on fire when Nadler Nutty Nadler pulled his little act last night.
Anyway, Democrats, do you want to know something?
They were caught again, by the way, doctoring the Trump call.
But Nutty Nadler wanted to get when we can't do this at midnight because not enough people will see us.
We want to be on TV.
We want people to see us, be stupid.
Okay, actually works out in everyone's favor.
Um we had another Democrat during the debate.
Veronica Escobar, Texas, changing us to me.
Trying to make an analogy to assert that Trump committed a crime.
If a community suffers from a natural disaster and the governor of the state has aid that will help that community, but calls the mayor of the community and says, I want you to do me a favor.
Well, there are five meetings.
Aid was never discussed on the call with Zelensky.
Not one time.
It was Zolinski never felt any pressure.
Didn't know it was being withheld office of management and budget, even said, no, that's actually standard operating procedure.
That story came out this week inconveniently.
Five meetings, high-level meetings, including one with the vice president.
They never discussed aid.
There's only one fact witness.
They brought up in the audition hearings, and then they had the shift show hearings, and then we had the Ivory Tower Professor hearings.
Which, you know, just bringing a bunch of Trump haters and even a guy that wanted to impeach Trump for saying the words fake news.
And then the lady attacking Baron Trump.
This is a dead.
This is, you know, it's a it is a total shift show, sham show for these people.
You know, it's a desperate attempt, as it's always been.
Three years, they can't accept the election results of 2016, which is all the better because we get to do it again.
In 326 days and shocked the world again.
How great would that be?
Pick it, pick your most hated network of fake news.
You know, we project Donald J. Trump has been re-elected as the 45th president of the United States.
I don't I don't think that they'll survive.
It'll be great.
Sean, can we play my favorite song?
Oh, it's so long.
But it's so good.
It's only going to get better.
It's Friday, and it actually is apropos.
Because in 326 days, this can all happen again.
Play it.
Donald Trump just last week he confirmed to the National Review that he is again considering a run in 2016.
Do it.
Do it.
Look at me.
Do it.
Ottawa possibly brought you a counterplaying check now.
On behalf of this country, which does not want you to be president, but which badly wants you to run.
Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
Donald Donald Trump is a clown.
I mean, does anybody seriously think that Donald Trump is serious about running for president?
Donald Trump.
You know, he's a clown.
President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States.
Exclamation point.
At real Donald Trump.
At real Donald Trump.
At least I will go down as a president.
So basically this is the beginning of the end for Trump.
Beginning of the end?
This is probably starting of the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.
Donald, uh, you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency.
The strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room.
So right now we have Hillary's about a 75 or an 80% favorite.
We from first Hillary Lincoln by double digits nationally, 12 points, 50 to 38 for way race.
Clinton leading in Florida.
Clinton leading in North Carolina.
Clinton leading in Ohio.
Clinton leading in Nevada.
I could go on and on and on.
I continue to believe Mr. Trump.
Trump will not be present.
And so, right now, Mr. Trump, to answer your call for political honesty, I just want to say you're not going to be president.
All right.
It's been fun.
It's been great.
I love you.
Come on.
Come on, buddy.
We have a major projection right now.
Donald Trump will take Ohio.
That's in our projects.
Donald Trump will carry the state of Florida.
Huge win for Donald Trump.
Donald Trump, while we project will win in Kentucky in Indiana with its 11th electoral votes.
Tennessee.
South Carolina, Alabama, North Dakota, with its three electoral votes, and South Dakota, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, the state of Montana, North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Utah, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kansas, with its six electoral votes, Nebraska with its five electoral votes, and Wyoming with its three electoral votes.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Complicated business.
A lot of people have laughed at me over the years.
Now they're not laughing so much, I'll tell you.
Uh you get to totally worth it.
Totally worth it.
Totally worth it.
You know, they have zero evidence in this thing.
They had the one fact witness says, oh no, he said I don't want anything.
Don't quit pro quo.
That's all they got.
They didn't show one bit of evidence.
Nothing.
Now they're and then the irony is the my whole bifurcation issue, which you hate when I say it.
If you have to have a bifurcated brain, you have to be able to compartmentalize the way the real Russian dossier Hillary paid for.
Uses the basis to spy on Carter Page and the president, then candidate, then transition team.
It's all obscene and it's all a sh- It's this is this defines them.
This is who they are.
You know, Jeffrey's actually said the Congressman, he goes, American people should decide the outcome of elections.
That's why we're impeaching Trump.
How dumb can you be?
You know, Nadler, I mean, really, there's status these people.
You know, Collins, his integrity's gone.
Bush league.
And it's all true.
You know, you got uh a process so corrupt.
It's never been this bad.
Never.
Wasting just they do nothing for we the people.
And I'll tell you, it's gonna be fun to watch these people jump over the cliff.
They've watered down any meaning of this thing anyway.
It's uh it's so obviously political.
Mitch McConnell was like, it's not going anywhere.
It's done, dead.
I'm not gonna get into the issue again.
I I could probably be persuaded either way.
My gut tells me they're so psychotic and nuts.
The minute you got the votes after the House presents their case, you take the the you call the roll, the end this madness before they put 15 other impeachment articles in place.
Make them go back and do the whole audition shift show, Nadler shift show again.
Oh, well, impeached, you know what's up?
We're gonna impeach them again and again and again.
That's their latest, that's I guess their campaign mantra.
We can do it again and again and again, comparing it to the women's suffrage movement.
And you know, an affront to MLK's memory.
I mean, some of the comments.
Wow.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
We learned a lot this week.
The main thing that we learned is how disgustingly corrupt the media is, how bankrupt of ideas, how corrupt the Democratic Party is, and the deep state is real.
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What should happen?
Time out.
Let's reassess.
Maybe we got this wrong.
What would you hope to happen?
That the FBI would slow down because this is the outcome determined document that's just had a hole blown through it.
They don't slow down.
They use the document that now know to be a bunch of garbage, twice more to get a warrant against against Carter Page.
I hope Carter Page gets a lawyer and sues the hell out of the Department of Justice and FBI.
Two more warrants were obtained by the Department of Justice and the FBI after being told in January by the Russian guy it's all a bunch of bull.
But it gets worse.
Here's how they describe the interview to the court.
The FBI found that the Russian-based subsource to be truthful and cooperative.
Nothing about, and oh, by the way, he said everything in there is a bunch of bull.
You knew in January 2017, if there was no doubt before, you know by the guy who prepared it that he disavowed everything.
It's not true.
It's a grain of salt.
You shouldn't.
I didn't say all these things.
Instead of stopping, they keep going.
And instead of telling the court, the court the truth, what they're required to do, they lie to the court.
A few irregularities.
How would you like this to happen in your life?
How would you like to be on the receiving end of this to our people in the news business?
What would you like?
How would you like this to be your news organization?
All right, that of course Lindsay Graham.
Lindsey Graham, I thought he he hit his high watermark during the Kavanaugh hearings.
