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271 days, you, the ultimate jury, get to shock the world again if you want.
You know, I always like to use the analogy, we're all spokes in a wheel.
Honestly, every spoke is important.
I mean, if you like the direction of the country, now now we've got the two Americans we're talking about.
We got the endless, never-ending, nonstop, single every second, minute, hour, 24-hour day hate Trump, and then we've got Trump who's getting results.
And Americans are prospering, and we're more safe and we're more secure.
You know, the story we have later in the program, Jody Jones is with us.
His brother Rocky was killed.
And I mean, it's it's it's again at what point, you know, this if government is gonna fail us at this spectacular level.
I mean, why would you ever entrust the government with the new green $94 trillion deal or the $52 trillion Medicare for all over 10 years each?
Well, they take in four trillion a year, and it'll be less once they get rid of the lifeblood of our economy and offer everybody everything for free.
But you know, I I I look at this at what point are they guilty of aiding and abetting criminal activity because in the case of Jody Jones' brother, you have a criminal alien, didn't respect our laws,
our borders, our sovereignty, comes into the country, commits a brutal murder of an innocent man with a with one with a daughter, and he previously we find out has been arrested, not just for misdemeanor, no violent crimes.
Twice deported.
He'd been arrested in 2018, December 2018 for the sixth time.
But because of California's sanctuary state policy, he was released from jail a few days later.
He goes on a 24-hour reign of terror, injuring several Americans, robbing a gas station, leading law enforcement on a high-speed chase, they're always dangerous, and then killing 51-year-old Rocky Jones, a guy that was known as a kind and gentle soul, and now his precious daughter never gets to see her father again.
And it's like the New York no bail laws in New York.
Oh, okay.
Whatever the crime is.
You go in, they charge you, and you leave.
Even violent crimes.
You know, sanctuary states, California, sanctuary cities, you know, all over the place.
Um, at what time did at what point are they held responsible for aiding and abetting the allowing this to happen, facilitating this from happen for happening.
I was just arrested a few days ago.
They had him.
Could have saved an American's life.
They didn't.
I mean, this is, you know, that's just one small ittsy bitsy issue.
And there's so many others that are in play here.
It's unbelievable.
Um, I will tell you, today was such a fascinating day.
First, the president goes to the national prayer breakfast.
You know, the president, uh I will tell you this.
He has a wicked sense of humor, very funny, but at times, you know, very serious.
Because what has happened now, three years of never ending lies, conspiracy theories, hoaxes, investigations.
You know, you gotta think of it and look at it through another way, too.
I mean, all the other people in Donald Trump's life, just think of his own family.
Think of somebody like Hope Picks.
You know, you don't have to hire people are hiring lawyers.
You know how much Washington lawyers are?
They're not cheap.
I know because I have one.
I've used lawyers.
And I can tell you this, there at you end up working and paying more to your lawyer than you're making.
What what why would people want to serve ever government?
You know, to think that they have these this resistance deep state operatives.
We cannot let this go.
We cannot let Quid Pro quote Joe and zero experience hunter get away with it, because if we do, they're just gonna do it again.
It's like a license to go out there and do anything you want.
The only people that it seems getting in trouble are conservatives.
Are we ever gonna resolve the General Flynn matter?
Poor guy.
They didn't even think it was lying.
We're gonna go after your son.
We're gonna go after your family.
Well, they already got his house.
He had to sell his house for lawyers.
It's like roadkill to them.
And those that are responsible for prosecutorial abuse, you know, withholding exculpatory information.
I mean, if the FBI guys that interviewed General Flynn, we now know, never thought he was lying.
Well, okay, then why did you make this guy, you know, agree that he had lied to the FBI?
Well, we know the answer to that because number one, he's out of money, and number two, they're saying if you don't sign this, we're going after your son.
33 years of service to his country, and now he's like, you mean you're gonna go after my kid?
But if I sign this, you won't go after my kid?
Yes.
Okay, what father is not gonna dive on the sword?
I would.
I well, I'll I'll lie, I guess that they're they're making him lie, the very thing they are charging him with.
And then when Comey does it, lack of candor, or Andrew McCabe does it.
Where's the where is the prosecution there?
You know, the and and by the way, do you think this is over?
I have some really bad news.
It's never gonna end.
They can't help themselves.
They are so wrapped up in this psychosis and this rage, they're already talking about the next round of investigations, all over the place investigations.
Because you got the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Gerald Nadler.
Remember, this all started because it's a temper tantrum and they're sore losers, and they never accepted the results of we smelly Walmart Chopper, irredeemable deplorables that, you know, I'm lying on a map, I guess, you know, them latte sipping where Ukraine, okay.
Who knows where Ukraine is?
You know, that cling to God, our constitution, our Bibles, our religion.
Well, guilty is charged.
Walmart Chopper, guilty.
Smelly, I take issue with because I take a shower often, as often as I can.
But hey, he's now saying, well, we're gonna bring in Bolton.
Well, we've already established that probably John Bolton is gonna say that probably the president said, Um, unless they get to the bottom of This, they're not getting the money, which by the way, we know the four facts Jim Jordan never change.
And he they got the money.
What do you want?
Nothing.
No, just to be honest.
What did the president say on the call?
Be honest.
Now we also know that Joe's saying you're not getting the 14 billion dollars unless I'm sorry, that the you're not getting the billion, unless you fire the prosecutor investigating my zero experienced son.
Now that's a big freaking deal.
And then zero experienced hunter does the worst interview of any 49-year-old adult I've ever heard.
And uh, you have any experience, Ukraine, oil, no, none.
No.
Why do you think you got it?
I don't know.
Maybe because your dad's the vice president.
Probably that's it.
Probably.
Look at you know, the corrupt foreign corrupt practices act, 1815 USC 78.
It is illegal for a person to coerce, you're not getting the billion, unless you fire the guy, or influence through bribery extortion, billion dollars, unless you fire the prosecutor investigating my zero experience son.
And if you do that, if you're pressuring a foreign nation, well, it to taking any action that might financially benefit that person, his family, Hunter.
Whoever corruptly gives offers or promises anything of value to a public official to influence an official act is guilty of bribery.
Oh, you're not getting the billion.
I should fire the prosecutor.
So we can keep paying zero experienced uh son hunter millions.
Anyway, Nadler's not stopping.
We're gonna bring in Bolton.
The president also has an oath to faithfully execute the laws.
We had sufficient evidence, prima facia case, if you will, that in fact what Hunter and Joe were doing is illegal.
Oh, so he would he would be fulfilling his oath.
Doesn't matter.
And the president still gave them the money early in the end, a lot of it, without getting any promise, without getting any investigation, without any pressure to do an investigation.
None of them never happened.
And by the way, if he did, it would have been a the smart thing to do.
We also know Ukraine and Ukrainian court determined they interfered in our election.
We also know Politico told us that, you know, this person, DNC operative Chalupa, you know, with digging dirt, working with Ukraine corruptly to get dirt on Trump and his campaign to influence the election.
Oh, I thought they cared about that.
They don't.
Here's what the president said at the national prayer breakfast uh earlier today.
As everybody knows, my family, our great country, and your president have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people.
They have done everything possible to destroy us, and by so doing, very badly hurt our nation.
They know what they are doing is wrong, but they put themselves far ahead of our great country.
Weeks ago and again yesterday, courageous Republican politicians and leaders had the wisdom, fortitude, and strength to do what everyone knows was right.
I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong.
Nor do I like people who say, I pray for you, when they know that that's not so.
So many people have been hurt, and we can't let that go on.
And I'll be discussing that a little bit later at the White House.
Now he did go on to discuss it at the White House later in the day, and you know, we're gonna play some of these clips.
I might play later in the show, maybe in our news roundup hour, but more extended version.
I mean, there is more he's so hilariously funny.
Even actually said the word BS, like Lindsey Graham said on my TV show twice the other night.
I was like, oh.
I said I really want I actually said this.
I go, I really want to say it.
Then I'm gonna have to deal with, you know, three weeks of crap, and I don't feel like doing it.
I wouldn't get fired over it, but I'd have to be like, sit down, get yelled at, and you know, you know, otherwise you don't get the finger in my face.
I mean, unless I'm past that.
I'm alone, I'm just past it.
I don't need that headache in my life.
