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All right, glad you're with us.
What a busy newsday we have today.
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Crowds massive now forming in Louisville, Kentucky, as the grand jury has made its decision uh regarding the three officers involved in the case of Brianna Taylor.
We'll go through every bit of specificity involving that.
Wow, what a blockbuster interim report by Senators Ron Johnson and Senator Charles Grassley as it relates to Hunter Biden.
It's much bigger than we ever thought.
Ukraine, Russia, China, and other countries as well, including specific individuals from these countries.
We're going to break down their their report.
It is devastating to zero experience hunter, more money than we even imagined.
We have an update on the Supreme Court.
We've got a lot of people joining us today.
Ted Cruz, Bill O'Reilly, John Solomon, Greg Jarr Peters Feitzer, you know, first broke the whole story of Barisma and Secret Empires and China and all these other deals.
And it's just a lot to get to.
Let me first go to the grand jury decision.
Three now, let me, well, first let me go through the facts of the case and bring you up to speed in case you don't know.
Um this is a tragedy through and through.
What you have is a person who would be considered in every way imaginable when we say you're a great American, you know, the people of this country make this country great.
That would that defines the life of Brianna Taylor.
Somebody was an EMT, somebody who who stated whose stated purpose was that she wanted to serve her fellow men and women, obviously.
She wanted to serve people.
It was her calling to save lives, working not one but two full-time jobs.
Um it was a case where police had a no-knock warrant.
They had the wrong address.
This makes my blood boil.
This part of the story.
Because I've still not gotten an answer.
Even all throughout today, as we've been watching, you know, a lot going on.
We have not gotten any.
Well, why did they have the wrong address?
No, a no-knock warrant means, okay, cops pull up to the door, they they bang down the door, they rushed in, and the idea is that it might be a dangerous situation.
They'll go in with their guns drawn.
That's part of what police work is.
It's a fairly normal procedure.
But you gotta get the right address.
I mean, I and I'm yet to hear who sent them to the wrong address.
I don't understand it.
Um so then from there, Breonna Taylor's boyfriend is wakes up out of a deep sleep.
And then Breonna Taylor woke up.
They think that they didn't break any laws.
They didn't know it was cops.
Now there was one, according to the DA who spoke later.
There was one fact that came out that there was a a civilian witness that said that they heard loudly the cops identify themselves.
That just came out today.
Um, but I'm trying to give you the whole objective picture here, just what the facts are.
So there's a legal firearm that Brianna Taylor boyfriend has, thinks people broke into his house.
Apparently doesn't know in his mind, then has said since he didn't know it was the police.
He didn't break any laws.
He's not a drug dealer.
That this, you know, um, you know, no knock warrant that they had did not include uh, you know, they thought it was gonna be a drug case.
There were no drugs in this apartment.
They were in the wrong address.
We now know that as a fact.
Uh then one of the officers is shot.
Gunfire, you know, it it ensues thereafter.
Um Brianna Taylor is struck eight times.
She was in the bedroom.
Eight times.
She dies.
Uh, he survived, the boyfriend.
The cop was survived as well.
And this is about six months ago.
Now a civil settlement has taken place in this case, meaning that the city paid out, the city of Louisville, I think it was 12, 13, 14 million dollars.
I don't remember the exact figure off the top of my head.
And the grand jury was convened.
Now the DA of um uh came out earlier today and explained that they told all of the grand jury.
Remember it in grand jury case that doesn't not mean you're guilty.
It means that the grand jury is is deciding whether to charge the officers in this case.
And they went through all of the possible charges for the officers involved in the case.
For example, you know, when and if a grand jury considers their fate, it has an option of indict on any of four degrees of homicide, from reckless homicide to murder.
The twelve grand jurors were told all these options.
They were told they can also consider the charge of wanton endangerment, deciding that one or more of the officers knowingly acted in a way that created a substantial danger of death or serious physical injury to another.
Now the panel also could elect to return no indictment at all.
Apparently, for the other two officers, that was their decision.
The attorney general Daniel Cameron could choose not to present the case to the grand jury, make the decision himself.
But anyway, they brought it to a grand jury.
Uh by Kentucky law, the votes of nine of twelve grand jurors are required to return an indictment.
I'm just giving you the background, giving you the law here, so you understand.
Now the four criminal homicide options that were presented to the grand jury are murder, and that would include sentencing options, including the death penalty or life without parole, or life with parole eligibility in 25 years or 20 to 50 years in an in a capital offense.
Uh that would be another one of the four murder options, charge options would be manslaughter in the first degree.
That penalty, Class B felony, ten to twenty years, and that would be a person is guilty of first degree manslaughter when with intent to cause serious physical injury to another person, he causes the death of such person or third person and does so under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance.
Uh the third option, again, this would be the four criminal homicide offenses of murder, would be manslaughter in the second degree, a class C felony, which is which carries a penalty of five to ten years.
And that would be a person is guilty of manslaughter second degree when he wantonly causes the death of another person, including but not limited to the death resulting from the operation of a motor vehicle.
The last one would be in this category, reckless homicide, and that would be one to five years, class D felony.
Person is guilty of reckless homicide when they recklessly cause the death of another person, and recklessness is the key element involved in the crime, acting, uh someone acting reckless when the person fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that should have been apparent.
Now remember, the cops, the cops, no knock warrant, knock down the door.
Brianna Taylor's boyfriend didn't break any laws.
They're in the wrong apartment.
He has a legal firearm.
He thinks he's, you know, somebody's in there to kill him and his girlfriend.
Boom, he pulled out his legal weapon and shot, hit the cops.
Cops fire back.
Brianna Taylor struck eight times.
She is sadly dead.
It is it breaks it's got to break your heart.
She defines what it means to be a great American in every way.
And and her life is is amazing, actually.
Her own words are amazing.
Um so now the other charges now go to a different degree, and that there are two wanton endangerment charges in Kentucky.
One, wanton endangerment in the first degree, one of five years, class D felony, a person guilty of wanton in endangerment in the first degree under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.
He wantedly engages in conduct uh which creates a substantial danger of death or serious physical injury to another person.
The next category would be a wanton endangerment in the second degree.
Let's go to the reading of the charges from earlier today, this earlier this afternoon.
The above named defendant, Brett Hengison committed the offense of wanton endangerment in the first degree when, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he wantonly shot a gun, a gun, excuse me, into the apartment occupied by initials C E. Count two.
On or about March 13th, 2020, in Jefferson County, Kentucky, the above named defendant, Brett Hankison, committed the offense of wanton endangerment in the first degree.
When, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he wantonly shot a gun into the apartment occupied by initials CN Count three, wanton endangerment in the first degree.
On or about March 13th, 2020, the Jefferson County in Jefferson County, Kentucky, the above-named defendant, Brett Hankison committed the offense of wanton endangerment in the first degree when, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he wantonly shot a gun into an apartment occupied by initials Z F against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Mr. Fourperson, is that the decision of the grand jury?
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
So that is the decision that was handed down today in this particular case.
Now we have been watching minute by minute now these crowds growing in Louisville.
It's getting scary.
Many, I have seen many people.
I've seen people with baseball bats.
I've seen people with long rifles.
Uh the crowd is getting bigger.
Uh out come the bullhorns.
I've seen a lot of that, a lot of restlessness.
And there is a curfew that is supposed to go into effect at 9 p.m. Eastern tonight in Louisville.
And to the best of his ability, the attorney general, you know, laid out, you know, everything before the grand jury.
That is our legal system.
Is it perfect?
No, but I can't think of a better one.
Our legal system frustrates the living hell out of me.
I believe we have a dual justice system in so many ways.
I think one of the biggest successes of Donald Trump has been to end disparate sentencing with criminal justice reform.
Because there was disparate sentencing.
You know, as it relates to, you know, all right, well, you have cocaine in a powder and cocaine in a rock.
It's still cocaine.
And okay, maybe one's more highly addictive.
I don't, I just don't, I'm not in the drug culture.
I don't understand all the I just know it's it's dangerous and it'll kill you if you get in that world.
Um, and but there was there was disparities that have now been rectified.
And president will never get the credit for that.
The other thing that we've gotta understand here is that, you know, there are a lot of people have weighed in on this case.
I always maintain my I don't rush to judgment.
I I I don't, I believe in due process.
I believe in a presumption of innocence.
I believe the facts have to be presented.
