Sean Hannity Show - Media Mob Ignoring Milley - September 15th, Hour 1

Sept. 15, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show

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Media Mob Ignoring Milley - September 15th, Hour 1

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	America trapped behind enemy lines.
	Day number 32.
	Day 32.
	Joe Biden abandons Americans behind enemy lines.
	Thousands of green card holders, according to uh this testimony of Blinken yesterday.
	32 days, we still don't have an exact number.
	Darrell Isa thinks it's around 500.
	If you had green card holders, even blinking acknowledges they're in the thousands.
	Afghan allies, now more reports of brutality, beheadings, beatings of women, young girls ripped away from their parents, and forced to marry Taliban fighters, all going on.
	Great call, Joe.
	Meanwhile, you could have gotten everybody out safely in March and April and May and June and July, you know, while you were bragging about the well-trained Afghan army, Afghan military, they were collapsing all over the country before the world to see.
	And you could have safely extracted all you had to do, a couple of drone strikes, push them back from day one.
	That would have allowed you the time while you had control of Kabul to get everybody out safely, and our military equipment and our Afghan allies and our green card holders and American citizens.
	Could have been done easily, successfully, expeditiously, and no problems at all.
	This is a self-induced, preventable, easily preventable problem.
	Let me deal with what's going on here with this Bob Woodward, Robert Costa book called Peril.
	Now, I want to start up front that I'm a I believe in the presumption of innocence.
	If somebody's innocent until proven guilty, always want to give people the benefit of the doubt.
	That's our system.
	It has served me well in my career.
	So I start with that today.
	But there is there are things here that are so egregious and so dangerous to this country.
	Because basically, if let me let me sum it up this way.
	If what Woodward and Costa have written here is true, and we'll give you the details, that would mean that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs is a traitor to the country.
	If it's not true, it means that Woodward and Costa are liars on their tremendous level and magnitude, and probably Milley would rightfully own the Washington Post at the end of this process, and maybe even a big part of Amazon, if not all of it, considering it's Jeff Bezos' uh newspaper.
	That the allegations are of a total undermining of our constitutional order in this country.
	Let me give you the details.
	Two days after the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.
	This is from Woodward and Costa's book.
	Uh President Trump's top military advisor, joint chief's chairman, General Mark Milley, single-handedly took secret action to limit President Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or launching nuclear weapons.
	This is what's in the book, Peril.
	And Woodward and Costa write that Milley deeply shaken by what happened on January 6th was uncertain.
	That Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with Trump now all but manic screaming at officials, constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies.
	Milley worried that Trump could go rogue the author's right.
	You never know what the president's trigger point is.
	Millie told the senior staff, according to the book.
	In response, now this is the part, if this turns out to be true.
	Millie took the extraordinary action, called a meeting in his Pentagon office on January the 8th to now review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons, speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon's War room, and Millie instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved.
	That would usurp our entire constitutional order if that is true.
	That would mean that he is declaring himself in charge of our nuclear weapons, not our duly elected commander in chief, because he thinks it's the right thing to do.
	No matter what you're told, you do the procedure, you do the process.
	I'm a part of that procedure, Millie, according to the reports, told the officers.
	Then he went around the room, looked each officer in the eye and asked them all verbally to confirm if they understood.
	You go through me.
	That's basically what he's saying.
	Got it?
	Yes, sir.
	Millie considered it an oath, the author's right.
	Now, where are we in a in a in a in a country when we have, again, if true, it gets even worse.
	Now they say it's based on more than 200 interviews, firsthand participants, witnesses, and talking about Trump's final days in office.
	This is Woodward's third book on the Trump presidency, et cetera, et cetera.
	It includes exclusive reporting on the events leading up to January 6th, Trump's reaction to the insurrection.
	By the way, this would be an insurrection.
	Maybe even an attempted coup to take over the powers of the presidency because you think that you're better able to handle them.
	That's what that's how serious this now gets.
	And it reports about all of that, and Woodward and Constance say they obtain documents, calendars, diaries, emails, meeting notes.