He's been phenomenal.
Now I'm not going to get into this argument.
Let's bring in Joe and Hunter and uh and the whistleblower and uh uh the compromise corrupt congenital liar and and we'll make it all part.
No, I actually don't agree with that.
Get it over, but Lindsey Graham said to me last night, you can tell your audience for me, from me, that all of this is going to be investigated at the highest levels.
He's not letting it go.
So, and the reasoning is you get out of this.
Because you give them an extra week, they'll throw another 15 articles of impeachment out at the president because that's how freaking nuts they are.
Anyway, 800 nine-four one Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
I and I could be persuaded either way.
I honor as long as it gets done, because we're not going through this with nothing, and then allowing quid pro quo Joe to walk away with his zero experienced son hunter uh scot-free.
That's not how it works in this country.
Finally, we've got the uh an attorney general and a prosecutor that have made it clear that everything that we reported, I've never had in my entire life, 31 years in radio, and now my 24th year at Fox, an article that shocked me about me.
Jeff Lord did it.
What's his website again?
It's uh, you know, he works with the spectator.
Oh, Jeffrey, the Jeffrey Lord.com.
Did you read this?
This did you say that?
The guy is unbelievable.
Now we'll be friends for a lot of years.
He followed, he listens every day.
He comes on when we invite him on anytime we want him.
I like him almost as much as Carter.
He writes, the vindication of Sean Hannity in a relentless pursuit of the truth.
I was like, nobody's gonna care.
We were right about Obama, never nobody ever wrote about it.
We spent and but and he gives credit to a lot of our ensemble cast members.
We didn't do this alone.
And I I the mob, think of all they've gotten wrong.
So let me tell you something a little secret, and I'll tell Quadna too, since he's here.
So Carter Page is gonna join us soon.
Yeah, well, he is joining us.
So uh being very patient.
So Jeffrey the other day goes to the the uh rally in Hershey.
So he's sitting in a car, cars in front of him, guy pays his way through the uh parking attendant because he sees Jeffrey through his rear view, which is just incredible.
And Jeffrey's like, no, I have VIP passes.
I've already paid for it.
Give us money back.
You know, he's a true Jeffrey, sweetheart.
Gets through, parks his car, he's like walking around, couldn't even get to the front of the line.
Either people wanted to talk to him about you, Sean, and talk about all the good things you're doing, or they wanted to talk to him working for Reagan, supporting Trump.
He said, People are fired up and they're pissed.
He said they're so angry about what's happened.
And I have to say it's pretty, it's pretty incredible.
He said, People love you, Sean.
You're well loved out there.
So, you know.
You know, not to say anything, but when it was a little odd, you get in the middle of this crap, and we have done, I think, our deepest dive we've ever done on any one topic.
And I thought we did a really good job vetting Obama when the media wouldn't.
We worked really hard on all of that.
But we were right.
And I'm very proud of everybody that had a part to play in that, because that's our goal.
It is about the pursuit of truth.
And everybody else is lying.
Now, I want to introduce Carter Page, and I love what Lindsay said there about Carter Page.
Now, in the course, Carter, I won't I want to walk through this systematically with you.
How many times do you think radio and TV you've been on my shows?
I've lost track a long time ago, Sean.
But uh it it was uh it was an honor the first time, and uh you know now you can't stand me anymore.
No, no, it's it's uh, you know, I mean what to be on the number one show on uh on TV, and I mean it's uh I mean it was it was a great honor.
But even twenty-five of the greatest, biggest, best radio station in the country.
How many times did I press you and at times to the point where you are uncomfortable over what you what you were doing in Russia, what you did for a living, why you were there, uh what would you do with information?
Who did you sit down with uh in terms of three-letter agencies in the country when you got back?
How hard do you think on a scale of one to ten I pushed you at times on those issues?
You kept pushing and pushing, Sean, and and digging about it.
Well, no, it well, you were I mean, it's consistent with what you, Linda, the whole the entire Hannity ensemble have been doing for so long is really just digging for the truth.
And you know, again, it's a uh it's confidential government information, the things I was involved in.
I I tried to respect that confidentiality, but uh, unfortunately, eventually, you know, there were a lot of criminal leakers in other people that have uh worked for and in the U.S. government because you're you're at the epicenter, Carter.
This was all they used you, they used you, they sp they took they stripped you of all your civil liberties, all your constitutional rights, you were denied all of them.
They spied on you for a year, but really you were just a conduit, a one-step, two step, as we call it, which is once you get the Pfizer warrant to spy on Carter Page, and okay, we can use the old Russian narrative.
And I thought Kimberly Strassel tying this back to Fusion GPS in May was very revealing because the official story is it started in July, and that's another lie.
But that's what your country did to you, just like the way they treated General Flynn.
So I want to I want to stay focused.
And if I need to take more time than this half hour, I will.
Because I would push you, and I would say, Well, who did you meet with when you came back from Russia?
And you would say, Well, very uncomfortably.
Well, I would sit with people from the government and you'd and then I said you'd answer every question they had.
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
And you'd have lunches and dinners, right?
Didn't remember those conversations?
I I remember him vividly, Sean.
Do you remember when I got a little pissed off one day?
Because you would you were ducking me and dodging me, and I was calling you out.
I said, You're not answering me, are you?
Yes.
One particular interview you remember.
Uh, yes, yes, I I remember that one very, very vividly.
So what I began to figure out based on the information as it was unfolding, at some point, and I think I said it to Linda in the middle of the interview.
I can actually talk to her by hitting a button when you're talking.
I said, he worked for he worked for our intelligence community.
He was in the CIA.
Remember, Linda?
Yes, boss.
And then I pushed you harder.
And then based on the way you ducked, I knew that was correct.
How many years did you serve your country in this capacity?
Now it's out there, you can talk about it.
Well, it it goes back.
I mean, my first time uh when I worked in the Pentagon in nine uh starting in the middle of 93 through the end of uh of 94.
Um, you know, that's that's was the start, and you know, I spent some time at it langly then, so you know by the way, you see uh you see he's still he's still locked into his old method of thinking.
That's fine.
You don't have to give us every detail.
But when when somebody is working with the greatest intelligence agencies in the on the planet, um, and you're in a country like Russia, and by the way, of course Putin interfered in our elections and Russia did.
We already know that.
And Devin Nunes warned about it in 2014.
They didn't do anything to stop it.
But I'm just guessing that if they discover that you're working for the CIA, your life might be in jeopardy, right?
Didn't Putin wasn't he responsible for poisoning some people that he didn't like?
Uh that's the allegation, yes.
Yeah, yep.
And when you would come back, and I kept digging and pushing you, and I'd ask you again and again.
I said, Well, would you meet with the CIA?
Would you meet with the NSA?
Uh and and the answer was always yes.
So the reality is is now we know not only did they strip you of your constitutional rights and liberties and civil liberties, but they even altered a document to do it because the CIA confirmed that you were not only did what you not only did work for them, but you were in good standing.
