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Interesting that uh Chucky Schumer has now forced a vote.
Uh it's doomed to fail.
They actually had a previous vote on this on the issue of codifying Roe v.
Way, as they say.
But when you get to the substance of it, this shows you how radical and how extreme and how out of touch the Democratic Party is.
Anyway, so this will take place tomorrow.
And and even pro-choice Republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, you know, point out how overly broad it is and striking down all state limits on abortion and and even bans on gender-based abortion.
And both of them are saying that they're worried that it would remove uh protections for religious hospitals that it goes against their deeply held religious beliefs.
And whether they can, you know, here we go again.
But really what this bill will do, it's gonna legalize abortion up until you know the time of birth for crying out loud.
Now, most people that I know that say, all right, I'm pro-choice.
They they don't love abortion.
Then they're not like saying, I'd love to make love to the guy that leaked the Supreme Court of uh uh early draft opinion.
Um, and then I'd love to abort the child as this idiot on MSDNC is saying.
Most people look at abortion as a bad option, a bad choice.
Maybe maybe they support it being legal, but they know they don't like it.
Even Bill Clinton famously saying abortion should be legal but rare.
And I would add to that fact uh early.
And when you get to third trimester abortions, Americans do not support that because they understand the science behind it, and the science behind it is is that the child can live outside of a mother's womb.
And what's really unbelievable in all of this is the DOJ, Department of Justice is Merrick Garland.
Uh you have the Department of Homeland Security, Secretary Mayorka saying uh domestic terrorism is the number one threat to America today, meanwhile not paying attention to the opioid and fentanyl crisis at our border and aiding and abetting in law breaking.
And and even the FBI direct, where are they as it relates to 18 U.S. Code, 1507, whoever with the intent of interfering with obstructing or impeding the administration of justice or with the intent of influencing any judge,
juror, witness, or court officer in the discharge of his duties, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the U.S. or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror,
witness, or court uh officer, or with such intent, uses any sound truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence shall be fined under this title or in prison uh not more than one year or both.
It's against the law.
Now the media reaction to the, you know, to Jen Saki, we're not suggesting anyone break laws, but they're perfectly fine, she says, you know, protesting outside of justices' homes.
She said it again and again and again.
You suggested that uh peacefully protesting outside the homes of judges and Supreme Court justices uh is is part of the freedom of expression and and parts of what we do in the United States.
But there's a there's a law in Virginia that actually prohibits uh uh protests outside private residents, even when it's done peacefully.
Um I'm wondering if uh any sort of uh demonstrations outside private homes might run follow that law and other laws elected in other person.
We're certainly not suggesting anyone break any laws.
I would note that the president's view has long been, and I tweeted this earlier this morning and repeated and made a number of these comments last week as well that uh violence, threats, and and intimidation have no place in political discourse.
Okay.
Why why would Joe Biden and the administration be perfectly fine with people that don't like a draft opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Why are they perfectly fine with people going to their homes and their neighborhood and doxing them the way they have?
Anyway, David Schoen is with us, uh former counsel for President Trump, uh, and civil rights attorney and Bob uh Salcer uh is with us, Philadelphia area civil attorney and former prosecutor.
Start with you, David Schoen, this whole notion of doxing Supreme Court justices and all these protests taking place outside of their homes.
Yeah, it's outrageous.
We've never seen anything like it.
It's as you say exactly an intimidation tactic.
Listen, you know, they've found a new campaign platform between the two platforms that the Democratic Party has going for them now, the January 6th Committee and the circus they're putting out there with their roadshow, and now this thing scaring people to death and now intimidating the justices.
Well, and get your take, Bob.
I mean, I'm I'm looking at this, and this can I don't think you can interpret it any other way except this is intimidation.
And I would imagine that probably Supreme Court justices are now either going to need round the clock security or they're gonna have to try and move into a more private area and hope and pray that their location is never disclosed.
Sean, I think this is the most disgusting inaction on a domestic issue I've seen from an administration in my lifetime.