	The key one that I see here are transcripts and other records.
	That means as of today, all of these things would be in existence.
	That means the transcripts would be in existence.
	Because if that's the case, now we take it to another level here.
	And that is, okay, and let me say up front, even though we believe in the presumption of innocence due process, benefit of the doubt, innocent until proven guilty, that's all true.
	But these charges are so severe, Joe Biden should immediately put General Milley on administrative leave, pending the results of an investigation.
	Like I said, I'm fine with the commission if it was going to be fair as it relates to January 6th.
	I said from the beginning, that can't happen in our country, nor can the riots that took place in the summer of 2020 that Joe Biden and the Democrats ignored and that even Kamala Harris promoted bail funds to get some of the rioters out of jail.
	And we know what happened in the case of one of them, charged with murder.
	I think we need a commission on that too.
	Well, we need an instant commission here.
	Not only would it include we need to get testimony from everybody in that room on January the 8th, but then we need to get into whatever these conversations were that Milley had, again, a blunt phone call from Nancy Pelosi, according to the to the book, and Woodward and Costa obtaining a transcript of the call, during which Milley tried to reassure Pelosi that the nuclear weapons were safe.
	Pelosi pushed back.
	What I'm saying to you is that if they couldn't even stop him from an assault on the Capitol, Donald Trump for the record said many of you will peacefully and patriotically now march to the Capitol, so your voices will be heard.
	Who even knows what else he may do?
	And is there anybody in charge of the White House who is doing anything but kissing his fat butt over this, et cetera, et cetera.
	According to Woodward and Costa, Millie responded, Madam Speaker, I agree with you on everything.
	Really?
	So now the commission not only has to investigate whether or not he's telling people he'll make a decision on a potential nuclear strike and usurp the constitutional order, which is the sole responsibility and duty of the president of the United States, not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
	That would not be his role in any of this, by the way.
	If you want to know what the authority and the chair the of the Joint Chiefs chain of command, well, the commander in chief, if you look at Article 2, Section 2 of our Constitution, that the president shall be the commander-in-chief of the Army, Navy of the U.S. and the militia of several states when called into the actual service of the United States.
	Now, there are different explanations of all of this.
	The textual textual designation of the president, he's the commander in chief.
	Well, that's that's to ensure that that officer and no other would be ultimately responsible for performing that role.
	Whatever it entails, to that end, they continue that to suggest this, at least with respect to certain functions, Congress may not by statute or otherwise delegate the ultimate command of the army and navy to anyone other than the president.
	Now it's about Nancy Pelosi.
	What was she asking the chairman of the Joint Chiefs to do?
	So that commission needs to investigate her, too.
	And given the notion that Congress, you know, doesn't delegate the ultimate command, this is a constitutional order that we're talking about.
	Then it gets even worse.
	Then we've got reports in this book that say that Milley now also had overstepped his authority, taken extraordinary power upon himself.
	He thinks because he's doing it with all the best of intentions.
	And it goes on to describe an incident where they write in the book where, in fact, uh General Milley called, and this is where it gets very interesting,
	his counterpart and China, and assured the counterpart in China that if in fact that there was going to be an attack, we've known each other for five years, and if there's going to be an attack, um, I will give you a heads up.
	Well, that would make you a traitor.
	Because now you're looking at a hostile regime, an enemy country.
	He may not even have all the details, and he wants to take on the role of the commander-in-chief and usurp the power of the president of the United States, and then give a heads up to America's enemies in the process.
	Now, either Milley would be the traitor if that's true, if that's true, or Woodward and Costa are liars.
	It's a, you know, he said versus they say.
	And there's another aspect to this, because I we need a commission and an investigation immediately.
	We need to know General Milley's role.
	We need to know Pelosi's role.
	We need to know if they were undermining the president of the United States and our Constitution and constitutional order.
	We need to know about direct contact with the enemy.
	We need to know if there are transcripts of that contact.
	We need to know another question is about, okay, they have all these unnamed sources and all these transcripts and all this information that they say backs up what they say.