Is that true now?
Do we now have that as fact?
That was in the report.
Yes, uh, yes, Sean.
And I I greatly appreciate that they uh that they revealed that fact, yes.
And they also they made it just the opposite.
They said they lied, they altered the document that was exculpatory for you and said just the opposite, didn't they?
Yes.
And again, I I I would highlight what you said a few minutes ago about as a way of getting at President Trump because this is precisely what they've been doing to him nonstop uh throughout this uh the last several years.
And I mean, it's up on the screen now with this all this impeachment stuff.
So yep.
Now, where I began to get more and more information based, number one, on pushing you and then your non-answers answers, which I called you out on.
I mean, there's one show in particular.
I was a little mean uh because you're not answering Carter.
Carter, give us the answers.
We're looking for answers.
But when Mueller brought you in, how many hours were you with Muller and his team?
A full day, a full day, Sean.
Yep.
A full day, and nothing ever happened, did it?
No, and they they were really annoyed because it was all uh Democrat donors who were uh in the room with me.
Three three angry Democrats.
And they all knew as well then who you were and what you did for your country and your government and where you worked, true or false.
That's true.
And they also the greatest invasion of privacy, right?
Because I mean, that's after the warrants, that was in November of 2017, the what uh warrants expired a couple months earlier.
And so they've already been listening, you know, the U.S. government has already been listening to me and the Trump campaign and Trump administration through my communications with them for uh for over a year, right?
And they they find nothing, and then they're they're just pushing me to try to find uh some possible uh um perjury trap that they can they can catch me out on.
So well, and nothing came of it because I'm sure that the letter that was altered to make you into an uh a villain when they said just the opposite.
Have you seen that letter?
Um I I've I've seen the description in the in the report.
Um, but you know, what's interesting, Sean, and No, no, no, no, you're not answering.
I'm not letting you get away with that.
Okay.
Have you seen the letter?
Uh perhaps.
Perhaps.
Maybe you let him think about it in the break.
No, no, no.
Was the letter exculpatory and did it say you are a great American that served your country well, the essence of it.
Uh the Sean, look, there are there is so much there's so much documents.
There are so many documents.
I the level of evidence, clear and convincing.
I mean, but the overwhelming thing.
Here's what I'm trying to get at.
The agency told them you were a person in good standing.
Can I say that?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, that's yep.
And then they changed it To say just the opposite.
Is that fair?
Yes, yes.
Yep.
This ought to scare the living crap out of every American.
What they did with General Flynn ought to scare the crap out of every American.
This is this is the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in history.
And I told you they used the dirty dossier.
And without the dirty Russian Clinton bought and paid dossier, they wouldn't have gotten the Pfizer warrant to spy on this guy.
But they also withheld exculpatory evidence.
I'm going to get into that next, Carter, so start preparing your answers.
And phone conversations, et cetera, and things you said.
And then on top of it, they knew they were lying.
They altered documents to continue the spying, illegal spying.
800-941 Sean.
Want to be a part of the program.
Carter's gonna hate me, but it's fine.
Can never hate you, Sean.
Everyone in the mob hates me already.
So it doesn't matter.
I'm I'm perfectly accepting my role as being hated by many.
You're bringing the country together, Sean, to the contrary by exposing the truth.
So well done.
Trust me.
Just like they don't care about you, they don't care about me either.
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I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
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All right, so we're doing a deep dive.
Carter Page has agreed to spend a little more time with us.
Steve Scalise will uh be checking in with us as well.
And Donald Trump uh Jr. checks in as well today.
Uh, we'll also have time for your calls in the next half hour.
800-941 Sean.
But we gotta get, we gotta dig down deep here.
We've got to fully completely comprehend, understand exactly what it is, how corrupt Comey's FBI has been and continues to be.
Because if we don't get to the bottom of it, we're never gonna solve the underlying problems, which means it puts everybody's civil liberties in jeopardy.
That would mean your civil liberties.
That would mean your kids, your grandkids, everybody suffers when the 1%, not the 99 rank and file intelligence and law enforcement guys, special agent in the FBI when they abuse and use the powerful tools of intelligence and turn them on we, the people.
More Carter Page, Steve Scalise, Don Jr. coming up as we continue.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
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You're our kind of people.
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Carter Page, who's been on the receiving end of all this, the foundation to believe he was a foreign agent comes from a dossier that we'll talk about in a minute.
And that dossier provided by Christopher Steele, and we'll talk about him in a minute.
They claim that Carter Page meets with three people known to be Russians.
Russian agents, people associated with Russia.
Carter Page, while being wiretapped by his government, says, I don't know two of these people.
And to this day, there's no proof that he ever met two of those three.
The third person he says, yeah, I met him.
I told the CIA about my meeting because I was a source for the CIA.
So they would have you believe that Carter Page is working against our government, not with our government.
So Carter Page in the summer of 2017 is trying to tell anybody and everybody, I was working with a CIA.
I reported my contact with this person, and nobody believed him.
The CIA had told the FBI it was true earlier, but it never made it through the system.
Somebody got so rattled at the FBI, they asked Mr. Kleinsmith to check it out.
He checks it out.
He communicates with the CIA.
Is Carter Page a source for you?
In an email exchange, they say yes, he is.
What does Mr. KleinSmith do?
He alters the email to say, no, he's not.
And you caught him.
I don't know how you caught him, because you got to dig into this email chain.
Wow.
What a powerful moment.
That was Wednesday with the Inspector General Horowitz talking about Carter Page, who's on our newsmaker line.
Now, you know, one little side note before I get into this KleinSmith issue with you and what you explained on those phone calls.
Um you know, Carter, how many people tried to warn me off you?
You know how many people told me you would burn me?
Do you want to know?
I never told you this.
How many people said me putting you on was gonna be a career killer for me?
I I can only imagine, Sean, because uh uh when we had our first interviews years ago, I was just getting attacked nonstop by all sides.
So those people that said that to you are just consistent with sort of the mass.
I don't even remember.
I tried to go back in the recesses of my mind.
I can't even remember.
I just remember people don't trust that guy.
I remember.
No, I remember that that those are.
I think I didn't do the time, didn't I?
Not now.
Well, I don't know.
Uh you're you're diplomatic, Sean.
You're very uh you're uh So listen to what Lindsey Graham just said.
I want you to tell this audience when you hear that, when you when you absorb that, what do you think?
Well, Sean, I uh you know, again, he what he's talking about are things that you and I have talked about for years.
I'm just happy that we now have a document from the government, which, you know, a serious in-depth investigation, which basically confirms everything you, your team have been digging into and reporting for the last uh several years.
You know, I mean, it's uh it would never have been possible if it weren't for you know, people like uh Chairman Graham and Congressman Nunes and so many people, and again, you provided a platform for them to actually state the truth, you know, in terms of the city.
