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All right, as we predicted, these polls are headed south and they're headed south quickly.
This is not working out well for the do-nothing radical extreme socialist democrats in the swamp.
You know, have they done a thing?
Ask yourself a question.
What have they done to help the American people, the people they represent for three years?
What have they done short of every second minute, hour of 24-hour week, uh 24-hour day, every seven-day week, every month and every year.
All they wanted to do, they have obsessively compulsively focused on hating Trump for the purpose of impeaching him, which they said, we're gonna impeach the MFR.
If you remember the night that what's her name was elected, Congresswoman Talib.
And they have done nothing.
You know what I'm just sitting back and I'm watching.
Now I'm reading, I'm getting uh doing a deep dive into these polls today.
And again, I'm I'm a Trump polling skeptic.
I'm I'm not convinced Trump in any way polls like any establishment politician.
You know, I'll tell you notoriously, controversial figures don't poll well.
Uh, Prime Minister Netanyahu's never polled well.
He's viewed as a divisive figure in in Israel.
Uh years ago, Jesse Helms, I think, was underwater.
John McLaughlin, I think, was part of his polling way back in the day that shows how old he is.
But he never polled particularly well either.
And but he'd always win and win by a big margin.
And I don't think Trump is ever gonna poll well ever or accurately.
We saw that leading up to the election.
There were like what we had Rasmussen, McLaughlin, and Matt Towery.
Three pollsters.
Towery's claiming that at the time he was uh retired.
He's not.
So it's just it there's so there comes a point you gotta add what this election in 2020 is going to come down to a very simple but basic fundamental politics 101.
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Well, I'd argue by every measure we are.
Uh the best employment situation in the country since uh 1969.
Every demographic group in the country is doing dramatically better.
Uh the president has a list of accomplishments.
I mean, I I don't even know where to start.
And as I as I go through some of this, ask yourself, what have the Democrats done?
What have they accomplished in the last three years with Donald Trump as president?
I'd argue nothing except constantly hating him.
And you know, and look at how they divide the country.
We'll play it in more detail later.
You know, you got the compromised corrupt congenital liar Schiff.
And I keep saying the shift show.
And he's a bullshiver, if you will.
He's full of shifts there's a lot of shif out there.
Uh shift matters.
It's all sorts of stuff in the world.
So, but in his own district, he's doing a town hall.
All of their rage and hate towards Trump.
Now, the president has had to absorb these attacks.
It's pretty remarkable how much he takes on every day.
I know people in my industry, radio, and TV, they they can't even take a little love tap of criticism.
They can't handle it.
They they bubble and fizz and melt down.
I told you this before.
I mean, I on whatever switch I was supposed to have that cares about what people say or think about me, it's gone.
I it doesn't exist in me anymore.
I have to live with myself.
I know when I'm right, I know when I'm wrong, and I follow the guides of conscience that Thomas Paine once wrote of in 1776 common sense.
You listen to your own conscience, your own what's right in your own heart.
And by the way, he also said there'd be no need for any other lawgiver if we listen basically to God in our hearts, but we're human, that not being the case, fallen beings, et cetera.
We don't get there.
But just this is the rancor they have brought to the country.
They have brought no policies, they have made no improvements, they have resisted and obstructed everything the president's tried to do.
They have investigated to death this president.
They have tried to stymie and stifle and stop every single thing he's tried to do, and he's been able to do it anyway.
And what have they brought to the country?
Not a single accomplishment that I can think of, unless you consider it an accomplishment to impeach a president over nothing.
With, you know, even one of the articles of impeachment just blown out of the water last week when the Supreme Court took on the case of whether or not when there's a conflict with the executive and legislative branch, and one of the branches seeks remedy in the courts, uh, yeah, they're gonna decide on executive privilege, and the White House is gonna win.
But this is just it was fascinating that it happened in Schiff's district, the congenital liars district, because this is what he has brought to the country.
Him and the rest of his party that follow him and are as extreme as him.
This is what they have brought the country.
I would argue this is their big accomplishment the last three years.
And one of the reasons why this is so important that it was so bipartisan and so overwhelming is that this shouldn't be a partisan issue.
The facts of dislike the facts of history.
They will not be denied.
You're a liar denied.
Liar.
I'm grateful.
You're a lawyer.
I'm in jail.
Liar!
You're a lawyer.
Don't impeach.
Don't impeach.
Lawyer!
You should be in jail.
You're dead.
You are disgraced to the House of Representatives.
You will be going to jail for treason.
You will go to jail for treason.
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That's what they have given the country.
Now, when they were in power, Biden Obama, I've given those numbers out a million times.
13 million more Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty, lowest labor participation rate since the 70s, worst recovery since the 40s.
We had the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years.
What has Trump given us as a result of real accomplishments?
Oh, we've got the best employment situation since 1969, and every demographic in the country is benefiting at record levels.
Now, he made a promise.
He made a promise, the biggest tax cuts in history.
Check.
He made a promise ending burdensome bureaucracy.
We've gotten rid of more bureaucracy than we'd likely have in the last hundred years.
Check.
Uh energy independence for the first time in 75 years.
We are a net exporter of energy.
What are the results of this?
Stock market high after high after high.
Wages hit post-recession high.
We have uh near record low, well, actually record low unemployment.
Best is in 69.
We have a record number of Americans employed.
Uh, millions of new jobs created, including in industries, Obama said that those jobs never coming back.
They came back once you got rid of the burdensome regulation and high taxation.
And, you know, the president has put us on a trajectory where even now all of those that were predicting a recession is coming, is coming, is coming, and I hope it comes, Bill Maher saying, that even they're recognizing, you know what?
No, turn the ship around.
Doesn't look like there's any recession in the near future.
You know, here's a guy that, you know, said he wants freer and fairer trade deals, but you're gonna make them mad.
Well, they might have gotten mad, but they still gave us a better deal because he demanded it.
And he negotiated it.
And we and NATO's paying their fair share.
And yeah, he doesn't want long protracted uh wars, but he did beat the caliphate in Syria.
He didn't just draw a red line in the sand, and he beat uh Baghdadi and company.
They're dead.
And yeah, they didn't want to give him the money for the border wall, but he found a way to do it.
I told you he's gonna find another way.
He's gone to plan B, and now the money is now allocated.
The wall is being built, and it's underway as we speak.
Um, we have millions off of food stamps, seven to be exact, seven million new jobs created.
You add to all of this, you know, what the president has been able to do for veterans and helping the VA, uh the U.S. uh MCA trade deal, getting rid of the the employ the uh mandate in Obamacare, individual mandate.
Um all of these things result really putting time, money, and energy behind ending the opioid uh epidemic in the country.
I mean, women's unemployment is a 65-year low.
How many records have we had for African Americans and Hispanic Americans?
Thank God.
We're helping people now develop uh opportunities for themselves and their families for a long, happier, more successful life.
What are the Democrats done?
Can you answer that?
And the answer is no, because this is all they've done.
Now, Mitch McConnell, I know the mob in the meat, they can't stand it because he's just speaking the truth.
He has now hinted that on the Senate floor today that Senate's gonna dismiss these pending ridiculous articles of impeachment.
It will be anticlimatic, just like, you know, tomorrow when they take the final vote, impeached, you know, fake news CNN and MSDNC state run fake news television, both of them, they'll be giddy.
They'll be happy, they will think they accomplished something.
They've accomplished nothing because he's not going anywhere.
And your 94 trillion dollar new green deal where everything's free and we have no oil or gas or coal and no internal combustion engine and eventually no planes or cows.
Uh that's not gonna go over because it's a mathematical law.
The numbers you're throwing out is impossible.
Just like the same thing with Medicare for all.
Anyway, McConnell dismissed the suggestion out of hand by Schumer, because he said, Well, the House impeaches uh they vote for impeachment, and we have the trial here, and the time for witnesses as it relates to articles of impeachment has come and gone.
And he and the very position that Chucky Schumer had when he was a senator in New York, and it was the Clinton impeachment.
And then McConnell rightly accused Schumer of going straight to the news media.
I think he actually leaked it to the news media first.
We don't create impeachments over here.
We judge them.
Okay, it's not the time now to argue over.
We've already had auditions.
Then we had public hearings, and we had the from on high ivory tower professors.
And as a little anecdotal information, the RNC now has gotten 600,000 new donors since the start of the impeachment.
They have a lot more money in their coffers than do the Democrats.