Uh, all right, 800-941 Sean, toll-free telephone number.
But anyway, they're not stopping.
Now that's why if we don't demand if we don't follow through on the dirty dossier, the Hillary obstruction bleach pit.
If we don't follow through on the FISA premeditated fraud on a Pfizer court on uh on one citizen, also spying on a presidential candidate transition team deep into the Trump presidency.
If we don't get to the issues involving Allied nations, intelligence community work uh on behalf of our intelligence community, leaders, not the 99%, uh outsourcing spying on Americans to circumvent laws.
We're screwed.
We are we I'm telling you, it will it will be bad for this country forever.
We got to drain the swamp.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of 10, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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Ah, so they they just, you know, we're likely to bring in Bolton and we're gonna issue subpoenas.
And then you got, of course, the fake news industry.
There, if they're encouraging more investigation and impeachments here, you got uh what moments after the president is uh acquitted yesterday.
What do you have on fake news CNN?
Oh, double jeopardy does not imply applying politics.
This is from their chief national correspondent, uh John King proclaiming to the rest of the panel looking for Trump to be retried on the charges he was just found not guilty of committing.
Let's impeach him again over Ukraine.
And then let's go back to Russia.
And then let's go back to uh Stormy, and then let's go back to a check that he wrote 40 years ago.
It never ends.
It is a historic epic fail.
And this is why there is only one antidote, and that is fighting back and not rewarding their behavior at the ballot box.
Uh, but this is ripping up the speech.
Um, You know, I like what Jonathan Turley said.
I told you yesterday.
I mean, she should resign.
She should be out.
Matt Gates, by the way, is intending to file ethics charges against Petty Pelosi.
You know, it's it's literally James Madison won.
Nancy Pelosi zero.
That was in, I think it was Kim Strossel in the Wall Street Journal edit well, maybe the editorial board.
It is it look at what they've now put the nation through.
And it's not stopping them.
They're doubling down on continuing the witch hunts.
They're never gonna stop the witch hunts.
They're never this this is who they are.
This defines them.
Now we have to ask ourselves how do you stop it?
There's one way to stop this.
And that is not only shock the world and reelect the president in 271 days, but elect Republican senators and elect a Republican House, and Kevin McCarthy can be Speaker, that will end it.
Because it won't happen.
Then we could actually do great things for the country and maybe the world.
Just, you know, let's dream big.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
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What difference at this point does it make?
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We've all been through a lot together.
And uh we probably deserve that hand for all of us.
Because uh it's been a very unfair situation.
Uh I invited some of our very good friends, and we have limited room, but everybody wanted to come.
We kept it down to a minimum.
And believe it or not, this is a minimum.
Uh, but a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months, but really if you go back to it over the last number of years, we had the witch hunt.
It started from the day we came down the elevator, myself and our future first lady who's with us right now, and it never really stopped.
Uh, we've been going through this now for over three years.
Uh it was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops.
Uh, it was leakers and liars.
And this should never ever happen to another president, ever.
I don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it.
Some people said no, they wouldn't have.
But I can tell you at a minimum, uh, you have to focus on this because it can get away very quickly, no matter who you have with you, it can get away very quickly.
It was a disgrace.
Uh, had I not fired James Comey, who was a disaster, by the way, uh, it's possible I wouldn't even be standing here right now.
We caught him in the act.
Dirty cops, bad people.
If this happened to President Obama, a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already, many, many years.
That was at the White House, the two appearances of the president, he was on fire today.
Funny, but serious as hell.
Think about this.
We now have Jerry Nadler saying, Yeah, we're going back to Ukraine and Tom Bolton's next.
We already there's a prima facie case with Hunter and quid pro quo Joe and Zero Experience Hunter.
We've outlined repeatedly what the statutes are.
The very thing they're supposedly outraged about.
Uh, we're making some progress on the Russia, the origins of the Russian investigation, but it's slow.
I mean, remember Michael Horowitz vindicated all the things we've reported on this program while the media mob lied for three straight years.
And what is the media mob telling us now?
Well, within seconds after the acquittal, double jeopardy doesn't apply in politics.
They can go back and do it again.
And Natal is saying they're gonna do it again.
And you've got uh Jamie Raskin, who's on the Judiciary Committee, you know, the country needs to hear now from John Bolton.
And then you got the compromise corrupt congenital liar, Adam Schiff, you know, saying the facts will come out in in the end in all their horror, they will come out.
That's when he's taking a breath after saying that.
What if Donald Trump, what if he gives Alaska to the Russians?
He can give Alaska and then so the Russians will help him.
If abuse of power is not impeachable, even though it is clear the founders considered the highest of all high crimes and misdemeanors, but if it were not impeachable, then a whole range of utterly unacceptable conduct in a president would now be beyond reach.
Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election, or decide to move to Mar-a-Lago permanently and let Jared Kushner run the country, delegating to him the decision whether to go to war.
Do you hear this, Matt?
This is how sick this has gotten.
And some of you say, Hanned it's hyperbole.
You're talking about Trump derangement syndrome, rage every second minute, hour of every 24-hour day.
This is this is it.
This is what I'm telling you.
You know, real I mean, Nancy Pelosi, there's actually more details.
They went back and looked at the tape, and apparently she was preparing to rip the papers.
Like she was beginning the to the tears in the papers at different points.
You could catch it, and we'll show it on TV tonight.
So that was all planned.
That was a show.
Talk about the sh the Schumer Schiff Sham show.
Yeah, you've got uh Pelosi and her own little Shiftsham show.
It's unbelievable.
It is, do they ever think about the country?
Now, again, we've got Hunter, zero experience, and we've got Joe.
Do they ever talk about that?
No.
They ever talk about Russian interference, and the congenital liars call that he thinks he's talking to a Russian colluding with a Russian about compromising materials and uh naked pictures of Trump.
And it's okay, and Sabuseva.
I like it my way now at this point.
Compromise the Materials.
What's the nature of the compromise?
Uh pictures of naked Trump.
Does Vladimir know?
But the cause Vladimir knows about compromise the materials and naked pictures of the I mean, he's on tape doing this.
The only one that paid for Russian dirt was Hillary Clinton.
In a pretty humorous moment, Donald Trump said today that Hillary and the DNC paid millions for the dossier.
Actually goes, I should have sh sued Christopher Steele.
And you know, I wrote this down because that was where a thing called the insurance policy to me, when I saw the insurance policy, and that was done long before the election.
That was done when they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win.
And by the way, Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid for millions.
millions of dollars.
The fake dossier.
And now Christopher Steele admits that it's a fake because he got sued by rich people.
I should have sued him too.
But when you're president, people don't like suing.
I want to thank my legal team, by the way, not for that advice, but for other I mean, I know the pr I feel the desire to sue people.
I mean, the bar is so freaking high if you're a public figure.
You know how much I mean, I have all my social media that has been compromised.
Do you know that our web guy says there's like 250, I'm sorry, 2500 attempts a day to hack into the site.
My social media, what did what was the word they used the Twitter compromised?
They admitted it.
You know, it was nothing there, but it just was compromise.
So of course, now I don't have the ability.
My I have no ability to get on any of my social media accounts.
The only way I get to tweet is if I run I have to run it through people.
That's the only way it gets tweeted out.
And and Facebooked out and Instagrammed out.
I've I don't even have the passwords.
And I can't get on my own accounts.
You know, I'm like in a prison.
You know, it's like, okay, and then my text messages are released.
Uh well, only what, 11, 1200 of them, not bad.
And then, of course, then they're they're the special counsels interviewing people.
Hannity sending you secret coded messages from the president.
I mean, it's spectacular insanity.
And then we we literally live through a real Russia hoax, if you will, conspiracy, if you will.
I mean, Hillary bought a dirty Russian dossier filled with not only unverifiable lies, but now debunked lies.
You know, Trump, Ritz Carlton, Russia, uh, hookers urinating in bed.
This is not okay.
Not okay.
You're right.
And the same group of people in the mob and the media and Democrats, they don't really care about Trump Russia collusion, because if they did, guess what?
They'd be all over the dirty dossier.
They didn't care about obstruction either, or else they'd care about the deleted emails and the bleach bit in the hammers.
You know, if they cared about election interference, wow, with Russia, we got it.