And if you can't get nine of twelve in a grand jury where only one side of a case is presented.
The police the defense does not mount their case.
This is only the prosecution.
What maybe people's expectations have been in this case are blown out of proportion.
We saw that in Ferguson.
We saw that in Baltimore.
We've seen that all the time.
The politicians race out there, you know, politicize something, they don't know anything about it.
So same with the media mob.
And what I've learned, and I've told the story many times about the Richard Jewell case, why we were right about that and write about Ferguson and write about UVA and write about Baltimore and write about Duke La Cross and write about all these cases when everyone else is wrong.
Because I don't rush the judgment.
The grand jury heard every detail of this.
This is what they they nine of twelve at least decided.
If you couldn't get them, now they were presented with all the other options.
Now the question is, do you have faith in that system?
Many do not.
That's fair.
You're allowed to make up your own mind in America.
But that's the process as was explained.
Uh Leo Tarot, by the way, I think the perfect guess for this.
He says civil rights attorney, sued cops a million times in his career for abuse, and uh, I'm dying to get his take on it.
We have Ted Cruz today, Bill O'Reilly today.
This blockbuster from Barismo, the latest on the Supreme Court, uh, and I'm in the swamp.
Hey there.
I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional SAS.
You're our kind of people.
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So I just noticed this on uh Google that I and it does give it's called Why Were Police at Brianna Taylor's Home.
And there is an investigative summary, and what it says is the following is that Brianna's ex-boyfriend, ex-boyfriend now, uh Jamarcus Glover Glover was a known quote drug dealer and listed Brianna's address as his own.
And the warrant cited five pieces of information establishing what the police said were probable cause, Mr. Glover's car making repeated trips uh between the trap, what they call trap house, and Miss Uh Taylor's home, and her car's appearance in front of this other I don't want to give the address on other occasions.
Surveillance footage of him leaving the apartment with a package in mid-January, postal inspector's confirmation.
Mr. Glover used her address to receive the parcels and database searches indicating that as of late February, he listed her apartment as her home.
Um it just I I just look at her life and look at the postings and what I've seen.
But anyway, so there was misinformation shared on social media suggesting the officers showed up at the house, and that the search warrant had been signed by the circuit court judge um with her address, but this Google.com piece uh said that Breonna Taylor was not the main target of the of the narcotics investigation,
which initially centered around other individuals accused of selling drugs, and then the report's author, which was a detective in this case, um, who secured the warrant uh for the this home and four suspected drug houses.
So it was about I mean it was a no-knock warrant, is what they call it.
Um what does it say?
Abolition now.
More people with guns.
Yeah, I guess that's defund the police.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back.
More breaking news straight ahead.
Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
25 now till the top of the hour.
We're in the swamp.
We're in DC.
Uh, let me go back to this USA Today page.
I had not seen it originally, and I, you know, we were digging deep, digging deep.
I don't know why I buried it at the bottom of my pile today.
Um anyway, so there was the headline is why were police at Breonna Taylor's home.
Here's what the investigative summary says.
All right, so I missed this part of it.
I apologize.
I want to get sure I get make sure I get this right.
And why, in other words, why did the police have the search warrant for the address?
I got that part wrong.
We always like to correct things, and we do it in a very spectacular fashion, unlike the mob in the media, because we did we always want to get it right.
Um, anyway, so police had the search warrant.
It was signed by a circuit court judge, and it was the right address.
Let me just clarify that point.
I I stand corrected.
Um now, the eight-page report reinforced that Taylor was not.
She was not the target of a narcotics investigation, which initially centered around other individuals accused of selling drugs.
The report's author, uh a detective in this case, secured the March 12th warrant for Taylor's home and four suspected drug houses.
We know what it's like in drug houses.
Okay.
So then it showed that the police in Louisville, the new place-based investigation squad spent about two and a half months conducting heavy surveillance.
Now, what's surveillance, I'm sure comes with that videos and and pictures, et cetera, et cetera.
Then Taylor was linked to the suspects in that investigation, according to the report, because a car registered in her name stopped in early January at one of the properties being watched.
Moreover, it stated that Jamarcus Glover, a convicted drug dealer and a former boyfriend had picked up a package at her home January 16th, while police were watching him.
And it was Mattingley, the officer who shot at Taylor's apartment, who asked the Postal Service whether Glover was receiving packages at Taylor's apartment.
And they wrote in that sworn affidavit for a search warrant that he had verified through the postal worker that Glover was receiving packages at Taylor's home through a postal inspector from Louisville.
Um and then the postal inspector later t told the a news station that that wasn't true.
And then Glover listed Taylor's home on his address on a Chase Bank account and a search warrant for the account was executed on March 19th, six days after the death.
Glover listed Taylor's phone number as his when he filed a complaint against a police officer for a parking violation.
It just gets it gets complicated.
All of this, and that was the piece I was missing, and I apologize.
But everything else, you know, this was this was now all put together.
This is now how we ended up.
Now, this was all presented before the grand jury.
Every charge option was presented before the grand jury.
And that is what they said.
By the way, let's go.
Apparently, the president is speaking about the Supreme Court.
Let's dip in and listen.
Oh, he could do it very easily.
He can very quickly, from what I heard, he doesn't even have to hold a hearing.
He wouldn't have to hold a hearing.
He's going to, I would think.
But but he wouldn't even actually have to hold one.
And you know, most of these people are young and they just went through the process.
You know, many of them just went through the process recently.
So it's not like, gee, let's look at papers that are 15 years old.
No, I think the process is going to go very quickly.
Uh the hearing, I think Lindsay's going to call the date of the hearing is soon.
You can't call it until you have the candidate.
And once we have the uh the nominee, I will you know, I I will wait to hear what the date is, but from that point I would think would be fairly quick.
Uh they're all extraordinary people.
I can't imagine it could be anything else.
And and the Republicans, I mean, you saw them as well as the Republicans, most of them have already made their intentions very clear.
Even Josh.
So I think that uh that's a tough vote right now.
So I think I think we're in great shape.
But let me ask you that question, Josh.
Uh John's asking a question about uh timing and all that.
We have we have nothing but time.
Yes, John, I think I think absolutely we can't get it done.
We could do it uh even with a full compliment of hearings.
I think that you know, judge the president just alluded to Justice Stevens was confirmed in 19 days.
Justice Ginsberg was confirmed in about 40 days.
Uh we've got the time to do it, we've got the wherewithal to do it.
And um, I think we should have a vote before the election for the reasons the president articulates.
And uh, I think we can get it done and we will.
Mr. President, do you believe that justice was served in a Taylor case in Kentucky?
And what is your message to the black community who believed that perhaps justice was not served by the decision that was membered by the grand jury in Kentucky?
Well, my message is that I love the black community, and I've done more for the black community than any other president.
And I say uh, with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln, and I mean that with uh opportunity zones and with uh criminal justice reform with uh prison reform with what we've done for historically black universities, colleges, uh, schools, what we've done.
It's uh nobody's done more.
Abraham Lincoln, let's give him the nod.
But beyond that, nobody's done more.
I love the black community.
Uh, I don't know enough about it.
I heard a decision was just made.
Uh, we've been together here, and so we haven't discussed it.
But after I see what the decision is, I will have a comment on it.
Okay.
Thank you all very much.
Thank you very much.
Pretty true to the headline that we mentioned about 50 minutes ago by way of course.
President, uh, speaking about the Supreme Court.
Democrats now.
Looks like Biden isn't the only top Democrat who may not be able to handle the job.
Um, apparently Democrats are fearing that Senator Diane Feinstein, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is not up to the task of leading the party's efforts to stop Senate Republicans from confirming uh President Trump's Supreme Court choice.
Well, this has happened 29 times.
I how many times I have to repeat this?
Twenty-nine times in election years, there have been vacancies on the Supreme Court.
All 29 times presidents have nominated replacements for the Supreme Court.
Now, we got lectured often by Obama and Biden that elections have consequences.
Well, they can come, but they gotta hang out in the back.
I remember once famously Barack Obama said, Okay, well, we won, in other words, you lost.
Well, Democrats, they lost the presidency and they lost the Senate.
Now, 17 of 19 times when it was the same party in the White House, same party in the majority in the Senate, 17 and 19 of those justices were confirmed in presidential election years.
In years in which the party in the White House uh was different than the majority party in the Senate.