Uh, I see Maxim Waters has now brought forward a new Trump Putin conspiracy theory uh appearing on fake news seeing I've done some research.
I know about his alignment with Putin.
I know about Manafort and what his relationship was and the fact that he had been sent there by Putin in essence to head up the president's campaign because I believe, even though I don't have the facts to prove it.
Okay, let me read that again.
Even though I don't have the facts to prove it, I believe.
That's sort of like that this is a crime.
What is what's Nadler's phrase?
The crime is ongoing.
The crime is this this is a crime in crime.
Well, if it's if the crime is in progress, stop it.
Because we don't see it.
We're looking at the president, doesn't seem to be committing a crime.
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So think of the logic of it.
So now ask yourself, all right, so the president is done in three years that which Biden Obama couldn't do in eight.
You know, they add 13 million Americans to food stamps.
Trump policies get seven million off of food stamps.
They we have the best employment situation since 1969.
They have the lowest labor participation rate since the 70s.
You go through the list.
So you see the differences, even in the midst of this madness.
The president, yeah, he engages, he fights.
He sent out a letter to Nancy Pelosi today.
I'll tell you what's in it.
Um, because he's right.
Uh, but in the meantime, every other part of his agenda he's out there working on.
And they just continue their impeachment psychosis.
And I'm telling you, it is if the president is able to maintain, if I'm right, that he's not losing any of the people that supported him in 2016.
I don't think he will.
This thing in Michigan, this focus group I told you about yesterday is big.
Because people that voted in 2018 that voted for Obama, then Trump, they're all supporting Trump in 2020.
And they're they're sick and tired of what the Democrats are doing.
So you gotta let them, you gotta let it play out and let them hurt themselves.
But the polls now show that it is a free fall for the Democrats.
It just took a little longer than I thought it would.
And then we're gonna have to come back in the new year, then they're actually gonna run the trial.
It's not gonna last long in the Senate.
Then their candidates, when you start digging deep into what their views are and what they're planning to do to the country, doesn't take you don't need an abacus.
You don't need a calculator to add up 94 trillion in the new Green Deal in 10 years, it will destroy this country, and it is not even mathematically possible.
The 52 trillion in 10 years for Medicare for all with no pub private option, the math is not there.
You can't, you don't even take in the money to pay for that in 10 years.
Never mind all the other functions of government that matter.
So it's all one big you know, psychotic.
Maybe this makes them feel relevant and good, but they're not serving the people.
And if the president holds his people and and those that have benefited the most for his policies that didn't vote for him, come over to his side, Landslide, and you see eight new polls with African Americans supporting Trump.
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Now the conduct is not conducted to prospects of the American people.
The clock in the calendar, no, no masters except themselves.
You see, our committee held his first hearing on December 4th, literally the day after Schiff publicly released his report.
In the first minutes of the hearing, Mr. Sensenbrenner furnished the chairman with our demand for a minority day of hearings.
The chairman also set a deadline of December 6th for Republicans and the president to request additional witnesses.
But it wasn't until Saturday, the day after the deadline, that Chairman Schiff transmitted 8,000 pages of material to the Judiciary Committee.
And we still haven't gotten everything, not that it matters to the majority.
For institutionalists, this should bother you.
You can still go ahead and vote for your yes tomorrow and vote for yesterday and do that.
But it should matter for this institution that while I was in Georgia, I received a call from my staff saying they've just released 8,000 documents, some drives, some of which were going to be kept in a secure holding.
And when I asked the chairman about these documents, what are they going to be used?
He said, Well, we're not going to read them either.
We're not going to have a chance to go through them.
We're just going to go ahead with what we're doing.
That was from my chairman who I respect greatly.
We've done a lot of things together.
But it has been very difficult when in a hearing of this magnitude, how can anyone, Republican or Democrat, actually go back and look at their constituents in the face and say, we looked at all the evidence.
I looked at everything and I came to this conclusion.
No, we cherry picked the evidence, and we only use what we want to do because that material, which by the way is still not all been released.
There's the inspector general IG report that is still transplant, it's not been released.
Now, whether it's good or bad is irrelevant.
But when you're talking about impeaching a president, shouldn't the underlying evidence sent to Judiciary Committee actually matter?
Again, it doesn't take constitutional experts coming in and telling us about it.
It takes common sense to know that you don't impeach somebody without at least making all the evidence proper.
But you know that's what happens when you're to the tyranny of a clock and a calendar.
When you're the tyranny of a clock and a calendar, nothing else matters.
We've seen evidence of the president decided to withhold from Ukraine important official acts.
Uh, the White House visit, military aid in order to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations of Vice President Biden and the 2016 elections.
Why does that constitute an impeachable offense?
Um Mr. Askin on August 8th, Chairman Nadler stated with respect to the Judiciary Committee's hearing regarding the Mueller report that quote uh this is a formal impeachment proceedings.
Uh but the House, unquote, but the House did not actually authorize impeachment proceedings until the adoption of H. Res 660 on October 31st.
So I believe it's important to clarify for the record when formal impeachment proceedings actually started.
Is Chairman Nadler correct when he said they started on August 8th, or did they begin when the House authorized them on October 31st.
Forgive me, Miss Coy, was not actually prepared to answer that question.
All right, that was, you know, the sights and sounds of the madness that is known as impeachment.
The president now is weighed in too in a letter to the speaker in name only, Nancy Pelosi, and said this impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democratic lawmakers, which I agree with.
They've abused their power.
What they've done here is this this is a purely political, this is a political power play, and what has been a never ending, ongoing saga to try and undo an election.
The will of the people.
Smelly Walmart choppers like me and you, clinging to our God, our constitution, our Bibles, religion, irredeemable deplorables, what they really think of us, we the people.
He further goes on this is unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.
And the articles of impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard of constitutional theory, interpretation, or jurisprudence.
The president goes on by proceeding with your invalid impeachment.
You're violating your oaths of office.
You're breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you're declaring open war on American democracy.
They've actually done this, they have now tried everything they can do to undo the election.
Now we do have an election coming up again.
This one's in 322 days, but they can't wait.
He goes on by saying that you dare invoke the founding fathers in pursuit of this election nullification scheme, yet your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for America's founding and your egregious conduct threatens to destroy that which our founders pledge their very lives to build.
Any member of Congress who votes in support of impeachment against every shred of truth, fact, evidence, legal principle, is showing how deeply they revile the voters and how truly they detest America's constitutional order.
Our founders feared the tribalization of partisan politics, and you are bringing their worst fears to life.
He goes on, this is nothing more than an illegal partisan attempted coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail in the voting booth.
You are the ones that are interfering in America's elections.
You're the ones subverting America's democracy.
You're the ones obstructing justice.
You're the ones bringing pain and suffering to our republic for your own selfish, personal, political, and partisan gain.
He says, everyone you included.
Now, they spent three years doing this, knows what's really happening.
Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016 in an electoral college landslide, 306-227.
And you and your party have never recovered from that defeat.
You have developed a full-fledged case of what many in the media call Trump derangement syndrome, and sadly, you'll never get over it.
You're unwilling and unable to accept the verdict issued at the ballot box during the great election of 2016.
So you have spent three straight years attempting to overturn the will of the American people and nullify their votes.
You view democracy as your enemy.
As you very well know, this impeachment drive has nothing to do with Ukraine or the totally appropriate conversation I had with its new president.
It only has to do with your attempt to undo the election of 2016 and steal the election of 2020.
And the president goes on this there is far too much that needs to be done to improve the lives of our citizens.
And he goes on and says, it is time for you and the highly partisan Democrats in Congress to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for the American people.
Your first claim, abuse of power, is a completely disingenuous, meritless, and baseless invention of your imagination, which we have discussed at length here.
He goes on every time I talk with a foreign leader, I put America's interests first, just as I did with President Zelinski.
Rightly, that's what he's doing.
Hang on, this just Broke.
Good thing I have so many good people in this audience that are feeding me stuff.
I got like this influx of information overload because I got, oh, three TVs, five computers in front of me, four million papers.
They're all disorganized, and I try to find them as we go along here.
Apparently, the FISA court is now weighed in, I guess, on the inspector general report.
I've been dying to hear from them for the longest period of time.
It must be long because it's taken a long time loading as it's been texted over to me.
But I'm dying to know what's in this thing.
And hopefully I'll be able to pull it up here.
Let me see if Linda's phone brings it up faster than my phone.
All right.
