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Feb. 7, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Putin's Playbook - February 7th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, I mean, I can't believe what is going on internationally in terms of foreign policy.
I mean, I look at the Israeli Prime Minister, Bennett, who, by the way, lied to the Israeli people.
I have very little respect for him, but he's in a bind right now.
And Biden is now talking about another Iranian deal.
Remember, the first Iranian deal, you have cargo planes of cash and other currency.
They drop it on the tarmac for the Iranian mullahs.
And anyway, so the new prime minister invites Biden to visit Israel in a phone call a few hours earlier.
He said the Iran nuclear deal that world powers are negotiating in Vienna will make it harder to stop Iran from getting nukes.
Joe is allowing that to happen on his watch.
There was an interesting moment late last week on Thursday where an AP reporter is grilling a State Department spokesperson, Matthew Lee, on the price of the claim that Russia is making a propaganda film about Ukraine.
Now, if I had to make a guess, an educated guess, I don't think Vladimir Putin is amassing all of this military equipment, all of these troops along the Ukrainian border, unless he has serious intentions of pursuing geographical ambitions, just like I have no doubt President Qi will do that with Taiwan right after the Olympics.
It's not going to be during the Olympics.
And Biden's response has been nothing but pathetic.
But just listen to this exchange.
What evidence do you have to support the idea that there is some propaganda film in the making?
Now, this is derived from information known to the U.S. government, intelligence information that we have declassified.
I think you know.
OK, well, where is it?
Where is this information?
It is intelligence information that we have declassified.
Well, where is it?
Where is the declassified information?
I just delivered it.
No, you made a series of allegations.
Would you like us to print it out the top earth?
Because you will see a transcript of this briefing that you can print out for yourself.
That's not evidence, Ned.
That's you saying it.
That's not evidence.
I'm sorry.
What would you like, Matt?
I would like to see some proof that you can show that shows that the Russians are doing this.
Ned, I've been doing this for a long time.
I know.
That was my point.
You have been doing this for quite a while.
You know that when we declassify intelligence information, we do so in a means.
We do so with an eye to protecting sources and methods.
It's not going to fall.
I remember a lot of things.
So where is the declassified information other than you coming out here and saying?
Matt, I'm sorry you don't like the format, but we have declassified.
It's the content.
I'm sorry you don't like the content.
I'm sorry you are doubting the information that is in the possession of the U.S. government.
What I'm telling you is that this is information that's available to us.
We are making it available to you in order for a couple of reasons.
One is to attempt to deter the Russians from going ahead with this activity.
Two, in the event we're not able to do that, in the event the Russians do go ahead with this, to make it clear as day, to lay bare the fact that this has always been an attempt on the part of the Russian Federation to fabricate a pretext.
Yeah, but you don't have any evidence to back it up other than what you're saying.
It's like you're saying, we think we have information that the Russians may do this, but you won't tell us what the information is.
And then whenever you're asking, that is the idea behind deterrence, Matt.
That is the idea behind deterrence.
And when you're in the middle of the day, it is our hope that the Russians don't go forward with this.
Is you say, I just gave it to you.
But that's not what you're doing.
You seem not to understand.
You seem not to understand the idea of deterrence.
We are trying to deter the Russians from moving forward with this type of activity.
That is why we're making it public today.
If the Russians don't go forward with this, that is not ipso facto an indication that they never had plans to do so.
But then it's unprovable.
My God, what is the evidence that you have that suggests that the Russians are even planning this?
I mean, I'm not saying that they're not, but you just come out and say this and expect us just to believe it without you showing a shred of evidence that it's actually true.
Other than when I ask, or when anyone else asks, what's the information?
You said, well, I just gave it to you, which was just you making a statement.
All right, there you have, I mean, it just, you can't even make this stuff up.
Why would Putin be putting all this military equipment and all these troops on the border?
Look, is it possible that he's trying to get the world to freak out and gain major, massive concessions?
He already got the biggest concession you could ever want from Joe Biden, and that's the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
That, of course, the waiver was granted to Putin, but Joe was simultaneously firing workers on our own Keystone XL pipeline, high-paying career energy jobs that are not easy to find.
Just get another good union job.
Where?
Anyway, Rebecca Koffler is with us, Russian-born, by the way, former U.S. intelligence officer, author of the book, Putin's Playbook, Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America.
And by the way, she's also started her own podcast, Censored But Not Silenced.