If they cared about constitutional civil liberties, they'd care a lot more about Carter Page and General Flynn and others.
If they cared about Ukrainian election interference, they would look really deep at the DNC operative Chalupa, as chronicled in the January 11, 2017 politico investigative report.
But they don't care.
It's only what can we do to bludgeon Trump?
And while we're bludgeoning Trump, we're going to ignore zero experience Hunter being paid millions and quid pro quo Joe uh shaking down Ukraine to fire a prosecutor, or he's not gonna get they're not gonna get the billion dollars of taxpayer money, which by the way, is now that justifies the president's what's going on with Hunter and Joe.
Prima Facia case, we've identified all the laws.
The media ever tell you that?
No.
Have had they identified the laws?
No.
All they've done is say, oh, no serious person thinks Joe or Hunter have done anything wrong.
I I mean, you see how it's this is like a a form of madness that we now are living these times are troubling times.
Because if you're if you have half the country that can't see that hypocrisy, and are that hell bent on doing nothing for the American people except uh attack one person because they can't beat that person, then we've got a you know, we got a problem as a country moving forward as a country.
And if you love the country, you want to leave a better, a more perfect union for our kids and our grandkids.
Kind of, you know, I'm older now, it doesn't really matter about me.
Really doesn't.
You know, I mean, she's ripping at the papers beforehand.
It was a show.
It was as it was prepared, theater.
She didn't rip them when she left.
She did it right after the speech on purpose.
She was planning it the whole time.
Now it was a distraction.
Maybe now we have no why she was so distracted.
Because she was preparing for her show.
And you know, the eyes and the mumbling and you know, these people are nuts.
This absolute these are insane times.
And the mob in the media, it's sick.
It is beyond sick.
But I will say this.
They now love their favorite Republican, and that would be Mitt Romney.
The profile encouraged fake news acosta.
Don Lemon.
Mitt Romney talking about faith and duty and doing what's right.
I just want to go through the list here.
John King, Nicole Wallace, our old friend.
She ran the McCain campaign.
If you believe the book that was written about it, and the movie was turned into a movie, uh, it says Nicole didn't vote for John McCain.
That's interesting.
Uh but anyway, Romney stood in the well, and he seemed to be reaching for the ghost of John McCain.
I'm like, you can't make well, that's the same.
Mitt Romney, I hope you know.
Those are the same people that were many of them in the media mob, not all of them, not specifics here, but the media mob, they're the ones that called you a misogynist and a sexist and a racist and everything else that they called you.
Now you're the best friend.
You know, well done.
Take a bow.
Americans would most like to see six percent said Mitt Romney's tax returns.
Yeah.
Well, it's because I believe we will discover that the man has not paid a nickel in the United States federal income tax.
We have a felon running for president.
Matt Romney put his foot in his mouth more times in this election from oh he he pulled that move.
He uh uh was uh he went out there and made a birther joke.
Remember, he decided to make a birther joke.
Negro, you all make a birthday joke.
Okay, I've been called many times.
Mitt Romney has been called many things in 2012 and beyond, but I'm gonna go with here on our list.
I mean, I could just keep going all day.
Now he's a ch now they love their hero.
Um by the way, look at what's that.
They we still we only have 97% of the voted, but Bernie's catching up.
Now you got them trying to steal rip off Bernie again.
I gotta get Donna Brazil back on the radio show.
Will you book her?
And I want to pull the passages from the book when she made the phone call and said, Yeah, Bernie, you were cheated.
And then what do you think the whole dirty dossier leaked to the likes of David Korn and Michael Izakov for?
Oh, to make Americans think that Donald Trump had hookers in his room in a Moscow writz urinating on his bed.
Oh, that wasn't Russian misinformation.
Finally, even the New York Times said the dirty bought and paid for dossier was likely Russian misinformation from the get-go.
Oh, and by the way, just so you know, we have a top Iowa Democrat has figured out why this debacle happened in the caucus uh in their own conspiracy theory.
They're now blaming Trump.
Wow.
Ken Sager, state Democratic Central Committee member, among those answering the hotline, caucus nights that people called in and expressed support for Trump, and the phone number became public after people posted photos of the caucus paperwork.
It's Trump's fault.
Donald Trump was responsible for their screw up in Iowa.
Well, you gotta blame him for Obamacare and the fact that you know, nearly 40% of Americans only have one exchange option, and that on average were paying almost 200% more, and that millions lost their doctor's plan and they're paying less.
I mean, they're all paying more.
I thought we were gonna average family's gonna save $2,500 a year.
No.
Nope.
Trump supporters flood the hotline.
That's why it happened.
Oh, okay.
And then by the way, then they issued, they actually gave updates, and then they had to correct the updates.
But we're gonna let them run health care and take away the lifeblood of our economy, oil and gas.
Uh now the DNC chairman is calling for a recanvas in Iowa.
Okay, great job.
You know, and oh, and they want to change the rules to allow Bloomberg into the debates.
Well, Joe's falling apart, he came in for, let's try Bloomberg.
At least he can fund his own campaign.
And if that doesn't work, uh, we'll work on something new.
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When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith political warfare and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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Alright, when we come back loaded up, we'll check in Newt Gingrich.
He's been really ripping on Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats.
And also we have uh Greg Jarrett is going to be joining us.
The saddest story, well, well, no, there were a number of sad stories in the State of the Union, but they were the president illustrating the madness of Sanctuary Cities.
You know, we know I I we know the case in San Francisco.
I think the family has asked people not to talk about it anymore.
I want to res I want to honor them.
But Jody Jones is the brother of Rocky Jones.
Rocky Jones has a daughter.
I think what, five brothers?
There's five of them.
I think he was the oldest.
And he gets killed on December in December 2018.
The guy that killed him was released because of California's sanctuary state policy.
And the guy had been, you know, six times violent arr arrested for violent crimes.
At one point are they culpable when something like this happens.
That's all coming up.
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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
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I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong.
nor do i like people who say i pray for you when they know that that's not so so many people have been hurt and we can't let that go on and i'll be discussing that a little bit later at the white house uh but some of the people here have been incredible warriors they're warriors And there's nothing from a legal standpoint.
This is a political thing.
And every time I'd say this is unfair, let's go to court, they say, sir, you can't go to court.
This is politics.
And we were treated unbelievably unfairly.
And you have to understand, uh, we first went through Russia, Russia, Russia.
It was all we then went through the Muller report.
And they should have come back one day later.
They didn't.
They came back two years later, after lives were ruined, after people went bankrupt, after people lost all their money.
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity show, and that is the president at the prayer breakfast, and then at the White House uh later in the day.
I mean, I mean, that really captures everything we've been through for three years, never ending.
And I'd like to be able to say, and well, I can say and mean this, that you know, ultimately, you are the ultimate juror jury.
You're you get to decide.
You get to shock the world again in 271 days.
Anyway, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich had some very powerful comments uh as it relates to Nancy Pelosi's temper tantrum and her antics at the State of the Union, he tweeted out, you know, I introduced Bill Clinton four times when I was Speaker of the House and remarking, you know, referring to his time in office, one time it was in the middle of the scandal.
Every time, because of the dignity of the House and the Constitution, I used the right phrase.
And then he said, the idea that Pelosi would tear up her copy of the State of the Union address uh was childish and so beneath the dignity of the House.
Uh couldn't agree more, Mr. Speaker.
How are you?
I'm doing well.
Interestingly, uh Jonathan Charlie, the liberal democratic attorney, uh, wrote a column today saying that she has so disgraced the House that she really should not be speaker.
And uh somebody like Charlie say that, and I think he's essentially right because first of all, the State of the Union is a constitutionally required speech or report.
It doesn't have to be a speech, but it's a report.
So the president is operating under the constitution to do the right thing.
She is then demeaning that in front of the entire country in a way that as I said in my tweet, you know, having been speaker, having sat behind Bill Clinton for four consecutive years, having shaken his hand every time, and by the way, I did watch it, and I said, I want to say, hi Newt, how are you doing?
I'm gonna tell you I'm teasing.
Go ahead.
I gotta I gotta bring some levity to this.
Well, I gotta tell you, one uh I think it was the very first time uh he came in in '95.
and he and you know, if you'll notice the president hands each of them a copy of the speech.
