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April 4, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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What's Next for Putin - April 4th, Hour 2
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The images are as gruesome as you'd ever want to see.
It's everything we warned you was happening, and nobody was really paying attention to it.
Now with the world finally getting images and pictures, we told you, for example, Mariupol, uh, Ukraine is a city that was pretty much 95% of that city has been wiped out.
And if you spend any time on the internet and you spend any time looking for the images of the indiscriminate bombing and killing of innocent men, women and children, you will find it everywhere.
Uh which is why I said there are two things NATO, Western Europe, and the United States needs to do immediately.
And that's to ensure that the Ukrainians have enough weaponry, drones, anti uh aircraft defense systems, anti-missile defense systems.
Uh they certainly need the javelins and they need the stinger missiles, and I don't know why Joe vetoed them getting fighter jets uh to defend themselves because they've shown incredi incredible valor and bravery and courage and a willingness to defend their own country.
Uh not one American boot on the ground, very much supporting the Reagan doctrine here.
Um, what's happened in a small city of Bucha is, I mean, you see mass graves now with as many as 300 people in them, other mass graves, other atrocities.
Even Biden's, you know, said that Putin should face uh trial for war crimes after that more mass graves have been found.
Uh you see pick people literally pictures of people shot, murdered with their hands tied behind their back, which was on the cover of the New York Post today.
I mean, it is that bad, it is that gruesome.
Uh one shot that was really impressive was that uh the remains of a Russian uh SU-35 fighter jet.
That was down by Ukrainian forces, but they're not getting enough weaponry to the Ukrainians fast enough so that they can actually win the war.
They also had all these images of of people in plastic bags and mass graves, and as many as what, 300 people in one mass grave, I think another hundred in another mass grave.
You know, Russian troops, you can see apartment buildings totally leveled, entire neighborhoods and and that's and cities leveled.
Um the streets of Kyiv or Kiev suburb.
This is just outside Bucha is outside of Kiev, of Kiev, or Kyiv, depending on which way you pronounce it.
Uh 280 buried in that mass grave.
And yeah, of course, these the these are war crimes.
One report in The Guardian in Great Britain Is saying that Ukrainian children are being used as human shields by the Russians uh in Ukraine.
New reports of these war crimes now are breaking every single day.
People buried in you know all over the place, it's civilians being executed.
Why why is why would you take a where's your soul or conscience that you're taking out innocent men, women, and children?
Now, again, you've you've raised the question, well, Hannity, what about those that say that we ought to increase our involvement?
No, because they're not doing the two things that matter now.
And then two things that matter most now are urgently getting the military weaponry so that the Ukrainians fight their own conflict.
And so far they've done extraordinarily well being outmanned and outgunned.
They just need more weaponry to defend their country.
And the second thing is Western Europe has got to turn the spigot off some way, somehow, and it needs to be done immediately.
And that means stop importing any Russian oil or gas, and that will help bankrupt Putin, and it's helping to fund his territorial ambitions.
Anyway, over the weekend on Face the Nation, President Zelensky talked about the genocide that's going on in his country.
Is this genocide?
Indeed.
This is genocide.
Elimination of the whole nation of the people.
We are the citizens of Ukraine.
We have more than a hundred nationalities.
This is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities.
We are the citizens of Ukraine.
And we don't want to be subdued to the policy of Russian Federation.
This is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated.
And this is happening in the Europe of the 21st century.
So this is the torture of the whole nation.
Joining us Rebecca Kopfler's with us, former defense intelligence agency officer, also currently a stregic uh intelligence analyst with the Lindsay group.
She authored Putin's playbook, Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America.
Scott Ulinger is back with us, retired CIA ops officer, Russian Intel ops expert.
He's written extensively on Russia Gate and the dirty misinformation steel dossier.
You know him better than anybody.
Most Intel sources I have say they seen a change in him.
I'm not really sure that I see a change so much as a guy that is just hellbent on killing anybody to achieve his territorial ambitions.
There's no change in Putin Sean.
You're absolutely correct that this man has no soul.
Not sure what former President George Bush uh saw in his eye, but this is a cold-blooded uh killer and assassin, and uh he adheres just like his uh Russia's predecessor Soviet Union to the concept of total war,
whereby every target is legitimate, whether it's civilian, man, woman, child, the primary objective is to defeat Ukraine, topple it, and that's what we see right now.
The Russian way of war is very brutal.
Well, and it's getting it seems as as Ukraine fights back, it's getting even worse.