Only one in ten justices were confirmed.
Hence uh Garland in 2016, Merrick Garland.
Um, and in that case, they just said, no, we're not doing it.
You know, our our job is advice and consent.
No, we don't approve of your decision.
And that was consistent with precedent.
Want to talk about who changed precedent?
That would be the Democrats.
They're the ones that started filibustering circuit court judges, not Republicans.
Want to know who got rid of the you know, need or simple majority for the Supreme Court?
That would be Harry Reid in 2013, with Obama's blessing.
Not the Republicans.
Now they're threatening, as I told you.
What are they threatening?
Stack the courts.
Joe Biden won't answer that question.
Joe Biden won't give us the list of names he promised to give of people he might appoint to the Supreme Court.
Joe Biden, he doesn't answer questions.
I guess why should he start now with 41 days to go?
Let's see if he gets away with that in the debates.
That'll begin September 29th, one week from well, actually it's Tuesday.
It'll be this Tuesday, the first debate coming up.
That's in just what, six days.
Can't wait.
Um anyway, so we we have that going on.
Um, Lisa Murkowski, who, you know, obviously, because of Mitt Romney, and I give Mitt Romney credit.
I've been very disappointed with Mitt Romney, I've not held back my disappointment.
I do not regret supporting him in 2012.
I thought he had a wonderful family.
He would have been a much better president, I think, than Barack Obama.
I think he could have won that election had that campaign been run better.
I think they took their foot off the gas at just the wrong time.
And I don't know why.
It's inexplicable to me.
Um, that one's ready.
Yeah.
That's a long story here.
Anyway, so Lisa Rkowski says, I'm not ruling out voting for Trump's Supreme Court pick.
I don't even know who it is yet.
I know everybody wants to ask the question.
Will you confirm the nominee?
She said outside the Capitol, we don't have a nominee yet.
You and I don't know who that is, and so I can't confirm whether or not I can confirm a nominee when I don't know who the nominee is.
But they they already seem to have the votes as it as it is.
Chuck Schumer, he got heckled yesterday as we played pretty interesting.
You know, it's look, it's the same thing that we always see and hear.
Democrats are just their hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Republicans, you know, do Republicans threaten to get rid of the legislative filibuster?
Do they threaten to stack the courts?
Do they threaten to get rid of the electoral college?
Do they threaten to impeach the president every single day?
Do they threaten to impeach the attorney general.
This has all happened.
This is your modern radical, extreme democratic socialist party, the most extreme presidential nominee, vice presidential nominees in the in the history of any major party in America.
Um that's who they are.
That defines them.
Anyway, so that's that news.
Now we have other big breaking news today, and as it relates to Ron Johnson, Senator Ron Johnson, and Senator Charles Grassley releasing a report, what has been a long investigation into Hunter Biden's role on the board of Ukrainian natural gas firm Barisma Holdings.
You're not getting the billion taxpayer dollars unless the unless you fire a Ukrainian prosecutor.
Why would a vice president want to fire a Ukrainian Ukrainian prosecutor?
Ever think about that?
Dumb.
You know, but anyway, hang on, I gotta tell somebody I'm on air.
Well, why do people call me?
My best friends call me when I'm on the air, like it's an emergency.
Anyway, so uh Barisma Holdings and what they allege is extensive and a complex financial transaction.
Uh they found that they faced obstacles from the obstructionist Democratic Party.
The chairman added that there still is a lot more work there involved in it.
It's an 87-page report.
The report points out that the Obama administration officials, they all knew Hunter Biden's position on the board of Barisma was problematic.
It interfered with the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine, and they were monitoring me in the Ukrainian embassy.
I was number one on the list of 12 people being monitored.
Yeah, welcome to my world.
Anyway, the investigation shows the extent on which Obama administration officials ignored all of the warning signs when vice president Biden's son Hunter, zero experience, hunter, no experience, oil, gas, energy, or Ukraine, um, with respect to executing the policy of Ukraine with the Obama administration.
Biden was running the US, UK uh relations and policy for the Obama administration.
And even though Hunter Biden's position cast a shadow in terms of advancing anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine, the committee said there were only two individuals.
They raised concerns, and they were shot down.
One of them was that guy, George Kent, one of the hearsay witnesses in the impeachment sham.
Testified in that trial.
Anyway, the report stated that Hunter Biden formed significant, consistent financial relationships with the founder of Barisma, and that his and his business partners uh also made millions of millions of dollars from that association while his father was vice president.
Yeah, probably, because well, why did you get the millions?
I don't know.
Any experience?
No.
Why did you get it?
I don't know.
Maybe because your father's vice president, yeah, probably.
Then it goes on to describe even further, revealing that they obtained financial records, U.S. Treasury Department showing potential criminal activity relating to transactions among Hunter Biden, his family, his associates with Ukrainian Russian uh Kazakhstan and Chinese nationals.
The committee stated they received records that Hunter Biden sent thousands of dollars to individuals, quote, who've either been involved in transactions consistent with possible human trafficking, an association with the adult entertainment industry, or potential association with prostitution.
It's in the report.
Some recipients of those funds are Ukrainian or Russian citizens.
The report states, oh, I think that would compromise our vice president at the time, now wouldn't it?
And the records note that it's a documented fact that Hunter Biden has sent funds to non-resident alien women in the U.S. that are citizens of Russia and Ukraine.
And then, by the way, those funds, well, that were have received that funds were received from Hunter Biden to individuals located in Russia.
In Ukraine.
Whoopsie Daisy, there's that Russia word again.
And it gets worse from there.
Hey there.
I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country.
Without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional fast.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to a fully staffed Supreme Court of nine.
The president nominates, and then the Senate advises and consents or not, but they go forward with the process.
The American people expect Joshua Harland, the president's nominee, to be given a fair hearing and a timely vote in the Senate.
The Senate should do their job.
Every day that goes by without a ninth justice is another day.
The American people's business is not getting done.
When the Constitution is 100% clear, the president of the United States has the right to nominate someone to be a justice of the Supreme Court.
Senate's function is to hold hearings and to vote.
I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma.
The law is totally different.
And I think in your case, uh, Professor, when you read your speeches, um the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you.
And that's of concern.com.
We're following many stories today.
Uh as we've been telling you throughout most of the day, we have one of the officers in the Brianna Taylor uh shooting charged with well, multiple cases of wanton disregard and indifference towards human life.
Uh, we'll get back to that.
Also, Leo Torello's coming uh up on that.
I told you about what's happening with the Hunter Biden report.
This is a devastating beatdown by Senators Ron Johnson and Charles Grassley.
We are now just 41 days, and you are the ultimate jury.
And Bill O'Reilly, I think probably rightly saying, I noticed that you wrote uh I think it was on your website, which I don't have a free membership towards, so I wouldn't be able to see it myself, but apparently Linda pays for it.
Uh the next six weeks will be nasty.
Mr. O'Reilly, how are you?
Oh, and by the way, congratulations on the new book, another number one bestseller.
Um in his k a killing series, Killing Crazy Horse.
And by the way, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores everywhere.
Congratulations, sir, on that part, and uh thanks for being back.
All right.
Uh, and you were a large part of Killing Crazy Horses success.
And uh, you know, I'm a grateful kind of guy.
Congratulations on the book, Bill O'Reilly.
All right, lots of stuff going on.
Number one, you know, I hate this trying very, very sad, tragic cases on television, and that's a Brianna Taylor, so I just caution everybody.
You you weren't in the grand jury, you didn't hear what they had presented to them.
Please, and I know this is gonna fall on deaf ears.
I know that people are gonna come on tonight and they're gonna rip it up and they're gonna say the cop should get this, or this one should get that.
I just think it's horrible.
It's the worst part of television news.
I I believe in our system.
I think that the system, particularly these days, under a microscope.
Everybody's watching everything.
I'm not gonna say the guy was guilty, the police officer or not guilty.
I'm gonna wait for the evidence to be presented to the jury.
That is our system.
Don't undermine our system.
Um, as far as trying to do it.
By the way, it just and Bill, I just gotta add this to it, though.
I mean, it is a series of a horrific tragedy.
Brianna Taylor's boyfriend thinks that, oh my gosh, we're somebody just broken our apartment, and he has a legal gun.
And And he's defending, he thinks he's defending against intruders.
And then a gun battle breaks out.
Um it's it is heartbreaking.
