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Parents as Terrorists - May 12th, Hour 2
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Well, he's very complicated.
Bill O'Reilly.
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We have some good news to announce that Bill O'Reilly's brand new book has now again debuted number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
You know, I hate having to keep congratulating you on this stuff, but in all fairness, your killing series has been, I think, the biggest series of books.
I don't know the exact verbiage in the history of publishing.
Am I not right on that?
Yeah, nonfiction.
The Harry Potter book sold more, but nonfiction is the biggest series ever.
Aren't you angry at J.K. Rowling for that?
I mean, you should really hate her.
No, I'm not that kind of guy.
I just want to compete.
But look, I want to thank you because you read the book and you liked the book.
And when the millions of people who listen to you hear that, it makes it a lot easier for me to sell it.
I didn't just like it.
I think it was perhaps maybe your best.
And you've had a lot of good books.
And it's, you know, killing the killers.
And you bring us behind the scenes and tell us about the bin Laden raid.
Tell us about, you know, all of these radicals that, you know, take joy in killing innocent men women and children and how we hunt them down and how we defeat them and kill them and make the world a safer place.
You know, I talked to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a few weeks ago, and I know you know him very well.
I thought he did a very good job as Secretary of State under Trump.
But the Iranians are still trying to assassinate him in response to Solomoni.
Right.
And Americans really don't understand the intensity of this.
So we news people and we talk show hosts can lay out a general scenario of what's happening in the world, and people listen to us.
But in order to understand the life-death nature of the war on terror, Putin, she, others like that, you have to get personal.
And, you know, that's why we have the Kayla Mueller story.
26-year-old Arizona humanitarian woman graduates from college, goes to Turkey to help refugees.
This was probably the saddest part of the book.
It was so sad.
And, you know, when I was talking with her parents, because that's the only reason the only way I could put that in the book was to get her parents to tell me it was okay.
So I'm not one of these people who are going to say things in TV, radio, or in print that are going to hurt people.
I don't do that.
So we developed a very strong rapport with the Mueller family out in Phoenix.
They showed us emails from ISIS, from al-Baghdadi, taunting them while their daughter was held in captivity, being raped by al-Baghdadi at the same time.
And this is why a book like Killing the Killers, it transcends the discussion about the war on terror.
But there's one other aspect to this, Bill, and this was the case for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The U.S. only waterboarded three people.
You would think, based on enhanced interrogation discussions in this country, that we did it routinely.
We did not, and we did it under very close, medically supervised conditions.
And with only the president's approval.
So there's only one person who can make that approval.
Now, there are black sites that are in other countries that we don't fully control, and somebody could make an argument.
Well, we only waterboarded three people.
In the case of KSM, it led us to the courier, which led us to bin Laden.
And you opened the book with that story.
Yeah, and the same thing happened to al-Baghdadi.
We picked up his courier in Turkey.
Actually, the Turks picked him up, handed him to CIA.
He wasn't talking.
CIA handed him to the Iraqis, and the Iraqis do what they do.
And he talked.
And that's how they got al-Baghdadi.
We walk you through that whole thing.
So, I mean, people have to make up their minds whether the United States is responsibly fighting the war on terror.
I believe we are.
There hasn't been a personnel change from Trump to Biden.
Biden didn't sack all the CIA and NSA people who are, you know, the pros, who really know what they're doing.
Biden didn't sack them.
So they're still operating.
But on every page in Killing the Killers, people are going to go, I didn't know that.
And they're going to be horrified, as you said, sometimes.
But the payoff is we are waxing these evil people.
All right.
Let me move on to we have a new press secretary, as you know, Karine Jean-Pierre.
Let me play a couple of clips of her and get your reaction.
You know, the background on her is very extreme.
She's made many, many controversial statements.
The question is, why would Biden pick her?
And if it was a Republican administration and you had a conservative that had said very outrageous incendiary things, would that person ever be chosen to be a press secretary?
I would argue no, but here's what she said.
His running point on the formula issue at the White House events to the White House is a dumbass.
I mean, at the White House, I don't know.
I can find out for you and get you a person who's winning points, but I don't have a personal name.
So what is your take?
You've been analyzing her past statements, as we have.
And what is your take on this choice to be the White House press secretary?
The same take I had on the disinformation woman.
She's a radical leftist.
I mean, Circle Back, Gen Side.
We're going to miss Circle Back.
Come on, that was great TV.
Circleback and Peter Doocey.
I'll get to Saki in a moment because it's an interesting story here.
But Joe Biden isn't the type of administrator like Trump was.
That a person walks into his office and says, here's a resume of somebody who would like to be the White House spokesperson.