Uh watch these reports, Scott Yulinger uh all last week.
Oh, uh you uh Russian forces are pulling back from Kyiv.
This is a great success story.
And then on the next page, or on you know, three paragraphs later, you read that Vladimir Putin has ratcheted up the missile uh the bombings of Kiev and and what is now what is the capital city or what remains of it.
That's right.
The um and also he's using the troops that maybe some of the troops that are being withdrawn and maybe refitted in Belarus are going to be used eventually, or if not right now, in the east of Ukraine.
So he's not the same forces he committed to destroy Ukraine are still there.
They're just maybe moving around from place to place.
But um Yeah, I mean, Putin has spent, you know, a gener uh almost a generation.
I mean, there are soldiers, Russian soldiers dying now who are 19 years old.
They have only known Vladimir Putin in power.
And he spent an entire generation making people think that Ukraine is an artificial state.
It does not deserve to exist, and so much the way that um that Hitler uh despised the poles and wanted to wipe them from the face of the earth.
I think what we're seeing now with some of these atrocities is that it's almost become a state policy to liquidate any Ukrainian who steps in the way.
You know, I guess at this point, what what I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around, Rebecca, is is how Western Europe, how NATO countries ever allowed themselves to be so compromised.
I played videotape of Donald Trump lecturing the leader of NATO in 2018, you know, but just a beatdown that went on for you know a good five minutes about how stupid NATO is and how we're paying the the greater dollar amount,
the greater percentage of GDP dollars to protect NATO allies from Russia, and then all of these NATO allies are making Russia and Putin rich, and you know, a country like Germany turns off their nuclear facilities, giving in to their own radical environmentalists while then importing sixty-five, seventy percent of their energy needs from Russia, and and you see now the position they're in.
Uh if we tur if if Putin turns off the spigot, they're done.
Their economy is m uh forever damaged.
President Trump was absolutely correct, uh Sean, when he prodded uh NATO to start shipping in at least two percent minimum into the collective defense kitty.
NATO has been sitting sleeping rather at the wheel, has missed 20 years of signposts, and Putin's uh warnings about what he was going to do.
We had at least ten years to develop a you mentioned uh Ronald Reagan doctrine.
This is what should have been done.
We should have uh weaned ourselves and the West, Europe off of the needle of Russian energy, we should have secured our satellites from cyber attacks, we should have secured our communication networks, and instead they were sitting and drinking espresso at the cafeteria in Brussels.
This conflict is simply a distraction.
Most of these people are careerists, and uh they just need to start really taking the world how it is and uh start paying attention to the U.S. All right.
Here's my question then for both of you.
Scott, do you believe Putin's territorial ambitions extend beyond Ukraine?
The um I I think that they could extend beyond Ukraine to include places such as uh the Baltic Asia and the Caucasus.
The Baltics, you know, used to be, they have they have been nations for more than a hundred years.
I'm not sure, and they are members of NATO.
And I think at this point in time, that would start a war.
That that there would be full support for uh for the defense of NATO should they do that.
However, there are countries like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan that are somewhat affiliated with Russia, and they uh and they are very much under the cultural sway of Russia, and so Putin may look at them as being sort of candidates for reabsorption, although at this point, with his military overcommitted and tremendous losses, whether his ambitions are expansion or not, you have to question Russia's ability to do that at this point.
Since they've clearly bent off more than they could chew in Ukraine already.
Quick break more with Scott Ulinger, retired CIA ops officer, Russian Intel ops expert, Rebecca Koffler wrote Putin's playbook, Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America.
Uh, want to remind you when looking back at the world of cyber safety just last year, 2021, uh it was a big year for data breaches, you know, for example, LinkedIn, public information scape of more than 700 million users.
all right we continue with scott ulinger and rebecca kopfler I'm not sure um where everybody else is.
It appears that the Ukrainian resistance and insurgency is outperforms people's expectations, but that's hardly a victory over Putin and Russia, Rebecca.
So uh If Vladimir keeps going scorched dirt the way he is, there's not going to be much of a country left for anybody at the end of the day.
True.
Uh Putin's uh ultimate goal, I agree with uh Scott is to reaborb all of these countries that Scott mentioned back under Russian control.
But also his goal in this operation is to scare the daylights out of all these countries in order to prevent them from leaning towards the West.
Glimpse said that it's a strategic defeat for Russia.
Absolutely not.
You are correct, Sean.
While tactically the Russians' performance has been abysmal strategically, he achieved his ultimate goal, and that is to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.