This woman is the epitome of everything great about an American citizen.
I mean, literally dedicated her life life to saving other people's lives.
It's it is heart wrenching.
A series of tragic, tragic, horrific errors here.
Um that really needs to be explained too.
Absolutely.
And fair-minded Americans understand that tragedies happen every day.
But when they do happen, if they are preventable, as this is.
Look, you got a no-knock warrant, you gotta know a hundred percent who's in that house or that building or wherever you're going.
You can't know.
All right, and this is for the police.
You have to know because you're bursting in.
We have a second amendment, you are allowed to defend yourself if people come into your home and you don't know who they are.
So you have to know.
And they didn't know in Louisville.
And that was the genesis of the whole thing.
Uh, you want to talk a little politics?
Forty-one days, Mr. O'Reilly, two new polls out.
I was kind of shocked.
It was by ABC, Washington Post, Donald Trump is leading in Florida by a pretty healthy margin, and Arizona, and I still to this day do not believe Donald Trump can be polled accurately by the mob.
Uh that poll doesn't mean anything, even though it's favorable to the president, because none of the polls mean anything today.
A week from today, and I'm so happy I'm gonna be talking to you after the debate next Wednesday.
I'm so happy I'm gonna be doing that.
A week from today, the polls will start to matter.
Because Americans are gonna get a look.
They're gonna get a look at the two guys, all right.
And they'll be under pressure, both of them, because Wallace is no cupcake guy.
I love that phrase.
All right, he's gonna ask him tough questions because he's got a legacy to live up to, which is his father, who is the best broadcast journalism in the history of this country.
Um so anyway, we're gonna get a good look, uh 90-minute look at both of them.
And in that context, people will solidify their vote.
So this to me, the debate next Tuesday is the most important day of the presidential campaign, and it will get the biggest audience, I predict, of any presidential debate in history.
I agree with you.
I think the expectations for Biden are extraordinarily low.
However, um I I do think Chris is going to ask both sides questions.
One of the two has never really been asked a lot of tough questions.
But Hannity, he's not gonna be able to do that.
Not of course being Biden.
Yeah, but neither of them are gonna answer the question.
This is why the debate um system is counterproductive to any kind of clarity.
So, all right, you and I have both done this kind of stuff for our whole careers.
We've interviewed people, we've had two people on at once.
We try to balance out the questioning.
But here, Wallace asks Trump the first question, because he's a president, all right, and Trump gets two minutes to reply uninterrupted.
So Wallace can't do what I do, be obnoxious and say, hey, you pinhead, you're not listening you're not answering your question.
He can't do that.
Can't do what I did to Barney Frank, he can't jump it.
So Trump, yeah, he might answer it, but maybe he won't answer it.
Or maybe he'll answer it for ten seconds, and the uh the next a hundred and ten seconds, he'll say what he wants.
You can count on Biden doing that.
So Biden gets a tough question, he he can't process, and he's not gonna answer it.
He's just gonna start to babble.
And that's what you're going to see.
But then, after they're finished babbling, both of them, Wallace then has a little room, and that's where we'll see if Wallace is perceptive enough to go in and say, hey, you didn't answer the question.
This is the point that the American people need to know.
You want another shot at it.
You gotta be almost that obnoxious To get these guys to really play into what you're doing.
Because both of them have an agenda.
They'll both be rehearsed.
They'll both have things they want to say.
But you know what's I my advice to both candidates is don't even worry about Chris Wallace.
And Trump is a genius at that.
We all remember what he did to Little Marco, what he did to Lion Ted, what he did to Jeb Bush, boring Jeb.
You know, he can bring it.
No, low low energy Jeb.
Keep your keep your adjectives straight, Mr. O'Reilly.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
But by the way, he did it very effective.
He did it very effectively.
He threw them off.
He threw them all off their game, particularly um Mr. Bush, Governor Bush.
He threw them off.
Now, if he can do that to Biden, if Trump can do it to Biden, because Wallace won't, we also ask him a standard question.
All right.
And then you'll see what kind of mental acuity Biden has.
You're gonna have to be quick.
You're gonna have to be fast on your feet if President Trump decides to go after you and ask you questions, which I would do if I were President Trump.
I would say, okay, Chris, here's the answer to your question.
But I got a question for the former vice president.
Boom.
Because Wallace can't stop you.
He can't stop you.
You can do it.
And that's my take on how Joe Biden is being prepared for this debate.
He's gonna have every topic.
He's gonna have three talking points, and if he memorizes the three points, he'll regurgitate them again and again and again.
And and I think, you know, I think you're right.
I think it in and I think it's a very hard job for Chris or anybody else moderating a debate.
I thought he did the best job the last time, that was my opinion, uh, in terms of being balanced in this.
Um, but I you know, I but we really they're they're designed to be joint press conferences, but they can't control it completely.
There's going to be some give and take.
And I think this is where now we're gonna see pressure points brought to bear on Biden that we'd never seen before.
And I'm not predicting whether he's gonna do good or bad.
He survived Kamala Harris destroying him in that debate, just destroyed him.
And and the the key to it is this.
Um if Joe Biden has clarity that day, then he's not gonna hurt himself very badly, because the people who hate Trump are gonna hate Trump no matter what Trump does on it.
Well, we're talking about the very maybe five to eight percent of persuadables who are gonna make the difference in this election.
These are the people that are gonna be watching.
But if Joe Biden has a bad day, if he's off his game, all right, it's over.
Trump wins.
Did you see?
I'm sure you did, the town hall and CNN, uh, where Biden and Anderson Cooper, you saw that, right?
That was uh you want to talk about cupcake interviews.
That was a cupcake interview.
But here here, I tweeted, and I I've got you know almost four million Twitter followers.
That's amazing.
I think it's because of the dog.
But I tweeted, I said Biden knows the subject matter.
Bill, it's not I not you think it is because of the dog, Bill.
Let's be honest.
All right, I'm only teasing.
All right, hold that thought.
I'm not trying to interrupt you here.
I just I want to get to the uh the spot we gotta do.
We're in the by the way, we're in the swamp today.
Uh, we're in the sewer, we're in Washington, D.C. We have Leo Tyrrell on the Brianna Taylor case.
Uh more updates on the Supreme Court.
We have our investigation.
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Let's go back to the debate and and the prep that you would offer them.
Now that is.
I did want to make this point about Biden and CNN where where we left it when the break started.
I tweeted out Biden knows the subject matter.
He knows in advance.
And about a minute after that tweet went out, I got hammered by the organized far left cadre.
And I said, aha.
They know.
They know.
So what CNN did was it made a deal with the Biden campaign says we can't tell you the questions.
Um, like Hillary Clinton got the questions last four years ago in a CNN debate.
We can't do that.
But here are the areas, because I had to vet the people, and you know, you can't not vet people on live TV.
What if somebody has Tourette syndrome?
So anyway, and the reason I knew that was because Biden gave this answer, and I'm sure you remember it about chicken manure creating jobs.
Do you remember that?
And I went what?
What?
Who would ever in a million years bring that in unless they knew that that question or that line of questioning was coming?
All right, prep.
All right, if you're if you're on a Trump side, you want him to make four positive points and four negative points, because you got 90 minutes.
All right.
So the four positive points are what he's done in the economy, what he's done to ISIS, uh, what he's done in general for the country before COVID.
You want to stay away from COVID.
All right, you're gonna have to mention it because that's where Biden's going.
Biden's going to the COVID your fault.
You killed all the people.
You're hearing say it.
All right.
But you don't want to make that the centerpiece.
You want to make the centerpiece that we had a vibrant robust economy, we're gonna have it again.
The vaccine will be out soon.
As soon as it's out, bang, we go into motion.
And if you vote for Democrats, they're not gonna take you there at all.
In fact, we'll go into a recession.
That's Trump.
Biden basically has to come across as a guy who's gonna calm the waters in the country.
So if I'm advising Biden, I said, you're the calm presence.
All right, so you don't get too nasty, don't get dem dismissive because Donald Trump has a large following.
Whether the far left wants to admit it or not, many millions of Americans like him.
Don't dismiss him.
You come across as I'm gonna calm everything down.
COVID, the economy, race relations.
I'm the guy that can do that.
And that's how I advise both of them.
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Senator Cruz, good morning.
Those were your words four years ago.
You don't believe that anymore?
Well, good morning.
