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Oct. 4, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
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Inspector General Keeps FBI In Check - October 4th, Hour 2
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Uh, one of the things that has frustrated me.
Where's Durham?
Where's Durham?
Now, just before the statute of limitations were to end, he did arrest this guy suspend.
We've spent a lot of time on it.
Uh now we know that he's going deeper into what are the origins of this conspiracy theory, you know, where which when you when you get to the bottom of what has happened here, it is the single most corruption corrupt abuse of power scandal ever.
Now, when I talk about the FBI and the CIA and the intelligence community, I'm I'm only talking about one percent, not the ninety-nine percent.
Everybody forgets Inspector General Michael Horowitz did a comprehensive report that vindicate vindicated all of our reporting of almost three years about this phony Trump Russia collusion narrative.
Now he's going from Sussman, he's looking where the money flows.
The money literally came from Hillary Clinton and then the DNC that she was controlling at the time, funneled to Perkins Couie.
Perkins CUI, they f they then fund Fusion GPS, an op research firm.
The op research firm used Christopher Steele.
And anyway, as a basis of the dossier, then they use a phony attack against Carter Page, who we now know to be a CIA operative, which makes it even more intriguing.
You couldn't make this up and write a novel about this.
But they use it as a backdoor into all things candidate Donald Trump and his world, and then transition team Trump and his world and President Donald Trump.
And all of it, even to quote Andrew McCabe, there's no Pfizer warrant without the dirty Russian dossier that we now know to be totally and completely debunked, which even they knew was debunked.
Even Christopher Steele finally admitted it was debunked.
His main source admitted it was debunked, interviewed by the FBI, but they kept using it as the foundation for their applications to backdoor spy on a president of the United States, and it was one presidential candidate's dirty tricks.
And it gets worse every day.
And now we find out with this new report, an updated report um from Inspector General Horowitz that the FBI adopted its its procedures call known as the Wood Procedures in 2001, following concerns raised by the Pfizer court.
By the way, I want to have a Pfizer court because there are a lot of hostile regimes and bad actors in the world.
But it's got to be based on verifiable information.
The top of a FISA application says verified.
James Comey signed three of them, and it was unverifiable because the information he relied on was false.
He's not been held accountable.
McCabe's not been held accountable.
No, very few people held accountable.
If you're a conservative or a Republican and you spit on the sidewalk or your Jaywalk, you're gonna get 10 years in jail.
Anyway, so these FISA applications, you know, now we're finding out in December of 2019, the Office of Inspector General examined the FISA applications, targeting a U.S. person, other aspects of FBI's crossfire hurricane investigation,
identifying significant errors or omissions in all four FISA applications they used to spy on Donald Trump and and Carter Page, a victim in all of this, finding that the FBI personnel had failed to meet the FBI's uh scrupulously accurate standard and other requirements of what's known as the Wood procedures.
And the Office of Inspector General initiated the audit to determine whether the significant errors found in the December 2019 OIG report were indicative of a more widespread problem with compliance.
Turns out, yeah, it's really bad.
And it now shows how abusive the that again, the upper echelons, the few, not the many, not the majority, uh, have been in terms of abusing power, which is corrupt.
And remember, this is like lawlessness on a level with a with a power uh connected to it that is extraordinarily dangerous to the country.
Jason Chaffetz has done a great job with this, a deep dive.
He's a Fox News contributor.
Also now he's with the Government accountability uh institute as a distinguished fellow.
Um look, you and I have gone over the inspector general report, the original report.
They wouldn't do there were numerous referrals in that report.
Nobody followed up.
Why is it taking John Durham this long to just begin to get to the low-hanging fruit that existed in the IG report?
More than a thousand pages, Sean, and and more than a but a dozen people that were referred over there, uh evidence handed to John Durham.
I have no idea why it's taking him so long.
But what also scares me is this latest report.
It you know, it came out late last week, and so it got you know kind of just blown over because there was so much other news.
But think about this.
They did a sampling of 29 PISA applications over a four-year period.
One hundred percent of them.
One hundred percent of those applications had either unsupported, inaccurate, or omitted information in them.