Merrick Arland is a disgrace.
They're doing nothing.
They are effectively condoning and exactly as you said, for what reason?
They're in try they're attempting to interfere with, obstruct, or impede the administration of justice, as you cited out of uh section fifteen oh seven of the U.S. Code.
There could be no other purpose for this in light of the fact that this draft opinion has been leaked, and that's a topic for another day.
The fact that it's been leaked and no one in the media or in the administration has commented on how disgraceful and outside of the norms we heard for years about norms, how outside of the norms that leak is.
But for what other purpose would this ever occur?
I can't if you're asking me to answer the question, I don't know.
Now, David, we also had uh another incident of Molotov cocktails being thrown at an office uh of pro uh an anti-abortion group in Oregon, a pro-life group in Oregon, just like we had the pro-life group in Wisconsin over the weekend, but the Oregon Right to Life Building was the target of this attack.
Uh this seems to be happening happening with impunity.
Now you mentioned earlier, January 6th, the the one thing that Democrats, the one riot they always want to talk about.
But uh meanwhile, their silence was deafening in the summer of twenty twenty when dozens of Americans died, thousands of cops were injured, pelted with bricks, rocks, bottles, and Molotov cocktails themselves, billions in property damage.
Where's that committee investigating those riots?
And where's the committee speaking out on this and these intimidation tactics of the left?
Is it it's only the one riot they care about because they can bludgeon Trump with that?
It's a very important point.
Sean, you're as strong an advocate of the First Amendment, free speech, right to demonstrate and protest as anybody I know.
But as you correctly note, there are limits to it when it comes to violence and calls for violence.
Um and by the way, this statute that prohibits this influencing uh the court and has time, place, and manner restrictions, goes back a long way.
There's state statutes like this.
The famous case called Cox versus Louisiana, in which a state statute was upheld for this because it's different when you're trying to uh trying to impact on the course of justice.
But you're right.
I mean, why isn't it that we're condemning these other actions publicly?
Well, part of it is because those actions happen in response to calls for action by public figures.
Go back to Schumer's speech on the Supreme Court steps.
That wasn't a call to arms and to violence.
I'm not sure what is by a public figure.
How about this mayor Lightfoot now in Chicago with outrageous statements?
So they're hearing from their public officials.
Not only is it not condemned, but that it's okay and that you ought to be out there doing it.
I keep saying, Bob, that this is a big lie and a big distraction.
The lie is, for example, outside of these justices' homes, uh, it seems that these these radical leftists, you know, you know, that they love drawing pictures of coat hangers.
And it's sort of like reminiscent of of then Senator Ted Kennedy speaking out against uh nominee Robert Bork.
Um it's now become an adjective or uh borking, uh or an adverb, depending on um which way I guess you would use it.
But they're drawing these pictures in chalk on the pavement of of coat hangers and acting as though abortion is gonna be outlawed if Roe and Casey are overturned, and we all know that's not true.
What will happen is this is not a right enumerated in the Constitution.
The Constitution uh pr predicted that that would be the case on many issues.
That's why we have a Tenth Amendment and this and the right, the constitutional right go then goes to the states to make these decisions.
It's one of so many what I'll call their big lies.
And most specifically, we hear constantly about the end of democracy, the threats to democracy.
As I understand that, and bearing in mind this is a draft opinion, but if Roe is overturned, it returns these issues where they belong to the states, where people will actually have a say and a vote.
That's democracy.
But as always, the left is guilty of that which they accuse us of doing.
Well, that's the thing that they're most guilty of.
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I would continue, attorneys.
uh David Schoen is with us, Bob Salzer is with us discussing, you know, this whole doxing issue.
It is against the law.
Nobody in law enforcement seems to care.
The DOJ doesn't care.
The FBI doesn't seem to care, uh, trying to figure out why they don't care.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary that says domestic uh extremism is the number one threat to the country, he doesn't seem to care either.