Rebecca, you were born in the Soviet Union, the former Soviet Union, correct?
That is correct, Sean.
Okay, and you worked as a U.S. intelligence officer.
How many years?
I worked from 2008 until late 2016, early 2017, pretty much during the Obama administration.
So I witnessed how everything was unfolding, Sean, and how the Obama administration with led President Biden did nothing about Russia's plans and intentions and missed every single signpost and did zero except trying to reset, to do a reset with Russia.
And now my favorite is: tell Vladimir, I'll have more flexibility.
Tell Vladimir I'll have more flexibility after my election.
Exactly.
It's outrageous.
And now at the 11th hour, they're trying to come up with the magic bullet.
You heard the State Department, quote-unquote, expert talking about deterrence.
Well, they had a chance.
The Washington National Security Establishment had about 20 years to establish a deterrence strategy, and they didn't do anything about it.
And now they have brought us pretty much on the brink of war because Russia-Ukraine crisis could very well escalate into something bigger.
And well, you know, Vladimir Putin.
He's a former KGB.
I mean, are his intentions to extract some type of, I don't know, whatever he wants from the West, concessions from the West, or is it his intentions to do what they did previously, which is, you know, take over Crimea?
Yeah.
Maybe Kiev this time.
What is the more likely scenario?
So the interesting thing is about Putin is that his force posture that he assembled on the border with Ukraine is pretty flexible, and it is by design.
He wants to achieve a tactical surprise by keeping us guessing.
The force posture is really sufficient to do anything from the full mechanized attack and invasion to actually take over the entire Ukraine if he needs to.
He can also do a limited incursion, just like President Biden greenlighted a couple of weeks ago, or he can launch an air and missile strike campaign from stand-off distances without even ever setting foot.
Militarily, Ukraine can't compete.
It's over.
If he wants to march into Ukraine, kill 50,000 people, he could do it within seconds.
And you're right, the minor incursion comment by Biden certainly seemed like a green light to me.
The question is, what are Putin's motives here?
Are these territorial ambitions, or is it more likely he's looking for more concessions from the West?
It's both, Shad.
So Putin has declared in his government in multiple strategic planning documents that he wants to reintegrate the former Soviet Union, right?
Or some semblance of it.
Not exactly the same, but they call it the Union.
He doesn't want to take Ukraine fully because then she would have to deal with owning it, right?
And Ukraine is a basket case by very multiple criteria.
But what he can do is deploy peacekeepers, right?
The quote-unquote peacekeepers.
And he tested out that playbook a couple of weeks ago in Kazakhstan.
So control over the political, economic control, some territorial control, possibly of eastern Ukraine, and what you just said a minute ago, extort further concessions from the U.S.
So what would the concessions be?
Because their economy, 50% of it, at least 50% of it, is based on energy and exports.
And why Joe Biden, from a geopolitical strategic vantage point, why he would ever allow Putin to be the main supplier of energy to our Western European allies, which only pushes them into the arms of Putin and defeats even the purpose of NATO on many levels, then I'm trying to understand why Joe would allow this to happen.
And how dumb is he?
Well, nobody really knows, Chad, right, what is in Joe Biden's head.
But the concessions that I'm talking about.
By the way, the person that knows least of what is in his head is him, but go ahead.
That's true.
So remember what President Trump did during his administration.
He basically pulled out of a lot of treaties, right, you know, with the Russians.
The open sky treaty that Russians were using or misusing rather to spy on American military installation.
President Trump pulled out of the intermediate range nuclear weapons treaty.
But Biden is now trying to renew all of these negotiations.
Remember, it's meeting after meeting after meeting in Europe, right?
But the Russians figured out that they can simply, you know, leave Biden by his nose and extort concessions within various treaties.
That's what I am most concerned about because Joe Biden is just selling out the store, you know, with the Russians.
All right, quick break more with Rebecca Koffler, Russian-born, former U.S. intelligence officer, on the threat that is Russia and, frankly, China and Iran.
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All right, Rebecca Koffler is with us.
Russian-born, former U.S. intelligence officer.
We're talking about Putin and Russia.
You played this role as a strategic intelligence analyst.
You're a U.S. intelligence officer.
And I look at the money that the Bidens got from the Russian oligarch, former First Lady of Moscow, $3.5 million.