I'm sending it to you, Linda.
All right, boss.
If it goes through, let's see.
Oh, got it.
I don't need yours.
All right.
Uh here we go.
Foreign intelligence surveillance court.
Ooh.
This is interesting.
Uh accuracy concerns regarding FBI matters submitted to the FISA court.
Says this order responds to reports that personnel of the FBI, I'm reading this as I see it, uh, provided false information to the National Security Division of the Department of Justice and withheld material information from the National Security Division,
which was detrimental to the FBI's case in connection with four FISA applications to the FISA intelligence surveillance court, FISC for short, for uh authority to conduct electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen named Carter W. Page.
When FBI personnel misled the National Security Division, NSD moving forward in the ways described above, they equally misled the FISA court.
Boom.
Listen to this.
In order to appreciate the seriousness of that misconduct and its implications, it is useful to understand certain procedural and substantive requirements that apply to the government's conduct of electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes.
Title One of the Foreign Intelligence Services Act codified, amended, et cetera, et cetera, gives you the exact area, governs the FISA court approving a proposed electronic surveillance when deciding whether to grant such an application,
a FISA court judge must determine, among other things, whether it provides what is probable cause to believe that the proposed surveillance target is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power.
Now, those terms are uh defined by FISA.
Then again, gives you the location of the statute.
Finding of probable cause to believe that a U.S. citizen other United States person, as defined in section 1803, uh one is an agent of a foreign power, cannot be solely based on activities protected by the First Amendment.
This is stinging.
I'm telling you right now.
Uh and then it says it goes on to there, however, the FISA court, the government reported at FISA court.
Now they're putting footnotes in there.
Let me continue.
An electronic surveillance application must be made by a federal officer in writing upon oath or affirmation.
When it is the FBI that seeks to conduct the surveillance, the federal officer who makes the application is an FBI agent who swears to the facts in the application.
The FISA court judge makes the required probable cause determination, quote, on the basis of the facts submitted by the applicant.
And cites certain areas of the law.
The judge may require the applicant to furnish such other information as may be necessary to make the determinations required by the section.
The reality that in the first instance, it is the applicant agency that possesses information relevant to the probable cause determination as well as the means to potentially acquire additional information.
Notwithstanding that the FISA court assesses probable cause based on information provided by the applicant, Congress intended that the pre-surveillance judicial warrant under FISA...
This is getting very, very interesting to me.
Hang on a second.
Let me be I'm pulling it up on a hard hard piece here.
Okay.
Notwithstanding the Pfizer Court probable calls based determination, et cetera, et cetera, the FISA court's assessment of probable cause can serve those purposes effectively only if the application agency fully and accurately provides information in its possession that is material to whether possible or probable cause exists.
Accordingly, the government has a heightened duty of candor to the Pfizer court ex parte proceedings.
That is ones in which the government does not face an adverse party, such as proceedings on electronic surveillance applications.
The PISA court expects the government to comply with its heightened duty of candor and the proceedings at all times.
Candor is fundamental to this court's effective operation.
With that background, the court turns to how the government handled the four applications it's admitted to conduct electronic surveillance on Mr. Page.
The Pfizer Court entertained those applications in October of 2016, January, April, and June of 2017.
On December 9th, 2019, the government filed with the Pfizer Court public and classified versions of the OIG report.
By the way, that would be this week.
The OIG report describes in detail the preparation of the four applications for electronic surveillance against Mr. Page.
It's document it documents troubling instances in which the FBI personnel provided information to the NSD, which was unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession.
It also describes several instances in which the FBI personnel withheld NSD information in their possession, which was detrimental to their case for believing that Mr. Page was acting as a agent of a foreign power.
In addition, while the fourth electronic surveillance application for Mr. Page was being prepared, well, an attorney in the FBI's office of general counsel engaged in conduct that apparently was intended to mislead the FBI agent who ultimately swore to the facts in that application about whether Mr. Page had been a source of another government agency.
That's when they altered the CIA's description of the work of Carter Page.
The information about the OGC's attorney's conduct in the OIG report is consistent with classified submissions made to the FISA court by the government October 25th, 2019, November 27, 2019, because of the conduct of the OCG attorney gave rise to serious concerns about the accuracy completeness of the information provided to the FISA court in any matter in which the attorney was involved.
The OS the OGC attorney.
The court ordered the department on December 5th, 2019 to, among other things, provide certain information addressing these concerns.
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The way we operate in the Department of Justice, if we can accuse somebody of wrongdoing, we have to have admissible evidence and credible witnesses.
We need to prepare to prove our case in court.
And we have to affix our signature to the charging document.
That's something that not everybody appreciates.
There's a lot of talk about FISA applications, and many people that I see talking about it seem not to recognize it.
What a Pfizer application.
A Pfizer application is actually a warrant, just like a search warrant.
In order to get a Pfizer uh search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career federal law enforcement officer who swears that the information in the affidavit is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Uh and that's the way we operate.
And if it's wrong, sometimes it is, if you find out there's anything incorrect in there, that person is going to face consequences.
Did you have total confidence in the doctrine when you used it to secure a surveillance warrant and also in the subsequent mill?
Total confidence that the Pfizer process was followed and that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful responsible way by DOJ and the FBI.
I think the notion that Pfizer was abused here is nonsense.
The thought that the Pfizer abuse was Pfizer abuse is nonsense.
sense.
Well, that's not what the inspector general found.
It's clearly not what the attorney general thinks.
It is not what Prosecutor Durham believes, obviously.
And this just literally broke moments ago.
We have put it up on Hannity.com.
I've been reading it.
The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court accuracy concerns.
Now I had four paragraphs I haven't read, and then we'll go get John Solomon's view on this.
It goes on to say the FBI's handling of the Carter Page applications as portrayed in the Office of Inspector General report was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above.
They kept saying, uh, you have a much greater bar and responsibility here.
The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel, Jim Comey, uh turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession.
So let me go through the frequency with which representations made by the FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported, meaning false, or contradicted by information that they had in their possession.
Oh, exculpatory information, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case.
Oh, yeah, we don't want you to see the real stuff.
Then you're not going to give us what we want.
Um, it goes on to say, because this is I think devastating, detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable.
The Pfizer court expects the government to provide complete accurate information in every filing with the court.
Without it, the Pfizer court cannot properly ensure that the government conducts electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes only when there is a sufficient factual basis.
Therefore, the court orders that the government shall no later than January 10th, 2020, inform the court in a sworn written submission of what is done, uh what it has done, and plans to do to ensure that the statements of facts in each FBI application accurately and completely reflects information possessed by the FBI that is material to any issue presented by
the application.
In the event that the FBI at the time of that submission is not yet able to perform any of the planned steps described in the submission, it shall include a a proposed timetable for implementing Such measures and B an explanation of why.
In the government's view, the information in FBI applications submitted in the interim should be regarded as reliable.
Wow.
It is further ordered, pursuant to Pfizer Court Rule of Procedure 62A, that the government shall no later than December 20th, 2019, complete a declassification review of the above referenced order of December 5, 2019, in anticipation of the five is Pfizer courts publishing that order.
Wow.
In view of the information released to the public in the OIG report, the court expects that such review will entail minimal, if any, redactions.
That is one pissed off court.
Now, what did I say?
How many times have I said it?
You never lie to a judge.
I'd never lie to Judge Judy.
You're less than candid the Judge Judy, she scares me.
Actually met her.
She's a love, she's tough as nail.
She's she's don't mess with her.
John Solomon, uh, who we have on for other reasons as well.
Uh uh, we're reading this in pretty much real time here.
Your reaction.
Well, listen, it uh honestly, it's uh it's awful late and uh and kind of little for the court to react now because for two years there was overwhelming evidence in the court of public opinion, thanks to your show and my reporting and all the other great people who worked on this, Greg Jarrett, but it is nonetheless a stinging, stinging rebuke of the FBI, and every one of those officials who went out there in the last two, three years and denied there was anything wrong.
Rod Rosenstein, James Comey, uh uh Andy McCabe, James Baker, uh, and uh my favorite Adam Schiff, all of those people knew that there were a serious problem and they stuck their head in the sand and hoped it would go away.
And only now, because of the Horowitz report and the court order, do we know for sure that the FBI engaged in such sweeping misconduct that the court wonders whether any of the figures it's been getting are accurate?
I mean, that's what the ruling says today.
We doubt all the accuracy.