And so Clinton turns and he hands me this envelope, and I open it, and it says, Dear Speaker Gingrich, you're right, I resign.
William Jefferson Clinton has this thing.
And I'm giving it to Algo.
Wow.
And Clinton turns around and says, oops, I gave you the wrong thing.
Uh but but I'm just I'm I want to use that as an example.
You know, you can be deeply disagreeing and not have to be a childish seventh grader involved in a bullying match.
And and what Nancy did and the way she did it, I mean I watched it and I just thought to myself, what a despicable act to demean the entire country, to demean the Constitution, to demean the office of speaker, which remember, the Speaker of the House is the only office in the legislative branch that is designated by the Constitution, and she is third in line to be president.
And she ought to have some national obligation to be patriotic.
Uh and instead, what we get is this kind of um amazingly childish behavior, I thought.
You know, but this has been three years of this, Mr. Speaker.
This this has never stopped.
You know, what I'm saying to people, if we look at everything now through the prism of an election in 271 days, everything matters.
Uh historically, peace and prosperity drive elections.
Uh, are you better off than you were four years ago?
That question I think can be answered with an affirmative yes and in by every measure.
Promises made and kept, foreign policy success, bag daddy, Solomonny, the caliphate, uh, economic record unemployment, low record after record after record impacting every single demographic, thankfully, in this country.
Uh the manufacturing jobs that weren't coming back are coming back, trade deals with China.
So my question is, what have they done for the last three years except this?
Because I follow this closely.
You do I can't see much.
Well, look, I I think we're gonna have a very clear choice this fall.
Um you have a president who, by the way, uh I think has endured a beating unlike any president except Abraham Lincoln.
I mean, the level of vitriol and hostility, and I think what's really offended him the most is is the pain that causes his family.
I mean, Trump's a big boy, he he can play in this league, but when when your family gets smeared, when you have the kind of vitriol and the kind of nastiness, and you have to endure it every single day.
And there's no way to get around it because these people are your mortal enemies.
And and that is what we're up against.
I mean, from the standpoint of the left, you know, they are the mortal enemies of Donald Trump, and they will hate him as long as he's in office.
Uh and in fact, they'll hate him after that, but it won't be a functional matter anymore.
And that's what we're facing.
These these are people who have a pathological need to go after the president of the United States and cause him as much pain as they can.
Uh, and I think from his perspective, you know, after I reflected on it, I think he was right not to shake her hand.
I mean, she clearly was setting up to despise him.
She says things every day that indicate she despises him.
Well, why would you have an obligation to be positive and pretend you're friends to a person who's openly telling the world she hates you?
And I think that he's exactly right, and I and I think he was also right today to point out that when she said she prays for him, that was about as despicably dishonest as you can get.
I mean, to lie about prayer strikes me as being about as low as you can get.
And that's exactly what she was doing.
I think I'm probably the only one in the media, and I gotta tip my hat to you.
You did it in your book on the president that was a best seller, that actually scrolls all of his promises made and kept and all of his success.
We've watched a lot of States of the Union over the years, you a few more than me, not many, but a couple more.
I never saw a better speech in my life.
Okay, but I'm being nice.
Let me be nice.
Um but but I'm listening to that speech, and he's just going through record after record after record of accomplishment.
And to me, it was to me, it was the best State of the Union I'd ever seen.
And I'm uh uh I it was stunning.
And when you compare it to what they all that they've done in just hating him full-time, I mean you're right.
This is a I don't even think it's a choice election.
This is uh America on the brink tipping point election, because God help us with their new Green Deal and Medicare for All, 94 trillion, 54 trillion.
No, I it is it's so important.
I'll have a book out in June called the Trump Effect.
And it's specifically is like my old-time Gopac tapes.
It's designed to say to the country, look, you have two futures here.
You we have not faced this big a choice since 1860.
I mean, you have people in the left who hate America, they want to use the law to force you and me to change our lives.
They want to have all control in the government.
Uh, and if they get a chance to win, we will not be the same country a year later.
And then you have what Trump has done, which is truly one of the most extraordinary achievements in American history.
I mean, if you if you look at what he's accomplished, just in judges, where I think he and McConnell have been historic in their focus and their discipline, and they have steadily approved, you know, in a way that you could never have imagined.
One out of every four federal judges right now has been nominated by Trump, approved by the Senate, one out of every four, two U.S. Supreme Court justices, just in that one zone.
If you take regulations, they've been repealing seven regulations for every new regulation.
That's being in to decentralize America out of Washington and give the American people a chance uh to actually run their own lives again.
So I I look upon this as one of the most historic presidencies, period, and somebody who is changing America.
And what we're going to decide this fall is a real referendum.
Is this the direction we want to go in?
Creating jobs, reducing government, lowering taxes, standing up for American values and American interests, or do we in fact want to go back to the left uh and then do the kind of things that the left would want us to do?
I I can't imagine a more important or a more decisive election.
What do you make of what happened in Iowa with the Democrats?
Um because I I mean you can't make this up.
Now, by the way, they're the only ones that actually were involved in colluding with Russia and then independently Ukraine with the DNC according to political and a Ukrainian court, um, which is a fascinating uh they they're taking on such breathtaking hypocrisy.
We know what happened with Obamacare.
We're all paying 200% more, 40% of the country has one choice, millions lost their doctors and plans.
Um now that they rigged an election last time against Bernie.
They tried to rig it against Trump.
Now they're now they're gonna try and what rig another primary?
Well, look, if you look and I was just looking at the numbers a while ago, if you look at the way the news media has distorted what happened in Iowa, uh the fact is Bernie came in first in the first round.
The fact is Bernie came in first in the second round.
So if you were just counting votes, which is now what they're reporting, Bernie beat Buda Juck.
But the way they rigged it, and it makes Buddha judge look like he might have tied Bernie or he might be slightly ahead of Bernie.
So he gets a nice little bounce going into New Hampshire.
But the truth is uh Bernie won that, and I think you know the and the truth is I wrote a column this week entitled Bye bye by uh Biden um Hello Bloomberg.
Uh and and I predicted in that in that newsletter, I think there's a very good chance that you're gonna end up seeing uh a genuine open convention uh in Milwaukee.
I agree.
All right, we'll take a break.
Former Speaker of the House, New Kingrich, I want to ask you, um, we have a mutual friend, Rush Limbaugh.
I know how close you've been with him over the years.
Uh your thoughts about what happened at the State of the Union and as he battles and fights back against this cancer uh diagnosis.
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When I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Mayfock from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yeah, that's right.
Locker up.
Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
All right, as we continue, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
Um we have known each other for all these years.
I had the honor of being the MC uh the very of your event the night you became the Speaker of the House.
Um I look at three waves of conservatism in our era, and we have, of course, Reagan, the contract with you, and I would argue now transformational a transformational presidency with Trump.
But one figure has been the leader in this movement in so many ways, and that's our mutual friend Rush.
And you saw what happened the other night.
Well, first of all, of course, I hope all of us will keep rushing our prayers uh very tough when you have stage four.
Um sure it was to you.
Uh and and uh so I think first of all, uh just just his health and his uh survival, uh something all of us uh feel deeply about.
Uh, I thought it was wonderful what the president did the other night.
Uh I thought it was typical of how despicable the Democrats have gotten, uh, that a number of them uh were mean spirited and nasty, uh in a way that there's no reason to be.
Uh, but I thought it was very, very much uh like Trump to realize that here's a here's a moment when he can uh boost the morale of a friend of his, somebody who's been good to him, who he's known for many years uh down in Palm Beach, and and uh I think uh Mario Largo uh I'm sure that uh Trump thought that this would be a morale boost and you know might help him uh survive.
And I think that was a very, very nice gesture, and I thought the way they did it um with uh uh Mrs. Trump putting the medal on right there, and I think you could tell it really emotionally meant a lot to Rush.
There's no doubt about it.
But you know, I I can't imagine, Mr. Speaker, you know, going through these times without his powerful voice.
I mean, and all the years and and you guys are close, and um, we've become close, all of us.
Well, we know that's two things.
Uh Gay Gaines is a dear friend of ours who you know well, she and Stanley.
Many years ago, she had Rush and Bill Ben and me down at the same time.
And we have this great picture of the three of us pretending we're a band.
And uh by the way, gay is a great woman.
She's great.