	Now we need to know, and Mark Levin made a good point, the gray one last night on Hannity.
	And that is, you mean you had this information of an attempted coup and undermining of presidential authority, taking away the right of the president is to, if it need be, protect the country and his role as commander-in-chief and give a heads up to our one of our staunchest enemies and make assurances on behalf of the United States.
	So we need, so in that sense, I think Millie needs to be put on immediate administrative leave, pending the results of an investigation with full due process and full presumption of innocence.
	Nancy Pelosi needs to be investigated too if she's part of this effort.
	And then we need to ask the Washington Post how is it your reporters sat on a story this important so they would put it in a book to sell a book?
	Because this would be in the utmost interest of the American people to have this information in a timely fashion.
	As you can see where all of this is going.
	All right, a lot to get to today.
	800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
	So among the charges uh being made um that somehow Millie and Pelosi colluding um and in an effort to prevent Donald Trump from having access to the nuclear codes and and getting the assurance of every every member of the Joint Chiefs, I assume, that were in this January 8th meeting.
	Uh you know, apparently a pair of secret phone calls, according to Woodward and Costa with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Milley, assuring his Chinese counterpart that the U.S. would not strike them.
	But I guess that's you know, two days later he's he's getting assurances that nothing happens unless it goes through me.
	And anyway, the first call, October 30th, you know, was prompted by Milley's review of intelligence suggesting the Chinese believed the U.S. was preparing to attack.
	That belief, the author's right, was based on military exercises over the South China Sea and some of Trump's rhetoric towards China.
	General Lee, I want to assure you the American government is stable, everything's okay.
	We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.
	Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the report they established through a back channel.
	He didn't tell any of this to Donald Trump.
	In the second call, January 6th, his counterpart Lee was an assuaged, even as Millie promised him, we're 100% steady, everything's fine.
	Lee uh democracy can be sloppy sometimes.
	Apparently, the Chinese remain rattle.
	And um between that and talking to his staff and a phone call with Nancy Pelosi, he agreed with her the evaluation Trump is unstable, and that they were going to take over the nuclear codes.
	Now, Marco Rubio, Alexander Vinman, the star of the second impeachment, and others say Millie must resign now.
	We'll get into that next.
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	Joe Biden uh speaking briefly to the press today, gets shouted one question.
	Do you have confidence in General Milley?
	Here's what he said.
	Sir, did General Mille do the right thing?
	Thank you for nothing.
	Thank you, General Millie got the right thing.
	Now, that comment, which didn't touch on the veracity of the allegations, if he's saying that, he then is saying that he's on uh that if true, and I I don't know if it's true.
	I don't have any way today of saying whether or not Woodward and Costa have this story right.
	But based on what has been put out there and they what they used as evidence, the people that were in that room that were asked to affirm this this issue that he's he's got to be in the loop on any any use of of nuclear weapons, um, his conversations with Pelosi, I would imagine, these transcripts that they say they have, that means those transcripts are available.
	These transcripts now have to be brought before the American people.
	We need to know whether or not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs was involved in what basically is undermining all constitutional order, direct contact with our enemy, whether or not he offered to a ford a hostile regime,
	critical top secret information on potential military efforts of the United States of America, because that would be a real insurrection and coup attempt.
	We need to know Pelosi's role.
	We need to know Milley's role, obviously, the role of anybody that was in the room that each individually were asked if they understand.
	And we need to look at the transcripts with his Chinese counterpart.
	Now let's give the presumption of innocence due process to General Milley.
	And but with that said, these charges are that serious.
	He needs to be put on immediate administrative leave, pending the results of this investigation, which should begin immediately.
	And while we're at it, we might as well have a commission put together to look into the rioting of 2020 that resulted in the deaths of dozens, nearly 3,000 cops injured, that no Democrat wants to talk about.
	I said what happened on January 6th can't happen, nor can the rioting that took place in the summer of 2020 happen.
	But you have a partisan commission put together.
	You take Jim Jordan, Jim Banks off the commission, and you, you know, but you put in Liz Cheney.