As long as this conflict persists, and it's but he also wants to he also wants as much land mass as he can take in this this whole conflict.
And he's lied all throughout, and the conditions that he's laid down and and why you would ever let Erdogan of of Turkey uh try and negotiate a peace is ridiculous to me because I don't trust him as far as I can throw him.
So you know, but is but his expectations, oh, you cannot join NATO.
Uh you must unilaterally disarm, meaning Ukraine.
Uh we get to keep whatever tor territory we want.
And I it it's these are so unrealistic in terms of any expectations of any deal.
He's just buying time to give to resupply, is he not?
Well, yeah, I mean this is happened.
Scott.
Yeah, traditionally that's happened.
The Russians have always used like negotiating, much like the Iranians, as in a uh you know, stalling out negotiations while they rebuild.
And that's exactly what they're doing now.
They proclaim they're pulling out of Ukraine when they're not.
And they keep on the Russians are the ones who keep on floating out that oh, peace is almost at hand because they want the West to cease its export of weapons to Ukraine.
Rebecca, your take?
Scott nailed that.
There's nothing further to add.
This is uh basically strategic deception called in Russian Maskyrovka that every diplomatic action and military action is accompanied by a program intended to deceive about what the real intentions are.
How does this end, Scott Ulinger?
Wow.
The um I guess it ends with I mean, Russia is certainly gonna take a while to recover from this, whether it emerges, quote, victorious or not.
But I I guess you know, Europe is on notice that these things can happen, and that basically the twenty past years of accommodation for Russia in the form of energy dependence on Russia was an absolute disaster from the beginning.
And anybody uh I was a junior officer in in Europe at the time, and I knew that was going to be a disaster.
But there were too many uh senior politicians on the corrupt uh on the Russian payroll who made it happen, and now they've got to live with it.
And Rebecca, as long as uh Putin can keep paying his soldiers and and pay them well and take care of his top brass, uh there's no chance that he's ever gonna be thrown out of office by the people inside of Russia.
Regretfully, no chance, uh Sean.
And by the way, China, Opera, Iran, Syria, and others are helping uh finance Putin's war machines, so this is gonna be a long, grinding, protracted conflict that's not gonna end any time soon.
All right, thank you both for being with us.
We appreciate it.
Uh 800 941 Sean, our number, we'll get to your calls next half hour.
Some of the other news of the day that we haven't hit yet.
Quick break.
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John Kerry, making America green, one Learjet liberal flight at a time.
You just can make this stuff up.
Sean Hannity is on right now.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
I gotta give my team Props I was talking last week about Maxime Waters getting pretty impatient with a large group of homeless people and telling them all to go home.
They're homeless.
Listen.
Another location where they're taking ass is any more locations in this one.
So many people out here.
I want everybody to go home.
We don't got no home.
And why are we here?
What are we going to go to?
Just a moment.
Just a moment.
Not because it's going to happen here today.
Nothing is going to happen anymore today.
I will be downtown.
I will get the house in the dog.
That's why they came out here today.
I made them come out.
And I'm going to go.
And you need to know why they're failing.
Because Buonday Jimenez repeated, we gave us several meeting requests for you concerning this in Lassa for years.
There's nobody in Washington who wants that people in the I do.
I believe I believe you're coming up.
Go home.
The whole point is they don't have a home.
You can't make this up.
Anyway, this is getting pretty interesting.
If you look at the reporting that has been out there about Donald Trump, you would think that Donald Trump has a seven hour missing call gap, White House call log gap.
But even fake news CNN is reporting it's not true.
I mean, this is what the in the tank media mob.
Why do I call them a mob?
Because they have a mob mentality.
It's like one says one thing and they all run with it, and it doesn't matter that they lie.
And the idea that, oh, now the Washington Post is holier than now because they they finally admit that the Hunter Biden laptop is real.
And now they're lecturing everyone else in the media to do it.
Well, they still haven't owned up to the three years of the Trump Russia collusion hoax or Hillary's dirty disinformation Russian dossier.
They still won't acknowledge the fact that we have a cognitively, you know, a cognitive mess as a pre president.
Uh they won't talk about the failure.
I mean, Pete Butter judge's comments on energy just blew me away.
Yeah, well, too bad.
Until we get to uh clean energy, uh, yeah, to get used to paying high high gas prices.
Oh, isn't that nice of him?
The same guy that told us to go buy electric vehicles.
Oh, okay, everybody's got sixty thousand dollars laying around.