There were times you actually told me that off air, that I was over the target and more right than I ever knew.
You remember telling me that?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So, you know, when you're doing like a put trying to put the piece of the puzzle together, tell us about this guy, Klein Smith.
Well, the sad thing about him, I mean, again, there are a lot of allegations of wrongdoing uh with him.
The thing that really disturbs me the most.
Again, I I think the overarching the 17 separate instances of FBI misconduct and abuse that were exposed in the invest uh inspector general's report is is just you know, as as Chairman Graham has told you, uh uh just uh ugly and damning, right?
I mean, this is that you know, the things 17 significant failures inaccuracies and omissions, but it subsections into over 50 offenses, but go ahead.
I I know, and you've I know you've uh been digging into that as well with your your whole ensemble team uh here.
But um, but the thing that bothers me the most in my interactions with FBI lawyer Kleinsmith is when I again I had a long series, I spent over 10 hours with the FBI in March of 2017.
I ended up getting more death threats.
And I, you know, and I told the FBI about the you know, the terror threats that I was surviving then.
And unfortunately, early the next month, they had a uh another um another media report, you know, in that in the constant series of craziness there.
And I got more death threats, you know, and unfortunately it was related to a disclosure in that instance of me being an FBI informant, right?
So that gets out in the public, and you know, and I tell Mr. Kleinsmith about that myself, you know, I had a direct email exchange with Mr. Kleinsmith and also with um, you know, I mean, my my la my uh one of the volunteer lawyers that was helping me at the time had had already spoken with him a few times.
And so it was on his radar scope.
So yeah, I mean, I think what he did in terms of all the dishonesty, I mean, that's bad.
But what's worse is the you know, life or death situation that the FBI not only did nothing about Sean, they made it even worse, right?
Because that was early April 2017, just a couple weeks later in the Washington Post, they reveal about the FISA warrants against me.
And I get more uh death threats and let me care about that.
Let's go a little deeper into this.
The threats are coming from associates abroad, like from Russia.
Well, no, actually, it it and again, it goes back to the the report.
Well, doesn't it go to in some sense because in in many ways I think you would fit as a be defined in some ways as a covert operative.
And certainly on this program with me, you were exercising plausible deniability to the best you could until I finally figured it out.
Took a while and a little bit of digging and pushing and prodding and poking, but I got there in my own head, and I remember the moment I said to Linda, he works for the CIA.
I promise you he does.
And she I think Linda, you looked at me, you said you're probably right.
Yeah, no, I I definitely did.
I was like, I'm I'm not surprised if you so do you did you get any threats from any of the people that you met abroad?
Well, uh it's always a threat, Sean.
But the the specific ones that I uh informed Mr. Kleinsmith of, in which I had in-depth discussions with the FBI agents, you know, members of the of the Comey McCabe team back in March of 2017, was you know,
uh was were actually domestic threats and more specifically, all stemming from the false defamatory reports that were paid for by the uh by the DNC and pushed with their consultants that were, you know, part uh part opposition research people and part uh bureaucrats in the DOJ and FBI.
And you know, you you've been uncovering that for years.
So I'll, you know, I mean, you know, all kind of the background on that part.
All right.
So then let me let me go to this other area where we can.
So you have these threats, and all of this is unfolding in your life.
And meanwhile, you're doing just the opposite.
And who who were the agents in the FBI?
You said it was Mueller's team and Comey, I'm sorry, McCabe and Comey's team.
Was it Peter Strzok?
Who interviewed you?
No, and what's interesting, Sean, it's funny, and so I guess I can say it now, you know.
I don't like saying it, but the uh I mean the CIA guys that I I've worked with with over the years.
I mean, I don't want to put anybody's life in jeopardy.
Well, but okay, but let's go to the city.
The players that are well known to us, who was it?
No, it was none of those.
No one, I mean, it, you know, there's uh there are abbreviations In the inspector general report, which you've been looking through, you know, working through.
Um, and they're, you know, they have various code names.
But, you know, similarly, and that's what I was leading into.
So, you know, the CIA people that I'd meet with over the years would say, well, here's, you know, here's my name.
Here's my business card.
Here's my uh here's my email address, but it's not my real name.
You know, I mean, they'd intimate to me.
And unfortunately, uh, the names that these uh agents gave me in in March 2017, I I tried digging a little bit, and I think they're uh they're not the actual names.
Although they they never admitted it to me like the Do you know who they are now?
All right.
So I don't know.
No, I don't know.
I mean, I know I I could, I mean, if they were standing in front of me, I would be able to identify.
You'd be able to identify them.
Yeah.
Um, at any point that anybody ever apologize to you, that may sound like a really dumb question.
No, not only did they not apologize, Sean, in terms of you know, people within the uh DOJ and FBI, and and uh actually I I do have an exception.
I'll I'll mention that, but let's let's talk about a government context first.
Um not only did they not apologize, they've actually been stonewalling nonstop throughout the uh throughout the months and years since.
I've sent several letters, several requests to FBI director Ray, you know, asking for some disclosure, right?
Because, you know, I'm trying to get to the bottom and kind of start rebuilding my life.
But, you know, unfortunately the rebuilding process has not really um, at least that I've seen.
I I mean, I'm exceptionally grateful of attorney general barr and what he's doing.
And and obviously spoken with him yet.
No, not yet.
Not yet.
I would imagine have you spoken with Durham yet?
Uh no, nope.
Okay.
Um, so at the end of the day, do you remember how many times I'd ask you, do you love your country?
You love your country, right?
And you'd say, of course.
And you served your country.
Would you say the work that you were doing for the CIA and other agencies and other groups, et cetera, was dangerous.
It could be.
Well, and it became dangerous in, you know, after on September 23rd, 2016, when the defamatory news report came out by US government propaganda agencies and they're, you know, the the media outlets they're funding radio free Europe, uh, based on the defamatory Yahoo News article, right?
Which was then, you know, as we now know, and now we'll see in the inspector general report, was you know, part of the basis for this uh abusive process in the uh foreign intelligence surveillance court.
You know, I just think, well, first of all, I'm fascinated.
I think if one of the things that if I ever had my life to do live over again, besides like singing anthem songs like John Bon Jovi and songs like Garth Brooks and Kenny Chesney, um, I would love to do this work because it's fascinating to me.
It's very important work.
One of the things that worries me in all of this, Carter, is that we we need Pfizer.
We need there are evil actors on the world stage.
Russia is one of them.
Hostile regime led by a hostile actor.
You're absolutely right, Sean.
And I think it uh when you interviewed both uh Senator Ted Cruz and I, he actually came on before me uh on Monday, and you know, he said the exact same thing I was gonna say to you, right?
I mean, what we saw in Monday's report is just the first step.
Carter Page, stay right there.
Our final moments with Carter coming up.
All right, our final moments with Carter Page, uh, fully vindicated this week.
I want you to wrap wrap this up and put a big bow on it in the Christmas spirit.