It's it's good to be with you.
Thank you for having me.
Uh you know, it's interesting.
If you look at the debate four years ago, every single political player has switched positions.
I looked at your clip of politicians from 2016.
You know you didn't play?
Joe Biden.
You didn't pay play Hillary Clinton.
You didn't play Nancy Pelosi, you didn't play Chuck Schumer.
Why?
Because every one of them is saying exactly the opposite of what they're saying now.
Everyone has switched positions.
And so the whole the whole promo you're pushing about hypocrisy, if you want to say it, you could say everybody involved in this is a hypocrite.
Thinking about uh the Supreme Court, because we've lost that battle.
I don't want to talk about the Republicans anymore.
The fear of this will destroy the Senate, this will join the Senate.
I would say it's sort of like people saying, hey, climate change is coming.
No, it's not coming.
It's here.
The Senate.
It has been destroyed as we know it.
We caught the hearing, not take meetings with the nominees.
So we want to see the Senate Democrats fight this nominee tooth and nail.
No matter what happens, everybody sticks.
We're gonna have to blow up the entire system.
You're gonna have to get rid of the electoral college.
Because the people I don't see it because the minority in this country decides who the judges are and they decide who the president is.
If Joe Biden wins, Democrats can sack the courts and they can do that amendment and they can get it passed.
All right, 23 uh four now to the top of the hour, 800-941 Shauna's uh toll-free telephone number.
You know, there's a big difference and a big distinction here.
Now there is a precedent where 29 times, and this cannot, you know, be negated here in this debate.
29 times during presidential election years, we have had uh presidents of the United States all 29 times it happened, make appointments in an election year to the U.S. Supreme Court if there is a vacancy.
All right, now when the party of the president is also the majority party in the Senate, seventeen of the 19 times that that scenario played out, that the the nominee was confirmed.
Now, in ten cases, you had a president in one party, and you had a Senate majority of the other party.
In that case, only one of the ten nominees was confirmed, which actually would point out what happened in 2016.
I'm not sure you're comparing apples to apples, oranges to oranges.
Um precedent matters.
Why didn't they have a vote on Merrick Garland?
Because they didn't want Merrick Garland to be on the court.
You know, Mitt Romney of all people, I can't believe I'm quoting him.
Um, because I've been pretty disappointed in Mitt Romney.
I supported wholeheartedly Matt Romney in 2012.
I thought he'd be a much better president than Barack Obama.
I stand by my endorsement of him today.
And you know, and and it's just interesting to watch his evolution, because he seems to be, except for now, maybe maybe now, I don't know, maybe he understands.
Maybe he's held on to this principle that that conservatives like cons constitutionalists and originalists on the court.
In other words, those that don't legislate from the bench, those that don't negate co-equal branches of government, those that believe that you're supposed to have checks and balances.
Because the liberals, what they could never get done legislatively, what they could never get done at the ballot box.
They've always hoped that they they'd stack the courts with activist justices that would usurp the power of the legislative branch and the executive branch and rule from the bench through executive fiat.
And that has always been their hope.
Now, more and more, it looks like it's going to be Amy Coney Barrett, uh, who is a an unbelievably well qualified candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Is Chuck Schumer ever gonna like it?
No.
But now the fact that we're now getting to, let's see, we're gonna threaten to stack the courts and Joe Biden won't answer that question.
Well, I'm gonna imagine between now and Tuesday when he debates President Trump, he's gonna have to answer that question.
He said he was going to give us a list of names.
He said he was leaning towards African American women uh that he would appoint to the U.S. Supreme Court.
I think he should be transparent.
But again, Joan never answers questions.
Joe's day is usually done at 9 or 10 a.m.
And then he's resting.
West and wee waxation the rest of the day.
Takes it easy.
I'm sure he's doing debate prep all day long.
All right, Joe, no, no, no.
There's only three things you got to memorize on every topic.
If you do that, you'll be good.
And I'm sure he's gonna memorize his lines well.
And you know, now the question is is can he take those three points, four points, maybe if he's lucky, and memorize it and stick it in his brain and you know, regurgitate them back and you know, maintain that regurgitation for two whole minutes at a time.
Then hopefully, you know, he might have oh, he was great.
He was presidential.
Oh, he survived.
That's what the left was really hoping for, that he survives.
Um, and that's what's at stake here.
But there's a lot of other issues at stake.
Uh by the way, uh Ted Cruz is going to join us in a minute.
Also, we have uh Leo Torrell is going to weigh in on the happenings in Louisville.
Uh there's been protesting going on all day since they announced only one of the police officers, three officers in the case, Brett Hankinson is his name, uh, was charged with well, three separate counts.
Uh one wanting endangerment uh in the first degree, which is under circumstances manifesting extreme in indifference to human life.
He was the officer that's fired ten shots, um, and they're claiming that he wantonly shot the gun in the apartment occupied uh that where Brianna Taylor lost her life that night.
Count two, wanting in endangerment in the first degree, and basically the same count but different person.
Count three wanted endangerment in the first degree, and that the above-named defendant, Brett Hankinson, committed a wanton and uh endangerment in the first degree.
Uh now, there were other charges they could have made.
They didn't make any charges for the other officers.
What do we learn?
Now, the gun that Brianna Taylor's boyfriend had was was legal.
And so he thought somebody was there to cause them harm, which would not be an unreasonable conclusion.
Uh, but more facts need to come out in the case.
And anyway, Brianna Taylor's boyfriend did fire first.
That's not in dispute.
And a shootout beg, you know, happens right there in the apartment.
She had just woken up from a sound sleep.
This is a you know, an incredible person with, you know, she's out there working two jobs and as an EMT health care provider, it's her dream.
She loves serving other people.
So sad.
And you know, I understand some people might disagree with the verdict, but okay.
You knock down the door and shots are being fired in your direction.
What's uh who do you blame there?
It is a series of tragedy to me.
Tragic errors, inexplicable on so many levels.
Um, and but that's where we are.
Now we have the Supreme Court battle going on.
Lisa Murkowski said that she can't rule out voting for the president's Supreme Court pick, and she said she wouldn't rule that out.
Uh, I know everybody wants to ask the question, will you confirm the nominee?
She said outside the Capitol as a Republican colleagues were gathering for their weekly policy lunch.
We we don't have a nominee yet.
You and I don't know who that is, and so I can't confirm whether or not I can confirm a nominee when I don't know who the nominee is.
Sounds like the door is opening a little bit.
And maybe Lisa Murkowski's hearing from the people of Alaska that uh they want constitutionalists on the U.S. Supreme Court.
I was w fun watching Chucky Schumer yesterday get heckled uh during his Supreme Court comments.
That was pretty interesting.
Uh and it's amazing to listen to Democrats.
What are they threatening to do?
Now they're threatening to stack the court.
They're threatening to move forward with eliminating the electoral college, by the way, very difficult task, but they're saying they might want to do that.
Nancy Pelosi is out there with the the arrows in her quiver that she keeps talking about, one of them being she can impeach the president for any reason any day.
Every day.
Like, okay, I guess that shows us where they're headed in terms of their radicalism.
Can we give her a new nickname?
Can we give her a new name?
Good morning.
Good morning, Nancy.
Good morning.
Good Sunday morning.
Okay, Sunday morning.
Right in the middle of a sentence.
It was weird.
That was that was so bizarre.
That's a mental hiccup.
That literally was like you put your browser.
She didn't have she didn't have an answer of what she could do.
Because the answer is she can do nothing.
She just stole it.
His face.
It kind of reminds me of when you told him about Bill Ayers.
It just went blank, you know.
He was like waiting for you.
Georgie Stephanopoulos.
I'm sorry.
What's happening?
Oh, I'll ask that question.
Thank you, Sean.
He did ask it.
Oh, he did.
To his credit.
He ended up being the only one.
It was very uncomfortable.
He's just some guy in the neighborhood, Georgie.
Just a friend.
Some guy's living right now.
He blows stuff up at Bernadine every once in a while.
It's a little big deal, you know.
It's all good.
Uh anyway, so all of this and what else are they threatening?
Yeah, threatening to end the legislative filibuster.
They are threatening.
Oh, let's use the words to burn it down.
Don Lemon.
No, no.
He didn't mean it.
It was taken out of context.
Okay, it wasn't taken out of context.
He's full of crap.
It was taking around.