And then Biden takes off his reading glasses and looks and mulls it over and has a discussion.
That does not happen.
So it's basically somebody walks in and says, Mr. President, this is what we'd like to do.
And he says, okay.
That's how he runs his operation.
And he's not involved with any of the micro things.
In fact, he doesn't even know her name.
I can bet you, if you or me, Hannity, walked up to Biden today and said, who's your new secretary?
He would not know her name.
Hey, Bill, what are the odds you and I ever get within a mile of him?
It's never going to happen.
They won't allow it.
It might be worth me getting wounded if I'd sold more.
I'm not sure.
The kid in the Secret Service will be on guard.
He'll stop you a thousand feet away.
What I'm trying to do is to paint a picture, a vivid picture to our listeners here that Joe Biden does not run the show, that these people are selected by the far-left advisors who are telling Biden what to do every day.
Bill O'Reilly, you got to give me some props here.
I saw this way ahead of everybody else.
I was talking about this during the campaign.
I was comparing Joe Biden in 2007 and 8 and 2012 and even 2016 to today.
And I was pointing out what has now become very clear, Joe is in a significant cognitive decline.
But he never really was the brightest bulb.
But this is very, that's different, separate, and apart, isn't it?
No, it's true.
But here's the pattern.
And this was never brought out.
When he was a senator, his staff ran what he did.
If you look at the legislation, it was very, very scant that he even came up with.
I mean, he's not a thinker, a problem solver.
He's an administrator who allows his subordinates to do the heavy lifting.
Now, let's get to Jen Saki.
He's a fascinating, fascinating character.
You're going to miss her, I can tell.
I don't have any dogginess hunt.
I mean, I'm not on the scene, but if I were on the scene, believe me, Ms. Saki and I would have had some pretty good discussions.
So Saki is a technical.
He does crack me up.
We would have had some good discussions.
You got to give props to Peter Doocy.
He's done a really good job.
Doocy is the best of them in the White House Press Corps.
By far.
Yeah.
And because, look, it's their job to scrutinize what the White House is doing, no matter who's in there.
You're not supposed to be a butt-kisser.
All right?
But let's get to Saki.
She's a technician, all right?
Not an ideologue.
Everybody thinks that a crazy left-wing ideologue.
No.
She's a technician, a woman who understands what her job is and does it pretty well.
Keeps her cool, very articulate, dodges when she knows she doesn't have an answer, okay?
But always very conscious of the camera on her.
A meticulous appearance, looks like she's credible, and does her job very, very well.
And that is the truth.
But now, Saki knows the shimp, it be sinking, Hannity.
The ship is not going to write itself.
So what does she do?
Cashes in at the moment when she's most in demand and where she can get inflationary dollars added to her salary from MSNBC.
Where a year ago, it would have been this number.
Now it's 20% higher because of Joe's inflation.
So Jen is actually making money on the inflation.
So she's going to go into the Maddo slot at 9 o'clock.
Okay?
Up against you, Hannity.
I'm scared to death.
I'm shaking in my boots.
She'll bring in her liberal fan base.
I don't know.
I don't know how much that is, but you and I know because we've done this so long to run a one-hour cable program is a difficult thing to do.
Bill, most people have no clue.
There are people that say, well, you only work four hours a day, Sean.
And I'm like, it doesn't infuriate me.
It just irks me.
There's a difference.
I get mildly annoyed as if all of a sudden I know all of this information that we put out every day, and we put out a ton of information, as you do, that somehow I just walked into the studio and it all came to me.
Yeah, people have no clue.
They don't know how difficult, and particularly for one person to drive a show.
Because you have to be on it every second.
That's 42 minutes.
You can't kind of wander off.
Anyway, Saki would be interesting to watch herself on television.
Doesn't have much of a sense of humor.
I haven't seen it if she does.
Doesn't look like she's got a wide frame of reference outside the Democratic liberal politics.
That's all she needs on MSNBC.
That's all they want.
But, you know, it'll be very interesting to see.
But the only American in this country who has benefited from inflation is Jen Sonki.
All right, quick break more with Bill O'Reilly.
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All right, we continue with Bill O'Reilly.
AllthingsO'Reilly, BillO'Reilly.com is booked debuting Killing the Killers at number one on the New York Times list.
Bill, two-thirds of Americans now, and this breaks my heart, are living paycheck to paycheck.
I don't know if you ever lived paycheck to paycheck.
I have for many years in my early adult life.
It is not a good feeling, Bill.
And I'm worried about the poor, the middle class, people on fixed incomes in this country, Bill.
This is not going away anytime soon.