A hundred percent.
And this is the justification that they could use to go to a court because it's a secret court, it's a one-way court.
It there's only the prosecutor that gets to go in there and say, hey, we need this, we need this warrant based on this information, and yet the inspector general found one hundred percent of the random cases that they took were had either unsupported, inaccurate, or omitted information.
I mean, you're talking about now I've got to seriously consider, and I said this back when we were covering this almost every day.
I I've got to ask myself whether or not the violations are so severe that we'd have to give up an important tool and come combating hostile regimes, enemy nations, hostile organizations, um, because I don't trust that it's going to be handled correctly.
They've not adopted measures that would ensure that integrity is put back in the system.
Well, and where's the court on this?
I mean, name any other instance where you go to the judicial branch and you lie, cheat, omit, um, give inaccurate information and there aren't repercussions.
How come Justice Roberts, who ultimately has the control, he's it's his responsibility, this FISA court.
If you look at the food chain, the Pfizer court ultimately ends up reporting him.
How come he isn't in there demanding people that why aren't there some people going to jail?
I guarantee if they incarcerate a couple of these people, there would be some changes.
These agents would think a long and hard and make sure there's they got all the T's crossed and all the I's dotted and all the information is there.
But nothing happens.
It's the same story every time I talk to you about this stuff, and it's infuriating.
It's infuriating, and it's it should be easily fixed.
I mean, the standard, it's on I've never seen a FISA application, but I've had it confirmed by everybody.
That is that the word says verified.
In other words, you're presenting to the FISA court judge, you're right, appointed by Chief Justice Roberts.
You're you're you're now telling the courts something that you are as a law enforcement official saying is is verified.
Yeah, I John Ratcliffe, for instance, a former member of Congress, the uh director of national intelligence, he's been through these and and it is in a classified setting, but it's not anything classified to say what the generic report that you fill out says at the very top.
You assign, you sign your name verifying that it is verifiable and that the information is there, but it just shows how sloppy and inadequate it is that is done there.
Uh Sean, when I was in Congress, I was on the Judiciary Committee, I was on the crime subcommittee.
When we were trying to have hearings about this, I asked our chairman if I could go to one of these hearings.
Could I attend one of these?
Could we talk to one of the judges?
And every time it was, no, you don't have the proper security clearance.
I was just a member of Congress.
I was just the chairman of the oversight committee.
Well, who does have clearance to go do that?
And we better darn well change this.
We better listen to the inspector general because we give these people special spying power, and a hundred percent of the time of the random sample, they've had bad bogus information.
You know, it let me play for you how high the standard is.
Now, what's ironic about what I'm about to play is Rod Rosenstein signed the final, the fourth FISA application, and again, now we know the information was Based, there was no FISA warrant if there did they have the Clinton bought and paid for dirty Russian dossier.
Okay.
Knowing that, listen to what Rod Rosenstein said.
The way we operate in the Department of Justice, if we can accuse somebody of wrongdoing, we have to have admissible evidence, incredible witnesses.
We need to prepare to prove our case in court.
And we have to affix our signature to the charging document.
That's something that not everybody appreciates.
And many people that I I see talking about it seem not to recognize uh what a FIS application.
A FISA application is actually a warrant, just like a search warrant.
Uh, in order to get a FISA uh search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career federal law enforcement officer who swears that the information in the affidavit is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Uh and that's the way we operate.
And if it's wrong, sometimes it is, if you find out there's anything incorrect in there, that person is gonna face consequences.
That person is gonna face consequences.
Now part of the law, I'll add to that, um, because nobody faced consequences.
Part of the law also says that if you discover at any point that information you you verified that you told the court court is true, and you turned it turns out it's not true, and you know that you have an obligation to go back to the court and correct that.
Yeah, and I I don't see any evidence of that happening.
You know, if you go back to what James Comey, when we were going through right at the heart of the election and supposedly Comey's investigation of Hillary Clinton was closed, he actually did send me as the chairman of the oversight committee a letter a few days before and at the end of the election saying, well, actually we are still looking at this, and you know, the the whole thing just kind of uh blew up there.