I think he probably got a phone call from the boss and you might want to back off that little bit of crap.
All right, these are uh tough, fascinating times historic.
Forty-one days, you're the ultimate jury.
You are the ultimate jury.
In spite of all the noise.
And by the way, if you're gonna win, win by a big margin.
Because I don't really trust the same Democrats that used Russian disinformation and were involved in premeditated fraud on a Pfizer court.
If you weren't involved in it, you you'd never said a word about it, which means that they're perfectly fine with the with the tactic.
Senator Cruz, good morning.
Those were your words four years ago.
You don't believe that anymore?
Well, good morning.
It's it's good to be with you.
Thank you for having me.
Uh y you know it's interesting.
If you look at the debate four years ago, every single political player has switched positions.
I looked at your clip of politicians from 2016.
You know who you didn't play?
Joe Biden.
You didn't pay play Hillary Clinton, you didn't play Nancy Pelosi, you didn't play Chuck Schumer.
Why?
Because every one of them is saying exactly the opposite of what they're saying now.
Everyone has switched positions, and so the whole the whole promo you're pushing about hypocrisy, if you want to say it, you could say everybody involved in this is a hypocrite.
All right, Senator Ted Cruz.
I thought we had you earlier.
We we we just did the whole segment we had put aside for you, but let's get your take on the Supreme Court in the two minutes we have, we'll rebook it for another day, Senator.
Always great to have you.
Well, it's great to be with you.
This is the most important decision that has been before the before the Senate in years.
And and it is the future of the Constitution, the future of the Bill of Rights.
This is why the American people elected Donald Trump to nominate a strong constitutionalist, and this is why the American people elected Republican majorities in the Senate to confirm strong constitutionalists.
I believe we need to get the job done before election day, and I think we will.
I think we will have the votes, I believe.
What are your thoughts on Amy Coney Barrett, who seems to be the front runner at this time?
Well, I think Judge Barrett has uh a strong record as an academic.
Um you're right that she seems to be the front runner at this point.
What what I have urged the president is to nominate uh an individual who has a proven record of standing up as a constitutionalist and and during the slings and arrows and criticisms that that come as a consequence.
That's that's been the pattern that has proven the most effective previously.
Uh As you know, I've got a book coming out next week, next Tuesday, called One Vote Away, How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History.
And there's an entire chapter in that book that discusses how Republican presidents can get these decisions right.
And the most important criterion to look for is a proven record in the face of withering criticism.
All right, Senator, we'll have you on next Tuesday about that book.
Uh also a little debate take, and uh we'll be watching very closely.
Twenty-nine times this has happened, all twenty-nine times presidents made nominations.
Thank you, Senator Ted Cruz uh for being with us.
We'll talk to you next week, Senator.
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Leo Tarot will weigh in on the Brianna Taylor uh decision from earlier today.
One of the three cops indicted uh three felony de counts.
Uh we'll get back into in a second.
Uh we've been breaking the news today, and this is huge.
And that is the home uh Senate Homeland Security Committee, the finance committees, they have now released an interim report that is devastating to Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and the Obama administration about extensive and complex financial tra uh transactions.
Um they talked about in this report the difficulty and obstacles they faced from Democrats not wanting them to get to the truth, and and that they have a lot more work to come.
But what they have discovered in this 87-page report, Obama administration officials knew about Hunter Biden's position on the border Barisma was problematic, and it interfered in their in Joe's execution of policy in respect to Ukraine.
The investigation showed the extent to which officials in the Obama administrations ignored all of the warning signs.
Uh when the vice president's son joined the board of this corrupt uh Ukrainian oligarchs company.
Uh Hunter Biden joined Barisma at the very same time of the consulting firm Blue Star Strategies.
Uh he admitted on Good Morning America, he had no background in oil and gas or energy or even Ukraine.
Uh millions of dollars were talking about.
And this is when Vice President Joe Biden was running U.S. Ukraine relations for the Obama administration.
Um we also know that even though Hunter Biden's position on the board cast a shadow over all these things, the committees, you know, the only two people were brave enough to raise their concerns with superiors, and they were ignored.
One of them, by the way, was George Kenty.
You may remember from the impeachment uh sham of the Democrats.
Uh it went into significant consistent financial relationships as it relates to Hunter Biden and Barisma and its and its founders, and also millions of dollars made in association from that association with the father in charge of the money for the country, our country with them.
And then you remember this this brag of Joe Biden's.
I said, You got six hours, son of a bee.
They did it.
They fired him.
Listen.
I said I'm not gonna we're not gonna give you the billion dollars.
I said, You have no authority.
You're not the president.
The president said I said call him.
I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.
I said you're not getting a billion.
I'm gonna be leaving here.
I think it was what six hours.
I looked at I said, I'm leaving six hours.
If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.
Oh, son of a bot fired.
Son of a B. Why would a vice president in charge of Ukraine want a prosecutor in Ukraine fired?
Well, he was investigating his zero experienced son being paid millions.
They also found uh financial transactions with the with Hunter Biden, his family and associates with Ukraine, uh Russian uh Chinese nationals, thousands of dollars sent to individuals, either involved in transactions consistent with possible human trafficking, an association with the adult entertainment uh industry or potential association even with prostitution.
Some recipients of these funds, they were Ukrainian or Russian citizens.
And they actually were sending funds to non-resident alien uh women in the U.S. who are citizens from Russia and Ukraine, and they subsequently sent the money back to their countries, and it gets worse from there.
Now, Peter Schweitzer broke uh this book in his is best selling uh book.
Uh by the way, a new film he's now promoting a regarding all this, writing the dragon, exposing the Biden family ties to China.
Uh all he exposed all of this in his his book uh that he released, I guess it was about a year or two ago.
John Solomon, editor in chief of JustHnews.com.
He's been all over this now for a couple of years, and Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst.
Peter, you broke the story first that I saw, um, and it went further from there.
Let's talk about what you read today.
Uh yeah, I think the uh report is uh is amazing.
Um it not only builds on uh the reporting that I did that John has done and uh some of the analysis that Greg has provided, uh, but there's there's a lot of new information here.
I mean, the news media is trying to spin it as there's nothing new here.
You have just for example, just one nugget, three and a half million dollars sent to Hunter Biden's firm by Yelena Botarina, uh, who is a Russian oligarch.
We we knew that there had been hints that there was a possible relationship there, uh, but we now have confirmation that in 2014 she sent three and a half million dollars to Hunter Biden.
And what's important to note here, Sean, is I mean, this is a a woman who is known to be connected to Russian organized crime.
You can find State Department cables on it, you can find all kinds of public information.
It's an indication of the type of business they were doing and who they were dealing with.
So uh a bombshell of a report, no question about it in my mind.
And by the way, all of it you chronicled, and it is now corroborated uh from your book Secret Empires.
John Solomon, you spent two years doing this, and uh times I I've got to admit I'd say to you, John, we already know there was a quid pro quo with Joe and zero experience.
Hunter, but you kept digging deeper than than I even was paying attention to.
It is remarkable.
And just think about this.
We impeached uh the Democrats impeached President Trump for asking for an investigation into these very activities.
We spent three years investigating Don Trump Jr. because he took a single meeting with a Russian lawyer.
Hunter Biden took three and a half million dollars from a Russian oligarch, identified in U.S. congressional legislation as someone who got her fortunes from corrupt practices.
He very bored.
Go ahead.
Hunter Biden.
Yeah.
The very board, the very company that Hunter Biden was serving on the board, at the moment he was serving on the board.
Allegedly paid a seven million dollar bribe to the Ukrainian prosecutors, who by the way were being supervised by Joe Biden and the Obama administration.
If these things had happened in the Trump administration, they'd be on the front page of the New York Times leading breaking news flashes on CNN, and today the corrupt, willfully ignorant U.S. media are ignoring these incredible revelations.
And I wasn't the only one concerned about him.
Peter wasn't the only one concerned about it.
Senior officials in the Treasury Department, State Department of Barack Obama's administration raised these red flags four years ago and they fell on deaf ears.
This is a scandal that will not get out unless the American media steps up to the plate and finally does its job.
Greg Jarrett, from a legal perspective, I mean uh on something that was basically made up with the Zelensky call.
We now have real evidence of real impeachable offenses.
Uh Joe Biden, God forbid, ever won this election in 41 days based on Democrats' own quote standards.
That's right.
John Sullivan and Peter Schweitzer are right all along.