The monies that Hunter received from Ukraine, you know, with no experience in oil, energy, gas, or Ukraine, but he's getting millions of dollars.
The $1.5 billion Bank of China deal, the $31 million from China that the Bidens got, as revealed in Peter Schweitzer's book.
And my question is this.
You understand their intelligence apparatus better than anybody.
To what extent do you believe that the Bidens and Joe Biden in particular and the Biden family in particular are compromised by Russia, Ukraine, and China, and probably other countries as well?
To what extent?
I believe definitely he's compromised.
But most importantly, the Russians believe that he's compromised.
Define what compromise means in your world.
That means, you know, that somebody, somebody, and that somebody would be a Russian intelligence services, would blackmail Biden into, you know, doing things on.
Slow down.
That would mean that they would let the Bidens know, yeah, you guys don't really want to mess with us because we've got all this information on you and let them know that they have it, correct?
That is exactly right.
That's what compromise means, and this is why we see a very soft posture, not only right now during the Biden administration, but the same, you know, back during the Obama administration.
They had the opportunity to develop a very viable counter strategy, and they did not.
And the reason is very possibly that there is compromise right there.
And the Russians acknowledge it themselves.
You know, they're following the Honda Biden laptop story and everything, all the time.
So they probably, anytime any Biden was in Russia, they were spied on the entire time, true or false.
Well, of course, you know this, right, Sean?
I mean, you travel.
Yes.
Yes.
I was warned when I was in Helsinki that I better not turn on my phone and that I was likely being monitored the whole time.
Absolutely.
Not just Helsinki.
Really anywhere.
You know, if you go to China, you go to Russia.
You better not even bring your own phone, Sean.
Just get a burnout or something because there are close proximity operations.
It's not just like, you know, hacking your phone.
Somebody, even without physically owning your phone or obtaining your phone, without even deploying malware with close proximity ops can get into your data.
And that's just the best advice.
We know the technology exists because we see the scandal in Israel with the NSO group on this new spyware technology.
They could be outside your house and download every single piece of equipment you've got.
So I'm sure the Russians have it too.
And the Chinese.
Oh, Jane, Sean, this is exactly what close proximity operations mean.
Yeah, by the way, our own FBI has it.
That scares me too.
Anyway, Rebecca, thank you.
Appreciate it.
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Dan is in Connecticut.
Dan, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, it is an honor and a pleasure to finally speak with you.
The pleasure, sir, is all mine.
What's going on?
I just wanted to call about the incident with Joe Rogan and how cancel culture is literally trying everything in the book to take this man down and how chaotic it's become.
It just needs to stop.
I mean, it's like they're sitting at a drawing board going, all right, well, Spotify's not going to remove him, so let's dig up something else.
Oh, he said the N-word in an episode once, but let's not bother to actually read into the episode.
Let's just totally take what he said out of context and throw that to the wall and hope it sticks.
It's just getting ridiculous.
It's like the interesting thing that has evolved out of this is I've never heard of Odyssey.
Linda, did you ever hear of Odyssey?
I'd never heard of them.
I am very familiar with Rumble.
Rumble is an alternative to YouTube.
And actually, we have a pretty big following on Rumble.
And although I have no access to any of my social media anyway, so I wouldn't be able to tell you myself.
And both companies have offered Rogan a four-year $100 million deal if Spotify doesn't work out.
Now, I hate that word.
Nobody should ever use it.
And I don't think they should use Nazi analogies either.
Now, how many artists?
I don't know the answer to this.
It would be worth looking into.
How many artists use that word in music on Spotify?
I would imagine.
I don't like that music that uses that word either.
I don't like it used in any context.
Now, in terms of is Joe Rogan racist, okay, you listen to the context.
I'll let you decide.
But the idea that we have a mayor in New York City talking about cracker cops, and let me remind people what the new mayor of New York said.
Every day in the police department, I kicked those crackers' ass, man.
I was unbelievable in the police department when he just went up to back to law enforcement.
Same sergeant, I'm telling you.
I mean, the only point is, I don't like any of this language.
I don't like B's and hoes, and the N-word is off limits.
People should stop if they don't know, if they can't make a proper Nazi analogy, don't talk about it.
Or the Holocaust, it would be wise not to.
But we're at a point here where, from my perspective, is I don't like some of the music that uses that language, right?
What is my answer?
What is the antidote?
How does Sean Hannity handle music that I don't like or music with language I don't like, misogynistic, racist, whatever it happens to be?