What you want America to learn from this and also what you plan to do about this, considering they took away your civil liberties and they did it on by design and on purpose.
Sean, I think this is the start of a huge rebuilding process.
I mean, I think I have been just so grateful to Chairman Graham and the entire Senate Judiciary Committee, uh, Senator Kennedy, who was on your show this week as well.
I just such a long list.
And I mean, you've you have been on the forefront in terms of the the media and actually uh starting to set the record straight.
And I I have uh there's definitely a lot.
Well, this is you know, similar to what we were just discussing, just a first step in a very long process.
I think both in terms of rebuilding our country, our intelligence community.
Critical.
Yeah.
And so, and I'm I'm gonna help in any way.
Well, I'm I'm uh I'm hoping to uh you know write and educate the the country about this.
And I I think the you know the litigation process, our our court system.
We've talked about the problems in Congress.
You know, some of those death threats I got were on March 20, 27, 2017, when Congressman Adam Schiff is reading from that fake dossier into the congressional record.
You know, that was actually the worst day of the uh terror threats that I I lived through.
What a lot what a I I had him nailed from the beginning.
A congenital liar.
Um, you deserve uh you need your day in court, and I hope you sue the living crap out of every single one of these people involved in this.
Because, you know, not only were you serving your country and you love your country, then they spy on you for it because they don't like who is running on the other side.
They abuse their power.
It's corrupt.
We better fix it, or we're gonna lose our constitution and country.
Uh, Carter, uh, want to wish you the best in the holiday season.
I know you've been through hell.
I hope you feel a certain sense of vindication now at this point.
You certainly deserve it.
Well, I I I really appreciate everything that you and the team have done for uh since the very beginning, Sean.
You you were really the best.
Well, you helped us put the pieces together.
You was definitely it was like pulling teeth, but you helped us.
Uh, Carter Page, thank you.
800, 941 Sean, toll-free telephone number, Don Jr., Steve Scalise coming up straight ahead.
Coming up next, our final news roundup and information overload hour.
And this amendment strikes the reference to Joe Biden as the center of the proposed investigation and replaces it with the true topic of the investigation, Barisma and Hunter Biden.
Hertz called the Prescott Police Department, and officers filed a narcotics offense report listing items seized in the car, including a past plastic bag containing white powdery substance, a secret service business card, credit cards, and Hunter Biden's driver's license.
It's a little hard to believe that Barisma hired Hunter Biden to resolve their international disputes when he could not resolve his own dispute with Hertz rental car over leaning leaving cocaine and a crack pipe in the car.
I said, I'm not gonna we're not gonna give you the billion dollars.
I said, You have no authority.
You're not the president.
The president said I said, call him.
I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.
I said, You're not getting a billion.
I'm gonna be leaving here.
I think it was what, six hours?
I looked, I said, leaving six hours.
If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.
Oh, son of a fired.
If the prosecutor's not fired, son of a bee, they fired him.
A vice president of the United States of America, you're not getting the one billion dollars.
Why would a vice president want to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor?
Who the hell knows about a Ukrainian prosecutor?
Uh the well, the New York Times and everybody else tipped off quid pro quo joe.
By the way, we have great t-shirts on Hannity.com.
I've never seen them, I've never seen any one item sell like these t-shirts.
It's unbelievable.
Hashtag quid pro quo joe.
Uh with our friends at Nine Line.
But why?
Because his son is being investigated by the prosecutor.
And his son is making millions.
Zero experienced hunter, making millions and millions of dollars.
How many times have I said this?
I'm not sick of playing it, Linda.
I could play this on a loop because this sham impeachment, this these do nothing, lazy, psychotic, raging anti-Trump lunatics.
This is all they've done for three straight years.
And they they deserve in 326 days what's coming.
And that's you, we, the people.
You get to shock the world again.
Pick your most hated fake news network.
And there, you know, whatever time of night it is, close to midnight, maybe 11 o'clock, if it's a really good night.
You know, we can now project Donald Trump has just been re-elected the 45th president of the United States.
Donald Trump Jr., number one New York Times best-selling author is uh Brandon Book out triggered.
He's on the line with us, he's here with us.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well, buddy.
Imagine Donald Trump Jr. turned in a rental car with crack paraphernalia in it.
Imagine I got thrown out of the Navy in two weeks for blowing cocaine.
Imagine I spent two years running from a woman who was chasing me for child support.
I mean, imagine you imagine I took a billion five from China.
How how about this?
Imagine I took one point five dollars from China.
You think the standard would be the same as if I took one point five dollars from China.
1.5 dollars from China, they would lose.
So you're talking about a dollar and a half.
You took a buck and a half.
Yeah, by the way, if you get a free cup of coffee and you're in China, you're done.
Don't even go ahead.
I'm sorry, go ahead.
Yeah, you you can't even make this stuff up.
I mean, and you're like, oh no, kids are off limits.
They can attack Baron, uh, they attack Baron, and then you know, that's not off limits, but uh, but Hunter is, you know, uh the 50-year-old child uh of a guy.
I mean, it's such I can't take this.
I I can't take this this child of Biden narrative that I do hear from people.
This dopey, he's not a child.
He's 49 years old.
So let's cut the crap here.
Kids are off limits.
If kids are off limits.
Well, I didn't realize that when they spent two and a half years trying to throw me in jail because I took an unsolicited meeting.
Think about the difference, right?
I didn't take millions of dollars from foreign governments that were corrupt and under investigation.
I didn't, you know, sit on boards on businesses I know nothing about uh, you know, taking millions of dollars in income when I don't even speak the language.
I mean, this is insanity.
And it's the double standard by which they are their plan, and they try to take anything they can to try to create some false equivalency about us.
You know, and then the the left has lost their mind.
Uh you know, you see it in the sham impeachment, you see it in the nonsense, you see it in the messaging that the media puts out there.
Like, Sean, I do this stuff uh a lot these days.
I mean it's it's pretty close to me, obviously, at this point.
And like I didn't realize that when the media was screaming, well, the IG report found no bias.
Like, their definition of bias was like no one actually said the word bias, so we're not really sure.
They also don't talk about that.
The only part where they said there was no bias was they say, well, there's no bias in the way they started the investigation, because there's basically no threshold to start an investigation like that.
They don't say that there's no bias in any of the things that they did or any of the insanely biased actions of all of these corrupt members of the upper echelon of the FBI and all of those things.
They don't say that there's no bias there.
They just said, Well, there's no bias in the beginning, and there's really a low bar.
But the media runs with it like, oh, IG Horlitz said there's zero bias.
It's not nothing to see here, folks.
It's you know, you know, we're we're learning more about that too, which is you know, a fairly stunning story about how Christopher Steele was actually working for a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin.
How again, just like the dirty Russian dossier was the basically the entire application, and they all lied through their teeth.
I I had the nicest article in my life ever written about me.
It was written in the American Spectator.