Um so in terms of Congress, Comey did that at least once, but I see no evidence of that happening.
And again, uh Sean, where are the courts and how come the the Congress, and it's controlled by Democrats, it's Jerry Nadler, um you know, in the House of Representatives.
Why aren't they holding like emergency meetings and hearings on this?
This is this is really bad stuff.
Let me change topics because um you I mean you've been really on target the whole time.
There's only been a small group of us that have understood and fully and accurately reported everything that happened, and I'm hoping more vindication comes.
Uh, I have no idea why John Durham has taken so long.
And whether he whether or not he gets to the low-hanging fruit of Michael Horowitz, I have no idea, because there were referrals made in his original report.
Let me ask you about politics and the future of the Republican Party.
We see that the Democratic Party now is in turmoil.
We've got probably what will be a defining election in terms of the future of this country in November of next year.
And this is the question.
So the Democrats are in disarray, they're now a radical extreme socialist party.
You see that how much the monies they want to spend, the policies they've adopted, you know, the disaster at the border, the disaster giving up energy independence, inflation out of control, higher taxes, more regulation, the disaster of abandoning Americans in Afghanistan.
Okay.
My question is this.
The Republican Party seems to have the more rhino wing, the Liz Cheney wing of the party and Kinzinger wing of the party.
And then it's America first, make America great again.
To me, conservatism is simple.
Which side wins this battle?
Well, it better be the MAGA side of that equation because making America great, standing for the policies that were put forth by the Trump administration are winning.
They were winning for the country.
They resonate with the American people.
And you know, I I really hope when you kind of bump into a rhino or somebody says, Oh, well, I didn't like his tweet.
Oh, really?
Um, guess what you got in return for that?
Um, I I really hope that they're challenged and said, Well, which part of the policy of Donald Trump did you not like?
Because as soon as you start talking about policy, they can't name anything.
I mean, there are going to be some that maybe disagree with one or two things, but I doubt it.
I I'm telling you, Donald Trump hit it out of the park in terms of policy.
He got rid of the the excessive regulation, cut taxes, strengthened the border foreign policy with a safe four years that We had under Donald Trump.
Uh the economy was zooming.
I mean, we were doing everything right.
So for those rhinos out there.
Okay, what policy do you disagree with?
Because you're pretty much gonna end up making a democratic argument.
And that's a losing argument at this point.
Yeah, well, it's a losing argument on a lot of fronts.
Uh those mean tweets don't seem so bad now that the media was getting all worked up on every day.
I think I'd take mean tweet tweets over abandoning Americans in Afghanistan.
Yeah.
I I this country, I really do I worry about it.
I I I look at what immigration law and order right here at home is just right on my forefront, but every seems like every hour the head swivels and you just think, Are you kidding me?
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris.
Uh AOC, this is what they got, Bernie Sanders.
Come on, if if Republicans can't win in this atmosphere.
Um and those abhorrent policies, socialist policies, we're we're in more trouble than I thought.
All right, Jason Chaffetz, we always love having you on.
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So what's up with Kimmel taking these shots at me last week, Linda?
Did you see my uh tweets over the weekend?
I sure did.
They were very subtle.
Really having a hard time.
I don't even have access to my own Twitter account, so I got to get permission.
I've got to go through five people to get a tweet out.
And it's just I just don't have time for it or that much interest in it, but I'm not gonna take crap from him.
No, definitely not.
Uh so you know, I said, All right, if you if you want to reignite the fight, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna win.
I'm just I just don't fight to lose.
It must be nice to know that, you know, you just live in his mind all day long, rent-free.
Apparently, I mean, and I could care less about Kimmel.
You know, you know who's kicking ass on late nine television?
It it's not Fallon and it's not Colbert, and it's not Kimmel.
You know who's kicking ass?
It's Greg uh Gutfeld over on the Fox News channel.
He's got the listen, a show's he's a very funny guy, and he's doing really, really well, and he's going up against these shows and he's beating them a lot of nights.
How cool is that?
I think anybody that that beats all of these liberals, I mean, it's okay in my book.