Is I won't listen to it.
Now, the beauty is you don't have to listen to anything, watch anything.
And that's where if we're going to really celebrate freedom, then take the freedom you have and use it and use it wisely.
Does that make sense to you?
It makes perfect sense.
I mean, it's a saying as old as time.
My grandfather used to say, you don't like it, change the channel.
No one's forcing you to listen to Rogan.
He's allowed to have a platform.
He's got a great following.
And we all make mistakes.
You know, I think back to last year when Chris Rock was on the Breakfast Club, and he was like, it's like we've forgotten to allow people to fail.
Failure is what helps us learn and grow.
I mean, it's the same with Whoopi.
I think Whoopee's gone off the rails in these past few years, but I don't want Whoopee to be canceled.
Let her learn from her mistakes and move on.
And that's what we need to do with Joe Rogan.
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Joe Rogan has a biracial daughter.
So I don't see how Joe Rogan is racist.
I mean, the guy's been in the MMA scene for years.
I mean, think of all the fighters from all different backgrounds that have gotten a chance to get out there because of him.
I mean, the guy's got a great following.
And, you know, I'm so glad you brought up how Rumble made an offer to him because I saw that, that they emailed him.
And it's like, you know, Spotify, look, Rogan seems to be very patient with all of this, but I mean, you can only push somebody so far.
So, you know, I can't speak for Rogan.
The Spotify CEO says he found the defensive.
We're not going to entertain this or help him out.
The Spotify CEO this weekend, when this came out, now I didn't listen to all the times he said it, so I don't have that context, but I listened very closely and I watched his, I don't know, whatever apology, whatever medium it was put on Instagram or some one of those social things.
And I watched it.
And, you know, he couldn't have fallen on the sword any harder in terms of owning it, apologizing for it, admitting he's embarrassed by it.
I mean, how far back do we want to go?
I mean, obviously, people don't want to go back and talk about Joe Biden actually partnering with a Klansman to stop integration of schools and busing because he didn't want public schools to be racial jungles or he can't work at a 7-Eleven or my state's a slave state or for the first time ever, you got an African-American that is clean and articulate and bright.
I'm like, the first time ever?
Really, Joe?
Talking about Barack Obama.
You know, Kamala Harris had called him out on all this.
A lot of this is selective.
But at the end of the day, it's going to be everyone else that decides.
Remember this.
It's going to be something far less severe that is going to take out conservatives because it's used all the time.
I've experienced this now for 33 years.
I mean, are we going to go back now and go over every Howard Stern show?
Because I'm sure there's stuff on there that Howard probably wouldn't want to come up again.
And the same with anybody else in radio and TV.
There's got to be some level of statue of limitations.
And also, did people mean this?
Like if somebody really apologizes and you believe it, you'll find out very quickly by their actions if they're sincere.
Anyway.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
Anyway, appreciate the call, Dan.
Thank you.
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What's going on?
Yeah.
Hi.
Nice talking to you.
Nice to talk to you.
I watch your show every night.
Thank you.
Just wondering, Joe Rodin using the N-word, but nobody's ever been saying anything about Hunter Biden using the N-word for all that time.
Well, we brought it up on the show at the time, and I remember saying if it was a conservative, we've had a very different reaction.
I don't think I was far off, was I?
No, but no, nobody even mentions it for as soon as it's a conservative.
By the way, I don't even think Joe Rogan is a conservative.
I don't know what his politics are.
I've never met the guy.
Well, any conservative, any conservative that says the N-word, they'll jump all over him.
But as long as you're a Democrat, they don't even bother saying it.
Listen, if anyone in this business wants my advice, even if you're making a point, take that word and get rid of it forever.
That's my advice.
Because it's never going to end well for you.
And we'll see, you know, whether or not Spotify sticks by him, I don't know.
But he's got two offers sitting on the table right now, starting with Rumble.
And if he wants to go to Rumble, he'll get paid the same amount of money and maybe more.
Maybe if they offer it 100, maybe they'll give him 150.
Who knows?
And I don't think his audience, if you watched his apology, you got to ask yourself, did you believe it was sincere?
I thought it was sincere.
That's my take on it.
So do I.
But, you know, like they bring up everything like with Trump.
Trump, when he was running for office, they're making him take all his business dealings down.
Why don't they do this to Biden and his son?
You know the answer.