They're altering transcripts because they wanted to change not to was so that they can literally change and do the exact opposite so they can justify the ongoing.
I mean, this is scary stuff.
I mean, this is insanity.
If this is going on in America in 2019, we wouldn't accept this going on in a banana republic in 2019.
But it's going on here, and the media is pretending like, ho, there's nothing to see here.
No worries, isn't it?
Uh man, uh, you know, I I've lost so much faith in our government in the last few years.
But honestly, in the last year, hey, Don, Don, forget the government.
I've gained so much faith in the American people.
I am pretty convinced every Sean.
Oh, yeah, they see every by the way, you get the same thing I get, right?
Everywhere you go.
Don't stop.
Keep fighting.
That's what I get everywhere I go.
I mean, I'm in, you know, I'm in New York City even, and like this is this is not a you know, bastion of conservative thought leaders.
You know, and they're coming up to be like, honestly, Don uh, you know, I'm a Democrat, but this stuff is insane at this point.
I mean, the fact set, even even the minimal fact set that's sort of being put out there by the media because they can't hide some of the stuff anymore, even though they're trying desperately, Sean.
Even some of the things like even the limited stuff that's out there, like, man, this is really this is scary stuff.
Like, I can't believe this is going on.
I will say, like, hey, before 2016, if you didn't believe in the deep state, fine, I get that.
You don't want to believe in conspiracies.
If you don't believe in the deep state and the disgrace that it is to this country, you're a moron at this point.
Uh you know, these people they're doing it.
The entire upper echelon of the SBI was involved.
You know, those top ten guys, I mean, what was going on here?
And the amount of guys that are like the real guys, you know, the actual FBI, like the door kickers, the amount of those guys that I've known, whether it's through competitive shooting or some of those things, or the guys that come up to me literally on the street, like, I'm I'm retired FBI or I'm current, like you guys just keep fighting.
Uh i this is a disgrace to our badge, this is disgrace to our organization.
And they're right, because of course it is.
But I don't know how people get faith back in these once great American institutions, Sean, because what they did, the crimes that they tried to perpetrate and almost got away with.
Um, you know, and who knows, maybe they still get away with it based on everything they've been able to do so far.
Um it it's man, it's scary stuff.
All right, stay right there.
I I will tell you this is a remarkable moment in history.
And I am I I cannot believe that everything that we have said, everything that we have reported on is now vindicated.
And it's worse than what we thought for two and a half years.
And more importantly, no one's talking about it.
They're like, oh, well, you know, no, there's no, you know, there's no retractions, there's no we got this wrong.
There's no Mia Culpas.
It's just like, well, this doesn't work well for our narrative, so we're not gonna even talk about this.
Um and honestly, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, you don't want this happening again.
Because, you know, a couple of those guys nailed it, be like, hey, this could very easily happen on the other side.
And whether it's the investigation stuff, whether it's the impeachment stuff, uh, i it is uh it is insane and it is uh happening under our eyes, and we better wake up as a country.
Well, I think we are.
I mean, that's the beauty of it all.
But you know, when you think of just how devastating everything, for example, they care about uh they care about Russian interference, but only if it's Donald Trump, they ignore the dirty dossier.
They care about election interference with Russia.
Oh, hang on.
Only if it's Donald Trump.
Not if not Hillary's dirty dossier.
Not uh think about that.
They care about obstruction, but not the subpoenaed emails deleted, the bleach bit, the hammers.
They care about uh election interference of foreign countries.
Uh we got a court decision in Ukraine that says it happened there too.
I believe Russia was involved.
I believe probably a million countries were because they had access to her emails, top secret classified emails.
Then we have the political outlines how uh everything that they've accused the Trump campaign of, they did that Alexandra Chalupa, DNC operative, walks into the Ukrainian embassy, uh colludes with Ukraine to get dirt on your father and every associate in his life.
Yep.
Well, I mean, listen, you you played the Joe Biden video tape.
I mean, by by their own standard, is that not way beyond collusion?
Is that now way worse than anything they're even saying that Trump did because there was actually su because something actually happened?
He's bragging about it.
All right, as we continue with Donald Trump Jr., number one New York Times best selling author is uh Brandon Book out triggered.
And I'll tell you this, for all the time his 49-year-old son, and I I love the I haven't taken a penny from China.
Yeah, but even his own lawyer said, Well, no, he hasn't cashed in his uh equity shares yet.
Uh which will be according to Peter Schweitzer, he estimates over 20 million dollars.
So he's lying again.
I don't think there's been a dumber interview than the interview with Hunter on GMA.
Yeah.
Uh do you have any experience in Ukraine?
No.
Energy, no.
Oil, no.
Gas?
No.
Why do you think they paid you millions of dollars?
I don't know.
You think maybe it's because your father is is in charge of Ukraine policy?
Yeah, you know what?
Probably.
Yeah, that's probably why.
I can't believe the ABC interview.
So they're on their team, and you have weeks to prep for this.
Because he's been hiding for you know, for the entire time of this whole thing, but you know, hiding from the uh the person he knocked up to you know, this uh I don't know, hide from alimony or whatever it is.
But imagine he spent he had weeks to prep for this interview to a home team source, and that's still the interview he gave.
That's still the answer.
That uh that to me just tells me that the entire thing is so much worse than anything because if that's the best they got, that's the best answer they can come up with.
It means they all know.
It's just a big joke, and because the media will never cover them, Because the media has decided to be the marketing wing of the Democrat Party because of all of those things, they're just gonna say, no worries, brush it under the table, you can do it again, just lay low for a few weeks.
That's all that's going on in here.
It's it's truly a disgrace.
And again, I see it, I see it from the American people.
I see it through the stuff that just people that come up through the streets wherever I am in the country.
But honestly, these days, even in New York.
Uh I swear it's what we've had.
I've never had it like this in New York.
I've been in New York as long almost as long as you as long as you.
I was born here.
Uh, thank God I got out for a lot of years.
But honestly, in New In the streets in New York every day, and you get it.
I mean, it is if I didn't know better, and I know it's impossible mathematically, although Rudy in a city of what, nine million registered Democrats, so they outnumber Republicans nine to one, he's still one, but I will tell you, I've never seen anything like it.
The people, the disconnect between those uh those people that are supposed to be the servants, those that have done nothing, those that are filled with psychotic rage, the disconnect between them and their constituents, it's never been like this.
You talk about triggered, your best number one bestseller, New York Times book.
They are triggered at the very name Donald J. Trump.
Well, it was funny, when we were out on you know, even on the view promoting triggered, right?
You know, that's an audience of 150, not exactly a hometown crowd if they're going to the view, it's seeing me, right?
So, you know, we even turn them when we started talking about some of the basic facts, some of the basic things that some of these leftists the stances that they take that they can get away with, whether it was, you know, whoopy with the nonsense defending child rapist Roman Polanski, whether it was you know, even their own audience sort of lost it.
And I think that's what you're seeing on a large scale.