You know, look, and I don't even care as long as they're funny.
Like John Stewart used to kick the crap out of me, but I always thought he was.
Yeah, but he's funny.
It was funny.
If you're funny, then it's funny.
These guys are not funny, so it's not enjoyable.
It's just not uh and even if it's at my expense, I'm like, just be funny.
Be funny.
Something.
Sean Hannity thought he was was really desperate and needed to go after Joe Biden, and he claimed that when he showed up at the congressional baseball game, he got booed.
By the way, he did get booed at the congressional baseball game.
It's pathetic.
You know, I said if you want to talk about serious issues, how do you feel about him abandoning Americans behind enemy lines, Jimmy?
How do you feel about begging OPEC for for them to produce more energy because he gave up the energy independence he inherited?
How do you feel about open borders with a high rate of COVID positivity in the middle of a pandemic, Jimmy?
You know, I'm how do you feel about inflation?
I mean, okay, you want to get serious?
Let's talk.
Uh yeah, but he can't do that, Sean.
You know that.
And and this is the thing.
If this was Donald Trump, all of these shows tonight would air the following.
First, we're gonna play the F. Joe Biden chants all across America this weekend in a lot of football games, etc.
And first, let's start there.
Go Biden!
F*** Joe Biden Joe Biden.
Oh, now let's go to Talladega and NASCAR.
Yeah, tell it they got a little message for Joe too.
Oh my god, it's such an unbelievable moment.
Brandon, you also told me you can hear the chance from the the crowd.
Let's go, Brandon.
Brandon, you told me you were gonna kind of hang back those two stages and just watch and learn what you learned that helped you there in those closing laps.
Oh my god, it was uh learning how line didn't uh stay to one and everything shifted top to bottom so much.
I don't know, maybe it's me.
I am hard of hearing, but I didn't hear let's go Brandon Linda.
I heard F. Joe Biden again.
Maybe I'm making it up.
No, I mean I think the funniest part about the whole thing.
I mean, first of all, I saw this this morning and I was crying laughing.
Crying.
I'm like, it are we really trying to pretend like we're not hearing the words coming out of their mouths.
There's a thousand people.
Oh, let's go, Brandon.
I'm like, I don't hear let's go.
I definitely didn't hear anything about branding.
I mean, you're deaf.
I'm going on deaf, and it was clear as a bell to me, let me tell you.
It was very clear.
I knew exactly what they were saying.
Do you know how many interviews I've been doing because of the 25th anniversary of Fox?
Can you believe I'm the longest running prime time cable news host on the air?
I can believe it.
Next year I'll be the longest in in history.
If I by the way, if I make it, there's no guarantee I'll make it, but I'm gonna try.
You're gonna be thinking I'll make it.
I think you'll make it.
You got a lot of spirit, a lot of fight in you.
There's a lot to talk about.
You know, the world's on fire.
So I I'll tell you this.
If I didn't transform my life, nine uh now starting my ninth year of martial mixed martial arts.
If I didn't transform my life, I don't think I I don't I don't I just I I I would be in bad shape by now.
I do agree with you that a healthier lifestyle has definitely helped the rigorous requirements of the last presidency, what's happening in our world now.
I mean, it is a non-stop 24-7 job without question.
It it and I and I'm giving these interviews.
Well, people are like, Well, well, tell us about your life.
What's your you know, what do you like to do for fun?
I'm like, work.
What do you do during?
I said I live like a marine during the week.
I, you know, I get up, I work out for an hour and a half.
Uh now I'm I'm eating better than ever.
You'll be very proud.
I have a salad every day.
I'm now eating vegetables with every meal.
Very, very vegetables are you eating?
Let's let's quant what what kind of vegetables are we talking about?
Uh I don't know why, but I like fresh cut string beans.
I like that a lot.
That's like the only vegetable I don't like.
Okay.
And spinach.
That's good.
I like it has to be chopped.
I can't I can't eat anything that looks like a leaf from a tree.
Shocking.
Um, but fresh.
And uh peas and and then mixed vegetables.
All right.