Their silence is deafening, and they got the seal of approval from Joe Biden to dox these Supreme Court justices.
Now the question is do you see the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, are they going to do anything about this?
Because I don't I don't suspect they will.
And I'll tell you one other thing that really outrages me.
Okay, uh on January 6th, you know, David, I was live on this radio show condemning in real time what was going on.
That can't happen in this country.
Um, just like I condemn the five hundred and seventy-four riots through the summer of twenty twenty, the the the silence of the media mob was deafening.
Then you have people like Kamala Harris aiding and offering aid and comfort and support uh for those people involved in that rioting, even tweeting out a bail fund for to get people out of jail responsible for some of these acts of violence, and and mean and also praising the LAPD for defunding efforts.
And what I don't understand is why haven't we ever followed up on all of those riots with all of the video that we have and arrested every single person that was involved in in those riots in the summer of 2020?
Why do they only focus on one riot and ignore 574 others that killed dozens, injured thousands of cops?
Why is that?
Important question that every American should be asking.
The problem is you're the only one really asking it forcefully all the time.
The media drops it, and therefore the politicians feel no pressure.
I want to add one point to the previous uh comment you you were making.
That is disinformation does a great damage to our our country.
If you read Justice Alito's draft, that it is just a draft, he specifically talks about these fears people are raising now that this would do away with the right to interracial marriage and the use of contraceptives and gay marriage and all of that.
He says abortion is different because you're dealing with a non-consenting party, the unborn life.
It's different from that.
So stop all the fear mark.
All right, let me ask both of you this.
Let me play Chuck Schumer on the steps of the United States Supreme Court, and I want to play the game.
What if Sean Hannity said the things that Chuck Schumer said?
Listen.
I want to tell you, Gore Zutge, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.
You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
Isn't that a violation of law, Bob?
Uh and what would happen if I had said that about it, you know, two liberal justices on the court.
Oh, I think we know what would have happened if you said that, Sean.
You'd certainly be under investigation.
But I remember at the time when Chuck Schumer said that it was stunning.
And when he said they'll pay a price.
What price?
It's a lifetime appointment.
They won't know what hit them.
What does that mean?
But it comes back to a bigger problem, and I've pointed this out many times.
There's a complete double standard here.
All depends on what letters after your name when it comes to whether you'll actually receive justice or not.
And the media refuses to do its job.
No one ever followed up with Chuck Schumer.
You would have, but I guarantee he won't come on your show, Sean.
No, he's not gonna.
But isn't that I've been saying for a long time, David Schoen, equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws, does not exist in America.
And we saw that with the Russia hoax.
You you see this with the riots in the summer of 2020.
You see it here, the double standard is so flagrant, so obvious, so transparent.
You know, for example, if you really don't want something like January sixth to happen again, we know how to prevent that.
Donald Trump had authorized up to twenty thousand troops two days before the sixth.
But nobody wants to ask the question of Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Bowser, why didn't they, as required by the law, the president, once he authorized it, it was in their hands to call them up.
Why didn't they listen to the Capitol Police Chief?
Why didn't they take advantage of the extra security that they should have known that they would need with such massive crowds that were planning On marching to the Capitol.
And why doesn't the January 6th committee, why didn't Pelosi allow members to join that committee who wanted to ask those questions?
Listen, Donald Trump was impeached for saying in a for a speech that was nothing close to uh what Schumer said, and we played the Schumer speech during the impeachment trial.
Oh, pretty amazing.
We'll give you the last word, Bob.
You know, Sean, I'm just gonna come back to what you had said a moment ago.
If this continues, and by this I mean the two-tier justice system on which you comment all the time.
This is how you get anarchy.
Sooner or later, it will become untenable.
And this would have been a perfect example for the Department of Justice to do the right thing and step in.
And thus far they haven't.
And to answer your earlier question, I don't think they will.
I don't think they're gonna either.
I don't think they're gonna lift a finger.