Like, even the people who are pretty liberal, even the people who are, and I don't want to say Democrat, because there's plenty of good Democrats, they know hardworking Americans.
They've been that way, mostly frankly, because their grandparents were Democrats, their parents were Democrats.
Those are the ones coming up to me like, man, this the Democrat Party has left me.
Uh, and and that can be no more evidenced than by the policies that you see the mainstream leading candidates pushing, and they don't want to risk.
I don't see any American walking into the voting booth on November 3rd next year and saying, you know what?
I'm gonna risk half my net worth.
I'm gonna risk my paycheck.
I'm gonna risk my job to give one of these lunatics a chance.
I just don't see it, Sean.
They may tell you that in polling because they're so afraid to say what they actually think because of the media.
Okay, it's that whisper vote.
But man, you really gonna do that?
You're gonna risk your job, you're gonna risk your 401k, you're gonna just be able to do that.
I gotta let you go, but I won't tell you who's actually delivering.
I don't see it.
The people get the last word, Don.
326 days, people get to shock the world.
And I am counting down the days, and I think it's gonna happen, but I take nothing for granted.
It's always the two-minute drill.
You have no timeouts, you're down by six.
You get the touchdown, you hit the field goal, you win the game.
That's what I want to have happen, and I pray does.
Thank you, sir.
Number one New York Times best-selling author now, uh, Donald Trump Jr., 800 941.
Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800 941.
Sean, you want to be a part of the program?
We are loaded, loaded up uh with a ton of great stuff tonight on Hannity 90s.
We're gonna we're gonna tie this together in a bow.
We have Trey Gowdy, Ken Star, Alan Dershowitz, Steve Skelees, Matt Whitaker, John Solomon has breaking news tonight, Greg Jarrett.
We got everybody.
Uh and I wanna just, this has been such an incredible week when you think about it.
Everything we told you, the dirty dossier, it was the Pfizer application with three other minor uh additions.
Bought and paid for Russian dirty dossier, full of lies.
Then what else did we discover?
17 significant failures in accuracies, omissions.
And when you look at the subset of that, it's over 50.
Then you look at the sanctimonious higher loyalty fraud and liar, Jim Comey.
He signed off on three of the four applications, knowing full well, as we told you for a couple of years now, unverifiable information.
We find out this week something I didn't know, that there was one single subsource.
We knew that Christopher Steele never stood by his own dossier.
I have no idea if any of it's true.
He said in an interrogatory.
Now we find out that is one subsource, one says uh I that was never to be used for any.
That was like bar talk.
But they used it anyway for a year.
This is this is the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in our history.
And it's ironic on the very same week.
You got the do nothing, rage, psychotic, hate Trump every second minute hour of every 24 hour day, every seven-day week, every month, and now three straight years.
Pushing articles of impeachment that are meaningless.
Obstruction.
How does well because the president did what every other president has done before him, and that's exert executive privilege, and they didn't they they're on their speed impeachment dial, frenetic pace to get it done before Christmas.
So we can't wait for the judicial branch, which you are allowed to seek remedy through, and there is conflict between the legislative and executive branches.
Yeah, that's where the judiciary they resolve those conflicts.
But they can't wait.
They're in a rush.
And then we start, and it starts out as quit and pro and quo.
But that is only really in reality for Joe with zero experience hunter.
And then we've got uh what we're gonna call it bribery.
That sounds better.
Well, focus group.
Then we're gonna call it extortion.
That's what we'll call it.
Then we end up with two-nothing impeachment articles.
We got the sounds best audio of the week.
Listen in particular to Doug Collins.
This is around midnight last night when Nadler pulled his latest stunt.
So, you know, he wants a bigger audience, so he moved it to 10 a.m. this morning.
There is nothing that the FBI did that was wrong in the Carter Page surveillance warrant, correct?
I think I think they followed uh all the correct procedures.
We found that investigators failed to meet their basic obligations.
Nonetheless, I think it's important that the American people see the actual facts that were presented to the Pfizer court and understand that the FBI was acting appropriately.
You did find that an FBI employee doctored an email in order to support the Carter Page F uh FISA application, correct?
Correct.
I think the notion that Pfizer was abused here is nonsense.
Certainly our findings were that there were significant problems.
There's a lot that the FBI knew about Carter Page that had nothing to do with Christopher Steele's reporting.
We concluded that the steel reporting played a central and essential role in the decision to seek a Pfizer order.
A lot more there than simply the steel dossier, which is what the Republican memo would have suggested to the American public was the key element of that FISA application.
That of course is not true.
The FISA applications relied entirely on information from the steel, I'm sorry, from the primary subsources reporting to support the allegation that Page was coordinating with the Russian government.
The court was told, uh, and given Emmons evidence that demonstrated the political motive, the underlying political motivation.
Christopher Steele.
Is it fair to say that he had a political bias against Donald Trump?
Um he given who he was paid for, there was a bias that needed to be disclosed to the court.
It was all nonsense.
And the FBI finally has its day with the American people, and I hope they pay attention to it.
You know, I think the activities we found here don't indicate anybody who touched this.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm just I'm not sure what to say at this second.
I've been in public life now since uh 2006, and I have just witnessed just the most Bush leak stunt I have ever witnessed in my professional life.
And I've been around a lot of political campaigns.
I've been around a lot of things that would make you think.
But in the midst of impeachment, the chairman just ambushed the entire committee, did not have any consultation with the ranking members telling us we're gonna have votes at 10 a.m. in the morning.
I guess they didn't think enough today of threading their very paper-thin impeachment process for over 12 to 14 hours was enough.
So tonight, without consulting the ranking member, without consulting anyone, schedules of anybody be put out there.
We're scheduling this at 10 a.m. in the morning.
I I don't know.
The integrity level of this committee has been the chairman's integrity is gone.
His staff is gone.
This was the most bush league thing I have seen forever.
And if the American people wondered about this impeachment anymore, they don't have to wonder anymore.
They saw what happened right here tonight because this committee is more concerned about getting it on TV in the morning than it was finishing its job tonight and letting the members go home.
I can't words cannot describe how inappropriate this was.
How I have been saying for the whole year how this committee is just simply rumshotting the rules of this house, and this proves it tonight.
They do not care about rules.
They have one thing, their hatred of Donald Trump, and this showed it tonight because they want to shine in these cameras, get pretty up, and then vote and make it all happen.
This was the most I'm just beyond words at this point.
But it shows their lack of integrity in this process and the lack of case that they have.
For them to actually come out here to defend this is the most ludicrous thing I've ever seen in my life.
Why does it really matter if you vote tonight or tomorrow?
I mean, Jim Sensenbrenner, the former chair of this committee, complimented Chairman Navar for how he conducted this uh Marco.
I don't think Jim Censerabrenner would compliment him right now.
Is Jim Sensomer left pretty frustrated tonight?
The reason we have this night is we had worked this out tonight to finish up tonight.