It's it's a crime to commit a premeditated fraud on a court.
Now, which we again, another piece of the puzzle that we've been stating over and over again that the mob and the media never covered.
But I will say this.
I I'm wondering, see, I think the court's been following this closely.
I think they've known now for a while they've been lied to or suspected very much that they've been lied to, and a fraud was perpetrated on the court.
Now I think the court, because of the inspector general's report, now has the means to come in and demand this be rectified.
It sure does.
And you know, they talk about this December 5th filing that's under seal right now.
I suspect, as I've been saying on your show for the last week or so, that Attorney General Barr or the Justice Department has gone in and withdrawn or taken some very drastic action to tell the court how bad these vices were, beyond what the IG did.
And when we see get to see that court order declassified, we're going to get even more a sense of just how much willful misconduct occurred here.
And uh, you know, this is a serious time for the court.
You've got Lindsay Graham talking about I might not allow the court to be renewed because I don't think it did its job here.
You've got, you know, a very important national security function with FICE.
If they're done right, they protect our country.
If they're done wrong, they trampled on liberties.
And uh, and I think the next three or four months are going to be critical for the country and its leaders to get this fixed and right so that we don't lose a valuable national security tool.
Uh when you have Devin Nunes and Lindsay Graham saying that we might have to get rid of Pfizer, the Pfizer court, that's not good for our safety and security as Americans.
That that then compromises us in a very ugly, dangerous world, and the likes of Comey signing it when it was unverifiable and he had numerous warnings.
All right, I want to change gears here.
I read your report today.
Latvia government, and you sent me over, I guess what were the original documents about this, says it flags suspicious Hunter Biden payments in 2016.
First, I want you to explain something.
I don't I you hear Joe bragging about you're not getting the billion, he's leveraging a billion tax dollars.
Then we got zero experience hunter.
Uh you're not getting the billion, you fire the prosecutor.
Joe knew was investigating a side.
All right, to me that that was slam dunk end of case.
Right.
Everything That I see involving this country seems corrupt.
Why is that?
Well, you know, the there are these former Soviet republics where corruption has run amok in the what we call the oligarch system, where a few people got rich and they kind of are the puppet masters for the country.
And one of those puppet masters in Ukraine was a guy named Zolchevsky, the owner of Barisma, who hired Hunter Biden, uh assumably to keep the these sort of investigations away from him, so he wouldn't be detected for the sort of misconduct that has now been alleged.
But here is what we now know.
The most important development in today's story.
Joe Biden has been telling us for the last few months.
His story keeps changing, right?
First he never talked to Hunter, then Hunter said, Yeah, I talked to my dad about it, and I didn't really know they were under investigation.
Then we showed he did know he was under investigation.
But the thing they've been hanging their hat on the last few weeks is at the time I fired the prosecutor, no big deal because the case against my son's company was dormant.
That is bunk.
There was enormous activity going on in December, January, and February of 2016, right as the election was starting.
And this is the the new one.
The new one is the Latvian government, a Soviet republic neighbor of Ukraine said, Hey, we see these transactions, the Hunter Biden, they don't look right.
We think you should investigate them.
They might be money laundering or evidence of money laundering, and they send that to the Ukrainian government one month before Joe Biden intervenes and fires the prosecutor overseeing this case.
Joe Biden's story that nothing was going on in the case is demonstrably disproven by this document and several other things that you and I have talked about in your show the last few weeks.
Now, Hunter claims that he never got a penny from China, but his uh lawyer did say something to the effect, if I'm not mistaken, that oh, he just hasn't cashed in his shares, isn't that true?
Yeah, well, I mean, uh that's equity shares.
There there is that's right.
There is some ambiguity about what happened in China.
There's very little ambiguity about what happened in Ukraine.
So, how much money are we talking about here?
That you're again, this is your reporting.
You're you're talking to, I guess, to the sources.
Yeah.
How do you know do the any of them have an agenda?
Well, everyone has an agenda, right?
And and in Ukraine, I say that I've said that in all my columns.
Listen, it's tough tough to navigate this, right?
But what we know is the Latvian government says on the record, the Ukrainian government's released the document.
There is no doubt a concern was raised in February 2016 about the money being paid to Hunter Biden.
That's contrary to anything Joe Biden has been saying.
There were no red flags, there's nothing to be worried about.
That's not true.
Now, we need a real investigation to get to the bottom of this.
And here's what we do know.
In March of this year, three years after this Latvian memo was sent, the Ukrainian prosecutors reopened the case in Ukraine, and they did so because they got access to new financial records.
And they have said publicly at a news conference just a month ago that they are uh looking at money laundering, the very allegation that was in this Latvian document, and they've expanded it to look at also things like the theft of state or government funds.
There's a very active investigation in Ukraine.
We should wait and see how the new president and new prosecutor deal with that.
But I do suspect we're going to get some clarity in the next four to six months from Ukraine about what they think really went on with Hunter Biden, Barisma and the owner, Mr. Zolchevsky.
What is all this stuff?
I have not been following it at all, except that I see that Rudy has been traveling the world and I guess digging up information about uh the Bidens, I guess, or is it just or the corruption in general or election interference as described by the Ukrainian court and by politico on January 11th of 2017?
Right.
So listen, I I don't know as much.
I haven't tracked Rudy's uh movements as closely the last few months, you know, back when I'm not sure.
Well, apparently if he if he makes a telephone call to you, John Solomon, that's public information now.
Yes.
They should probably that John Solomon actually is an investigator reporter, uh, has contacts.
Yeah, that's the silly part about it.
If they and there were many other reporters in those call logs, they just chose not to release them.
Uh I think Rudy Giuliani has been for more than a year looking at the issues in Ukraine as they affect President Trump's defense and things like the Mueller report and now the impeachment trial, and he's trying to get the best evidence for his client to make a case of his innocence.
And one of those cases is uh there might have been really legitimate concerns in Ukraine about Hunter Biden that would warrant a president saying, Could you get to the bottom of it?
That would be a natural legal defense for Rudy Giuliani to help the president build in this impeachment proceeding.
And we should wait and see what he releases.
He there's some talk he's gonna go before Senator Graham's Committee and release his evidence.
There's all the things I put into the public.
And remember, all my things are documented.
You can click and see the documents and read the information yourself.
There are a lot of questions, none of them answered, but a lot of important questions.
And the most important is Did Joe Biden engage in a appearance of a conflict of interest when he fired a prosecutor he knew was investigating his son's company.
I think we're getting a clearer answer every day on that.
And there ought to be some accountability brought to that issue.
All right, John Solomon, thank you.
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Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to the founding fathers must be turning in their graves that a president of the United States is vulnerable to impeachment for this.
Is perjury in a case like this serious enough to warrant impeaching the president?
If the Republicans want to go ahead and do this, I think they disgrace themselves in a more profound way than President Clinton has by abusing the machinery of impeachment.
Is it worth overturning the will of the people in order to impeach him?
If the only thing you can prove is that he lied.
Is there is there or not some concern of the public perception that this isn't in fact a kind of effort at a quote coup.
Ophelia Ariano says it reminds her of a coup in her native Guatemala.
We like him.
Yeah, he's been that wood channel.
The Republican Party who dislike him and what he stands for, having been unable to beat him at the polls, have found another way to get him out of office.
America wants Christmas Carols uninterrupted by political scandal.
They have robbed from you, make no mistake about it.
They have used a procedural device to steal from you your right to be democratically represented, quote, you don't overturn the results of an American election on a whim, unquote.
If he takes the risk of going to trial and he's convicted, that could be seen as an impeachable offense.
If Trump were caught on a video camera snorting cocaine in the White House, maybe with one of his children, there was at least a chance he'd be impeached.
If he's not a legitimately elected president in your mind, there are tools that Congress has.
That tweet fits the Republican definition of an impeachable offense.
I will fight every day until he is impeached.
Impeach 45 Impeach 25.
Grounds for impeachment.
It's an impeachable offense.
Perhaps impeachable offense is impeachment the appropriate remedy.
Something for the Congress like impeachment.
All of that may be impeachable.
That's an impeachable offense.
Is that an impeachable offense?
Is that an impeachable offense to you?
He's much more vulnerable to impeachment.
A potential ingredient of impeachment.
Where do you see an impeachable offense?
It is grounds for impeachment.
Potentially criminal or even impeachable.
Grounds for impeachment, or does that not go far enough in your view?
Grounds for impeachment.