Pretty cool.
Not bad for you.
Now the true wait, wait, wait, wait.
We're not done yet.
And how much salt is the same.
You'll be happy to know.
Uh free-range chickens, you know, no home or no hormones or any of that crap.
Okay.
And and but ver but only four to six ounces of meat at any given meal.
That's it.
So back to the original question.
How much salt are you having?
None?
Ton.
Oh, a ton.
Yeah.
And oh, I and I drink a lot of cauliflower, non-dairy, gluten-free soup.
Wait, you drink a lot of you know, I how do you have the audacity to rip Linda for stuff that she eats the green pea soup nasty stuff?
Who drinks cauliflower?
Mine's not disgusting.
No, no, no.
You don't don't don't try and defend this.
That your stuff is straight nasty and everybody knows it now.
I'm telling you, it's really good.
Bone marrow and cauliflower.
That that this is what you're doing with yourself.
He can't taste it because it's covered in salt.
Yeah, it definitely gets blanketed with a nice sheet of salt.
But so in all seriousness, how how has it been going with all the interviews?
Are people being creeps or has it been good?
You know, I mean, there's the predictable crap, but I mean everyone mostly's been pretty nice.
The New York Post, I think it was like the nicest article I ever had yesterday.
Well, you know, you had 25 years here at radio as well, right?
We didn't celebrate that either because you don't like to do that because it's right before 9-11.
But you have 25 years here as well.
You see, you just gave away something I don't talk about.
This show syndicated on September 10th, 2001.
Now I've been on radio 33 years, and I just cannot make I just can't talk about it.
No, it's really sad.
But I honestly, and I said this to you, you know, you know, for the for the audience's purposes, you know, close friends and colleagues and family, like we all put together a video for Sean, but wasn't public, and we gave it to him, and and he said to me, He's like, This is really nice, but I just can't even celebrate because it's before such a tragic day of all of our lives, all Americans, quite frankly, the world.
I I I would I just for me personally I find it highly I know you always say that it's inappropriate.
But I can't, but I don't, I just it's not in me to do it.
If I may for a moment, I will say this is this show has been dedicated to you know, our men and women who who give their lives so that we have the freedom to talk the way that we do, and you have always paid homage to those who pay the ultimate sacrifice.
We've always remembered 9-11, and you have done everything you can with this microphone to give back to give people a voice.
So there is something to be said for the fact that you know this has been a way of saying thank you over 25 years.
I'm not saying something listen, I feel like I've had a life that is not deserved.
Um, bless I there are two things I've I always make the point that, and I feel like I'm being interviewed by you now.
Good grief.
I would never do that to you.
Okay.
So I've always made the point that I don't think fame is healthy.
I've never sought fame.
That's not, but I don't know what happened.
I get behind a radio microphone, the light goes on, and then like all it just comes flying out of me.
I can't really explain what happened.
But this is my passion.
This is what I love.
You know, all I would get up and do the exact same thing every day, except I'm blessed to be able to do it and share it with this great audience, now larger than it's ever been.
You know, we're approaching 670 or 75 radio stations now.
Well, we're at that.
We're approaching 700.
And I mean, I just never thought I'd be this blessed.
And now 25 years on Fox, and sometime next year we'll be the longest running primetime cable show in history.
And I don't know whether I should laugh or cry.
I think it's your hair.
It's because you got good hair.
It's clearly what it is.
You know how pissed off I was last night.
They're running this special about the 25 years of Fox.
And it's I have a rule.
Do not show me from back in day one.
Why?
Why do you have this rule?
I because it's I just cringe.
If if I if you're cringe, but other people I will cringe.
I get humiliated.
I want to hide in a hole somewhere.
I don't know.
I think it's kind of neat.
I think it's nostalgic.
I like it.
Anyway.
Oh God.
Anyway.
Steve in Florida.
What's up, Steve?
We should be with you.
How are you?
John, very well.
Thanks.
Thanks for having me for taking my call.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Uh, listen to the show quite a bit.
And just like you were just saying, now you're approaching 700 stations.
You have a lot to sway with your audience.