So we have members who have flights.
We have members who are getting on trains.
We have members who are going home because this was going to finish up tonight is that.
But to not even consult the ranking member, to not even give us a heads up.
This was all we heard.
And we had been consulting back and forth in that last few minutes about who was going to speak and how we were going to end the speaking tonight, so that we did not, we had plenty of more amendments and other things we could have offered tonight and been here all night.
But we chose to say we said all we need to say.
They said all they need to say, and we were finishing this up.
That was the most lack of integrity thing I've ever seen by a member of Colonel, especially a chairman.
Do you members who are supposed to come as codell and do I say that?
I have no idea.
Scott, just to clarify, before Mr. Nadler announced it, you would have gotten no word in any way.
I think that my expression right now would confirm that.
That was the most shot.
And then to see them and then the staff and the chairman have no comment and just sort of go, huh?
This is the problem.
This is why people don't like us.
This crap like this is why people are having such a terrible opinion of Congress.
What Chairman Nadler just did and his staff and the rest of the majority who sat there quietly and said nothing.
This is why they don't like us, because they know it's all about games.
They know it's all about these TV screens.
It's all about getting at a president because they want the prime time hit.
This is Speaker Pelosi and Adam Schiff and the others directing this committee.
I don't have a chairman anymore.
I guess I just need to go straight to Miss Pelosi and say, what TV hit does this committee need to do?
Because this committee has lost all relevance.
I'll see y'all tomorrow.
That was Doug Collins after the nutty nadler version of the ship show two.
Joining us now, House Republican whip Steve Scalise, and of course, these meaningless articles passed.
I will tell you anecdotally, if you're looking for a barometer congressman, this should give you a very keen sense of where the country is.
I mean, even the most radical extremists that watch the few that watch fake news, CNN, and Area 51 Roswell, Rachel Maddow's conspiracy theory network.
Their ratings are so low, so bad at this moment.
Not even their radical base is buying this.
That to me is very telling.
Yeah, Sean, they they lost the middle a long time ago, and you're right.
Now they're even losing the far left because they really thought that there were going to be all these violations of law.
They thought the Mueller investigation was going to yield it.
And of course, there was nothing the president did wrong.
Instead of moving on, they went on to all these other things.
And they kept promising their base and the American people, oh, don't worry, there was quick pro quo, there was bribery, and there was all these things, except there wasn't any of those things.
The president never broke any laws.
And it backs it up.
And you look at the two articles of impeachment, and this is what they've got.
It's not only embarrassing, it's it's a disgrace to the power of impeachment that our founding fathers put in place to check an administration, not to go after somebody because you don't like them politically, because you're upset that Donald Trump won the 2016 election.
And I think it's coming out.
I think people see this for what it is.
Go read it, Sean.
Eight pages, not one single mention of the Mueller report.
And all of those times they said, Oh, the Mueller report showed there was wrongdoing.
Well, if there was, why isn't the Mueller report in the articles of impeachment?
Because the president didn't do anything wrong.
And the American people see it.
Uh, you can go to all of the swing states, even in Minnesota, in Michigan, the president's either at or above 50% in states like that, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
Uh, they're seeing through it.
Nancy Pelosi has wasted her majority on a political vendetta against Donald Trump instead of doing things for the American people that she promised.
But at least Donald Trump's delivering.
He's delivering the things he promised to get the economy back on track, to get our men and women in uniform the tools they need.
We just got that bill to the president's desk uh to make sure that we're secure in the border.
The president is still building the walls, still securing the border.
And I think that's what they'd hate the most is that he's following through on the promises of the things he did.
I think that's the president's greatest strength, especially now.
You can compare and contrast the horrific eight years of Biden Obama versus the monumental success.
The president under unprecedented attack for three straight years by do nothing Democrats and fighting and pushing through his agenda.
You know, I said this to uh to House Minority Leader, your buddy Kevin McCarthy the other day.
Uh I haven't seen the Republicans at this level of their game in years.
And I think you've known me pretty well.
I've been, I think I've used these words weak, spineless, cowards, feckless, visionless, you know, empty promises.
They're swamp creatures in their own way.
That was me describing your party.
Oh no.
And you're not seeing it.
You're not seeing it.
By the way, was I wrong?
I really wasn't wrong, was I?
Well, look, I mean, you call it look, Sean, you call it like it is.
It's why you you've got the viewers you've got it, it's why you got the integrity you've got.
You know, it's not always pretty.
And we've all got to hold everybody accountable.
We need to be held accountable.
But right now, what you're seeing is a very unified Republican conference because we love working with this president.
We love seeing him deliver for the American people.
But I'll tell you, there are Democrats out there right now.
They're, you know, I whipped the I whipped the impeachment bill yesterday, you know, and in my objective is that no Republicans vote for it because there is nothing to impeach the president on.
But they're Democrats who are going to be voting with us, Sean.
Never in the history of our country has there been an impeachment vote that was only party lines coming out.
Uh, you're gonna see a bipartisan vote against impeachment.
That's gonna be the only bipartisan vote.
Uh, and that's that's really something that Nancy Pelosi's gonna have to live with uh the rest of her life is as a legacy of her speakership that she uh weaponized and abused the power of impeachment.
The abuse of power that you're seeing right now in these articles of impeachment, the only abuse of power is Congress abusing its power of impeachment right now to go after a president because they don't like him politically, uh, not because he didn't do anything, not because he did anything wrong.
Well, I gotta say you guys did a great job.
Take a bow, but more importantly, don't stop.
You know, we can't have one little flash of uh flash of of unity and fight and then go backwards because the best politics, Congressman, is keeping your promises, fighting for what you tell them.
Yeah, it's not that hard.
What's best, Sean is through all of this, President Trump's never never slowed down working for the American people.
They've gone after him, his family, that disgraceful Stanford law professor, going after his son, trying to make fun of his son.
How big does she feel?
Stanford should be ashamed of what she did.
And President Trump doesn't slow down.
Uh, he keeps working for the American people, he keeps delivering for the American people.
It's why I think he's gonna get reelected next year.
Uh, we hope.
And it's 326 days, the uh irredeemable, deplorable, smelly Walmart Chopper Trump supporters like me that cling to their God above constitution, Bibles, and religion.
We get the final say.
I like that part a lot.
And we get to shock them all together.
Not Pelosi and Schiff and Nadler.
Good point.
All right, Congressman.
Good job to everybody.
Thank you.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
An amazing Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
All right, so with all the news of the week, you got the Horowitz Report, the Horowitz appearance before the Senate Judiciary, then you got the impeachment madness from last night and today.
Trey Gowdy, Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz, Steve Scalise, Andy Biggs, Matt Whitaker, uh, John Solomon with breaking news, and much, much, much more all coming up.
Hannity, C E D V R, Nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
What a week this has been.
We have exposed the mob in the media for being corrupt and abusively biased.
And you have 326 days to election day.
See you tonight at nine, back here Monday.
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