This tweet alone may be an impeachable offense.
Let's talk about impeachment.
Impeachment is on the table.
Which impeachable offense bullies don't win.
And I say baby they don't.
Because we're gonna go in there, we're gonna impeach the impeachable set of offenses.
It's an impeachable offense.
If that's not impeachable, I don't know what is.
The president shall be removed from office on impeachment.
Is it impeachable?
100% is impeachable.
Very substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Grounds for impeachment.
Tipping point, talk of impeachment reaches a fever pitch on Capitol Hill.
That's three long years.
Impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.
Uh, and now Schumer's like, uh, everything that I said in 98 about the Clinton impeachment, uh, never mind.
But we should do it the way the Republicans wanted to do it back then.
Which Republicans did not.
They'd how many tens of thousands of of transcripts do we now have between the audition shift show hearings, then the phony shift show hearsay, uh BS shift show, uh, that they went on publicly.
All these people testify, all the hearsay people, all the opinion people, not one fact witness out of the bunch of them.
Then the Ivory Tower people.
Now they know there's no evidence, so now they say, well, maybe let's let's let's redo the investigation in the Senate.
You guys messed it up.
We'll do it here.
Uh no, because that would be the role of the House.
They impeached the president, and they give you specific reasons.
They will present their case to the Senate.
And because there is no fact witnesses that they're gonna be able to call except one exculpatory fact witness, it's going nowhere.
It is it all it is is a feta complete at this point.
They've made up their minds.
They hate Trump.
We've heard it all through the end of 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
And these polls now reflect the American people are are getting it all.
They're understanding all of it.
And they're sick of it.
And I can't blame them.
I'm sick of it too.
And is it gonna impact the president?
Actually, it will.
It's helping the president.
They will help re-elect the president.
This is one of the greatest things they could do in terms of a contribution to the Trump campaign and his re-elect effort.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
So we have the uh latest John Solomon piece that is out there.
I am beginning to wonder about all these things.
I went through this whole litany of issues and I tweeted them out the other day because there is a big lie being told in the media mob circles about what conservatives think about Russian election interference, and they've got a conspiracy theory about no, it's really wasn't Russia, it was really uh Ukraine, and they don't even believe Russia tried to interfere in in the elections.
Okay, that's what they say.
Now, let's go back and take a trip down memory lane because I think this is very, very, very critical and important.
When you look, it was Devin Nunes.
Devin Nunes.
Remember in 2014, he warned everybody, yeah, they're gonna try and impeach.
Remember, it was Devin Nunes.
Devin Nunes is the one that said, oh yeah, the Russians will interfere.
Of course the Russians interfered.
Hostile regime, hostile actor Vladimir Putin.
I wouldn't be making deals and having more flexibility and talking to him privately.
God only knows what he did there.
But we're now watching and witnessing something that is there's nothing that they offer we the people at this point.
And I'll tell you, I don't care what they say.
They don't want to investigate real Russia, a real dirty Russian dossier used to impact the 2016 race.
That a race.
They don't want to look at the obstruction of justice with the secret server and the bleach bit and the hammers and the deletions.
They don't want to they don't want to look at possible Ukrainian interference, election interference, even though Ukrainian court said so.
And then we have politics saying so in great detail.
They just they they have one set of standards that they have set up for Donald Trump and an entirely different set of standards for everybody else.
Breathtaking hypocrisy.
I've never seen it like this or this bad.
By the way, so uh the shift show went back to his district and uh apparently they didn't go over pretty well there.
Listen to this president.
And one of the reasons why this is so important that it was so bipartisan and so overwhelming is that this shouldn't be a partisan issue.
The facts of history are the facts of history, they will not be denied.
You're a liar denied.
Liar.
I'm grateful.
You're a liar.
We're guilty of criminal liar!
You're a liar!
Don't impeach.
Don't impeach!
You should be in jail!
You're getting you are disgraced to the house of representatives.
You will be going to jail for treason!
You are going to jail for treason!
I'm glad you guys are getting away.
Don't tell me to get out.
Just sit down.
Everything's fine from property.
And the district said, this mail is a fire!
Nelson, let me see your sign.
Nelson, let me see your sign.
Oh yeah, it's not like Well,
I've been calling it a shift show.
And you know, it's nothing but bullshit from Schiff.
And that is his town hall.
Great job dividing the country.
All right, let's get to our phones.
Let's say hi to Christopher in New Joycey.
Christopher, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hi.
My name is Dr. Christopher Bennetti.
I'm actually a political scientist.
And I'm a local Democrat.
You a profess are you a professor?
Yes, I'm an adjunct professor at a community college.
Good for you.
A liberal professor.
I'm shocked.
Go ahead.
Actually, you'd be surprised how few real liberals are in college.
They're all progressives now.
It's a completely different ball game.
Completely different ball.
I I kind of look at liberalism, progressivism.
It's sort of the party's gone hard left.
But anyway, what's on your mind today?
Right, right.
Oh, I haven't told you all the stuff, but uh, so I'm a liberal democrat, I'm an academic, and I oppose impeachment.
I'm against impeachment.
And as you might imagine, this is uh a problem for me.
Uh the reason I'm against impeachment is I'm a I'm a political theorist and I study history.
And the Roman Republic on which our constitution is based basically fell apart because of almost exactly the same situation we have now.
And I feel like our institutions are more valuable than impeachment.
I also think that the evidence for impeachment is weak.
And I, you know, I'm not a Trump supporter.
I would never in a million years vote for Trump.
I'm a Democrat.
But I do feel like if we impeach him, even if he doesn't get uh removed, which he won't get removed, but I think the Republicans won't recover from it because I want to find out.
I'm gonna put you on hold.
We'll talk to you on the other side, and why, as a liberal professor, um, a political science, why you are against impeachment.
It's pretty interesting to all of us.
All right, as we continue with Christopher New Jersey.
Christopher, all right, so you're against impeachment, but you'd never vote for Trump.
Uh obviously, your fellow liberal leftist democrats uh are doing this.
Uh so why would you reward them?
What have they done for the American people the last three years except hate Donald Trump?
Well, I mean, I think it comes down to my values are democratic values.
And while I disagree with the party elites on a few things, for example, Chairman Tom Perez is basically trying to purge the party of pro-lifers.
I happen to be pro-life, even though I'm liberal, so I'm not a huge fan of that.
But I do feel like at the end of the day, I'm a Democrat in my values, and even if the party does things I find distasteful, I can't just leave.
I actually disagree with uh Jeff Andrew when he left.
I don't think even when the party does something that's dishonorable that you should leave.
Can you name one specific accomplishment?
One thing they've done for we, the people, in the last three years.
Well, I you know, at the state level, I think the Democrats are.
I'm talking about Congress.
I'm talking about your House of Representatives, the Democrats in Washington.
What have they done?
For we, the people.
They haven't done that much, but I would argue that the Republicans haven't done that much either.
Uh well, I would argue Donald Trump gave us the largest tax cut in history.
He kept his promise on originalists and constitutionalists on the court, kept his promise on moving America towards energy independence for the first time in 75 years.
We're a net exporter of energy.
Keystone Pipeline Dakota uh pipeline up and running.
Anwar's open.
Uh we now have the president found the way, and he's gonna have 400 miles of border wall built by October of next year.
It's on track for, as hundreds now built already.
Then, of course, he said he's gonna fight for free and fair trade deals.
He's got them done.
Uh, then he said he didn't want long entanglements abroad, but he beat the caliphate in Syria.
Baghdadi and his closest allies are dead.
Um, I'd say he's done a pretty good job of keeping a lot of his promises.
Well, but see, I I don't believe in his values.
I mean, it's just that wasn't the question, Professor.
Keep your focus now.
I'm sure you have to say this to some of your students.
You said to me, I don't think the Republicans have done much either.
I just mentioned all of those, those are not small items.
Those that that's the big list.
The president's also created seven million new jobs.
The president's also gotten seven million people off of food stamps.
Well, okay, we can talk about food stamp politics because I think it comes down to what's going on.
My last question: what have the Democrats done?
I gave you the list of what Donald Trump has done.
It's really hard to do anything when you're you don't have the presidency.
It's very hard to do anything when you just have one half of so you're making excuses for them.
Uh, but when they did have power, we had 13 million more Americans on food stamps and eight million more in poverty.
That was the Obama Biden legacy.
I would disagree.