And so we we go back, that's before Rush even had a place in Florida.
And so, I mean, I I just have spent many years listening to Rush, talking with him.
I would say, in all honesty, in 1994, that he was absolutely involved.
Remember, back then we didn't have Fox News, you were just beginning to emerge, but you weren't yet a national figure, and Rush was clearly the most important single national player from the conservative movement standpoint.
And he did great work that year.
Uh, and I think uh without him we might well not have won.
And certainly without him, conservatives would not have had a reasoned critique of the left, uh, because he was both very funny and very smart simultaneously.
All right, speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich, great to hear from you.
He is in our prayers.
So the good The good news is I I believe in prayer, and I believe our science advancement, the research has come in even in the last five years.
They've made incredible strides, these wonderful people that that worked to heal us.
Um and that's where our hearts are for him.
Uh, Mr. Speaker, thank you.
800-941 Sean, you want to be a part of the program.
Uh all right, the legal aspects.
Now the Republicans, by the way, they said, you know what?
Now we're gonna look into quid pro quo Joe and zero experience hunter.
Greg Jarrett on the legal aspects next.
We've all been through a lot together.
And uh we probably deserve that hand for all of us.
Because uh it's been a very unfair situation.
Uh I invited some of our very good friends, and we have limited room, but everybody wanted to come.
We kept it down to a minimum.
And believe it or not, this is a minimum.
Uh, but a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months.
But really, if you go back to it over the last number of years, we had the witch hunt.
It started from the day we came down the elevator, myself and our future first lady who's with us right now.
And it never really stopped.
Uh, we've been going through this now for over three years.
Uh it was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops.
Uh, it was leakers and liars.
And this should never ever happen to another president ever.
I don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it.
Some people said no, they wouldn't have.
But I can tell you at a minimum, uh, you have to focus on this because it can get away very quickly, no matter who you have with you, it can get away very quickly.
It was a disgrace.
Uh, had I not fired James Comey, who was a disaster, by the way.
Uh, it's possible I wouldn't even be standing here right now.
We caught him in the act.
Dirty cops, bad people.
If this happened to President Obama, a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already, many, many years.
And they're still not in jail, which raises a lot of different issues here.
And I know that there was uh a limited scope and parameters that the inspector general report, which vindicated all of our reporting and our ensemble caste reporting, everything from the espionage act and obstruction of justice and bleach bit and hammers and yeah,
the dirty Russian dossier, unverifiable premeditated fraud on a Pfizer court, bulk of information to take away the civil liberties of Carter Page and spy on a opposition party presidential candidate, their transition team, and deep into the presidency of Donald Trump.
And then two weeks later, yeah, I mean, just two weeks ago, we find out, yeah, the DOJ is acknowledging Pfizer fraud.
This is just the beginning.
Can't wait to get, you know, the difference between Horowitz and Durham and Barr is they're not they're not locked into the confines of the DOJ and FBI for their investigation.
And it has taken them far and wide and across the pond and over to Great Britain and Italy, and a lot of people are here in Australia also being interviewed.
And as they are looking into the origins of the Russia witch hunt, now we have this whole other issue that has emerged.
As the president's been acquitted, well, we have quid pro quo Joe and zero experience hunter.
What are we supposed to let it go?
I don't think so.
Otherwise, we have a dual justice system.
Otherwise, we have it it's it will just reward them for this behavior, weaponizing the tools of intelligence in the Russia case, uh the powerful tools, the one percent, not the 99, or the FBI, you know, corruption at a level that is unimaginable, trying to influence the outcome of an election, protecting one person who should have been indicted, and then turning their sights on, you know, four separate investigations into Trump, and they come up empty, and then they come up with the Ukrainian thing.
Uh Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson sent a letter to the Secret Service Director, James Murray, Wednesday, asking for clarification on whether Hunter Biden used government sponsored travel to help conduct private business.
And by the way, Grassley and Johnson, they chair the Senate Committee on Finance and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
They have requested these records of zero experience Hunter from the State and Treasury Departments.
Anyway, they they're they're asking for a description of the protective detail of that Hunter Biden may have received during his father's time in office.
The day of reckoning is coming for Congressional and Senate oversight of Joe Biden.
Now, the very thing, this is the breathtaking hypocrisy every Democrat, everyone in the mob in the media took on.
You got Joe bragging.
You're not getting the billion unless you fire the prosecutor I know is investigating my zero experienced son who's being paid 83 grand a month, millions and millions of dollars, and he wants to keep getting paid.
Now, our friend Greg Jarrett, and we have pointed this out numerous times, has identified, oh, the foreign corrupt practices act.
Uh that's 15 USC 78.
It is illegal for a person to coerce you're not getting the billion or influence through bribery extortion.
You're not getting the billion unless you fire him.
If you fire him, you get the billion.
A foreign nation into taking action that might financially benefit uh that person or his family.
Hunter, zero experience, or the bribery act, 18 USC 201C.
Whoever corruptly gives offers or promises anything of value to a public official billion dollars to influence an official act, fire the prosecutor, is guilty of bribery.
Think about that.
It fits perfectly.
Then he we've identified the gratuities act.
We've the Hobbes Act.
They're all applicable.
And Greg Jarrett is here to break all that down.
Then we'll get into the Russia issue, but there is some hope now that they're actually going to follow up on this.
I agree, Sean.
And it's not just Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley, but as you point out, Lindsey Graham and Lindsey Graham not only wants to uh get to the bottom of what is obviously an objectively suspicious behavior by Joe Biden and Hunter Biden that merited an investigation, which Trump requested.
Um, but but it's also the whistleblower.
And you know, Senator Graham has said he wants to hold hearings and call the whistleblower, who is not entitled, by the way, to anonymity because he is not a whistleblower under the law.
So says the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice in an 11-page opinion that they issued several months ago.
So, you know, this individual uh does not uh receive identity protection and and it wouldn't apply anyway to members of Congress.
So I think we need to get to the bottom of it.
I think what you're gonna find out is that this was all a setup, that it wasn't just the whistleblower that was involved, but maybe uh Vinman on the National Security Council, uh, and maybe Adam Schiff uh and his staff that colluded, if you will, with uh the whistleblower, who's a faux whistleblower, in order to invent a pretext to impeach the president.
Uh, all of which is true.
So we really do need the congenital liar, the the compromise congenital liar.
What was the contact with the hearsay whistleblower?
Was advice given?
Did they coordinate?
Uh this non-whistleblower hearsay whistleblower, apparently two weeks into the Trump administration, a report saying that he and another Obama holdover were talking about getting rid of Donald Trump.
Um, okay, so they've brought this country to the brink once again, and the president wins again.
I don't know how many more times they'll do it, but Natler is already in Schiff already talking about it.
So the question here is these statutes that you've identified are straightforward.
They're unambiguous.
I'm not an attorney.
I read them, and it seems like they fit perfectly into what Joe Biden bragged about and the money that Hunter Biden uh was paid, and the interview that he gave, admitting he had zero experience, none whatsoever.
Right.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and you identified the specific statute, Basically says that it it is a crime for a an American public official to use his office to confer a benefit uh on a foreign government in exchange for something of value to himself or a family member.
In this case, it would be Hunter Biden.
And you know, Joe Biden bragging on tape is evidence enough to launch an investigation.
I think one of the first people uh that should be uh interviewed would be Victor Shokin, the fired prosecutor, who has already filed a criminal complaint in Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation, alleging that he was the victim of Joe Biden's extortion uh to protect his son.
And so, you know, let's do that.
Well, you know what's funny.
I mean, I I've never spoken to anybody in Ukraine in my life, but I have the best staff on TV, you know because you work with them every day.
And my staff did call Shokin and said, Would you like to go on the Sean Hannity show?
Or I'm sorry, Hannity on TV.
And even that got leaked.
I thought I thought all the leaking uh of let's see, my text messages, the 302s about me.
I thought that was all over, Greg, because you know, I've been shut down, I haven't had social media now for years.
Uh I thought maybe after that was compromised, but apparently not.
Yeah, well, you know, it was Adam Schiff who uh managed to obtain, I I think potentially illegally, and then uh published or leaked uh various individuals' telephone numbers, including Congressman Devin Nunes and others.
Uh I think your name was on the list.
Can I ask a question?