I think things have gotten so far out of hand, and they didn't seem to care in the summer of 2020.
That's why you know they've feigning outrage only about instances that benefit their political narrative.
Just rings hollow for me for sure.
Uh anyway, David, thank you.
Bob, great to have you.
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Um, Lynn, the one thing we've been right about from the very beginning is this whole Trump Russia collusion lie, conspiracy theory, hoax, etc.
etc.
Um, it's now come out.
Actually, the great one, uh, Mark Levin pointed this out to me last night in in a separate article.
Uh, it was covered in the Epic Times today.
New brand new DOJ notes reveal the FBI was in a panic after Donald Trump tweeted that he knew he was being spied on.
These notes taken by high-level DOJ officials.
Remember, I always talked about the 1%, not the 99%.
I'm talking about the 1% here.
Names you'll recognize.
Anyway, during uh a March 6th, 2017 meeting with FBI leadership, exposed the lengths that the FBI engaged in to cover up their spying of the 2016 campaign of President Donald J. Trump.
These notes were apparently released uh two days ago by lawyers representing former hit Hillary Clinton attorney Michael Sussman as part of the effort to quote clear him on charges of having lied to the FBI.
The notes in reality appear to do little to exonerate Sussman, but do provide quite a bit of information on the FBI.
And that's the deep state.
Remember, we talked a lot about the deep state.
The meeting at which the notes were taken took place just two days after Trump's March 4th, 2017 tweet in which he accused former President Barack Obama of having wiretapped Trump Tower.
Trump's tweet panicked FBI leadership, who were unsure exactly how much Donald Trump knew about their efforts to tie him with Russia collusion allegations.
Now, what the notes reveal is that in response to the tweet, they tried to cover their tracks.
And again, I'm reading verbatim here.
By March of 2017, the FBI leadership already knew with near certainty that Trump Russia collusion claims were a hoax.
By the way, I think there's still two more Pfizer applications that were signed, even though the dirty dossier uh, which even uh Andrew McCabe recognized no Pfizer warrant without the phony dirty dossier.
Keep that in mind, but uh they knew by this time it was false.
They knew that Clinton's campaign had a plan to vilify Donald Trump, portraying Donald Trump as a puppet of Putin.
The FBI also knew that not a single claim in the so-called steel dossier, remember says at the top of a FISA application, verified it was unverifiable, but the piece goes on, which was the primary source of allegations of Trump Russia collusion.
None of it they knew checked out.
None of it.
They knew it by this point.
In fact, uh at that point, the FBI had already spent three days interviewing Steele's primary source.
We've talked about this.
Igor Danchenko, who had disavowed pretty much everything in Steele's dossier.
This this was this bar talk.
Remember that line?
The FBI also knew that the Alpha Bank story, which claimed that a Trump server was communicating with the Russian bank, information that had been brought to them by Sussman, they knew at this time that was bogus.
In short, the FBI knew that all the claims of Trump Russia collusion had proven to be fake.
But things took a very dramatic turn on March the fourth when Trump said on Twitter that he knew that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, a public claim of spying that set off alarm bells with both the FBI and the DOJ leadership.
Remember the media mob went insane over that.
Turns out Donald Trump was more right than he knew.
And Trump's tweet so alarmed these DOJ and FBI officials that the topic dominated a meeting two days later that included FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, the guy that said no dossier, no FISA application approval.
He said you needed the dirty dossier.
He admitted it.
And acting U.S. Attorney General Dana Buente, who also I think signed one of the, if I'm not mistaken, one of the FISA applications also.
Comey signed three of them.
Now the problem for the FBI was this.
They didn't know how much Donald Trump actually knew about their actions.
A day earlier, March the third, twenty seventeen, radio talk show host, the great one Mark Levin had reported that the Obama administration had obtained uh FISA warrants that involved Trump, and several of his advisors, Levin also reported that Trump's off-the-cuff joke in July of twenty sixteen.
Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the thirty thousand emails that are missing have become the basis for the Russia collusion accusations.