Looking at food stamps the way I I think that food stamps sometimes you have to increase the role.
Is it better to have people uh have a job?
We have the best employment situations in 1969.
Is it better to have a job or better for government assistance?
I I would say it's better to have a job, but I I don't think that Donald Trump is now giving us jobs, and I think it's better the I think we all as human beings are designed to be workers and to serve others.
Life isn't about serving yourself.
I got a role, though.
Thank you, my friend.
Professor, you get uh uh C minus today, but keep working on it.
Call us back.
We'll see if you can do better.
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But I do think the aha moment for the country was the uh uh the action taken by the the president Trump appointee, the uh inspector general of the intelligence community, who said that there was a credible uh um report from a whistleblower of grave concern, and that Congress should be aware of that.
And and that is uh the facts of the Ukraine situation have just changed everything.
The polls went from 59 opposed to impeachment, 34 in favor to it even.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker, today is a tragic day for our country because while our young people are fighting in the Persian Gulf and bringing honor to our country, we are bringing dishonor to it with our hypocrisy here in this chamber.
Today the Republican majority is not judging the present with president with fairness, but impeaching him with a vengeance.
In the investigation of the president, fundamental principles which Americans hold dear, privacy, fairness, checks and balances, have been seriously violated.
And why?
Because we are here as we are here today because the Republicans in the House are paralyzed with hatred of President Clinton, and until the Republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will suffer.
This this is a crime in progress against the Constitution and against American democracy.
Uh, we cannot take the risk uh that the next election will be corrupted through foreign interference solicited by the president, which who which he is clearly uh trying to do.
That it is not earned the confidence of the American people, then any action we take, especially if we seek to overturn the result of a free election will be viewed with great suspicion and could divide a nation for years to come.
We do not need a decade of candidates running for office, accusing each other of railroading a democratically elected president out of office or of participating in a thinly veiled coup d'etat.
And one of the reasons we all feel so angry about what they are doing is that they are ripping from us, they are ripping us under our votes.
They are telling us that our votes don't count.
There must never Be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported by one of our major political parties and largely opposed by the other.
The American people have heard the allegations against the president, and they overwhelmingly oppose impeaching him.
They elected President Clinton.
They still support him.
We have no right to overturn the considered judgments of the American people.
This partisan coup d'etat will go down in infamy in the history of this nation.
By the way, that is a crime in progress.
Well, then somebody needs to the president is not doing what is the crime in progress.
Never mind, too, that the second article of obstruction was blown out of the water by the Supreme Court that clearly by taking on the issue of executive privilege when there's a conflict between the executive branch, legislative branch, it is the role of the judicial branch to settle disputes when one of the branches seeks remedy, which is now happening.
As we've been telling you, now I stand, I have not changed my view.
I do not believe that Donald Trump in any way polls like any conventional politician.
It just it's it's just the way it is.
But with that said, the real clear politics average now has uh impeachment underwater.
That was not the case from the very get-go.
We've got new polling numbers from our friend Matt Towery, USAID and aid numbers that we're going to share with you.
Uh but you hear the rank hypocrisy of Schumer and of Nadler and of Pelosi and the compromise corrupt uh Adam Schiff.
They've had all their hearings, they brought all their hearsay and opinion witnesses.
The one fact witness is on the table.
Now they want to, because they know it's so weak in the Senate, now they want to well, let's try for another impeachment uh uh attempt here, if you will.
Another cool attempt.
Anyway, John McLaughlin, the pollster, is with us, polster strategist, uh McLaughlin and associates, and uh also syndicated columnist attorney, he has now taken on the new role of being the official pollster for all of the Fox Owen-owned uh stations uh across the country, which is a really big job, many of them in swing states, important states like Florida, Georgia, and elsewhere, uh separate and apart from the Fox National polls, which I've not been too particularly pleased with their methodology.
Guys, welcome back.
What why is the methodology so flawed by so many of these groups?
Well, uh, I think one of the things that you see, uh Sean, is that uh of course I've argued against cell phones, although there is a way to make cell phone polling uh effective.
Um and also I think the biggest flaw is that um there's an insistence on weighting these polls heavily towards younger voters.
Uh we see an over-polling, oversampling of Democrats.
And of course, there's also the reluctance for individuals to tell people that they support Donald Trump after they see him attacked on virtually every news network and uh on every uh talk show um other than and of course yours and Russia's and a few that are at the top of the heap, I might add.
Uh, but also on on late night comedy and the like, they they realize that they are pariahs if they tell people that they support Donald Trump.
There are ways to get them to do it.
Uh we have new polling numbers, which we'll talk about in a minute in a in one state that we're doing.
Um by the way, those are separate from the Fox affiliate polls.
I'm doing my own polls this year because I got it right in 2016, and I'm gonna make sure I get it right, and we're only gonna air them on your show.
So by the way, it's been you, John McLaughlin, and Scott Rasmussen that have been right.
Zogby wasn't the three.
Uh Zogby has been right.
But look, look at the exit polls.
All right, so let's go through what we see.
We now have six polls, even a CNM poll showing that opposition is now outpacing support for impeachment.
This is a big turnaround.
Why are we seeing it at this late hour?
Um, John McLaughlin.
Well, because they have no facts.
First of all, those polls that you mentioned, I agree with Matt.
They're biased in their samples, they're biased in their questions.
They randomly dial phone numbers, they don't use voter lists, they're they're samples of adults or registered voters, not likely voters, because likely voter polls determine who actually votes.
It was 139 million people who voted, but there were 90 million people eligible that didn't vote.
So they pollute the polls, and the Republicans on election day 2016, there was 37% Democrat, 33% Republican.
All these polls that you just mentioned that you're referring to, even though they're trending our way and show the majority or close to a majority now opposes this impeachment, those polls are all biased with Republicans well under 30%.
Now, what I want to tell you is you've seen you referred to the real clear politics average.
That curve or that graph, when they started doing these hearings, they went down.
There's no evidence.
America was bored by it.
They can't prove their case that the president did anything wrong.
Now, in spite of all their biased uh uh reporting, and you and you with your people on this show and on your TV show, you have people that stick to the facts and present a case.
You've got these these other networks and these other shows where they're they're literally making stuff up about the president.
And the American public's realizing it's a railroad, the process is unfair.
And back at the end of October, we had a national poll that said 59 to 33.
Americans thought this is a waste of time and going nowhere.
Well, these hearings by the Democrats by Pelosi and Schiff have proven it.
And also the Republicans like Doug Doug Collins have exposed it, that this is a political impeachment, all about stopping the president from being re-elected.
And and we had national polls saying that 52 to 36, that this is not a legal uh proceeding.
It's it's a political proceeding.
All right, let's go to your new poll that just came out.
Uh we have it up on Hannity.com and also the USA Today poll.
Uh, what we see is Donald Trump defeating former vice president Biden in that poll, uh, and Bernie Sanders by five points, and Warren by eight points.
And if you look at hypothetical head-to-head contest, Trump also is ahead of uh Mayor Pete by ten points, Mayor Bloomberg by nine points.
Um that's another turnaround.
And you did the state of Georgia.
Tell us what you found in Georgia, Matt Towery.
Well, what's interesting about Georgia is the University of Georgia in conjunction with the Atlanta Journal Constitution did a poll just about a month ago.
And quite frankly, the results, if you've taken the face value, which I wouldn't necessarily, but I don't want to quibble with other polls right now, you've had a complete reversal of fortunes in Georgia.
At that time, you had over 50% saying that the president should be removed from office.
His approval rating was at 42%, according to the Atlanta General Constitution UGA poll.
Now you see the complete opposite.
The president's approval rating is at 52, disapproval at 42 in Georgia.
And by the way, Georgia is a swing state.
It is a quib it is on the verge of being a purple state.
It's going to be critical.
It's also the eighth largest state in the nation.
So it's important for us to look at.
As far as the impeachment goes, all of a sudden in Georgia, 50% oppose impeachment and removal.
And you have just around 30-something percent who say that president should be removed, and a very small number who say he should have even been impeached in the first place.
So now these hearings, as John alluded to, and John's poll uh, you know, a month or two out, was very predictive of where we are now.
Because what's happened is the more they accelerate, they hit the accelerator on this impeachment inquiry, and then all the news around it, and of course, the hyperbole that's involved in it, the president's numbers just keep going up.
So the very best Christmas present that Donald Trump could have, it's the gift that keeps on giving is impeachment.