It's a double standard.
Listen, Bill Clinton's brother used the N-word.
Joe Biden's son used the N-word.
You know, everybody needs to just say goodbye to that word, period.
Anyway, appreciate it, Henry.
God bless you.
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Jan is in Michigan.
Hey, Jan, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean.
It's a real pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
The pleasure is mine.
I just wanted to talk a little bit about, I was listening Friday and you talked about Pelosi making those comments about the Olympiads to say anything when they're in China.
It could be dangerous in retaliation.
And I agree with everything you said, that that's not American.
Why is she saying that?
But hell must be freezing over because I have to agree with her on one thing.
I don't trust we can protect our athletes, Sean.
What would make you think when you said, what, 9,000 now?
Was your latest update on Americans left in Afghanistan?
So you're basically saying that China would want to use the Olympics to declare war on an American and imprison an American if they spoke out against, let's say, China on human rights abuses or the Uyghur minority Muslims in the country or COVID-19 and what they unleashed on the world or their territorial ambitions with Taiwan and the crackdown in Hong Kong.
You're saying that, you know, like if it was, let me put it this way, if one of my kids, and my kids were both athletes, if one of my kids was going to the Olympics and they're not, and they asked my advice, I'd say, follow your heart.
And I would not be fearful that they would be taken prisoner in China.
And if they were, trust me, I'd start my own war with China and make sure that the world knew, you know, that this is what they are.
They got a lot of pressure on them for the Olympics.
Now, you know, we can call it the Biden-China, you know, genocide Olympics.
Why the IOC ever gave them the Olympics is inexplicable to me.
There's no rational reason.
But the idea that we're the land of the free and the home of the brave and we're going to tell our fellow Americans, you better be quiet.
You don't want to make them mad or anything.
I'm like, I can't give that advice to my son or daughter.
It's not in my DNA to give my advice to my son and daughter.
You know, if you have something to say, say it.
Speak up.
You know, my son and daughter, you know, I don't want my kids to be cowering in a corner because of the communist Chinese.
That's my take.
I agree with you.
I just don't know if, God forbid, something happened, if they would leave soldiers in Afghanistan.
What would make you think they would leave an athlete in China?
Let me tell you, this would be as big as Munich 1976.
But I will tell you, it is the world is in a very precarious position.
And I'll tell you the main reason is we don't have an American president with even an ounce of strength.
We just don't.
And I'll take it a step further.
Our president is compromised by China.
His family's compromised by China.
He's compromised by Russia.
His family's compromised by Russia.
He's compromised in Ukraine.
And his family's compromised in Ukraine and other countries as well.
That is a huge problem.
And if his last name were Trump, it would be a very different world reaction to this.
Anyway, appreciate the call, Jan.
God bless you.
Let's say hi to Julia's in Tennessee.
What's up, Julia?
What's going on?
Where in Tennessee are you?
Brentwood, Tennessee.
Love Brentwood.
Yeah, that's close to Music City.
What's going on?
Yes, yes.
Toward the end of last week, you were talking COVID, as we frequently do.
And you always say, in conjunction with your doctor, make these decisions, get monoclonal.
I just want to mention, and as I heard that, I'm beginning to believe that we no longer have a pandemic of the vaccinated or the unvaccinated.
We have a pandemic of primary care providers who can't want or aren't allowed to be able to give people who test positive for COVID early intervention therapies and medications that would keep people out of the hospital.
And we never hear when we hear of all the people who hopefully they seem to want it to be unvaccinated people who die in hospitals.
Nobody has ever done any research to say how many of those people were allowed to get early intervention therapeutics or medications because we know they work and we know there are plenty of them, even though monoclonal antibodies seem to have been put in a lockbox someplace.
Julia, why do you think I am repeating this so often?
Because I know that if I say monoclonal antibodies one time, nobody's going to remember.
But if I say it five times a day, people will begin to say, what was that?
What did Hannity call that again?
And then the people will ask their doctor.
Problem is, Joe Biden failed.
He failed spectacularly.
And he failed because he didn't prepare or we didn't see Omicron coming.
Ran out of tests, ran out of monoclonals, including the new one that works best on Omicron, GSK Setrovamab.
And he's run out of anti-we never mass produce the antivirals that every doctor raves about.
There's no forgiving him for this.
Anyway, God bless you in Brentwood.
We appreciate all our friends in Tennessee.
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