And everybody was caught unaware because under Trump, inflation was 1.4%.
And it's so ridiculous Biden gets out there.
It's COVID.
Wait a minute.
No, it's Putin.
Yeah, well, but that's ridiculous, too.
But Trump presided over a country that shut down its economy 100%.
And he still, the Trump administration kept inflation at 1.4%.
Now, you saw the latest number today, right?
With the wholesale 11.3% inflation rate on the wholesale level, that means that's all passed on to us all summer.
It's just a catastrophe.
And record high gas prices.
Bill, look, Bloomberg, their estimate is the average American household is going to pay $5,200 extra a year for Biden inflation.
Now, one other statistic.
The average person that drives a car is going to pay an extra $2,000 a year because we have these record high gas prices.
And as I pointed out at the time, the release of the strategic petroleum reserves, it was a band-aid.
It never was a real solution.
And now we have the highest gas prices that we've ever had.
Yesterday was a new high.
Today is a new high.
Right.
I'm getting a scooter, Hannity.
Why don't you get a moped?
What do you call that thing?
One of the little scooters and got a, you know, with a little horn.
Bill, why don't you just man up and get a Harley?
Just get one.
You know, I used to have one.
I used to be a motorcycle.
What happened?
I took a header.
Oh, no.
Someday I'll tell you that story.
It was Genoa, Italy.
Oh, boy.
All right.
So I'm going to tell everybody the real reason your latest book debuted this week, number one on the New York Times list, Killing the Killers.
Congratulations.
It is a great book, and we're proud of you.
Thank you, Sean.
Appreciate it.
Quick break.
Right back.
Continue the mission of saving America as we return
to the Sean Hannity Show at 25 till the top of the hour.
We have now learned from whistleblowers that, in fact, the FBI targeted parents via terrorism tools despite sworn testimony by the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, that it didn't happen.
Now, Congressman Jim Jordan, Congressman Mike Johnson now have evidence that the FBI, in fact, did target parents.
Remember that whole domestic terrorists, you know, moms and dads speaking at school board meetings?
Yeah, well, Merrick Garland said it's not happening.
Apparently it happened.
And anyway, in a letter now addressed to the Department of Justice, Jim Jordan and Congressman Mike Johnson said they have evidence.
The FBI labeled dozens of investigations into parents with a threat tag created by the Bureau's counterterrorism division to assess and track the investigations related to school boards.
These are parents saying we're against critical race theory.
These are parents saying we want age-appropriate materials taught to our kids.
These are parents that are unhappy with the education curriculum and are speaking out rightly so.
You would think you want more parental involvement in schools, not less parental involvement.
Anyway, this evidence has come through brave whistleblowers within the Department of Justice.
And they now, Jim Jordan and Congressman Mike Johnson have now sent a letter to Merrick Garland demanding answers to these very specific allegations.
And Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio joins us now.
This is a big deal because if in fact he did this and lied to Congress about it, that means he should be removed from office.
Clueless, Sean.
I mean, because he said he wasn't going to use any anti-terrorism measures to go after moms and dads.
Well, that's exactly what it looked like happened based on whistleblowers and based on two dozen cases, more than two dozen cases that they talked to us about.
So that's the scary part.
And again, Sean, you've talked about this better than anyone.
When you view it in context, the Disinformation Governance Board, the abuse at the FISA court, the doxing, what's going on, and the failure to enforce 18 U.S.C. Section 1507 that says you shall not go to a residence of a judge or justice and try to intimidate them.
When you put it all together, you're like, holy cow, this is what's going on.
And it's moms and dads.
You saw the examples.
One was a mom, so if you're a mom in the group Moms for Liberty who happens to believe in the Second Amendment and you show up at a school board meeting to advocate for the best interest of your child, look out.
The snitch line is going to, someone's going to report you, which is exactly what Mayor Garland set up, and the FBI is going to come and do an investigation.
That is not how it's supposed to work in our country.
You say in your letter these investigations into concerned parents were the direct result of his very specific October the 4th directive to the FBI.
And every one of these cases was initiated following his directive.
And each of the complaints came into the FBI through the same snitch line, the National Threat Operations Center highlighted in the press release accompanying the October 4th memorandum.
And one complaint even told an FBI agent that they reported the tip of the FBI because of the snitch line, despite having no specific information about any real or actual threat.
Yeah, they didn't like the person.
That's not how America operates, for goodness sake.
But understand, too, Sean, remember what happened.
September 29th, left-wing political organization sends a letter to the Biden White House.
Five days later, October 4th, Merritt Garland issues the memorandum to every single U.S. attorney in this country, set up this snitch line.