Here's the quote that jumps out from the report.
Financial transactions identified as potential criminal activity by Hunter Biden.
Did the FBI investigate?
We don't know because the FBI stonewalled those two Senate committees, and they won't say.
Another reason why I've long argued that Christopher Ray needs to be fired.
Uh and the other part of the equation is that four million dollars from Barisman went to Hunter Biden at the very time the company believes pressuring the U.S. to pressure Ukraine to shut down the corruption investigation of Burisma.
Who applied the pressure?
Joe Biden.
And Obama administration officials, according to this report, not only ignore the evidence and the warnings, but but they turned a blind eye to the potential extortion risks and undue influence that could have been applied to Joe Biden.
So this is a blockbuster report.
You know, I know the world is paying a lot of attention and rightly so to what's happening with this Brianna Taylor case.
I know everybody's talking a lot about the presidential election.
Uh I know all of that is true.
And you know, but this is corruption at a at a on a level and a degree that is unconscionable to me.
You know, Peter Schweitzer, when did you finally put out Secret Empires?
Because it's been a while.
We've been covering this, and and you came on, I think my show first and broke this story.
You're absolutely right, Sean.
Uh it came in March of 2018.
You were the first one uh to interview me on this, so uh, I think really it has the attention and focus because you took an interest in it.
And look, the reason I take an interest in corruption, I think the reason you take an interest in in exposing this stuff is we're a representative government.
And the question is, when we elect somebody, who are they actually representing?
If they're engaged in corrupt relationships, people that have made them money that they need to cover up, that can be embarrassed, that can extort them or can bribe them to curry favor.
What that means is you elect a corrupt politician, they're not really representing you.
They're representing the people that are putting money in their pockets.
So what I would say is this is a central issue, should be a part of the central conversation we're having today, because corruption to me goes at the very heart of the representative government that we're supposed to have.
And the Bidens have avoided answering any questions about this.
They have lied repeatedly about the extent of the relationship.
Uh, and I think it's incumbent upon the media now to ask them very hard, serious questions, the kind of questions that they've asked the Trumps that they've asked other political figures, but seem reluctant to ask Joe Biden.
I I I just w where is this now going?
Because we're just at the interim report level.
Now it's gonna be who knew what when.
What did they know?
When did they know it?
Why didn't they speak out?
How many fact witnesses will emerge here, John Solomon?
And and how deep does it go with Russia?
How deep does it go with China?
Last week I put a whole bunch of documents into the public domain that I obtained under my lawsuits under FOIA.
And the most interesting thing that hasn't been picked up yet substantially is that the Obama Biden, National Security Council, was on a first name basis, first name basis with one of Barisma's top executives, a guy named Vadim uh Policharski.
Why was the White House in the National Security Council in contact with a Brisma official?
Why was the State Department so acutely aware of everything Barisma was doing?
Here's the question that Joe Biden has to answer.
He has to be confronted, and if the Trump administration has any documents on this, they should release it immediately.
Did Joe Biden, any time in his time as vice president, have any meetings with Barisma officials?
There would be no reason for the White House to know the Brisma officials unless someone in the upper echelons of the White House knew and had contacts with Burisma.
It wasn't just Hunter Biden.
Joe Biden has to answer.
It's a simple question.
Yes or no.
Did you ever meet with anyone associated with Brisma?
I think he owes us out.
I'll add one thing, John.
I want to know any transcripts of any phone calls that the vice president might have had with with high-ranking officials in Russia, China, or Ukraine.
I think that would be a fair question.
And if it's good for Donald Trump to release them, let's release them here.
All right.
Final thoughts.
Peter Schweitzer, John Solomon, Greg Jarrett.
Uh we're watching the protesting has gotten louder.
The crowds have gotten bigger in Louisville, Kentucky, in response to the grand jury decision from earlier today.
Um officer, three separate counts, want and disregard, endangerment issues.
Uh nobody charged directly in the death of Brianna Taylor.
Um obviously it's it's a very hot environment there.
Our prayers are with the people in Louisville tonight.
I hope people are peaceful.
I hope I hope people, you know, respect other people and their property and innocent people are are not hurt here.
It's getting scary.
Uh Greg Jarrett and Peter Schweitzer.
Uh Peter Schweitzer did a great job based on the key findings that we discovered today in his book, Secret Empires.
Greg Jarrett breaking down the the legal side of this.
On the legal side, where do you see vulnerability for Joe Biden and other potentially, you know, obviously Hunter Biden and uh Obama administration officials.
I think both Joe Biden and Hunter Biden need to be put under oath.
You you have played the soundbite of Joe Biden bragging uh about what uh it looks to me like extortion and bribery and pressuring for the firing uh of the prosecutor who was looking into the reason.
So you know, there has to be it would seem to be how did he communicate that demand that extortion uh to the Ukrainians?
Well, there's got to be uh a tape recording.
So uh we should hear the tape and see the transcript of that, and he should be put under oath.
You know, you did gr a great job and a great service to the country, Peter Sweitz.
You got to feel a bit vindicated today, but with all that said, I mean, nobody on the left is ever held accountable, are they?
And I mean it is beyond frustrating to me and Greg and John and everybody.
Well, thank you, Sean.
Um, yeah, it is very frustrating.
Um, but I think we have to continue to press on.
I get people that email me sometimes and say, you know, look, I'm kind of giving up uh because nothing ever happens.
Uh the point is is that we need to continue to expose this stuff.
And I I I agree with Greg.
I mean, there's no reason why the Senate uh could not say, Hunter Biden, you need to come up here, and we're going to put you under oath, and you better bring documents and material with you.
Uh, and and also Joe Biden for that matter, because one of the things the Senate report makes clear is that you know he altered his behavior because of his son's commercial ties to Barisma.
We know that it influenced his policy towards China.
Uh, and there's a whole host of other countries we haven't even got to.
I mean, this was a a veritable United Nations of corruption uh that Hunter Biden was running, and we need to get to the bottom of it, expose it.
Uh, the American people need to know about it.
All right, great job.
Peter Schweitzer, Greg Jarrett, John Solomon, who had to jump after the last break.
Thank you all.
When we come back, we're still monitoring the happenings in Louisville as we speak.
Uh in reaction to the grand jury decision in the Brianna Taylor case, Leo Terrell weighs in next.
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After hearing the evidence from our team of prosecutors, the grand jury voted to return an indictment against Detective Hankinson for three counts of wanton endangerment for wantonly placing the three individuals in apartment three in danger of serious physical injury or death.
The charge of one endangerment in the first degree is a class D felony.
And if found guilty, the cues can serve up to five years for each count.
Kentucky law states that a person is guilty of wanton endangerment in the first degree when under circumstances manifesting in strength indifference to the value of human life, he wantonly engages in conduct which creates a substantial danger of death or serious physical injury to another person.
However, it's important to note that he is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Our investigation showed, and the grand jury agreed that Mattingley and Cosgrove were justified in the return of deadly fire after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker.
Let me state that again.
According to Kentucky law, the use of force by Mattingley and Cosgrove was justified to protect themselves.
This justification bars us from pursuing criminal charges in Miss Brianna Taylor's death.
I know that many Adam Louisville and across the Commonwealth and country have been anxiously awaiting the completion of our investigation into the death of Miss Brianna Taylor.
Prior to this announcement, I spoke with Miss Palmer, Brianna Taylor's mother, uh to share with her the results from the grand jury.
Many of you in this room know that I had the opportunity last month to meet in person with her and other members of Miss Taylor's family, including Miss Bianca Austin and Miss Janaya Palmer.
I want to once again publicly express my condolences.
Every day this family wakes up to the realization that someone they loved is no longer with them.
There's nothing I can offer today to wake take away the grief and heartache this family is experiencing as a result of losing a child, a niece, a sister, and a friend.
The above-named defendant, Brett Hankison, committed the offense of wanton endangerment in the first degree when, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he wonly shot a gun, a gun, excuse me, into the apartment occupied by initials C E count two.
On or about March 13th, 2020, in Jefferson County, Kentucky, the above-named defendant, Brett Hankison, committed the offense of wanton endangerment in the first degree.
When, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he wantonly shot a gun into the apartment occupied by initials CN Count Three, wanton endangerment in the first degree.