Do I have a lawsuit in any of this, or I'm just stuck as a public figure and I have to take it?
Well, it's a very good question.
It depends on how Adam Schiff had actually obtained it.
Uh and and we don't know the answer to that question because Schiff uh doesn't want to talk about it.
Schiff didn't want to be a witness initially wanted the whistleblower to be a witness, but when it was revealed that Schiff had lied about his contact and coordination or his staff with the whistleblower, he clammed up and then said, and nobody's gonna talk to the whistleblower.
You couldn't even ask a question about the whistleblower as Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee uh found out during the public hearings.
So there's a cover-up involved here, and Adam Schiff is knee deep in it.
Let's go to the new news.
Uh now I've been asking, where's Director Ray?
Uh I don't quite understand if if I represented the greatest law enforcement agency, which I believe the FBI is on the face of this earth, they are this is it.
This is the elite of the elite.
The great ninety-nine percent that do an honest great job to protect us every day, just like the same in the intelligence community.
It's only one percent that's corrupt here.
Um anyway, they he goes before J likes of Jim Jordan and Louis Gomert and grilling him on the FBI's conduct and the lack of response to the Pfizer abuse scandal, and it didn't go well for the FBI director.
And I'm trying to understand why he's not cleaning up the premier law enforcement agency in the entire world.
Because I think he's trying to protect uh the image of the FBI, which has been badly damaged.
You know, if you look very closely at the proposed changes he has offered to fix the FISA abuses, their um their requirements that uh by law the FBI is already uh supposed to be doing, and they haven't been doing.
You know, for too long the FBI has been lying to the FISA court, they've been filing all c kinds of uh FISA applications um with deception and omissions.
These fixes are not fixes at all.
They would allow the FBI to continue to snooker the Pfizer Court.
I I think frankly the FISA court has outlived its usefulness.
We ought to go back, it ought to be, and it comes up for renewal in the next month.
It ought to be eliminated, and we go back to the system where you have to go to a federal judge.
There has to be a hearing.
Uh there can be some advocacy on the other side because uh the FISA doesn't work anymore.
Stay right there.
Greg Jarrettmore on the other side, one of the people featured by the president at the State of the Union uh coming up in just a second.
All right, as we continue, Greg Jarrett is with us, Fox News legal analyst, author of the best-selling books on the deep state.
All right, so what do you expect?
What can we expect from Durham and Barr?
Because the Inspector General, I think, vindicated all of your work, all of my work, all of the work of uh a really dedicated but small team that we have put together.
Um I think there's more coming.
Oh, I agree with you.
Uh and we already got a taste of it when uh on the day the inspector general report came out and said they didn't really find that that the initiation, the launch of the Trump Russia investigation in the summer of 2016 was properly predicated.
Immediately, the attorney general and separately the inspector or the uh U.S. Attorney John Durham both issued statements saying we disagree with that.
So they already have evidence that the FBI broke their own rules and regulations in investigating Donald Trump.
The question is, you know, were these uh criminal acts of corruption uh designed to damage the president and help Hillary Clinton get elected, and when that failed, uh, did they violate their regulations and the law even further uh by lying to the president uh by uh escalating their investigation when they knew there was no evidence.
I think in the end we're gonna find out uh that uh Durham may have a a basis to charge criminally several individuals.
Unbelievable.
Uh great work, and I know you're staying on it.
Greg Jarrett, and I'm again I'm pleading with the FBI director, clean up the world's premier law enforcement agency.
Do it for the sake of the ninety-nine percent of great agents we have that risk their lives to protect us every day.
Just like the ninety-nine percent in the Intel community that don't deserve uh uh in any type of negative comments, considering they're risking their lives, and we're entrusting them with the most powerful tools of intelligence.
Uh 800-941 Sean, toll-free telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program.
News roundup information overload.
When we come back, Jody Jones, a guest at the State of the Union of the President, talking about the experience uh of the president's leadership, his brother Rocky, who was taken way too soon from the world next.
Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
In December 2018, California police detained an illegal alien with five prior arrests, including convictions for robbery and assault.
But as required by California's sanctuary law, local authorities released him.
Days later, the criminal alien went on a gruesome spring of deadly violence.
He viciously shot one man going about his daily work.
He approached a woman sitting in her car and shot her in the arm and in the chest.
He walked into a convenience store and wildly fired his weapon.
He hijacked a truck and smashed into vehicles, critically injuring innocent victims.
One of the victims is a terrible, terrible situation.
Died 51-year-old American named Rocky Jones.
Rocky was at a guest station when this vile criminal fired eight bullets at him from close range, murdering him in cold blood.
Rocky left behind a devoted family, including his brothers, who loved him more than anything else in the world.
One of his grieving brothers is here with us tonight.
Jody, would you please stand?
Jody, thank you.
Jody, our hearts weep for your loss, and we will not rest until you have justice.
That was the president at the State of the Union address a very powerful moment, uh, talking about Rocky Jones.
Uh Jody Jones is from California on December 17th, 2018.
Jody's brother Rocky shot and killed by an illegal immigrant in California.
The criminal alien had committed this brutal murder, had previously been arrested for violent crimes and had twice been deported.
This same person was arrested in December of 2018 for the sixth time, but because of California's sanctuary state policy, he was released from jail.
What did he do a few days later?
He went on a twenty-four hour reign of terror and injuring several people, robbing a gas station, leading law enforcement on a high speed chase, and killing fifty one year old Rocky, who was known as a kind, gentle, wonderful human being.
Rocky leaves behind a precious daughter and four brothers.
Jody Jones is with us today.
And this is his brother we're talking about.
Jody, first I want to say on behalf of my audience, I know I speak for everybody.
I'm so sorry.
I I uh I uh the uh uh your country let you down.
The state let you down.
They had every indication.
This never should have happened.
And it's happening.
And you're not the only family.
And I've met many others.
I agree with you, and thank you very much.
It means a lot to us.
Um yeah, there's a big problem uh that's going on right now in our country, and it's uh I think President Trump is uh uh doing a great job in uh trying to address the issue uh with um uh holding uh these lawmakers accountable uh because right now what's going on is they could really write anything they want and um never be held accountable.
Um and it's really breaking our communities down because a lot of these new laws is coming out, is um they're protecting the criminals.
And and when you start protecting the criminals, you stop protecting the the communities and the good law abiding citizens of this great nation.
And when is it not enough?
How many people are gonna have to die before somebody before it stops falling on deaf ears and somebody says, okay, enough enough, you know, let's start doing the right thing.
Well, I I I I don't I don't I don't even know this is such a fundamental thing to me.
Uh Jody, it really is.
Okay, you didn't respect our laws, our borders, our sovereignty.
You come into the country and and I know many people come in because they only want a better life for their families and they're law abiding.
I get that.
But we don't know if we don't control our borders, we don't know.
Um I'd like to have the opportunity to vet people, but here more importantly, then you commit violent not just a crime, violent crimes, and we let you out.
And then you kill more Americans.
That is it is it is unforgivable to me.
At this point, we have to admit uh a very hard truth is that they the government in these states are are they they are partly responsible for this.
Yes.
Absolutely, we agree with you, and our family agrees you 100%.
Um we were definitely let down.
And if and if we can do anything that in our power to prevent this to happen in the future, that is why we're doing all this.
Um, you know, the president was gracious enough to invite our family to Washington, DC, uh, to honor our brother.
And um in the State of the Union when he mentioned my brother, and he was honoring my brother when everybody was clapping, you know, the certain people that didn't stand.
You know, I I I want to address that if I could, please.
Uh there's the you know, again, I don't care how much you like somebody or not, uh something like this should be a bipartisan issue.
It should be about protecting um the citizens of the United States.
And right now, right now that's not happening.
We're not it is not that is the fundamental number one role is we've got to protect the people of this country.
T look uh tell us about your brother.
Tell us about Rocky.
I I will first I want to say this.
Uh it's not about it uh immigrants, it's about illegal immigration, and it's about the criminal element in that.
It's not about immigration, it's about the illegal immigration.
Now I want to tell you about my brother.
My brother was the was a general soldier we'll ever ever meet.
He was our big brother, he was our best friend, and he left a a daughter that is a wonderful young lady, and she is going through a lot of hard times right now.
But um How old is she?