I hate to say it, no one wants to have that moniker around them, but right now his numbers are just exploding, not exploding in the sense that most people could see it, but John and I can see it, and they're moving very rapidly in his favor.
About two months ago, uh Zogby had picked up the president's support among African Americans at 20 percent, and I talked about it.
There are now eight polls that have recently come out.
One has an all credible polls.
One has the president at a 34.5% approval rating with African Americans, another 34, uh, another 33.
Uh Zogby yesterday had it at, I believe 27 or 28.
The lowest of the eight polls now is 16, which would be exactly twice what the president had in terms of support from African Americans in 2016, John.
Yep.
How do we how do we interpret that?
Well, remember in 2016, we did net eight points better than Romney, but the exit polls had us losing the African Americans 89 to 8.
And what's going on though is the president, as he reaches out and he reminds people that look, you've got Full employment now.
You've got uh the lowest black unemployment ever in history, you can find jobs, plus the idea that he's taking on the idea that they've been taken for granted, and he's standing up for school choice, he's standing up for things that uh the average family, whether African American or not needs, as well as criminal justice reform.
These polls are showing that we can get someplace between maybe 15 and 25 or maybe even 30 percent of the African Americans based on their approval ratings of the job the president's doing.
So it's always been a theory that I think, and I and I saw this in Georgia with Governor Deal when we got double digits African American votes.
We defeated the Democrat strategy because they wanted to hold us to five percent.
And when you all of a sudden, when you're getting 10 or 20 percent from that core Democrat constituency, you're going to win, and you're going to win decisively.
So they're in a panic because the theory is we can get African American votes more easily than we can get white liberals who think they want to vote for Warren and Sanders.
So let's get those votes and let's keep that growing and watch the Democrats panic.
And it's not just African Americans.
I gotta take a break.
We'll pick it up on the other side, more with John McLaughlin, Matt Towery.
These polls are fascinating.
Uh 800, and by the way, they are our polsters all throughout 2020, the official polsters of the Sean Hannity show.
Quick break, right back, 800-941 Sean.
You want to be a part of the program, we'll continue.
All right, as we continue our polls, John McLaughlin and Matt Towery with us.
All right, so they're gonna have this trial, I assume, in January.
Okay.
Does that continue the bleeding?
And how do they manage that now as we're heading into the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire primary and South Carolina?
And who do you guys see winning on the Democratic side?
John McLaughlin.
On the Democratic side, it's it's absolute chaos right now.
It's really volatile.
What you've seen uh the Warren surge and that fade and Sanders come back up, uh, and you've seen Buddha judge have a little moment too.
But there's really a primary going on between which moderates gonna come out ahead and which socialists, whether Warren or Sanders will come out ahead, and then you've got the minority vote of African Americans and Hispanics.
So it's really volatile.
In the process, it all hurts to Joe Biden because he's the collateral collateral damage in this impeachment scandal because of what he did in Ukraine, not what Donald Trump did.
So what do you think, Matt Towery?
How does it shake out?
Well, it's interesting.
You know, we're we're beginning to see um the emergence of sort of a Biden on one side and and the the the Warren and Bernie Sanders on the other, which of course they represent the extreme liberal uh quote socialist side of the of the party.
So as it if that continues to emerge, our theory early on, if you remember we were talking about this in the spring and summer, was that that there'd be a consolidation between Sanders and Warren.
Someone would have to step aside, and then you'd end up having a very liberal nominee.
Now, I still have my eyes peeled on Deval Patrick.
I know he's not done anything yet, uh, but I'm suspicious about his emergence because it came from nowhere, and I believe that um if he had the right support, which would come from the Obama group, he could become a very viable candidate and a bit of a worrisome candidate for the president, but that hasn't developed yet.
So as we stand right now, I think where we are is we're looking at Biden continuing to survive.
I think he'll survive through several primaries, but when we get when we get further in, we're going to see either Warren or Sanders take control of that left side of the equation, and then the battle's going to be can the centrists get get a candidate, or will it be a an extreme George McGovern type 1972 nominee, which I still believe in the end is what we will see.
All right, guys, our official polls, Sean Hannity Radio Show, 800-941 Sean is our number.
Matt Towery and John McLaughlin, thank you both.
We'll take a quick break.
We have an awesome Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel, and we'll get to your calls on the other side.
And so I was actually doing the finals, but I got to see enough of it.
And certainly I spoke to my people.
It's a witch hunt, it's a sham.
It's a hoax.
Uh nothing was done wrong.
Zero was done wrong.
I think it's a horrible thing to be using the tool of impeachment, which is supposed to be used in an emergency, and it would seem many, many, many years apart, to be using this for a perfect phone call where the president of that country said there was no pressure whatsoever, didn't even know what we were talking about.
Uh it was perfect.
The relationship is perfect.
Uh I've done much more for them than Obama did for them.
It's a scam.
It's something that shouldn't be allowed.
And it's a very bad thing for our country.
And you're trivializing impeachment.
And I tell you what, someday there'll be a Democrat president and there'll be a Republican House.
And I suspect they're going to remember it.
Because when you do, when you use impeachment for absolutely nothing other than to try and get political gain.
I think that the whole impeachment thing, hoax, I guess you could call it, because it it is a hoax.
And Nancy Pelosi knows it.
By the way, they duped her yesterday.
She was on an interview.
And she said, we've been working in this for two and a half years.
So she's she was working on it.
In other words, two years before we ever spoke to Ukraine.
She said, We've been working on impeachment for two and a half years.
And the reporter was shocked when they got this answer because it showed she's a liar.
So it's uh it's a very sad thing for our country, but uh it seems to be very good for me politically.
And again, those people, because I watch some of the uh dishonest fake media, uh they're saying, well, the polls have remained the same.
No, the polls have not remained the same.
I think you understand that, John.
The polls have gone through the roof for Trump because people, especially with independent voters, and especially in swing states, I could show you numbers that nobody has ever seen numbers like this before.
So the impeachment is a hoax, it's a sham.
It started a long time ago, probably before I came down the escalator with the future first lady.
Started a long time ago.
And when you look at the IG report, and you look at these horrible FBI people talking about we got to get them out, uh insurance policies.
You know, the insurance policies just in case she loses, meaning Crooked Hillary, whose crooked is a three dollar bill.
Just in case Crooked Hillary loses, we've got an insurance policy.
But we've been going through the insurance policy now for three years, and it's a disgrace.
All right, that's the president in his own words, and I don't know where the media is reporting the polls.
They're missing the poll story on purpose.
Even a lot of them, their own polls, they don't want to talk about the key findings in them, even as distorted as they are.
Uh, it is tanking, it is cratering.
There is a real palpable panic now within all Democratic circles.
Uh, they can't get this out of the House fast enough, and in spite of Schumer, you know, putting on a show, no it it's already been established.
The House does the impeaching, and then when they're done, they decide if they want to impeach the president, and then the Senate, their role is to convict or acquit.
Well, even he realizes there's no evidence here, and it's a laughing stock.
And as they go forward and present their so-called case, it'll again remind people there's no they're there, how petty they are, how little that to nothing they've done for the American people.
You know, all this flurry of activity, last seconds, uh acting as though they're doing some work.
Where have they been all year?
What have they done except Russia, Russia, Russia, Stormy, impeach, impeach, impeach three years.
Now, with that said, the president just keeps driving forward.
He g yes, he deals with this, yes, he comments on this, and then he goes into a hundred meetings for the rest of the day.
Or he's doing a new trade deal, or he's ending more burdensome bureaucracy, or he's figuring out other ways to get more monies for the wall, or he's increasing defense spending, which we desperately needed thanks to the Obama military letdown.
Uh, and it goes from there.
I mean, uh it's it's I've never seen it's like a tale of two styles.
And I think that it all in all the polls are now accurately reflecting that people have had it.
And I think it only gets worse.
And I uh they so minimize what impeachment means anyway.
I don't think it means a thing.
It means nothing.
I feel absolutely nothing about their stupid impeachment.
Like that's who they are.
This defines them.
This in the end hurts them.
Because When you were in power, you did nothing except destroy the economy and give Mullers and Iran a ton of money and draw red lines in the sand that you never meant and promise Putin you'll be more flexible after you're re-elected.
And boy, what up, wouldn't I love to pay for that transcript?
Anyone want to sell that transcript?
And we have supposedly those are records of that, right?
We have records of these phone calls.