And um I I couldn't get hard numbers.
They they talked like maybe 14, 15 million uh radio listeners every week.
There's a lot of people.
Um it's very hard to measure it accurately anymore because you got a hundred, you know, like there are certain unrated platforms like satellite radio, then every station has their own website.
And then I have Hannity.com, then I have podcasting, then you have the stations.
I mean, so it gets hard, but we know it's grown by leaps and bounds, and and we do enough anecdotal uh we get enough anecdotal information that you know that I'm very blessed.
And I'm I never forget that you make this show possible.
Everyone that listens to this show, I can't do it without you.
You could fire me at any point, and I hope you don't.
Not gonna fire you.
My point is, just like you were just saying, you know, you you have a lar a large audience and you uh swing a pretty big bat with your audience.
I think that's my question.
Go ahead.
What's the question?
Oh, I'm gonna ask.
Do you think our country would be better off if everyone who was able, physically able, were to get a vaccine shot?
I think it's gotta be I I'm not in that position.
I spent a lot of time in an interview today explaining this to somebody today.
I never went to medical school.
I'm not a doctor.
Okay.
Everybody, everyone listening, everybody in this country has their very own unique medical history that I don't know a thing about.
Everybody has their own current medical condition that I don't know a thing about.
We've lost 700,000 Americans here.
This and that's why I say, please take this seriously.
Please research.
I'm not talking about starting your own virology lab and breaking down the sequence of the virus and the genomes within the virus.
I'm talking about learning about every aspect of this virus that you can.
Learn about the varying vaccines, the MRNA technology.
We had the creator of it on the program not that long ago, uh, versus say the Johnson and Johnson.
Um learn about therapeutics if you have a breakthrough case or you're unvaccinated and you get a positive test, take it seriously, immediately call your doctor.
And you have to do this in consultation with a professional.
I'm not qualified to give that information out, Steve.
I, you know, for example, I know unvaccinated people that are older that got within 24 hours monoclonal antibodies, and they're fine.
I have a friend that had a breakthrough case, fully vaccinated, monoclonal antibodies, did great.
We don't talk enough about that either.
But what you're really asking me is why don't I believe in one size fits all medicine?
I just don't.
And then you might follow up and ask me, well, Hannity, what about those people?
I I don't agree with Dr. Fauci who says that Americans should give up their individual freedom for the greater good of society.
I I I I believe in the idea of freedom.
That's it.
I believe in science.
I believe in the science of vaccination.
But you gotta be I'm giving you the answers that to follow the best path, but it's ultimately your decision with your doctor, not Sean Hannity's decision.
Sean, I I totally agree with you all the way through.
And the reason I'm calling is because over time you've done a good job of promoting uh the vaccines, I think, for people that are able.
I I believe you do, and I I commend you for it.
Listen, even the people the doctors we've had on, I don't I can't eat Rand Paul, for example, is not getting vaccinated because he believes he has natural immunity.
You know, he had said definitely if you have a pre existing condition, if you have comorbidities, compromised immune system, get the vaccine.
He says, I highly recommend it.
So did the creator of the mRNA virus.
I was a little surprised that he made other exceptions.
I was surprised I was surprised by his answer on that.
But I, you know, I put people on that I agree and disagree with, and I put people on that give you information, but then again, you take the information, you have to look at your unique medical history and condition and talk to your doctor about it.
But I really do I I've seen the worst of this thing, Steve.
It's bad.
I've seen people that have survived ventilators, and I've seen I know people that died on ventilators, and I don't want any of that to happen to any of you.
Please be smart.
That's my advice, okay?
At this point, I think a lot of people know someone up close and personal that's had most every given.
It's terrible.
And by the way, I I was the first conservative that said I don't really mind wearing a mask.
It ended up being a blessing in my life.
I got anonymity, a little anonymity back in my life.
But I, you know, I did, but the real reason was I didn't want to make anybody sick.
I feel terrible.
If I didn't know I had something, I was asymptomatic.
If it turns out I have it and I'd have to call somebody and they got something from me, I'd feel terrible.
Quick break, we'll come back.
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