Uh she's 26.
Cheyenne Jones.
And um uh But it's really really hard for her right now.
Jody, take your time.
Is there anything we can do to help?
I'd love to help.
Um well here's the thing, and we're fighting two two two battlegrounds here.
Um one is the sanctuary laws, SB fifty four.
President Trump is doing a fantastic job there.
Uh when he he's introducing the new you know, he he's trying to get it to where uh people are held accountable.
And and we hear this all the time.
You're not above the law.
Well, our lawmakers are above the above the law right now because they could do anything they want, they could write anything they want to and make it in law and and never be held accountable.
And right now the stuff they're writing is not protecting the citizens of this great nation.
That it is not happening.
We got the other battleground that we're fighting is um th the the this man went in and and it's Walmart and stole three hundred rounds of ammunition with without no it was it was easy for him to just walk in, take it, and he walked out.
To me, being who I am, knowing what I do, if somebody can easily walk into a place like Walmart and being able to take three hundred rounds of ammunition and walk it out without anybody knowing, and then starting a reign of terror immediately after he steals that there's something wrong there.
Something wrong.
I don't know.
Tell me more about your brother and his family and his kids.
My brother, he was uh, like I said, he was the he was the oldest of five boys.
Um he only had one child, and that was Cheyenne, and uh they're really close, and that's why she is she's tore up.
It's it's hard for her to to do anything really.
Um he um he was always there for her, you know.
She really don't have anybody now but us.
I mean, it's never it's it's not the same when you don't have your dad.
Um but it's it's it's a shame, Mr. Hannity, what's going on right now.
Um but you know I'm sorry, sir, I'm getting a little joked up here.
I understand.
Everybody understands.
Um my brother was was was was probably the nicest man that you would ever meet.
I I wanna help any way I can.
I know our audience will help, but I gotta tell you, the most fundamental thing that we have to start with is we gotta we gotta stop the government from allowing this to happen.
We've gotta stop them from what they're aiding and abetting criminals, violent criminals in many cases now.
Yes, and we don't understand how that's happening.
We don't understand how that is even possible.
I don't either.
That's against the law for somebody coming to this nation.
It's against the law to aid and abet.
Do it the right way.
You know, in the state of New York where I am there's no bail.
You get you go in, you commit the worst crime and you don't get any bail.
You go you they let you go.
Uh in California, we have it too.
We have the bill reform, so you know, depending on what crime it is, uh most of the criminals are just getting out uh without bail, and they're committing other crimes.
So again, again, this is where I go back to.
These lawmakers are writing these laws, and there's no accountability for them.
Because they won't do their job.
That's why.
They won't do their job.
They're not protecting the the citizens of this great nation, this great country.
And and and I would like to say this too.
We are living in the best country on this planet.
My family are proud to be Americans.
Myself, all my family, we are proud to be Americans.
And what we want is we want our government to start protecting their citizens.
Well, I just want you to and and I'll tell you, I'll tell you what.
We know President Trump is doing his best.
He is uh listen, remember, he he couldn't get them to sign off on border wall money.
So what did he do?
He found he followed the path of Obama.
He was able to reallocate unused funds from the defense department.
Now he finally got the money.
We have a hundred miles of new wall and many more miles repaired, and they'll have four hundred we expect by the end of the year.
Um I will tell you, you know, he but he's it's a heavy lift in the second term of Obama, Democrats sounded like Trump.
And where the sanctuary city mentality came from, I don't know.
Because that to me is we don't either.
If I did that, I would go to jail.
If I help someone commit a crime, I'd go to jail.
I think most conservatives would go to jail.
We wouldn't even think of it.
We we're law abiding, tax paying, you know, we're good people.
I know we're smelly Walmart shoppers and an irredeemable deplorables, but seriously.
I don't even I I am so the pain your family experienced was preventable.
It didn't have to happen.
Anybody else to go through this.
And that's why we're trying to fight this fight with President Trump.
Well, I want to just say anything we could ever do, any bill you're fighting for, anything we could do for Rocky's daughter, anything you need.
I know I want to help personally, and I know my audience would like to help.
In the meantime, we're praying for all of you.
And we support you in your effort and your courage that you have to to change these laws.
We want uh we want to stand with you and your family.
Because we like you, thank you.
No other family should have to go through this again.
No family in America should ever have to deal with another instance like this.
You're absolutely right.
Absolutely right.
And if there's anything that we can do, if if nothing changes, it's not because we're not trying to fight for it.
That's gonna be a fact.
Jody Jones, God bless you and your family.
Please tell Rocky's daughter, we're all praying for her, we're pulling for her.
If I could ever do anything to help her, I'm I'll just call me.
I'll do whatever I can do.
Okay.
Thank you, sir.
God bless you, and God bless America.
Thank you.
So he can say whatever he wants.
He can say whatever he wants, but I do pray for him, and I do so sincerely and without anguish.
Gently, that's the way I pray for everybody else.
Uh uh thought what he said about he said about Senator Romney was particularly without class.
What do you say?
There's some people who use faith as an excuse to do the wrong things.
You remember what he said about Romney?
You got that there.
What it's so inappropriate at a prayer breakfast.
You want to go to the prayer breakfast, prayer in the school, vouchers, uh, women's right to choose, all those things that that's a life audience for.
God bless you.
That's it's a prayer breakfast, and that's something about faith.
You know, it may not be something I agree with, but it's appropriate.
But to go into the stock market and raising up his acquittal thing and mischaracterizing uh other people's motivation, he's talking about things that he knows little about fate and prayer.
You often counsel your members to be dignified in their responses with the high ground.
Did you step on that message by tearing up?
No, I did not.
No, it did not.
I tore up a manifesto of mistruth.
It's very hard for us to get you to talk about the issues that we are working on.
Uh HR three, infrastructure, and the rest.
He misrepresented all of that is necessary to get the attention of the American people to say this is not true, and this is how it affects you.
And I don't need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the United States about dignity.
Dignity.
Is it okay to start saying four more years in the House of Representatives?
It's just unheard of.
Yeah, Nancy Pelosi now.
Oh, she's gonna lecture us on on decorum.
I mean, it's it really the the breathtaking hypocrisy, the double standard, everything in between is unbelievable.
Uh and oh, yeah, she tore it up.
It's a manifesto of mistruth.
Uh your side has been lying for three years.
And proven liars.
All right, 25 now to the top of the hour.
We'll get to some calls coming up this half hour.
So the president had two appearances today, one at the national prayer breakfast.
I mean, he was on a roll of times funny, but also dealing with what is significantly serious.
The three years of never-ending, nonstop, endless conspiracy theories, lies, smears, besmirchment, attacks.
To destroy him.
Here's the president, and he spoke later at the White House with a group of supporters, many of them, at times very funny.
At other times very serious.
Because it is.
Listen.
Weeks ago and again yesterday, courageous Republican politicians and leaders had the wisdom, fortitude, and strength to do what everyone knows was right.
I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong.
Nor do I like people who say, I pray for you, when they know that that's not so.
So many people have been hurt, and we can't let that go on.
And I'll be discussing that a little bit later at the White House.
In December 2018, California police detained an illegal alien with five prior arrests, including convictions for robbery and assault.
But as required by California's sanctuary law, local authorities released him.
Days later, the criminal alien went on a gruesome spring of deadly violence.
he viciously shot one man going about his daily work he approached a woman sitting in her car and shot her in the arm and in the chest he walked into a convenience store and wildly fired his weapon He hijacked a truck and smashed into vehicles, critically injuring innocent victims.
One of the victims is a terrible, terrible situation.
Died 51-year-old American named Rocky Jones.
Rocky was at a gas station when this vile criminal fired eight bullets at him from close range, murdering him in cold blood.
Rocky left behind a devoted family, including his brothers, who loved him more than anything else in the world.
One of his grieving brothers is here with us tonight.
Jody, would you please stand?
Jody, thank you.
Jody, our hearts weep for your loss, and we will not rest until you have justice.
We've all been through a lot together.
And uh we probably deserve that hand for all of us because uh it's been a very unfair situation.
Uh I invited some of our very good friends, and we have limited room, but everybody wanted to come.
We kept it down to a minimum, and believe it or not, this is a minimum.
Uh but a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months.
But really, if you go back to it over the last number of years, we had the witch hunt.