You know, we have the highest percentage of people under this economic disaster of Biden and Kamala Harris and this energy disaster under all of them, that nobody can afford to buy a sixty thousand dollar electric car, even if they wanted a sixty thousand dollar electric car.
Anyway, it turns out, according to fake news, even CNN.
Because remember, they were making comparisons almost immediately.
You know, Trump's seven-hour call log gap.
They were making the comparisons to the 18-minute gap, Watergate tapes, Richard Nixon.
Uh, but it turns out that the call log uh issue has a lot more in common with Russia Gate and the Russia hoax and the Russian Trump Russia conspiracy theories than Watergate.
Because it turns out there is no mystery gap uh in former President Trump's official White House calling log from January 6th.
Quote the six pages of White House switchboard logs for one six are complete based on an official review of White House records, according to a source familiar with the matter.
There are no missing pages, and the seven-hour gap is likely explained by the use of White House landlines and cell phone links.
Even Jamie Gangell is reporting this.
And the report cited a former staffer of Barack Obama detailing how staff would sometimes dial out a call for the then president, hit transfer to connect Obama, which would technically evade the White House calling lock.
CNN explained that it was possible for President Trump that he often did the same during his tenure.
So there's nothing there.
It's just another way to bludgeon Donald Trump.
And Biden telling his inner circle that Trump should be prosecuted.
And the left is now ratcheting up pressure on the attorney general who is already politicized to the Department of Justice to act like less like a judge or more like a prosecutor.
I mean, all their coverage in media now, they're still fixated on all things Donald Trump.
Part of it's a distraction.
You know, the person that is in most legal jeopardy obviously is zero experienced hunter, but Hunter in these emails in his laptop drags his father into the entire mess and proves him to be a liar.
And we have pictures that shows that he was lying.
I never once talked to my son about any of his foreign business dealings.
So they're hoping, well, maybe we can get the attorney general to find something else on Donald Trump.
We'll create new laws and just apply them to Donald Trump.
You know, Ron Klain is confident that Hunter Biden did the right thing and how he handled this sleazy foreign business dealings.
Imagine if this was the Trump family member.
I'd love the Washington Post editorial board.
We need a this is a reckoning on how the media mob covered Hunter Biden during the election.
Glenn Greenwald called out much of the Washington Post editorial as arrogant, wanting other media organizations and reporters to acknowledge their failures on Hunter Biden.
Well, they should, but they're not gonna.
One interesting media thing that happened over the weekend, I saw that Elon Musk is now the largest stakeholder in Twitter.
He bought 9% of the company after ripping the platform for failure to protect free speech.
And this is on the heels of him wanting to uh start his own social media company, or at least potentially he said he he might be interested in that.
Uh it is uh it's very interesting times we are living in.
Really is.
Um Democratic Party waging war on reality, war on science, war on children, war on women.
That's what President Trump said in Michigan over the weekend at his rally there.
We have an update on the Supreme Court nominee, Katanji Brown Jackson doled out a lenient sentence, it turns out for a child rapist who violated probation, and then allegedly she set him free, struck again during the time when prosecutors wanted him locked up.
Why would you ever offer any breathing room for somebody like this?
I mean, at some point, judges bear the responsibility.
Um what else do we have today?
We have a lot of media nukes today.
I think this issue.
So uh Linda, do you know who Tiffany Cross?
I don't even know who it is.
Do you know who it is?
I mean, I know only from a picture on Mediaite, there was a story this weekend about her.
Uh anyway, actually a couple of stories.
She says that white people do not understand the Will Sli the Will Smith slap.
What is she talking about?
No idea.
What does that mean?
You know, it's anyway, so she brought in she had guests on her show, I guess Yvette Nicole Brown is an actress and columnist Michael Harriott on MSDNC.
I I get a lot of questions from people genuinely curious, genuinely asking why is it that so many people are saying white folks sit this one out.
I didn't hear it until I read this article.
I haven't heard one word about that until I read this article.
Anyway, so turns out that Michael Harriott is a columnist for the Grio.
Do you ever hear that?
I never heard of that.
Yeah, I've heard of the GRO.
Okay.
Answered by saying the slap controversy applies to quote, how black people relate to each other in a way that white people may not understand, even though it happened to everybody watching the Oscars.
Huh?
I'm I'm trying to understand this.
Goes on, it was about how black people relate to each other.
It's hard to explain to a white person what's the difference, uh, what the difference is between an open-handed slap and what a punch is because they consider it all violent.
It's hard to explain that everyone really has a ther certain threshold for which they will react in a certain way, whether it is say something to your their mother, their sister, uh, you say words to my wife, my kids, I'm gonna react in a certain way.