16 days after that, the FBI sends out an email, put the threat tag designation on cases that you're looking at.
All that happens in 22 days.
When have you ever seen the federal government move with that kind of speed, that kind of intensity?
Never happens.
But when it's about killing the speech of parents, of moms and dads who are fed up with the very things you just talked about, oh my goodness, we're going to go get them.
But forget about the fact that you got protesters at Justice Kavanaugh's home trying to influence a pending decision in front of a separate and equal branch of government.
By the way, it's U.S. Code 1507.
It's a violation of law, punishable by fine and or imprisonment.
Yep.
Yep, it sure is.
But they're so busy, I guess, going after moms and dads, they don't have time to do that.
And the silence, as you pointed out, Sean, from the people in this administration relative to that.
It just goes, this is all about silencing concerns.
Today's left says, if you don't agree with me, you're not allowed to talk.
And if you try, we're going to call you a racist.
We're going to dox you.
We're going to cancel you.
We're going to come after you.
You're going to face what Barry White said, the digital thunderdome that the left will put you in and attack you.
That is how they operate.
And that, again, is not supposed to be how it works.
Let me go to the whistleblower aspect of this.
How certain are you?
How overwhelming is the evidence?
Is it incontrovertible that, in fact, he lied before Congress and he did the very thing he said that his department would not do?
Well, look, it could be that he just didn't know what was going to flow from this, how it worked.
But as I've said, that's a concern in and of itself.
What I know is we had multiple whistleblowers come forward.
They were so concerned about what they saw.
It ran so contrary to how our good people, all those good people in the FBI, the people you and I have complimented who do hard work, the vast majority of people, it goes so against what they're supposed to be doing that these two brave, these individuals came forward and said, we're going to give this information to the Judiciary Committee, and God bless them for doing so.
And by the way, Jim Jordan has his book out, do what you said you would do, which, by the way, would be refreshing with a politician.
Let me play the Attorney General in his own words, testifying that they are not investigating parents involved at school board meetings.
Is there a legal president for the Department of Justice to investigate peaceful protests or parental involvement at public school meetings?
Just to say again, we are not investigating peaceful protest or parent involvement at school board meetings.
There's no precedent for doing that, and we would never do that.
We are only concerned about violence, threats of violence against school administrators, teachers, staff, people like your mother, a teacher.
That is what we're worried about.
We are worried about that across the board.
We're worried about threats against members of Congress.
We're worried about threats against police.
You give very specific examples.
In one investigation, following Merritt Garland's directive, the FBI field office interviewed a mom for allegedly telling a school board, well, we're coming for you.
And the complaint, which came into the snitch board, if you will, alleged that the mom was a threat because she belonged to a, quote, right-wing group known as Moms for Liberty.
Is that a right-wing group?
I've never heard of Moms for Liberty being a right-wing group.
No, Son, this is no different than what the IRS did 10 years ago under President Obama when they went after conservatives across the country and they sent them letters.
By the way, we call that the Hannity treatment, but go ahead.
Exactly.
You know what it's like.
But they said to these conservative groups, oh, do you have pastors praying at your meetings?
Show us your minutes.
Who supports your?
I mean, all kinds of stuff they're not supposed to ask, not supposed to.
But it's the same thing to kill speech.
And they did it back before the 2010 election and the 12 election because they wanted to impact politics.
They're doing the same thing here.
Although I think it backfired.
It backfired with Glenn Young in Virginia last fall.
I think it's going to backfire this November.
I think the American people and moms and dads are going to show up in a big way and say, we're tired of this Democrat control.
We have another example.
The FBI's field office opening an investigation subsequent to Merrick Garland's directive into a dad that opposed mask mandates.
Again, that tip came through the snitch line and alleged that the dad fit the profile of an insurrectionist because he rails against the government and believes conspiracy theories, et cetera, et cetera.
You almost have to laugh because it was like it was people who believed in the Second Amendment and didn't like what government was doing.
Who started this place called America?
And this is the one where there was no basis, none whatsoever.
Well, I didn't know of any threats he made.
I didn't know of any crime.
I just turned him in, and this is what runs contradictory to what Merrick Garland said, because the very apparatus they set up, the snitch line, and then the threat tag designation, that's exactly how it played out.
And the person who did the threat on the government-sponsored snitch line had nothing, but they still.
Now, is this threat tag going to stay associated with these individuals that move forward in life?
What happened?
I mean, that's the concern you have, too, because that's in the back of Americans' minds.
And that's what they want.
So it will chill political activity, chill First Amendment protected speech.
All right, quick break more with Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan on the other side.
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