	What's the other guy?
	Adam Kinziger or whoever it is.
	Instead.
	Okay, put in the biggest Trump haters you can find, a foregone conclusion.
	That's not a commission.
	We need a real commission here to get to the bottom of all this.
	By the way, you know, so Biden is standing by.
	Do they think that Woodward and Costa of the Washington Post are lying?
	We need to get to the bottom of that too.
	Did Milley and Nancy Pelosi collude to prevent Donald Trump to usurp his constitutional powers as commander in chief?
	These aren't these are not, these are not small allegations here.
	But if you listen to MSDNC, Milley is here hero, heroic and patriotic.
	Okay.
	There's no constitution that exists in their world.
	Now, General Milley's spokesperson is defending his calls to the Chinese military.
	Spokesperson for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs defending the allegations of secret calls with his Chinese counterpart saying the conversations are vital to reducing tensions, avoiding unintended consequences of conflict.
	That's not the issue.
	Did he promise to tip off the most hostile regime of the communist Chinese if America was going to be involved in a military maneuver against them, which might be warranted?
	Because he does he's not the elected commander-in-chief.
	That's why this matters.
	The chairman of the Joint Chief regularly communicates with the chiefs of defense around the world, including China and Russia.
	Well, they made such a big deal about, you know, remember the whole issue about his soon-to-be counterpart, General Michael Flynn, talking to his soon-to-be counterparts.
	Something, by the way, that happened in the Biden in the Obama administration, and yet top people admitting it.
	And the fact that he regularly talks to people has nothing to do with the question at hand here.
	Because what we're really talking about at the end of the day, if this ends up being true, is we're talking about General Milley being accused of being a traitor to this country.
	Now, Ram Paul has called for the Milley to be a court-martialed, removed if he went around Trump.
	Okay, if we all are saying if Senator Marco Rubio urging President Joe Biden to fire General Milley, dismiss him immediately, charging that the undermined former commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces by planning to commit treason.
	I write with grave concern regarding the recent reporting that General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked to actively undermine the sitting commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces and contemplated a treasonous leak of classified information to the Chinese Communist Party in advance of a potential Armed conflict with the People's Republic of China.
	These actions by General Milley demonstrate a clear lack of sound judgment, and I urge you to dismiss him immediately based on this book.
	Now the question is Costa and Woodward work for the Washington Post.
	Why would they be allowed to hold this information, withhold this information from the American public?
	You and I have known each other five years, Milley says to his Chinese counterpart.
	I'm going to call you ahead of time.
	It's not going to be a surprise if we're going to attack.
	Rubio continues that Milley interfered with America's civilian-controlled military, which could lead, possibly lead to war.
	I do not need to tell you of the dangers posed by senior military officers leaking classified information on U.S. military operations, but I will underscore that such subversion undermines the president's ability to negotiate and leverage one of this nation's instruments of national power in his interactions with foreign nations.
	Even more egregiously, reports indicate General Milley interfered with the procedures by which the civilian commander-in-chief can order a nuclear strike, purportedly instructing officers not to take orders without his involvement and force them to take an oath to that effect.
	A senior military officer interfering with a civilian-controlled process is simply unacceptable at best, and at worst would cause ambiguity, which could lead to war.
	General Milley has attempted to rationalize his reckless behavior by arguing arguing what he perceived as the military's judgment was more stable than its civilian commander.
	It's a dangerous precedent that could be asserted at any point in the future by General Milley or others.
	It threatens to tear apart our nation's long-standing principle of civilian control of the military.
	Rubio's call for Milley's immediate resignations echoed, interestingly, by former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vinman, that the media loved when they were trying to impeach Donald Trump, who charged that Milley usurped civilian authority.
	If this is true, General Milley must resign.
	He usurped civilian authority, broke chain of command, violated the sacrosanct principle of civilian control of the military.
	An extremely dangerous precedent.
	You cannot walk away from that.
	I agree with that.
	Milley telling military officials not to take orders.
	Can't have that.