Well, why don't why doesn't Obama in the spirit of transparency release the calls with Putin and the mullahs in Iran and the leaders of Iran and elsewhere around the world?
And uh, you know, I just see it all turning.
This is now taking on a life of its own.
There, they are now locked in to who they are.
Lazy, obsessed, Trump hating, do nothing Democrats, the new extreme radical democratic socialist party, with very few exceptions.
There'll be a few people that say, uh-uh, you're not getting me to go over the cliff with you.
You want to do you want to commit political suicide, you go right ahead.
This is not what I signed up for.
Your political games.
Now, all the others are capitulating, and they're getting a little pat on the back.
Uh, that's a good, that's a good little Congresswoman or congressman, and you did good, and you listen to everything we told you to do.
By the way, it was nice meeting you because you're gonna probably be gone uh after the election day by November 4th, you're gonna regret this decision.
All right, let's get to our phones.
Uh, Chad is in Indiana.
Chad, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, Sean, great to speak with you.
Want to wish you an early Merry Christmas.
Uh same to you, my friend.
What's going on?
Um, I love the line that you're taking.
And the thing, my biggest thing on my heart is that the line has been crossed for any of these uh moderate Dems in these swing states to come back later and say that they were against the sham.
We see them for who they are, who they truly are, liberal party hacks, the whole sham was nothing but taking our taxpayer money and funding for opposition research.
And I wanted to leave you with a question.
Um, and I and I so appreciate you.
But so my question is this in the midst of all of this abuse of power that they were solemnly entrusted with that we the people gave them.
Who has been fighting for us, the forgotten men and women that get up every day and work and pay our bills and want to see our kids have a better life than we had.
Our wages crumbling and infrastructure crumbling, the opioid epidemic.
We all see what the Democrats' only concern is the precious progressive liberal agenda.
The only ones fighting for us is Trump and those who stood by him through this, you um, some of the other greats that I don't want to speak on your show because um, but I I put you in the big three um with Rush and and uh um Thank me.
God bless us, Mark Levin.
I'm just guessing.
Mark Levin, Mark Levin, that's the one I was thinking.
My mind was Nobody else is gonna say it.
There, I said it.
Mark Levin.
So so in the midst of all this, in the midst of all this, who's fighting for us?
The American people.
I mean, it's like they've completely forgotten it.
They're they're so incessed.
You know what I love about the president's style?
And and I don't know what it is, but it's like the more they hate him, the more I like him.
The more I like that he doesn't take their crap, the more I like that he fights with them, and the more that I like that he goes about the business of governing the country and keeping his promises.
That's refreshing.
You know, there's a lot of things that they factor into elections.
Peace and prosperity, always a big factor.
And every economic measure not only is holding strong, but all the the talking of recession has now gone away.
And we've had a major turnaround.
We have all these millions of jobs created, millions of Americans off of food stamps, the best job situation since 1969.
Every demographic in the country, our entire American families benefiting from these good policies.
And you just you see and you compare and you contrast.
People are now used to his style.
He's not the guy that fights day and night to keep his promises, doesn't say, oh, okay, I'm going on Twitter now, I'm gonna turn the fight switch off.
It doesn't work that way.
You are who you are.
And he's sort of such the anti-politician, is what you see is what you get.
All these other pretentious, self-righteous, sanctimonious people, they usually present one face in public, but behind closed doors, they're no, they're nothing like that.
And that's the opposite.
America knew what it look, I'll tell you right now, America needed this disruption.
This disruption has been great.
And I'm telling you what's gonna end up happening here.
This is going to be the new norm.
Old establishment.
Republicanism is dead.
America first is alive and well.
Fighting for the forgotten men and women, alive and well.
Uh looking, getting out of foreign conflicts, long engagements.
That day is coming gone.
Why do you think the president's going to spend $800 billion on new weaponry?
Well, because it's the next generation.
We're not going to have to send our sons and daughters banging on doors.
This is transformational.
You know, this idiot that supported PARP, Judge Gregg, you know, the establishment figure, critical of me.
And I'm like, oh, Trump's not a conservative.
I'm like, well, or a Republican.
I'm like, I don't think he is either, actually.
He's a registered Republican.
I'm not a Republican.
I'm a conservative.
Uh, originalists on the court, that's conservative.
The largest tax cuts in history, that's conservative.
Securing the border, that's conservative.
Uh, energy independence, that's conservative.
You know, ending burdensome bureaucracy.
That's conservative.
Uh, if we're gonna win overwhelming force and war and conflict, win it.
He beat the caliphate, he beat Baghdad.
Baghdad's dead, along with four of his other top lieutenants.
That is a conservative way to fight, in my view.
Uh, Eric is in California.
Eric, how are you?
Good.
How are you doing today, Sean?
Well, good.
What's going on?
Oh, I just wanted to wish you a merry Christmas and thank you again for another great year's hard work.
Thank you.
Uh well, you make this happen.
And boy, I'm gonna rest up after this silly impeachment thing, and then we're gonna come back with all cylinders firing right on time.
And to answer the previous caller's question, you're the one out there fighting for us smelly shoppers.
I hate to tell you, I am one of those smelly shoppers, so you know I don't understand.
I don't understand one thing.
Why when I go to a store, I you know, my work is in public, every but it's the same as everybody else, where we all are in the service industry.
You create goods and services for people.
Mine's news and information, hopefully with a dose of entertainment once in a while.
And people, what are you doing here?
I'm like, shopping.
And they're like, well, why do you you you shop?
Yes.
Why?
Because I like to eat.
Or I like, you know, I buy somebody a present or something.
I don't know.
Yes, because the Democrats have someone else do all their shopping for them.
I get you have a lot of people.
No, they just they just shop with our money.
That's the there's the big difference.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Doing impeachment on our money as well.
Exactly.
Uh, you have some wonderful guest speakers when you're on vacation, and I was wondering if you would consider giving Linda a day to do her own show.
You know, she's like, no.
You know, here's the problem.
Well how the fines will be so great.
There's not enough dump time built into this show to allow her to do her show.
It's just oh, just think of the radio.
I think she'd I think she'd do great.
She's always welcome to do it if she wants to try it.
She's got a great voice, and she can talk the talks just with the rest of them.
Well, first of all, first of all, let me first of all tell you that no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Let me let me do the talking.
I'm talking here.
Uh exactly.
Anyway, thanks for the request, Eric.
We appreciate you being out there.
Laurie, Illinois, next Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Lori?
Hi there, Sean.
Wanted to see.
I loved your show with uh Levin last night.
Watched that.
It was really good.
Oh, thank you.
Um I wanted to just make one point about Pelosi.
Everybody's discussing if they're gonna have the votes or not in the house.
I think it's a mute comment because you know darn well she's gonna have those votes.
And we're gonna have quid pro quo, but on her side.
She's the one, I'm sure, promising everyone, you know, all the Democrats, promising blackmailing, bribing, doing whatever it is to make sure she's got those votes.
Listen, I mean, this is what Congress does all the time.
That's true.
There's a lot of that, and which is a good point.
I wish I thought of.
They're always saying, well, you vote for us here, we'll be able to help out.
What do you need in your district again?
Oh, you have soybeans in your district.
Well, we could probably help the soybean farming industry if you help us with this vote.
Yeah, there's a lot of that that goes on.
Yeah.
So we shouldn't be blaming President Trump for anything that they're doing anyway.
It's all quid pro quo.
You support my spending in my district.
I'll support the spending in your district.
You have a quid and a pro and a quo like Joe.
It's amazing.
Yes, sir.
Definitely.
You have a Merry Christmas and I'll be, I'll keep listening and watching.
Well, thank you.
I'm going to rest up after this stupid impeachment, which is keeping me on my vacation week and not making me happy.
Because it's a waste of our time.
It is hurting the country.
Anyway.
All right, Hannity, tonight nine Eastern.
Uh wow, from the FISA court, a beatdown based on the FBI abuse of power.
And uh there is now going to be accountability.
Uh the latest on the impeachment charade, of course.
Uh Greg Jarrett, John Solomon, uh, Matt Gates, uh, Congressman Scalise tonight.
Uh Senator Ron Johnson's gonna join us tonight.
He's been really good lately.
Lara Logan, Sean Spicer, and buckle up for crazy impeachment day tomorrow, and then you'll go home with your family, and then you'll vote in 322 days, and then we'll start all over again.
All right, have a good night.
We'll see you tonight at nine back here tomorrow.
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