It started from the day we came down the elevator, myself and our future First Lady who's with us right now, and it never really stopped.
Uh, we've been going through this now for over three years.
Uh, it was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops.
Uh, it was leakers and liars.
And this should never ever happen to another president, ever.
I don't know that other presidents would have been able to take it.
Some people said no, they wouldn't have.
But I can tell you at a minimum, uh, you have to focus on this because it can get away very quickly, no matter who you have with you, it can get away very quickly.
It was a disgrace.
Uh, had I not fired James Comey, who was a disaster, by the way.
Uh, it's possible I wouldn't even be standing here right now.
We caught him in the act.
Dirty cops, bad people.
If this happened to President Obama, a lot of people would have been in jail for a long time already, many, many years.
And this is really not a news conference, it's not a speech.
It's not anything.
It's just we're sort of uh it's a celebration because we have uh something that just worked out.
I mean, it worked out.
We went through hell unfairly, Did nothing wrong.
Did nothing wrong.
I've done things wrong in my life, I will admit.
Not purposely, but I've done things wrong.
But this is what the end result is.
Thank you.
You can take that home, honey.
Maybe we'll frame it.
It's the only good headline I've ever had in the Washington post.
But every paper is the same.
Does anybody have those papers?
Does anybody have them?
Because they're really uh like that, so I appreciate that.
Uh but some of the people here have been incredible warriors, they're warriors.
And there's nothing from a legal standpoint, this is a political thing.
And every time I'd say this is unfair, let's go to court, they say, sir, you can't go to court.
This is politics.
And we were treated unbelievably unfairly.
And you have to understand, uh, we first went through Russia, Russia, Russia.
It was all.
We then went through the Mueller report.
And they should have come back one day later.
They didn't.
They came back two years later, after lives were ruined, after people went bankrupt, after people lost all their money.
You see, we thought after the election it would stop, but it didn't stop.
It just started.
And tremendous corruption.
Tremendous corruption.
So we had a campaign, little did we know we were running against some very, very bad and evil people with fake dossiers, with all of these horrible, dirty cops that took these dossiers and did bad things.
They knew all about it.
The Pfizer courts should be ashamed of themselves.
It's a very tough thing.
And then we ended up winning on Russia, Russia, Russia.
It should have taken the one day, as I said, and it took years.
Then Bob Mueller testified.
That didn't work out so well for the other side.
And you know, I wrote this down because that was where a thing called the insurance policy to me, when I saw the insurance policy, and that was done long before the election.
That was done when they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win.
And by the way, Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid for millions of dollars.
Millions of dollars, the fake dossier.
And now Christopher Steele admits that it's a fake because he got sued by rich people.
I should have sued him too, but when you're president, people don't like suing.
I want to thank my legal team, by the way, not for that advice, but for other advice.
You know, I had some that said, oh, I wish you didn't make the call.
That's OK if they need that.
It's incorrect.
It's totally incorrect.
And then you have some that used religion as a crutch.
They never used it before.
An article written today.
Never heard him use it before.
But today, you know, it's one of those things.
But you know, it's a failed presidential candidate, so things can happen when you fail so badly running for president.
And who actually was deceived to an extent.
Comes from a great state, Utah, where my poll numbers have gone through the roof, and one of the senators poll numbers and not this one went down big.
You saw that?
You saw that, Mike?
But Mike Lee is a brilliant guy.
He's difficult.
And right at the beginning, he knew we were right, Mike.
And I appreciate it very much.
You're just fantastic.
And say hello to the people of Utah and tell them I'm sorry about Mitt Romney.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Think of what we could have done if we had the same genius, because it's genius.
I will say it's genius on the other side.
Maybe even more so.
Because they took nothing and brought me to a final vote of impeachment.
That's a very ugly word to me.
It's a very dark word, very ugly.
They took nothing.
They took a phone call that was a totally appropriate call.
I call it a perfect call because it was.
And they brought me to the final stages of impeachment.
But now we have that gorgeous word.
I never thought a word would sound so good.
It's called total acquittal.
Total acquittal.
I have to start with Kevin.
Man, did you do a job?
Lucky you're there.
Lucky you're there.
Because it wouldn't have worked out.
If you don't have the right people, I'd tell you Kevin McCarthy has done an incredible job.
And he loves his job and he loves his country.
Now Mitch wouldn't even tell you he liked it.
Say, Mitch, do you like it?
I don't know.
She's the greatest poker player, right?
Kevin will say, I love it.
Right.
And I will say that uh you're going to be Speaker of the House because of this impeachment hope.
I really believe it.
I really believe it.
And I'm gonna work hard on it.
I've always said they're lousy politicians, but they do two things.
They're vicious and mean, vicious.
These people are vicious.
Adam Schiff is a vicious, horrible person.
Nancy Pelosi is a horrible person.
And she wanted to impeach a long time ago.
And she said, I pray for the president.
I pray for the president.
She doesn't pray.
She may pray, but she prays for the opposite.
But I doubt she prays it all.
Pretty powerful moments today.
I know many of you missed it.
Well, full coverage of this tonight on Hannity.
Um, let's go to Donna in Maryland.
Donna, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
It's such a pleasure to speak with you again.
I know it's been a while, and thank you for doing the heavy lifting on behalf of our nation and independent conservative media.
Uh the truth has no agenda, and President Trump has definitely reminded us of that because he's told the truth all along.
He's vindicated by way of the acquittal.
It was an amazing 48 hours for us.
And I want to appeal to Democrats that are sitting on the sidelines who love America to walk away from the Democrat Party.
It's it's over for these swamp dwellers.
It's it's time for us to really think about people that are questionable, maybe even Christopher Ray, Rhino Romney.
Uh, you know, we've got to get real about this stuff.
We have to keep America great, and I can't wait for equal justice under our laws.
Well, I hope it happens.
It can't happen soon enough.
I'll put it that way.
Anyway, thank you, Donna.
We appreciate it.
Rob is in North Carolina next on the Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Rob?
How are you?
Not much, Sean.
I'm doing well, and thanks for having me on the show today.
Thank you for being with us.
Glad you called.
These Democrats are amazing to me.
You know, they first want to nullify the votes of 63 million people.
And over the past three years they've been trying to do that.
And now, just this week, now we'll go to the caucus chaos.
They want to now nullify the votes of their own party.
Those that voted in the caucuses, they're not pleased with those results either.
And it's just amazing to me that if those elitist establishment Democrats don't get their way, they will do anything by any means to nullify votes of the citizens of this country, no matter what party.
Well, I will say this.
And I I I maybe I'm getting repetitive, and we're going to be looking at you first, you know, in 271 days.
You know that, right?
We'll be watching North Carolina uh because you're gonna come up first, and that'll be a big indication how the night's gonna go, I think.
Uh so we're counting on North Carolina, but you know, I wish I could say with certainty that I know it's gonna happen and what's gonna be announced in 271 days or 272, depending, you know, if it's late into the next morning.
But I will tell you, there's a lot at stake here now.
This is not a game.
This is this is about our country, our constitution, about the rule of law, and it's about future generations.
So that part I'm as serious as the president in this.
Um Rob, thank you.
And by the way, thanks to all of you in this audience for what you do every day.
What do I always say?
We're all spokes in a wheel.
You know, and and okay, maybe you're so busy, but just vote.
And if you need how to register and all that stuff, we put it up informationally on Hannity.com.
Um you can help your candidates.
I'd urge you to get involved.
You You know what?
You'll be you'll you'll get a sense of satisfaction.
And uh, and we're gonna do our our thing here and on TV every night, thanks to all of you giving me this mic and that camera every day.
I don't take it for granted.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
All right, full coverage tonight uh as it relates to the madness in the Democratic Party.
They want to keep going.
That's how sick this has gotten.
Uh, we still don't have a hundred percent of the Iowa caucuses in.
So we have a shift show there.
Uh we'll have Carl Rove in the Whiteboard.
Where do we stand?
271 days out.
Senator Blackburn of Tennessee, Steve Scalise, Senator John Kennedy, Gates, uh, Bangino, Roe, Piero, Geraldo.
We got loaded up.
Nine Eastern Hannity tonight.
We'll see you then.
We'll be back here tomorrow with only 270 days to go till you shock the world.
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