	Now, the answer right away is because of the severity of these allegations, and our deep belief in a country of due process presumption of innocence, innocence until being proven guilty, which I believe strongly, and that that applies to everybody.
	And the chairman of the Joint Chiefs deserves a fair hearing.
	But the severity of these allegations warrant he be put on immediate administrative leave, pending the results of this expedited, I would say, form a commission investigation.
	And it can't be, you know, one of these one-sided Nancy Pelosi investigations.
	You know, no Jim Jordans, no Jim Banks of the world, only the Liz Cheneys of the world.
	Um this is now, and apparently Millie's been leaking all over the place.
	It really comes down to a he said versus they say.
	They claim they have the ability to back up what they are saying.
	Thank you.
	Meaning they're claiming, Costa and Woodward, that they have all of this backed up for their book.
	Why they were holding this important information for the American people to sell a book, that's an issue that I have a big problem with.
	They claim that they have documents, calendars, diaries, emails, meeting notes, transcripts, and other Records.
	We the people now need to have access to all of the above.
	All of it.
	Sooner than later.
	And I understand that they communicate with, you know, countries across the world, including China and Russia.
	That doesn't answer the fundamental question.
	You can defend your call to the Chinese military.
	That's not the issue.
	It's what was said in the call that is the issue.
	Biden can stand by him all he wants, but that doesn't answer the question either.
	That doesn't resolve whether or not he offered to betray the United States and the commander in chief and tried to usurp his role as commander in chief.
	These are serious, serious, real charges.
	The DOD Reorganization Act of 1986 identifies the chairman of the Joint Chiefs as a senior ranking member of the armed forces.
	As such, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs is the principal military advisor to the president.
	When he presents his advice, he presents the range of advice and opinions he's received along with individual comments from other joint chiefs of staff members.
	The chain of command to these combat combatant commands runs from the president to the Secretary of State directly to the commander of the combatant command.
	Nowhere in the chain of command does any member of Congress, Speaker Pelosi, or the chairman of the joint chiefs staff lie.
	Who's telling the truth here?
	Because there's no middle ground here.
	Either he did it or he didn't.
	Well, my kids used to lie.
	I used to make them sit down in front of me and stare at each other.
	It's okay, you don't get to leave until one of you tells me the truth, because it's either one or the other.
	The conversation, uh, do we have recorded conversations of Millie and Pelosi?
	Those transcripts available.
	Pelosi involved, we need to investigate her.
	We need to investigate Millie, we need to investigate everything involved in this.
	Because you have Nancy Pelosi asking the military to limit Donald Trump's role as commander in chief and take away his nuclear authority.
	That's not how that system works.
	Case you want to understand it a little better.
	Because the president has the sole launch authority.
	Period.
	End of sentence.
	Donald Trump was the only person in the government that could order a nuclear strike.
	The president has that authority.
	In the past, putting the power to end civilization in the hands of a single person has been seen as, okay, well...
	Well, people have different thoughts on it.
	Post Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Harry Truman, etc., etc.
	The start of the Cold War War, launch authority was delegated to some field commanders, eventually seen as too risky.
	Under the setup we have, the president travels with the nuclear football.
	Remember, but they made such a big deal about that when Trump went back to Palm Beach and Joe Biden was sworn into office at that second.
	One football stayed in place, and the other one was rendered useless.
	By the way, a top general in Afghanistan is claiming that Biden says the Biden claim that he agreed to the rush withdrawal is false.
	Taliban has now executed an Afghan war hero in front of his family.
	The Taliban has demand increase in ransom payments.
	We helped the U.S. until the evacuation of their last person.
	Unfortunately, the U.S., instead of thanking us, has frozen our assets.
	We still have hundreds of Americans abandoned, trapped behind enemy lines as hostages.
	Blinken even admitted several thousand U.S. green card holders abandoned by Joe Biden.
	Now the Taliban's threatening to behead a journalist.
	I'm looking at a picture in front of me.
	Yeah, a man's head.
	A body laid out, a man's head severed, and being held up by a celebrating Taliban.

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