On or about March 13th, 2020, the Jefferson County in Jefferson County, Kentucky, the above-named defendant, Brett Hankison committed the offense of wanton endangerment in the first degree when, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, he wantonly shot a gun into an apartment occupied by initials ZF against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Mr. Four person is that the decision of the grand jury.
Thank you.
That was uh from earlier today.
That was the judge in the Breonna Taylor case announcing one of the three officers, Brett Hankinson, committing wanton endangerment in the first degree under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life.
There were a whole series of charges.
The state DA went through all of this apparently with the grand jury.
There is a lot of tragedy to go on here.
Brianna Taylor's boyfriend, somebody breaks into his house at a legal firearm.
He thought he was defending himself and his family.
Didn't know it was the police, apparently.
And he shot one of the officers.
The police then fired back.
Um, and Brianna Taylor was hit eight times, and she is no longer with us, a woman with an incredible life story.
Spent their whole adult life saving lives, EMT, two full-time jobs, loved by everybody.
Uh now the question is we've been watching these protests in Louisville growing all day throughout the day.
Um I see people look at this.
I'm looking at it right now.
Guys with, you know, they have their guns out.
Uh I'm not feeling good about what I see.
And I and I said this with guys in tactical gear that showed up with their weapons drawn and their rifles drawn in the Michigan State House.
You know, it it heightens tensions.
Um, and this crowd has been growing by the minute.
Leo Torrell's civil rights attorney is with us.
Um, Leo, we you're you're a lawyer, you're a civil rights activist.
You got all of this behind you.
This is one of the most the one of the saddest cases I've ever heard.
I always don't rush to judgment.
I wasn't there to hear all the evidence.
The grand jury is presented usually just one side of the argument.
There's no defense put put up.
Um all of the options uh in terms of possible charges.
Uh, for example, the criminal four criminal homicide offenses in Kentucky from murder to manslaughter in the first degree, manslaughter, second degree, reckless homicide, and then you get down to what is a considered a class D felony, wanton endangerment in the first degree, that's actually class D. Um or want an endangerment in the second degree, that would be a class A misdemeanor.
Um, when you look at the facts of this case and you look at what the grand jury's decision, what you know, what are your thoughts?
Well, I'll tell you right now, Sean, you do an excellent job of summarizing uh all the facts for your listeners.
And this is in my wheelhouse.
I have a civil rights attorney for 30 years.
I sued police officers, and I'll tell you right now, you're a hundred percent correct.
This is a tragedy when you look at the death of Brianna Taylor.
You're absolutely right.
What I'm upset about on the point of what's going to happen in Louisville tonight throughout the country, when you have social media influencer, Ben Crump sending out a tweet saying this is injustice, even though he picked up a $12 million check on behalf of the family last week.
Here's the legal issue.
These the the Brianna Taylor's boyfriend fired the weapon at the officers, struck the officers.
The officers have a legal right to respond to defend themselves, self-defense.
And that self-defense argument negates any intent to murder Brianna Taylor.
That's why the murder charges, the manslaughter charges are out the window.
You cannot have it.
The officers had a legitimate legal right to fire their weapon.
The charge against the one officer because he shot recklessly, it's almost almost like driving drunk uh in a car.
If you notice the charges were because he fired his weapon and it entered the other apartment.
The bottom line is this is what's going to enrage people.
There is no murder charge or no culpability for the death of Brianna Taylor.
And so these three walkett charges are against the officer firing his weapon that went into other apartments.
Overall tragedy, overall, Black Lives Matter will use this to exploit the race card, and we're going to be having to cross our fingers hoping that we have a calm evening in Louisville.
Well, it's not looking good.
We've been watching these videos all day.
And and and this look, the you're talking about the embodiment of what makes America great.
Brianna Taylor is uh devoted her life and said so that it was her passion, her calling in life to save other people.
EMT worked two jobs.
Amazing, loved by everybody that knew her.
I mean, now when the law intersects in this mess, you know, what is a grand jury to do?
Uh well, I'll tell you, Sean, and I'll use one of the phrase that you have coined.
Brianna Taylor is was a great American.
She she spent her life saving lives.
She is a a model citizen.
It is a tragedy.
One thing that we did learn by listening to the attorney general, uh, there is a civilian witness who did hear the officers announced that they were police officers.
But again, what people will refuse to understand those who want to create chaos is that these officers were fired upon, and they have a legal right to defend themselves.
Here's the other hitch.
You got a Rand Paul who's trying to eliminate no knock warrant, and he's attacked by these Black Lives Matter protesters.
You got Tim Scott and the president trying to get police reform to get rid of that one or one and a half percent of bad officers.
You have the Democrats blocking this.
So what do we learn from this?
Where do we go from this?
We try to improve the system to weed out bad officers, but what's going to happen is you're gonna have these social media influencers, uh, profiteers and black lives matter, who's going to profit from this and burn down cities, and that is wrong.
We gotta look Forward.
And what is forward is we have to accept that we're a nation of laws.
The Attorney General laid out all the facts, and we have to ask for calm and peace and reform.
But that's not what we're going to get from the extreme left, Sean Hannity.
Do you see a racial component here, which I think many people have making the point that it seems like it is?
Do you see it?
Do I see no no?
I don't I don't see it, but for Black Lives Matter, they got the perfect storm.
Three white officers, two black individuals.
They love this.
Do I see any racial animus in these officers executing their warrant?
No, I don't.
I I absolutely don't.
And I believe that that grand jury and this attorney general who is black would have fallen at because they did a thorough investigation.
They cooperated with the FBI, and they're doing an ongoing investigation.
So I don't see any racial animus from the officers.
But that will not stop Black Lives Matter in the extremist group because the scenario of white officers, black victims, that's what they want.
Black on black crime, they don't care about.
Black police officers, they don't care about.
This is what they like, and this is what's going to cause or ignite the rioting and the chaos for the next couple of nights.
I hope I'm wrong on that issue.
Look, we'll know very soon.
They have a curfew that's supposed to go into place uh at 9 p.m.
Eastern.
That's when I come up on the air.
You'll be on the show tonight.
And I wish I could report that I'm not feeling good, considering at the crowds that have grown by the second all afternoon as we've been on the air here today.
I I don't feel good about the odds there.
I don't.
I don't you you're you're I don't feel good either.
Look, the federal government boarded up federal buildings.
There's a curfew.
It's going to be ignored.
The streets are clear as far as driving the streets in Louisville.
There are going to be people who are going to be fueled.
And again, I want to say this for all your listeners.
There are so-called agitators who are tweeting, who are using social media to show their outrage.
Come out and burn and loot.
It doesn't help anyone.
It doesn't help Brianna Taylor.
It doesn't help her legacy.
It doesn't help it at all.
And there's a distinction between Brianna Taylor and Jacob Blake and George Floyd.
And you know what it is?
Is what you said earlier.
This woman was a great American.
She saved lives.
She was in her own home.
That's the tragic part of it.
You see it, I see it.
But agitators are going to use it to exploit and justify the burning and looting.
And that's offensive to me.
Well, it is to me too.
And you know, you'd think we could all unite.
I I don't know.
You know, I've always talked about what are the alternatives.
All right.
I'd like to see more training for police officers.
Yeah.
Um, you know, I'd like to see non-lethal alternatives, more martial arts training.
You know how into martial arts I am.
You know, I've talked about this burner gun, you know, which shoots pepper balls, uh, sprays, and tear gas.
You know, I'd like cops to have it.
Um but it's not going to bring back Brianna Taylor, is it?
It's sad.
They're not going to be able to undo this.
But I got to run, Leo.
Um, thank you as always for being with us.
Appreciate it.
800 nine uh 41 Sean.
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I mean, my prayers are with the people of Louisville tonight.
I'm with this country.
We really need to stop and end this madness, this violence.
It's not going to be, that's not the answer.
It's not helping anybody to burn down stores and loot and hurt innocent people.
Very scary times.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
All right, a lot obviously going on still in Louisville uh as uh we get reaction from the grand jury decision uh in the Brianna Taylor case.
We got our Barisma investigation.
This is a beatdown of Hunter and Joe Biden.
They're not gonna avoid this news uh even even with the Breonna Taylor uh issue also in the news tonight.
We'll have coverage of everything.
Uh the latest in the battle for the Supreme Court.
Looks like the president has the votes.
We'll have full coverage of all of that.
It's 41 days till election day.
This is the defining tipping point election in our lifetime.
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