How absurd is all this.
But also how dangerous is it.
But as we know, the Pfizer warrants weren't the only thing that the FBI leadership was involved in.
The FBI was actively spying on the Trump campaign, and the incoming Trump administration's transition communications, a fact also revealed in new notes.
The FBI not only spied on the Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, but also on the other on another aide, George Papadopoulos, going so far to lure him to London where they tried to set him up in a clumsy but elaborate sting operation.
There are also fake new fake accusations brought by Sussman that Trump was tied to the use of a Russian Yoda phone.
Whatever the hell that is.
Do you know what that is?
I don't know what that is.
No.
Anyway, there was a matter of uh the tech executive, Rodney Joffman with deep ties to the FBI had been using his access to non public data to spy on Trump, both the Trump Tower and at the White House.
In all likelihood, Trump probably only knew uh what was reported the day before by Levin and others that the Pfizer warrant on an on a campaign aid, but the FBI leadership didn't ignore what he knew or what he didn't know.
The discussion at the March 6th meeting was dominated by Trump's tweet with the FBI's McCabe kicking things off by stating the Bureau is trying to determine what was behind Trump's tweets.
You actually have an exhibit, you know, trying to determine what's behind POTUS's tweets.
Notes that the meeting were taken by three DOJ officials.
Uh the notes were released because one of the notes appears to show that McCabe stated that Sussman had represented clients when he took the Alpha Bank allegations to the FBI.
Member Sussman initially told the FBI he didn't represent anyone.
It's that lie to the FBI by Sussman that he has been charged with, and Sussman's lawyers are hoping to sow doubt by introducing that single sentence that appears to say otherwise.
Now this claim by Sussman's lawyers, however, in essence is a sideshow as the notes are double hearsay evidence written six months after Sussman told the FBI the exact opposite.
Now the real bombshells are in many pages of notes that Sussman doesn't cite.
Those notes reveal the true extent of the FBI's panic over Trump's tweet.
The first reaction from FBI leadership appears to have been To tell the acting attorney general of a sequence of lies about their investigation.
The notes also revealed the FBI repeatedly referred to Steele's dossier as Crown Reporting, suggesting the dossier represented some sort of official UK government intelligence, when in fact it was mostly information made up by Steele and Danchenko, which by the way, they already knew.
And the new notes also revealed that FBI agent Peter Strzok lied to his DOJ superiors about what triggered Alexander Downer, the Australian ambassador in London, to come forward to the FBI with information regarding his meeting with Papadopoulos.
It has always been the FBI's official story that it was Downer who initiated the official um Trump Russia investigation, but that story is now undermined in new in these new notes, in which Strzok claims that it was Trump's joke about Russia finding Clinton's emails that triggered Downer.
In truth, Downer had come forward before Trump even made that joke.
The FBI also lied to the DOJ about Carter Page and his warrant, his Pfizer warrant, which they claim was fruitful when it actually had revealed nothing nefarious at all, something that the FBI was aware of by this time.
And the FBI appears to have also tried to misrepresent and elevate Alpha Bank allegations by claiming the Trump organization had sent a solicitation to Alpha Bank.
Again, completely false.
The FBI's IT team, they'd completely disproven the Alpha Bank allegations, but rather than admit it, they tried to breathe new life into the Alpha allegations through its misrepresentations.
Now all of these exculpatory facts were not just hidden from the interim DOJ officials at this March 6, 2017, meaning the FBI actually, the leadership in the FBI, the 1%, the deep state, twisted those facts to make it all appear like there was a strong case against Trump when they knew there was no case at all.
they'd already determined that that at that time and i'm going to finish more of my commentary here we've been right the whole time the mob and the media they've been wrong they've lied for three long years and this country we don't get to the bottom of this and hold these people accountable you don't have a country you want smart political talk without the meltdowns we got you i'm carol markowitz and i'm mary katherine ham we We've been around the block in media and we're doing things differently.
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