We don't know what it what that is for everyone.
When you choose to insult someone in the governing structure, you run the risk of, you know, if you step out of bounds, you don't know how far out of bounds they'll step.
And Chris Brown uh Chris Rock understood this.
And I'm I'm having a hard time understanding all of this.
And then Cross goes on from this point and says in reality, truly black America, there's a commonality against us all.
And if we went to a white person's home and it was their family dinner, and we were sitting at the table, and the mother hauled off and slapped the father, and everybody at the table has an opinion.
I mean, I guess I should stop here because somebody helped me out with this.
Where's the common humanity here?
If you really believe as I do with all my heart, that we're all created by the same God, and we all have unique gifts from that from God.
And rights come from God, not from government.
What's so hard to understand what happened with Chris Rock and Will Smith?
How does that now become a race issue?
Well that white people don't understand the Will Smith slap.
No, we understand it.
What I don't understand is if I if there's one thing I don't understand, if all these reports of this open marriage thing are true, if that doesn't upset Will Smith, you know, why would a joke about his wife cause that reaction?
I go back to so Denzel Washington broke his silence on what he said to Will Smith in the break.
He was speaking with Pastor TG T D. Jakes was great, by the way.
And you know, he's he said he walked over there, and there's a saying, when the devil ignores you, then you know you're doing something wrong.
He says the devil goes, oh, leave him alone.
He's my favorite.
Laughs.
Conversely, when the devil comes at you, maybe it's because he's trying to do something right.
And for whatever reason, that the devil got a hold of him that night.
That's what he said to him.
That's pretty interesting.
Did your pastor talk about that this weekend?
You know, it's holy month at church, so we didn't have a ton of time for Will Smith and Chris Rock.
Just asking.
Just putting it out there.
But I think I think what you're talking about here is very, very sad because what you said about humanity is very important.
And the fact that now race is dividing us from being able to observe an event where one person hits another person, and we can't talk about it because we're a different race.
What is that?
You know, all of this is identity politics.
This, you know, I used to say it was every two years and every four years that Republicans are racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic, now transphobic, add that to the long list.
Uh they wanted dirty air and water, and they wanted grandma and grandpa to eat dog and cat food for a year or two and then have a Republican throw them off a cliff when they're in a wheelchair.
Now it's like every day these issues come up, and these accusations are, you know, it's not that hard to look at what happened that night and not know that A, it's wrong, and and B, it's it's something that could have happened to anybody.
It's just bizarre.
All right, quick break, right back, 800-941 Sean.
Our number, you want to be a part of the program will hit the phones when we come back.
Uh, our polsters will get a snapshot where we are.
It's not that far till election day, is we are now in April.
November will be here very quickly.
A lot of primaries now are starting in states.
Early voting is starting in many states.
And we'll put up our interactive map in the days to come.
Music.
All right, let's get to our busy phones here.
Anthony's in California.
What's up, Anthony?
How are you, sir?
How are you doing?
I'm big time fan, big first-time caller.
Thank you.
Welcome aboard.
Hey, uh, two things.
One, the Florida, uh no say, don't say gay bill.
Where are the parents that are pushing that?
By the way, it's really called the parental rights bill.
And the word gay doesn't appear in it.
Whatever label they want to put, where Where are the parents that are pushing?
Those aren't parents.
Those are those are that's coming from the top, some corporate push.
And then the other thing I wanted to ask you and talk about is By the way, 61% of voters nationwide support Florida's parental rights in education bill.
And this is for kids we're talking about you can't have gender identity or talk about human sexuality for kindergarten to third grade.
You're talking about kids, what, four, five, six, and seven?
Maybe eight.
Until you could teach my kid, my six-year-old how to do calculus, then you can maybe start talking to them about sex if I decide it's okay.
Um and the other and the other thing was where where is it where is it that these people, even the conservative and and and the left, the middle left, that concede our rights all the time.
They say, oh, it's just a mask, oh, it's just a shot.
If you want to concede our rights, there's a countries and places to go for that.
There's places to live for that.
Here in America, we fight for our rights and our freedoms, and we need to remember that that uh every right we give up is another one we're never gonna get back.
Ronald Reagan said freedom is but one generation away from extinction.
Guess what?
Ronald Reagan was right, and if if November doesn't go as I hope it goes, we might be that generation.
I don't know.
I I it's that serious to me, in my mind.
Anyway, glad you called 800 941 Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
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